skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spoke to my financial advisor a month ago and he told me he was not worried of a major and sustained drop as FED and Congressional intervention had helped curtail that before it spiraled out of hand.

But I cannot help but see current market prices and see current for lease and boarded up building. I wonder if he was correct. I wonder if the advice he has given me is wrong?

I believe we are about 9months away from the greatest financial disaster of our times. We should be and should have looked at COVID-19 as a war and not as a pandemic and we as a nation should have encouraged others to do the same (as they have). We should have legally declared war on the virus, shut down the economy for three months, passed a massive stimulus, and gone back to business when the “war” was over.

Unfortunately we have weak politicians at every level and extremely divisive leadership at the top. The good news is that we are just as informed and can find truth like never before. The hard part is that the truth is hard to find especially when we have something as large as the stock market lie to us on a day to day basis.
It exists as well, and if you want to use it, it's a short "throw the option in your cargo config and call it a day."

That being said, I'm not aware of it making any meaningful difference.
It is actually very hard to get real gold (especially in a form that you can convert back to cash in the future). Just try to get delivery of a gold bullion. And if you succeed, try selling it into the system again, without losing 30%.

Paper gold is a bet no different than a stock; it is a bet that the system and your counterparty will both be solvent when you need them.
For a while after 2008, people weren't sure there could ever be a full recovery. To pick one issue, Lehman Brothers went from healthy to dead in basically a few months, and nobody had a good reason why this couldn't happen to any large financial institution. Maybe the risk was unavoidable, and everyone will just have to make investment decisions knowing that the financial system is at constant risk of falling over.

Confidence in this area was restored when the Federal Reserve started doing what are called "stress tests" under the Dodd-Frank Act, where large financial institutions have to prove that even if things turn bad they won't collapse.
Let me know when you figure out a better way to put a price on the risk of loaning money.

As evil as you may think interest rates are- without a price on the risk of loaning money- access to loans dry up and only the already wealthy will have access to capital.
> ASCII only" is not meant in the sense of "plain text only". Any non-US ASCII is converted (ç->c, ÿ->y, ś->s, µ->u).

wow... way to give the finger to the majority of the world.
I honestly don’t know of anyone who owns physical gold who doesn’t also own a firearm for personal defense.
Ya, I looked at that as well, but it doesn't include common expenses, which is why I built this one, to make it a little easier to get the overall picture
"Advocating driving away minorities" There is no evidence that the term "master" drives away minorities. As to driving away anti-racist people, a reason that comes to mind is that they make changes like this rather than actual productive work; in other words, their contribution seems so far to be clearly net-negative.
Something I noticed recently (prepandemic of course) after living in Silicon Valley for 20 years: the amount of plastic surgery that you see around town in Palo Alto has really gone off the charts. Both men and women. So much botox. So much nips/tucks.

It feels like Los Angeles light.
> If we are using only 10% of our brains, that means a person would be fine if the other 90% of the brain got remove
>> Actually you can do much better. There are people who had 50% of their brain removed and were fine.

50% is less than 90%, that's not 'much better'.

>[https://www.gwern.net/Hydrocephalus]

It's amusing you link to gwern's page where he mostly debunks those cases.
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
Yup, the other popular one is being contrarian. Its a dned epidemic at the moment, I find people arguing things for no other reason than to sound smart bt challenging, usually on a technicality, a really obvious assumption any normal person would take at face value.
> in countries where IP address = person that rents it.

Does that actually exist today? At least IPv4 addresses I would expect to increasingly mean nothing, as address exhaustion drives more people behind CGNAT.
> That said, there are other forms of active defense against missiles

Ah yes i'm reasonably well aware of some of the EW/optical suites being deployed. Was just wondering if anything kinetic was, er, on the radar. Totally agree that Trophy et al is not really going to work - they just want to avoid a direct hit whereas even 100m away could be fatal to an airplane. But these BVR missiles are active - flinging something back almost seems like low hanging fruit!

Perhaps no-one really knows. The lack of any peer air confrontation in 50 years definitely shows. The f-22 is a marvel but I for one have trouble seriously believing it can just boop su-35s out of the sky from a hundred miles away completely risk-free. None of this has ever been tested. Frankly, without some astonishing tech breakthrough, i find the idea of routine BVR shootdowns of peer adversaries to be kind of wishful thinking...

And none of this even touches on the real weak point, the tankers, aka. the reason why none of these planes are ever going to fly over a real adversary anyway.. sure, you can probably get an f-22 over Beijing. Once.
What's an example of those in German? In English I find it kind of unnecessary that we use a Latin word for adjectives when we have a Germanic noun already; wolf, dog, neck, liver, and kidney but lupine, canine, cervical (already ambiguous depending on if we're talking about cancer or vertebrae), hepatic, and renal. Anyone learning English will effectively have to learn a whole other set of words for the "concerning" adjectives because some fancy lad writing his treatise in like 1600 was too cool to say "kidneyish failure." Or how we don't say "life science" for biology, but if I were learning Chinese once I had those two words I could guess the term for "biology" just fine
Not so with power transistors, you don't need a microscope to see that the dies found in off-brand power transistors are suspiciously small compared to equivalents from proper manufacturers.
So everything is sunshine and roses now that we have effectively 0% interest rates?
Usually a book recommendation that I know jives with their interests or I bring up an old argument I had with them and show how time has lent evidence for/against me.
> There’s a lot of vitriol aimed at rich people right now, regardless of how they attained their wealth.

Part of the problem is that our current property regime does not distinguish between property acquired through accession [1] and property acquired through extraction.

There is this weird philosophy that all "market transactions" are equally legitimate and that market price is the correct (and only reliable) indicator of economic value. This view ignores the fact that market prices are as much a product of market structure as they are a reflection of people's preferences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_(property_law)
It's a little hard to act like they're being disingenuous when the supposed enemy acts in ways that are completely consistent with being an actual enemy, though. Only when the supposed enemy is not.
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear.

My point was many software engineers see the product in their mind and think "I can build that!" and think that building it is 99% of the work and if they just built it the money will flow. But it turns out building it is only 10% of the work and when the other 90% of the work presents itself the drive to ship disappears.

In the OP's case the people that shipped found a way to get all the parts needed to ship read. The person didn't ship probably just wrote some code and never even considered the other 9 of 10 things that would need to be done to actually ship.

I'm probably thinking of myself to some degree. I made a product. Maybe I didn't have enough confidence to find partners or investors. I piddled with it for about 18 months, had a few public displays, and then at a trade show I saw someone who was serious with basically the same product but unlike me they found investors, hired people, and had a real company. They didn't just make some tech and a demo (what I did).
The objection is not to highly educated people gatekeeping (though they should know better), but that people with a status that helps unlock further wealth are gatekeeping.
Has your IP address changed recently? I definitely didn't want to post this under the implication that it is always 100% accurate.
Perhaps, but can we honestly believe that if Lewis-Kraus had omitted the extra verbose reassurances that Scott isn't a Trump supporter and within hours of the article's publication there were calls for the New Yorker to fire him, that the New Yorker's editors would defend the more nuanced treatment?

Seemingly, Lewis-Kraus does not believe this. I wonder if the extra verbiage was his own decision or the result of editorial feedback.
I use a VPN on my home network and do not see any records via this website.

Am I missing something, or is my impression that this tool can “see through” tunneled traffic false?
Good to know. I'll add TFSA in the taxable expenses column.
The update the CDC made is interesting. AS the footnote in the estimate table states, the IFR is taken from the pre-print _A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection-fatality rates_ by Meyerowitz-Katz, G., & Merone, L. et. al. The conclusion of their paper states:

> Based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of published evidence on COVID-19 until May, 2020,
the IFR of the disease across populations is 0.68% (0.53-0.82%). However, due to very high
heterogeneity in the meta-analysis, it is difficult to know if this represents the ‘true’ point estimate..._

There have been several reports that the IFR has lowered since late May, so it will be interesting to see if they rerun their metanalysis with June/July data. Their paper also makes the point that this could be an underestimate due to reporting issues (under-reported deaths). But likewise it could be an overestimate due to under-reporting infections (with so many asymptomatic cases). I am a little concerned over the lack of mention of that fact in the paper, which to me is as important as the under-reported deaths.

I understand your concern regarding long-term impacts. While we can't dismiss those concerns, it would be the only coronavirus in the history of known coronaviruses to do anything like that. So with our knowledge of this virus and the family of viruses, we can say that is "unlikely".

Tissue damage from a lung infection is _not_ rare. The flu does this (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h.... Any pneumonia can cause scarring of the lung tissue, viral or otherwise.

If you are referring to the clotting and inflammation, again this is not altogether rare for a serious infection. Inflammation is common and not normally dangerous. The clotting is interesting, but also not unheard of. Also some interesting evidence that this may be a secondary infection (perhaps caused by venting? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836438/) https://principia-scientific.org/cv-19-autopsies-show-blood-...

There are going to be a lot of deaths. I can't argue out of that reality. It is really unfortunate. We will all known somebody who dies from this, or at least are within a free degrees. The debate, in my opinion, isn't on preventing all deaths, it won't happen. It is how do we minimize death while preventing long term societal and economic damage. And how do we protect the most vulnerable without causing those damages elsewhere.

I know it sounds weird, but the age stratification of the IFR is a HUGE gift of this virus. It is more age stratified than the flu or other common pandemic sources. We are very lucky. Next time we may not be, so I hope we can learn from this on how to prepare for what we feared this was.
Then an opaque paper bottle would presumably also work well for this?
Doesn't look that way.
There's an opentracing integration coming very soon! We were hoping to have it available with the 2.2 release but there were still a few things to finalize.
> underrepresented minorities

To paraphrase Brene Brown, any conversation on privilege that excludes class is bullshit. The ability to be unlikable without it ruining your life (never mind using it to your advantage) is largely a privilege of class. No one in 2020 is immune to being "cancelled". But if you have money, it won't ruin your life.
Instead of engaging in literal whatboutism, consider that the conversation at hand is about specific words. Nobody is talking about colors but you.
I have not downloaded any of these, how are these associated with my IP address?
> Would love to find a magic Wordpress replacement with a proper git & tailwind supported workflow for devs and a simple interface for content editors.

Note sure whether that is similar to what you are looking for, but I've been working on a CMS that commits a JSON file to Git. It is called FrontAid CMS and currently in public beta: https://frontaid.io/

It works like this: Create a data model and put it in your Git repo. FrontAid will pick it up and generate input fields accordingly. The content editors can then create/update the input fields and the resulting content is then stored in a JSON file in your own Git repository. The big advantage of that is that your content lives where your actual code is.
Enterprise IT people here. We cover our ass in true enterprise style by consuming website filter lists from a provider and MitM TLS. Doesn't matter if they use WebRTC or HTTP, as long as the website is in the correct categories.

Worst case we could disallow WebRTC via DPI and whitelist it for category conferencing.
Ah, the era of NINJA loans.

My haircut guy went from renting to "owning" 2 homes.

Those were amazing times.
I am in the fortune situation where I work on very low level details of foundational technology. Basically I believe that I got like 20 colleagues (people working on the same topic as myself) everywhere in the world, and all of them in big-tech companies.

I had the idea to work on this: https://jr2sr.com but I don't see much interest yet... Even though I am not pushing it nearly as hard as I should
Well my ISP gives out a dynamic IP address each time my DSL modem connects to them, so this tactic only reveals who downloaded what when they were assigned my current IP. Nothing much can be inferred from this data unless you are the ISP or govt and can tie the IP to the subscriber.

And yes, it shows my IP downloaded the movie Zombieland, which I never did, so it is some other subscriber of the same ISP.
Haha I'm not paranoid guys, I know what I'm hearing!!
The little airplane bottles are frequently plastic?
Shotgun shells and cans of beans
Agreed, and it may be that swapping out a battery or engine is easy but I don’t want my brand new car in the shop 3-4x a year because my car just stopped working at the grocery store. Especially when wait times for servicing can be protracted. It doesn’t matter if the car runs on hopes and dreams, it needs to be reliable.
I've never seen any Johnnie Walker airport bottles in plastic - at least not full size.

I would bet they sell the mini bottles and pints in plastic - but their full size bottles have been glass in every outlet I've seen them.
> I am curious: based on your experience, do you think that, in principle, an omniscient observer of all transactions on stock exchanges and who made them could answer questions like this in many cases? If so, what concrete things would they hypothetically want to look at to figure it out?

Not necessarily, because the order flow they see goes through brokers, is anonymized, and order execution is optimized algorithmically as to not reveal any patterns. You can't easily tell what is retail flow and what isn't, however you want to define that. What you would need is not just to exchange data, but also the internal user data from companies like robinhood, and an understanding of how exactly algorithms from hedge funds and HFT firms behave. In theory this would be possible if you had complete access to and a full understanding of all of this. In practice it's impossible.
When would it really be in direct sunlight though? I'd imagine sitting on a liquor store shelf wouldn't qualify unless it was in the window or something.
Nearly $5,000 /yr for medical, vision, dental seems quite high. Where is that default coming from?
I think these are actually pretty accessible things that everybody can spend money on (skincare, haircut, clothes, gym)
There might be a market for a Pihole book, if the existing documentation is insufficient (https://docs.pi-hole.net/ looks pretty thin). But Clojure seems unlikely.
Lol hilarious.

I’m voicing the reality of the situation, in that the world is not a nice place when you let things fester all over the world.

China has done great at mobilizing their population, definitely. But don’t you worry that having unlimited power in a secretive cabal (CCP) is a bit dangerous?

I disagreed vehemently with Iraq. If the US just lets any place fester into an autocracy, then that autocracy has the base to expand their sphere.

So instead of the US capitalist sphere with its obvious but controllable problems... we’ll have your world where strongmen can expand their spheres. In those spheres, our businesses can be pushed out or taken control of without rule of law. So our country diminishes and eventually collapses.

So you sit on your high horse and play armchair quarterback, when in reality you benefit from the imperfect hegemony the US established for much of the world. Countries in our sphere have benefitted greatly: SK, Japan, Europe, Taiwan, India, Mexico, etc.
One more thing: I build my final binaries with stable (when possible), but develop with recent a nightly. There are some features that require nightly (custom testing frameworks come to mind) but don't affect the final binary (only tests) and I get the new goodies (better diagnostics, speed bumps, fixes) up to 12 weeks ahead of schedule.

Rustup makes having nightly and stable in the same machine painless, and I got in the habit of running cargo +stable build and cargo +nightly test. BTW, you don't have to do this, it just makes my experience a bit nicer.
Survivalist types do not necessarily concerns themselves with paperwork. There is no law against having the gear, I have plenty. And when the SHTF, the FCC is not going to bother people that had good intentions. Source: Have sat next to the FCC while operating out of spectrum. They really don't get involved unless you are interfering with someone. To really get their attention requires interfering with a government agency or a business or operating in a commercial spectrum. That is just my experience anyway.
One theory is that many small business owners are using their PPP loan money to invest in the market. This is local restaurants with millions of dollars in the bank that can't really invest in their own business due to slow business. If they are fearful of going out of business then taking a shot in the stock market doesn't seem all that risky.
I have no VPN and download stuff sporadically, stream video via torrents daily, I get nothing on this site. I guess I'm good.
Comments on this post are more toxic than expected.
I think the article's title is click bait. It goes on to essentially say that not conforming to others' ideas isn't necessarily a bad thing, and often contributes to success. Seems pretty obvious to me.

The author misconstrues (maybe only in order to twist the message to fit the title) being a jerk with being independent and taking risks.

Were some change-makers also jerks? Yeah, but it's not a rule, it's just more visible when that's the case.
This is a long term practice in Germany. Lawyers connect to the swarm, collect peers and then send letters in an automated way to "shake down" people.

The solution is to use VPNs or private trackers and it's pretty widely known. If you move into a flat / AirBnB one of the first things people will tell you is to not torrent on the connection.
IMO there are two different types or schools of functional programming.

There is the Lisp/dynamic typing (Scheme, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Julia...) style:

Avoiding state from a correctness perspective is a basis but not necessarily the end-goal here.

The primary goals are to decrease complexity and coupling and increasing malleability, composability and empowering through interactive development (REPL).

And the statically typed (Haskell, OCaml, Scala, F#...) one:

Here there is a much stronger focus on internal consistency of programs, which enables stronger mathematical soundness and reasoning.

Note that this distinction is only in part equal to the general dynamic vs static one. Typing discipline is not completely orthogonal to the paradigm (for example imperative vs functional).

I personally am very much in the camp of the former and only have superficial understanding of the latter.

I always recommend SICP because it was the book that helped me 'get it'. But there might be more modern alternatives.

A question you can ask yourself: How do you approach programming?

- Your program design is usually very high level. A graph of ideas. Then you want to interactively and iteratively discover requirements and check assumptions. You strive for simplicity and want to gradually achieve robustness, only where needed.

- You think in terms of laying out rules and form. You want to infer the connections and implementations given those rules. You gain satisfaction from solving puzzles upfront to enable strong run-time guarantees and sound abstractions.

If you lean stronger towards one of these thinking models then you might consider diving deeper into its respective typing discipline.
The US has very little CGNAT outside of mobile networks and small rural ISPs
The mess that has made any new protocol look like HTTP for the last 15-20 years.
Visualization of Integers in Single-Precision Floating-Point
I would bet it's their mini-bottles and pints - those are what are commonly plastic rather than glass.
You'll have to be more descriptive to get feedback. Almost every developer gets this request, like it's the idea that matters.

Who are you, what are you bringing to the table, what areas do you want to work on?
Exactly. If you want to be pedantic they do sell cloud services but not cloud infrastructure.

A more dramatic comparison would be Apple putting android on some of thier devices.
Yeah, the arguments aren't great, but redundancy is of course not the same as not using.

A better argument would be, that (AFAIK) no-one has ever found a large group of idle neurons, nor do neurons only function 10% of the time.
What stops adblockers from eventually blocking this script too?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55553048/is-it-possible-...
That doesn’t address why Chinese money is less desirable than Ambani’s money.
I've experimented with using youtube-dl as a backend before for my own music player. The latency to start is only about 2-3 seconds, slower than "webtorrent --mpv <torrent>" is for video.

You might want to mess around with the piece picker, there's options specifically for streaming. http://libtorrent.org/reference-Core.html#set_piece_deadline
In a consumer-driven economy, current unemployment rates are inextricably linked to the expected future performance of large companies.
> I fundamentally disagree with that view of being an asshole as an important part of success

It can be correlation without being causation. The things that make such people successful—corporate authority, self-confidence, intellect, high standards, low tolerance for bullshit—may well expose or amplify the asshole tendencies lurking in all of us.