skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>".. Uh... because the market crashed ~50 days ago for reasons that still hold?..."

I think this depends what reasons you would pick to make the above statement, at least for US market.

My subjective reasons to be more positives are (in no particular order):

- The covid-19 induced death toll that was project in March is no longer assumed valid and is halfed, at least.

- Unfortunately, many deaths appear to be due to mismanagement of nursing homes. Therefore, focusing on how to fix that problem (and hold incompetent policy makers accountable in the process) -- is a manageable way forward.

Point in statically sampling there, (and may be I am too optimistic), is that these horrific outcomes for our elderly in these homes, may not apply to overall larger population.

- The analyst assumed unemployment rate by May was 16%, but numbers came out to be below that.

- The increased availability of testing, ventilators, personal protection equipment, and the reduction of bottlenecks in CDC, FDA happened faster than I expected.

- Not surprisingly, overall traffic in US is reduced by 38%.
Which has is temporary positives (eg reduction of traffic fatalities). To be honest, not sure why I am including this in the list, but feels a temporary positive. My driving is reduced, but feels safer. May be something good will come out in this regard, long term. The traffic death/injury toll in big cities is just terrifying.

Overall, though, I think the market is overpriced at this point.

There is a shift in earning potential from 'travel and commute' related industries to online/telecommute.

But that shift will take years (may be 3-5 years), so that folks reposition their skills/workforce participation to accommodate the new realities.

However, the market thinks it 'has already happened'.

So I agree that the market is overpriced, but not because 'same reasons from 50 days ago, still hold'.

P.S. I lost a 93 year old relative in NY, they said person was not covid-19 positive, but no relatives were allowed in the hospital during treatment, and they used ventilator.

[1] https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/car-crash-acciden...
I used to maintain a bunch of open source libs but stopped because I felt the expectations from users were unrealistic for something that was not my full time job. Open source is great but I wouldn't do it again unless maintenance was my top focus.
I noticed the same thing! It’s terrible for stock trading. Were you able to find anything useful? I resorted to some Discord groups.
> I'd get all sorts of entitled requests, borderline "plz fix my website you broke it"

which will be interesting to see if you ask them for payment for fixes, would they pay?
That regression helps in the hologram 4D criteria.
> There is no good solution to the disemination of harmful information in a free society other than education.

False. Maybe we should ban you from commenting on any of the popular platforms to prevent you from spreading such blatantly harmful misinformation.

... you see how that happens? Party A with access and power doesn't want you to say something, so you get banned. It has nothing to do with misinformation or education.
Oh didn't realize that! Thanks for pointing that out
This is naive. Cartels are a market failure, and your argument against cartels existing is that market forces in an ideal world would prevent them.

Reminder that Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all colluded to keep engineer compensation below market value[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
I have lived near Detroit for almost 1/2 a century. Downtown is one of the pockets that are nice. Detroit has nice pockets, the stuff in between is where you don't want your car to quit on you.

Detroit is a big city; like 140 square miles. The vast majority of that land are neighborhoods that are high crime. It's been that way for a long time. It is changing slowly but mostly around the afore mentioned pockets.
What about cold cuts, sliced cheese, a loaf of whole grain bread?
The problem is work culture, not Internet culture. We’re all quick to leave our communities for greener pastures. Many young people don’t even give it a second thought. Learn to love the region you’re in, and let work amd pop culture take a backseat to family, friends, place, etc.
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> remember that the house always wins.

In a casino, it's the impetus of the establishment to make money. In the stock market, it's the impetus of the shareholders to make money. If the house always wins[1], shareholders are the house.

1. This is a tenuous metaphor for the stock market--true in the US over long periods of time, but perpetual growth is not guaranteed.
> it isn't clear what that means (if anything) if you think of sets as groups of physical objects.

Isn't this similar to the idea that you can count apples or birds: one, two, three, four, etc, but there's nothing countably physical about infinity, or even arbitrarily large finite numbers. That doesn't impede the usefulness of infinity as an abstraction of counting, in a similar way to the fact that sets are useful as an abstraction of treating groups of things as a thing (and, in fact, we have to treat groups of things as a thing -- most of the physical things we are familiar with have fuzzy boundaries and definitions, because they're all groupings of smaller things).
No not neat.

My cousin is a restaurant inspector and the horror stories she has told even for professional kitchens is unbelievable. The apathy and greed of some is going to kill people some day.

Rice is one of the worst foods. Your choice is to keep it super hot or in a flat tray and chilled. There's a natural bacteria that grows if the rice is in a bowel and isn't hot anymore. I looked it up: bacillus cereus.

Soap is another it's incredible how many kitchens have no soap. The inspector arrives and then there is a scramble to find some soap. But it makes you think how many people had a crap and just went back to work without washing their hands with soap.
I’ve evaluated GitHub profiles and contributions in the past. As long as there’s a body of work with reasonable complexity and no big red flags like a nasty argument or a bug-riddled PR, I consider it a positive signal that they can code. I specifically look at their opened issues and PR’s, rather than their commits, as a way to gauge their ability to code in a team setting.

I won’t try to guess how good they are at coding from GitHub alone. Most of my own public contributions are cases of “four days studying, two hours coding.” So as an exercise in tempering my interviewer ego, I remind myself that by just looking their work, I am very likely missing a lot of the picture.
I was just reading the wikipedia article on Argentina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Argentina and it doesn't really add up with what you're saying. It seems that there are other factors that influenced your countries issues which you've omitted.
so for example, a byte-pair input could be "potato salad in rum" and the output might be "potadum"?
I hadn't thought of this place in a long while. It made me go back into my email and find this:

"I visited Shakespeare and Co. a few years back with my Brazilian friend Marco. I believe it was a place that my dad probably frequented before his death 8 years ago. I spoke for a few minutes to Silvia about whether there was a book which she really wanted to get rid of in the antiquity section and she laughed and said she loved them all. But, I found a book at the top of the shelves for my first nephew by Jack London, a book my father used to read with my brother and me when we were younger."

This place is a gem. And, it's in the beginning of the movie "Before Sunset" from the best American filmmaker, Richard Linklater.
Magnet Fisherman Finds 60 Mysterious Cubes with Inscriptions in Coventry River
Thailand is definitely not an island. Borders with Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia. And significant population at 69 million. Yet it is "winning" (according to https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries), with single digit daily confirmed cases for a couple of weeks and zero new cases several days this past week. This despite having huge mainland Chinese tourist traffic before the lockdown and first confirmed case on January 13. And despite often chaotic implementation of ubiquitous masks, border closures, business closures, travel restrictions, quarantines, tracing, social distancing - all the recommended things were not done perfectly but were done quickly.
I think that's understandable. You closed issues for bugs you didn't resolve.
Did you try the Alpaca Market Data (streaming) they just released? You should be able to get real-time data now that is aggregated from multiple exchanges.
I've used and been the maintainer of a "shitty" open source window manager off and on for the last 10 years.

I love the project. People at my last few companies joke about it. But it's so fun.

Who cares if it's shitty. Ride bikes and write code.
>"'Magic' squares
The comment reads, "Based on another comment these are Indian numerals:

15 8 13

10 12 14

11 16 9

All rows, columns, and diagonals add up to 36, this makes it a magic square! But more specifically, they are called Navagraha Yantras. There are traditionally 9 of them (one for each "planet"), each having a distinct combination of 9 numbers. Together they can be combined to form their own "Magic square."

"The words on the bottom are some form of either: om raam rahave namah om raag rahave namah or simply, om rahave namah. These are called Beej (seed) mantras."

Apparently, "the placement of Lead (raanga) in running water is particularly important in this practice as a remedy for specific things and astrological circumstances."

Latin Squares, Magic, and Euler

Moreover, as another Redditor points out, they are interesting in the mathematical-front too. "Magic squares (and a similar concept, known as Latin squares) can function as numeric representations of resource distribution and scheduling problems, where you need to ensure that every entity is treated equally."

Mathematic-enthusiasts can check out this thread which touches upon everything from magic cubes to famous conjectures of Euler's work on Latin squares.":

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/ggt98q/the...

Related:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32472614/mysteriou...
Separately, you should play around with a DCF tool for SBUX. There are plenty of numbers you might quibble with, but the multiple definitely isn't detached from reality.

https://www.gurufocus.com/stock/SBUX/dcf

In order to come up with a multiple of only 5X you do have to input numbers detached from reality. Seriously. Try to put some numbers in to get the DCF fair value down to the $14 range! Tell me what you put to make it happen.
I learnt this when I uploaded a project that claimed to do something but was only like 10% finished and you couldn’t run it.

It got cross-posted across the internet and a ton of stars and even referenced in some else’s project repo as a competitor/alternative and reasons why theirs was better!

This experience really made me smile. Nobody even tried to run it.
Right you are. Learn from my mistake. Wear a mask and practice social distancing.
If ZK wasn't such a pain in the ass to manage I'd agree with you.
They’d probably consider it ransomware lol
I will say as someone trying to keep an open mind throughout all of this that the fact that thinking certain thoughts is equivalent to "taking a side" is just, so frustrating. I want to own my personal opinions because they're mine, not because of whatever Trump said. I hate that I can't speak my voice and have a debate without making people think I'm this or that, because nobody knows my philosophy through my username alone.

Maybe there should be a social media site just for politics, and you should have to fill out a questionnaire about where you stand on hot button issues before you're allowed to comment on anything. People could hover over your name to figure out if you belong in their bubble or not.
> Things like indexes, uniqueness constraints, foreign keys, basically data schemas are hugely useful. There was a big movement for awhile in web dev, to use mongo instead of “the sledgehammer of an rbdms” , people learned over time that actually they wanted a database. Because you run into so many issues with querying and data consistency or maybe you want to do a join.

Schemas are a good idea, but SQL is bad at expressing them. Uniqueness constraints and foreign keys seem like a good idea until you think about how you want to handle them; often a stream transformation gives you better options. Unindexed joins and indexed joins are very different, and it's much easier to understand the difference in a Kafka-like environment than in an SQL database.

> Can you imagine designing a simple crud app with a couple of tables and different products, but now do it with Kafka as your backing store.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm advocating. It's clearer and simpler and avoids a bunch of pitfalls - no lost updates, no deadlocks, your datastore naturally has decent failover.

> You’ve added so much more complexity to your application because you didn’t want to use a database.

On the contrary, if you use a database you add a huge amount of complexity that you don't want or need. You have to manage transactions even though you can't actually gain any of their benefits (if two users try to edit the same item they're going to race each other and one's update is going to get lost). You have to flatten your values into 2D tables and define mappings with join tables etc., rather than just serialising and deserialising in a standard way. Bringing in new indicies in parallel is flaky, as is any change to data format. And getting proper failover set up is an absolute nightmare, to the point that a lot of people will set up failover for the webserver but leave the database server as a single point of failure because it's too hard to do anything else.
Nice job. I have always wondered why performant big data systems are written using resource hungry JVM.
I partially maintain a GitHub project with ~1500 stars, many of my users are not very technically skilled. I rarely encounter entitled/mean/crazy people - we probably average one obnoxious contributor a year, two or three if you count the ones who go away when you politely tell them it's not going to happen. I get a lot of PRs and reasonably well-written issues from users whose profiles indicate it's their first contribution.

I think a lot of this has to do with the effort you put into community management. We put tons of energy into making it easy to make good contributions: PR/issue templates, we're on slack, we respond to emails, we make it as easy as possible to get your code in as long as it passes tests. It's a lot of effort and I can't imagine doing it for something that was just a personal project, but I think that's how the bigger projects deal with it.
This is the first I've heard of Tillable. As described, it's not really AirBnB for farmland, it's a growing-rights exchange.

The counterparty risk for landowners is substantial if it isn't mitigated somehow. A long-term relationship with the land is essential to keeping it healthy.

The relationships between farmers and landowners often span generations -- that makes them ripe for disruption, but the many practices that have emerged to safeguard those relationships have good reasons to exist. So many deals of substantial value are made in in-kind exchanges between neighbors who have worked side by side for decades. Rapidly-changing tenants would change everything.
Issues filed. Their recency and concerns.
I worked with a short-lived startup which made this exact mistake. I suggested persisting important events to a postgres db, but I was shot down over and over. They were positive it would be fine to hold everything in kafka. There was this notion that kafka functioned fine as a long term data store with the correct configuration (I'm not arguing that), but there was no solution to the lack of... Well, everything postgres could offer. As you mentioned, the lack of velocity really dragged them down. Customers were constantly upset that x broke or y wasn't delivered yet, and each time it was clear that kafka wasn't helping them meet those needs.

Kafka is awesome for what it does, but there are a ton of people out there using it for weird stuff.
This is so true... Youtube is kind of the new blog because so many people don't like writing but they love seeing themselves on screen. This made it too commercial. All the top youtubers do it just for the sponsorship. People like Linus Tech Tips etc, all this "check this out from our sponsors" crap. It really put me off Youtube. The only ones I still watch are zero punctuation and EEVBlog. Dave is also doing it as a job but at least he didn't become annoying.

Besides, I really prefer to read over watching videos as I can do it at my own pace. Except in cases where a lot is shown like EEVBlog, it makes sense there.

But easy platforms exist. Wordpress is still there :) You just have to keep it up to date like a hawk.
Can you talk at a high level about the problems of keyword search, or is that part of your secret sauce? Off the top of my head I can think of two, which are intent and encoding.

Before you can even do a keyword search, you obviously need an intent to do so. But that means keyword search is pretty useless when you don't know what you don't know.

Encoding that intent...maybe doesn't matter for common searches, but everyone has heard of the concept of "Google-Fu". English text is a pretty lossy medium compared to the thoughts in people's heads...Shannon calculated 2.62 bits per English letter, so the space of possibly-relevant sites for almost any keyword is absolutely enormous (e.g. there are about 330,000 7-letter english keyword searchs...distributed across how many trillions of pages, not even counting "deep web" dynamically generated ones?). So we punt on that and use the concept of relevance for sorting results, and in practice no one looks beyond the first 10. I don't know what an alternate encoding might look like though
I'm pretty cynical about how any code evaluation is done.

Amongst the many many ways code evaluations fail, the worst and most typical IMO is that the evaluator has an air of superiority, who marks down things they don't understand, and thinks their own coding is that of an artistic genius, approaches the tasks with zero science or rigor and is unable to articulate anything hard to back up their vague assertions coming out of the assessment "process".
> I don't care to debate if something was done in good or bad faith

You were willing earlier, before you couldn't make your case anymore.

> It is absurd to claim that someone is acting in bad faith towards you personally

Did not say that.

> And if OpenBSD works for you then what's the problem?

You're ignoring my point: a contrast between OpenBSD and systemd. OpenBSD is simple enough that I performed some fundamental alterations to the boot process without having to reference more than the man pages; contrast with systemd, where such alterations would be nearly impossible.

> I learned these things by reading distro news, mailing lists, bug reports, and the manpages, all things that are readily available to you to. Will you listen? Do you want help...

Wow. That's some impressive condescension. Sounds like you're assuming I don't read manpages, bug reports, mailing lists, etc. - I do. Why did you assume otherwise? Why did you assume that I'm unwilling to listen?

> Do you have an actual issue with the code that needs solving?

> are you just here to complain

You asked me for specific issues - remember? I told you, and now you're calling me out for complaining.

> Will you listen? Do you want help, or are you just here to complain...I get that you feel slighted by that but you do realize that it's not personal right?

You seem to be attempting to make me out as having a personal grudge/slight, and thereby discredit what I have to say.

> We aren't going to get anything done by debating what fits a vague definition of "good engineering"

I was intentionally vague, because I was trying to create a high level categorization we could use to avoid talking past each other. As I said at the time.

> And if you said that you know any programmers without a personal agenda

Again, words in my mouth.

> We aren't going to get anything done by debating the motivations of someone who isn't even here.

> everyone has their own personal goals...There's nothing wrong with that.

I expressed issue with how he is going about his agenda/goals, and with what they are; not with the fact he had them. As I said already, it is abundantly clear from what he said that he is going about his goals in bad faith.
I dislike Trump on principle and from the other side of the fence. I am a natural born 'big government' person. From my side of the fence, the one thing Trump said which made sense was: "there are 15 good candidate vaccines: we are pursuing all of them"

That is exactly how the manhattan project ran: Thermal Diffusion, Gaseous Diffusion, Centrifuge and Calutron were all followed up, and it wound up that Thermal fed Calutron to increase yield but gaseous diffusion and centrifuges are what we use now. The point here is that they didn't penny-pinch "which one is better" they did them ALL
Happy to send you what I've got so far. :)
This pandemic has made me notice how often a headline will be barely "technically true" just to elicit a response, but when you read the body of the article, you realize how ridiculously misleading the headline was.
> NZ and AUS are very similar to GB culturally and politically.

Maybe a century ago.

Governments of neither country ever entertained the idea of herd-immunity. Elimination was always the goal.

Both were early to restrict international arrivals. The UK lagged behind.

Both countries were leading the world in per capita testing March through April — i.e. when it mattered. Again, the UK lagged behind.

Both Australia and NZ are almost back to BAU, again, the UK will lag behind.
Is there a macos alternative?
A mac like UI is something I'd personally be happy to use in prod.
Thats a Mac and s/w developer account/licencing problem.
That doesn't make sense. When we enforce the Constitution on the government we are demanding they recognize our rights and the structure we prescribe. "enforce it on how a government responds to natural events" doesn't change that. You're trying to pretend there's some kind of loophole where there isn't.
The Zune team welcomes you with open arms!
Same experience. I have a project that can be used by non programmers, and it also gained some popularity in some community. So, I often found people who don't know how to set it up by following the README opening issues ask how to do that. What's more, they don't even bother to search issues before creating a new issue.
If you want the truth you need to go to Amazing Polly on youtube. She has connected all of the dots behind the Pharmaceutical Industry and its corruption. Also if you want to find out how unsafe Bill Gates' Vaccines are go to Robert Kennedy Jnr's videos. You will be shocked how evil these bad people are who are dictating to us about our health etc.
It's not like back when Yahoo would buy and immediately kill everything it touched.
the article title is good

this post title is wrong

journalists did a great job

hackernews, as usual, are using misleading titles, no wonder why it is backed by Mozilla, they are the cancer of internet
That seems to be recovering a little in some areas. Most things are showing typical Prime delivery time for me now.