skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy, don't know if I read that correctly, but it seemed a bit heavy on emotions from your side. It's just an OS and my comment was just a recommendation. And these are just some observations for my own self interest, please read these in a neutral tone:

> ODT files don't play well with MS Office

Can't you save in docx format from within libre office?

> Linux doesn't work on my hardware, and Visual Studio doesn't work on Linux.

Could you elaborate on these two points?

> The distribution fragmentation...

The downside of a strong open source community is that you are spoiled for choice, yes.

> that stomps all over people that have a dissenting view

Not Linux specific I'd say. There are people like that everywhere.

> why would I do that when native Windows is pain-free and just works?

If Windows works perfectly fine for you, then yes, Linux + VM doesn't make much sense. For the rest of us that are not fans of how Windows runs things, it's usually a last resort option and very few people use it.

> I don't "need" offline editing, I just want it.

Sorry, that's what I meant, more like either/or want/need.

> And yes, probability is low, but impact and exposure are both very VERY high.

Definitely, that's why you'll find lots of people in the Linux community that run their own NAS at home and have lots of fun with it.
I would substitute the term 'Netbook'. Several brands make them along with Acer
These fear based articles have been coming out for years. It’s one of the easy ways to get clicks, I guess.

As a holder of Tesla stock, I do not want to make bad decisions. So I don’t want to shrug off the points being raised. There are no simple explanations. Nobody can predict the future. And whether I like a message or not says nothing about how valid it is.

So I tried to do my homework. I wrote it up here[1], if anyone is interested.

[1] https://leobg.medium.com/should-you-sell-your-tsla-holdings-...
If the queue goes down you end up updating the db without enqueuing a job and now an engineer needs to go in and re enqueue the missing jobs manually.
You can't print your way out of debt held in foreign currency. That's different.
It’s interesting reading analysis on the stock market from someone who doesn’t know what money is nor how it works
Real Estate - highly leveraged mortgage with a low, 30-year, fixed interest rate. Keep the payment low enough that you're sure you can afford to hold it. The 30 year mortgage rate is still pretty low, especially compared to current inflation. You win on the equity gain, you win on the inflation, and you win on taxes. (given recent trends, laws, and rates)

Edit: this is not investment advice; I am not qualified to give investment advice.
Could you make a 'shotgun sensor' like a shotgun mic? Those things are basically just a microphone in a long tube, which reduces the 'field of view'. The sensor reading would go down, but you could measure how it's affected and compensate for that.
Possibly, but it probably won't have many periodic peaks either, and very flat or zero growth.

A lot of people seem to like getting rich even it means some of them wind up poor /shrug
It solves some problems, not all.
Implementing Enums in Golang
Bear in mind that crashes and recessions aren't the same thing. The stock market can go down without anyone losing their jobs, and vice versa.

We saw this with Covid, where GDP dropped but stocks stayed high. So if there is a stock crash it won't necessarily be noticeable for the median person.
Not if it's run on market principles.
Ah yes, that's definitely true, automatically generated getters and setters are a pain with sequelize. It's not impassive to have type safety though, it's just complicated.

I had to write my own types around the existing ones to get getters and setters to work.
Most universities require all social science research to go through IRB. https://sociology.unc.edu/graduate-program/graduate-research...

I've been seeing this a few times now. Extremely ignorant computer scientists and STEM folks skipping IRB and claiming "theyve never even heard of getting approval for social research". Pretty gross in my view honestly.
It looks very strange or I'm really dumb on this.

They list alipay and others. They say x.yy percent + a fixed fee.

Ok, if I use stripe on my site, and advise stripe to transfer all the customer's money spend on my site (with stripe acting as an collector) using alipay to my bank account in china, I would pay like 2.9% and x cent...

What about alipay? Don't they want to earn money too?

I don't get it.
Sell consumers guns at silly prices, but only works if you hold it correctly...
Definitely important.

It is a damper on gung-ho, brazen disregard for existing code/user base.

It prevents code base rot and saves money for corporations/governments.

It forces developers to adhere to the principle of least surprise, and ensures smooth user experience. Mind you, Powershell beats POSIX on readability hands down, and autocompletion would make longer, more readable options much easier to write. Still, the easiest way to increase adoption is to meticulously copy conventions from predecessors.

Compatibility mode would be enough for most purposes if it's maintained and not dropped three years later in the name of progress and limited maintainer attention span.
> I mean, sure, you may be able to memorize the arguments that “readCreateProcess” takes

How frequently would you use and subsequently forget how to use this function?

If I use a library function like this, I most likely write it exactly once in my codebase. The cognitive overhead of going on hackage one time per project-library is very small.

I agree an IDE makes you marginally faster in this case - just pointing out that this marginal benefit need not be significant.
>acceleration of acceleration

maybe this is where the c² in the famous equation comes from

>everything is accelerating from everything else

but what about galactic collisions? we are told the big bang did not happen from one single point but instead everywhere at once
Python and Ruby are not from the get-go compiled languages but interpreted ones.
I go one step further, all software I make is developed on Raspberry 2 (2W, JavaSE server) and 4 (7W, C/OpenGL client).

That way I don't have to worry about missing any performance beat!

Since energy prices are guaranteed to increase forever, I'm surprised this is not default behaviour.
Writing the compiler for your new language in it amounts to wankage, these days.

There was a time when doing that helped convince people the language could do practical things, and might be useful because you might not have had a compiler you liked for your dev environment. Nowadays, though, there is so much support for coding compilers in an existing langauge that building one in the immature language means wasting a lot of time, and furthermore makes your language hard to change because maybe the compiler is using something you want to change. There are more impressive things to write in your new language that might be actually useful.

Thus, rustc is (mostly) not coded in Rust. Rust's demonstrator project was the guts of a browser, instead. Notably, that project was coded in a language substantially different from Rust both today and at the time.
Said everyone with a facebook account.
I find it impressive that they have managed to capture the payloads in the wild. These are meant to be very hard to record and having a copy will help Apple tremendously.

I think Apple should give citizenlab some generous funding to expand their operations. The more samples they capture the more secure the world will be.
Netflix ;-)
The logic alternative would be 'rename', so... 'rn'?

The issue there is that's dangerously close to 'rm'! I'll stick to 'mv' thanks.
> There is a high correlation and probably causal relationship between increasing global pollution and improved living standards.

There is a high correlation and probably causal relationship between consuming heroin and pleasure yet you don't want to do that every day because short term positive effects don't cancel long term negative ones.

Everyone knows pollution is a long term catastrophe, us being addicted to it doesn't make it a good thing....
Yeah, maybe if you find the drive to care about your wife and children. But that's a big maybe. Especially for a person that does not care about themselves.
>... Now that we know how to prevent crashes - and forest fires ...

So we shall read your comment as irony?
Yes, it is first time. This thing is serious !
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Exactly. Training models, generating embeddings and building databases all can take days to run, and hundreds of Dollars in server costs. It’s painful to have done all that only to realize that one has gone down the wrong path. It pays to test your pipeline with a smaller batch first. Most likely you will discover some issues in your process. This iterative cycle is much faster if you work with a smaller test set first and do not switch over to your main corpus prematurely.
I think the outrageous thing here is that Xcode contains Java runtime.
You don't need to predict the bottom. If you manage to sit out the first 20-30% drop you can probably go back in.

You can use something like https://recessionalert.com/ or a combination of your own signals to time the exit of the market. Of course, it will never be perfect and there will be times where you will get a false positive, but being right most of the time can still massively reduce risk.

Big drawdowns really hurt the geometric compounding of returns. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to offset.
I survived USENET and Slashdot, and am the first generation out of a 40 years dictatorship, downvotes on Internet forums don't bother me.

Thanks for the upvote anyway.
It seems odd that everytime there is a discussions about shells on UNIX, an ad to powershell comes in. Powershell might have its virtues but:
1)One cannot rely on it for system administration when limited resources are available.
2) even on windows is slow to start.
3) documentation is ... where ?
You could try to increase the setting for the search tree or restarting VS Code (at least that solved some issues for me).
Whoa. Smashed through the vaccines. 74% of a vaxxed+tested 117 person holiday party got Omicron from a single person who visited South Africa and tested negative multiple times.
> Sounds like a great recipe for getting banned from services.

If you are using your account for downloading, that is. I never use any valuable account when dealing with automated tools, it's just asking for trouble.
That's the thing, ain't it? If you exit the market for cash during an inflation period you will realize losses of x% per annum. So the question is: Is the current stock bubble driven by inflation expectations?
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People are also not allowed to trade stocks at such a massive leverage as they did in 1929 (which was the actual reason for crash - massive volume of leveraged trades and thus, margin calls and forced sales).
And investment banks are separated from banks holding people's deposits, so you can be sure your deposits aren't participating in stock trading - especially not leveraged trading. They massively did in 1929, however batshit crazy it may sound today.
I know someone who bought a copy of Windows 10 for their computer, because they asked me to help install it. It was definitely not an OEM thing, and the packaging had a USB drive in it.
The conventional wisdom of "buy equities regardless of price" doesn't make much sense to me. I can temporarily convince myself it's the smart thing to do, but the thought of putting my money into stocks just makes me sick for some reason. I can't do it.

I've missed out on a great deal of money hoarding cash instead of stocks, but I have peace of mind. The cost of inflation is worth that to me. I have felt that a crash -- a real crash, i.e. a change in public opinion about the equity markets -- has been just around the corner since 2016. I'm much less worried about the prospect of a dollar crash, even with today's inflation.

This is not investment advice and is only my personal opinion.
I see too many fearless, and too less greedy.
China is already there, delisting stocks from the US, empowering it's currency and improving fast in intelectual property regulation and economics management.
Maybe we won't see crashes, but the big risk is a change of dynamics, a big stocks flat only sustained by inflation that sooner or later could trigger the ultimate shift of mindset, china beeing the right place to invest, yuan the world currency.
Writing higher level abstractions for ease of use in same language as the platform is written on, and creating wrappers just because it looks "ugly" to do direct FFI calls to the host language isn't really the same thing.
I’m a hedge fund manager. Not a big fund all things considered, just a few hundred million. But I think about stuff like this for a living. Here’s why you can safely ignore this article.

There is always someone predicting an upcoming market crash. People like Grantham (cited in the post) have been predicting a mega crash for most of the last decade. Market crashes occur every 10-20 years but the thing is, over that 10-20 year cycle the market is always net up, so if you sit out the cycle because of worries about an upcoming crash you could easily miss out on 5-10 years of great returns.

The post author frequently compares flow variables (eg earnings, GDP) to stock variables (eg market cap). That’s not necessarily terrible, but the ratio is always sensitive to interest rates (because the stock variable discounts future values of the flow variable, and when rates are low the discounting has less of an effect). Market cap/earnings and market cap/GDP are high now because interest rates are low (asp because growth expectations are high, but that’s not necessarily incorrect). Before the dot com crash US interest rates were 6%, compared to 0.25% now — of course that skews the statistics.

Michael Burry is cited as “someone with a proven track record of predicting market crashes” but in fact he predicted exactly one crash. Well, so did John Paulson, and the ensuing decade proved that it was just luck. Mark Cuban “predicted” the dot com crash. It doesn’t mean they are geniuses, it means they got lucky once.

Growth in margin debt is cited as a reason to worry. But margin debt has grown because assets have grown. The S&P 500 has double since the lows of March 2020, so the fact that margin debt has doubled is not a cause for concern. As a percentage of assets, margin debt has been stable for the last decade.

This post is pointless fearmongering, nothing more. Of course, there will be a crash at some point. It could be in six months, a year, five years or ten years. This guy can’t predict it any better than anyone else can.
TLDR: an interesting discussion of a superspreader event:

117 people, 107 of whom were fully vaccinated, attended a party for 4.5 hours after checking themselves with a rapid antigen test.

66 of them were confirmed to have omicron less than 3 weeks later, the vast majority developing symptoms within 5 days. 15 others had covid that was not confirmed to be omicron.
I think you are ignoring how much Android security has improved in the past 3-4 years.

Core libraries (where historically the biggest security bugs have been found, see for example stagefreight) plus all core applications (e.g. Web browser, email client) are now updated from the store.
I don't understand this comment. Google clearly cares about the performance of that product, since it's the fastest webmail I've used by a long shot. Or maybe you care more about performance than almost everyone, and use Mutt or something else which can be configured to be faster with a few days' worth of effort.
Respect the diversity of tactics!
Yeah it is pretty dire news really. Recent experience in Australia demonstrates that vaccines, especially when fresh, work really well to control the spread of Delta. But it looks like Omicron just cuts straight through that protection.

A silver lining here is that none of 70 odd people infected were hospitalised. It is plausible the vaccines provided protection from hospitalisation here, but there are better ways that will be measured in coming days/weeks.
well, coinbase claims to have 73M verified accounts [1], so, quite a few?

and anecdotally, yeah, seeing crypto go up has similar impact on me as seeing stocks go up: i feel more comfortable making larger purchases whenever my wealth goes up, doesn’t matter if crypto v.s. equity (if volatility impacts your comfort, then you just cash out your gains and soend those).

[1]: https://www.coinbase.com/about
I’m going to assume some off the antigen tests were faulty or could not pick up the new variant.
Worth noting that of those there were 0 hospitalized and most were asymptomatic or had vary mild symptoms.
Elk and caribou/reindeer are both kinds of deer (so are moose for that matter... for him to speak of 1000 lb deer, he must be thinking of moose or be mistaken.)
Or potentially they could have multi-cloud failover and have decided there aren't enough co-dependent failures to push them under their SLA. I'd personally assume your interpretation is most correct though.
My takeaway from this at an individual level is get a booster shot as soon as possible if you haven't already.

Can we estimate the severity of this variant on an unvaccinated population based on the symptoms seen in the vaccinated?
It is 100% reasonably easy to transcribe the notes. Just give ppl who ask for tabs a stem and leave em to it. Maybe offer a beer to someone to transcribe one for ya.

Unless you wanna futz with tech for fun, a human with a good ear can transcribe bass a lil faster than real-time, can indicate accents and other techniques, and won’t make mistakes.

If you don’t do a lot of slapping, bending/sliding, Melodyne will be able to spit out a roughly accurate plot of your music but humans are still the golden standard for transferring recordings onto paper.
Medium is like a normal news site, on steroids: almost all you can read there is fear-mongering and anxiety induction, and little else. Without that, people don't click.

Seriously, people who actually decide on whether the crisis will happen (that is, starting with the guys like you and up the value chain), don't make decisions based on that sort of bullshit, they read their news at Bloomberg/AP/Reuters terminals. So it can safely be ignored indeed.
None of the cases required hospitalisation up to 13 December 2021.
Omicron looks like it might have changed the nature of the infection from a lower respiratory infection to an upper respiratory one leading to less serious infections. Let’s hope they are right.
Foreign nationals contending with extraditions to the US for alleged actions performed while in foreign, sovereign lands is a far more serious problem by any measure than having to protect user data or risk not being able to do business in Europe. But go on with your "No True Scotsman" arguments
Antigen tests detect something different from the spike protein und can find Omicron variant cases just fine.

You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_rapid_antigen_test#Ne...
Ah, a modern version of the fable "The Boy Why Cried Wolf".

Though I suppose with a happier ending.
Although his status as a Muslim (or even an atheist) is still up for debate, the Persian, Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) - the 'astronomer-poet' writes in his Rubaiyat

And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour—well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.

(translated by Edward Fitzgerald)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/246/pg246-images.html
This.
My kids Play minecraft on the Amazon Kids tablets.
They startet with a older Version with only 1.5GB of RAM and the game kind of worked good enough for them to enjoy it.
It worked for many years and only had Problems with large Outdoor areas.
Now they use the newer 3GB kids Version and it works really well.
I am very happy to not needing to buy them 400€ tablets for this game.

(Btw, i developed medical dicom viewer for large CT and MRI data, on a 10yrs old dell Laptop. The viewer was always fast on customer machines. If it would not work on my machine, i tunded the Software until it does ;) )
I do it sometimes on a Pinebook Pro. It's like raspberry pi but with a solid aluminium body, a good keyboard and a good enough screen.
by the way, out of curiosity, is this something content producers add to their videos or something youtube autogenerates? I've seen SmartTubeNext skipping ads and other bullshit and I was wondering where the feature came from.
The difference is it's easy to skip bond and run off to Mexico, and hard to get them back from there afterwards. Not the same at all with Scotland.
> interest rates are high

Did you mean to say low, or are you talking about nominal rates?
Indeed. Unfortunately theres a 2 week delay between a peak in infections, and the peak in hospitalisations. So we'll find out the effect of todays caseload in 2 weeks, unfortunately omicron has a doubling time of between 1.5 and 3 days, so 2 weeks from now its gonna be much worse.

I really hope the info about lower hospitalisation rates is correct (across all age groups), or hospitals or gonna be smashed with cases.
Yah, bang on correct.

this is why I usually suggest just doing it the old fashioned way. As you mentioned slides, hammer-ons/pull offs, picking, sliding… basically everything that makes a baseline unique and stylish will confuse software.
Vaguely competent financial management is by no means assured. I suggest reading Tim Geithner's "Stress Test" to to see how hard he had to fight to get some basic things done.
To be fair, to most people it wasn't fairly obvious before it happened. So it seems like also the next time it will be obvious mainly in hindsight.
So its different this time?
Trouble is that your users are generally in a similar situation, not getting to choose what tools they use. By producing bad software, you’re making their life harder personally.
I think a fairer comparison would be comparing bash to vanilla js.

Old vanilla js works the same today, as it did in the beginning.

And react would be your systemD/wayland, whatever.

Environments change, thats allright. And I think it is not smart to not look out for good ideas, even if they come from microsoft.

What changed are the surroundings (and enhancements).
it could actually be even worse : because of the large number of vaccinated people, it could be very possible that the variant actually spreads more on vaccinated people than non-vaccinated ones (saw a stats on that, but the numbers were too low to prove anything). ADE is still a very possible scenario.
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> too much of a good thing

= blind optimism.

When it comes to migration, optimism can be far far worse than pessimism. The hurdle for adoption is much higher for existing projects than new projects.
No. The first book is targeted at that age maybe, but I wouldn't read book three to a twelve year old, and five or six get really nasty.

Stephen King put it this way in his review: Harry Potter books are meant to grow up with the child, while many other childrens' books series target a specific age range.

Today you can buy and read all Harry Potter books at once, but it's actually best to follow the release times and keep a year or so between books, if the child is younger.
Yeah that isn’t a thing yet.

The math just gets too big.
> sleep 1

One second latency ... not ideal.

Is there any way to sleepwait on a USB config change instead?

[EDIT]: this might help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/469243/how-can-i-listen-...
Try it on a low end smartphone under $50 as well. (Some are under $30)

Most things are painful on one of those. Be the exception
Every investor must, in a sense, "think about this stuff for a living"

Readers should keep in mind that when NASDAQ crashed in 2000, many professional fund managers fared much more poorly than the typical naive retail investor