skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffett has been known for a long time to keep cash handy as his 'elephant gun'.

He patiently waits, watching and analyzing, looking for an excellent company to buy for a fair price (or better). When such a bargain emerges, Buffett deploys the 'elephant gun' and makes a massive buy.

This has nothing to do with timing the market. Buffett will buy no matter what the broader market is doing-- it's all that excellent company at a good price that matters.

Above all, remember: It's not timing the market, it's time in the market.
Mortal Engines: A baffling movie marketing case study
Beyond that, IBM uses it for several of their mainframe products too.
Perhaps you'd be surprised that some countries with banks have very few guns in private possession.
Fixed, thank you!

We think we used that URL when we submitted to HN a few years ago because the root domain had already been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6397526 (I ended up offering to pay for it!)
Everyone’s different but: I’ve had a 2016 MacBook, 2018 MBP and 2019 MacBook Air. Typing performance was for me excellent on all three (wrote a ton of code so heavy keyboard use).

However the 2016 keyboard did have a failing space bar replaced twice and would have had a third (and a lemon law claim) had it not suffered an immersion first. Both times I was without my computer for 24 hours. The 2018 and 2019 experiences have been great.

So while I’m not thrilled on the reliability front I can’t say I’m too upset. And key travel was not an issue for me.
The thinness issue applies to most Apple products. Who is asking for thinner phones? I want fatter phones with bigger batteries.
They also had manufacturing problems at times. Can't remember with it was the Ultrasparc III or IV for this specific example, but when a whole bunch of CPU's were recalled because the ceramic would actually seperate from the rest of the chip once it warmed up.
It will negatively impact the business if the business can’t identify the best candidates. It can have a low false positive rate and still hire relatively mediocre engineers. Which is what I’ve seen happen over and over again.
yeah I had these in mind, the question is would it change the energy equation significantly
Remap caps lock.
Did you go to the products page? Not questioning what you said at all just curious how deep you dug (obvs apex should have the info you were missing), but as someone that is pretty familiar with their offering and someone that has hosted api docs and sdk documentation through other sources their copy and marketing is on point for me - and the marketer/founder in me wants to know where the disconnect happened for you.
I'm not exactly saying not having a family is a sacrifice, but where you want to live. The cheapest apartment I could find in my area (before kids/marriage) was about $700 and that's a few cities away in a no-so-great area where cops were getting called to our neighbors every few days. I could go closer to downtown and be in a worse area.

With kids, the cheaper areas have generally worse schools, parks, etc.
> Its in quite a bad state with regard to how you have to structure the code to ensure Typescript doesn't throw linting errors (and even then I found the intellisense gained was not much more powerful than what my IDE already provides).

Can you expand on this?

I currently write my apps in .net core/Vue/Typescript and use the same stack for small or large so I might be able to assist
Doesn’t Google do the same?
Have you looked at TiKV/TiDB? I’m curious what you think of them.
Yes. It's best to contrast this versus say ARM where everyone has to pay for the ISA and potentially they also license an implementation or partial reusable designs. Sparc, Risc-V, MIPS and PowerISA are royalty free ISAs with open source implementations.

The ISA and implementation of POWER has been license-able from the beginning. You can still license implementations, depending on what you are doing that may be pretty cost effective.
Much faster. Also, FUSE has to be installed by the user, which if it's in the kernel, then it Just Works everywhere. With the spec open and the patent license freely granted, the most common USB flash drive format can now Just Work everywhere.
Amazing, now we just need to make a full body suit of this material so it works with the main type of urban collision, which is being killed by a reckless SUV driver, or pulled under a box truck and crushed under the back wheels.
I wonder how’s the Swedish “airbag helmet” doing these days. It sounds like a superior solution to any regular bike helmet, but perhaps the price and/or convenience just isn’t there for the mass market.
Thanks for the encouragement. And the great article.
> They found linemen with the same issues despite no concussion history.

With no reported concussion history.
Wow, this is tough one for me.

On one hand, I can totally understand denying access to someone who has many online associates who post things about mass murder, bomb-making, etc. etc.

On the other hand, I have online 'friends' I haven't seen since childhood, a few of which sometimes post absolutely idiotic things. Maybe somewhat racist memes, etc. I don't feel I need to scold them, I just ignore them as much as possible and hope to see more posts about common interests, like our shared upbringing. I'd hate to judged on those posts (that aren't mine!)
Stackdriver is remarkably awesome for log aggregation, storage, and querying. Uptime checks to arbitrary HTTP endpoints are fantastic!

Not sure about other use cases such as visualization and triggering events. I assume they have an API or integrations for such things, just haven't needed it as of yet.

Their pricing changed recently, don't remember the details, but I do remember previously that non Google Cloud nodes did incur an additional cost. Free limits are decent, haven't paid yet for personal side stuff. But YMMV, check the pricing page https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing
Not a full solution, but there's the API at https://hnstream.com/ for getting realtime updates of comments, which could be used to build a notification system.
How I Wrote Shape Up
Was battling it today. Latest stable release of python mind you 3.7.3. We have to move structured data around from a legacy system and integrate it with our new website. Perfect opertunity for types. This also includes trying to use mypy.

* it doesn't track the state of the variable. If I get a value thats Optional[int] there is no way to say 'if a is not None:' it will still complain that the variable could be none
* even with the mypy experimental TypedDict they're basically unusable IMO
* there is no 'keyof'

* there is no way to constrain to specific strings (or other primitives). I don't understand what literals are supposed to be but they aren't useful for us

Coming from typescript it's been very lackluster.
Thanks for the tip, I learnt this a long time ago, I've also moved into an industry where dealing with recruiters would probably indicate other issues like lack of ability to research prospective employers, etc.

I'm glad it's becoming more common knowledge though. Recruiters have long been redundant compared to job search websites like seek.
I think the protesters need to figure out how to start making economic impacts that affect the Chinese. Striking at their jobs is a great start. Sand on runways, blocking ports, earth moving equipment to block highways, anything needed.
I don't understand Apple users. They continue putting out crappy products and their users act like they've been personally hurt and there's nothing they can do about it.

There is something you can do about it: buy someone else's computer. How long has it been since you used anything else?
Recommend DataDog logs[1]. It integrates with cloud providers and pulls logs from resources like load balancers, s3 buckets, etc. Additionally you can ingest from files on servers using the DataDog agent, and finally there are language SDK's to push log events from code.

[1] https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/
For copying photos off an SD card you're unlikely to notice any difference on any machine made in the past 10 years, except maybe the fans coming on, but try it on a Raspberry Pi class machine, or doing any kind of random IO and oh boy..

The Spectre/Meltdown situation must have made FUSE much, much worse than it was already. I wonder if anyone did any benchmarks for that
> and it is pretty obvious to most people around here what that means socially within his company

Genuinely curious here: can you expand on this a bit? I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Building anything will create pollution, that solar does too is not a surprise as it is merely “green” compared to alternatives.
[you're right]
Using abnormal returns to train a classifier, as suggested by
olooney, is not appropriate in this study for two reasons. First, there is not enough observations. The classifier labels sentences not the entire report. Each report contains more than 1000 sentences on average and there are 60,000 reports and 60,000 returns.
Second, the purpose of the study is to see if textual content (in this case sentiment)is related to return. Using returns to train a classifier would assume that sentiment is related to return, which is the question that paper tries to answer.
Also, the paper does control for the quantitative information in corporate reports. All the control variables in the regressions are from the reports.
Nah, they give you a $1000 discount on the monitor if you already own a stand.
There's a pretty long track record of CCP using violence, coercion and manipulation of public opinion in order to quell unrest, successfully, at the expense of great trauma on its people. I don't think Hong Kong stands a chance long term against that current. HK has always been completely dependent on mainland China for survival, starting with water and power. It has no Independent army. It is no longer as critical to China's economy as the gateway that it once was. It is no longer as critical to Western businesses either so very unlikely to be militarily defended by US. The CCP completely controls the domestic media narrative about the protests, including social media, and paints the protesters as violent agents of foreign influence - rousing wide popular scorn among mainlanders. I think we can admire the protesters for their restraint and persistence but if I were a HKger today I'd be looking for exits.
Big reason why Readme really didn't work for us was because - we wanted one secured internal knowledge base and one external knowledge base but that was not easily supported. Also we needed integration with Zendesk because we wanted to re-direct customers to our KB but that was not easily done.
I have a folder called "TIL" (today I learned) and under that I have one folder for each technology/topic. Every time I learn or do something that I need to remember, I create a new markdown file in the relevant folder (or create a new folder).
Most of this I publish to the internet, at https://TIL.secretGeek.net

To publish it all I have to do is push.

I have a private repo too for TIL's I don't/can't share (and all passwords go in a password manager)

At work we have have a custom in-house wiki that stores all of our shared internal notes.
Off-topic, but Ryan, your name brings me back to 2013 when I was just learning Ruby on Rails and you were snarkily answering my dumb questions on the #rubyonrails IRC channel. But seriously, thank you so much. Learned a ton from that channel, gained a career, and now I run my own software consultancy. And since no one learns Rails anymore we can make $$$!
I used the regular twitter api using tweepy and trained NLP classifier to identify book mentions in tweets.
Thanks, I think I understand now. I honestly would have never guessed those were clickable without hovering. All I did was scroll. I didn't move the cursor so I also didn't notice the image change on mouse over.
He specifically mentioned mobile apps. When developing mobile apps, you almost always operate in a “semi connected” state where ideally you can function without network access and rely on syncing.
Ask HN: How can users protect their personal data?
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle, I've had several people I know ask me what they can do to protect their personal data and guard themselves against manipulation and "psychographic warfare". I've worked, in the past, on similar projects using big data and marketing automation so I think I take a lot for granted as far as what other people may or may not know about how to protect themselves online. Surprisingly, many people don't even know to check for https before entering credit card information!

I'm working on compiling a cheatsheet of tips to share with non-techy people when they ask me. There are obvious answers like "don't post personal information online", but I'm looking more for ways people can exist and operate reasonably within modern society while practicing good habits - something like "use different email addresses for every account" or something to that effect.

Curious to see what the ethos has to say!

Thanks!
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20798453
I'm not an expert on Catolonia and Spain, but I don't see it that way.

I've likened Hong Kong to Singapore. It's leaning toward being fully independent and the momentum seems unstoppable. The question I'm wondering is why stop at HK? I want my access to KuGou back. That's what did it for me.

Spain and Catalonia both use the Euro. Catalonia has its own judicial system, but I believe they both are set to the EU in terms of bigger picture things.

HK and PRC have separate currencies. HK uses traditional chinese characters and speaks Cantonese. Not everyone in neighboring Guangdong speaks Cantonese, and they use simplified chinese characters.

Hong Kong has its own famous movies. It has its own cellphone companies and ISPs. Its own stock market. They drive on different sides of the road (left in HK, right in China). HK has trams. HK has its own customs. The legal system is in english and its a common law system and dramatically different than China's.
Please don't keyboard warrior on complex topics -- nothing you have outlined was even remotely possible or sensible.
"So Medium-Sized It Might Have Been Fairly Uncommon"
Because Power is on such a slow (and getting slower) cycle, it seems like the best case for Power10 is for it to be ahead of Epyc for one year then be behind for 4-5 years. And the worst case is that Power10 will already be behind Epyc when it is released.

Revenue is a different story that doesn't necessarily reflect technical merit.
Does anyone have information on affected and unaffected version numbers? I have a version of this installed, but it's an old one, and may not have updated to the malware one because I disabled automatic updates. (Specifically because I was afraid of this, in fact.)
Congo Basin vs. the Amazon: a tale of two forest fires
frilliant. I wanted one of these backwhen, now I want one more..
I flew only once with Ryan air, my experience was that I was forced to pay 80 gbp because I hadn't checked in online (when no other airlines force you to do that) and they had us all wait on the tarmac under the rain for 45 minutes before boarding. Plus seats were really cramped.

So, no not worth it for the slight difference of price they offer.
Hi there, Dylan, a Pipedream founder here.

Right now, the product is in alpha, so its programming model is subject to change. As a result we expect it to serve mostly personal use cases, and hope to serve the enterprise over time.

And yes, it's free! You can run any number of cron jobs up to a frequency of once / minute [1]. You can also trigger workflows via HTTP requests [2], up to 10 QPS for free (after that, we'll rate limit you and issue 429s, but you can always reach out to us to raise that limit if you have a use case).

We think it's the easiest way to run Node.js code on a schedule or in response to HTTP requests. There's no infra to manage or other cloud resources to provision. You just write Node code.

We support a lot of first-class "destinations", like S3 [3] and a hosted data warehouse where you can send any JSON and query it using SQL, also for free [4] (we generate and update the table schema for you, based on the JSON you send). We use these destinations internally to store e.g. data from webhooks for analytics. If you need to run basic transformations on HTTP requests using Node, then send that data somewhere, it's a trivial way to do it. You can add any number of these destinations to a single workflow. We also support returning custom HTTP responses if you'd like to build out simple APIs [5].

I'd love if you found a use case for it and gave us any technical feedback you have. That's exactly what we're looking for at this stage!

dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com

[1] https://docs.pipedream.com/cron/
[2] https://docs.pipedream.com/notebook/sources/#webhook-sources
[3] https://docs.pipedream.com/notebook/destinations/s3/
[4] https://docs.pipedream.com/notebook/sql/
[5] https://docs.pipedream.com/notebook/sources/#http-responses
> The thing about all of those skills is they are all soft skills, that can be taught quickly on the job to the right candidates. Whereas a deep ability to solve a technical problem cannot be taught in a reasonable amount of time to most people.

This is the exact opposite I have seen in 20 some odd years of working. Maybe if you mean deep technical skills as an expert in cutting edge ML? Thing is, most companies do not need that that depth of expertise. They need someone who can get build standard web/mobile apps, and not be an asshole (and even a bigger plus if they know anything about business/finance/project management). How many assholes have you ever turned into not assholes vs. how many people have you been able to teach something technical? Soft skills are hard for many people.

EDIT

Wanted to add that a pretty standard soft skill of being able to check their ego often allows people to learn more easily than those who can't put their ego aside.
The problem with your argument is that it is based on something that doesn't exist. There are no commercial nuclear plants even being planned to be built based on any of the newer technology. (that I could find)

>...the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams

That would be 13,850 TONS [0] of radioactive waste /every year/.

Using "grams" is a manipulation tactic you seem to have fallen for. At least carbon turns back into trees and concrete.

I challenge you to visit a nuclear storage facility. They are all maxing out as far as I have heard and read. There is almost not storage room left. The one place where they were making more storage was Nevada and that got shut down years ago.

There's no more room in our state's current storage. And it's near sensitive water ways. It's just crazy. Storage it _the_ issue.

Edit: The other source of info I have was from an uncle in-law that worked security at nuclear facility in the 90s. They were having storage issues back then even.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=39.5+grams+x+350+milli...
NASA Fed Apollo 11 Moon Rocks to Cockroaches (and Then Things Got Even Weirder)
I got hit by a truck earlier this year while wearing a WaveCel helmet. The outer foam cracked in two places and the cell structure on the inside collapsed in several places. The CT scan of my head came out clean and the ER physician discharged me within the hour. I think my post-incident symptoms were more indicative of shock than concussion, since I did sustain several fractures in my hand.

https://imgur.com/a/LdNQSRT

https://imgur.com/a/JL5ORlg
Agreed. And then what?
Destroy China?
“Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control”
The problem is you need a gain of greater than 1 for a sequence of elements otherwise the noise will eventually swamp the signal and lead to an ambiguous or incorrect result.
Regardless, it is still a standard courtesy.
IBM already sold Power8 to Suzhou PowerCore which then went out of business (if it was ever a real business). When it comes to processors China seems to be throwing everything at the wall (MIPS, Power, ARM, etc.) and almost nothing is sticking.
He’s completely right, i’ve made the same upgrade from 2015 (rip) and it’s super frustrating. The tab keys not working is the worse for me . I continue to put random letters in random files when using it. Is a nightmare.
Some airlines are banning Apple’s MacBook Pros even if they weren’t recalled
No one calls it HongKongese b/c it is not that different, you're exaggerating. Not all people in Guangzhou can speak Cantonese and those who can, even if they are native speakers, might not accent-savvy enough to tell an HKer if he/she tries to avoid some unique phases.
> most people think their life is worth more than $250

FYI, I just bought the Bontrager wavecell last weekend for $150 at REI. It was a no-brainer, so to speak.

[I just had the worst crash of my life 2 weeks ago. I incurred nothing worse than scrapes and bruises, mostly because the helmet did its job, but needed to replace it after the crash.]
And yet, quite compelling. It would be fascinating to read a point by point rebuttal.
yes they do
True, but I rarely see people explicitly assert that. The more people have to explain an arbitrary distinction out loud, the less it makes sense in the culture.
There's a wealth of opportunities here.

Annually from the second year on during a computer science or software engineering program, students should be required to have one class where they spend at least one full day per week contributing to their choice of one of the following:

(1) An open-source project approved by the instructor.

(2) Production software used within the university, excluding systems dealing with student or faculty PII or sensitive information (grades, schedules, etc). Lots of opportunities here to contribute across the sciences!

(3) Non-commercial software benefitting the community or government at any level (from local to national).
Conversely, too much practical experience can lead to a lack of fundamental understanding, innovation, and helplessness.

I can’t stand it when an engineer wastes hours looking for a library, instead of even considering actually writing code themselves. Many just can’t because they’re so accustomed to glueing together other people’s code.

Of course, I’ve worked with academic types that can never stop theorizing and actually be productive. That have zero discipline.

There has to be a balance. But yes, fresh out of school == fairly worthless for anything I’ve worked on ever.
There are usually plenty of opportunities to infer types and check identifiers etc. at compile time without the need to annotate anything. And the more you annotate, the more opportunities for the compiler to help.

I don't have enough TypeScript experience; but from what I've seen, it comes pretty close to providing tools without mandating use and help where it can in the same spirit as Common Lisp.

I guess if your company mandates checking all boxes, which unfortunately seems bound to happen sooner or later, that doesn't help; but it's hardly TypeScript's fault.

The various Haskell-ish web languages popping up all over the place though, that's a different story. I wouldn't touch those with a ten foot pole. I'm so done with academic hoops.
The UK did try to democratize HK governance in the 60s but China immediately threatened military invasion.
Most of the should-be-targeted market just wants a $1500 retina display.
So you understand how long I've been using Firefox, then. :P

(And yeah, compared with Netscape 4, IE6 was great!)
According to ZDNet, yes: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-power-ful-open-source-gif...
I mean he was rubbing shoulders with SV giants worth tens of billions at the time. He probably felt like he could do better than paltry hundreds of
millions.
They make dirt bike helmets if you need that kind of protection. If you're road biking and just want a bit more, you could always wear a bike helmet and a mouth piece. I've found the real danger of having your chin hit something is when it slams your mouth closed.
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