skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One if the problems in Japan is they can’t tolerate unemployment. Despite decades of stagnation their unemployment rate since the early 90s has been about half that of the US. One of the great strengths of the American economy is embracing creative destruction. That of course has terrible costs to individuals, but companies know they can shed workers in hard times, and safely hire them again when needed without being locked into costly long term employment contracts. As a result, along with efficient capital markets, the US can adapt very rapidly to economic change.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Brit and, though generally conservative, believe we have a batter balance between social support and economic flexibility. The US health care system appals me for example. That doesn’t blind me to the advantages of the US system.
Betting on one company always has that risk. Most people are investing in index funds and Fortune 500 companies which aren't going bankrupt.
China is overtaking the US in scientific research (2018)
This is trained on Onion articles. Which makes sense why it is amusing.

From https://www.fakefake.news/article/3ee8iz-trump-campaign-asks...:

> Pointing out that he is the candidate who will take on the establishment, President-elect Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he is asking the American people to vote for him in November. “The establishment is trying to stop me, but I’m the guy who can speak their language,” said Trump, adding that despite the “corrupt political establishment,” he has been a champion of working people for the past eight years, and that “we need a leader who can take them back.” “If they think I’m some puppet politician who can bring the country down, they’re really mistaken. I won’t be able to do that if you’re all in the same camp.” At press time, Trump had announced that he will be releasing a new book Saturday, titled If We Build A Bridge, which lays out his vision for the country.
I think that low testosterone levels is correlated with being older which is correlated with worse Covid-19 outcomes, so age is the important factor here.
The inflation rate is calculated by tracking price of a specific set of goods. The fed tracks this number and aims to set it at about 2%. So what happens is the inflation creeps up in everything that is not measured in this basket. For example, the price of homes, college education, and equities have gone up much faster than the 2% target.

It is another one of those cases of Goodharts law. The way they are measuring inflation is no longer capturing the drop in the value of money.
Even HNers have been falling for that, implying that everybody will have a shorter lifespan.
Heh, I was trying to do research on coronaviruses (of which COVID-19 is one of many coronaviruses), but Google sanitized the result and only showed me "official" COVID-19 resources and buried the broader coronavirus resources.

https://www.google.com/search?q=coronavirus
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Many hospitals are pretty awful about patient care in normal times. I’m sure many of these clot situations are neglect due to understaffing.
The question is "why do organiations use processes that are complex enough to require it".

I couldn't imagine doing the process I use at work in something less complex (github issues, trello, ...). We tried that in a simpler system and it is a web of hacks, manual steps, emails...

If the complex you need is complex, then a complex and configurable system might be the easiest way of managing it. Everyone should of course first consider whether a complex process is actually needed - but for the sake of discussion, let's say it is (No one who has a simple process would be considering Jira, and contrary to popular belief I don't think complex systems breed complex processes. I think complex organizations do).

Do you have multiple teams, with people switching between teams. Do teams have different processes in different teams? Do you have hierarchical planning where a management team plans on a higher level what features go in what major version and different product teams break it down into managable chunks? Do you have managers that need to report statistics to various stakeholders?
All of that can be emulated in any system. But if you start emulating it in a simple system, then all that's missing instead you need to add to the system with emails, a wiki describing which email to send to what person after generating the monthly report or whatever.

I think the mistake that is often made is that these systems are seen as tools for a development team of 4-8 people who would otherwise use a whiteboard. They aren't. In fact, I'd recommend that any team use a simpler tool to manage their progress if they want to. Why not post-its on a whiteboard if you are colocated? All that's left after you complete an iteration (sprint, release, whatever) is to fill in the issues from the whiteboard back into a system and be done.
These systems aren't supposed to get in the way of developers. If they do, don't use them. But you need a central source of truth for questions like "what was the cause of that bug 9 years ago?". I use info like that daily. It's not going to be found in the trashcan under the post-it whiteboard.
Rent I get is going to be weird. But with the plan to just pretend that the last 3 months didn’t happen for mortgages and add the payments at the end I can’t really imagine a huge string of defaults happening. And nothing about the pandemic made the houses themselves more or less valuable so why would home owners be underwater?
In general, I think journalists have a responsibility to choose their words carefully and avoid sensationalism without downplaying any aspects of the news they are reporting. This is something that is sorely absent from most news reporting. A cursory comparison of headlines and the news content below them, in most newspapers, reveals that if one were to read just the headline, the impression would be something far different from what the actual news is as reported in the article below it.
What is meant here is that if we have a closed room with 100 people.

If there are 60 investors who want to sell stocks and 40 who want to buy always equally as much for simplification purposes and the price is $50, the price will keep moving down until there's 50 investors who want to sell and 50 investors who want to buy.

40 trades will happen on $50 price, but then there is 20 sellers still left who want to sell at this price. Since there are no buyers, price will go lower and slowly some sellers don't want to sell lower than $50, so there might be 15 sellers left at $45 and 5 buyers, they will do the trade and then there will be 10 sellers left. let's at $40 there will be 5 who decided it's good to buy now and this is where the fair price will have landed, at $40.
Couple specific examples you may be familiar with:

Coming from Java to JavaScript, I really, really yearn for the equivalent of ThreadLocals. For example, most Java logging libraries let you set a "context" object that can be used for logging a request ID or user ID anywhere down the call stack. You can't do that in Node, so instead you have to explicitly pass that context object down in all your function calls, or make use of brittle, complicated, hacky, not-fully-supported features like "continuation local storage".

Debugging stack traces in an async/await world is a mess because you don't get a nice "from the start of the request down to this call" view of the stack.

Perhaps most importantly, with Node at least you need to worry about starving your main event loop because there is only a single top-level main thread (but understand that's not inherent to the async/await issue in general).
The land already exists. The land gets the rent. Just playing a rigged system as a rentier, as defined by Adam Smith.

https://www.prosper.org.au/geoists-in-history/adam-smith-on-...

“Ground rents are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. Ground rents are, therefore, perhaps a species of revenue which best bear to have a particular tax imposed upon them.”

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

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my reply to the above as hacker news censors all rentier debate with their fake "you're submitting too fast", which they only do for anti landlord comments:

Wrong. The majority of the rent is ground rent. Try renting a facsimile of an apartment in the middle of nowhere and in a city. Did he create the value? No.
JetBrains YouTrack seems like a breath of fresh air compared to Jira.

The layout and interaction seems more consistent, and the text editing is less infuriating.

The search interface is always in the same place! Oh, the wonders of technology.
I've personally been on many outage troubleshooting calls that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars precisely because engineers believed they could ignore the underlying details and corner cases of TCP. My favorite common mistake is that developers assume they can open a single connection with no retries and that connection will be reliable as long as the handshake succeeds.
The scientists did not fail to prepare for the pandemic, and the countries that had scientists in the driving seat handled the pandemic very well. For example, Vietnam currently has no deaths from covid-19 precisely because scientists were in charge. Meanwhile, countries like US, who dismissed the scientists have the highest death toll in the world.

Climate change denialists don't seem to grasp the concept of basic risk assessment. We don't know exactly what will happen, however we definitely know what could potentially happen. Claiming that just because the scientists might be wrong there's nothing to worry about is the height of insanity. You're essentially advocating for playing Russian roulette with our biosphere.

People who actually study the climate are the ones who have the best idea of what will happen. Period. These people are unanimously telling the rest of us that all the best available evidence suggests that horrific things will happen.

And now we're seeing these things starting to happen, and we're seeing them happen at a faster rate than was expected. Yet, idiots who have absolutely zero understanding of this domain continue to insist that there's nothing to worry about because they read something on Facebook that one time.
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A good example of why trust the science (among other things) with no knowledge of epistemology is dangerous.
Start a project on afiiliate marketing trough this friendly beginner software https://warriorplus.com/o2/a/pmz4s/0
That doesn't work for me, but I'm happy to learn of this. One day I'll buy a monitor that supports this and I can avoid the crappy menus :)
> This assumes that the prices for all of the inputs for food production remain static in the face of either increasing taxes or as we both seem to agree upon, an increased monetary base. Land and energy will go up in price as more money is available to chase the same scarce resources.

You're conflating different kinds of thing here. I don't believe there would be any increased monetary base, because I expect UBI would be implemented in a budget-neutral way (covered by tax). But if you do think there would be monetary inflation, just ignore the cash numbers and denominate everything in 2020 (fixed-value) dollars. There are no more fixed-value dollars chasing resources (just the same number of fixed-value dollars distributed differently), so there's no increased demand at first order. At second order maybe those same fixed-value dollars circulate more quickly, so there's more demand and more consumption, a more active economy generally and higher GDP (in fixed-value dollars). That would generally be seen as a good thing.

> More spending won't increase deficits because they're going to spend anyways? I'm not sure I follow your logic here.

The political reality of passing UBI would be finding some way to balance (or retain the same unbalance in) the budget, either by cutting other expenditures or raising additional revenue.

> And they will still be poor relative to everyone else.

They will be less poor relatively, that's the whole point. If A has 100 dollars and B has 10 dollars, and you give 10 dollars to B, it's almost irrelevant whether those are dollars you taxed from A or printed afresh; either way you leave B proportionately much better off.
So i guess really one should so 2002-2020
It’s because what you are saying is factually incorrect. What actually happened is that they set them up and promoted them unrequested. You had to know this was happening and file an opt-out request to get them to stop, which is why they changed their policy later. Similarly, the fake phone numbers were setup without the restaurants’ knowledge until it got attention and laws passed banning the practice.

https://www.grubstreet.com/2019/07/everything-you-need-to-kn...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
Plagiarism and copyright violation are not the same thing.

Plagiarism is an ethical offense but not a legal one and isn’t limited to direct reuse. It includes using ideas (even in your own words or representation) without attributing them.

Copyright violation is a legal offense and applies to direct reuse (including various forms of “remixing”).

(IANAL, this is not legal advice.)
Yes but if you’re betting on a huge long-term economic slowdown then does this blip even matter to your investing strategy?
Aside from the constraints we apply to market/geography and product type? If that's what you mean, then technically it's a matter of whether the store's ecom platform is compatible with our indexer, which supports ~20 different platforms (and hundreds of variations). Otherwise, we do some light curating for product quality to include, but not limited to, the accuracy of meta data (titling, description) and image quality.
Since aging reduces vitamin D production in skin, we have that vitamin D level is correlated with age that is correlated with worse response to COVID-19.

Aging reduces vitamin D production in skin. There is a decrease in the concentration of 7-dehydrocholesterol in the epidermis in old compared with young individuals and a reduced response to UV light, resulting in a 50% decrease in the formation of previtamin D3
In 2019, I read an online book by J L Collins named The Simple Path to Wealth that changed my life.

In this post, I summarise J L Collins's simple approach to financial independence and rich, free life that is not only easy to understand and implement, but it is also more powerful than any other.
Misleading title and misleading article. Better title would be "One of the major complications facing hospitalized coronavirus patients is blood clots".

There is one line that quotes a doctor stating, "He believes the number of critically ill coronavirus patients developing blood clots could be significantly higher than the published data in Europe of up to 30%." No mention of the percentage of cases that require hospitalizations in the first place, let alone any non-anecdotal evidence to back his claim.

I wish we would stop sharing articles that are not backed by any scent of a scientific study or peer review. It leads to fear, like others have pointed out.
I signed up to thank you for this insight. It's the kind of thing you would eventually find out on your own too but having read it somewhere in words saves time when something wonky happens somewhere and the data supports the conclusion.
There are people who would swear by the chips/ hardware not being an issue (which is usually correct but not always).

I wonder, why would somebody use 204 bytes -> 1632 bits, why not less (why not more for e.g. jumbo frames). Is there some data sheet / source that you would recommend?
> if you aren't big you can't do search at all,

duckduckgo is profitable and has been for some years already.

> and only a behemoth like Google can do free-form AI assisted questions.

Google is significantly worse than it used to be before they started applying AS (Artificial Stupidity) indiscriminately.

Maybe in the future I'll appreciate it but for for now it is really annoying.
Those quotes don't claim messages are received in full, you are misinterpreting them.
Yeah. In PHP, a lot of commercial sites just have date('Y'); after the copyright symbol, this just always gives the current year.
Not so much 'discipline' as mastery. You have to know your trade, and there will never be a way around it.
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> Importantly, we detected SARS-CoV-2−reactive CD4+ T cells in ~40-60% of unexposed individuals, suggesting cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating ‘common cold’ coronaviruses and SARS-Cov-2

This is saying that 40-60% of existing immune responses (learned over many years of previous coronaviruses) are also protective against the SARS-Cov-2 virus which causes Covid-19 disease.

There is a time-based arms race between virus replication & immune defense. If these subjects are otherwise healthy, their immune system should have a good chance of clearing the Covid-19 virus successfully, because it has a "running start" against the new virus.

After recovery, their adaptive immune system should have developed an additional immune response that is customized to defend against Covid-19.
I didn’t say bonds and cash can’t be investments, just that they don’t generate new goods and services. Cash and cash equivalents only generate value through passage of time. There isn’t any creativity involved. Creativity is long term more valuable than just the time value of money.
I have experience with large scale high performance C++, albeit not in games specifically. The recommendations in my experience are very sane, conservative even. I think at this point the onus is on critics to substantially respond to the points given.

I don't think questioning credentials is particularly elucidating here. I don't see any reason the entire thesis of the article is flawed.

As to the throwaway reference to gamedev, the article is in response to shade thrown by gamedevs, attempting to concede specific concerns and propose solutions.
It is currently the leasing cause of death in the US, I feel like there is legitimate reason for concern, if not alarm. No, it’s not going to kill 5% of the population, especially not if hospitals remain at or below capacity. But give it time and people will become less cautious Regardless of government orders, especially months from now when cold and flu season start back up. So things are mostly still “fine”, despite 80k+ deaths, but that is not guaranteed to hold.
I have a cheap HP convertable tablet/laptop. Windows 10 seems to work well with both touch screen and keyboard/touchpad to me so I would expect the Surface machines to be similar.
New york city had 0.25% of their population die, I'd say australia dodged a bullet and can be lumped in with countries that best handled the virus. The low death rate is a consequence of good handling, not "someone fucking up".
That sounds awesome - enjoy!!
Pretty much all of the proteins that were discovered in fruit flies and have a human ortholog have funny names: frizzled, wingless, piwi, nubbin, etc etc
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Well this is interesting to consider. Disasters often create economic activity: maybe millions of rich people will be rebuilding their coastal houses. On the other hand, if it's so hot that humans can not go outside, that will dampen the economy- but I don't see this happening in temperate zones. But it very well could happen in places where there would be future expected economic growth.
yeah; can you elaborate?
The page has links to a dozen different examples, with code snippets and discussion of the motivations and potential use cases for each
You want a static one or two page site -> Use simple HTML pages

You want to have some templating and data integration -> Use Eleventy (https://11ty.dev)

You want to have a complete framework -> Use Next.js :)

Note: Beyond Next.js you won't need anything else for any kind of website :)
I think the parent post is recommending an orderly breakup as opposed to a collapse where society is left to pick up the pieces.

The issue comes back to foreign competition. As much as Glass-Steagall made sense to some, it was repealed because US banks faced increasing competition from European banks that were able to bundle advisory with retail bank deposits. Unless everyone takes similar position globally (or we block foreign bank access to our markets) it’s hard to justify a handicap on the home team.
Thank you for sharing. I was recently foraging for better TTS and somehow missed these.

These Alexa voices are amazing.

I recently got addicted to podcasts and want to branch into audiobooks. Alas, most narrators' voices drive me nuts. Especially the free content I've found.

I now think I'd quite like the Australian accents for consuming ebooks via TTS. It's both familiar enough and different enough that it somehow bridges my own uncanny valley.

(FWIW, I speak PNW English, allegedly neutral for North Americans.)
Thank you for the link. This looks really cool. I used DEVONthink years ago. It seemed like a great piece of software but I didn't have a great use case for it. Looking forward to checking out DEVONagent.
Took Elastic's product (Elasticsearch), forked it and started selling it under the same name. It's a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about running a business based on OSS. https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchaws.techtarget.com/news/2...
The parent doesn’t seem like they’re renting land though. It seem like they are renting houses which doesn’t suffer from the problems of ground rent because there’s actual service being provided.
One of our favorite troubleshooting stories was "3% of TLS connections fail on this particular frontend IP address. HTTP works."

Turned out our cloud provider's networking gear had a bug that disabled ECC and there was a bit flip happening. Convincing the provider's support that we had found faulty hardware in their datacenter was an interesting journey.
Since when it was in the kernel?
If you have a single dollar in your pocket right now, you're a rentier too. We're all modern franctional slave owners. So, you might as well enjoy it.
They used to allow that, it was very useful. But as with almost everything Google does, they killed it.
Is there even an officially supported Linux client from Google?
Those are perfect examples of a higher level protocol, since there is no way you can do it only with TCP.
Sure I've written variadic templates. But for this situation it feels quite forced.
I've been researching this for a long time, and it's unclear to me whether Linux with PREEMPT_RT patches would meet that sub-ms requirement. I see numbers all over the place from various sources, from sub-millisecond to more than 10 ms.

10 milliseconds is often considered the threshold of human perception with regards to audio latency. (It's possible that it's lower under some circumstances, but 10 ms is a good enough approximation for my purposes.) My goal is to create a sound/music tool which runs lots of DSP and which has a total system latency of under 10 milliseconds, including OS, application (including intrinsic latency of DSP procedures), hardware, and sound in air (about 1 ms per 3 meters).

When I read about latency, I often see "we're at 6-9 ms, that's good enough because it's not perceptible". Unfortunately, that's not good enough if there are several components which contribute to total system latency and they are all pushing 10 ms. Hence, my sub-ms requirement for the OS.

Committing to a platform will be a costly choice. I don't want to invest in writing for realtime Linux only to find that I really need to run a hardcore RTOS, or run dedicated DSP chips, etc.

That's why I'm interested in whether running a unikernel can offer stronger guarantees.