jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Buffett won. However, several caveats apply when using this bet to draw conclusions:

1. Buffett bet against aggregate performance of hedge funds as an investment vehicle. If he restricted his focus to the highest performing funds of the past 10 - 30 years, he would have lost handily.

2. Buffett used absolute returns as the performance metric, not risk-adjusted returns. A portfolio with lower absolute returns but a significantly better idiosyncratic risk profile (and correlation to market/beta) can be superior to a portfolio with higher absolute returns but also higher risk.

Taken together, this means that Buffett's bet is a statement about the aggregate performance of the industry. It is not instructive for what performance is possible, or even for whether or not you should invest with the modal hedge fund (given the opportunity). It depends on investment goals and risk needs. It's also worth pointing out that "risk needs" is multi-dimensional, not just a sliding scale of how much e.g. leverage you're willing to accept. There is an entire sub-industry of hedge funds which explicitly expect to underperform on an absolute basis for long periods of time, but which service their clients with highly bespoke risk products. Clients are frequently well-informed and happy with this arrangement.

I say this because there is a tendency for people outside the industry to come away thinking hedge funds are a scam. Which...well, many are, to put it bluntly. But it's a lot more complicated and this isn't really the smoking gun you'd think it is.
And now we see that the point of hedge funds has nothing to with long term investment growth, and everything to do with short term personal enrichment. When you're playing with other's money, you don't have to think about steady, decades long growth. You just have to nail one big return and make yourself rich on fees.
Emphasis mine.

< The order was placed through the Tock platform for pickup on Nov. 18. ***Hwang noticed the customer did not include his vehicle information (make and model of the car) on the order form, her standard procedure since switching exclusively to curbside takeout and delivery during the pandemic. She texted the customer directly and he didn’t respond. But Hwang, happy to receive such a large order, wasn’t alarmed.***

Extremely poor risk management on her part. I get being happy to get a large sale (I've sold handfuls of phones and electronics over the years), but if you let the numbers cloud your judgement, you can't be surprised when you learn that you got duped.
>I think it's unfair to offer these as the comparisons to what he actually did

They're not comparisons. They are hypotheticals, intended to explore the range of possibilities that people would allow or oppose.

If people want to argue that the doctor was right to go out and distribute the vaccine ad-hoc, I think they should consider not just the actual result, but also counterfactuals, and whether in those counterfactual cases the actions would still be "justified". By returning to the real events, you're avoiding that consideration.

>Not really - the policy was exists in most places heavily favors the most vulnerable, not equitable racial distribution.

I did not mean "equity" in terms of "equitable racial distribution". I meant "equity" in the nebulous way of "fairness".
I don't understand why you're assuming we need a pure Bitcoin economy for there to be a network effect. If sufficient number of vendors accept Bitcoin that will be enough to create a network effect. Once you have a network effect with a size less than the size of the entire economy there will always be upside to own Bitcoin since that size can continue to grow.
Dragging selected items to copy/paste them is pretty universal

Exactly. So I don't know why the parent is making an issue of what is clearly operator error. Or at least a lack of operator know-how.
I don't know that this situation is that rare. I just got Moderna dose 1 last night and heard the nurses talking about no-shows and how many bottles they were going to have left over (I didn't catch the number). Anecdata of course, but I don't think leftover doses is some crazy rarity.

Edit: To be clear, I don't know whether these left over bottles were going to go to waste or if they had contingency plans to use them.
It's all fun and "do your own thing" until parents feed their babies mashed potatoes till they die, and cancer patients skipping treatments because they're gonna "mind over matter" the diesease cutting out toast and spinning up a juicer 6 times a day.

You have a responsibility towards other human beings, and that includes not making dietary recommendations fueled by claims of miracle cure, that are potentially dangerous to their health and well being and exploit their desperation.

Keep your other worldy mumbo jumbo to yourself and stop endagering others. Your freedom to think whatever you want ends at that line.
That is so ridiculous. They stopped because she accused them of sexual harassment, not because they were out of line? Like is that all a real Chinese spy would have to do to get the FBI of her back?
I own 10% of a company. Several rounds later, I now own 2% of the company. It is possible the company is now valued higher or lower than what I got in at.

Did I get diluted?
> find Analysis 1

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-100b-analysis-i-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_natural_farming
Same here. I’m slowly writing some wrapper libraries for server side ClojureScript (starting with Express.js).

It’s a fun side project for now, but hopefully I can use it to convince some of my JavaScript loving co-workers to give Clojure a try.
I permanently deleted my Facebook account September 2019. My phone number was included in this data breach, which was apparently August 2019. So close. If only I got rid of it sooner.
So if crises happened both before and after efforts at intervention it almost seems like the tendency is endemic to capitalism itself. Which is one of the many things Marx was right about.
Can I ask why this is flagged as a duplicate? The comment threads in here feel substantially different than what was being discussed in that older thread linked there.
You're thinking Attorney General. The correct title in the U.S. is Inspector General, and they fall under OIG, the Office of the Inspector General.

Note: outing classified to an Inspector General not cleared, will still get you thrown in prison. Even pointing in a direction to start asking questions or getting cleared may carry legal consequences that OIG has no authority to protect you from, even if in the end you are in the right.

I've often thought the OIG should be charged with and have authority to countermand and investigate executive agency oversteps through unfettered access to all information regardless of classification in the Executive branch, but it'll never happen.
Time here is on a per-node basis. No effort is made to synchronize time over multiple nodes. Partially because the problem is better solved with NTP, partially because time synchronization is so application-specific you don't want to solve it generically.

Some problems can do away with pretty lax sync, which in turn yields faster execution due to more asynchronicity. Other problems requires global time keeping, or timestamps of the form {erlang:monotonic_time(), node()} where the node-name is part of the timestamp (tuple ordering is lexicographic).

There are already several solutions to the global time problem. Twitter does something in Finagle, and earlier it was snowflake.
More digestible format: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/06/201064850...
Depends on the book. Technical programming books i can never finish, i tend to skip topics and read them in phases. I don't think thats bad, in fact i tend to favor books written to be read this way, books that both teach you a technical topic, but can later be used as a reference.

Whit fiction, i also have trouble, mostly because im not a fiction fan, but if its good enough i just don't push it, i read the book little by little, and naturally i would like to find out how it ends.
Unless you live in France, where 88% of the population are carriers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#In_humans
The difference is obvious: Posterous lets you post anything from anywhere, and they host it for you with zero setup. Of course the key feature for its success is email posting!
Can you provide a wee scintilla of evidence that the constituency upset about Apple's position on Flash overlaps meaningfully with Apple's "core user base", either for the Mac or the iPhone? I would very much like to see it, and I don't.
It may not be interesting tech news but it is tech news relevant to the interests of those paying attention to the activities of startups.
I take your point, but many humans can't understand elements of philosophy. Can we have a "complete language interface" with them?

Complete means different things in different contexts. I don't think the researcher was implying that dolphins might someday understand (or advance) philosophy.
Of course you are right: There is almost certainly going to be a difference in the magnitude of a 'breach'.

I still think this is way out of proportion. Let's use the example of your two circles. Assuming a few/some/most/all of your friends are in the same geographical area, how common is it to run into people from group A while out with group B (and thus open the possibility of group A people making comments you don't want group B to hear)? I know for me situations like this are very common. Just the other day I was leaving a restaurant with friends and ran into other completely unrelated friends who were sitting on the patio.

I don't think that just because Facebook is an easier way for your clueless/inconsiderate friends to let stuff slip is Facebook's problem, is all I'm saying. Facebook is just the highest profile, most widely used method of having a persona online. That comes with upsides and downsides -- if you aren't comfortable with the risks you can simply not partake.
> 7.1% tech ETFS (ZQQ, ARKK)

Why would you but ZQQ with expense ratio of 0.39% ? Its basically just a bunch of tech stocks, which one could buy themselves. Someone who is beginning into this journey, I strongly recommend learning from boggleheads [1] forum.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
I’ve run a production kubernetes cluster that was hosting a DGraph cluster of 3 machines on its own, some ML workloads, and 4-5 products (each consisting of multiple services) and that was more than a single machine would have been able to handle.

Well _technically_, sure, we could have run a bunch of those products on a single machine, but there goes your durability and the memory overhead on some of them was quite Hugh, and properly fitting them onto a single machine would have required more optimisation and technical skills than the devs I was working with had or were inclined to do.
Because a) one is already known as being scammy and b) doing the latter might get the site listed as a ad/malware provider, which may run into browser and protection suites labeling the site.
Do you understand why we are assuming internet availability when ordering an Uber.
Once you have eight different things you need to pay a month it becomes way too time consuming to manually pay bills. Easier to just set up a mint account and check your finances once a month.
Most likely you upgraded to an ap with working dfs detection and it just hopped on a better channel...
Please provide links or citations showing what information about a user is shared with advertiser.
He does go on to say this was when he was young and stupid and is shifting to more etfs
OK, but who are we protecting here? Someone who reads a social media post and makes an investment without doing any due diligence?

That's 90% of WSB, seeing a ticker and rocket emoji and YOLOing into the latest stock because someone said it was going up. Why is this different?

And these are OTC, pink slip stocks. Most major brokerages don't carry them and people who trade them know they're investing in distressed companies with low liquidity.

Sure, go after the pump & dumpers, but it's not clear what the criteria is for halting trading on a stock.

Risk is inherent in any investment. Don't invest what you're not willing to lose because you could lose everything. Your investment can always go to 0, wether it's in stocks, bonds, real estate or a business. And don't invest in what you don't understand.
Hi, I'm the author of swirl, such as it is. In principle there's nothing stopping you from streaming anything with PPSPP. The current erlang implementation could run on an android tablet for example. And if you had a pcell nearby http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/20/steve-perlman-pcell-is-rea... then b/w really wouldn't be a constraint.

There's a fair bit of work remaining, in particular browser/client support is something I've not even considered, it's not my speciality.

I'm sure VLC and Firefox etc would be awesome clients, but one step at a time.
Check out SpaceX's launch manifest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

While NASA used to be almost all of their business, SpaceX now has quite a few commercial customers. In fact, it's been a long time since any US launcher was cost-competitive in the global market.
I was an avid free diver before I joined the Army (to be a diver no less) and during a medical examination they did x-rays of my chest. The doctor came back surprised and told me my lungs were 25% larger than normal. Even now I take one breath for every two my wife takes. I always thought it was kind of cool.

For me free diving is a spiritual thing. Nowhere else am I more calm, more sure of myself, I can be a visitor to an entirely different world.
Is there any significant evidence that peppering passwords helps? I've seen arguments for and against peppering out on the big bad internet. Everyone has opinions but there are few people's opinions about crypto that I actually trust.

The best article I've seen against this technique is by ircmaxell [0]. Nicely summed up in this sentence "It is far better to use standard, proven algorithms then to create your own to incorporate a pepper."

Anyone have source material (academic paper, Bruce "The Crypto God" Schneier blog post) that shreds some light on peppering passwords?

I'd be much more interested in how many iterations of bcryprt Slack were using. That has a much bigger bearing on events for me. Anyone at Slack know/want to answer that question?

[0] http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/04/properly-salting-passwords...
10 rounds of bcrypt is "dire"?
I recently found this talk: http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1287-rubyconf2012-y-not-adve... which I think it's a good introductory material: it not only derives Y, but starts with introducing all the tools needed for the derivation and explains rationale for using given tool at every step of derivation. Nice, however rather long.

Personally I found "The Little Schemer" explanation the first that made it click for me. Its unique style of making you do the exercises even if you don't do them (it's hard to explain, just go and read the book) gives you an impression that you really understand what is happening.
Looks like you've hit an evolutionary dead-end.. exterminate!
I can't speak for Spain but here in Australia there are regulations around pricing ie no surges, there are cameras present in every taxi and drivers are vetted and have their names clearly displayed.

All of which are designed to protect women, those who are intoxicated or incapacitated and the mentally challenged from being exploited.

Taxi regulations are like consumer protection laws. You don't know you need them until something bad happens.
What must be the reason to block Github?
I agree with some of the observations, and not others.

On Java...

I haven’t done much Java, and I’d like to keep it that way. My impression of the language is that too much time is spent doing the boiler plate. It’s been slow to catch C# up on language features, and Object orientation doesn’t seem to be the right approach anyway.

Yep. Correct. Nailed it. I wrote about "Java Shop Politics" in 2012 ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-pol... ) but the truth is that any big-program methodology is going to become a political quagmire. The problem is the business bastardization of OOP, which isn't limited to Java. I'm sure that companies that identify as ".NET shops" are just as bad.

Clojure...

I have played around with Clojure a bit and I like it. However, it seems like a language of compromises, the biggest of which is sitting on the JVM. Is this a stepping-stone language, or a long term viable option? It’s hard for me to say.

Everyone should be exposed to Clojure. The JVM is incidental. The Clojure community (and this is damn surprising, given that the language lives on the JVM, and Java's community is so awful in this regard) has excellent aesthetic sense. I haven't used core.async or Om for any large projects, but I'm a huge fan of what the Clojure community's doing with the front-end. In terms of aesthetics, I think they're still 5 years ahead of Haskell.

Speaking of which...

I’m not clever enough to program in Haskell.

Yeah... I'm going to call that a cop-out. For a 1-month project, don't use Haskell if you're not familiar with the language and not intent on learning it. Use Python or Clojure. For a long-term project, you can use Haskell. It's not about "clever enough". Sure, Haskell has some wonky terminology (monoid, monad, functor) and learning everything that's possible takes years, but anyone who's smart enough to program can develop a basic capability in it.

Personally, my choice would be Python for a short-term project, Clojure for the mid-range, and Haskell for a long-term project that's destined to go multi-developer.
great to see the examples. I am exploring a small JavaScript module approach to SVG drawing to: https://github.com/mulderp/pinboard-grid
What in Javascript does not fit that description? It has even more inertia than Fortran and Lisp, it has more badly written software running than Java and C++.

Misguided as the article is, I think it still reached the correct conclusion.
People who need to be covered by insurance if their driver crashes and injures them.
BTW, do you have blaze build for gwt? ant seems unwieldy for me.
How do you handle type constraints? For example, how do you prevent users from inputing text in to number fields? I know Google Sheets has validators, but I don't know of any way to restrict someone from changing those validations while also providing the ability to input data.

Really curious, because I'd love to use something like this in our app.
I thought this was thoughtful and well written but all I see is anecdote...there is no data presented that MDs choose different options than non-MD patients.
Whenever I see charts that focus on statistics like IPO valuations (e.g. #4. High-end IPO valuations are rising dramatically), it makes me think that people have forgotten the cost differential in a starting a software-based business now vs. 1995. When people talk of the few (<20) winners being multiple billions of dollars, they don't consider all the thousands upon thousands of tiny sub-five person startups that quickly try an idea and fail. So the total number of startups in the "universe" of startups is probably an order of magnitude greater today than in 1995 or 2000. It makes sense that more winners would come out of a much larger pool of companies.

I wish people would flip the argument and instead of saying tech bubble, start asking about the death rate of all the millions of apps, small shops, and side projects that are flooding the tech sector. I would like to see if this "fail" rate is too low (in the sense of not having enough winners) rather than a tech "bubble" being too high.
Engineers have a peculiar relationship with doctors. When they have need of one, and the doctor decides on a treatment plan for them, they think about the complexity of the problem space the doctor had to navigate to reach that decision. They wish the doctor would chart the parameter space for them, so they can agree or disagree with the choice in an informed manner, and have more of a clue about the competence of the doctor. This is usually not what happens, not to their satisfaction anyway, and it's deeply unsettling having to trust rather than know when it comes to something that appears so much like engineering on the surface.

An alternative title for this article might be "what doctors really think", and thus strikes to the heart of this issue.
I think the Beatles had this principle down when they sang "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." Clearly, they had to make it fit a lyric, but I think the idea is very similar.

Sometimes when I hear stories of mean people getting ahead I wonder how accurate the sentiment could be. Its good to see a case where doing good over time results in success.
Units should be built into languages! Others have pointed to some libraries that make this possible in C++ and Rust; I'm sure it exists for other languages too. But this seems still short of what's needed: Every number in an application should be of a certain type and those types should combine on mathematical operations. Often those types already exist within the application's type model -- i.e. every class/interface is an obvious candidate. Then it would just be a matter of assigning those types to numbers. This would yield the ability to express things like Users/Client or Requests/second through simple math operations on variables and have it all type checked.
I wonder if there's a good way of getting the best of both worlds. The 'killer app' here would seem to be that you can migrate between conversations and be aware of other people's conversations at the same time, taking advantage of the efforts of evolution to the fullest. Is there a better way that's more inclusive?
As someone who interviewed people applying to Facebook (or Oculus anyway), the coding tests were intentionally told to be structured as one easy question (so that the candidate could build some confidence and provide some signal) and one medium/hard coding question (ie can they write more substantial solutions and solve harder problems). That’s for the traditional “CS” coding interview. The other technical part is an open ended design question (whiteboard/hand-waving diagrams/explanations with no code).
We always allow the candidate to use any reasonable language. We're not testing if someone knows Java/Python/Lisp (I wish). We're testing if they know any language. I can confirm seeing people with resumes who nevertheless could not write any code even in the language they professed to be "expert" in.
I was thinking this too, but couldn't remember the name. Thank you!

Also reminds me of Well of Souls by Synthetic Reality with all of the avatars floating around and the randomly-styled images that pop up. I dig it.
Is there any specific reason why you need a blog platform? I add posts under /blog and that works fine. Static site, most content is written in markdown so it's super easy.
It’s not a science book, but this did bring to mind an enjoyable sci-fi book by Greg Bear called Darwin’s Radio, for reasons that’ll be obvious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio
I would encourage people to delete Twitter first, and then (probably) Instagram. You can absolutely use FB productively. I have been using FB just to use specific nature and fitness realted groups. But Twitter is probably the most toxic mainstream social media and almost impossible to use without lowering yourself into the Twitter cesspool. At least I was not able to use Twitter productively.
Over the course of a number of years and a few jobs at IBM starting in the early 90s, I knew 2 people on their "technical track". Their jobs involved huge numbers of airline miles, continual meetings, and essentially no technical work.

That was one of the primary reasons I stayed a contractor most of my career.