skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Threads are also for concurrency. In fact in python because of the GIL they are pretty much only for concurrency.
After trying Obsidian, notes,Evernote and OneNote, I finally found Logseq and absolutely love it. Anyone else prefer Logseq?
"US culminating in the crash in 2011"

The official date given by NBER says that the recession began in December of 2007, which put the economy into a fragile state, which was intelligently managed for another 9 months, before circumstances went beyond anything that could be managed. Then the financial meltdown began in September of 2008.
VR seems to be the opposite. Every company was pushing for it, but the consumer demand just wasn't there.
No one is suggesting there is a problem with the data. They are discussing how best to interpret it.

And nobody is suggesting changing the x-axis. It's still time. The distinction people are making is which points does one use to calculate the slope? The most recent two? The most recent one and the one from a year ago? What are the implications of each?
As far as I know it was real, but Lemon Demon's take on it is some classic parody. https://youtu.be/fu3ETgAvQrw
What is your issue with my comment? What I said is true.

You can essentially guarantee yourself an income. The risk comes from anytime you're holding stock and the stock value decreases, but you can sell calls on that and earn an income on that until a company goes out of business. This type of wheel strategy is inherently less risky than merely buying stock. There's obviously a lot of nuance to even simple options trading and I don't want to write out 100 paragraphs for some casual comment.
I know next to nothing about this area. However, I have an immunologist next to me that says it actually is a thing and a phrased used in literature. I hate the internet sometimes.
There's a nice big middle ground between solitary confinement and doing nothing.

I'd love to see schools take a serious look at air movement and filtration.
If you ask me: a low-level SCM framework.
> there is no such thing as immunity debt

this makes absolutely no sense at any level
I'll sell options on underlying boring securities. I may cap my short term gains to 15% or so, but I'll get an immediate couple of % points several times a year. it turns a boring blue chip into a less boring blue chip, but going from 8% to 12% is no joke.
Ask HN: Does learning self-improvement techniques help?
I'm starting to develop some software as a hobby. I've been in a rut for a few months and usually having an interesting side-project gets me fired up again. I'm developing a virtual pet, and pairing it with some lore, gamification, and other bits, to get myself checking in daily, practicing mindfulness, journaling, and meditating. It's gonna be like if a cyberpunk aquarium became your therapist!

Anyway.

Gaining a deep understanding of this problem space seemed important to me for two reasons. It's necessary to be customer-obsessed to build good software and, because I'm in a rut myself, I felt I stood to personally benefit from gaining a deeper understanding of techniques used to bring people out of ruts.

I'm not a stranger to the self-improvement space. I've read The Power of Habit, Atomic Habits, Thinking: Fast & Slow, and some others. I've attempted to apply these to my own life to varying degrees of success. I definitely experience a burst of motivation from having been inspired from the reading, or perhaps the reading is a side-effect of being in a burst of motivation, but, either-way and long-term, all I feel I come away with is a deeper awareness of how my mind works and not long-lasting, personal changes.

So, after reading and researching these areas more for my software, I began to hear this nagging voice in the back of my mind. It said that learning about self-improvement is a trap. That it feels good and is satiating, but is a poor and misleading substitute for action.

And I think I agree? I feel well-versed in techniques, but have seemingly only gained the ability to watch myself fail with a deeper understanding of why humans generally fail. It's not that I'm worried I'll continue to slip. I'm confident I'll bounce back at some point and trend positively for months or years, but I am starting to worry that my software will fail to achieve its goal.

If learning about self-improvement hasn't permanently affected me then perhaps doubling down and trying to affect change through software is fool-hearty? Or maybe I have improved, but am blind to it from my own perspective? Or maybe others meaningfully improve after self-help education and those people would write better software? Or perhaps there's no amount of learning that results in self-mastery and the belief that increased awareness reduces the friction between inaction and action is invalid?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Learning is helpful, right? But it's not action. Is it possible to teach the skill of taking action on one's awareness?
Double digit percentage returns every two months you say?

Why with a starting balance of $10,000 that would be (at the very lowest end of that range) over $1.25 billion dollars after 20 years.

If you don’t mind me asking, what was the offer that tempted you to give that up?
Maybe "Coming up Short".
docker is free..?
OK. Which flavor of markdown should we get every browser manufacturer to use?
> it's to be an equity volatility trading desk

There are already a lot of real professional trading desks doing this. How can you compete with them?
Kate Downing here. This is an excellent question. So, just like YouTube, GitHub would likely argue that they are protected by the DMCA and that so long as they comply with DMCA take-down requests, they are not liable for copyright infringement (direct or indirect) for third party content posted to GitHub by people other than the copyright owners. Remember that the DMCA effectively shifts that due diligence you speak of away from providers of online services and onto copyright holders themselves. Without the DMCA, many businesses that rely on user-generated content just wouldn't exist because that due diligence isn't possible at scale - it's often not even possible for individual pieces of content because the publication of any copyrighted work can be very obscure and because in the US you can hold a copyright without formally registering it.

In practice, I think the entire open source world knows that people post each other's open source code on GitHub. Even projects that have very purposefully chosen to primarily use other services or self-host their source code are well aware that their code gets mirrored on GitHub and/or included in other people's repos on GitHub. Up until now, I don't think this has been controversial and I don't think GitHub gets a lot of takedown requests for this practice. I think most developers see this as a feature, not a bug. Copilot might make people rethink whether or not they want to start sending take-down requests but that'll be a tough call for a lot of people because withholding code from GitHub to avoid its usage in Copilot also effectively means making their code less easily available to the rest of the world. It may be very disruptive to other projects that include the copyright owner's code in their own projects.
Feel bad for the lowly employees but I hate this company and zillow. I want to buy a home, fuck y'all
Definitely! If one doesn't know at least 4 greeks (delta, theta, gamma and vega), what is volatility crush, what are credit and debit spreads, one doesn't have any business in option trading, let alone in trading weekly options or earnings.
Traveling nurses are definitely part of the problem, (why wouldn't someone go for the much higher salary) - but more nurses causes that problem to go away - simple supply and demand.

From the The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) website:

>>>According to AACN’s report on 2021-2022 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, U.S. nursing schools turned away 91,938 qualified applications (not applicants) from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in 2021 due to insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, and clinical preceptors, as well as budget constraints.
<<<

Thats almost 100K potential nurses that were qualified to enroll, but there we no slots available for them.
As far as rebrand is concerned, this one is actually good.

The new icon is clever. I think they could've kept the serif font. The new type isn't doing it for me.

The Met museum logo is brilliant. I've been going to that museum for 30 years, so there was emotional attachment to the old one. I like them both.
Not all of them have the capabilities of course
oh, they don't support avx:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou...
this is something we need will pass this on to the eng team. Also nice website design!
RSV was never going to kill anywhere near as many people as COVID did.

There probably are this many kids getting COVID.
I knew someone who quadrupled his holdings over the past two years and "got out" in time to keep the vast majority of it. So it does happen from time to time and I'd say going from half million to 2 million is pretty great. I don't have the stomach for it though. However it's just an anecdote, most people people don't have the knowledge (or luck?) to do well other than to make moderate gains.
counterpoint: several flu variants were extinguished by social distancing etc.

https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/02/pandemic-upside-flu-viru...

2 steps forward, 1 step back.
Why not?

What "problem" did the old logo solve?

False dichotomy?

Does it? The old logo looked like any number of older logos. Lace around book with latin in it. Not bad, certainly. But "projecting quality?"

I don't actually know what the image of Oxford would be. I suppose you could echo back to my "any number of older logos?"

I oddly agree with this. But... I also don't see it as a problem?
Oh damn, I actually had no idea. I stand corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

That explains why there was so much hype for how good Snap Map (the level editor) turned out. I remember playing with it for a bit, and it seemed both powerful and super easy for someone with zero experience in it to get something simple but fun going.
People still use Twitter?
Only in the sense that a car is a reinvention of a sled dog. What I'm proposing is drastically different in design, implementation and use case. But I'm sure browser makers (read: Google) would also resist anything they didn't invent.
I have no stake in this race but I think it looks pretty good
Finances and Budgeting with Hledger and Tiller
No they're real, but so are higher material costs for businesses. Everything has become more expensive and so there is less to pay for everything, including salaries.

Inflation can be caused by economic success where everybody is richer, and businesses have an incentive to increase prices and salaries to compete with other businesses doing the same.

But this isn't what we're dealing with. This inflation hasn't been caused by economic success, it's been caused by quantitative easing - money printing. And lots of it. Prices are going up because there is more money for the same (or less) amount of goods. In my opinion it may be more helpful to think about 'currency devaluation' rather than 'price increases', despite the fact these are two sides of the same coin.
The featured/fine/fantastic article. See for usages https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (I believe it lost its original meaning, and now it refers to the article in a neutral style)
Serious Pie, in Seattle:

https://www.seriouspieseattle.com/

scroll down until you see the man with his penis on fire. It's on all their signs.
Nothing prevents you from calling a blocking function (for example good old non-async socket functions) from an async function.
Reputable publications generally employ editors. An author’s primary job is not to output flawless language. An editor’s is.
I'm not going to break down an entire budget for someone living on 40-50k, but if they are spending more than 25-30% on rent/mortgage they will have a real hard time making utilities, food, car, insurance, etc work.
And I sincerely wish you well with it, I hope you beat the market and have fun doing it!

For me, I’ve learned that modest returns over a long period (that I never have to think about) are good enough :-)
> meta commentary on money is pointless and pathetic

why are you getting so defensive about the fact that fiat currency exponentially decreases in value
People seem to think that there's an effect where the individual immune system gets weaker with disuse. AFAICT this isn't the case. The "debt" here is the same debt you incur if you have a Windows PC you only boot up every few months: You'll be slammed with updates when you turn it on, but you aren't getting any more updates than before, in fact you may even get fewer as point upgrades are skipped (e.g. someone who avoids Covid Alpha-Delta but gets Omicron). But since they are all coming quickly it feels extreme.

As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, RSV is more dangerous to younger children, so delaying infection is probably advantageous on a population level. I don't think there is any evidence that the severity of any of these diseases is higher when amortized over the years we had very low incidences, we are just seeing more disease total in a short period of time as restrictions are lifted.
I answered to a comment that said every loan is a gamble.
For all those who want to draw parallels to the banking industry, Reg O delineates rules for lending to insiders.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/legalinterpret...
A pre-covid randomized clinical trial that looked at whether N95s provided any meaningful additional protection against another aerosol-borne virus (flu) to healthcare workers working in outpatient settings found no benefit:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214

Question: Is the use of N95 respirators or medical masks more effective in preventing influenza infection among outpatient health care personnel in close contact with patients with suspected respiratory illness?

Findings: In this pragmatic, cluster randomized clinical trial involving 2862 health care personnel, there was no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza among health care personnel with the use of N95 respirators (8.2%) vs medical masks (7.2%).

Meaning: As worn by health care personnel in this trial, use of N95 respirators, compared with medical masks, in the outpatient setting resulted in no significant difference in the rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

One person's cough may emit 10k aerosol particles. Another person's cough may emit 300k. Normal breathing also creates aerosol particles. And they can remain airborne for hours. Only one virion needs to make it through to initiate an infection. And nobody is wearing eye protection anyway and you can get infected with the flu or covid or any one of a wide range of other pathogens via the mucus membranes around your eyes.

I know that it seems as though masking ought to help reduce covid infections (and respirators definitely greatly reduce exposure to, for example, harmful dust particles for home renovators and industrial workers), but it doesn't. Yes, I know many experts and officials persist in claiming otherwise. They are wrong and either ill-informed or lying.
yep, it's already ruined. also him backtracking on the whole "comedy is now legal" thing is hilarious. what a whiny baby
isn't this why HTML was invented?

agree that it'd be nice to have a markdown file be rendered inherently within the browser so i don't have to use haroopad on my windows machine, but it feels like we're just going to reinvent HTML
Does anyone know when us plebs will be able to create custom index funds? I recall reading this existed in some form, but not for the public.
PRISM [1] didn't end when the media stopped reporting on it. If anything it's likely only become more emboldened given people's tepid response. This [2] is one of my favorite documents that was leaked. It's a user manual, "User's Guide For PRISM Skype Collection", for NSA agents spying on Skype "peer to peer" connections in real time.

It even includes a helpful FAQ like agents wondering why they might receive copies of the same message multiple times. What happens there is when somebody they're spying on logs in via another device, their resync process involves everything being sent right on over directly, automatically, and in real time to the NSA again. They can even spy on video/audio in real time, with some promises to agents frustrated about audio falling out of sync with video - that they were working on a technical solution.

The companies at the time participating in PRISM were Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and others. That's undoubtedly been long since expanded.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

[2] - https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/Guid...
On "Penn & Teller: Bullshit", there was an episode where one of the people they interviewed was a woman who's initially seen carrying a large stack of envelopes, and Penn on voiceover said something like, "We told the previous guy that we wanted to see a woman with really ... big ... envelopes. He's foreign; he didn't understand that, in America, every plural noun means tits." So there may be some regional variation.
Gevent is the only way I will do async in Python. Everything else ends up being a nightmare, and gevent is a lot more performant than I ever imagine it will be for a given situation.
I definitely believe wide availability of the internet helped with that. Nowadays you can easily look up what a home in any country looks like and get a bunch of images.
Constrained physics.

The FCC doesn't regulate content on cable TV. Technologically, there's no reason cable radio couldn't have existed.
Pay off to whom?
>>My grocery bills overall have definitely gone up, but that's because I stopped eating out and buy a lot more groceries.

>Wouldn't this make your bills go down?

I'd imagine that when GP "eats out," they don't do so at the grocery store/supermarket. I know I don't. Usually I'll go to a restaurant.

Which may make my overall food bills go up, but it certainly doesn't increase my grocery bills.
Does anyone actually think this number is accurate to a decimal place?
assuming that the inflation rate remains the same for the next 3.5 years. Which seems unlikely
What a lazy comparison. It reads like a marketing piece from Brave.

Everything mentioned other than built-in Tor can be handled with extensions that give you even more control.

Also doesn’t mention other browsers, except Firefox briefly.
> If they are losing 100% of the time

No its not so one sided. If you really can lose 100% of the time you can just reverse the positions and make money. Price movements are usually random so you'll make money some times and lose at others.
Maybe. I thought we'd have more accessible shitty AR sooner. But VR has a lot of hard problems that don't seem solveable with a good hour of reflection in order to get it to the VR people see in movies.
What's the point of a JVM when your server environment is using the x86 instruction set and running Linux? The world today is very different from the world of the early 90's when Java was being developed. You want garbage collection, high performance, a vibrant ecosystem, and good build and distribution tools? Then you want Go.

As many others in this thread have said, using a newer (Go is 10 years old) stack is appealing to VC's, and the hotshot programmers you're trying to attract and trade salary for stock options. This is the best strategy.

If you really need to use the JVM for some reason then consider using another language on top of it such as Kotlin or Clojure. In 2022 saying your hot new startup is using Java is pretty much equivalent to saying you're using Cobol. Don't be surprised if it doesn't generate much interest from investors or developers.
Because it filters out a large part of the federation concept defending noise, if you state this.
It prevents decentralization vs centralization discussions, which always results in developers missunderstanding "centralization of a social organism" like the state or society, as a externally forced upon evil instead of a choice by the majority. If that concept were really even contemplated, it would be discussed constructively, as in "how can we integrate moderation and distribution of costs and labour for a service provided by the public for the public".
The whole article feels like profanity filled, nostalgia driven passionate drivel void of any actual analysis. As someone who was not familiar with either of the logos before today, I don’t think the new one is “shite” compared to the old one
I could be wrong, but I think (minus editor commands) much of this can be emulated in existing Copilot by writing a comment symbol followed by natural language. I wouldn't even be surprised if under the hood "Hey, GitHub!" is basically doing exactly that with the voice input.
What part of "The desired outcome already happens in India and Africa through other, more constructive and humanistic methods without any of the ethical downsides" is defeatist? I don't understand the fetish for imposing draconian restrictions on would-be parents in light of those facts.
This is terrible advice for a retail trader. Don't pick a fight with the pros. Find a dusty corner they don't care about and pick up the scraps.

(this rule applies well to a lot of professions, not just high finance)
A warning about index funds, that were mentioned a couple of times in different threads here.

If the investemnt bank issuing the index fund goes bankrupt, you lose your money - see Lehman Brothers.

You can mitigate the risk by buying from different issuers. However, the bankruptcy risks might still be too closely related; in other words: there is the risk of a domino effect of bankruptcies of investment banks in a future financial crisis.

The best thing you can do to avoid this risk is to buy many different stocks and directly mimic an index or other fund yourself. It is not necessary to do this exactly. A random proportional selection of a considerable number of stocks (40+, but the more the better) from the index or fund you want to mimic and adjusting your investment once a year should be sufficient.
This shouldn't be surprising. The economy, forestry, and healthcare are all examples of government intervention that introduces artificial distortions that make a situation worse than it otherwise would have been had natural balances been allowed to proceed without those artificial distortions.
I haven’t looked at any data, but I wonder if the cold -> asthma correlation might be reversed, ie asthma as a condition leads to more vulnerability to colds
Take a look at postmarketOS (https://postmarketos.org/), it is sort of "custom ROM", but it builds not Android OS, but Linux for your phone. Depending on your goals it might be easier to start than AOSP.
I'm reading Children of Ruin, that's how it starts.
So what is the social contract in this instance? That men are entitled to women? That strikes me as... trying to run a society through coercion, just with the target being a group that people here seem fine with coercing.

Sometimes unpleasant times are necessary in the fight for human rights. Otherwise we would still have things like slavery. Additionally, women wouldn't have the right to vote, and they also wouldn't be able to make independent financial decisions like have their own bank accounts or mortgages. These things aren't that historic, and taking the side of trying to restrict women's relationship choices strikes me as being on the wrong side of history again.
I mean, banking was already hundreds of years old in the 2000s. So recent bubbles and crashes in traditional markets seem like evidence that regulation, at least the kind that ends up being implemented, isn't doing much to prevent very bad outcomes.
We've had a lot of shingles cases the last year because of immune system damage caused by Covid. What are you even talking about?