skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your goal, when you say "protect yourself"?

What is your timeline for your investment? Are you putting money in or taking money out? Do you want your temporary losses to be as low as possible throughout the decline, to make money on the decline, or to have the largest gains three years after the recession ends?
Many thanks for posting this. It's really useful to find guidance on how to do stuff to more effectively engage HN readers with a website or project.

Of course, all my efforts so far have failed to engage the sort of people I want to engage. But then I've been here for less than a month - not an excuse, I know - and I am still trying to work out what sort of tone/content a post/comment needs to convey to get people to engage with it.

The other problem I'm suffering from is a lack of self-discipline: every day I come to HN with the intention to make an impactful post or comment, but then I click on some links and find myself drawn into articles and conversations that have nothing to do with my work/projects, but are just too interesting in their own right to be ignored ... and suddenly the clock's gone forward another hour and I've done nothing productive! HN is too addictive (but I'm not ready to quit it yet!)

I'll not post any links to my projects etc in this comment - maybe I'll try out Lesson 2 tomorrow.
All of these situations you describe sounds just awful. Please contact a trustworthy (I know, haha) lawyer on how to secure your hard work with a state-law mechanics lien.
They weren’t outside the field though. They did a deep dive, learned the language, and relied on a definition of “absurd” rooted in their own ideology rather than reason.

In doing so, they ended up mimicking the field too well.
A nice idea, but it sounds as if they're not quite able to get the input latency low enough. It needs to be around 3-4ms or less. Here it seems as if it's more in the 10-20ms range, judging from the demonstration videos. It's enough to throw a performance off, and to make everything sound just slightly behind.

It could be that it's not the input latency itself, but rather the tapered nature of the wind instrument attack curve. If a tapered attack curve is used to set of the playback of a sample, that could in itself also introduce extra input latency. It's not entirely clear what's happening here.
It's sad that people engaging in the free market are treated like this. Bitcoin casinos like https://mintdice.com would hopefully skirt various solutions.
You're not reading it completely wrong. There is a beta decay.

Look at the last page of this table: http://www.nucleide.org/DDEP_WG/Nuclides/Tl-208_tables.pdf

The green arrows are possible beta decays to lead 208. But 208Tl never decays to the nuclear ground state of lead 208. And so after the beta decay, there are gamma rays (the black arrows) as the nucleus relaxes from whatever excited state it ended up in.
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Ask HN: Why is the most consequential ~hacker-news~ banned from HN?
It's been known since at least the 80's. It's not newfound. Perhaps the retail investor is more aware of it.
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Howdy, I have a nicely running content site which sells PDF plans. I have done ZERO to develop or monetize the emails of customers and prospective customers. I have emails from thousands of paying customers, and could easily generate emails from offering samples etc.

The site generates money but not enough for me to focus on it. But I'd gladly give someone 100% of the first year revenue with a reasonable tail to create some sort of monetization strategy off of my emails. Basically be the CEO of the email business. First year you keep 100% of what you make, 2nd year some tail to be negotiated. (Also same deal for any other incremental business you figure out how to run off the back of the site.)

This is not about technical know how (easily could hook it up to mailchimp or whatever.) This is about developing the strategy and revenue stream to make any email strategy worthwhile.

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Blazingsql is built on top of CUDF. We are contributors to rapidsai
Locating equality
Yep, it was originally run by Carnegie Mellon (as you mentioned, by its creator Luis von Ahn and others).

This article also doesn't seem to touch on the newer reCaptcha that tracks you everywhere on a website (you'll notice a little blue box on the bottom right with the logo where this happens), not just on login or user input pages.

There is a lot to criticize about reCaptcha, including privacy concerns for sure, and there were some other posts about it on HN before.
to feel better or to perform better?

feeling better: 100% cash. let the feeling of safety wash over you as the market continues to climb while you bathe in risk-free dollars (that are always depreciating due to Fed policy, but whatever). eventually, use your expertise in market timing to identify the hour the market bottoms out; scoop up assets at bargain levels.

perform better: stay in the market, knowing that there are many more recessions ahead of you, that you can't time the market, and that time in market is by far the best predictor of long term performance. understand that if you aren't retiring soon, recessions are sort of like sales: the same companies still produce the same assets (Apple still makes hardware, ...), they're just valued less due to silly emotions.

of course, if you're retiring soon or don't have outside income you may want to get out of stocks and into bonds, depending on your appetite for risk.
I looked at the changelog list for 1.4.0 (upcoming), and some of them I think is good idea:

* Search across all tabs (if the user enters the command to search across all tabs)

* Jump to heading across all tabs (again, another command for this purpose, perhaps)

* Per tab isolation (proxies, Tor, and whatever other settings may be applicable to this)

* External editor

I also had my ownn ideas how to make up a better web browser program: gopher://zzo38computer.org/0textfile/miscellaneous/web_browser

It might be necessary to write a new HTML parser and so on, to work some of the stuff I mentioned
Don't know, but this experiment was a replication of a prior study:

"The results replicated and extended the result of Sherman et al. [16] that viewing cute images has a positive effect on behavioral performance in tasks that require carefulness."

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.335...
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Full Stack Chat Tutorial with Laravel and Vue.js
I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here Is Why [pdf]
The problem is that stocks can crash for two reasons: 1) business cycle, and 2) secular economic weakness. In the latter case, that value isn't coming back. Imagine, in terms of your example, that the price of hens dropped because the government passed a law mandating veganism. Would you be wise to buy more hens in this situation?
Detecting incognito mode in Chrome with a timing attack
I am ignorant about this. Can you or someone else explain why this is the case with german s/w companies? What is the reasoning here?
> best horizontal mobility of any other right now

I think you just answered your own question. Unionize while you have leverage to protect yourself for a future where you might not.
3 million is pittance for people like this.

They should have a fine and be required to fully restore the land they destroyed.

We don’t let someone who stole a tv keep the tv, not should we when they’re stealing public resources.

Otherwise the message is very simple: breaking the law only adds to the construction cost but let’s you keep the construction.
* There are larger incompatibilities between implementations in other popular languages, like C, C++ and Java.

* It's easy to suggest designing an OO system better than CLOS. It's harder to point out any examples tho.

* Remove unused functions, what?

* "Make FOO standard" but a bunch of popular languages don't even have a spec, why is this an issue even?
In addition to this request ... my main concern lately is inflation. My suspicion is the next major North American crisis will be inflation. I see this already with housing prices in hot markets (SF, NY, Vancouver, Toronto) and the wages for high-tech workers in those markets. A good salary went from $150k to $500k a little bit too quickly, IMO (but maybe I'm just a grey beard and my sense of time is skewed).

Given that the already low interests rates are likely on their way back to zero, and given China does not seem keen on continuing to fund the US through bond purchases (why would they if the US is engaging them in a trade war?), it seems high inflation is one possible result.

What is the investment strategy in times of high inflation?
It's a portrayal of an exaggerated life that many people want to live. But even still, it's just highlights and not remotely realistic relative to his real life (which is still pretty grand by all means).
If you don't actually need higher level math functions or it's prohibitive to implement something at the higher level. For example if you have an operation where you know the sparse-ness(?) of a matrix at compile time but the values of the matrix can change, you may want to implement the matrix multiplications by hand using SIMD ops.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Big Tech Could End the State as We Know It
The yield curve is an indicator of institutional investor expectations. There are other economic indicators that would cause them to be more bearish on bonds.
One of my favorite takes on captchas is John Mulaney's SNL skit from the past year: https://youtu.be/en5_JrcSTcU?t=337
I will agree that there is something I might call the "re-usability trap". Spending time and effort to abstract a problem or platform under the banner of re-usability and/or portability when the reality is that the principles are rather unlikely to swap in a new part of the platform.

However....

I would strongly caution you that if your senior people seem to be making the solution more complicated that you feel is necessary, then perhaps you don't fully understand the problem.
I agree completely. I've just stopped using any website which asks me to do reCAPTCHA. In fact, I've got uBlock to block it from even loading. If you use reCAPTCHA for any reason then you don't deserve my business.
This is very bad for minorities
I'm referring of course to Cloudfare/8chan/Bitmitigater
Just go read the Fed's meeting notes.

> Several participants also noted that the slope of the Treasury yield curve was unusually flat by historical standards, which in the past had often been associated with a deterioration in future macroeconomic performance.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcminutes201...

(I don't think the latest notes have been released yet, so these are from earlier this year.)
The point of a recession is that the economy is underutilized (unemployment for example). Therefore more overall spending is needed.

If you overdo it you get inflation, that's why it's the typical central bank target.
Amazon recruiters don't talk to each other at all. I actually applied for a position from a local ad, and shortly heard from a recruiter. I assumed it was in reference to my application, but it turns out it wasn't and this recruiter had no positions availably locally (only in Seattle). It's a shit-show.
Active mining towns are not poor, it's after the mine is all played out where it gets interesting
What conspiracy theory? That's what Google say it is for:

> Hundreds of millions of CAPTCHAs are solved by people every day. reCAPTCHA makes positive use of this human effort by channeling the time spent solving CAPTCHAs into annotating images and building machine learning datasets. This in turn helps improve maps and solve hard AI problems.

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html (under "Creation of Value - Help everyone, everywhere - One CAPTCHA at a time.")
I didn't realize how bad reCAPTCHA is until I started trying to protect my privacy.

The internet became practically unusable thanks to the constant, unsolvable CAPTCHAs. You can click the correct image tiles until your finger falls off but you still won't get through.
It's a wage suppression device. If you live in Washington, you should complain to your state representative.
That is a different problem, of requiring too many resources just to load a document.
The os module ships with python, so the function call mocking os.listdir will always succeed even if the code being tested does not use os.listdir

By mocking mymodule.os.listdir you add a requirement that mymodule actually import the os module and take advantage of mock.patch failing loudly if it does not.
I think this is a very interesting direction for time consuming data prep work. Love the idea of combining GUI elements for speed and code for flexibility.
Fog of Disbelief
I wonder if this is some sort of evolutionary caretaker response. We are made aware of something cute and juvenile and suddenly our attention to certain stimuli change. So perhaps this is our brains preparing to protect the juveniles from the environment, triggered by even a digital image.
In my FB interview I was told I wasn't allowed to run the code, which seemed completely ridiculous to me. It was even more frustrating when my interviewer told me I'd missed an edge case when I was certain I'd covered it - I'm still not sure who was right.
Gold's all time high was in the $1700s. It's at a recent high, but that's all.
Sometimes the opposite of one person keeping it all together behind the scenes is "diffuse responsibility", where many people are theoretically responsible, and in practice _nobody_ keeps on top of things because they leave it to others, or even finger-point that "someone else" should have done something.

Diffuse is different from distributed.

In distributed responsibility, there is redundancy. Multiple people ensure things operate. This is good.

In diffuse responsibilty, people cancel each other out, so it's worse than having one person.

An office version of the bystander effect, if you will.

This is particularly bad in volunteer organisations, where wishes and reality do not mix well.

Single point of failure is in important thing.

So I've seen people try to convert a SPOF system, where one or two people are keeping the business and systems running, to a diffused responsibility system.

With the result that one or two people still keep the business running... out of exasperated necessity.

But with more complaining by others, because that's not supposed to happen.

If it were complaining by others that more people aren't taking up meaningful responsibility and doing the work, that makes sense to me. But it's usually complaining by others about the people doing the work. And since they are volunteers, that's a shitty position to be in.

Complaints include that they aren't "letting" others do it. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

People keep being asked to help, and keep being individually not very available. Or, worse, available in not really useful way (impractical hours for example, or sessions too short), or on balance unhelpful.

Those few being meaningfully responsible are, however, not "letting" others access critical databases such as personal data, and safety critical systems, without building up a trust reservoir and track record first, and in some cases formalised relationships. And that seems to make would-be volunteers rather grumbly, in a public way.

At least in volunteer organisations, the bottom line is most people avoid work if they think they can rationalise why it shouldn't need to be done, will gut requirements and constraints, if they don't personally like them, and will avoid taking initiatives on things they think are stalled, if they can get away with portraying it as someone else's fault.

In short, they are contradictory, wanting thing to happen, but rarely taking actions that lead to it.

That doesn't match what actually needs to be done, so it falls on the same few shoulders again and again, and usually at crunch times, as those shoulders are criticised if they take action too early.

Then we end up with "hidden single point of failure", which may be worse than the visible kind.
Absolutely, trying to avoid any website with reCAPTCHA.

If you're non-Chrome user, don't even try playing with images - Google force you to click 3-5 times more than Chrome users, it's just stupid.
If it's an issue of basic human rights which are protected within the constitution or anything else covered within it, then it has to be a federal issue.

Once we are outside of that, I think the default should be to have it be a state decision

I don't think anyone who understands and appreciates federalism disagrees with this. The problem is that we all disagree on what those terms mean (read: most of us agree most of the time, some people have legitimate disagreements, and others disagree in bad faith and stir up populist movements against consensus).
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ust/legacy/2011/...

Page six has around 22% converted and 10% still open. The rest were either dismissed or confirmed, and constitute a majority of cases.
Gold, RE
Right. If HN readers are your exact target audience, then it’s totally worth it.

After we got featured on HN for awhile, whenever I hangout at some tech communities, there will always be someone saying “yeah, I came across the post about TablePlus (my product) on Hacker News the other day. Tried already”

That feels good tho. Also a good way to start a conversation and ask for feedback.
https://xkcd.com/1897/
> After all, how is a blind person supposed to pass?

There's an audio captcha option.
I'm in this boat. I've had too much cash sitting in a money market account for a couple of years in anticipation of a recession. I feel like the corporate tax cuts might have kicked the can down the road a little.

It's a weird spot to be in and I'm still not sure what to do. I've lost a decent amount of money to inflation and opportunity cost. The feeling is as strong as ever but I know that macro trends aren't things anyone can accurately predict.

I know there are better things I could do with the cash in the meantime, but I haven't done the research. I didn't really expect to be sitting on cash for such a long time. Would love to hear anyone's advice.
Weaving Open Core That Works
Sophisticated investors and the Fed have been paying attention to yield curve inversions for a while.

But they also look at heaps of other data like manufacturing indices which is one of the first signs of a coming slow down.
My point is that no matter how an insane person is affiliated, I don't agree with using them to win political points. As much as I believe Antifa is a dangerous (see Andy Ngo), and how dangerous it is for people like Shaun King to be trying to incite violence, I don't agree with using tragedy that way.

It's all but verified that the Dayton shooter was a fan of Elizabeth Warren, and active with Antifa. But the media isn't going to talk about how divisive it is declare the opposing side is running concentration camps, and basically modern Nazi. I'm actually glad they don't, but coming from the other direction it's non-stop.

EDIT

The downvote isn't supposed to be for a comment you disagree with, but for something that doesn't add to the conversation. Try writing a response instead.
I grew up in WY, on a sheep and cattle ranch (where we were poor, but had all the animal flesh to eat that we might desire), and the invading upstream O&G folks and the coal-miners at Thunder Basin mines and living in Campbell county all seemed to make more than $50K/year in 1985.

Last I heard, even "soft jobs" like trainer, in the Eagle Ford and Permian were making at least that much. And in North Dakota - these were on the order of $72K per annum (recognizing that the weird shift schedule doesn't come out to 165 hours/month),
- https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=c...

And that's E1/E2, which you can get without a GED and graduate out of in less than 6 months in the field.

I do NOT know what a diesel tech makes in Indiana, but the hydrocarbon extraction folks in the Rockies seem to do more than 'ok' for not having any sort of degree (which doesn't mean that they are not intelligent)
The most insidious thing about this two-tiered surveillance society is that its effects are invisible to people in the "good" class, and they insist on remaining ignorant of what happens if you're not in that class.

Google still has plenty of other tracking points on you. And of course reCAPTCHA looks reasonable to a prospective developer - it wouldn't be adopted otherwise!

If someone tells you it routinely takes 30 seconds to solve, you should really just accept their experience rather than discarding it with "works fine for me!". If you still need to see it with your own eyes, go setup a TOR browser and become one of the undesirables, rather than just imagining. You just might end up adopting the marginalized view.
In most European countries, like in the U.S., there was a national telephone company. These are by and large privitized in the 1980s and 1990s, subject to various rules and regulations.

In the U.K., France, and Germany, the phone operator (BT, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom) were kept intact, but regulated. In the 1990s, they were required to lease out access to the phone network to competitors at regulated, wholesale rates. The idea is that you can't have effective competition for the last mile anyway, so you might as well put that into a monopoly, and require it to offer access to the last mile loops to competitors. (Obviously you then have to regulate the price of that wholesale service otherwise the monopoly can easily circumvent that by pricing wholesale access sky high.)

This approach is common, and theoretically sound. Something similar is used for the electric market in the U.S. (a local, rate-regulated monopoly owns the electric wire into your house, but it is required to buy electricity from competitive, wholesale markets.) But it's hard to do correctly--if you set the regulated rates too low, you kill off any incentive to invest. If you set them too high, consumers pay too much. Nobody really did it that great--of the largest five EU countries (the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy), all have slow Internet relative to the U.S. Spain and France are turning that around recently by investing a bunch of government money in building fiber.

The U.S. situation was better due to an accident of history. Unlike most of Europe, almost everyone already had two wires into their house (cable and telephone). The U.S. implemented unbundling for DSL service for a relatively short but key period (early 2000s). That set a floor--cable had to be better than DSL to compete.

That never happened in the big EU countries. If you look at the OECD statistics, the thing that really holds them back is very high DSL usage: https://data.oecd.org/broadband/fixed-broadband-subscription.... Germany, France, and the U.K. have 30 DSL subscribers per 100 people, versus just 7 for the U.S.