skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like this is why people ignore economists when it comes to personal finance.

Macroeconomics is so difficult to grasp for me and feels so far away from anything that is remotely related to my life that just talking about it feels silly.

The amount of capital in the US or even my state feels like completely divorced from whether I feel comfortable having children and raising a family (I don't at all).
Softeare companies generally take out large (and increasingly expensive) liability insurance policies for exactly this reason.
He's probably right but the criteria is somewhat wishy washy. E.g.

"Belief replaces analysis among many market participants"

Many? How many?

I am not sure how much analysis there really is in the market. I doubt there is too much with the small investors -- not only is it complicated anyway but companies have too many tricks to pretty up their books. So even if you're diligent it's a good question if you're reading the real data. Most people don't have the time to learn that much. As for the big institutions, it's not my world, but I doubt there is a total lack of bias. There is obviously a lot of momentum trading.

I also became somewhat sceptical if such a thing as a bubble really exists if we can only identify it after the fact, and only under certain conditions. E.g. last year in March the market crashed badly but it recovered quickly and there was no long term problem. Thus it wasn't a bubble bursting event. The very same thing could've happened without the "investors" getting confident again, and then everybody would've concluded that covid finally popped the bubble. Both of those can't be real.
> Doesn't the inclusion of the digital accuracy checkers then decrease the efficiency, and mean you might as well use a completely digital computer?

Not really. Whatever output the analog computer returns can be digitized with no detriment to its performance, pretty much in the same way a sensor which measures a physical property can have its output fed into a digital system with negligible interference over the original measurement.

Also, the same rationale can be used to probe intermediate steps and automatically check for their accuracy, even if only during validation phase. This is a possibility that was definitely not available, say, 60-odd years ago.
Thanks for the detailed answer, it was pretty useful to me. I might end up switching to Wayland and Sway at some point.
Yes, deaths are an indicator.

There have been zero US deaths from Omicron.

There was one US death with Omicron: https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1473480933579923456?...
In the 90s in Montreal it was a very common expression. Haven't heard it in a while. I avoid it because people might think 1940s, and that would be disrespectful.

These days: "on s'en câlisse" (most cursing is church-based because it is unlikely to offend anyone).
> Tolkien created a fictional world to tell a story and convey certain universal truths he felt were important

Honestly I don’t really care if anyone wrote an allegory or not, but how is this different than writing an allegory? If I had to define what writing an allegory in fiction means I would probably use this exact phrasing.
Acronis Vulnerability Scan Reliability
is the Acronis vulnerability scan reliable?
it detects my docker, python, apple music have vulnerability.
> the US government can’t inflate away its debt

Of course it can. if the government "owes" $20T, it could simply print a $20T note and pay off its creditors.

For over 10 years interest rates people pay for US debt has been below inflation. Why do you think they can't inflate away the debt when the last 10 years shows that happening?
This is not Reddit, as you said. You’re claiming it will be innocuous with nothing to support it.

The little data we do have shows it’s much more transmissible, with partial vaccine scape and probably just as deadly.

We have every reason to be worried.
Looks great. Interested in following this and wondering when you folks plan to move out of Beta to GA
Why Putin has such a hard time accepting Ukrainian sovereignty
James Webb Space Telescope Launch Postponed
Honestly I fail to understand why Zoom seems to have so many fans. I find the UI confusing, on my Linux machine having a call with video will lead to the CPU cooler going into overdrive, I often have to leave and re-enter calls because audio output isn't working, etc. etc.
I agree with you except for one thing:

> Of course, the Eurozone prints money up the wazoo too

I disagree that the ECB prints as much money as you say. Sure we have had ridiculous amounts of "quantitative easing", but this has been nowhere near as bad as it has been in the US. The frugal EU countries (Germany, Netherlands, Austria, etc.) always keep a leash on the ECB.
Ask HN: Selling a SaaS Service
I've received an offer to sell a SaaS service I've built, but I don't fully trust the buyer. The buyer comes from a crypto background and, for that reason, has a maintained an anonymous and rather limited online presence. I've never interacted with the buyer prior to this.

There are a bunch of things that would need to get transferred as part of this transaction:

- Source code of the web application

- Analytics accounts (Mixpanel, Segment)

- Infrastructure (AWS)

- Domain name and email accounts

How to best approach this deal so I don't get screwed? In addition to the contract itself, I'm thinking

- use an escrow service

- have domain be part of the escrow

- ...?

What else could I do to make sure this goes through properly?
I am the complete opposite. Google is filtering results so aggressively (suppressing info along political lines, prioritizing big corp media, more and more ads) that its essentially unused anymore. Besides, a quick !g to your search and you can query google is your first attempts fall flat.
> This is not true.

You realize you're not making your point, when you literally follow "this is not true" with the reason it is true:

> There are many projects underway (example - [1]) utilizing various technologies, and while it's true none has yet to reach economy of scale there is still time to do so.

Doubtful.

> We only need a few good and scaleable solutions.

Well, where are they?
The synth used on the movie was an ARP 2500. Fascinating machine.

https://reverb.com/news/a-brief-history-of-the-arp-2500
Basically, memory B-cells remember the code for anti-bodies and they are produced "on demand". Please see the graph in the figure below.

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/memory-b-cell
Well it's using Webkit on MacOS.

No mention of Linux. So until then I won't be able to use it.
These bugs and regressions are so bad that I'm convinced no one at MS actually uses Teams.
It is much more programmable than I expected. Even for the slow speeds of the day, it looks like animations and display updates could happen locally and that the systems could be made to be fairly responsive.

Joining displays together, scaling modes, pixel, line and text drawing and conditional subroutines, and all in 30 ish pages.

When did any PC display get hardware line drawing? It would be fun to implement Logo that interacted with the light pen for creating generative L-systems.

*edit I found a video linked by Don Hopkins of Conway's Game of Life running on a 340 display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4
Instead of building another Chromium-based browser, I’d love to see if it were possible for Mozilla and DuckDuckGo to form a partnership that potently helps both firms. I’m concerned we will end up with a monolithic browser stack controlled by Google unless Firefox gains more adoption and support. I believe multiple parties and players help us build a more open and standards based web.

I use Firefox as my daily driver primarily for privacy concerns and control, and secondarily to avoid monolithic browser stacks controlled by Google. Firefox isn’t perfect, but I enjoy the experience and have no issue browsing the web with it.
The only thing that bugs me with ddg is that every search inquiry is being processed by improving.duckduckgo.com and it's not possible disable it in search options. You can do block it manually in few ways if you wish but I think that should be an option user can control, in an easy way.

I'm bit concerned how things may look like after Manifest v3 will arrive, when it comes to privacy, ads and tracking. Another Chromium-based browser? Why not, I won't mind it but everything comes to what Google does thru Chromium project people hands. And I don't think it can be anything else but Chromium - despite what he says. If not immediately then they later switch to it - just like Microsoft abandon EdgeHTML in favor of Chromium and Blink.
So from this I can tell that you're not one. Also, that you didn't get the joke.

I have been ovo-lacto-vegetarian for about 40 years now. So many self-identified "vegetarians" think that fish is vegetarian that many many restaurants etc. offer fish-based dishes as "vegetarian". I have frequently had to go totally without food because there was nothing available for me, because all the "vegetarian" options contained fish.

This is an extremely widespread issue, which you've never noticed. That's why you don't understand the relevance.

As for cladistics, again, this is very simple: look at the number of different types of animal that are called "fish".

. Shellfish (which includes crustaceans, i.e. arthropods, bivalve and gastropod molluscs)

. Hagfish (and lampreys)

. Starfish

. Jellyfish

Even going by simpler understandings: chondrichthyes and osteichthyes are both, to the general public, just "fish" with no particular distinction between these wildly different clades.

And this still overlaps with dietary restrictions. Kosher food excludes crustaceans but permits fish with fins _and_ scales, with a loose definition of both.

The public understanding of "fish" is a perfect example of the non-overlapping nature of the general understanding of groups of animals and plants, and the scientific one. The public understanding bears little more relationship to reality than Borges' classification in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" –

«
animals are divided into:

those that belong to the Emperor,
embalmed ones,
those that are trained,
suckling pigs,
mermaids,
fabulous ones,
stray dogs,
those included in the present classification,
those that tremble as if they were mad,
innumerable ones,
those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
others,
those that have just broken a flower vase,
those that from a long way off look like flies.
»

https://multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html
> It would be very very bad if, say, muscle cells suddenly started behaving like liver cells.

There are people that would like to sacrifice a few muscle cells for some liver cells (or any other organ). Recreating such specialized cells would be a big step towards organ regrowth, would it not?
> What's going on HN ?

HN is an anti-MS echo chamber, so comments like this become popular quickly. It's been this way for a few years now.
> In continental Europe I have often been in a room with people from 10 different countries say Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, India, China, Korea, England. Everyone could understand each other's broken English with the exception that half of the people couldn't understand English guy.

The problem is that most people are not exposed to real-life English. It's either quite artificial language during classes or well spoken lines in movies. Words are spoken slower and clearer. Native speakers speak fast, use linking, colloquial language, multitude of idioms, phrasal verbs, and tons of stuff never ever touched during classes.
I must have used worse software, but not something that I can remember. The problem with Teams is that for all it’s flaws, I can pick an alternative. Clients expect Teams and are always surprised that we don’t really use it internally.

Video call on Teams is actually pretty good, but everything else just seems half-baked, thrown together without a plan. The GUI is non-intuitive, basic features are unstable, absent or hidden away. Work for a company that doesn’t use ActiveDirectory and Exchange… well now your in for at really bad time.
Feeding a 24VDC rated electrolytic capacitor with 110VAC usually popped hot enough to light flash powder.

The notion of PCB backed shaped charges with crafted blast fronts is intriguing. Should make some new shapes available to explosive forming.
Almost as if natural immunity was the answer all along..
Ask HN: English speakers, how many ways do you say “a”?
Since trying to find out how to say "omicron", I've fallen down a rabbit hole of pronunciation differences. I think I pronounce all these leading "a" sounds differently.

1. all, alternative
2. almond, amen (short a)
3. allowed, amend
4. allegory, apple
5. ale
6. ate, asynchronous

Maybe 5 and 6 are the same, but I don't think so.

Do you pronounce these differently? Are there even more leading "a" sounds?
Oh ye a code snippet I sent in Teams made me wreck our deployment system.

Teams put a nobreak space or something in the code that looked like a ordinary space in the diff. I am still abit mad :)
It's possible the Omicron variant is throwing a spike into things. I'll lay odds the tests are for Delta (or earlier) variants.

I was just talking to a friend that is sick with it. He had a negative home test on Monday, and went in for a PCR test, immediately after. That test showed he had a fairly significant viral load. He and his wife are high-risk, and had the monoclonal antibodies treatment. Not sure they will do much good.
Linux version:

- some times the left arrow to move the cursor doesn't work

- some times images are displayed and others not

- can't have more than 4 people on screen in a video call

- the scroll is completely broken

- can't get out of the immersive mode without closing the process (the back arrow doesn't work)

And the list goes on and on...
Why is there almost no talk about updating the vaccines? Isn't that supposed to be very easy with mRNA technology?

I get that it would take several months to roll out, and that the old pre-alpha boosters are a good stop gap in the meantime, but it seems like it would make much more sense to have effective Omicron vaccines as soon as possible instead of more and more of less and less effective vaccines.
I use Brave search. I just tried "Duckduckgo browser" in both Brave search and google, and the 1st few top results were the same (except google had a load of ads scattered everywhere).

Obviously YMMV, but I rarely need to use Google these days.
Machine code also gets decoded and is "reprocessed" by microcode in a modern CPU which then decides how to translate the code into what actually runs in the CPU.
I listened to the episode half way and I didn't find it convincing. FUD and casting a bad light "on the official story" but not proposing falsifiable alternative this behaviour should be socially shunned but isn't.
As we are discussing the delicate art of slang :) I'll add this video [1] which is a popular meme around "We slaps our balls" in french.

There is also the gorgeous expression "On s'en tamponne le coquillard" [2] which is one of my favorite.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDY9vFAaG8

[2]: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_tamponner_le_coq...
That's the genitive but in every day speech typically people use the dative. The genitive case is slowly dying out.
For a six month five people in our office couldn’t use the desktop client. Video meetings just didn’t work on the Mac.
What is RF monitor-mode and why does it matter?
But the reverse does not hold true: plenty of the highest priced companies don't make a "profit", in the accounting sense. Such as Amazon.
Psh, biology tests in production. If it works well, others will fork it.
We've got that in Serbia, so I imagine it's not that unusual elsewhere either (our lawmakers are not the smartest ones and they usually just copy stuff over :)).

Basically, speeding up to 10km/h in the urban area is equivalent to speeding up to 20km/h outside cities as far as fines go (and up to 20km/h in the urban area is an equivalent penalty as for up to 40km/h outside urban areas, and so forth...).
I used/heard it a few times in Belgium (province de Liège).

Or we could use a simple "rien à foutre" == "don't give a fuck" or more vulgar "rien à branler" which could be translated as "I don't give a wank".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645406
Microsoft watched Silicon Valley and thought, wow, Hooli Chat looks like a great idea!
I appreciate you're able to see the quandary. I think the crux of what you said is in your first sentence:

> "Quantum theory based on real numbers" means a specific thing -- quantum mechanics with real amplitudes (and real anything-else-that-would-follow-from-that)

I'm familiar with complex math as far as remedial DSP and electrical engineering goes, so this may be over my head. I'm not sure what a real amplitude is, since generally when I hear "complex number", my head thinks "compact way to represent a frequency, amplitude and phase", all of which are real. It seems like I was reeled in with familiar-sounding terminology that may in fact have a deeper meaning in this context.
Portuguese:

"Estou-me a cagar para isso" - I'm shiting for that.
I wish they'd focus on fixing the various things that have broken in their search over the last couple of years, like literal string searching and negation.
At the cost of millions of lives. People tend to forget that and skip over what they're proposing is the death of millions.
This reminds me, strangely, of the invention of Viagra and Cialis and their subsequent total domination of spam. Any blog in the early 2000s that didn't police their comments would be full of v1agr@ and c1@lis spam.
You get what you pay for. Freelancer, Guru, Upwork, and Toptal are the main sites. People in the West charge more because it costs more to survive. What is your project and budget? There's lots of skilled people here.
Oh you are right. I totally forgot about amber. Thank you.
> If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade

No it really isn't! At least shouldn't be forced as a replacement for Skype.
Reading through these vulnerabilities, it feels like a handful of these are low priority or non-issues. This might be a controversial opinion, but it’s not clear to me why these issues ought to be prioritized and fixed expediently.

For example, it’s not clear to me why an IP address leak is considered problematic. And breaking chat or crashing on reload seems more akin to a bug a la iMessage link bugs like https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/18/16904774/ios-iphone-bug-c.... That type of issue should be fixed, but it’s not a vulnerability that’s meaningfully exploitable for either remote code execution, stealing client credentials, or stealing client data.
Be the change you want to see in the world!

Today you can already see the world as you describe. A byproduct of this interpretation is that you get to see all people who sincerely believe in religion as sad, over-the-top fanatics of whatever saga they follow. If you are able to avoid falling in your own self-righteousness, there's no drawbacks to this.
Beyond general web searches, I just thought I'd expand on how I don't use Google.

For code documentation, I install Zeal and perform local searches.

For opensource information (medical, geopolitical, people, etc) I'll just search straight into Wikipedia.

For technical stuff, I'll search straight into Stack Overflow.

Honestly once you know where to search, you can pretty much skip Google search for 80% of the time. If Google / Duckduck Go / Brave search stopped working tomorrow, I wouldn't feel like I couldn't use the internet in an efficient manner.
I agree, and I regret waiting for the last 2 years to buy my own place:

2.5 years ago I put it on hold, because with such high prices the bubble must burst.

1.5 year ago I put it on hold, because with COVID and high prices the bubble must burst.

6 months ago I finally bought an apartment. I paid 30% more than I would have in 2019, but 10-15% less than I would have to pay today.
It is of course an animal cell and demonstrates well the issues.

Hens lay eggs without copulation. These eggs are sterile: they cannot develop into an embryo and thus another hen. So, to some vegetarians, they are acceptable. They are non-viable.

But hens reared in the presence of a cockerel may well be fertilised, and thus viable, and thus not acceptable for very strict ovo-lacto-vegetarians.

Ducks, quails, and some other farmed birds, do not generally lay eggs unless they have copulated, and so their eggs are often not considered suitable for vegetarians.

Birds' eggs can be collected without harm or suffering to the animal; so, some vegetarians considera that fine.

But eggs of any type are quite definitely an animal product and so not edible by vegans, whether viable or not, fertilised or not.

Fish eggs are never suitable for vegetarians, because collecting them means killing the animal. This is a simple and obvious distinction but one that is not apparent to most non-vegetarians. So, no caviar, no fish roe, etc.

For the very strict, that also means not consuming a lot of beer, because it is fined with isinglass, a byproduct of killing fish. However, I know vegans who drink beer.

It is a lot more complicated than it appears to outsiders.
> I was saving to buy a house.

People really need a house price ETF for this - that is, a financial instrument whose value tracks house prices but can be bought for units less than one house.
It's rather common to be in a situation where taking vacation doesn't gain you anything, it just punts the work down the road.

Ideally, somebody else would pick things up for a week, but usually what happens is they just pile up work to dump on you when you come back.
Fascinating. Thanks for that!
> I know for sure that it's possible to be highly productive at a large company with a lot of bureaucracy -- but I also know for sure that new employees who try to bypass process and question the priorities of other teams, before they learn the ropes and build credibility and trust with other people, do not succeed.

The problem is that "learning the ropes" in a big org is often just an interminable slog of suffering from lack of information, dead-end rabbit-holes, and dealing with assholes. One is often forced to choose between being a doormat or being offensively aggressive with little ground in between.

In the context of an acquisition, especially, staff on both sides will be in fear of losing their jobs, status, or comfort-zone. There will automatically be barriers put up against change whether folks are conscious of it or not.

The OP just needs to talk to a human being.

It's his responsibility to reach out and find one. In my experience, the thing about big-company process is that YOU HAVE TO go around it to communicate. You have to talk things out with the RIGHT people in advance, come up with a plan in cooperation with them, have them collaborate by getting things warmed up on their side. After all that the stupid meetings and "approvals" are just formalities. In fact, you can tell when this is the case when project decisions are handled with almost parliamentary procedures. There's no room for discussion and thinking things through in such meetings-- everything, EVERYTHING, has to be worked out in advance through side-channels.
I pronounce 'Almond' with the same sound as 'All'. Fyi I live on the East Coast of US
> Valve already had fears about Windows 10, luckily their store and Windows platform wasn't successful in the end.

A few years ago I'd have agreed with you, however the xbox game pass has been hugely successful for Microsoft to push their store and platform. I think a lot of PC gamers would struggle to switch to linux because of that alone. Looking at steam stats alone is selection bias and doesn't tell the full picture.
What if they were using GitHub copilot?