jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, it's not. Investing that money would be about the long term horizon. Like, 10-30 years at least. If you're trying to get ahead, your current goals should be getting and staying out of debt, and preparing for emergencies. What happens if you throw that emergency fund in the market, there's a crash, and then you lose your job in six months?

Get out of debt. Build an emergency fund. Start investing. Then re-think your emergency fund strategy if you really want.
> NOTE: LITERALLY ZERO OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE!!! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!!

I'm glad this is the opening line. Puts the rest of the article in perspective.

We also appear to be contributing to the author's own P&D scheme for HN credits :-)

https://twitter.com/aadillpickle/status/1365454284104626182
One way this was solved is the UI in airplane cockpits. For "Multi Function Displays" (or MFDs for short), they have a central screen, and buttons around the perimeter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-function_display

I can't find any nicely linkable images, but you can search up "fighter jet mfd" for some examples.
> It's not an unrealistic valuation. It wasn't completely insane like GME. AMC only went up to $20 for one day (near its Oct 2018 price) and is now at $8.28 (roughly where it was at pre-pandemic).

I beg to differ. AMC has nearly tripled their share count during the pandemic via ATM offerings. So, an $8 share price now is not the same as it was pre-pandemic. AMC's valuation now is 3x higher than pre-pandemic, which is indeed, insane, considering the state of their business.

Source: https://ycharts.com/companies/AMC/shares_outstanding
Another fun one is when the programmers accidentally give the AI the wrong goal.

I have no idea if this actually happened, but I've heard of a chess program that was playing in a tournament that started making really weird moves in the endgame. Before that point, it was playing excellently.

It took the developers a while to figure out what was going on. They had made a mistake when doing some last minute tweaks before the tournament, and in effect the program was playing to lose.

Think about that for a minute. At first you might think losing would be easy. Just don't defend against your opponent's attacks, and make moves that weaken your position to make it even easier for the opponent.

But wait...the mistake in the code applied to the program's evaluation of both its own moves and the opponent's possible moves. In other words the program assumed that the opponent was also playing to lose.

How do you play to lose a game of chess if your opponent also wants to lose? You need to get to a position where the only legal move of the opponent is to checkmate you.

You'll want a position where you have a big material advantage, and all the opponent has is their king and enough material to mate you. Probably just king and queen. Then you'd need to keep putting them in check, in such a way that they have to block with the queen. You'd need to arrange a series of such checks and blocks so that the final block also delivers checkmate on you.

And so it turns out that during the opening and middle game, playing to lose against someone who is also playing to lose looks pretty much the same as playing to win against someone who is also playing to win.

(Personally, I doubt this actually happened. The story is old, and I don't think chess programs would have been able to see far enough ahead for them to discover that getting an overwhelming position is the way to force the opponent to checkmate them).
They are aware of that ;)

https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/580060489796829184
I love the idea of some scammer setting up a fake POS in a store and checking out customers. They would probably try to blend in with the real staff and use legit looking gear.

- Our inventory system went down so I have to type in your total

- All set, it just automatically e-mails you the receipt

- (Who are you?) Corporate sent me, I'm in a different store everyday

This has probably been done before.
I see no evidence for this idea, yet i cannot help but wonder: could this be some sort of ironic and/or humorous observation on the local religiosity? Kind of like some future human civilization discovering I am America and So Can You by S. Colbert and not having any contextual reference?
Thanks. I did change the password. A search indicates that something similar has been reported by others about every month this year.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
I tried pumping Ali G tweets into it - http://twiggr.com/REAL_Ali_G

Sadly, not quite the John Malkovich inside the head of John Malkovich experience I was looking for...
The government has decided that the "border" extends 100 miles inland from official land/sea borders. This apparently covers 2/3rds to 4/5ths of the U.S. population.

Coverage on the 100-mile-thick ACLU-dubbed "Constitution-Free Zone":

Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/

Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/10/aclu-23-of-us-p...

(Note the entire land area of the Hawaiian islands are covered, as is the entire state of Florida.)

I think it's probably even worse than that, though, because International airports count as "borders" no matter how far inland. So I would not be surprised to see this extended to a 100-mile radius of all international airports as well, which would cover almost everybody.
Funny how much has changed in 25+ years, yet most of Steve's ideas are just as relevant today.
"The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution contains a border-related exception to unreasonable search and seizure laws, permitting searches at border checkpoints that wouldn't be permitted elsewhere. But federal statute 8 CFR 287.1 (a)(1-3) defines the border zone for enforcement purposes as encompassing an area within 100 miles of the actual border, with the possibility of extending it further under certain circumstances. This means that the US Border Patrol could conceivably set up random checkpoints asking travelers for a passport in places like Columbus, Ohio; Houston; or anywhere in the state of Florida. And, in fact, it appears that it has been doing exactly this."

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/10/aclu-23-of-us-p...
Facebook seems to offer the most salary/compensation.

More interestingly, Facebook is one of only two companies (among 10) where the company rating is higher than the compensation rating.

Google gets 3.9 for company rating and also 3.9 for compensation rating (both are good). Facebook gets 4.3 for compensation rating. It gets an even higher score 4.6 for company rating (and that makes it the only company where Glassdoor describes the employees as "very satisfied")

It will be interesting to find out what Facebook is doing right and why other companies aren't able to match it.
Baseimage-docker does use Runit. my_init calls Runit.
I think that's pretty unlikely. The M1 is a totally new world from even the best x86 processors, especially in a laptop. Not only that, but Apple has indicated that the next generation is yet another quantum leap from this one. Eventually other companies will catch up, but I doubt it will be anyone without a stake in ARM already. NVIDIA looks like the one to do it.
I live nude in a barrel by a river, all I do is trade cryptocurrency on my phone collecting over 8 figures annually, and everything I don't spend on potatoes I donate to GiveWell. How could I save more lives?
Legacy x86-64 app emulation has only just appeared in alpha form and still has massive compatibility issues.

I'd still call it something we hope to see in the future, instead of a working proof of concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
What's an SV company? I googled for SV companies and Software V companies and found nothing. Many companies seem to have SV in their names, though.
Sounds like your company should hire people from different time zones and have the on-call follow the daylight so that teams can fulfill that responsibility during normal work hours, especially when expected response time is in single digit territory and on-call isn’t paid extra.

But overall it sounds like the company for which you work is a complete joke who doesn’t care about employee health and you should leave them asap.

Good luck! Don’t forget, engineers are high in demand across the globe!
You strongly believe this based on what?

Being "99.9 percent identical" doesn't necessarily preclude substantial genetic variation in intelligence just like it doesn't preclude such variation in height or skin tone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I think people are ready for AR glasses. Just not the ones getting released in the next two years.
There is an important distinction here - they're restricting the number of inbound planes, as opposed to barring their citizens from entry.

Theoretically speaking, if a ship crew of only AU citizens would dock at an Australian port, they would not be denied entry given that they follow quarantine procedures, I assume?
That's true. Every time I have to launch a new Django site I always have to spend an hour or two reading docs to refresh my memory on how to configure everything. SSL, systemd services, certificates, uwsgi, database setup, permissions, dns, email, etc. Someone could probably make a lot of money by creating some kind of Django+uwsgi+docker+nginx+postgreSQL bundle to make this process as painless as possible.
Any idea why this is proprietary? Is it third party? The only references I find online to "libsparse" is an MIT-licensed Python library.
The problem with IP addresses is that many ISPs rotate IPs between customers, especially IPv4 addresses. If an ISP starts running out of addresses, they may have to start using NAT. "Privacy" VPNs also do the same (by design).

A banned IP may be rotated to a legitimate user under many scenarios. Only ban/blackhole IPs for a limited duration.
Wait until you find out how many people use vpn services whose end points are hosted in a cloud provider. IP address blocking is a fools errand.
It doesn't have to be immediate, but most high quality workers will not be interested in anything that requires them to spend a period of time without a full-time job. So whatever contract work you give them will have to be small enough that they can do it while still working a full-time job, or you will miss out on most of the high quality people.
Interesting. Mostly when I have tried to understand this (recently), the answers have been religious in tone and nature.

To answer your question to some degree - the app is primarily user facing. I would also want analytics and a dashboard for the user based on the activity they see on the content they create. (But no complex number crunching)
Far from perfect (regexps on html???), but; it suffices to get latest 22 submissions:

wget -q -O - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adulau | grep -o 'title"><a href="[^"]*" rel="nofollow">[^<]*<' | sed -e 's/title"><a href="\([^"]*\)" rel="nofollow">\([^<]*\)</\2 - \1/'
Open interest declines if someone closes positions.

Open interest increases if someone opens a position.

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Open Interest is well over 10,000 on $800 GME expiring tomorrow. So __somebody__ bought-to-open call options at $800. (I presume the sell-to-open side of that call option is just the Market Maker who happened to close that deal, taking the free money).

This is well over $1-million USD being YOLO'd onto an outrageous bet (that GME is going to be over $800 tomorrow at 4:30pm).

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/option-cha...

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In any case, my point is that retail is absolutely allowed to trade options overnight. Just because stock market is closed doesn't mean that the options-market is closed. The options-market is 24/7.
This. I mean, it's not even an ad for Bitcoin per se (it includes lines like "Bitcoin looks like a long-duration option on a highly unknown future that I could put an amount of money in that I wouldn’t mind losing about 80% of"!).

It's "look, you don't understand Bitcoin but you've heard it's doing well. We understand it very well including potential upsides and downsides, but won't make any specific predictions. Trust our quality insights into markets we're actually focused on"
>You can get many many components from local stores now, if you're willing to pay the 4x-10x premium

Well. No. RadioShack is closed. Fry's is closed. If I needed a resistor, I honestly wouldn't know where to go. Probably AliExpress or DigiKey. There's no local stores left.
With or without a union, there are no laws I am aware of that prohibit workers cooperating to get higher wages from employers.

That does not violate anti-trust law in the US. It is not a special exemption the union has, it doesn't violate anti-trust law in the US even if there isn't a union involved, for employees to "collude" to get higher wages.

Or if there are such laws I'm not aware of, feel free to share. But I gather you think it ought to be illegal? Why?
I would add the DO API being all or nothing with permissions to that list.

Not being able to give just DNS access to a script for updating LE/ACME DNS challenges means it'd be a non-starter at work.
Saw someone mention this on twitter, and thought it was really rad.

Most languages have some way to group things together, i.e., a struct. Many languages also provide some sort of array primitive or library data type, e.g. in Go []Foo is a contiguous list of Foo's in memory, similarly List<Foo> in C#, vector<Foo> in C++, etc.

This is often a very convenient way to organize your code, but there is a potential peformance pitfall in the resulting memory layout: if you want to iterate over your collection only accessing a subset of the fields, the other fields are just junk in memory, causing worse performance (since less of the data you're interested ends up in the cache at once).

A solution is to reorganize your code into a struct of arrays, e.g. instead of using a list of the Foo struct, you make a "FooList" struct, which contains a list for every field that used to be in Foo. This puts all values for the same field contiguously next to each other, improving performance.

But, it comes at a cost: often times the resulting code structure is much less convenient than just being able to say something like list<Foo>.

The linked zig type, MultiArrayList, is really neat because it gives you both: using Zig's compile-time execution feature, it's a generic type that provides the familiar list<Foo> interface, but has a memory layout where all the fields are contiguous with each other.

Pretty cool!
My understanding is that companies are worried about being perceived as tacitly supporting piracy if they ship with no OS. I know, for example, HP will not sell you a laptop with no OS, but they will sell you one with FreeDOS.
Yes, but with widening income/wealth gaps, I would expect the popular areas to have a larger deviation from the mean.
do you think we should hear about tobacco health risks from cigarette companies?

do you think we should accept climate science from fossil fuel companies?
> That is false. $16.8B is greater than Melvin's AUM

losses on options contracts arent limited to invested capital. AUM is irrelevant
They can ( or more precisely into positron electron pairs), but only at much higher energies ( so for example gamma rays). Most likely here some effect, for example photo-electric effect, where you can reconstruct the original photon from the electron, so that you only transfer the information of the photon.
Oh yes, please please stop that.
What is it with India and economics? I have personally known many Indian economists, I see a lot of books written in Hindi about finance and other economic topics, and apparently many studies are conducted in India. There is something going on here, maybe a trend that will be remarked on a century from now.
Twitter,google and the rest refuse to let you register without a phone number and they are agressive about not letting burner services.

So I spend money buying burner sims. I can. But normal people can't. They use phone numbers more than IP addresses to uniquely identify people. Never use apps if you can use a website!

And screw these companies that are sneakily hostile against their own user base.
I disagree that there is a monopoly on the term. But even if we accept that, my example meets the requirements of the page you linked. Read it more carefully.
They shouldn't worry too much. The economy Nobel was a fake political after addition to the real set of scientific prizes, along with peace prize.
Indeed I am. This thread is much worse than we'd normally allow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift is why.
The specification for WebAuthn (Security Keys) explicitly tells implementers they SHOULD support multiple tokens because otherwise the recovery scenario is terrible.

You can't realistically "back up" cheap Security Keys, their whole design is predicated on your being unable to extract the secret inside them which makes them work.
I am somewhat bothered about the reverse scenario. For example e-cigarettes, some people are eager to quote statistical data on it, but I feel we should be able to state if e-cigarettes are harmful or not from a purely theoritical standpoint, an explanation on how it interacts with the chemistry of the human body and say it is harmful or not.

We didn't send the man to the Moon on the basis of statistical experiments, we knew it was possible even before the first screw was put in on the rocket.

I am fearful that depending on experiments would lead to the same dire credibility issues that plague experimental psychology.
Not sure what we're being accused of here. To rattle off some things in the general vicinity: we didn't touch this story, other than to remove the flamewar penalty that HN's software put on it. That's not because the software got it wrong—it got it right. But we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Re "want to keep their business interest in China come to fruition"—ending one's business interest in China is a strange way to do that. How devious they must be!
I already deleted it. I'm not sure how I can prove it to you as I didn't get an email, and when I clicked the "Delete Account" button to commit to deleting my account it just bounced me to the dropbox homepage. But thanks for trying to call me out.
Sure: When the client has created a hashsum of the file and sent it to the server, the server can respond with a challenge: "What's the SHA1 of the bytes between X and Y" (where X and Y are random numbers). This is something both parts can easily compute and the client must have the whole file in order to answer the challenge.
And congrats to the runner-up, UK, for forcefully deporting the Chagossians from their homeland in the 1970s and continuing to prevent them from returning. Long live democracy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Diego_Garcia
I agree. I actually proposed this idea a while back but never went through with the implementation. I hope Dropbox turns a blind eye to this because I think its fair use of Dropbox. Instead of someone sending you the file and then you adding it to Dropbox manually, you can just send the hash for the file and receive without P2P. This is where the world of online storage might head anyways.
Small enough that HN does not attract attention of PACs who have basically co opted many of the political related subs on reddit. simple email blasts each morning and alerts through the day to get people to vote on stories and boost specific posters. Can also target people to report or poison a sub

people don't understand how much of what they read on reddit is actively managed by people who want the message controlled. This is the same for any popular social media site with twitter being the top of the heap

just be glad that HN isn't that important to where the issue becomes observable (we get enough indirect political tripe as it is with submissions)
Any plans to support AMD chips?
I believe this article is a bit out of context, yes?

In an ordinary environment (at home, at big corp.) you treat your keys as highly personal valuables and would not store keys at shared storage (unless special circumstances, due to air gaps or because shared non personal jobs need to run with a key - and then by a separately generated key).

If I'm at that point that I would have to rotate my private SSH key, then game is lost anyway.

If the storage at your personal device cannot be encrypted, might it be a solution to pass along something like ssh-add - <<< "$(pass show ssh/env1-key1)", and have that gpg-key on a yubikey for instance.

In my (perhaps too small) view, this issue is not the issue, and the issue should instead be tackled. For instance, not by letting SSH be publicly accessible as the first thing and educate staff on locking their personal workstations. With the correct mindset other things should be of focus in the area of security.
"A century ago, in November 1915, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity in four short papers in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The landmark theory is often presented as the work of a lone genius. In fact, the physicist received a great deal of help from friends and colleagues, most of whom never rose to prominence and have been forgotten. (For full reference details of all Einstein texts mentioned in this piece, see Supplementary Information.)

Here we tell the story of how their insights were woven into the final version of the theory. Two friends from Einstein's student days — Marcel Grossmann and Michele Besso — were particularly important. Grossmann was a gifted mathematician and organized student who helped the more visionary and fanciful Einstein at crucial moments. Besso was an engineer, imaginative and somewhat disorganized, and a caring and lifelong friend to Einstein. A cast of others contributed too."
While I usually limit myself to one video playing on the computer, when following live events it can happen that you want to have two streams running. E.g. the multiple channels streaming the Starship test flights or watch one video while waiting for another stream to come online.
So anything non-deontological is postmodern?
Looks like it was just the more recent DOE regulations that were reserved. These were for specialty bulbs. But with some of the states still enforcing the changes combined with other countries doing similar things, the manufacturers probably will move on to newer technology.

> In 2014, the Department of Energy issued regulations that would extend the efficiency standards of the 2007 EISA law to some specialty bulbs, effective January 2020.[91] The new standards would apply to Edison, globe, and candelabra bulbs among others. In February 2019, the Department of Energy announced a proposal to withdraw this change. In September 2019 the Trump administration rolled-back these energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs with the Energy Department's publication of regulations in the Federal Register.[92][93] The Energy Department announced the reversal of the 2014 regulation that would have taken effect on January 1, 2020 and implemented the last round of energy-saving light bulb regulations outlined by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.[94]EISA law to some specialty bulbs, effective January 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
The second one is new to me. It's really fascinating how they choose a set of policies and work hard to construct a reality that supports the policy positions. It strikes me as so backwards.

It's tinfoil hat, but my only conclusion is the actual reasons for the policy are so incredibly unpopular that they invent these realities to obscure them.
I bet absolutely nobody in texas asked "how efficent is the heatpump at -20c" when buying them. Same reason why all the windmills froze: "would like this wind mill model that produces eletricity at -20, or this cheaper one that freezes at 0c?"