skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily... the "infinite timeline" prevents the user to see the footer with global links and explanations

Sad to see this all messed up :-(
If I was advising someone fresh out of college starting their first job, I would suggest they start a 401k and put 100% of it into stocks. They have so much time in the market that anything else seems unwise.
My recommendation to any of these prepper types is to do sort of a disaster recovery plan dry run - actually take a week vacation or something like that and simulate the disaster you're planning for. So turn off the power, water, and internet and just live your plan for a bit and see how it goes. If you really want to prep, try it in a few different seasons.

You'll likely discover practical issues that you can fix, but you might also find psychological issues could come up, though being free to end the simulation at any time might make it more fun than depressing.

I've never done the above on purpose, but as someone who definitely has some innate prepper curiosity built in, I can say that actually living through a disaster of the sort above really disabused me of a lot of notions. You can prep for a lot, but the thought of actually trying to live through some sort of long term apocalypse is too depressing to contemplate, though perhaps that's just my perspective as someone used to living in relative affluence.
It will be worth seeing if Elon’s behavior causes Tesla buyers to think twice.
I don't think it makes sense to apply you-and-I logic where actions have consequences to a billionaire. He obviously never had a business case that would make twitter worth the premium and extra billion dollars a year interest it's paying now.

So my point is not that he doesn't want it to succeed, it would obviously be a great personal embarrassment. It's that the risk of destroying a community of millions of people was clearly lower on his mind than the power trip of how cool it would be to own Twitter. He can afford to not care, and that's a deeply depressing situation.
I have wondered if the 501st company is systemically undervalued.
This is why I get rid of it the moment AppleCare is gone. I want someone else to handle the risk of it turning into a brick.
In my many decades on Earth, I have never, ever heard of anyone, anywhere, experiencing any illness borne specifically from a water cooler that didn't get used enough or from contamination of the short water line from a residential pipe to a refrigerator ice maker or dispenser.

It is literally bizarre to hear someone try to question the average "5 gallon jug of water" or a "residential water line" as something that can be potentially harmful in generic, except due to some sort of ludicrous edge case, when water jugs or refrigerator water lines have been used by literally billions of people across continents for decades.

What is even up with this kind of comment? How did you become "anti water line to an ice maker"? Do you work for Nestle, or Coca-Cola?
I'd say the Preppers are "correct" when society collapses. Not before. Even then, I don't think that massing a collection of guns and canned goods is necessarily the best way to survive after societal collapse.

Instead, it will be the people who manage to build new societies from the rubble. I'd imagine that creative engineers who can ensure clean water supply and working electricity (or other smaller services) would be more valuable. Indeed, we can look back at history and think of the Rice Kingdoms of Japan / Korea / Vietnam. Yes, there was a sizable security force (Samurai), but it was rice / food that determined power.

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The kinds of "prepping" that these preppers are aiming for is this kind of weird... Mad-Max and/or Walking Dead scenario that has more basis in fiction than history and/or reality.

I'm not necessarily saying "guns aren't important'. But even ancient Sparta was unable to wage warfare without support of food-and-water. There's a reason why Athens / Athena is the goddess of wisdom + war, because war requires supplies and supplies requires logistics, and logistics (back then) required a Navy.
I completely agree. To let you in on a little secret: the hills/mountains are already exaggarated by a factor of 1.5 to make them stand out more. So reality is even more flat.

The tracks are definitely more impressive on mountaineous terrains (see some of the examples on the homepage), for flat terrain a traditional 2D map is more helpful.
> What can a (US) layperson invest in if all marketable securities are overpriced?

Just buy the S&P 500 or a total market (Russell 3000) fund and let The Market™ sort it out.

Putting a little away every month will generally work out over the long-term (at least of retirement goals):

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/just-keep-buying/
I used to find this joke amusing but not anymore.

Not even the most hardcore Taiwanese independence advocate calls China "West Taiwan" because nobody in Taiwan wants to invade China (Except for some of the older generation and they call China "The Republic of China").

The idea of "West Taiwan" is so preposterous but I know it came as a natural byproduct of the "TAIWAN #1" meme, just to piss of Chinese people that were taught to look down on Taiwan. I can assure you that there were Taiwanese people getting in on that original joke.

It just seems like the only people that refer to "China," as "West Taiwan" are essentially rooting to watch a war from across the ocean and clearly have zero skin in the game.

Source: I'm a mod of /r/taiwanindependence - you're welcome to join us there :).
It doesn't look like "everyone moved here" because "here" is so massive already.

Tumblr users did move to Twitter, but they arrived with millions of other people.
Some missing nuance here is that the s+p 500 is not everything!

It's a subset which has essentially been selected for long term performance. There may be a couple Enron's hiding in the set, but on average they are good choices, with much lower risk than the average company not in the top 500.
Can’t tell if sarcasm
> At this point, most people agree that investment for retirement generally involves putting money in an index fund and that's what people are doing. A percentage of their paycheck goes here.

Withdrawing at retirement does create sell pressure though. The market has to continue attracting new investors for cash out all of the people who are withdrawing later at retirement.
Cloudflare's supercloud: This is what multicloud should have been
If you don't know what happened to 9, I'm kind of delighted to inform you that the version number was skipped because of all the legacy applications out there that matched against a string value of "Windows 9?" to determine if the OS was Windows 95 or Windows 98, instead of checking the actual version number that gets returned when you type ver in the command line.
How was the moderation unfair?
The point is that "simply returning an error message" is fine when you know that it actually contains the relevant reason.

You don't need to blindly annotate the reason for an error every single place an error gets returned. You often end up with redundant errors like this:

> could not load document "doc.txt": error reading document "doc.txt": could not open "doc.txt": open "doc.txt": file not found

So, sometimes you just return an error upwards, sometimes you conditionally wrap it depending on where the error came from, sometimes you conditionally wrap it depending on what the error type is.

And yes, you may be working with poorly-written code that doesn't do this, or you may be working with poorly-written code that just returns some fmt.Errorf() for everything... are you going to parse that? (My approach would be to fix the dependency so it returns better errors, if its needed for good error handling on my end.) Poorly written code is a hazard in all languages--I could just as easily throw RuntimeException in Java if I didn't care how it was handled.

> While Java stack traces may be verbose, with even an ounce of experience one will realize that you only have to look at the top message and the “caused by” top messages.

I can only conclude from this statement that I don't "even have an ounce of experience" with Java. That's extremely harsh! Maybe I'm just a complete idiot and it's hopeless, I should quit my job, or maybe I just haven't put in enough years working with Java.

My first complaint is that the context for an error is not present in the stack trace, because the stack trace only contains the location of the error, and does not tell you which objects the error is associated with (like, which user ID, just to make up an example). That information is either encoded in the exception message (it often isn't) or it is in the log somewhere, although you may not have an easy time finding the relevant line in the logs.

My second complaint is that the top and the bottom of the Java stack trace are usually not what you care about. You care about something near the top (but not at the top), some method which called a method that threw the exception, and you care about something farther down near the middle or bottom which shows the operation the program was doing (but not all the way at the bottom, because that will often just be some generic top-level try/catch).
What makes you think people with ADHD already know about it? I can't see any reason why they could be expected to, let alone for all their lives.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without!
After browsing through the full text, thanks to the link provided by another poster, the conclusion is that such solid-state free-electron lasers might be realizable only in the far infrared, at frequencies much lower than those of visible light, unlike the vacuum free-electron lasers, which can produce even ultraviolet light.

These can still have many useful applications, but holograms are not one of them, because their output will not be visible.

Laser cutters are also another excluded application, because such lasers will have a low electrical energy to light energy conversion efficiency. The reason is that these solid-state free-electron lasers, like also most other laser types except the laser diodes and some of the gas lasers, use another laser as their energy source, so the efficiencies of the 2 lasers are multiplied. Actually the pumping laser needs almost certainly to be pumped itself by a laser diode. Therefore the total efficiency will be the product of the efficiencies of 3 lasers, so it will be low.

More likely applications would be in communications, Lidar, imaging through materials that are opaque for visible light, chemical analysis, maybe influencing certain chemical reactions.

The fact that solid-state free-electron lasers should work only in the far infrared is actually expected, because high frequencies, like those of visible or ultraviolet light require a large energy difference between the energy of the electrons before and after emitting the laser light. When the electrons are free before and after emission, that means that the pumping source must accelerate them, providing the energy difference.

In vacuum, a free electron can be accelerated to any energy, e.g. up to levels enabling the emission of X-rays when the electrons lose the accumulated energy, but in a metal a free electron that is accelerated too much will either collide with the lattice of atoms, losing the energy, or it might even exit the metal and be lost, like in the photoemissive electrodes that were used in the earliest video cameras.
"Planned obsolescence" has its advantages?

This is the third time apple has done this so one would hope they have learned form their mistakes and make the transition seemless?

Windows machines on X86 are just fine.. Amazing when you dont have a monopoly on both the OS and Hardware. MS runs on Intel, AMD, ARM...

MacOS runs on whatever hardware Apple sells.

you can see how an attempt by Microsoft to move off Intel would fail, right?
Burry had a great play last year of shorting bonds via TLT, unfortunately he was about 6 months too early and his option positions expired before it collapsed. His thesis was based on "hyperinflation" occuring in the USA, and while inflation has increased it's still far from "hyper". Point is, his thesis may be correct, but his time horizon may also be off.
Snobbery exists everywhere from coffee aficionados to mechanical keyboard folk. I don’t see it in a way that you do, just people that are into it and they express their distaste or taste for things.

It’s not coercion, it’s fair game.
That’s the difference between copying and learning though
XP is too porous to safely use today apart from offline or very narrow usage. If it were hardened and hardware didn't evolve too much then it'd be fine to keep using.

Reality is that hardware and the web require a certain amount of change in the OS. And OS vendors cannot afford to support old versions indefinitely.
Personally, FWIW, I find shifting gears from Nim to Python to bring back a lot of Py-verbosity..but I used to think Python was pretty terse. { Also, Python is often gratuitously (some might say grotesquely) run-time resource inefficient. }
Tony has a new series of videos out this week, in which he basically says, told you so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7vhMcKvHo8
This actually proves that crows are smarter than JavaScript developers
Twitter and OpenAI
How useful is this for use at Twitter

How much improved will OpenAI large language models and service bots become now that they have an infinite and free corpus
"this is becoming more mainstream, therefore it is correct" is arguably the foundation of analyzing any market trend

interpretation of the meaning of correct is left as an exercise to the reader
> The closest thing we get is putting your money where your mouth is. If someone does that, I may look on their statements

Burry certainly is:

“Michael Burry has exited all his positions which as of March 31st, 2022 had a value of +$200 million. Private jail operator GEO Group was the only stock he held as of the end of the second quarter of 2022. This position brought his portfolio exposure down to only $3.3 million”

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“He is calling for a huge economic recession and market crash that will bring stocks back down to real intrinsic values in the coming year. He’s not bullish on the stock market or current valuation levels.”
> it is clear that much of these staff wasn’t on critical path for running day to day operations

Clear based on what evidence?

> So, Twitter will keep running smoothly on infrastructure side.

Time can only prove this.
Video integrity is an idea we have to let go of. Audio is robustly fakeable at this point, video is coming up to the threshold fast.

What we can have is attestation and reputation, then provenance.

It starts with a container format that allows signatures of both the entire video with audio, audio only, and video only, along with reasonable segments (three seconds?) of each of these.

Excerpts of any of these can be transcluded into another such container. The editor can transform it in any way, the resulting display doesn't have to match the particulars of the excerpt (captioning, noise filtering, color correction) but the excerpt is itself included, or at least the signature.

It would be useful for some people to have cameras which do this at the moment of recording, along with GPS, cell location data, and so on, to get really bulletproof documentary footage.

I don't want that built into my phone, necessarily. As a container format and ffmpeg style tool, this would support anonymous attestation which can be demonstrated by the keyholder at any future time. As a built-in subpoena-able feature of my phone or mirrorless camera? Hmm, probably don't want that. If it snitches proactively, not a chance in hell.
Many articles designed to appeal to the other side appear in the mainstream press ahead of the elections. CNN even fact checks Biden:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/05/politics/fact-check-biden...

Let's see how long it lasts.
What I don't get about Burry is that he is so all out talking about the end of capitalism sometimes even the end of the world without doing anything with the money he made in 2008. He just sits there in his mansion shitting on everyone. dream job I guess.
Sure, I'll bite.

a, b: The point is to correct what amounts to a a slight, unsightly, visual error. What you are suggesting is repainting the room in a new color, because there was a spot missed when applying the first layer of paint.

c: I already have a license for that font and I am not forcing it on anyone else. This is like saying "Don't boot your mac into MacOS - it's non-free!" I know, I paid for it.

d: I have a retina display. My pixel density is big enough that I don't need to bend the font to fit into the grid.
I love this, but it has some of the same problems as unlicense and WTFPL. there are legal jurisdictions that do not recognize "public domain" and many people who then cannot safely handle this situation.

If you want people to be able to conveniently and confidently use the software to in a maximally open way, then it should have a 0BSD/2BSD license as a backstop. You can always include a blessing on top.

WTFPL and unlicense work against being fully open, and i suspect it's a mix of tongue-in-cheek and guerilla anti-copyright (e.g. if you believe in copyright law you can't use this hahahah). Both being commendable, but you're gatekeeping what should be free too then and also creating practical problems for sane, regular people who just want to legally use your awesome thing.
Burry is wrong far, far more than he's right (this is the guy who held a short position on TSLA through the entire rally), but he gets a lot of credit because of his big trade back in 2008 and the movie that was subsequently created about him. Also, as a crash approaches the final capitulation wave, you will see more and more people saying things like this. It's necessary, because the final capitulation of a crash requires people to believe that the system is permanently broken. This is the type of thinking that led to traders on Wall Street throwing themselves out of windows during the 2008 crash. If you want to take advantage of a crash, you have to have the clarity to understand that the masses are going through a bout of mass panic. If you join the crowd, you'll be too scared to do what you have to when everyone is selling.

All of this said, these things do take time. This kind of rhetoric will slowly spread until it reaches a fever pitch, likely sometime in the second half of 2023.
Might be cool, won't know, because of that full page "we are tracking you, do you consent, or do you want to go through a click adventure that'll probably take half an hour before we pretend that analytics and tracking cookies are essential site functionality and we refuse to give you the option to turn those off" notice.

If you can't write your site code to do the right thing when DNT is turned on and without needing sessions to serve restful data, your site isn't done, and your code has bugs that need fixing.
> The one less ideal thing is that it's made of lead of course.

Unfortunately that’s kind of modern too. Lead pipes are still used in every US state.

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/lead-pipes-are-widespread-and...
The Story of My Imposters
The layman explanation is to completely ignore this and hold your index funds.
As an American, I feel like you're missing the point. Generally the expectation is that you have the freedom to do anything you want as long as it does not impinge upon the rights of others. Of course, there's a lot of nuance buried there, but that's the general principle. I think it's a good framework.
It's not about the cost of the service, it's that it's a pointless endeavour it's never going to succeed. Every social media company succeeds or fails based on the network effect.

Where did I mention Elon?
I think it's the same as the "gentrification" arguement made in the US. The "ultimate" gentrifiers in the US being SF Googelers who move to cheap rural areas. (So to speak, I'm not picking sides here.) What's more gentrifying than literal oil barrens setting up their 8th home in your neighborhood? Don't like it? Just own a hundred billion dollar (or trillion dollar) oil company to compete! Notably, in realtion to the linked article, china does not sell land at all but leases it for 99 years. That is for thier own citizens; I'm not sure if or to what extent foriegners can "buy" land in china at all.
Being early is the same thing as being wrong.
The point of attribution and copyright is to create a creator/inventor-friendly environment. The copyright law used realistic points in a problem space to provide it. These new AIs enlarged the problem space, but it doesn’t mean that the initial idea of copyright is not applicable to them by default, or should not be. It’s okay to vote for or against that, but the potential systemic effect of that vote should also be kept in mind.

I hope this makes more clear why I used this analogy.
(2017) “Prepper” as resilient citizen: what preppers can teach us about surviving disasters

Abstract:
"Prepping is a social movement of individuals and small groups that are learning how to effectively survive potential disasters and long-term change. My current research indicates that preppers believe governmental and non-governmental services are vulnerable, and thus have limitations in their ability to respond, given large-scale change due to disaster. While maintaining the belief that these services can be important for society, preppers train to meet their own individual/familial needs. This paper will discuss how those localized preparations create nodes of action that can act in supportive roles to larger systems of response, creating webs of resilience."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315957699_Prepper_a...
Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch
Can you say more about this tech? I'm curious now :)
Michael Burry believes that passive and blind investing into index funds is destroying the proper functioning of a market based on valuations, earnings, and future cash flow. True value is no longer priced in based on fundamentals. Another signal of a bubble.

Here's my issue: indexing isn't a single stock or bond - it's compromised of companies who got large because other more active investors already analyzed their fundamentals and found them worth investing in. Passive investing provides inertia to markets, but it isn't totally divorced from them. Companies that have a dramatic fall cough Meta cough will get punted, and the passive investors will only get their feathers singed. It's kinda parasitic I guess of the average indexer like me, but I'm giving up wild gains for a long term commitment to perhaps being a little later to the party than guys like Burry. If the entire index crashes, like, 95%+, we are gonna have MUCH bigger problems globally than people losing their retirement accounts. You're talking about enough companies failing because of the interlocking economy.
This looks ripe for some cutting edge table-top physics!
> Snobbery exists everywhere from coffee aficionados to mechanical keyboard folk.

Thankfully there's no font snobbery here, and we've all universally agreed that Courier New is the best coding/console font.
Fascinating.

I find it hard to imagine what learning such a skill entails.
It's just a known issue that could be trivially avoided in the design phase. Even building for controlled reentry could have allowed them to accurately dump it in the ocean 100% of the time. It just super dick-ish to not do that and lie about every time you launch. The lie that the whole thing burns up on reentry is also super shitty and indefensible when these huge hunks of metal are trivially tracked by scientists and governments world wide.
Maybe you will find some useful info here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ymiwzs/zlibrar...