jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Archegos was a fund run by and managing the personal fortune of Bill Hwang, an investor who had built up large positions in companies worth billions of pounds, despite a previous insider trading conviction."

"Credit Suisse’s investment bank under Chin acted as prime broker to Archegos funds, lending it large sums of money to allow it to build up bigger positions in the shareholdings of quoted companies. Hwang had placed big bets that certain stocks, including Chinese technology company Baidu and US media group ViacomCBS, would see their share prices rise. When the stocks fell, both Hwang and his lending banks suffered heavy losses."

This reads as if Credit Suisse was bankrolling a maverick fund manager's speculative investments.

Strikes me as a rather unhealthy disregard for risk, and completely goes against the spirit of capital preservation.

That's four thousand seven hundred million dollars down the drain - by one of the world's most prestigious banks.

Leaves a bitter taste in my working class mouth.
> On a virology podcast

> mocking a woman for wearing a medical mask on a plane.

I feel like these hosts have some combination of poor credentials, ginormous egos, or that toxic desire to play up a take to their audience. attention. I hope they acknowledged how foolish they were.
1. Your buying of lottery tickets is the strongest-possible signal suggesting that you will never be rich, sorry.

Source: the research of Thomas J. Stanley.

2. That climate change hasn't been adequately solved is proof-positive the rich aren't doing their part, or are possibly actively-accelerating environmental, ecological, and civilization extinction and collapse. It's morally-indistinguishable from them coming into every home, waving a gun around, and bragging about how their going to kill this child or the next one. What do you do when someone threatens to kill YOUR descendants? Let them, beg them not to, or shoot them first?

3. All philanthropy should be done in secret or it casts an image of attempting to buy favor.
This is also the solution for developers. You sit down and do the work. Some days are better than others. If you have rituals or strategies to maximize that productive time, that's great, but don't sit around waiting for the muse to inspire you.

I find it helpful to have:

- resumable tasks - I want to sit down and work, not sit down and figure out what to do

- multiple projects - if today isn't a great day for intellectual pursuits and I keep getting interrupted maybe I'll do an admin task or fix some simple bugs. Also works for when something is stalled.

- acknowledge you cannot control everything - if the progress is delayed in ways the estimate didn't anticipate, document them and keep working
> And once you're paying taxes, there's no point to buy health insurance separately, as you will automatically qualify for "free" healthcare.

The downside of socialised health care is the extensive waiting lists for everything.

I live under the NHS, and while it's a brilliant system, I do understand those with the means wanting to avoid it.
Blockchain is probably doing a lot worse for the world than either game. And intellectual output isn’t fixed - someone might be very productive in Factorio where they might not be in any other pursuit. And for some, cognitive transfer means that playing games will improve their performance in other arenas.
So it was team squishing.
Of course I cannot speak for everyone with ADHD but for me the focus issue generally extends even to typical procrastination behaviour for I can't consistently focus on things that are fun and harmless, like reading a novel (currently The Expanse) or watching a Netflix show or physical activities (BJJ).

I think that ingrained bad habits are only the top layer in a life with ADHD.
The amount of shares on offer is typically only a fraction of all outstanding shares. So underpricing the IPO shares isn't such a huge deal if company insiders who are under sales lockups hold many times more shares. It might actually be beneficial to company execs if they wish to offload their stock after escrow ends.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178, which is on the front page, appears to have been the first submission, and isn't a press release (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I assume bloomberg.com will update that article now that the news is confirmed.
With Ron Graham's passing, does anyone know what becomes of the famous Erdos checks? I know there's no monetary value to them but I would bet many people would just frame them to display it like a badge of honor.
Depends what topic you're going for but the guardian or ft, tatler, London or new York review of books, times literary supplement etc would be found in eg a London club library. Economist too, it's a light but fun read.
Could play into GSuite. Could be a great play into workspace integration.
this is not surprising. most "influential" people like business leaders, politicians, reporters, A listers are on signal.
That doesn't appear to be his style. And even if he did update or amend old posts, there would still be archives and copies floating around that people could refer to if they felt the need.

He has changed his views on some topics over the years, including this: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#14_September...
> Their argument that 2/3rds the world is covered in water means it's a good place to build houses seems strained at best.

Agreed. The houses in the article's pictures are in a city canal and docked. They're basically using urban real estate that happens to be covered in water. Locations where you can do that are a very small fraction of Earth's area.

How this translates into using the 2/3rds of the world that's covered in water doesn't seem to be something they've really addressed.
Can we please stop armchair-diagnosing RMS and excusing his behaviour based on this armchair diagnosis? Or even worse, calling it a disability like Bruce Perens does, in some kind of effort to gain sympathy, or perhaps appeal to ADA?

First of all, nobody has ever actually diagnosed RMS and he himself has rejected that folk diagnosis when offered to him. If dude wanted psychiatric help, he could get it.

Second of all, the diagnosis, if it were accurate, is no excuse. Lots of people on the spectrum know how to behave.

Finally, even if was autistic and even if we could excuse his behaviour by his autism, he's not fit to be in any kind of leadership position. Yelling at people when they use the wrong words, which is his main and constant strategy, does not help the cause of free software. Technological self-abnegation, while giving him an aura of sainthood, does little to actually put free software in the hands of users.

Stallman can keep blogging if he wants, he can keep up his self-abnegation, but he doesn't have to be in the decision board of the FSF to do this.
I am in ok with hijacking tab in general. The fact that tab doesn't act as a tab key in text areas is one of the most annoying things about the web.
Warms the cockles of my heart to see this project putting out consistent releases. I've been using it for a small romhacking project and it's been really fun. :)
Maybe he trusts FB, but has some friends that use Signal.
Yeah... they definitely got a steal
This is pretty neat looking. I am really digging the UI.

Would you ever consider making this open-source? It would be a great addition to the Awesome-Selfhosted list. [1]

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
A good summary of the situation, although it's not really fractional reserve. The problem is that in any report of short interest Alice is not shown to have that IOU but rather her original 100 shares (in addition to Bob's). I understand the term short interest is appropriate because it reflects the consensus of bearish sentiment better, but it only works if the IOUs flying around can be backed by money (i.e. don't require settlement in the original shares).

In the event that large amounts of the stock are bought, held and refuse to be sold to cover short positions the entire chain can collapse to Alice sells 100 shares to Gloria and the rest either suffer heavy losses or go completely bankrupt.
Yes, but complaining about “the government” in a functioning democracy* is just complaining about fellow citizens. Making “the government” into some exogenous monolith makes no sense.

* Local conditions may vary, contact your local election official for details on gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and voter suppression. Offer may not be available in all areas.
> ("We already tried this, they are called company towns" is not a clever or insightful take.)

It is, however, an accurate one you can’t simply breezily dismiss because you don’t want to engage with it intellectually. This is no different in the power dynamic and will have similar failure modes in the absence of legal countermeasures: as the most obvious example, if you disagree with your boss you now have to worry about your kids being kicked out of school and losing your home at the same time. If they pay you in company block-scrip, they control the rates and where you can redeem it. You might naively think that having internet access helps but that’s assuming that the company-approved ISPs allow full unfettered access and don’t have terms of service banning unapproved usage.

Again, none of this is certain but history and other parts of the world show that it’s likely to happen to some extent if companies are granted power without strict democratic oversight. Just think about how companies have asserted their right to control who you sleep with, what family planning choices you should make, which political party you support, etc. Giving them more power will not make those intrusions less likely.
If you examine the destruction related to the BLM protests. The vast majority of it occurred directly in the opportunity zones in these cities. These are areas zoned for capital investment tax free. You can sell your Facebook shares and your Amazon ones too and invest your profits into these zones without any capital gains due.
I'd love it if we could get a better breakdown of app-types:
1) paid download
2) free-to-download and play
3) free-to-download with in-app purchase

This would not only be more reflective of the state of the game but also allow me to make better informed decisions when downloading apps for my child (or myself).
Yes. it auto-updates. http://www.dropbox.com/help/13
I think this list is more likely a measure of the apps with the most security testing performed on them if it isn't an outright falsification altogether.
The real problem with mixed content is that you're compromising the security of SSL when you allow insecure resources on the page. If a page is otherwise secure and includes an insecure ad script call, for instance, it's relatively easy to hijack that javascript request and munge it to do whatever you want with the DOM and javascript-accessible cookies.
A couple months ago I was looking for database schema comparison and syncing tools. I found a product that looked promising so I clicked over to the product pricing page and was really confused as all of the products were listed as $0. Turned out that it was, from what I understand, essentially a one man software company that wasn't very profitable so after a period of time the owner/developer, Matt Whitfield, decided to just start giving away his products for free and open source them.

http://www.atlantis-interactive.co.uk/blog/default.aspx

The schema compare tool ended up doing exactly what I needed and Matt even provided support. What was so impressive though was that the database tool suite was becoming competitive with products from Red Gate and now they are all free and OSS.
I don't have any comment on your subjective criticism of the demo as art or some kind of advertisement, since I don't see it as either. I see it as an impressive demo. I understand your point and respect it, I simply see it differently.

However, you then state:

As long as a Flash solution like Papervision3D would provide a superior realtime 3d experience to a majority of web surfers (if this demo is anything to go by), we're not yet at the Web Page Of The Future.

Excuse me but have you seen Papervision stuff? It's pretty lousy by comparison. No real-time video textures, no realtime shaders, no fancy lighting. Yes, flash is going to get 3D support (I worked at Adobe on Flash stuff, since we're flaunting our credentials) but this is at least 10 times as technically impressive, even to users. Did you notice there was a pause button? Can't do that in Flash without a major overhaul of the broken timeline system. Did you notice the beat detection? It was awesome. It would be a huge CPU hog in flash (if you have the security rights to access the audio stream) - no problem in Javascript with the Firefox Audio API. Oh, and your browser still acted like a browser, with all the preferences you had set.

Papervision looks like a toy compared to the power of these technologies. Compare the laggy and simplistic Papervision demo: http://helloenjoy.com/projects/monstertruck/ to the WebGL one by the same company: http://helloracer.com/webgl/ . Technically speaking, there's no contest.
I won't swear this holds true if you exercise intensely, since I haven't tried it, but the paleo lifestyle guys say they have no problem exercising on their "lean" days.

I don't have any problems having a rather intensive strenght training session after about 16 hours without food, and my performance does not seem to suffer. I didn't try anything more extreme than that (yet).
Having interviewed hundreds of people over the years, when I ask a question like that I'm looking for the following things:

1. What kind of problem do you really enjoy and find interesting?

2. Did you do it because you had to (in a class) or in your free time?

3. What technologies did you use and why?

4. Did you work in a team? If so how did the team collaborate and did it work well?

In a lot of ways it can tell you the most about a person because it is so open ended. Your answer says a lot about what you think is important and what you value in your work and likely will value in your job. If you start with the technologies you used that is a lot different than if you start with the problem you were solving.

So, I recommend picking a project you really loved and just be honest. If it's the right fit then the interviewer will hear exactly what they want to hear.
I recently tried 99designs for a logo design attempt and wasn't happy with the results. I wouldn't use it again and wouldn't recommend it. The response wasn't great in quality or number of applicants. The main benefit I suppose is it got a variety of different perspectives, which was the main reason I tried it.
I think for most it's a case of keeping up with/beating the Joneses, at a much larger scale.
These videos were edited by rgower, a redditor, in an attempt to reinvent Nasa's marketing : http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/ez5xe

I just love the first video. It is really inspiring, and I re-watch it often.

I also like this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djnGjm-BfdI . Sunshine's OST, Adagio In D Minor ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw ), goes really well with the message. Of course, some might say that this song could make any video "epic"... They used a remixed version of it in Kick-Ass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQMunLEXHA (warning: SPOILER!).
Digg is working hard to pull off a comeback — but at the end of the day it come down to community. And the community at reddit is passionate, loyal and really obsessed about the content. Sadly the previous management at Digg seemed to work hard to kill that. The lesson to me is that it isn't about upgrading features, but keeping your audience in love with you...
they spelt "Statement" wrong in their Mission Statement.
Two words: Shark flu
I distrust statistics that show percentages but not frequencies.

does 5% represent 2 people?
That's an interesting point, and thanks for the key-combo (I didn't know that). But what I like about being able to see the dock is that I often randomly notice that too many apps are running, without specifically looking for it. It's sort of like when you notice the task-bar getting cluttered with windows in Windows... I probably won't remember to hit a button to see how many apps are running, but occasionally I'll just notice the clutter.
Monbiot makes the common mistake of starting with Manhattan real estate for his rebuttal, which I think is naive enough to be considered a strawman argument.

As for lighting, the trick is to figure out how to use natural lighting for a majority of the input. Obviously, again, this is why 100-story skyscrapers aren't practical, but sub-10 story warehouses could be. Although some are investigating architectural ideas like mirrors and other hacks.
Why it won't:

- A computer does not cost as much as a car, so it's not as expensive to buy more than you need.

- It can't be cheaper enough than ordinary PCs to accept the restricted functionality it offers, because ordinary PCs are already available at the bottom of the pricing barrel.

- Most people need wireless connectivity not more than once or twice a year.

- The cloud is overrated.
There was a startup in one of the YC W14 that had something similar to this case, but different scenario.

Camperoo, the technical founder quit, but she still moved on to apply to YC.

https://medium.com/@emmie/my-technical-co-founder-quit-the-d...

Perhaps you should still go ahead and apply!

But yeah like the jsprogrammer mentioned, add more details to here, there are lots of folks whom can give one or two words of advice. I've personally got some good feedback.
They do it using spectral analysis. Different elements have different absorption bands of light. You can look at a graph of light from a star, with intensity of light on the y-axis and frequency/wavelength (color) on the x-axis and that tells you quite a bit about the composition of the star.
Surely an even better business would be to _create_ this dirt? All you'd need is a jet, a private island, and an international human trafficking ring. You'd be set for life!
I guess it depends on how you define "successfully".
Shouldn't the government own the majority of the shares for it to be a state sponsored enterprise? Or does it just have to offer tax breaks and subsidies?
The way you phrase it makes it sound like a UI issue.

It is probably more accurate to say that Uber chooses to not provide this sort of functionality.
So many broken links :(
I think Thomas makes a mistake in disregarding the reason for introducing the distinction between declaring and implementing code. The law (as I understand it - IANAL) doesn't exhaustively enumerate what does and does not constitute fair use. Therefore, any specific instance of fair use is bound to introduce new distinctions that are not specifically mentioned in the law itself.

In this particular case, Google's copying of interfaces was ruled to be fair use because its purpose was to allow Java developers to reuse their skills. This reasoning only holds for the declaring parts of the copyrighted work though. And that's why the distinction becomes necessary even if Congress rejects it as a primary distinction between copyrightable and non-copyrightable work.

That's also why I think the ruling is perhaps not quite as broadly applicable as some (including Thomas) are thinking right now. It may not cover code that isn't used by a significant number of developers. I haven't read the entire ruling, so I'm not sure whether it covers non-public interfaces that are nevertheless useful for interoperability. Such interfaces were at the center of past disputes (I think Microsoft's SMB protocol was one such case).
Their position is the globalist hyper-elite (like Martin Wolf in the FT...they all go to Bildeberg). This overlaps heavily with the free market viewpoint but over the past five years or so, it has become heavily diluted in some areas (for example, regulations and fiscal policy...their view tends to match with whatever the IMF thinks, and tends to be fairly reactionary because these ideas have a history of not working...tbh, these views aren't coherent anymore, they make no sense).

It is fair to say that once you descend below the editorials, you will find more interesting viewpoints. But all of the leaders and editorial pieces are totally anodyne. Imo, this is an editorial decision that changed in 2015, and it has got significantly worse.
Not to mention that unless you're taking losses from other investments or doing fairly complicated things with your income, the standard deduction is likely high enough that you don't benefit at all from student loan interest deductions. So other people without interest get the same deduction as you anyway.
I've enjoyed working on similar projects, they are fun.

A small usability suggestion, since your whole page is a shell and the input field isn't well visually defined, I would make clicking nearly anywhere give focus to the input field.
But a photographer who travels to the beach and sets out a camera on a tripod to capture a timelapse of the sunset DOES have copyright over those photos.

What's the difference if they leave the camera there for longer? They still chose the placement and the angle and the lens. In either case, the camera's electronics are deciding the minutiae of the image acquisition.
So many stations, so little time.
I discovered radio.garden a few years ago, and then so many amazing stations, sometimes hobbyist, sometimes around the world. Yes it's a bit buggy, but it's also the perfect ui. IIR, it started as a uni project but now attempting to monetize.
People pay for algorithmic playlists over free and lovingly hand-picked, and I just don't get it. For me at least, it's not even close.
Do power saving recommendations given out here to reduce consumption such as "don't use the oven" help in the winter given that wasted electricity ends up as heat? Or is this given by the electricity company hoping that they have natural gas to heat their house with instead?
There’s no reason to believe that our government intelligence agencies wasn’t also actively exploiting the solarwinds vulnerability.
Very cool! I plan on using this with my oculus quest and the wander app. It uses google street view imagery in VR and I walk around cities around the world since I love travel so much but there was something missing and this was it! I’m going to Reykjavik tomorrow in the app and listening to Reykjavik radio at the same time.
Not programming but analytics, I typically put on pop which I dont normally listen to because;

- Music blocks ambient noise to aid focus.

- Higher energy beats help work tempo.

- Lyrics dont interest me so it becomes background.
Turing incompetentes can be a feature IMO.

Anyway, my point is that none of the interactivity as delivered by JS / ActiveX / Flash are themselves reason for all the money in online business. Before graphical browsers there were probably billions in transactions happening on computer networks. And likely would have grown to similar highs without the ability to run untrusted, 3rd party code on demand.
There’s also Clarion, whose platform is intended to generate code for you and you input your own custom programming and business logic if needed for a basic B2B CRUD desktop app.

I guess like history, SW dev trends also rhyme.