skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One very straightforward investment are Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS. They're adjusted to meet CPI, so that does mean trusting the BLS will be honest with their assessment. Very poor investment most of the time (their real return is typically lower than the already low return of standard Treasurys), but in an inflationary environment can prove wise to have.

Additionally, commodities will almost by definition track inflation.
What decline in police funding?
Ancient cannabis was nowhere near as potent as what we have today. Even the marijuana in modern times before the widespread use of sensimilla in the 80s was only around 3% THC (compared to 15-30% for dispensary-grade flower today).

Estimates I’ve read on potency of wild strains without selective breeding is closer to 1%. These guys weren’t getting mind-meltingly high, likely just a good mellow and probably not daily.
X-Designer Screenshots
I run a displayport hub connected to a M1 MacBook pro and i noticed it crashes sometimes when in the back port. So i have to keep it in the front port.
I also had the chance to see it, and I agree with you : impressive. Glad to know it is still evolving.
From my business life I'm looking at the MRR of my project https://topstonks.com, our site traffic, etc.

From my personal life -

I guess stepping on the scale in the mornings, haha. That's a depressing one to watch. There are the obvious personal finance metrics as well.

Also keeping an eye on inflation... maybe Covid infection numbers as well since those seem to be in the news alot. It's kind of hard not to see those numbers lately.
"All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-18" is a great game covering the Finnish Civil War. https://www.gmtgames.com/p-675-all-bridges-burning-red-revol...
Literally any random gaming laptop on Amazon probably won't have any of these problems, while also having ethernet ports etc.
More for professional or hobby projects?
Peter Norvig is always a pleasure to read, even on HN. Imagine how precious is the history of HN Threads... i hope someday someone compiles it in a consumable fashion.
I only browse HTTPS sites. I have the `HTTPS Everywhere` addon installed with the `EASE` / Encrypt All Sites Eligible turned on so I don't accidentally browse an unencrypted website. Something like 85%/90% of the web is encrypted now, and there's no excuse to be using outdated plaintext http anymore. It's a privacy and security risk. There are only few instances where I had to view a http site (I'm a freelancer and my client's webpage was still unencrypted, so I had to see it, so a rare exception to the rule).
The number of instances you've seen news reports or social media posts of people shot to death due to calling police is in no way indicative of the percentage of times it happens when someone does call the police.
Don't forget about the anxiety stricken netizens of nextdoor
KubeCon Recap: What’s Next for Cloud Native Computing?
It allows people to code who may not even speak english. That seems more important than your reasons.
more people live in the city of Seattle than the entire state of Alaska
It's quite hard to create something that works optimally on a first try. I think I never managed to do so!
The first schema was slow, but hey, it worked, good job! That is a huge first step. Modifying it so it runs much faster can definitely come next.
Developer happiness, I believe, was one of the main pinnacles and design choice of Ruby according to Matz. Meaning he wanted developers to enjoy coding in Ruby.
Some will say cash is trash, but all inflationary bubbles end with a deflationary crash and cash becomes highly coveted by those looking to deleverage

How can cash be "coveted"? People will give you more shares, house etc per dollar
I’m glad this is working for him, but it’s only been three months. The most important thing Word gets me is an excuse. If someone sends me a Word doc and I open it in Word and something is screwed up, I can say “oh, um, maybe something is wrong on your end.” If I’m using anything else—LibreOffice, Pages, Google Docs, anything—then there’s a possibility that it’s the software’s fault. I can’t be messing around with that in moments when it counts. Like it or not, Word is the standard, and anyone using software that is not the standard is carrying a burden.

I’m an attorney and it’s my job to practice law, not be ideological about my tools. I keep a Thinkpad with Debian on my desk and use it to track my tasks in Taskwarrior, because it’s the best tool for the job. For document exchange, there is absolutely no substitute for a Windows PC with Microsoft Word. I say this as someone who hits Word bugs and loathes Word. But I’m a lawyer, not a professional Linux tinkerer.
RISC-V Definitions for Exception, Interrupt, and Trap
If society as a whole is being hurt then that should be addressed through the legislature, not the courts.
We see a lot of retail investors being fomo’d (by media, by peers, and forum threads like this) into dumping cash into stocks, like everyone else. That will likely not end well. Cash is a call option on opportunity.
The question is: should we trust small, underfunded, hobbyist servers more than large corporations that have a money-driven reason to maintain high quality of services?
> grant an exemption to your IP range for business reasons?

I really doubt this: during last year one month lockdown we really struggle to get it (embassies, hotels....): and due to covid we where not even able to go to Kenya
> The answer, surprisingly, has less to do with Facebook, and more to do with the complexity of the Khmer language, and the way users adapt for a technology that was never designed with them in mind.

I’m immediately skeptical of this for two reasons:

- My kids’ school announcement voice messages in the last year started combing from phone numbers in Cambodia. I live in the US. I just assume there is some extra cheap voice service there, and a strong advertising campaign.

- Pure speculation, but even if Cambodia’s voice message use is 100x higher than the rest of the planet, it would still be hard for Cambodians to reach 50% of the traffic for this global app. I could be dead wrong, but this feels unlikely to me, especially in combination with the above. (Population of Cambodia: ~16.7 million. Population of earth: ~7.75 billion.)
It also happens when stuff is not readily available.
This is similar to how to swap two numbers without using temporary variable:

X = 31;
Y = 25;
console.log(X, Y); // prints 31 25
X = X + Y;
Y = X - Y;
X = X - Y;
console.log(X, Y); // prints 25 31
> how do I protect my portfolio? Most of my money is in index funds and FAANG

I am not a financial advisor by any stretch of the imagination, but, assuming you work in tech it might be a good idea to diversify a bit.

I find it surprising how many people I know in tech keep their RSUs when they vest. Sure it has worked great for a few years but now you're tying your savings/investment and income to exactly the same organization.

If there were ever to be a tech crash not only would your income be at risk but all of your savings and investments as well. Even in the best of times diversification has been the common advice, and now more then ever it seems like a good idea to spread out your extra income to as many different places as you can.
On NextDoor, in my neighborhood, complaints of nighttime activity are normally accompanied by camera pictures. Lots of this. It seems to be the new normal.
1) Untrue https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-hopes-play-leading-role-2203...

2) Not in any way that is irreducible.

3) wrong. https://www.machinedesign.com/materials/article/21836993/ura...

“Oh, that’s just proof of concept.” Yes, and even 5 grams is enough to disprove your claim it doesn’t exist. Reality is we won’t need it for an extremely long time, so why would anyone do more than proof of concept?

4) still on-net easily pays for itself energy-wise. Thinking otherwise usually shows you do not appreciate just how energy dense uranium is.

Belly aching that existing reserves are small, well duh. Demand is small. No one pays massive amounts of money to “prove” reserves when demand is small just to win an Internet argument. But uranium and thorium themselves are super common and in fact there’s more energy in fissionables in a random chunk of the Earth’s crust than there is thermal energy in a chunk of coal. The only thing depressing about what you said is that so many people buy into such poor logic.

Look, I’m not a nuclear bro. We will primarily decarbonize with renewables. But so many of these anti-nuclear arguments are terrible.
Hobby mostly. Not very often. Use Rust mostly.
Vast vast majority of arguments you hear on HN is that it's impossible to run your own equipment. That's as ridiculous as saying you could run dropbox off a raspberry pi, but tends to get pushed to the top, and the schadenfreude when these events inevitability come along is too good to miss.

Every few months another major outage of another cloud provider hits the headlines, meanwhile millions of small companies have no problem with the uptime of their 'legacy' services.

I was at a farm a few weeks ago, the farmer had a server in a closet. It did break on occasion, when there was a power outage. His desktop and internet broke too, so what would the point in his server working.

If it was hosted on google it wouldn't have been working this morning, despite his computer being fine.

If you build your business processes around accepting failure, it's not a problem. It's far easier to keep at least one out of 3 machines online for 99.999% of the time than to keep a single service running for the same time.
No, I don’t think that we need to use blockchain for this. I think it’s more like smart chips in credit cards or the various security keys embedded in many devices.

If you take a picture on an iPhone, the iPhone could sign the image.
The Holistic Market Model
It's better if you are OK waiting 15 years to get back to where you were if a major crash is immanent.

Or a Japan situation where it took 30 years, thanks to stagflation, which we have all the ingredients for right now.
A long time ago I was using linux and created my resume in Libreoffice and sent it to various job postings as a Word doc. Never had any luck.

Then years later I learned that what looked perfect (my resume) in Libreoffice looked pretty terrible when opened with official MS Word. I always wondered if that impacted my application. A guy that couldn't bother to format his resume appropriately.
Can a seatbelt hug? Can a seatbelt love? Can a seatbelt … feel?
It is nice to see they are at least making an effort and moving in the right direction. This may be beneficial to those yet to join the services.
“Fintech for small businesses” startup raises at a $4b valuation
I read it as the opposite of the GP.

You've highlighted the idiomatic differences in the language design and how each lends itself to a different style of thinking. Neat.
Climate Action at Speed&Scale: Q&A with VC John Doerr
Black Farmworkers Say They Lost Jobs to Foreigners Who Were Paid More
>AFAIK, historically it has always ended up better to remain invested in the market.

It always has. Historically everything goes up. What everybody forgets in this scenario is what if a sizeable chunk of your liquid assets are tied up in investments during a crash and you're 5-10 years to retirement? You're seriously going to wait another 10 years for the market to correct itself to then cash out so you don't lose any money? No you might even be dead before you even have the chance to use it.
Fair enough :) Growing up there you never consider it like that.
Fonoster – an open-source alternative to Twilio
Indeed but the article in particular mentions that this was the suspected region originally but turned out to not be the case.
I'm simply surprised that you don't realize UPS employees are a teamsters union who work under excruciating quotas. Fiddling with grandma's broken lock box is not an option.

And off we go.
> Domain name resolution behaviour should be program-controllable, not system-controllable

This is pure insanity, of course, but i'm sure i'd be entertained by you trying to justify it, if you're inclined.
Vintage Swiss washing machine that uses punch cards to program the wash cycle
Hotboxing? Uhhhh, yeah I think we could help you find a few places.

For science and history, of course.
Is there a better solution now?
Apple has publicly stated that they’re willing to do that, but Microsoft refuses to license Windows for the M1: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-wind...
I would love to do this at the small firm I work for. The biggest problem is the attorneys and staff not willing to learn new systems or methods. It is not a software capability or compatibility problem.
I had a crowdfunding like model for government grants in mind where projects are pitched with funding goals that everyone can chose to allocate a portion of their fixed budget to. This could also work for businesses or whole industries, so as an example software engineers could decide to allocate funds to open source projects that would make them more productive.

Another example would be diabetics funding research and development of more affordable insulin.

In general I'm in favor of more direct democracy and empowering citizens/consumers over politicians and bankers.
No problem. Don't use it, then. That's standard heading stuff.

No sweat off my back. I don't particularly care whether or not anyone ever stars these projects. They are really for me.
:) :)

no, no. I am a sys-admin and developer: I just need to keep my job running while having to be there for awhile.
> stalker is a better comparison for Google

More like the Stasi. Stalkers don’t indiscriminately stalk everyone, all the time, everywhere.
Historically sitting on cash is a terrible decision a majority of the time, it's not even close. Without knowing you, your chance of correctly timing the peak and the bottom of the market is simply abysmal. The market may crash tomorrow, but it probably won't.

Let's say by incredible luck you manage to time both of these events perfectly, then what? There will be other crashes in the future, that's a certainty. And you won't be able to time all of them.
What do you mean by American-style policing?

What sort of policing is significantly different from it and how many countries does that exist in?
Just as common is the story about the suspicious small town with police that chase away any outsiders, probably for this reason
Born in the mid 70s. My (single) parent was able to provide a roof over our heads, health care, and significantly helped pay for my education, heck, eventually accumulating a few [typical boomer] toys like a second home and a boat... all on a single school teacher's salary. He retired stably and comfortably with a predictable pension.

I (roughly 20 years younger) just recently managed to gain some financial stability, and by some miracle, now own a home. High deductible health plan means I avoid going to the doctor unless limbs are falling off. When my kid is of college age, it will be $200K per semester and she'll have to go into debt slavery to afford it. The idea of owning things like a second home seems ridiculous. If I ever retire, my lifestyle will depend to a large degree on whether or not my crappy 401(k) goes up or down.

The next generation, 20 years younger than me, is utterly fucked, in basically all ways. I thank my lucky stars that I wasn't born in the late 90s.

I think we'd all be willing to give up our smartphones if it meant going back to the "easy mode" of decades past.
The major shipping carriers offer a service where you can have them put packages inside a garage door or other place.

Even then I find about half of my packages still end up on the front porch despite me indicating otherwise using the carrier's service to indicate where to leave packages. I haven’t had a package stolen in very many years so I guess that’s a good thing.
Why not both? I want the language to provide an iterable/enumerable interface with the usual generic workhorses (map, reduce, etc.) and allow me to implement that interface as a free function for any type. If I'm authoring a type, I'll add specialized functions as needed.
You Shouldn’t Use GraphQL
It was for decades, there simply isn't anything new to discuss.

We still have no solution a) where to put nuclear waste, and b) how to communicate to civilizations for the next 25000-50000 years what kind of waste that is.

In Germany, the ongoing search for a permanent waste repository is going on for decades now. Funnily enough, this taxpayer's money is never calculated into the total cost of operating nuclear plants. It only makes sense if you subsidize cost by taxes of current and future generations.
I'm an indie game developer on Steam and one of the most important business metrics for me is Wishlist Count. When I have a game coming up to release I can see what the level of interest is for it, and roughly how that will convert to sales. When a game is released that you have on your wishlist, Steam emails you about it, so it's a pretty valuable thing to have as a developer.

It's not a metric with 100% certainty, but if you tell me you have 1000 wishlisters, or 10,000, or 100,000 I can tell you roughly the range of sales that gets you.
I would expect it to print "me too", because I would expect the assignment in the function to change the global variable when it is called, not create another variable.
Or, unfortunately, just an insult as the police will still usually do nothing.
Noted, but they still are pretty accepted in mainstream economics (nobel prize in economics in 2002).

Also of course, they're not the only ones doing behavioral economics [1]:

> Imperfect information is core to modern econ; theories showing how imperfect information can cause markets to break down received a Nobel 20 years ago. Perfect rationality has been successfully challenged by behavioral economics for decades, and received Nobels in 2002, 2013, and 2017.

[1] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/this-years-econ-critics-ma... (includes links)
Well, maybe not exponentially. But at least theoretically things could keep expanding quadratically for a very long time, if we figure out a way to get to other star systems.

And much of the sun's output is yet untapped.
I guess I might have to try using Libreoffice again.

Then again, I haven't made a "document" on anything but Google Docs for a pretty long time. If I'm writing for my website, I'm usually physically writing or using Docs so I can have it on my phone to fiddle with when I get a random minute. After that I'll transfer to markdown directly on my server.

Does anyone know a reasonable way to edit text files from a server on mobile? I'm looking for the lowest friction possible, but I don't mind editing raw text files (in fact I prefer it).
I worked for one of the online legal databases for several years. They had a Windows desktop app in addition to the website for accessing content.

I managed to get the desktop app working in Linux after messing with Wine and permissions (it had some cache files written to a relative directory and what not) and after telling management about it they figured the potential market for such a thing would be small enough that they could just send any support requests about it directly to me for setup help, and likewise tell the sales reps to forward inquiries to me if Linux came up on a sale or demo install.

In the decade I worked there I got exactly one call from a Linux admin at a law firm asking for the docs on using the desktop app.
yesterday I wanted to transfer some photos i took using my iphone to a family member's PC

turns out you need to toggle a setting in photos with the least helpful label ever. there is no indication this is the fix from the ios or PC side, and you can even transfer a few files over before the error pops up: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8351572

that post was made 3 years ago

on an android phone, the phone just shows up as a drive and lets you transfer any photos normally, "it just works" lmao
> [a possibility is suggested] that some people can clear a nascent SARS-CoV-2 infection from their bodies so quickly that they never test positive for the virus nor even produce antibodies against it

The shock sounds shocking: some of us have proposed since forever the question: "how is it possible that people work in high flux supermarkets, where many infected per day must pass, and yet do not either seem to get infected nor to develop antibodies?" However you answer it, the question is urged and present.

Also, marginally, one facetious note (relevant to how tiring these times are... And also relevant to the topic of urging questions): «“I’ve never seen anything like that...” says Shane Crotty, an immunologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California, who was not involved in the research». The last time I have read a similar construction was on Woody Allen.
Toshiba plans to split into three firms
You are still arguing this point like its my fault.
This article inspired me so much that I based my shitty undergrad senior thesis on it. My idea was to predict the trend of the ratings by using I think a trailing weighted average, weighted to the most recent window. It managed to generate more "predictive" ratings of the following 6 months based on the Amazon dataset I used, but I doubt it would have held up to much scrutiny. I learned a ton though!

Edit: Link to paper, which looks like it actually attempts to use a linear prediction algorithm. https://github.com/rkuykendall/rkuykendall.com/blob/e65147f6...
And not as cost efficient as renewables, which they all plan to continue expanding rapidly.
The winning party can ask the judge to award legal fees. That provides some protection against frivolous lawsuits.
It's funny because I got like 70% HTTP in my index, so the whole "90% of the web is encrypted" seems to depend on which sample you are looking at. Google doesn't index HTTP at all, so that's not a good place to go looking for what's the most popular. That's in fact half the reason why I built this search engine in the first place, because they demand things of websites that some websites simply can't or wont comply with.

A lot of servers still use HTTP, for various reasons. There are also some clients that can't use HTTPS.
number of steps on apple health

pomodoro count
I have a bunch of small projects[1] that have a total of about 6k stars (with the top one having about 2k stars). Except for a few donations to my Buy Me a Coffee page, I agree that they don't translate to anything else.

All of my projects are tiny, minimal, and try to solve a small problem I encountered while doing something else. All of these tools were written for myself or my wife or just for fun! But I shared the code on the web anyway just for the joy of sharing! The joy of sharing code is something I discovered with my first encounter with computers while learning to write programs using IBM/LCSI PC Logo.[2]

The joy of sharing is the real reason for making my projects open source. In case it turns out to be useful for others, that's a bonus! If someone cares about it enough to star it, fork it, contribute to it, or send a donation, that's an additional bonus! However, my primary objective is to have fun and share the fun with others. In my opinion, computing should be fun[3] and open source is one way of the ways that computing remains fun for me.

[1] https://github.com/susam?tab=repositories&sort=stargazers

[2] https://susam.in/blog/fd-100.html#a-lasting-effect

[3] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
New Mineral Discovered in Deep-Earth Diamond
> If everything you’re doing is in the VM, what’s the point?

"Your honor, with all of the evidence we've leveled today, my client would like to motio- hold on, what's this? Wait, no I didn't tell you to install updates now! Cancel, cancel, does anyone here know how to stop a Windows update?"