skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring slows, wages go down, remote work becomes less normal, rates go up, prices cool to offset rates, boomers downsizing (pass passing property to heirs) increase supply as part of the largest generational wealth transfer ever…

People who stretched to buy at the peak of the market end up upside down, refinancing gets harder, selling takes longer, foreclosure starts… 2008 all over again.

May not be likely, but wouldn’t be surprising
Reminds me exactly of the old Netware days and their winddown.
It really depends a lot on how secure your job is, if you have a big mortgage etc. Shorting is really risky, in any bear market you get massive upswings that can really hurt.
To add somewhat of a counterpoint to the other response, I've tried the Steampipe CSV plugin and got 50x slower performance vs OctoSQL[0], which is itself 5x slower than something like DataFusion[1]. The CSV plugin doesn't contact any external API's so it should be a good benchmark of the plugin architecture, though it might just not be optimized yet.

That said, I don't imagine this ever being a bottleneck for the main use case of Steampipe - in that case I think the APIs themselves will always be the limiting part. But it does - potentially - speak to what you can expect if you'd like to extend your usage of Steampipe to more than just DevOps data.

I've used the benchmark available in the OctoSQL README.

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

[1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion

Disclaimer: author of OctoSQL
Ok since it happens a lot can you cite it happening in 3 different occasions since 2020?
I've been short since November, and my portfolio is up about 100% YTD. I think the market is going to drop even further, 2008-2009 style, so I'm gearing up for that.
Is Java supposed to be the best or the worst here? comparing oneself to the worst is not a good look…

I’d rather Clojure have a nice open tracker system you can submit issues/PRs to instantly (without preapproval) like most Github/Gitea-hosted OSS projects do.
So far: complex data visualization, transportation logistics, voting-related nonprofit, medical research, and augmented analytics. I like to explore new domains :)
Clickbaity title. I sifted through the article to find out what it was and got really annoyed by what they presented.

For those who haven't read it: it's about using `pnpm` instead of `npm`. Saved you time and possible frustration.
OpenStreetMap's maps of Disney parks has always immensely impressed me and looking at the comparison I can see why: https://2012.osmz.ru/#16/28.3724/-81.5487

The detail was really good even back in 2012.
They are still billing me for the customer's domain.
I find it fascinating that you haven't heard of Tibco and Citrix.
Yeah, and even if the network operator is trustworthy, often times any other user on that network can mess with you, e.g. ARP poisoning.
Ok, I wasn’t familiar with the newer gen of spinners
> Like, let's introduce a dependency for decrement lol

Here's a package that basically does that: https://www.npmjs.com/package/number-precision

Not entirely unreasonable as all `number`s are floats by default in JS, but the implementation of the entire package (https://github.com/nefe/number-precision/blob/master/src/ind...) is less than 100 lines of code and actually contains a method called "minus".

The very worst JS packages I've seen have got to be is-odd and is-even. 430,796 and 202,268 downloads every week, I kid you not!
js runs everywhere and is the most popular language. The package managers are maturing, as are the rest of the tooling. C# didn’t have nuget at first, Python didn’t have Pip, etc. these tools evolve as part of the ecosystem over time. Nuget didn’t reuse package references in a central cache until recently, and had pretty much the same issue as this. If you think this issue means JS isn’t worth using, that’s an interesting line to draw in the sand, but it doesn’t mean people who use JS are somehow suffering because of this and that the ecosystem is insane.
We both know the police will be capable of solving crimes without the use of facial recognition, if they put in the effort.
It's impossible to instantly migrate, but I'm slowly removing all dependencies to Google, Amazon, etc. Wish me luck.
Spirit Duplicator
‘Unproductive' financial sector gobbling up our best? (2013)
I often hear “why would people do this to themselves” and I look around and wonder what they’re talking about given I’m perfectly happy using it daily.

I’d rather use node with all its ugly bits than Python or .NET or C++ with all their ugly bits. I’d rather use Rust over any of them but rarely is it the right tool for the job with what I do.
Yeah, that's it exactly. For me there's a power and an ease of flow that comes from having the REPL in the context of your running software, with access to program state and the easy ability to modify your code as it runs without having to restart anything or lose state, that's really unbeatable.
Get out of my mind, Kwisatz Haderach
They don't listen. I always quite the previous case ID and show the transcript, but I'm sure I'm talking to an AI each time. They just keep asking basic information until I tell them.
I'm a big counter intelligence man, so I love deliberately inserting randomness into potential identification metrics.

In the words of martha stewart, it's a good thing
Subjectively beating Opus on quality-to-bit rate is quite impressive, but I noticed the samples had some interesting audible artifacts. I wonder where these come from, and if they're related in any way to this codec using machine learning techniques.
For my home gateway, all HTTPS, VPN, SSTP, SMTP, PPTP, IPSec, UDP, DNS, and proxy are blocked.

All JavaScript scripts are blanked by Squid ICAP clients.

WireGuard to a VPS for DNS resolver/nameserver.

Run a mean transparent Squid proxy, Snort/Zeek/Suricata and whitelist bastion dns forwarder.

No problem. No spam. No headache.
It is not going to be good. The combined company had to pay back $16.5B. Just the interest will be $1B per year.
Nuclear runs constantly. Solar and wind don't. This is a significant problem. Storage is hard and inefficient.

We don't currently have a viable complete renewable solution. Nuclear is much better for the planet than fossil fuels and is the only option to bridge the gap required to operate the current renewables.
Maybe a year ago or so there was a big Microsoft server outage that caused Xbox Live to go down for a few hours. During the outage you couldn’t access any online games. Fair enough. I own a handful of single player games on disc (rather than through the Xbox store) but while Microsoft was having all of their server issues I couldn’t play those games either. It seems, even when you own the disc outright, the system automatically phones home before the game is permitted to launch.
I think you can still play unranked without a phone number, though. So, people who don't want to take the game seriously don't have to. It's a nice compromise, between that and fighting hordes of cheaters/smurfs/whatnits
There was all the same things we have now. But back then, being toxic was acceptable and when it went too far, admins came down with a ban hammer. Unlike back then, those banned people wouldn’t run away to some other place and cry out about how unfair the world is, especially that place they just got banned from. Mostly because there wasn’t “another place.”

The “innocence” wasn’t as innocent as you remember. The only reason it wasn’t monetized was because global payment systems weren’t really a thing yet. People sold things online anyway, it was just riskier than it is today. Today you can absolve your risk in a 2,5% + €0.30 flat rate, thanks to those trail-blazers of yesteryear.

Then people fixed bugs, and saw their sales decline. So they unfixed those bugs and consumers called them “dark patterns.” Some people started doing it on purpose, after hearing about fixing those bugs and what they did to sales.

Back then wasn’t so great. VR won’t be so great either. At least until we figure out how to spend more than a few hours in it, comfortably. Then it might get better.
Good companies with decent long term prospects strapped for cash and with heavy debt will be all over the place, being bought for heavy discounts to avoid completely closing down.
Basically an enum containing the possible states.

A long series of ifs/match/dictonary/whatever to match (current state + input → next state).

That's it.
ride out the recession and not waste time or lose money trying to time the market
Ah that makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
As the submission title is confusing (who acquired whom?):

Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Announce the Completion of the Transaction to Acquire Citrix Systems and Combine it with TIBCO Software.
Buisness people can write as many opinion pieces as they want about it.

I am never again giving up WFH.
I understand, and that's exactly what I'm recommending now but it looks so bad on me because I originally recommended Google as fit for production.
NEVER EVER buy bond funds or bond ETFs. In an increasing interest rate environment like this, you will suffer terrible losses when the fund buys and sells positions. If you want, buy bonds outright, like US treasuries or commercial paper of reliable companies. Also stick with short-dated paper until we get to a peak in interest rates. The Fed has already said they will keep raising rates so we know rates will keep climbing for a while.
That was working 20-30 years ago.[1] But not at scale. Mostly it was used on literary works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
Why, exactly? I know Windows wasn't built to withstand hardlink-based attacks so it puts them behind admin permissions by default, but this seems like an excellent use case for hard links to me.

That said, soft links should work just as well.
pdf warning

https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download
I agree, and it's hard for me to trust the VPN more than my own ISP. Like yeah, someone else on this public coffee shop wifi network can waste a whole day finding a couple of random victims. Does that actually happen, idk. Have huge, reputable VPNs been hacked before, yes, and there's much greater incentive there. Either way I won't know, so it feels like they're selling snake oil.

"Microsoft" and "security" also don't go together in my head.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices
TQQQ is an example: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/TQQQ

I’m not recommending this. Be careful. It’s daily leverage (intended for short term use). If you look at it over longer periods, there is very very substantial drag. As a short term gamble with a single digit percentage of your portfolio, maybe.

See also this article about risks of leveraged ETFs: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Leveraged_and_inverse_ETFs

Edit: here’s a chart comparing TQQQ to plain QQQ: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/TQQQ,QQQ
> WFH will reduce middle management

In my experience, it's the exact opposite. WFH creates more of a fog of war, so companies end up hiring more managers to stay on top of it.

Some employees are great at self-directed WFH, but many others struggle without the physical, social context of the office to get them focused. Again, companies rely on more managers to compensate for those employees who struggle more with WFH.

I know people will say "Just hire people who are good at WFH", but if we transition large amounts of the workforce to WFH then you can no longer pick-and-choose just the good WFH people. You have to deal with the realities of managing WFH at scale.
I couldn't agree more. It'll filter out the cheaters, abusive players, and early leavers. In terms of privacy, asking for a phone number is peanuts compared to the level of access Vanguard has on your computer. I think people are blowing this out of proportion.
There is no mention of the customer domains in the audit log on my reseller consume. I am still being billed for the domain, but there's no change in the audit logs, and as others have mentioned, I can't see the audits for the actual domain, because it doesn't exist any more.
Not sure I agree when we now know the majority of their economic statistics were hokum and the average second world worker earned basically 10%-25% of what a Western European or American worker did. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-...
Yes, but it's a shadow ban.

Thinking aloud, I suppose there are three kinds of bans:

1 - Actual, explicit bans (formal)

2 - Intentional shadowbans (decided by humans)

3 - De-facto shadowbans (unintentional artifacts of ML vertex weighting)

Note that the possibility of 3 occurs even if human intervention is needed to act upon the posts flagged by the ML --- the ML is, in effect, driving the 'attentional map' of the content moderator.

So this specific incident would probably be a case of #3, but it makes people angrier if you suggest it's #2, so that's what people are doing.
Yeah, yah, these were just chronoported to Feb 28: https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/ukrainian-military.59...
I made https://text-generator.io basically to bring down the costs of ml/ai, people enjoy it because it's around 10x cheaper than OpenAI and does multilingual text and code too, now I'm doing speech-to-text 8x cheaper than Google so saving people a lot of money right now. Hopefully it's meaningful already but I'd like to bring the cost of any intelligence down to near zero which would I think make a big difference having things all operate well for us.

My mum was a punch card and fortran programmer, my brother's a software engineer too so it's in the family I suppose, i got into it making games and I got an apprenticeship making websites out of highschool, that set me up to go through computer science faster and easier than normal in 2.5 years
Set up a gopher mirror too :)
To be fair, you can also disable Microsoft's built-in VPN. The problem is trusting people who don't have your best interests at heart, and using Brave products just kicks that can further down the road.
I don't know acidburn but I'd argue that having a PhD in nuclear engineering and having worked in the field is likely to increase your bias towards nuclear (being a "nuclear bro") rather than equalize it. PLT PhDs will tell you Haskell is the best programming language and environmental science PhDs will tell you solar is the best energy source.
I worked at another medical device manufacturer. Often, they will "buy" a company they actually staked in the first place. The medical device company wants to develop a new technology or device, so what they do is give money to a startup that barely has an idea, and sends management over there to keep track of things. They'll see if the device pans out, then "buy" the company and integrate the device's manufacturing and design into their own system once the FDA approves the device. Then, they just keep it on life support for several decades, making as few changes as possible to prevent the need to redo FDA certifications.
I've heard of the name, I kind of just assumed they made orange juice. Tibco is that British supermarket? Kinda makes sense.

Oh well, on with my day.
The PayPal problem can generally be prevented by registering an account first, i.e. don’t use guest checkout.

I use an email client that lets me specify an arbitrary From address, and also that automatically derives the From address either from the recipient of the message or from the To of the message being replied to, so it generally fills in the correct From address by default.
are you reading my mind?

The idea "this could all be easily automated so those who don't automate it will go out of business" presumes efficient market theory is true. Markets are not actually efficient. Markets are based on relationships between human beings. And a lot of human beings have a vested interest in things staying exactly the way they are.

that is why i automate some things but in general "keep my head down and my mouth shut". the people who get all angsty and revolutionary about this stuff tend to get fired / laid off / asked to leave / burned out. i know because i used to be one of them.

the people who survive are quiet and don't complain about "leadership failure" as you put it. we do not get paid to point out failures of our leadership. or to do things which would by their very existence imply a failure of leadership. we get paid to do what leadership tells us. our continued supply of health care, shelter, and food depend on it.

if i want to develop my talent / skill, well that is in my free time. i can build robots in my basement and play around with new algorithms and nobody will get mad at me or tell me to stop. now you'll have to excuse me, there is an STM32 board calling my name.
Gives a whole new meaning to "debugging."
> Even Opera is looking interesting again....

What browsers have you been daily-driving to come to that conclusion?
when Larry Ellison decided to generously author a free script version of Java...
Generation Jones
Right. The text of the report literally states that the guideline isn't legally binding. They condition their approval of radio operations (Which they do have power over) on planned compliance with the guideline.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-74A1.pdf
Burry has a history of incorrectly predicting crashes [0]. You predict one crash correctly, and all you see are crashes. Then again… maybe we're in a very slow moving "crash" right now, and he predicted it 4 years ago?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/oawsxf/i_an...
You know WFH is bad for non-technical EMs because of how hard they are fighting it.

Senior ICs are split on WFH. Managers who can code are split.

Managers who can’t code are unanimous.
NEVER hold levered ETFs for more than a day or so. They decay horribly and in markets where there's a lot of volatility, they decay very quickly. You will lose a lot of money buying and holding any type of levered ETF.

Their real use case is for day-trading.
How is wind and solar in any way close to achieve what nuclear has already has? Solar and wind is not a mature technology at all, you would know if you lived in a country that has invested heavily in it. Where i live people has to use an app to see when they can afford to wash their clothes, run the dishwasher, charge the car at any given time of the week and and hour. The government is praying to the weather gods for a warm and windy winter so that we might avoid rolling blackouts and insane energy prices. We as humans can simply not afford to rely on the current state of mother Nature. Who knows what might happen? Wind patterns could change over time or because of climate change, heck a super vulcano an asteroid or nuclear fallout could block out the sun for years. As long as we can't control the weather, plate tectonics or deflect asteroids let's invest in a technology that is very well understood and has stood the test of time, works in space, the most energy dense, the most efficient and there's enough of it on earth to keep us going for thousands of years.
Cloudflare is probably not far off, though not an ISP in quite the same sense
If you’re trying to argue by analogy, your opponent will always find a way to disagree over the irrelevant aspects of the analogy

If you’re arguing with someone who is making an analogy, you’re wasting your time because it's so easy to ignore their point.

Analogies only work between people cooperating to understand something, so just ignore ‘em if youre not working together
Do you have any recommendations? Or must-reads in the genre?
Coffee Linked to Reduced Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
Putting stunnel Infront of that site and opening 443 is about a solid 30 minutes of effort
One way to deorbit a satellite that doesn't require fuel is to deploy a simple sail, which could increase the drag on the satellite by 10x or more.
Isn't this what ultimately took Toys R' Us down? The company actually had huge revenues, but after paying all it debtors could no longer actually make money.
He has written a few pages about thorium and molten salt reactors:

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
This makes a (pretty huge) assumption that the characteristics of this recession will match the last one. But the underlying fundamentals appear to be very different, so far.
Out of curiosity, how is this relevant to the posted article? I don't really see the connection but I'd be delighted to hear your train of thought.
As counter, some of the smartest, hardworking people that I know have extremely low self-esteem and self-confidence issues. They do excellent work under horrible conditions and are not properly compensated for their work.

Similarly, I have worked at places that have had "good devs" who didn't have such image problems, that worked at places that did not understand (or appreciate) what it was that they had, and did nothing to keep them on the staff. "Whatever. It's hiring season anyway." After their departure, productivity suffered, and when points were reiterated (that were covered before the person left), the response was something along the lines of a timid, "Oh...I thought you were joking."

Your assumption is constructed around the idea that people will always do what is in their best interest, and be in a frame of mind to appreciate the "big picture" things. In my own experience, this is rarely the case. More often than not, it is a sort of miracle that even some very well-known places are able to stay in business.

I'm sure there are exceptions, of course. Some upper management really are very smart and "keyed in" to the value of specific employees output and are also in a position to do something about it. I would simply argue that those arrangements are significantly less common than you might be led to believe, and that such remedial, reactive measures are unsuccessful far more often than they are successful.

Just a thought!
> Wondering if it might be worthwhile to invest in short ETFs like SH, SQQQ.

Geared ETFs only maintain their benchmark intraday. They aren’t something you want to hold unless you really know what you’re doing.
UK gilt is issued by HM Treasury you can buy it in the open market (most banks buy it all so you can never really buy from the Treasury directly).

_Again_ buying gilt and buying an ETF that tracks gilt is not the same.
As a former Citrix user, I’m a little jealous.
Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying
Looks like reselling is a thing: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reseller/v1/how-tos/...
The claims in the abstract are inconsistent with what was previously known about the limits of functional MRI. (e.g. [0]). I am skeptical of this result.

[0] https://acnp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CH26_343-356.pdf Bandettini, PA. "THE SPATIAL, TEMPORAL, AND INTERPRETIVE LIMITS OF FUNCTIONAL MRI" in Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress. Edited by Kenneth L. Davis, Dennis Charney, Joseph T. Coyle, and Charles Nemeroff. American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002.
I think you misspelled “awesome choice”.
> people who think police shouldn’t properly use a useful tool are morons

I agree, I think police should *properly* use their useful tools, but I don't trust them to use nearly any tool properly, so I would prefer they have a limited set of tools that still get the job done if they apply themselves but don't allow massive scales of mis-use. Unfortunately, cops are lazy and want to pick the lowest hanging fruit, like pulling over shitty looking cars and such.