skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for saying this. The "Priced In" fallacy has been on full display since the pandemic began. As late as a few weeks ago people were still talking about a "V-Shaped Recovery" and now the narrative is changing to a long, slow recovery.

I have no claim to know exactly what's going on, but I don't think the markets are efficient, and I don't think they're random. I think decent theories are that the markets are reacting to unprecedented Fed action and/or there are a lot of retail investors attempting to "buy the dip". It's probably fair to say there are large disconnects from business fundamentals and what it actually means when economies shut down.

Howard Marks put it in a way I find compelling: "The bottom is when there's no more optimism left" (paraphrasing). If I had to bet (and I am), I'd say there is a lot of wishful thinking going on. People want mid-March to be the bottom, so they buy, and so prices go up. Prices trend up and so... more people buy. Feels like a ton of confirmation bias with big consequences later on.

I actually think we might see a change in investor sentiment once things do start opening up and everyone realizes the damage done (many businesses closed, defaults, still-high unemployment, etc.) Again, I'm no expert but it feels like a good time to be fearful w/r/t investments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072956
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s/is profiting/has profited.

He is a multi millionaire close to retirement. It wasn’t actually a great sacrifice.

It’s like all of the former Google and Facebook employees “bravely” speaking out after they have already cashed in their lucrative RSUs
I use HN because it's the one place I can find a variety of intelligent discussions on different topics that don't devolve in name calling, flame wars, doxing, etc. The latter is why I only use Reddit for pop culture related topics, since the political and cultural ones there devolve into absolute hell. Same with their equivalents on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

At least on HN, you know that everything from a discussion on web design best practices to a talk on the changing role of journalism in the modern world will have some form of civility to it. And that the people involved will be at least trying to have an intelligent conversation rather than fighting over red team vs blue team tribal politics.

I also find it one of the few places online where I can find, how best to say this, obscure/personal sites, articles and content written by people knowledgeable or passionate about a topic. Links on Reddit are about 40% mainstream media outlets, 50% YouTube/Twitch and 10% stuff from other sources. The links on Hacker News are far more varied, and far more supportive towards independent creators.
Where did you get your furniture from? Anything missing from your setup you want?
We have been running this for several years for the IRC service in our closed community "cloud". It is unfortunately subject to many bugs, some of which affect its stability. It crashes regularly.
Definitely - this seems in line with Planet of the Humans.
Yup. If you're going to do that just host the entire thing on github pages and call it a day.
Probably also true. I'm sure I make more in my current role than I would coaching people, unless I was able to either leverage that into some sort of weird social media/Youtube phenom, or scale it up by hiring other people (and then you just end up having the professional-services-firm problem).
Simple solution: set the `min-height: 600px` on the Twitch `iframe` instead of on the `.embed` class.
If you're so sure of that, I hope you are shorting the market.
> Don't get it, don't transmit it.

Unfortunately that's not really a tenable long-term strategy.
I was thinking “premature action ...” covers it, but it doesn’t properly match the stuff in your last paragraph.

The way I usually put it is “level and division of effort should match and be informed by the level of knowledge”, but that also doesn’t cover “move fast...” properly, because some people take that to mean “I don’t know enough, so I should move slowLy” whereas often it should be “I don’t know enough so I should experiment quickly”
Oragono – Go IRC server implementing bleeding-edge IRCv3
Are you a manager of a certain job function like developers? It seems that managers are having a harder time
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Oh this looks very nice, might go and add this to one of my sites soon!

Two small notes:

- The Multilingual examples don't seem to work for me using the latest Firefox. The displayed form is always shown in English.

- The folder with example configs doesn't actually seem to contain anything other than an i18n file

Also, is there a function I can call in Javascript code to check if I have permission to set a certain type of cookie?
As a streamer I would say that a streamer should never act as if no one is watching. Many viewers never feel like chatting and that's fine. And sometimes people will watch vods after the fact. For myself, I purposely disable the metrics so that my mood can't be affected by viewership numbers.
How long until we see an SGX-damaging malware in the wild that simply eats up all the monotonic counters?
Ooooh, I totally forgot to add your link, I remember you commenting, sorry! Will amend now.

Ah I see, so your approach is using databases as an 'intermediate' layer, rather than the main source of 'truth'.
My main objection to databases is the fricton with the maintenance and the speed of prototyping, but if it's automatic and used as a cache, I agree it's reasonable. Although I'd still be worried about normalising something wrong, but this is my personal sort of anxiety :)

I've got something similar [0]: if you have a sequence of NamedTuples/dataclasses, you can get a database 'for free'.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html#cachew_cachew
Nice catch, thanks. Most of them are not, you'll find out:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/patients-with-heart-at...

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/05/04/coronavirus-covid-19-...

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-queen...
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Another IRC server written in Go, probably less minimalist though: https://github.com/oragono/oragono

Been running it for quite a while now without troubles (but only few internal users, so not particularly challenging)
Also, not all noise are alike.

My productivity increases with regular brown noise -- it "covers-up" the irregular traffic and train noises outside my apartment so my brain doesn't pay attention to it. Brown noise is also pleasant to the ears.

Music: it depends. Any kind of forgettable music like muzak or background instrumental/classical helps. But anything with lyrics distracts me because it engages the language processing part of my brain -- I need that part to do my work. But I know many people who can work while listening to rock and roll.

Also the article makes a difference between cognitive function and effort-task performance.

If I was a mechanic or someone doing a mechanical task, I wouldn't mind blasting heavy metal in the background -- it gives me a "metronome" to sync to. But I wouldn't do the same if I was a tax accountant where I need the cognitive headspace to do careful work.

If we create a quiet office environment, everybody gets to pick their preferred noise via headphones.
With a 80$/month vm on Azure, you may get some CPU cycles but dont expect a lot of storage IOs. Azure is particularly shitty and slow if you don't spend a lot. In my experience a 3€ Scaleway vm is better than much more expensive Azure or AWS vms. You don't get as many cloud features though.

Scaleway and OVH also have cheap bare metal offers if you don't like to share.
But death still occurs with the flu! Doesn't this mean you don't think life is more palateable than making money?
I don't understand the point of this comment.
Anyone manage to build a binary from that tree? I'd be interested to try it.
I'm doing the cardinal mistake of not having clicked the link since I'm at work, but to build on your sentiment:

Is it binary between searching for 0 viewers and not 0< viewers?

If so I'd suggest implementing the option of searching for less than <arbitrary number of users>, so someone new actually can grow a bit from this tool before potentially taking off organically.
It's different because when you go for herd immunity you would try to infect low-risk groups first so the high risk groups would never get it at all. This would result in an overall minimal death rate, could be a tenth or less of the death rate if the infections were evenly distributed.
If it was a hybrid, I guess that would mean a smaller office would be needed by your company. Do you think that is an opportunity for companies to think about moving their office out of expensive city centers or you think it is still necessary to be centrally located for talent/client interactions?
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Ever been in a crowded area and couldn't get a connection to anything with your phone? UWB 5G is going to solve that problem.
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Emulators with Vulkan include RPCS3, Dolphin, Flycast, Yuzu, PPSSPP, Xenia...
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> free water

This is often not a thing in closed environments like theme parks
Wrong. A national lab has identified enough variance in “strains” in the population to negate a singular vaccine.

Source: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/lanl-find...
Any specific reason why you keep up with that instead of just using another one of the very minimal servers like https://ngircd.barton.de?
The spec was too restrictive for the use cases site developers wanted, and the feature set was expanded to accomodate them.

The alternative was they were building sites in Flash when they wanted more complicated client-server interactions, which was much more expensive (development time, processor time, bandwidth) but supported all the features they wanted for the user experience.
Ask HN: Why are people confident there will be a Covid-19 vaccine?
In discussions in the news, here on this board, and elsewhere, it seems there is a general presupposition that we will create a successful COVID-19 vaccine. People focus on when, not if.

Since there is some evidence that the virus is significantly mutating (e.g. the recent report from Los Alamos), and since we do not yet have vaccines I am aware of for any other coronavirus, what makes people so confident we will be able to produce working vaccine(s) for this one?
Such beautiful diagrams.
I wonder what the chances are that the treasury and/or fed are buying equities en masse behind the scenes. It seems like a politically savvy move: come November, just point out that the stock market is going through the roof during a pandemic and guarantee your re-election.
Ask HN: What are the strengths and weaknesses of your time management system?
There are many time management systems and products available, from todo lists, time-blocking, text files, boards, etc. It seems like there must be trade-offs. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the time management system that you use?
Amazon is also a pretty terrible place to buy computer hardware, especially with their track record of shipping terribly-packed hard drives.
And apparently that mutation already happened

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/lanl-find...
I’m completely comfortable with the language coming from Elixir. The problem was the tooling/docs didn’t match the experience.

This was from the official site and many of the commands threw errors.

I think it was a case of incomplete Mac support, which should have been called out.

IIRC I posted on HN about it and got an apology for the state of tooling
>They can always figure that out later.

And therein lies the problem. If they don't have a business model for profitability then they'll just fall back on the corporate DNA, which is surveillance and tracking for profit.
I think the comment is trying to indirectly say that existing Amazon employees shouldn't be expect to follow the standard he's setting, because they haven't made their millions yet.
It’s infantilizing to imply people are incapable of handling the responsibility of having access to the personal data they’re creating, as if it’s better to just trust it with private companies that leverage it to monetize us.

I’m sure achieving whatever your sufficient level of “quant” isn’t trivial (congratulations presumably) but a command line interface took shared with the Hackernews community is fairly self-selecting.

I think this is a super interesting project, looking forward to seeing how this gets developed!
I feel like that's an important distinction.

In Canada, our officials said in January that asymptomatic individuals were not main drivers of epidemics.

And while that may have been true with something like influenza, a more accurate statement would've been we don't have evidence _yet_ that suggests asymptomatic individuals could effectively spread the virus.

We proceeded to operate on that assumption by not forcing incoming travelers from infected regions to isolate, unless they contacted health officials with symptoms associated to the virus. We didn't change this stance until late March, well after the virus had infected thousands of people across the country.

In contrast, Taiwan implemented mandatory 14-day self-isolations for incoming travelers from specific regions as early as late January.

In Ontario, we've had cases of airport taxi drivers pass away from Covid-19. Whereas Taiwan recognized that there'd likely be a large number of people coming home with the virus, so they created special airport quarantine taxis equipped with mandatory masks for passengers and isopropyl alcohol for the driver.
Well, no, we also have session storage.

It also doesn't stop SPAs from existing and not needing cookies.
Ironically, Google actually puts a huge amount of engineering effort into thinking through privacy concerns because they're a huge target and they stand to lose a lot if they lose consumer goodwill.

... but their thought process does generally include "Google and their data stores are a trusted repository."
That picture of the dude in the full face respirator - he appears to have the mercury/chlorine gas cartridges with no particulate filters? Sigh.
There's an obvious moral hazard for these larger players, because as it stands today, heads they win, tails we all lose. We have a defacto policy of socializing risk for financial institutions.

You're not hearing about money guys jumping out the window in 2020 or 2009 like in 1929. The firms are corporations that insulate the principals from the risk. (Until about 20 years ago, many of the big players were limited partnerships, for example)
That's a nice article. Thanks for responding. The 3-4 year timeframe you mention isn't in there. Is there another source for that?
Went through a security clearance years ago (in the UK). Explained to another candidate also about to go through the process that we would be asked questions about our sex lives, etc. and had to be honest. They were horrified.

I suspect it was the horrified nature of having to discuss it that ruled them out (they failed), not the fact that they - I inferred through gentle questioning - had experimented a little with a same-sex relationship whilst at University.

If you're OK with your family finding out or it going in the local paper, you can't be blackmailed over it. You're probably fine.

If you are terrified by the thought of whatever it is - even if it's legal - becoming knowledge of those you care about, and even more so those you don't care about, that's likely a problem.

Within security services and law enforcement, hanging around with criminals - which is what drug dealers in most places are - will rule you out for obvious reasons.

Even in places where drugs (weed increasingly, booze almost everywhere in Europe and North America), being a heavy and habitual user of substances is going to raise an eyebrow and prompt a discussion, at least.
Probably not. This stuff isn't randomly distributed. Many people will not see anyone in their close network suffer from this. Many others will see almost everyone in their network suffer from this.
The BOFH is a Go fanboy.
It was unclear to me if this means that you only learn the minimum about each subject necessary for the phenomena you are studying, or if it is more that the phenomena are used to make the subjects interesting to the students but you still learn the subject to the same breadth that you would under the traditional system.

Note that the "minimum necessary" approach could still teach the same breadth as the traditional approach if enough different phenomena were covered.

Even if you have enough phenomena to get full coverage of some underlying subject I would worry that it would lack cohesion. If you learn a subject piecemeal as it comes up as part of the various phenomena you are studying, it might be harder to get the big picture for that subject and see it as anything more than a bag of tricks.

This could possibly be avoided by careful selection and sequencing of phenomena.
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Kinda, except the opposite.
Students call college that got millions in coronavirus relief a ‘sham'
> It's not a matter of economics but physics

What physics principle can you cite here? There are no physical limits that have stoped the current grid scale deployments.

It's all economics: how cheaply can you get materials to your factory and how cheaply can you roll your batteries.

(And just a warning, this sort of invocation if physics when it doesn't apply is a way to scare off technical people from wanting to let you invest in them.)

There are real, grid scale installations in California, Australia, and other places in very recent years. Another GWh will be deployed to Moss Landing, CA soon.

The real problem is convincing utility execs to try something new. Based on how they are regulated, saving money doesn't necessarily mean that they can increase their profits. And in fact rate-basing means that they often want to spend a ton of money on unnecessary projects.
I'm curious what the reason for avoiding eBay is?

They don't seem to be engaging in any of the more egregious behaviors that earn Amazon flak simply by virtue of not having their own product lines and warehouse/distribution system.
The french economy has been hit harder than many other countries, probably due very generous short-time working relief measures, where the state pays 90% of the former salary:

"Could there be a connection between the deep recession - in no other eurozone country did economic output in the corona crisis collapse as sharply as in France - and the generous short-time working arrangements?"

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%...

Tl;Dr: France once again becomes socialist, discovers that incentives are powerful.
Omegle does have a dedicated adult section. It doesn't stop people from joining the non-adult section and exposing themselves for reactions.
There are a few shell modes in Emacs. I think ansi-term might do what you want for a full screen interactive terminal application.
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Can you use the Twitch tags? That would be even more useful than simply filtering by games.
The GitHub readme links to a scholarly thesis discussing the general approach[0], as well as to the author's own dissertation[1] on this specific project (which "aims to investigate the practical viability" of [0] "by building the technology into a real compiler" for empirical evaluation on real-world hardware). Region inference is discussed throughout [0], and extensively in Chapter 9.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf

[1] http://nathancorbyn.com/nc513.pdf
Yes.

This incident shows AWS engineers have significantly more leverage than their coworkers in warehouses. If you are an engineer who works for Amazon and you want to see real changes here's a suggestion:

In an ideal world, you will not have to look for another job, to encourage change, but considering the circumstances, the most impactful way to encourage change is to follow Tim Bray's footsteps.

If a significant amount of critical engineers leave AWS and they make it clear that it was because of the poor treatment of Fulfillment Center teammates, Amazon will change. AWS who want to have a major impact, and are willing & able, should find a new employer. Secure new positions, resign then write to all the journalists covering Tim Bray's story, about why this group decided to leave. Warehouse workers as a group have significantly less leverage because they are easier to replace, especially now when there are so many people who are unemployed that can quickly take their position. AWS engineers as a group have far more leverage because they are harder to replace, even now, during the pandemic.

As for me, this will be the last year I shop for products on Amazon for the foreseeable future, and I may never come back, and I will be encouraging others to do the same. I'm one of those people who love shopping on Amazon, well not anymore.
> generally you'll get it cheaper at the local online stores like Big W/Target/Kmart/JB/GoodGuys/etc, or the small independent stores who run their own websites. Discoverability sucks, and sometimes you spend a couple hours (or even a few nights) searching around all the little local stores buried 5-10 pages down the search results to find what you need, but it's generally worth the effort for the better prices and local support.

Room for someone to be a discoverability platform? One stop discoverability, whichsometimes is all Amazon is for a particular transaction.

Find it at IFoundIt, and then directed to the seller's store.
It amazes me how unself aware some HN users are when it comes to giving Government more power. I wonder do they know how much bad tech regulation has been both passed and stopped.

The government would love to have more power over tech to both gather information on people and to control the narrative.

Did anyone not see how Tim Cook was kissing up to the President and how much he enjoyed it? Do you really prefer to have a potential abusive government With the power of the state with more power.
Note that the author specifically mentions this and writes about using it for new posts and then falling back to selfhosting.

That way you can own your data and serve more visitors.
Thanks, looks great, I'll check this out!
So far I haven't even done proper research of potential solutions, because I feel like it would be overengineering at this stage, I'm still figuring out the core.
To forestall the inevitable "Why mention Go?" questions: when I see something marked as written in Go, I give it an extra look because I work with Go every day--I know I'll have a much easier time hacking on it / submitting PRs if needed.
Exactly.

By the way - in some world states, mail delivery is being privatized, or becomes under-funded, starved - and then privatized. Overall, this process results in postal service quality deteriorating significantly, letters getting lost etc.
Thanks, I’m honored to get your feedback. And yes, we’ll offer all parts separately and I hope they’ll be cloned, too!
Meh, that's reductionist. Takeout doesn't drive ads. Neither does ngram search. Or G Suite.

Google's primary revenue model is ads, and yes; that implies a lot of products they make hook up through that revenue model. But the incentive structure isn't as simple as "ALL FOR ADS." Google still styles itself a search company (but search doesn't pay for itself) and, increasingly, a cloud service company.
I was just wondering what happened to this guy since I rarely saw his comments anymore. Didn't realize he was well known outside of this forum
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