skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the page is saying that the largest injuries destroyed less than 10% of the brain, leaving more than 90% intact. 50% is more than that.
Original thinking and therefore probably wrong, but perhaps interesting:

A more precise explanation than FOMO is that the stock market is simply a form of poker.

In poker, the cards themselves have zero value, they are simply a tool used to determine a winner.

While stocks may have some intrinsic value, it is commonly acknowledged that their value as assets is substantially lower than their stock market price. Moreover companies continue to buy their own stocks further reducing the value of stocks as assets.

Unlike the card game of poker, in stock market poker the players share the pot. This simple fact explains why there is a relentless pressure to increase the size of the pot.

In 2017 the richest 10% of Americans owned 84% of stocks. These are the major poker players. They have the resources to absorb major losses and then simply bid up the next hand.

Any small players (yes that means you and me) can easily lose their shirt in a down turn as we do not have reserve assets or other means (hedge funds) and are not able to participate in the next hand.

Many investment funds, pension funds and others fraudulently present stocks as assets and participation in the stock market as "investment".

It is the equivalent of asking that people invest in poker game by representing that the cards themselves have value. If participants in pension funds and retirement plans begin to recognize this fraud this may cause the stock market to collapse. However even this is unlikely. Poker games don't collapse, people just stop playing.

Just a thought.
Interesting tool I've never used, for the uninitiated:

https://godbolt.org/
Off the top of my mind tagging is also a weak spot (it insists on users using one of a number of defined tags, and while tags can be added it takes time and you also cannot type them out but have to rely on clumsy nested dropdows for all but the top 10 that can be reached via keyboard shortcuts.)

I'm fairly certain there was more problems but all in all OneNote still used to be a good solutions for smaller companies that was stuck in Microsoft land anyway.
Prewar Japan was among the most intellectually vibrant, politically diverse, and artistically challenging cultures of the 20th century. This book is a great portrait of the period:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674021297

The primary problem with why the country devolved into fascism is that democracy was never really expanded, allowing wealthy, right wing cadres to capture exclusive control of state power and outlaw political inclusion of their opponents (several left wing parties were made illegal following universal male enfranchisement in the late 1920s). But there was actually widespread internal opposition to the Japanese imperial project, well into the 1930s, until fascists used violence, imprisonment, and intimidation of its leadership to stop it.
What is the future of short-term travel?
Trying to understand where the market will go from here. How will travel change — especially short-term travel. Do you think business-travel segment will grow? Or is there another segment that the likes of Airbnb will have to explore in the post-covid world.
>> ubiquity of Linux and decline of Windows

> Should I read this as sarcasm?

It could only be sarcastic if he's referring to "Linux on the desktop." I don't have any numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was correct about servers.
What? Why are you saying this? What does this have to do with anything? Are you just tying to be right or something? Are you trying to win an argument? Like why do you even care about my own sense of embarrassment? Why should I care if you personally don’t feel embarrassed in situations where I might? What are you trying to proof? Who are you trying to be?
Tesla already succeeded by moving electrification of cars earlier than it would have been normally done by other car companies. The biggest change in the master plan is moving to self driving cars instead of cheap cars. We'll see how much time the achievement takes, but my guess is that it will be faster than replacing all cars in the world with electric ones.
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In both the server and especially mobile space Windows has lost its mojo and Linux has been a beneficiary.
Are there good and cheap alternatives? (Asking out of curiosity, I know almost nothing about this kind of hardware.)
The "US" servers are actually in Canada. I use them and the performance for streaming is slightly better. Although I wouldn't really be worried either way as I don't use public torrent sites.
> as theft (it is)

Are you sure digital piracy is theft?
Wikipedia defines theft as:

"The taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it."

Copies are made, sales (possibly) lost, but no property is being taken such that the owner cannot continue to sell/rent/etc it.

My take: I'll pay for whatever streaming service that has the content I want (except Hulu), but if it is not available to stream then Internet Copies are an option for me. I don't have a DVD/Bluray/etc player to go the physical copy route and would simply go without if not for streaming first then Internet Copies.

physical copy theft: the physical medium is being stolen, the works are still available, but it is theft because packaging is an industry unto itself, costing money. Making an internet copy costs (basicallly) nothing.

In all: I will pay for what is available, I will even wait if they announce something I want is coming to x-platform at y-date. Because of Netflix alone, I basically don't download movies now. Disney+ is an interesting option now, too. If the market provides, it can have my money!
Illich's concept of a "Radical Monopoly," is also immensely relevant to internet platforms.

Radical monopoly is a concept defined by philosopher and author Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, "Tools for Conviviality," and revisited in his later work, which describes how a technology or service becomes so exceptionally dominant that even with multiple providers, its users are excluded from society without access to the product. His initial example is the effect of cars on societies, where the car itself shaped cities by its needs, so much so that people without cars become excluded from participation in cities. A radical monopoly is when the dominance of one type of product supersedes dominance by any one brand.

Social media as a technology in the forms of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter could be seen as a radical monopoly for reputation, as is Linkedin for employment, colleges for education, etc.

I think Illich's criticisms of car culture pushed him outside the Overton window of policy making, but his radical monopoly concept is a useful critical tool for reasoning about tech and ethics. A counter argument could use the example that the discovery of fire created a radical monopoly on heat, and therefore it's so general as to be applied arbitrarily to anything you don't like. However, being able to think about the consequences of a new radical monopoly might have on some aspect of human experience is useful for anticipating policy options in response to dynamic technology development.
I have the entire text of my first book available online for free. My sales have been way more than I ever expected, year after year.

It accomplishes a few things:

* While I was writing the book, I published each chapter online as I finished it. The top of each page has a link to my mailing list. This was a great way to build an audience. By the time the book was complete, I had a mailing list with thousands of people I could tell about it.

* It lets readers try before they buy, which builds confidence.

* It makes for a very effective web presence. People searching for the topic are likely to find it.

* People really love it. Even if they never buy it, they become fans because they've been given something for free. That in turn makes them walking advertisers for the book. I've had people who read the entire book online buy a copy afterwards just to say thanks.

* It enables people who can't afford it to still have access to the material. This may not make me more money, but it's important to me.
Obviously stupid to use work resources to do it. But from home there simply are no real repurcussions. You get a letter and it goes in the trash with no followup.
You can expect returns, but not fix them ahead of time as what people do with interest bearing loans (i.e. usury). Loaning money for money is parasitic and immoral. Investing that can incur a profit or a loss is fine in general.
It's a bit imprecisely worded, but the message isn't very controversial I would say.

To get things done you can't be afraid of disagreeing with people. You can be a jerk about it or not. If you're a jerk you likely free up resources for getting things done since you're not spending energy being sensitive to other people's feelings. On the other hand, if you're a jerk, people might work against you just because they don't like you. Also, it's easier to effectively lead if you're not a jerk, which is more effective than working on your own.

Most people can be adults about it, disagreeing civilly, and laughing about it afterwards. But the people who change the world are the ones who care enough to risk becoming jerks over the things they care about.
It does already exist[1]. Although I'm not particularly familiar with the "core" LibreOffice Online, the Collabora Online[2] branded version is super easy to get running on Nextcloud[3] (via Docker).

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

[2] https://www.collaboraoffice.com/libreoffice-from-collabora/

[3] https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/
> launching to an email list of 10k-100k+

Wow. I "launched" the premium version of Alchemist Camp just over two years ago to a list of about 250. Now my list is between 3,000 and 4,000.

My business model is a bit different since I'm selling subscriptions to a growing library of screencasts instead of one-off books or courses, but the number of people signing up and staying on my email list is a critical business driver. I get very few unsubs and have approximately a 40% open rate, so it's definitely a top of the line issue.

I suspect my main problem is #1. Elixir is a small market. That said, I'm a bit weak on #3 as well and would love to see some examples of your promotional efforts!
Short squeeze coming up?
Yeah, I've used a lot of different version control systems (RCS, CVS, SourceSafe, Perforce, svn, git), and by far the most confusing and infuriating is git with it's made-up words, bizarre naming, and the extra work it makes you do. Terrible to use. It does the thing it was designed to do, but good luck not screwing up because of its byzantine commands.
My oh my... I seem to have downloaded a lot of torrents on my phone.

And I have such eclectic tastes.

Shared IPs are still very much a thing you know...
For a drop-in Kafka replacement, check out: https://vectorized.io/redpanda/
“Executive Office Of The President"

Haaaarrr!
Subservient isn't the right word I think. A lot of rich and famous attended the Ambani wedding events – Clinton, Huffington etc and a lot of celebrities from world over.

Beyonce did a show too. So did a lot of Bollywood celebrities. These celebrities do paid gigs at these ultra rich wedding parties.

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/isha-ambani-wedding-india-hi...
We already have several reinventions of the brick which are stronger and more eco-friendly -- we call them concrete blocks.

I thought it was pretty silly to compare this product to bricks on it's cost/strength/waste. People aren't choosing brick for these factors anyway. People choose brick mainly for the aesthetic.
Not quite, because usury is deeply ingrained in the system, from bonds to CDs to buying debt for debt, etc. There are many usurious transactions that form the underpinning of the financial system that need to be abolished for things to be fair.
GSoC Reports: Make system(3) and popen(3) use Posix_spawn(3) internally Part 1
I’m not sure why that’s important. I don’t frequently watch movies multiple times so the loaning and watching once is, I think, most common.

Back in the dvd days, I would frequently never get discs back. The few times I’ve loaned a file from a digital file I’ve bought on Amazon, I’ve never watched the movie again. So for all I care, they could keep it forever.
What an exceptional dumpster fire of a thread. Very very sub-standard by HackerNews standards. I'm dissapointed in the lack of moderation in this one.
interesting - was this inspired by this post the other day on HN? looks good though!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23746445 /
https://tmpch.at/
Very unlikely. Just because they are no longer "without alternatives" in many use-cases (for business customers) doesn't mean they go bankrupt. They will just lose money and maybe shrink a bit.

Also thy are in many other areas then just CPU's including FPGA and hard drives.
Yeah, i used to be massively into piracy. now i use spotify and netflix.

I still pirate the odd thing because while it's completely worth it to pay $10/mo (or whatever it is now) for netflix, i'm not about to pay the same just to watch a single show on some other streaming service, or go through the hassle of figuring out what new service i have to sign up for or if it's even available in my country or on my roku.
Anecdotes about the Development of Macintosh
They already got btfo a few months ago.
This is awesome Samuel! Congrats!
Here's a slighly less trivial small guide: https://twitter.com/fiatjaf/status/1282108860405297153

After that, just read the BEPs directly: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html. They're small, easy to understand and straight to the point.

Then read the code for Webtorrent or other implementation in a language you're familiar with. You'll immediately recognize the BEPs there.
Only [non-consecutive] 3 hours is a productive work out of holy 8 hours per day.
I must admit I’m not familiar with these companies. Is anyone willing to explain the significance of this merger?
Good ol' Neal Stephenson... I found HackerNews due to an offhand response made in an interview when asked what message boards he frequents.
In a meltdown you're not looking for a profit. At least, not traditionally. You're looking to have more-than-zero.
A number of people will probably tell you to be your own boss, try herbal remedies, change your sleeping habit, etc. And those are all really good answers. But let me suggest one other thing.

First off, if you think you are feeling burnout, you are. There is no checklist that makes burnout "real". It's how you feel about you. So, get with a counselor. Talk therapy is really valuable and absolutely excellent for helping with burnout. You may not need medication (though, you might) but a qualified mental health professional can help a lot.

I fought against this route for years. I wish I hadn't. When I started visiting my therapist, Rich, he really helped me a ton. I still have good days and bad days but now I recognize the issues and I can help to combat them.

Seeking professional help is a good thing!
It's a complete mystery to me why they don't raise some capital at this valuation. They could wipe off all the debt and have a decade's worth of capex in cash for a very small dilution.
Doesn't this hurt other users/applications on adjacent hyperthreads or cores? Or is it just HT?
My favorite: Jazelle DBX (direct Java bytecode execution)
The purpose of those ads was to convince people that copyright infringement was equivalent to theft.
Through concentration and compensation skills we've acquired over the years, some dyslexic people can read _almost_ normally. At least, that was the case for me. If I really mentally exert, I can often force myself to read fluidly and read almost as if proficient. The problem is that it is costly to do so and highly conditional.

For example: Doing reading comprehension tests in school, I would often perform well, if not a bit slowly. Given a book report, however, I would not be able to keep up such effort for very long; reading that way was very strenuous. Furthermore, when tasked with reading out loud, I slow to a crawl, begin to stutter, and translate inaccurately.

Anyways, my point is that, we can sometimes read normally, it can just be extra difficult.

As for this example specifically, I can't speak to its authenticity since I don't have the "moving characters" symptoms. My issues mostly revolve around poor eye tracking.
I don’t buy movies on dvd or Blu-ray any more. But I still lend access.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that if I watch a movie that I like, I should purchase it again on physical media just to loan it. And that my friend should buy a DVD player just to watch a borrowed movie.

If I’ve bought it once digitally, I will make copies and lend them to friends. Or more specifically, I’ll give them a login to my private Plex server.
Conversely, mine doesn't show anything even though I have a static IP and download frequently...

odd.
I'm struggling to understand what's creepy about this. If seeing your entire download history on that website was shocking, that's really more a measure of how much you know you've been breaking the law than anything else: there is no PII anywhere in what this service does, it just retains information about which IP (which on its own doesn't identify anyone in the slightest) was seen connected to which torrent payload (which on its own doesn't imply actual data exchange happening).
Very deliberate.

The MPAA and RIAA don't actually call themselves the MAFIAA. that's not an official website.
Hard Truth.
One more follow-up...

The top one is pgx, the bottom is Postgres. So there's a little room for improvement here with pgx, but that's okay for a v0.0.3 release.

test=# select count(*) from srf.generate_series(1, 10000000);
Time: 1552.115 ms (00:01.552)

test=# select count(*) from generate_series(1, 10000000);
Time: 1406.357 ms (00:01.406)
Distillers have little to no control over what stores their product is sold in and how those stores are setup (for these purposes, "direct sunlight" includes coming through a window, so it's more likely than you'd think).

If a consumer buys a bottle of whisky and it's oxidized, they're not going to think "that store was poor", their first reaction will be "this whisky is poor" and to be turned off the brand. Packaging isn't worth that risk to the brand.

Opaque bottles have their own complications - no type of glass will be sufficient and other materials (aluminum, etc.) have different costs/impact on flavor/affect of alcohol on the container over time. I'm sure they're putting in plenty of research and I'm curious to see how this turns out.

Cardboard is a surprising choice to me. I was at Microsoft when they first started switching from styrofoam/plastic to compostable serving ware, and while they eventually fixed the problem of spoons melting in your soup, they never did find a compostable cup that wouldn't start dissolving if you put liquor in it (you could drink it fast, but it would be dripping within half an hour and a major problem if left for more than an hour)
A SwiftUI Reddit Client for macOS
But muh:
AI,
Battery tech,
Charging stations.

I imagine at some point it will drop back to reality, but not this year
Which institutions? Some institutions are forced to keep a certain amount of money in bonds, not their fault the yields are negative.
It was used to make ammonia at one point, wasn't it? I'm not sure of ammonia's medicinal uses though.
(a) It takes me about 20 hours of work - and 1 week calendar time - to finish a chapter. A typical book is ~10 chapters.

(b) Hard to say. Some weaknesses (wrong topic) are unrecoverable. Blogging well is way more work than, say, tacking on interviews to an already-great course.

shelf life: longer than you'd think. we wrote ng-book in 2015 and it still brought in thousands last month. (To be fair, I have been releasing updates.)

I don't do consulting. It's the worst of both worlds: the unreliable income of entrepreneurship, but you still have a boss and don't get to accumulate any long-term value.

Re shovels: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - It's more fun with friends, and we can teach more topics than just whatever I'm an expert in

see also: https://twitter.com/fullstackio/status/1225462654174744576
AD's opamps are like $5 instead of $2.

Since my home electronics projects are one-off things... the 250% increase for better documentation and better LTSpice models is well worth the $3 cost increase.
Tesla wasn't already in the S&P 500? Even at the more sane $100 share price, that would put it at ~$20 billion market cap, well above about two fifths of the existing S&P 500 companies.

Source: Sortable list last updated July 7: https://fknol.com/list/stock-list-sp-500-index.php
Tesla completely turned the industry on its head with their electric cars - something dinosaur incumbents like Volkswagen were either unwilling or unable to do. Maybe people see a future in Tesla and not as much in Volkswagen, and the price reflects the future not the past?
Valuations like these are unsustainable, and so far fetched from reality. It is only a matter of time before TSLA gets a correction, which will drop the stock ~ 30 - 40% from its ATH.
Afaik if you visit the site from your phone and laptop on same wifi they will count as 1, which wouldnt be the case with google' way
Like so many articles in this space, there is a lot of assumption, claims without evidence and vague assertions. The author doesn't seem to know what Predatory Pricing is. He also dismisses economics of scale as an accounting fiddle.

I sympathetize with his general position (as life gets complex, barriers to entry rise and markets of many small companies are replaced by one's of a few big companies.

But then he gets lost in his own prejudices/conspiracy theories about harvard, financial engineering etc. Not really helpful to his wider point...
It’s also frequently legal through fair use.

So I’d say that piracy is potential copyright infringement and leave it at that. It’s curious to see moral judgement on this. I assume that the judgers work in media or something.

But I also come from a generation that thought DLC was unjust.
If you invested into the German stock market in 1914, it would have taken over 100 years to get your money back.

The America of the past 100 years has been quite exceptional. Using its history to predict the future is not a good idea, IMO.