skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IPOs are a game of "let the institutional investors exit and leave retail holding the bag"

The Rational Reminder podcast had an episode on them a little while ago:

> We’ve previously compared IPOs to lotteries that are prone to inflated valuations and low returns. Today we welcome “Mr. IPO,” Professor Jay Ritter onto the show for a deeper dive into IPO performance, for his insights into SPACs, and to hear his research into why economic growth doesn’t correlate with stock returns. Early in the episode, Jay unpacks how long-term IPO returns perform against first-day trading. While exploring the role that venture capital plays in tech IPOs, Jay talks about why negative earnings don’t affect tech IPOs in the short-term before sharing how skewness factors tend to impact young companies. Reflecting on how IPOs are usually underpriced, Jay discusses how the interests of companies are not aligned with the interests of IPO underwriters. After looking into IPO allocation, Jay compares the 2020 ‘hot IPO market’ with the internet bubble of the late 90s. Later, we ask Jay about what special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are and why they’ve exploded in recent years. His answers highlight their investing benefits, risks, and why SPACs might be a better option for companies than IPOs. We examine how SPACs have historically performed and then jump into our next topic; why economic growth isn’t a good indicator that a country is worth investing in. He touches on why returns don’t correlate with economic growth, the place of capital gains and dividend yields when investing abroad, and how innovations in an industry can lead to higher stock returns. We wrap up our conversation by asking Jay for his take on whether the stock market is efficient before hearing how he defines success in his life. Tune in to hear our incredible and informative talk with Jay Ritter.

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/139

They're generally not a good idea unless you're on 'the inside' and can get early access.
There are many free better solutions out there, being cookieless and in the EU doesn't equal $99 a month.

How well would a new cookieless search engine hosted in the EU do charging $99 a month to use when Google/Bing exist?
They haven't explicitly said, but there are multiple established products in the market that use machine learning to detect the patterns of account sharing and throw up roadblocks such as strong 2FA checks that get stronger the more the algorithm has detected risk - https://www.synamedia.com/video-solutions/video-security/cre... or https://www.ibc.org/detecting-illegal-credential-sharing-in-... as examples.

They will likely use one of those.
An antimatter experiment shows surprises near absolute zero
> I think there should be a software solution that blurs faces on the webcam

Avatarify looks pretty neat too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7LFDT-FRzs

Github: https://github.com/alievk/avatarify-python
Probably best to do outdoors to keep from blowing chicken bacteria all over your kitchen?
Looks like there is some hardware incompatibility - the whole window, except for a small bit in the top left corner where I can see the "Open Folder" icon, is black.

```
$ lapce
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
$ uname -r
5.13.0-35-generic x86_64 x86_64
```
Ubuntu 21.10
An operating system has an ABI. Programs compiled from C source use the OS's ABI. There is no "C ABI".

The very premise of TFA is fundamentally incorrect, and there is no way to reach a valid conclusion from an incorrect premise.
I really can't understand how someone can appreciate a writer's work so much that they hate them for not producing more.

That's weird.
Keep in mind Google can suspend and lock your account at anytime for "suspicous behavour", there's no one you can contact, use this shutdown of UA to make the change today and start owning your own data. There are plenty of other good alternatives in the other comments.
It wasn't supposed to be a defence of crypto. I have no need to defend it and there are plenty of reasonable criticisms of it. I was just trying to explain the kind of unsubstantial attacks on 'crypto' we see frequently (e.g. this post). "You're jealous" may sound childish but that doesn't make it untrue.
To be fair, both A Song of Ice and Fire and The Kingkiller Chronicles is magnificently inspired and novel writing, more so than most that of some very consistent and prolific authors. I could certainly empathize with them running out of inspiration after some years. I'd rather read the first Kingkiller books for the first time than all of Expeditionary Force, for instance.

I'd rather live in a world where Martin and Rothfuss never finished their masterpieces than a world where the unfinished works never even existed. I haven't had many literary experiences that so vividly stimulated my imagination as these.

Maybe they could both hire Brandon Sanderson to finish their works someday. He's both incredibly prolific and for the most part very creative and novel. I guess that's why he was hired to finish Robert Jordan's series. It was certainly a good fit, all things considered.

In fact -- has any fan fiction been published that attempts to continue these works? I could imagine that as a genre, but of course it would be a Herculean effort that would unlikely be successful unless attempted by an author that's already world-class.
Signing is something we'd like to explore, we often hear from folks who'd want to simplify their signing workflows. Thanks for the feedback!
I think Europe should flex its muscle further and put sanctions on Clearview. They cause irreparable damage if their info is ever leaked. Sure, the users sharing images are somewhat liable for it themselves, but the company clearly exploits the current situation.

> She added that privacy laws across the world tended to support exemptions for law enforcement and national security.

That is a flaw of policy makers and not too relevant to flaws of this company.
While I'm happy that something is being done to address the problems of social media; as an outsider I'm having a hard time understanding why every problem has to be solved with law suits in america.
I don't think p-11B fusion will be possible. The groups attempting it look really sketchy (as in, talking about doing things that clearly don't work.)
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>> Wallace did not deem a landing at the nearest airport in Delhi to be viable either, because the increase in air pressure during descent could also kill his patient, and thus the only option was to perform an immediate surgery
> Is there such a thing as a TUI launcher out there? Something that allows fuzzy search of program names, tags and a short description (using something akin to .desktop files for the application metadata). Then, when I suddenly need a program for a certain task, I don't have to hope I memorized the correct command. I just open my TUI launcher, type something related to my task and get a list of some TUIs that could help.

$ apropos -a data term
fidentify (8) - Determine file type using PhotoRec database
Pod::Text::Termcap (3perl) - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes
sql (1) - execute a command on a database determined by a dburl
termcap (5) - terminal capability database
terminfo (5) - terminal capability data base
tput (1) - initialize a terminal or query terminfo database
vd (1) - a terminal utility for exploring and arranging tabular data
visidata (1) - a terminal utility for exploring and arranging tabular data
> It requires the politicians of Ukraine to walk very delicate lines, a trait unfortunately missing.

Because God forbid requiring the politicians of Russia to progress beyond Stalin's methods and join the civilised world. Now there's "a trait unfortunately missing" for you.
> Because it had too few participants

From the study[1]:

> A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study.

That's more than enough people.

> or happened when the overall infection rate in society was too low

The study was conducted in April and May of 2020, there were clearly enough infectious people in the population[2] to warrant the study showing some importance.

> The number of infected in both groups were too small to conclude anything confidently.

From the study:

> Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%)

> Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

Don't you think it's strange that proven benefits are so hard to substantiate in a randomised controlled trial? These proven benefits can't be proven or shown to be beneficial across thousands of people, during a pandemic?

That's not going to fly with me, especially since every other RCT done on masks prior to the pandemic failed to show efficacy against influenza, even in clinical environments.

Maybe we could rerun the study now, while the highly infectious Omicron variant is running rampant, which apparently masks and vaccines are rubbish at preventing.

It's almost as if the proven benefits aren't proven and hence, not benefits.

Forgive the sarcasm but if people want to make bold claims then I suggest I may be able to poke holes in their case by mocking it, as I would with people knocking on my door claiming the apocalypse is nigh, or those telling me to change my behaviour because of whatever other pie in the sky belief they hold. When they come back with the RCT that shows the efficacy of masks - something, I might add, that should be possible in a pandemic - then there'll be something to discuss. Otherwise, the criticisms of the study, which weren't given before it was published I might add, are all quibbles.

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817]

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
> I guess it makes sense if you get paid by page views (ad-supported sites?)

I use adsense for that. It counts page views which is what i need. GA seemed to me like something full of marketing buzzwords for which i really really dont care
Russians have been cut off from an alternative view of the situation: ALL opposition media have been blocked on the Internet and their broadcasting licenses have been revoked. Only propaganda media with the position that

1. There is no war, there is a special operation.
2. The special operation is carried out to help eliminate the Nazis in Donbass, who tortured eastern Ukrainians for 8 years

It's hard to step into the shoes of the average Russian when you have access to information. Truth be told, access to alternative media began to end more than 10 years ago, and has only accelerated over time.

The majority in any country always consumes the mainstream media available in that country. In Russia, there is only one point of view to choose from.

Only 10-30% of the population knows how to bypass blockages and know where to look for information.
Actually this is the first time I heard about the company. Searching for news reveals that it is probably already widely used worldwide.
Traditional media didn't take over human socialization. You could socialize without having "traditional media" watch over and control who you talk to and what you talk about.

TV can absolutely be evil, but you can choose to not watch TV and still be able to socialize with peers using the telephone or paper mail back in the day.

Nowadays, the "TV" (which now fits in your pocket) is also the primary way humans communicate, so you can't switch off the "TV" without also severely hampering your ability to communicate with other people.

Hell, a lot of small businesses don't even have websites anymore, it's all in some bullshit social-media platform.
From my vantage point, that's perfectly fine. Block ads, change the fonts, color the site orange if you want. As you say, your display, your rules. I communicate to my users that I myself use an ad blocker on my own property. There's no dissonance there.

My mom asked me to disable ad blocking I've set up on her devices, as she finds them useful.
There are other aspects which are more important than infra costs. There is more of an impact from how you use any of the platforms than in the price difference between their product costs.

Pick one and stick with it, I chose GCP for the superior developer experience, but any of the big 3 have similar product lines. I personally stay away from budget providers like DO
So what’s the incentive to open and keep a playground? It seems like a huge liability. Part of the problem is adults let children play with cellphones because it’s “safe”.
I mean, it's kind of implicit when someone starts telling a story that the story is going to come to some kind of conclusion at some point since that's how stories work. It's not something that usually needs to be stated.

I take your point though, but I think they've also explicitly stated that they intend to finish it at some point.
Microsoft: An Unprincipled, Rapacious Company (1995)
Traditional media was constrained to the TV, radio and newspapers. It didn't try to take over human communication. You could opt out entirely and still be able to participate in society just fine.

Social media is a cancer that spread to a lot of day-to-day necessities and keeps spreading - some businesses don't even have websites anymore.
No Electron? That is already one good thing ;)

Why does Rust folks seem to encapsulate and separate their stuff more and more? Own build-tools and infrastructure are one thing. Am I right that Druid is not an very own Toolkit but a layer like WxWidgets?
This is a bad analogy - it's more like you request access to an area, there are no locks, you're invited in and told that the content is not restricted.
> not sure if k8s can run OCI, or if I can push OCI to a docker registry (artifactory)

I push OCI images to AWS ECR, so it would probably work.

> I'm on mac/arm but the images need to run on linux/amd64

I've never used the cross-compilation support in Nixpkgs. My work machine runs macOS (x86_64), so I have a Linux VM as a remote builder. I happen to use LimaVM ( https://github.com/lima-vm/lima ), but anything would work (Qemu, VirtualBox, the VM bundled with Docker Desktop, etc.).

PS: Since containers only work on Linux, and I'm often working on macOS, I use the following assertion to check that I'm not accidentally including Mac builds in a layer:

assert all (d: ((d.type or null) == "derivation") -> (d.system == "x86_64-linux")) drvs;
With my own money I purchased approximately $15k in shares over the course of 8 years out of a 13 year tenure. Company was purchased by private equity. The CEO lost his crackers, I left, and it took the company 4 months to send me a first right of refusal with the value at $30k. Within that agreement, I had to sign away holding the company liable for anything and never threaten to sue — this is after the CEO torpedoed a job offer of mine, said some racist things, and sent me a cease and desist for a former customer calling me about a job offer.

In any event, I still own the shares. I wish I didn’t because it would have been a cleaner break without a non-compete. But, I’m stuck… don’t want to sign away rights for what is my own money. Just holding onto them to see what happens as any legal fees outweigh what they are worth.
Sequoia PGP: sq JSON: first sketch
With the creation of the He-Man She-Ra Christmas special.
No offense but this analogy is plain wrong. C is definitely like HTML, not XHTML, in that respect.
How to Pay Professional Maintainers
I like the single lapce.exe and loads reasonably fast.

But this is in a pre pre-alpha stage, so many bugs it's far too early for public feedback. It loads reasonably fast except chrome stats in top left then jerks towards the center. The start page says to bring up the command palette which I was unable to navigate via keyboard.

The open file dialog takes an eternity to load the first time, the path is in a text box that's not editable. Focusing a text file gives an Insert cursor which is in text mode, there's a noticable slow delay before writing the first character, text selection is non existent so lacks basic text editing features.

There is a built-in terminal however there's only a single tab.

The only thing that gives it potential is that the folder/file browsing is super quick even with a node_modules folder so it might be built on efficient rendering that can be improved.

Even for such a basic editor it's 38mb download. For a far smaller + more complete editor checkout Lite:

https://github.com/rxi/lite
One more hype cycle and you'll be made even and then some, before the next crypto winter.
I take it as a declaration about the author: that he knows Rust now and can be hired to write Rust.
> Google soft forked years ago with Android and the Android kernel is way behind what happens in the Linux kernel and has lots of custom patches.

That's not really true at all? Upstream finally took a lot of the stuff they objected to almost a decade ago (like wakelocks & binder), and since then Google has reduced the amount of forks not increased them (like contributing F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE to memfd to allow memfd to be a viable replacement for ashmem: https://lwn.net/Articles/768785/ )

And then the most recent biggest "downstream patches" for Linux where around the scheduler, and that's all been upstreamed, too (and again quite a while ago), in the form of EAS: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-sof...
Parents have been trying to outlaw things “for the children” all the way from rock n roll to rap music to video games

Companies have not “privatized communication” besides “Facebook is for old people”. Are we going to have the government legislate the algorithms companies use? I bet politicians would love to say that companies must prioritize whatever speech they are in favor of.
Buy a laser printer. My toner lasts for years.
I myself only use software that is "made with <3"
If only we would leave more of these decisions to arm-chair bien-pensants, second guessing two seemingly highly competent medical professionals. I am sure the woman in question would also really have appreciated being settled with the likely ruinous debts resulting from a medically needless emergency landing.
I never procrastin...

I'll finish this comment later.
DoF is a geometric thing, it's proportional to (distance to object / focal length)^2. A narrow DoF is caused by the object being close to the camera (in terms of 'number of focal lengths'). (It's also related to the aperture)

Therefore a physically small camera (think a phone camera) will have a wider depth of field, for a given scene and f-number, than a larger camera.

In other words, the inside of a guitar is a relatively large space if you're a tiny camera with a 5mm focal length.
It's quite funny that in the decade since his own comment on the page:

> I'd love to see the five-star version of the book, because right now, the one I'm toiling away at is about a three an a half-in my opinion

The rating have dropped so far it's almost at a 3.5 rating.
Indeed. It could be something simple as a gas bubble.

It is now understood that all those weird stories about the Bermuda Triangle are caused by gas. But still people want to believe in other, more exciting stories because that is what we want it to be.

Edit: even the gas theory of the Bermuda Triangle is just that: a theory. The best explanation is probably nothing much is going on there.
Perhaps that’s what they are naturally inclined to do?
My bad! I made a mistake. The sequence of comments I saw (when there were around 40) looked uncanny, that's why I commented that way.
Looking at the generation you're describing, they are more informed and more tolerant than many in the generation that came before. Although they do have quite a bit of anxiety... Perhaps justified, since their informed position means that they have a hard time ignoring the looming disasters the generations before them primed, most of whom will die off before the dominoes fall.

If this is destruction, it's the most creative of destruction.
Audiences in their Facebook Ads account they can filter / target.
Note the scale, it appears to be logarithmic, so the effect is a bit exaggerated. The band of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter probably would have coalesced into a planet but Jupiter kept perturbing their orbits enough to prevent that from happening.

Great image!
You only need an Acrobat Pro for that.* That's daily business for me, although not with invoices but printing data.

* (becomes harder when the font is not embedded/existent as a subset, but Acrobat let's you choose another font, so no big deal.)
I just think we are almost surely sliding into a dystopian society that the cyberpunk movies described artistically. These exemptions for law enforcement and intelligence community are not going to revoked under any circumstances.
No, they don't have so much debt that it causes a ripple effect. Some investors lose out. The disruption to agriculture and minerals will more likely have a bigger impact.

Defaulting typical destroys credit rating, but I doubt many will be loaning to Russia any time soon.
No imprint, no company location, no contact info, no pricing, no info on where the data is stored and which hosting provider is used - why should I trust you with my (or my customers‘) data?
So, no compliance with printing industry standards. That's a pity.
Not anymore. I’ve flown business a few times in American and other airlines over the past 5 years and they all had good power ports.
Because it's frustrating to not get an ending, and that frustration can turn into nastier emotions.
Full content can be read via researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/W-Angus-Wallace/publica...
The invisible hand of free market at work.
While you're right, you can feel cheated, it shouldn't mean that you need to nag someone about it. I've not read the books (though saying I was disappointed with the ending of the TV adaptation, is a massive understatement), but I've had other examples. All that should do is lose trust in that person, and potentially avoid their uncompleted other work, because the same thing might happen.

Taking your example, if my friend doesn't show up, assuming I don't buy his excuse, it means a) I lose trust in him when it comes to something that matter, and b) I'm less likely to ask him to help me move next time.
In the arts there are plenty of "geniuses", Miles Davis is one.
So?

People have been modeling quantum black holes since the 2001 fuzz all paper. There might be other theories of a quantum black hole but none of them lose information.

The ‘bet’ over black hole information loss was settled long ago but it seems every week somebody writes a paper about the details and the press treats it like a revelation.
Oh, wow. This type of command discovery with fuzzy search and human readable description is what I've been looking for to enable sublime/vscode/atom/intelij cmd-shift-p type of functionality. This is a must IMHOfor a feature heavy editor nowadays. Thanks for the link.
I’ve spent way too much time “learning” emacs! lol

A better option would be to define your goal with emacs and then learn that. I use it for plaintext finances and learned enough lisp to get it working the way I like it and it’s been an amazing experience!!

The pitfall of “learning” emacs without a goal is that you won’t know when you have reached it, how far might you be from reaching it and so on. Do you know emacs when you can write elisp fluently? When you use org mode for everything? When you have replaced every other tools for emacs?

Emacs is a really fun tool with ridiculous amount of power, so enjoy the journey but get/make a map! It transforms aimless wandering into a journey :)
It's been /years/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/53mwvs/bipolar_tu... this post alludes to brick being causable by LED's, all other info were on IRC's I'm not on anymore, sorry.
it's too much work