skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scope of the article is too small to see the real cause. Look around, there's a bubble in everything.

There's literally trillions of dollars of debt yielding below zero. There's entire currency yield curves that are under zero. That's right, not just the short terms like a year or two. But decades out.

Tech firms may be doing well but valuations are still quite high for a lot of things by traditional measures.

And there's the influence of cental bank purchases that we don't know when will end or restart.
Sad that the daydream version on a Moto Z in Google Play gives me a "Your device isn't compatible with this version" for me even though I can run Daydream and other daydream apps
Thought experiment: If 500,000 new homes were suddenly available in San Francisco tomorrow, would prices decrease?

Land value in the US obviously has to do with buyers and demand.
NFS will give you better performance if you've got a trusted LAN.
What is the cold start time of a DO instance image to working VM? Isn't it like 2 minutes?

If a DO droplet for my marketing site cost me $5 per month to run.. I could use your service and save a buck or two, at the risk of a $5000 client timing out on my page as it tries to spin up?

Scaling based on demand is important, but it seems you are better using k8s with some metric based scaling, over trying to hack it on DO?
I don't understand the argument that the tech industry is becoming mature and is just being propped up by foreign investment. Right now 3 of the 5 biggest tech companies are basically: high school yearbooks, blockbuster, and taxis.

Do we really think these are the most valuable industries in the world, and not just the things that happened to be easy to make with the tech that existed 10 - 20 years ago?
Have you read Ready Player One?
Some of it may just be the general economy. We've had a very long expansion that has been surprisingly general. It was considered slow growth, and the Fed is still talking about cutting rates as if a recession were in the offing, following very reasonable indicators. The S&P's P/E ratio (a decent measure of it's over-priced-ness) is around 20, a bit high but not ridiculous.

The tech-heavy NASDAQ, however, is at 45. For comparison it was at 29 before the last big crash.

The NASDAQ P/E is always speculative. People often bid up companies with low current earnings but expecting future earnings. That got very silly during the 90s tech bubble, where it would require profits of the entire world economy to justify some of those prices. But 45 suggests that we're due for a market crash.

It's textbook irrational exuberance, and the whole economy is in a weird place. All signs point to a pending crash, and at least some of the companies that the article is talking about will fail. But we've been talking about that pending crash for half a decade now, and it's still not here.
Fantastic work, congratulations!
possibly the elixir project Scenic? https://github.com/boydm/scenic
I don’t see what is “IoT” about any of these examples, except the remote-dog-letter-outer perhaps; can you elaborate?
A lot could be said about tattooing but this article falls short of providing anything of interest to me.

I was wondering when we'd get to the part where the author explains why tattooing is bad. Turns out there's no reason against tattooing except cultural premises as far as the article is concerned. Also people who get tattoos have a personality problem according to the author.

If you want to feel smug about not having a tattoo this piece provides!
A application for existing 3D headsets. I've had this on my Oculus Go for a while.
Familiar with his Paradox of Choice work. Listening to practical wisdom, thanks.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=WbE8Aq0x0pc
I'd say the dividing line is how much control you have. If there is short burst of stress for the amount of work you are sure to be capable of, the stress is nothing. The problem is with the duration and the uncertainty.

There is also a genetic factor: I remember there was a gene (or a base pair?) that is called "worrier or warrior", and if one has the warrior one, one performs worse without stress than with stress whereas the worrier one is the opposite.
This helps explain the character, thank you! I was wondering what was so switch about Switch.
I don't think they'd cripple it. Amazon takes a pretty long term view of things. They might well introduce something like this into their load balancer or api gateway though. It'd be nice to have in front of fargate because of the faster cold start times.
Can we agree that the militaries of the West try extraordinarily hard, especially by historical standards, to not harm civilians during wartime?

Can we also agree that zero civilian casualties during war is at least adjacent to impossible?

Can we also agree that a country unwilling to protect its people and interests with military action would be a much less secure country than the ones we have today? Indeed, that the threat of rapid, devastating response is the key reason why we are as close to world peace as we are today and have been for decades?
You claim the data does exist - but where did it come from? There has been no program to forcibly collect fingerprints of all EU citizens. There is some biometric data collected for Schengen passports, but not even close to all people even have a passport. And if you claim my biometric passport fingerprints are in that DB, you are claiming that the police in my country has performed a massive illegal data handover. If you have evidence of that, give it - heads will roll.
> If it was for just batteries, wouldn't cheetahs on treadmills be more efficient?

There were billions of people around, and not that many large mammals, I bet.
...and for something far less exalted than curing people of diabetes.

:/
The article makes some good points. Here are my thoughts:

> 1. Preliminary Checks

+1 for this, but I would also add that you need to add as much formatting/linting into this step as possible. You shouldn't be pointing out formatting issues in your code review.

> 2. Understanding

This is super important! Pull requests that do not explain their purpose in the description should not be reviewed.

The PR description is also really important when git bisect leads you to the PR when debugging a new bug.

> 3. Usability Test

A lot of debate regarding this, but I believe this is extremely important if not the most important part of your code review. For details read this section[0]

> 4. Code Review

A few good tips in the article, I'd just add that you should be polite and try not to waste people's time.

[0] https://blog.codereview.chat/2019/06/27/code-reviews-and-you...
Of course it depends on the nature of the specific change. I'm sure lots of developers really appreciate bug fixes, especially for bugs they've encountered, let alone developed workarounds or patches.

But there's a reason (really, lots of reasons) why it's a great idea to pin one's third-party dependencies. Change is, at least, costly; at beast trivially so (but never literally nothing).
Are we really going to pretend that managers in sillycoin valley even bother to be objective like this?
I guess that's a side effect of the siloing that goes on on Facebook. I certainly heard nothing major about it, and orders of magnitude less than the same/similar people about the Twitter redesigns.
I may be missing something. I read native and cross platform, project is about TUIs, HTML and GTK... maybe I have my definitions wrong.
Co-owner of shuttered Polish cryptocurrency exchange Bitmarket found dead
Skies are blackened, plants can’t grow without light.
When you think about it, it's perhaps less certain. Consider a supercapitalist company like Amazon, where engineers are fired when they have outlived their usefulness, and Soviet Russia under Stalin, where the constant purges ensured loyalty and provided new blood in the administrative ranks.

Both Bezos and Stalin had no patience for timewasters, Bezos is known to run tight meetings.

Central planning works on the level of the Firm.
The Neuroscience of Procrastination
Not these experiments, similar experiments.
The version of the story I heard was the they needed the human brains for "entropy" which was loosely defined as non-deterministic thinking, or similar.

Which of course dovetails really clearly with a core theme of the movie, the nature of free will.
Thank you for the kind words. I'll be adding more examples in the future and think of a better way to make them shareable (like Jupyter .ipynb files).
It means a lot, thanks!
Record labels have a new target: streamers and gamers
My current favorite evidence for this cost is Gates' horrendous attempt at reshaping education

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/06/...
> ignoring your morals

If those morals say people should die instead of getting the organ transplants they need, maybe we are better off ignoring such morals.
The forgotten part of memory
Disclaimer: I was a winner in the August ‘18 batch.

Pioneer has been changing the meetings rules and game each month, but since the beginning, the advisors have always had a influential role in determining the winners. The month I Was in the winning batch, I was never in the top 10 rank, but was pushed over the edge in the final evaluation period.

My understanding is that the winners are decided by a combined factor of perceived progress, points, and weighted evaluations by past winners and advisors.

The reason for this is that not all projects can be compared equally. Someone with a funded start up who has a team of 5 should be equally compared to a single founder starting a project in a developing country.

Overall, from the winners I have seen, there do seem to be emphasis on projects that are socially oriented or geographically diverse. One goal that has been expressed multiple times by the Pioneer founders is to create a global campus. Rather than allowing campus driven knowledge and social interactions to be limited to people who have access to coastal cities or urban mega cities, Pioneer provides an opportunity for access to the same social lift, but without the limitations of location.

EDIT: Changed "Ivy League" campus to global campus.
I think this is not something you'd use for customer facing services. It's fine for internal stuff of the first employee of the day has to wait two minutes, and it gets shut down at night after it hasn't been used for an hour.
No. That link does not say so. Biometric passport data is collected by national goverments, not EU.
From the FAQ:

> The HTTPS trigger is intercepting all my traffic?
> No, your data are safe if your server support HTTPS protocol. All the data exchanged between your server and your clients is encrypted and not accessible by us.

Unless there's an IP allocated to each user, I don't think this is accurate. With SSL, the HTTP headers are encrypted, so there would be no way to know where know where to route the request without first decrypting the data, and thus having access to the data.
I find the whole idea of tattoo repulsive, ugly and uncool. I am also perplexed that people would spend their time on getting it. As if they have nothing better to do.
It was lazy in 1999 too but intentional. The reason humans are enslaved isn't that important to the plot. It makes sense to make it simple so they don't have to waste time explaining it.
I wasn't familiar with Bruce Gilden, but the first YouTube video I watched was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWW6vwrvM. My take is that this is a very different kind of "obnoxious" than what was described in the original article. Most people attempting to imitate him would be that bad kind of obnoxious.

I haven't done much research, but Bruce Gilden strikes me someone who is a pioneer of (NYC) street photography. He has been doing it for a long time and doesn't seem like a photo hipster. Maybe he was considered one when he started out. The fact he wears photography attire is probably disarming in a way. If it was someone trying to blend in then it might be different. The photos from the video are not derpy photos as my wife likes to describe my portraits of hers so he is trying to show an interesting side of life. I'm sure a lot of pictures don't meet his standards.

Within photo groups in my city, I see a lot of people into street photography because it's the cool aesthetic that matches with their urban lifestyle. It's cool to be into photography, so they got a digital rangefinder and jumped into it without thinking about the art or technique. They form a cargo cult, but often they get broken from it upon discovery that there is more to photography that they are missing. The obnoxious instragrammers are not likely to have the same outcome.
> Features have appeared and disappeared, boxes have been arranged and rearranged. But there's rarely a big fuss

I mean, I pretty much hated everything Facebook did since I used to have an actual news feed of things my friends did/said. Peoples profiles stopped being a place to go and put things. Conversations moved from wall to wall, to comments with the stupidest fucking nesting and ui I've ever seen.

I never really used twitter - so can't comment - but facebook drove me off their platform as much as I outgrew it.

As for noise/fuss - Twitter is a shouting platform where things snowball in a different way.
It would probably be only marginally more expensive (for Twitter specifically) for them to add changes in a way that's backwards compatible with older clients, so I don't think this argument is particularly convincing. I think, because it's somewhat plausible, they pushed it, but because they really wanted to control all of the clients, to increase their advertising revenue.
> Use a different font then.

...no shit? The research specifically was about one particular font ("Dyslexie") having no benefit, not that all fonts have no benefit.
Honest answer: that's a bit like asking "why buy games when there are so many free games available?"

Modern fonts are vastly more elaborate pieces of software than what people tend to think they are [1], and you get what you pay for. If you just need 56 letters, get a free font. If you need full Unicode Latin support, with proper kerning between each of the thousands of possible pairs, with ligature substitution for hundreds of tuples, not just for one language but several, with compositional repositioning for languages that require it, and alternate glyphs based on initial, median, final, or isolated letter form, and so on and so forth, then dollars will get you what free cannot.

Everyone can make a motivational jpg, but you need to pay a skilled digital artist to create a unique well composed new work. In the same vein, anyone can make a font, but you'll need to pay a skilled typographer (or foundry) if you want a well designed, feature rich typeface.

[1] https://pomax.github.io/CFF-glyphlet-fonts/
NATs vs stateful firewall have different failure modes though; a NAT will fail closed, while many stateful firewalls will fail open.
“Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
The old UI also supported multiple accounts, and quite well. Now I wouldn't know where to click.
In your opinion, what would have been the positive effects of breaking up Microsoft? Other browsers would have beaten explorer more quickly than they did? Something else?
Yes, it was.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_War_alliances...
Find the Best Upcoming Music Concerts in the United States
I am pretty sure it is a form of British satire to some degree but the author might actually believe some of this too.
No Moore left to give: enterprise computing after Moore's Law
Interesting! I have a friend who does audio engineering and soundtracks for film studios here in Toronto. Him and his coworkers swear by the old cheese graters. They're all contractors so they're responsible for maintaining their own equipment. And since their work is very seasonal, purchasing new equipment is not always an option when you don't know when your next contract is coming.

Edit: asked him about the touch bar, he says he doesn't want to change his workflow to use something new when he's got all this audio equipment that works fine.
I won in December and while it's true that there is score "manipulation" (we've placed pretty high and didn't win. We won at our lowest ranking), I don't think this is a bad thing.

Pure voting cannot (right now, it'll probably change in the future IMO), account for all the factors that make a good project.

The Pioneer team and expert voters should have higher than normal voting power and I believe that that is what you are seeing.
> Facebook spent $20 billion on WhatsApp and Instagram; Microsoft spent $26 billion on LinkedIn and $7.5 billion on GitHub. Deals such as these were possible only because those acquiring companies were themselves so very profitable.

Instagram had $0 revenue when acquired. WhatsApp had some revenue, but was not profitable IIRC.

EDIT: misread the line, above comment rescinded.
Well exactly. If we are fine breeding so many for meat, breeding a few more to cure serious illnesses or even to save lives should not raise problems in public opinion.
I think there's a difference (moreover, a percievable difference) between a UI redesign which users hate and a UI redesign which users merely complain about. People love complaining and will happily point out the rough edges of anything put in their eyeline, but that's not the same thing as disliking it in a vacuum.
Almost none of those are systems programming languages, which was the domain of comparison.
I find this article hilarious. Everything is from the author's perspective with very little (none?) from that of a person with a tattoo. As if the author couldn't fathom the idea of asking what someone actually thought and instead goes into wild speculation of their motivations.

The author has no problem making general statements about the motivation of the tattooed but then finds the idea that there is a community or shared way of thinking that binds them inconceivable.

The amount of time and effort people put in to not understanding but still disliking things that don't effect them has always and continues to blow my mind...
I cut the cord in 2008 over shady billing practices from Comcast. I pay Xfinity for internet

So Xfinity's billing practices are okay?
Yes, note to the Mozilla team: Nobody uses Viveport except new users who are tricked. Publish on Steam if you want to reach Vive users.
If what's meant here is that it would be hard to run this on a container platform because of the ephemeral nature of containers, assumably you would be using persistent volumes to keep your state safe across the container lifecycle.

That being said if you really wanted to use sqlite for the database, you'd do the exact same thing, use a persistent volume.
I wonder if that has anything to do with not having to then use escaped newlines and tabs. Without newlines, multiple instructions may fail to parse in the assembler, tabs are just for readability when printing asm rather than assembling.
"acquiring companies" not "acquired companies"
Two things:

First, since both of the wachowski’s have transitioned, “matrix brothers” is no longer an accurate description.

Second: would _now_ be the same as a 2019 if the matrix hadn’t come out 20 years ago? I don’t think so.
> one of the reasons Comic Sans is so popular is because of these properties

I doubt most people who use it do so because they know it will make it easier for people with dyslexia to read. My mother uses it all the time because she thinks its cute.
DOJ formally OKs Dish deal to enable Sprint/T-Mobile merger
Yes, but users will accept it and be satisfied if the change is good. How manu of us have tools we continue to use (or long for when using alternatives) because they worked so well.

Most tech seems to ignore usability, though.

Samsung galaxy updates suck.

Korg Electribe rules.
C++ is already type-safe enough. The problem isn't a lack of language support, the problem is that programmers view safety as "needless boilerplate" and go to great lengths to subvert the language on safety issues.
OKR: Should you use them for setting goals?
Monoid also experimented with using ligatures for better kerning at some point, don't know if it still does that. I thought that was a neat idea, especially since that is kind-of-but-not-really what ligatures are for in the first place.

https://larsenwork.com/monoid/
I read this like 10 days ago and didn't catch the joke. Well played.
That's how I feel about Google ads. Half of money might come from small and medium size businesses.

In most cases, it's wasted money. As soon as those businesses realize it is wasted money,they will stop using Google ads. Leaving behind only the big guys (cops, IBM etc)
Are you interested in my response personally?

Ask yourself those questions, that's my point.
We are two whole generations of people into Prop 13. And guess what? Support for it largely stays the same because people still age into their homes, or people pass their homes down to their children who also benefit. Young people
are less likely to vote and more able to move to states with better CoL as well.
Nobody was concerned about using stem cell technology or stem cell research.

The opposition was/is entirely to the death of embryos in order to obtain some stem cells for research. It's not as if it's some anti-science policy.

It's simply a continuation of anti-abortion politics, which a lot of people feel very strongly about and invokes a ton of ethical questions. As long as there can be a perception that someone was killed in order to provide the stem cells to save someone else, that's not going to go away.

Find ways to research stem cells without doing that and all of those concerns vanish.
In my opinion 404 should really mean the API endpoint doesn't exist and therefore the requested action did nothing. Using HTTP for business logic is like using ethernet frames with parts of IP. It is another level, HTTP is just a transport. 404 - not found, 5xx server problem, 301 - endpoint is now elsewhere etc. HTTP is for browser pages but you are actually making API requests using your JSON(or urlencoding or whatever)-based application protocol.
It's a logical consequence of the statement that America has all the ethical debates on genetics.
VR is just "screen time" reaching its logical extreme conclusion. Put another way "fully addressable visual cortex".

It'll get really weird when "glued to your phone" starts being literal as wearable AR stuff gets adhesive bonds.
I wouldn't call morals things that change the moment a big company with deep pockets and suave lobbyists has a stake in changing them.
I don't get rashes, but I have noticed the signs of me being overstressed typically include itchiness for some reason, almost always down my back.
Well if you ask me, the face shaving is even worse social construct and the whole industries were invented around it... but that's because I hate shaving, and also like how I look with the beard better. However, let's take into account that beard or shaved head look doesn't work for everyone's style. Even more important some people like it better one way or the other for their own set of reasons (like me being too lazy to shave regularly).
I use https://www.buymeacoffee.com/

I think if you do some research, you can find similar services with lower fees.
> because those acquiring companies were themselves so very profitable.

The quote says that the acquiring companies were profitable, not the acquired companies.
The UK has even hacked the largest ISP of another EU member country (Belgium) without consequences. It is not the first time that a member of the 5 eyes alliance is caught red-handed...