skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nikkei crash was 14 years top to bottom and still hasn't recovered. The UK FTSE100 and French CAC40 are around the same level as dotcom boom 21 years ago

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EN225?p=^N225

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EFCHI?p=%5EFCHI

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EFTSE?p=%5EFTSE
Co-founder here. We skip the politics because we're willing to scrape to export or import if APIs aren't available on either end. That allows us to function independently of vendor buy-in.
Sorry. As an AI outsider, I wasn't sure how to publish to arxiv, so I used the first PDF hosting site I could find. I've mirrored it to https://battle.shawwn.com/swarm-training-v01a.pdf and edited my original comment with that instead. Thanks for pointing that out.
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Otherwise, get the f out of the water.
An underrated comment I intend stealing and reusing without attribution. Flogging/morale riff, well done.
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What is interesting is that for all the press D-Day gets, it likely did not change outcome with respect to Germany, but rather the Soviet Union.

By the time D-Day happened, Nazi Germany was already being relentlessly ground down by the Soviets. I think something like 90% of German casualties occurred along the Eastern front.

Without D-Day, I think the most likely outcome would have been the Soviet occupation of all of continental Europe.
We have war already. It just isn't a very hot one.
> SAN FRANCISCO boasts the lowest death rate from covid-19 of any big American city. An early shutdown, a culture of caution and mask mandates helped curb the spread of the virus.

Or more likely, SF's proximity to SFO meant we've had corona since 2019. The US received 100,000 passengers per week from China, with 50% going to SFO and LAX.

There was no shutdown of grocery stores, drug stores or anything food-related really.

I followed the Santa Clara Country hospital usage for most of 2020, and ICU usage was only from 10% to 20%.

The NIH admitted in summer 2021 that the actual rates of infection were 5x higher than reported.
What is the relevance of this?
seems like it was just taken down by my friend... the android version is woefully out of date. Sorry about that. I am removing the links now.
The most recent time I evaluated Iced (Aug 2020), it didn't support any of my Linux machines due to broken/non-existent OpenGL support. With the progress the wgpu renderer has made, I'm pleased to report the situation has improved, although on Linux my initial attempt landed me here: https://github.com/hecrj/iced/issues/1013

I've had no issues with Iced on any other platforms, fwiw.
I enjoy using the track point because being able to do simple mouse actions without leaving the home row is wonderful. If I need to use the mouse a lot/precisely I use a touch pad or an external mouse though.

I do sorta fit the "won't ever use anything other than a Lenovo laptop" bill, tried a chromebook for work and liked it for a few years until the pandemic meant I needed to use it all the time. So I switched to an X1 Carbon and it's solid. I miss the old thinkpad keyboards with real key travel.
PRC has made irredentist claims to parts of Tajikistan (Pamir), India (Ladakh), Vietnam (Paracels) and of course Taiwan. They invaded Vietnam in 1979 when the latter overthrew the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (PRC supported KR) and have provided support to both the Burmese and North Korean dictatorships. Granted, they haven't done nearly as much meddling as the United States, but they nonetheless demonstrate a willingness to turn a blind eye to the worst sorts of atrocities when it suits them, and a generally expansionist ethos.
Libertarianism isn't very realistic anyways.

I read something pretty interesting recently that pretty much convinces me that the folks at the top get there by luck rather than merit. Obviously I'm sure that they themselves would disagree but I'm talking about them, not to them.

The US got to the position it is in the 20th century by luck, we discovered a new world with wealth to exploit, took the country from the indigenous, then had a stack of decades with slavery, then took that momentum into the world wars, coming out on top into the boom years when our competitors were saddled with rebuilding ruins.

If we're in decline then its our own undoing, heck we pretty much inherited the best deal in the world and pissed it away.

The people who like Ayn Rand don't like history.
No, you're not diluting wealth unless you're sitting on a Scrooge McDuck pile of cash.

If you have investments or property, they go up with inflation. If you're leveraged, inflation is a huge win.

Inflation is a massive redistribution of wealth, but it's more complex than that. The debt-ridden lower classes benefits. The non-debt-ridden renter class is harmed. The mortgage-holding class benefits. And so on.

Inflation is good for folks with student debt too.
The wikipedia also claims Blair Mountain was the largest strike:

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

It was the deadliest by this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite...
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They're called heteronyms, and there are a lot of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
I would say remote work seems generally pretty common. Even if they don't offer it outright you may find that to be more negotiable than you would expect.

Hiring for cloud / Devops is very painful right now. Often representing months of effort and 10s of 1000s in fees to recruiters per candidate.

Good places to look include career pages for tech companies and startups, hn who's hiring posts, angel.co, and LinkedIn (yes I know this one is unpleasant. For what it's worth is also where I have had the best results over the years)
Last time I checked the US wasn't harvesting organs, running concentration camps, blatantly committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Yes, CCP bad.
I'd love to scoff who would pay a subscription fee for a meme generator, but clearly plenty of people. Good work!
Yep, the Apple Watch app is a killer app!
Redistributions have some benefits but they don't have as large of an impact as is portrayed in American Politics or Media [1]. The best thing is to focus on growth, so that the pie that is split is larger.

1. https://ifstudies.org/blog/even-denmarks-welfare-state-cant-...
I feel like if you are working with genome levels of data maybe you shouldn't be using JS to do the work. JS is a great tool in some cases but not really a scientific one. I guess you use whatever you know.
University administrators? More like any medium to large employer these days.

The carrot on the stick is gone for a lot of westerners and so they would rather bring in modern slaves from China, India, and Iran and blame the whole thing on "lazy" youth and "worker shortages". Gee, I wonder what the cause of that shortage is. Could it be because workers are miserable and have no foreseeable future? Nah, must be because the government is giving them a few thousand bucks.
Cities aren’t dying, but the future of office work remains unclear
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lldGDr
Avoiding hyperinflation is about maintaining faith in fiat currency. Announcing inflation is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think everyone paying any attention expected inflation, but downplaying it was exactly what the ruling class had to do to avoid hyperinflation.
Did any of the actual benchmark queries in TPC-H or TPC-DS show a speed up?

My intuition is that the performance of large sorts (100 millions of rows) are not that important for most analytical workloads compared to the performance of doing scans, group-bys and joins. Top-sorts (ORDER BY X LIMIT N) are much more popular, but most databases use different algorithms for those.
I've read through the study pretty carefully, and it does appear to have tried to be comprehensive. Specifically:

All confirmed cases among Minnesota residents were reported to MDH. MDH or local public health department staff members interviewed patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection to identify exposures and persons who might have been in contact with patients during their infectious period (2 days before through 10 days after symptom onset).* To assess exposures, interviews included questions about travel and being in specific settings, such as bars or restaurants, schools, health care facilities, or events or social gatherings in the 14 days before symptom onset. During August–September 2020, MDH and local health department staff members interviewed >80% of patients with a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.

If the survey missed cases, it wasn't for lack of trying. That's not to say it didn't miss some.

(Keep in mind I'm the person who'd suggested the relationship above.)
Not entirely defending things but observing that if you are of a view that IPR is basically absurd, "stealing" it may be equally absurd, but rational.

After you've stolen it, it's still "there" except for the exclusivity.

Chips will still exist, fab lines will still run. Profits have tanked, sure. Innovation is probably stifled but that's an opportunity loss.

There's a long history of stealing IPR at the state level around the world. States do this, private individuals do this, assets get seized everywhere from time to time.

'Sovereign risk' has always to be factored in to any business venture, anywhere. Nobody can possibly have been investing millions in China mainland without knowing this risk going in. At this point, "outrage" is part of the negotiating tactics. Outrage won't really stop this happening here or anywhere else. Bilateral consequences might? What Chinese assets will somebody seize?

The German petrochemical and drugs sector was economically robbed postwar WW1 and WW2 and personally I think somewhat rightly so. Bayer made cool drugs, but also helped the nazi party. Russia and America both took things as expropriation. Postwar, but.. does war make this IPR and asset claim really that much better?
You make some good points. I personally have experience with business web applications, i.e. large complex data models with rather simple updates and report-like queries. These types of queries combined with a well normalized data model map well to set-based SQL. Of course, it's a different story if you're writing technical applications or games that are more about crunching numbers than querying and updating data.

To me, the shitty procedural languages you mention are just for gluing queries together. The important stuff happens in SQL and the simplicity of keeping it all in the database is worth it.
Per my own experience SF is not a bad place to live. But the homelessness has gotten worse so I had to get out.
His situation seems like a bit temporary though. His lifestyle feels a bit like a language student but instead of being 20 he's 49.
The former minister has an IT degree and speaks English. He's overcoming the language barrier by learning German 4 hours a day. Still, I hope he's able to learn German and find a nice job.
The FARA act covers a person who “solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value within the United States” while acting in the interests of a “foreign government, a foreign political party, any person outside the United States ... and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.”
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I wish articles like these provided some kind of a way to get in touch with the person they're about. Even an anonymous email address would be plenty good. I would like to offer some tips and suggest a few companies to apply to, but right now I figure my best bet is to either search Linkedin for the name, or to write the journalist who did the reporting and hope for a reply.
"安謀" just rhymes with "ARM", so that's ARM Technologies in Chinese.
I had an idea to sort of automate this process or even a user aided wizard as a product but never to round to the mvp. Still an ok idea I think as satellite imagery on wall is great talking point. It can be beautiful, dramatic, always changing so makes for sets of images showing changes etc
>As it is, the city has been safely Democratic for 40 years and seems allergic to choosing a Bloomberg-type figure from one of the big tech companies to try something different.

San Francisco is what New York City would be like if it only had the UWS, Village, and Wall Street/Midtown.

To put another way, if the Bay area had been unified a century ago as "San Francisco" including the Peninsula and East Bay, things wouldn't be so dysfunctional there. Heck, just the Peninsula would be sufficient.
How does dynamic DNS help change his firewall rules?
I'm still wondering why we didn't try to quash the blatent corruption in Afghanistan's government.

Americans killed in 911 roughly 2900.

Americans (Military, and Contractors) killed in afghanistan 6000 plus.

Yes off topic, but what am I suspose to say about a bike currier who was a big deal back home? Maybe--I'm in a bad mood?
https://puppet.com/blog/unit-testing-rspec-puppet-for-beginn...
Do you have any suggestions on good set of sdk or library for writing those automations in python? The main reason for using ansible for me was always because of their rich built in tasks.
I tried writing in python my automations but even very simple tasks were needed too much effort compare to ansible so I had to return back.
> Today, the Van Tuinens said, they're healthy, sober and doing much better. They live together in their family's Waterbury home, where they have a Sunday ritual of hiking in the woods, meditating and discussing their emotions. Last year they founded a nonprofit, Cultivating Connections, to help other Vermonters struggling with addiction, mental illness and past trauma.

Hiking in the woods should not be underestimated. Every positive outcome described in the article can flow from peeling oneself away from a screen, leaving an artificial environment, getting lost every once in a while, and moving one's body toward a goal.
I was surprised to see that Smalltalk-72 was actually a much different language. In some ways it reminded me of Lisp macros and a bit of stack languages like Forth.

This document [0] and especially Appendix II in this pdf [1] explain it well. Essentially an object just gets the unparsed message sent to it for it to do what it wants. So the code for an object basically parses the raw symbols to figure out what message to respond to.

[0] http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/worrydream/EarlyHistoryOfS...
why "the" but not "a"? Same meter.

But I agree it's silly that say "the" is what makes Macbeth creepy, and not, you know, the occult theme that permeates it.
So it is a bad place to live.
There is not measurement of a "market drop," only a decrease in the equities in the account - this includes BOTH the sale and the market loss.

Here is an example:

Month 0

STOCKS: $100

CASH: $0

Month 1

STOCKS $10

CASH $65

The account holder had their equity holding decrease by 90%. But that is composed of a market loss of $35 and their sale proceeds of $65.

65 / 90 = 72% (which is greater than 50% of the total decrease).

The 50% filter explicitly excludes those that just have market losses, the trader needs to have actively sold between 45-100% of their account value, combined with market losses between 0-45% for a total decrease of 90-100% between both factors.
Nice work on this! The search is very snappy and the layout is quite pleasing. One thought: it's a little difficult for me to read the "DEV"/"OPTIONAL" dependency text on the side of the nodes; I wonder if some color-coding would help here?
It's not over yet.
> Ideally you want chemical level toxicity to kill you in around 90-100 years. Or yes toxic sludge is bad, but you will die of old age first.

> Now if it’s this will kill you in 0- 10 years. That’s an okay we need to set the EPA attack dogs loose.

There are plenty of non-lethal effects on humans that you wouldn't be happy with, and a lot of stuff that kills wildlife but humans tend not to encounter lethal concentrations.
"Chicago also alleged DoorDash misleadingly labeled a $1.50 fee placed on every order as a “Chicago Fee.” The city claimed this wrongly implied the fee was required by or paid to Chicago rather than DoorDash."

Many restaurants in SF add an 'SF Health' line to each check, in a similarly deceptive way.

Soon enough they'll be adding 'mask mandate' or 'cleaning fee'.
Arguably it's worth knowing that the temperature of this refrigerator got above X degrees for an extended period of time but that can still be handled by a cheap local device. And for a refrigerator at least, if I'm away for an extended period of time, it's not like I can do anything if there's an extended outage.

There is something to be said for detecting whole house temperature drops in winter, but that's probably because you lost power and mostly won't be able to do anything about remotely. I did once get an alert for this and the problem was that the power had been out as my neighbor confirmed.
Precisely. 'the' is an easy single-syllable choice to pad out your meter, so it makes perfect sense that it was abused here.
Is the villain Horowitz a reference to the globalist elites who to this day are scheming to control the freedom of right-thinking, red-blooded men of action?
> Linux is the OS for people who like tinkering. Tinkering is the point.

I don't tinker on my Linux machine. I bought a supported Linux machine (System76) and haven't tinkered with it at all since I bought it. I just wanted a machine that worked and I didn't have to deal with all the ways MacOS terminal experience was different from Linux terminal experience. Simple things like not having docker running in a hidden VM and many more.
Full article: https://web.archive.org/web/20210826152420id_/https://www.ec...
We don't have any use cases for querying across these datastores right now. Hypothetically, if we did need something like this it would probably be an offline ETL analysis tool. I have written a few of these and they can be incredibly performant if everything lives on the same box.
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> Per my own experience SF is not a bad place to live.

I have the opposite view. In SF, your risk of the following occurring is non-negligible and in some cases, shockingly quite likely:

- Being mugged/robbed
- Having your car broken into
- Being harangued or even assaulted by someone who is mentally ill and/or under the influence
- Witnessing public urination, defecation, drug use and grab and go retail theft
- Stepping in human feces

I don't see how a place where these things occur on a regular basis, and where, in most cases, such crimes are not investigated and prosecuted, could ever be considered "not a bad place to live".
The logic here implies an already dysfunctional government would fair better with more to govern.
I like using Yubico Authenticator. I have a primary and backup Yubikey and I copy the TOTP secret to both. Its also nice that the secret is kept on the key rather than my phone.
Don’t use JS
I still have these problems

> - programming language

I decided to not use C, because it is unsafe, and write all my code in Pascal.

Now the FreePascal double parsing does not work correctly

For one, it always uses 80-bit float. Even if parsing a double, then it rounds the 80-bit float to double after parsing, so the last bit is usually wrongly rounded.
They refuse to fix it, because it is easier to maintain just one 80-bit float parsing function than multiple parsing functions for different types.

>- libraries used and their versions

So I moved to someone's double parsing library.

It just did not work. It simply lacked the algorithms required for full double precision parsing

But they were happy to fix it

>- FPU flags

After fixing it, that double parsing library still did not work ... on 32-bit

Although the library was implementing the correct operations. Turned out FreePascal compiles 64-bit using SSE, and 32-bit using FPU which was set to 80-bit precision

In reverse, formatting the double as string is also hard and ambiguous. FreePascal usually prints two decimal digits more than required (in the new implementation. They still had a broken implementation a handful years ago). I wrote my own implementation that prints the shortest decimal using arbitrary precision arithmetic, but that is really slow.
(I tried to use a library, but that did not have enough precision, and after they tried to fix it, it is completely broken.)
I live in a place with good public transport and generally prefer it to taking the car, although corona has me a bit antsy about it these days
Interestingly, why do they specify base 10 integers as: nonzerodigit (["_"] digit)* | "0" (["_"] "0")*

Isn't digit (["_"] "0")* simpler?
I tried out Nim earlier this year. Great language, but the forum was very frustrating to use.

Every page takes a few seconds to load. If you open a page in a new tab, you still need to wait for it to load when you switch to the tab. The forum was the most annoying thing about using the language.

Go try it out: https://forum.nim-lang.org/
the example they are using is from over 100 years ago. Do we have any examples from a little more recently
Wouldn't the ocean shield the undersea cables from the storm? Water is supposed to be a good barrier against solar radiation and has been proposed for deep space applications shielding astronauts.
I've never read about any organization larger than zero people that didn't seem hopelessly corrupt, bureaucratic, toxic, or dysfunctional. Things do occasionally get done, though.
You can control the sale your own tech, but you have little control over whether you will then be competing against it down the road - regardless of the terms you thought you were all agreeing too.

The best way forward with any critical tech won't be a simple decision. Not competing in China, partnering in China, or selling tech for use only in China, all contain existential risks.

This is a battle happening at the Chinese (as a nation) vs. the non-Chinese world level. Non-Chinese tech actors will remain at high risk until the non-Chinese world can negotiate together with the same coherence as the Chinese system can.
This isn't very dissimilar to how the US populace at large won't let Chinese companies win in the US either, so all is fair in the world.
party doesn’t matter, both are owned by their donors. we are an empire of capital.
> It's absolutely imperative that the US Govt, and the govts of all democracies, recognize and combat this, and take active measures to protect their Chinese citizens.

Yes, but they can't protect the Chinese-mainland-living extended families of those citizens
Does Google itself support TOTP with Google Authenticator? When I try to enable 2FA, the only options seem to be a text, call, security key (I’m guessing this is FIDO?), and “get a notification on your device”.