skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Further, the best thing you can to protect your assets from a crash is: have a regular investment plan, follow it, and stop looking at the market.

If you’re ten or more years from retirement, the overwhelming likelihood is that a crash simply does not matter. A drop in prices only matters when you’re buying (good) or selling (bad). Everything in between is noise that only affects you on paper. Selling due to a crash is the ideal way to lock in losses. Just contribute to your retirement accounts as normal, regardless of what the market is doing. If anything, feel happy you’re getting a discount on your regular purchases.

If you’re nearing retirement, the answer is that you should be gradually shifting over time from riskier assets to more conservative ones. While young you might be at and 80:20 ratio of stock market index funds to bond market index funds, but nearing retirement that might flip to 60:40 with the remaining 10% in fixed-income assets (exact numbers are determined by your personal risk threshold and not meant as absolutes). For most people, a Target Retirement fund is probably the best choice here since they’re fire-and-forget.

As an anecdote, I have a friend who felt very strongly that a crash was imminent in early 2018. He argued passionately that markets would drop, and wouldn’t it be great to be in a position to be able to swoop back in and grab everything at a discount when this happened? I bet beers that the S&P would be greater than or equal to its current price (~2715) on Jan 1 2019. He also sold everything and held cash.

Well, as luck would have it, there was a “crash”. Based on the exact timing of our bet, I ended up losing by a few dollars (it was at ~2700) and had to buy him beers. He stayed in cash while I’ve continued buying. If he’d had perfect knowledge and changed course at rock bottom, he would have squeezed out an extra 8% return. In practice, he’s actually lost out on a 40%+ return that required simply doing nothing. I think my strategy has pretty soundly won in retrospect.
Besides Felicia "Snoop," Pearson, here's a partial list of main characters that also meet the description:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Andrews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Williams_(actor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Norris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_D%27Addario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Landsman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burton_(Baltimore)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Earle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Zorzi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwan_Glover

And don't forget the show's creators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simon - former journalist at the Baltimore Sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns - former Baltimore police and public school teacher.
Incidentally, if your want your aluminum or stainless steel clean again with almost no effort, use Barkeeper's Friend. It's an oxalic acid product, and it wipes away stains with a sponge that you'd work hard to sand out.

Obviously, do not use on cast iron or carbon steel.
“I want Apple to let other people make software for my phone.”

That involves forcing Apple to design their software to do what they don’t want it to do.

Why not just buy the product that does?

I know the answer to that, since you have given it earlier.

It’s because you want Apple’s nice products, and have chosen that over the desire for an open ecosystem.

Nobody is stopping you from having the freedom you want. In fact many companies provide it.

This has nothing to do with rights at all.

It’s just that Apple makes nicer things and you want to force them to meet your needs because the products that do aren’t as nice.
Not user friendly. Not everyone is an internet nerd like us.
I’m over 18, can I turn safe-search off?
Do you have any citations you can share?
Depends on the scope of the project. Would the goal be to come up with a better algorithm for cell classification based on histological images? Or to apply an existing algorithm to a new dataset?

The former would be quite difficult without much background in ML/Computer Vision (you would have to spend some time self-teaching basics of ML/Deep Learning and the pre-reqs for those — Basic Linear Algebra and Probability).

The latter is doable. I would recommend a very hands on approach. Pick some computer vision object classification tutorials and code them up (using a high level library). Make a mind map of the concepts and look them up as and when you’re unclear about a concept. Then move on to replicating some well cited, peer reviewed papers. Often papers will have their code on GitHub. Try and relocate their results on their dataset. After this you would have the basic working knowledge to modify the algorithm slightly for your specific use case.
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It was probably a good idea to rebrand from Riot to Element after this week's deadly violence at the US Capitol. It's difficult for me to imagine endeavoring to protect tribal, potential violent rhetoric given recent historical events. It seems short-sighted to sell a water poisoning solution to people who don't mind destroying themselves to attack their perceived opponents.
If you run a social network, you need to decide what posts to allow on your platform. Every platform needs some moderation, lest they be overrun with spam and porn and scams.

If you develop artificial intelligence, you need to determine what applications of the technology are ethical. Is it okay to sell to authoritarian governments? What about the US military? What about individual police departments?

If you develop hardware, or run servers, you need to consider your impact on the planet.
So if we need so suddenly attack China we'd: give the crew 5 days notice to sail, sail for 6 weeks to get within range of China, get blown out of the water by the Chinese airforce!?

I know this is a good deal for the US, they have sold billions in planes. But pretending we're a real power is silly and frankly harmful when my gullible country men actually believe it...
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Then it would be “build your own FreeType”.

Zooming big blobs of text at 60fps without caching remains an open problem as it’s necessary to use a GPU shader and all of the approaches make one or another lacklustre trade-offs.
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When will our leaders actually condemn China (not some toothless virtue signaling) and stop the flow of money from American consumers to the CCP?

Vote with your wallet, stop buying Chinese products. Stop supporting this clearly evil regime.
Anybody holding cash or bonds. Also, much of the US inflation is exported to the rest of the world.
If your XMPP server is Prosody check out the new invitation feature to help people sign up: https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/

If they're people who want a web client you can look at mod_conversejs: https://modules.prosody.im/mod_conversejs - but it is not as comprehensive a web client as Element, in my opinion.
Please re-read what I posted more closely.

> An observed variance in weather *over one day or even a few days*

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/weather-vs-climate

If you observe a few days of severe weather, you've observed severe weather. Taking a mere observation over one week of weather activity cannot be looked at in isolation and simply called "climate change, tada!"

FTA:

>When scientists talk about climate, they're often looking at averages of precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind, and other measures of weather that occur over a long period in a particular place. In some instances, they might look at these averages over 30 years. And, we refer to these three-decade averages of weather observations as Climate Normals.
Here is some facts

- There was a massive increase of money supply last year. That combined with the restrictions imposed on our economy by the pandemic means prices will certainly go up and purchasing power go down

- There are many indicators telling us the stock market is overvalued. Some of them: Warren Buffet indicator (cap-to-GDP), ev/ebitda, Shiller P/E, ...

- Commodities are historically at a low price

You should adjust your portfolio with the reality of the asset class (store of value, stocks, bonds, crypto, commodites, real state, ...).

You cannot predict if a crash is coming or not. And you should not. You should adjust your exposure related to risk. The greater the risk, less exposed you should be to that asset. It is not binary.

Right now

- Stocks are risky

- Gold and BTC as store of value to protect against inflation, not so risky

- Silver, oil, and other commodities, not so risky

- Bonds seems very risk also

- Real state I have no clue
Special $17 oil to season a pan, a multi day oven drying process, wtf?? I'm sort of baffled by this because I can buy a perfectly usable Lodge cast iron skillet for about $20 and not go through any of this nonsense. Is the inefficient recycling of old pans a thing now?
That's my point, the government. Banking is not a free market. So can we put this nonsense
to sleep already? And since you don't seem to be too interested in the free market
argument anyway, let me respond to the rest of your comment, including the other one.

I don't know if you're aware of it, but your falling empire, the almighty America, is not
the only country in the world. The censorship tactics that are deployed right now on the
half of the population of the country that famously has the most free speech in the world,
will be used against the people in other countries too. The willingness of the
corporations to work with authoritarian governments, the obvious example being China, is
not exactly a secret. These people hold no moral convictions, they use slave labor for
God's sake, just so you can mindlessly consume more useless crap like a new iPhone every
year or God knows how many pairs of Nike shoes, as they pander to you with rainbow flags
and raised fists.

People who are in the front lines against such governments, some of whom you might show
"support" to regularly on your favourite social media website, are also being persecuted
for the same reasons - calls for violence and terrorism. The people from my country were
hailed as heroes after the WWII by the Western world. But today, in some places in the
world, people who are doing the same thing and fighting for the same causes that we
did are labeled as terrorists. People might belive one thing today and the complete
opposite tomorrow. Which is whatever suits the people at the media industry and their
employers at the time.

And the bottomline is that you yourself might find yourself on the receiving end of the
things you think are so great in the near future. The following weeks are not about the
left vs the right. Or antiterrorism vs terrorism. Or morality vs lack thereof. Or however
you want to frame it to feel good about yourself. It's about escalation or de-escalation.
The right completely lost and the left had the upperhand. But for some reason, either
stupidity or on purpose, they've chose to go about it in the worst possible way. Get
petty, overblow the Capitol shitshow and seek revenge on the right. You might not even
agree with that framing, but this is how the right perceives it. And that means
escalation. Nothing might happen because of it or everything might happen. But the point
is that you've turned the victory of the left into an uncertain future, that no one knows
what holds.

Sorry for getting carried away, I know this is not a place for my bullshit, but this is
basically the only place where I can voice my meaningless opinions that no one cares about.
I worked on Capitol Hill for years. The Capitol is not a soft target. Its security measures are taken very seriously. Multiple agencies are responsible for its protection. Multiple strategies are in play from intelligence ops to deadly force. These agencies handle crowd control for dozens of very large protests every year. They are world experts in preventing violence, terrorism, and rioting. The Capitol is the very center of our government and the most powerful symbol of democracy in the world.

Some things went very wrong. It should not have been possible for a loosely organized mob to breach the perimeter, let alone get inside. There must have been some complicity or even permission. On the other hand, some things went exactly as they should have. Lawmakers were rapidly taken to safety. No VIPs were injured. Bloodshed was kept to a minimum through careful deescalation.

Overall I think we came to within inches of a major tragedy. It was avoided through a mix of competence and incompetence. We were lucky and we should consider ourselves warned.
> I hope I'm wrong about [society being doomed to collapse because of free speech]

I'm confused, then why did you say this?

> I used to agree with this line of thinking

Unless I'm misinterpreting this, you seem "not to longer agree" with the merits of free speech. If so, then why do you hope to be wrong about it eventually disappearing?

> the past dozen years or so of the information age have made it abundantly clear that simply having the truth on your side and making a rational case for it is not even remotely sufficient to counter the spread of misinformation.

Even if I agreed with this—which I don't—the answer to this hypothetical reality is definitely not to start removing actual information.[1]

For instance, having tweets like that exist would be good counterevidence to all to apologia of certain bad actors that goes around, even here in HN.

> Honestly, I'm not sure that free speech as a concept will be able to survive the information age

Usually the first ones silenced are the ones promoting censorship. That's what I'd usually say anyway, but it is pointless; I would be silenced eventually too and I don't want to be silenced, even if it happens to me after it does to the ones who are "inadvertently" asking to be silenced.

> It seems as though any society holding it sacrosanct might be doomed to collapse from divisive pressure both internal and external.

Do you have historical evidence to back up this claim?

All in all, my hope is that we find easier, better ways for people to fact check, instead of removing data wholesale. Language is the basis of civilization, so restricting communication is not the way to go. Improving it is the way to move forward; it has always been so, I think.

[1]: And to note, I'm not saying that what was said in that tweeted article wasn't an awful lie. The information is not the content, the information is the fact that it was said at all.
What could/would governments do if there was a huge crash? Don't they have huge incentives to change the rules to prevent/undo a crash because of voters who care about their pensions, rich people with political leverage, and because a lot of politicians own shares themselves?
I ignored my mental health, and got hit hard by OCD (a cautionary tale)
Nearly 20% of people have some form of mental illness, and some of the issues might not seem like a big deal until they hit hard.
What's the difference between Sia and Skynet? This is the point that confuses me most.

I thought Sia is the low-level layer and Skynet is the high-level layer, but one of the comments says that Sia encrypts data and Skynet doesn't, so that makes no sense.

Too many names that aren't clearly explained in a very obvious place is a plague that many otherwise cool projects suffer from.
Who was silenced for having the wrong opinion?
Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors
That wok seasoning video is what I do! I also use soap on my pans, just not too much and with gentle scrubbing.

The wok burner I have is this one: https://www.amazon.ca/Eastman-Outdoors-37212-Gourmet-Carbon/...

It’s a ton of fun to cook on, and useful for way more than just the wok. When I go diving and get crabs for example, this thing gets a huge pot of water boiling in no time and makes prepping a lot of crabs really easy.

And yeah, it’ll season any pan like nothing else. I was terrible at seasoning pans until I started throwing them on this thing.
“It’s only difficult to predict because of all these unpredictable events.”
This made me go check out Parler and one thing I will say is that you can tell the algorithms are more raw/organic based on the experience. Twitter is so overly sculpted that it becomes rather dull and predictable, almost manipulative.
"laws are merely a conspiracy thrust upon us..." Good luck with that logic in your murder trial... :-P

"copyright is merely a conspiracy thrust upon us", so its perfectly fine to pirate software.

Also, any code I make public will be under terms _I_ find acceptable - what 'everyone knows' really doesn't factor into the equation. You're not entitled to set usage terms for my work.

Oh, and respect for the rules IS required - or you get de-platformed. For examples see half of HN's front page :-P

edit: formatting - need more coffee
That forced sterilization is happening is fact. Twitter isn't taking a "stand" on what the truth is (it is telling that you put truth in quotes). Twitter is simply deleting tweets that spread misinformation, whether the misinformation is about US election claims or pretending that there isn't a genocide happening in Xinjiang. Actions such as this that deter the spread of fake news on social media platforms are needed because bot accounts that rapidly repeat false statements are possible on the Internet.
Billy's Coffee at 57 Sheridan St, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It's a pleasant social scene, especially in the early mornings.
Nice coffee too :)

At Billy's I never get hacked or spammed, and am able to engage in healthy, face-to-face communication with my fellows. There is usually a guitar to play if you like that sort of thing.
> Are microservices meant to separate data too? As in, each service has its own database.

Yes.

> Wouldn't that lead to non-normalisation of the data

Yes. But it's not as bad as it sounds. That is how data on paper used to work, after all.

Business rules (at least ones that have been around for more than 5--10 years) are written with intensely non-normalised data in mind.

Business people tend to be fine with eventual consistency on the scale of hours or even days.

Non-normalised data also makes total data corruption harder, and forensics in the case of bugs easier, in some ways: you find an unexpected value somewhere? Check the other versions that ought to exist and you can probably retrace at what point it got weird.

The whole idea of consistent and fully normalised data is a, historically speaking, very recent innovation, and I'm not convinced it will last long in the real world. I think this is a brief moment in history when our software is primitive enough, yet optimistic enough, to even consider that type of data storage.

And come on, it's not like the complete consistency of the data is worth that many dollars in most cases, if we actually bother to compute the cost.
I have this suspicion that in the coming decades, the rush to make all of our standards based on the "unchanging constants of the universe" might turn out to have been a bit presumptive. For instance, assuming that the speed of light is constant and uniform in all directions, might be a mistake.
Haven't tried it yet but can someone clarify whether it's possible to discover sub-communities or you have to be explicitly 'invited' to those ?
Yeah. All I'm saying is that, practically speaking, it's a huge limitation. Imagine if Clojure couldn't leverage Java's ecosystem. Or, rather, it could but first you have to fork each package so you can change all the import statements and standard lib calls.

I do wonder if they couldn't have provided a shim for the Node system-APIs, and maybe even a compatibility-mode for Node's import style? Something where you could drop a Node project into Deno, complete with NPM dependencies, and immediately run it, and then gradually convert it to "idiomatic" Deno code with the proper (typed!) system APIs and URL-style imports. If they hope to eventually replace Node, "scrap the entire library ecosystem" doesn't feel like a very realistic roadmap.
I don't see people avoiding using phones even though neo-nazi, criminals, redheads and people with sexual preferences radically different from theirs use them constantly.

Matrix is not a platform, it's a protocol and some implementation software developed in the open.
> Somehow people started associating UFOs with flying saucers and aliens.

I saw a video (that I can't currently find) of Feynman explaining this once.

The US government had a classified program that suspended 1940s saucer microphones from a balloon at a height in the atmosphere that would allow them to listen for Soviet atomic tests.

The balloon crashes and some reporters are out sniffing around. Someone with loose lips lets slip that it was a flying saucer. You can imagine what the artist's rendition based on that description looked like.

Then, since the program was classified, the official explanation becomes that it was a weather balloon or something, and a conspiracy theory is born.
Tesla can capture more profit per car than GM has a chance to because Tesla doesn’t have third parties doing...

- seats
- selling
- soon batteries
- ai chip
- soon insurance
- charge stations is like if GM could own the gas stations

This doesn’t even count the growth of the other product lines like utility grid storage and solar roof and Uber like services.
Unfortunately, Twitter has decided to eagerly toss themselves into 18 other countries too, including the UK, each with different interpretations of what rights their citizens are entitled too.

Their Dubai office is especially spicy, considering that countries stance regarding woman and LGBT rights.
> instead of the hands of real estate and Wall St.

Is the Fed buying real estate now? I knew they expanded to ETFs and bonds, but are they actually buying land/buildings or REITs?
We prepare for a crash by having different goals than everyone else. We don't care about making as much money as possible.

My wife and I have made good money and instead of investing it or keeping it in my company's stock (AMZN, great investment right?) we've cashed all of it in ASAP and paid down the mortgage. Sure, some RRSPs and TFSAs (401k and roth ira equivalents), but for the most part it's just been aggressively attacking the mortgage.

The bank lets us make double payments, with the extra going to the principal. It also lets us dump 10% of the total loaned amount once per year. And my wife and I have done this all aggressively. We borrowed nearly half a million CDN$ because Toronto housing is stupidly expensive, and we'll have it paid off in the 7th year.

If the markets crash, we'll be living rent/mortgage free (or close to it), and can invest all our income at the bottom of the crash. If they don't, I'll still be rent free. If one of us loses our job, we can refinance the mortgage, pay the minimum, and get by on one income. We even keep a cushion in our bank account equal to 6 months bills and base mortgage payments.

Our goal is not to make as much money as possible. It's to minimize the risk that we ever go broke, that we ever need to worry about money.

My father gave me a piece of advice once that's stuck with me: if you earn an extra dollar, you have to pay tax on it. If you reduce your expenses by a dollar, you get to keep it all.
It’s true, the scenarios where I’ve heard kt88s cranked was in a guitar amp, where the goal is to push them so hard they clip.
> decentralized social network is build on Skynet

AKA email.

If Trump has been kicked off Twitter, there's nothing stopping him from providing an email newsletter where people can sign-up and recieve his crazy ramblings.

Seriously wondering why people don't do this. Perhaps I shouldn't be giving Trump any ideas?
I pay $10/year for my VPS but it has only 10 or 15gb... Check out http://www.lowendstock.com/ for more options. Mine is probably as stable as Google's servers...