skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FOMO is the biggest reason I find not to sell and rent for a while. If I want to buy again in a few years, there is no way to know if the equivalent house would be out of my price range. And I can't think of too many places I would feel safe investing that amount of money given current asset price inflation.

Becoming a landlord while renting out something new may be a good option though. Or moving to a low cost of living area.
:-)

OTOH, being old enough now to have seen multiple variations of quite a few products, I am amazed at how "designers" of products manage to get basic shit wrong.

I mean, how hard is it to just look at your competition and see what they do right.

...and so I likely come across as a curmudgeon calling poorly designed things bullshit as I express my disappointment in a society that hasn't figured out hoverboards yet...
This was fun. Thanks!
I don't think it helps that I'm on a Windows machine for work these days, and it's only personal time I have to adjust.
> Rust will invariably introduce new issues, completely unforeseen as of now. And a new, modern programming language will appear in 2050 or 2060 solving those issues, and the rewrite cycle will begin all over again. And people will wonder how come anyone could get anything done in C.

The question is not "will some new hotness come along to usurp the old hotness," the question is "will the new hotness make software any better." Unless the answer to this question is a resounding "no" (even "probably not" is acceptable), maybe people should try. Please stop complaining that people want to find ways to pioneer in their fields rather than just retreading old ground.
No, the opposite.

The value of a company in a fair market is a function of the confidence of investors that someone in the future will pay more for the same stock.

For a highly profitable company like Facebook, this isn't a foolish confidence in anyway. Even if you don't like Facebook it would be a very radical position to take to think that their profits next quarter will be remarkably lower than this quarter.

In greater fool theory, you know there is no reason the investment is going to increase in value. You are just hoping someone else is going to buy from you and accept that risk too.
See also "poached" as if employees are a boar, living on the kings land getting fat for his ultimate consumption.
This is epic. I just ordered a 20x30 print from Costco for $15. Hopefully they will print it.
Inspired by repl.it by any chance? I am a heavy user of repl.it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy
No. The outrage machine continues to encroach into my life, despite my best efforts.
The purely algorithmic way to do it is the Wigner-Ville distribution, but it isn't practical for complex sounds due to the quadratic explosion of interactions between all time-frequency components. For a small number of well-separated 'chirp' signals it can give you exact localization.

I think the software you are looking for would have to be based on a machine learning rather than purely theory-based approach if its intended for use with natural sound signals.
Can we also talk about men getting divorced after a startup failure or prolonged 'death valley' period? Startup is always risky for anyone regardless of gender and that is why not many people take the risk.

I mean if the job sucks, and you can't afford it then don't do it. There is always an alternative option if you possess the skill set to succeed in startup scene. Applies both to men and women.
> The problem with this thesis that the CDC has been "politicized" is that the level of precaution merited in the face of a novel virus is very much a question of policy, not science.

"Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm"

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic...

Here it is:

* https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6819268/Pandemic-...

Page 9 explicitly names "Coronaviruses" as a Tier 1 concern.

The transition team had a tabletop wargames / exercises on a pandemic:

* https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-...

See also:

> The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.

> Most of the reductions were made at the Beijing office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and occurred over the past two years, according to public CDC documents viewed by Reuters and interviews with four people familiar with the drawdown.

* https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

It should be noted that pandemic preparation was started by Bush43:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283304/

Obama carried things forward during his eight years.
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I was involved in a collision where an infant narrowly missed being struck and killed. I wasn't at fault, the other driver crossed the middle of the road directly in front of me and my vehicle struck the cargo area of their vehicle (the baby was in the back seat on that side of the vehicle).

I occasionally wonder how I would have processed it if things had gone differently, fault or not.
It would be quite hypocritical if he didn't.
It is also a joke on how “French” Canadian varieties of French are.

There are pronunciation and vocabulary differences that get deeper the less formal people are talking.
I'll blame it on /u/dang, as usual. Can someone email him to get this reversed?
I couldn't imagine a situation where if someone knocked on my dorm room door asking if I had a printer in there, I would not have told them off with very unflattering language and telling them to perform fellatio upon themselves.

How many students are just rolling over and saying sorry? I would imagine most would give you a very hard time.
Women can absolutely be complicit, so I clearly misspoke. I apologize for my error.
The fired researchers were getting job offers a few weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22370158/google-ai-ethics...

Has Google provided any evidence of substance regarding the exfiltration of data? The only thing I found is that she queried her own email inbox to find emails where her former coworker was discriminated against: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22292011/google-second-et...
As long as land is bought and sold, it isn't hard to assess.

In the maximal form of LVT there is 0 value of owning land, the LVT becomes in effect rent to the state (which can be redistributed in a dividend to the people), and rather than assess at all land can be simply rented at at auction.
Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.
The kind of issues shellcheck catches are mostly of the "didn't learn shell (and didn't believe that shell was a language that had to be learned)" kind. Or to put it another way, once you have a good hang of the shell language's peculiarities (which differ from most general-purpose languages, but are fairly self-consistent with a few high-frequency exceptions) ... well, less of your bugs are ones that shellcheck can catch.

I consider it an example of the general trend against learning domain-specific languages.
No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)
It's very handy for working to set up partnerships/sponsorships to help keep the project going, help bring other apps on board to use our open source format, and to track where site visitors are coming from to determine what languages we should add to the site (as either just a landing page or a full translation) or the software platform (currently in 56 languages).
This still does not make it equal between Amazon and the sellers. Remember sellers have to pay a listing fee, referral fee etc which Amazon does not have to. So with everything else being equal, sellers are basically paying a validation fee for Amazon to learn about their products, then compete with them. No one should trust Amazon in whatever business they are in.
That's a really stupid answer.
> Almost all issues I’ve seen with a video I can reproduce.

Oh yeah, totally, my experience has been that video bug reports are literally a thousand times better than text bug reports. I've worked in console game dev where we even required reproducer videos because they're so much better at showing the context of what happened. Often the text description was wrong and/or wildly incomplete and/or full of assumptions the user made about how things work or what's going on, and the video would demonstrate the issue and allow me to not have to engage in a lengthy back-and-forth conversation trying to understand the situation.

> “A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage many would agree with.

I do too, but until now, I had never read that the other way around, that a picture might cost a thousand words. ;)
The customer cares about the code quality when it turns their experience into a slow and bloated one... or not, unfortunately, since the age of webapps and Electron has desensitised most users from telling the difference.
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Nice, did you setup a turn server?
“I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,” [Ryan] Singer said. “I don’t believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”

He continued: “Very often, if you express a dissenting view, you get called a Nazi. … I have not felt this is open territory for discussion. If we were to try to get into it as a group discussion it would be very painful and divisive.”

Ooof. I predict Singer's next public pronouncements will be about "the evils of cancel culture" and he'll end up on Fox News or OANN.
Agreed on curfews. The police effectively corral all the aperos and picnics from open-air parks into tiny overcrowded apartments every evening.

Though the French government has already announced plans to gradually lift restrictions throughout May and June. No telling if they'll stick to it though :)
I think this is the balanced and best take.
The thing that kills me, is there's no seeming paarty for those who turn up their nose at "good enough fpr Government work".

You have one that'll do end runs around Constitutional restrictions to aggregate power, another working feverishly to dismantle it...

Where are the people who just like providing high quality, ubiqquitously accessible civil services supposed to fit in?
I think GP is just referencing the article because it seems daunting to many founders to "know" 20-30 quality investors. The investor who wrote this piece is a well known seed stage investor, so when he says "meet with 20-30 investors" he's talking about a seed stage raise of around $2-7MM.

In my experience the reality is you need probably 4-5 solid intros to get to 20-30 meetings, because investors love to pass deals around to other investors.

Out of curiosity: how much would an investment banker charge to a company to get 20-30 intros to quality investors, assuming it's bankers who have relationships with investors established through M&A or as LPs? I've never seen it, but I also realize that doesn't mean it doesn't happen :).
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Then your world is divorced from reality. It was fashionable to say these kinds of performative things 10 years ago, but the false equivalency has since been laid bare. It's very disheartening to keep seeing these vapid assertions after the last 4 years of historic bad faith governance culminating in an attempted coup.
Not having the leading bits be the timestamp limits the utility, though, because then you don't get sorting "for free" just by having an index on the ID.

At least for me, that is the primary appeal of a time-base UUID.
The details do matter, though. By omitting details you create a hypothetical position that is less reasonable and easier for you to criticize. In this particular situation, this type of thing is particularly harmful because it paints the supposed originators of this made up position as something they are not. You could arguably consider it as libel by omission.

I don't even mean to single you out because I've seen this type of thing countless times on here and especially on Twitter over the last week or so.

"What's more interesting is the awkward situation they have created, which I'd argue is a false dichotomy - where does "societal politics" end and "politics that directly relate to our business or products" start?"

That can be tricky, which is why the policy is not zero tolerance and they already anticipate and are OK with people sometimes getting it wrong.
It's a huge missed opportunity, given the amount of datacenter capacity they had, not to mention standardizing on BSD. With BSD's concept of jails, virtualization was way easier - and this was a decade+ before Docker.
I guess you could call it a necessary but insufficient condition.
Ha, I did a small bunch of calculations on the CM5. Thanks for the memories.
OK, I think this gives a pretty big grain of salt to your original comment.

Also, you can see the humor of a company’s executive saying this right?

> The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
If I were contributing to Linux I would prefer some nicer methods of submitting patches, but email seems to be working out just fine for the project. Also I wonder if doing it by email creates a bit of quality filter by adding that little speed bump. It's not as simple to contribute as clicking "fork" and then "submit pull request", but also not something that discriminates since email is a system open to anyone.
You might have a big shed, but it wouldn’t be a very complicated one. Electrical supply is extremely well-abstracted and clearly defined. Software really is worse than other disciplines in how complexity leaks out everywhere.
What codecs do those applications use?

How do they preserve or modify white noise?
Is there a reason or need to be UUID compatible? I honestly don't know.

I use them in databases and know they're pretty safe to use when integrating data across multiple databases because collisions are astronomically unlikely, if implemented properly.
Check out this reply to my other comment asking for their background as an executive.

> [I’ve been an executive] 2 times. First I left because of a disagreement on strategy after 2 years. The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.

I’ve looked like an ass before, but I think I did OK w/ my original comment.
Samy said he was stunned by what happened to Timnit Gebru. Given that Google locked Margaret Mitchell out of her own email, I would expect that Samy's ability to email had been restricted as well: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3469738016467233...
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Here's what I've recently done, which has helped me tremendously (for a few months), and which you may find helps you as well.

When I got a new phone, I decided that I would only ever allow certain behaviors with it, and exclude all addictive behaviors. The trick: I kept my old phone, and allowed myself to continue my addictive phone behaviors, but only on my old phone. For my new phone, I've built a habit of reading books (via Kobo and Overdrive), and taking photos.

I also allow video chats, and basic messaging, and navigation. Everything else -- checking email, reading the news, browsing Facebook -- continues on my old phone. I've found that, over time, the addictive behaviors have lessened a lot. I still read the news on my old phone, but I often forget where it is, sometimes for a couple of days.

I think this has worked, because I've not tried to stop my addictive behaviors, which is an uphill battle. Instead, I've allowed them, while also building new (and better) habits on my new phone. I keep my new phone with me, and spend a lot of time reading on it, which I see as a good thing

I'll often spend 15 to 20 hours, or more, reading books on my phone. For me, that's great. I've done more reading (high quality reading) than ever before, since I've started this strategy. I'm hopeful that it will continue indefinitely, though there are no guarantees.

If I need to do something useful, or just lazy/addictive, I let myself do it, but on my old phone. I do sometimes enjoy, and benefit, from reading the news on my phone, or checking my email on my phone. I don't have to expend a lot of willpower preventing myself from doing this. I have to spend a little bit of willpower making sure it only happens on the old device. So far, this has been a very effective, and relatively easy strategy, and my addictive/wasteful phone use has gradually and consistently dropped to a very low level.

TLDR; Step 1: keep your phone as is, don't lockdown or brick it. Step 2: get a new phone, and choose the behaviors you want on it. Be strict about this. Step 3: allow the old bad habits to continue only on your old phone.
I think if you store as hex, which is the traditional string representation of a UUID, then the string and binary representation will sort identically.