skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is often coercive, designed to manipulate people into buying things they don't need/overpaying for things. E.g. brand advertising is why people pay $150 for a $10-pair of jeans made in Vietnam. Children's brains aren't fully developed, which makes them uniquely susceptible to manipulation via advertising. At the same time, they have no conceivable need to learn about different products, because almost none are direct participants in the economy.

It's difficult to categorically ban advertising in a free society, but at least in the U.S. speech that does nothing more than propose a commercial transaction is subject to lower First Amendment protections, and the combination of harmful effects on children and the lack of any benefit probably get you over the First Amendment hump in that specific scenario.
Not working here in South America either. Just check Twitter.
Google Comes Out and Alleges Self-Driving Tech Theft Case Was Orchestrated by Uber
Right, you could live a middle class life for 20 years and then retire in Nicaragua or something with 10 million USD...

...or you could just pay 20% (or whatever) cap gains taxes and immediately use your 8 million USD in the US- That seems like the preferable option.
Don't play that game with me. I qualify my remarks so as not to have to bury my point in restatements of well-known context.
All Star Liquor Express on I-5 just south of the Oregon border to California.

There's nothing there. In fact the exit says "No Services" and indeed there's none.

But there is a big liquor store, that also has a sign on the front door saying "We will not knowingly sell to retail customers" (I'd estimate that 99% of their customers are retail, buying their liquor for about 2/3 the price of Oregon liquor prices, or coming up on half of the Washington price).
Just to be clear, you are agreeing with the post you responded to, right? That is, they are both playing the same game, but hedge funds use a different strategy.

Which is the point here. Their strategy is evidently a losing strategy. (Or, rather, suboptimal.)
Phew. Thought it might be a government shutdown or something that hectic.
It's what it's :P
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That's gotta be a copy-paste job. If someone was actually cheeky enough to comment their malware they would've left jokes, puns, etc.
I can't wait to have race conditions in my bank account!

But seriously, this looks really interesting, sign me up.
Two of Bitcoin’s Biggest Names Team Up in Software Deal
I think bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of. The only people who tend to think bankruptcy is something to be ashamed of are middle class and poor people. Rich people and corporations have no issue with bankruptcy. The President of the United States has no issue with bankruptcy either. He's used it to his advantage.
I wish they don't go public anytime soon if they can avoid it. There is already enough nonsense we have to endure about TSLA every time any discussion about Tesla or Elon comes up.

We don't need the additional mindkill of 'Time to short SpaceX!'.
The exec influence goes down to the employees. Expect most mid managers and the upper hierarchy to be modelled by the top.

Then about the bottom employees. Think a minute about what employees are left in that kind of environment and the psychological baggage they might carry.
Watch some Netflix over semi-reliable WiFi and I assure you will feel it working when you get dinged for a data plan overage. True story.
There's a real Hyundai/Honda relationship here. They're similar products but the Vive has a slight edge as the more premium VR headset. The lighthouse based tracking is rock-solid while the CV based tracking of the Rift has been historically iffy. Worse, you'll need to spring for a 3rd camera if you want to get serious about roomscale. So that's another $79.

The Vive already has an accessory ecosystem as companies are more willing to invest in the more 'open' system. You can buy a thinner cable, various comfort gaskets, a complete wireless solution (only in China for now), non-controller trackers to attach to your body or objects in your playspace (still mostly devs doing this), a foveated rendering plugin (just anounced), etc.

You get a slightly wider FOV and a lot more room if you wear glasses. Also a built-in camera, which is a little gimmicky, but a godsend if you want to move a chair, read a text message, move the cat, etc without taking your headset off.

You're also supporting Valve and SteamVR which does not engage in the dirty business of exclusives or "walled garden" approaches like the Facebook/Oculus model. There are also privacy issue with the Oculus software. Even when its not running it has a encrypted connection to Facebook's server constantly.

Lastly, it seems to be the dev favorite. A few of the betas I've been involved with have been Vive-only.

That said, the Vive needs a price cut. It occasionally gets $100 off. I'm hoping they make that permanent.
Thanks for the advice! I'm due for an annual physical this month and will be sure to discuss.

At least there is hope that this may not be permanent
Hmm. I'll need to think about this one. I can see what you're saying... It's probably true but it definitely messes with my (and everyone's) tendency to see history as a series of monolithic happenings.
Í'd like to mention the good book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Speluncean_Exp...

It delves into multiple possible stances regarding the nature of laws. I think Justice Thomas falls squarely into one of the explored stance.

PS: also, an extended version: https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm (that's the one I have)
Ask HN: What is going on with AWS IAM?
I have been unable to perform any actions on https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home without getting 'Http request timed out enforced after 999ms'
Money isn't a mechanism for the exchange of sovereign assets anymore. That role has been supplanted by debt.

You wouldn't cash in your USD anymore than you would trade in your car because petrol prices have fallen.

You might cash in your US Treasury bonds. I say might because there is no flight to safety from US bonds at nation-state scale. Treasuries are the only game in town.

If all this is confusing then here's another way of looking at it... it doesn't matter how precarious the US financial situation becomes until such time as there is a scaleable, stable and transparent alternative means of storing, buying, selling, lending, investing value.
All but one of the big banks stopped loaning him or his ventures money after the first few bankruptcies
> You'd end up just having another email account you have to check all the time

You'd need an extra tab open in your browser that you'd need to check multiple times per day. But most automated messages don't require a response within fifteen minutes or whatever, so there isn't much extra cognitive overhead. And for most people you probably also don't need that email address authed on your phone.
I sure do miss contractor life right now.
We already live in that society. What do you think the millions of people working in finance do, if not try to quantify risk?

Do you want to live in a society where you and your family can be sold into slavery if you fail to pay off your debts? Because that's the logical consequence of not allowing debts to be discharged from bankruptcy, regardless of your ability to pay.

Being a money-lender shouldn't be a license to print risk-free money.
> Fischertechnik is fantastic, but I guess mostly unknown in the US?

Perhaps only by those "not in the know" so to speak. For the general consumer, yeah mostly.

But if you're into DIY robotics for any length of time (or perhaps other STEM pursuits), you likely know about it.

That said, Fischertechnik makes Lego look cost effective...
Hedge funds run that gamut from "bears" to "bulls", from value to speculation, from public equities to private equity and bonds and commodities. Renaissance is a market maker.

The only thing that "Hedge Funds" have in common is that they are private investment partnerships, and typically charge a percentage of assets plus a percentage of profits for their services. Based on their charters they can invest in many different ways.

Historically the term "hedge fund" arose because there was a popular class of private investment partnerships that sought to provide good risk adjusted returns by remaining hedged against possible market collapses. But those types of hedge funds are a small minority, and the label has lost all value.

Ted Siedes knows all of this, because he runs a fund of funds where he adds his own layer of fees to "hedge fund" fees in order to get his clients into the "best" funds. He's been selling the myth of "hedge fund" outperformance for a long time, which is why he made this bet. He's drinking his own koolaid, and it turned out to be made in Jonestown.
Yeah, I did. Although one day I managed to accidentally hand over my school ID rather than the fake one.

Quite a quick walk out of the pub that day.
It's policy commentary.

If it were legal advice, it would, like all legal advice, come with a little disclaimer saying "this is not legal advice".
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No, alright, but I've seen several complaints from people trying out hyper, and getting exceptions/errors on a daily basis. I can't imagine black screen being any different, especially because it is newer.
Illinois badly needs to do this as well.
> As is typical, decisions by politicians placed us in this situation. Decade after decade, 4-year term after 4-year term, the government has spent money it does not have.

Every time every one of us votes for any politician who favors any deficit spending - and this is most of us - we give aid and comfort to this outcome. We all want fiscal responsibility until its a cause that touches us emotionally.
While driving for Lyft, dropping someone a good ways up Beechwood Canyon, I received a text message "You've fallen off the Lyft network, please drive to where you have better data coverage"
GRUB 2.03 Begins Development
Nobody forces lenders to buy up PR bonds, or accept the terms at which they are issued.
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Awesome project, the performance gains seem real, but why wouldn't these optimizations be happening at the javascript JIT level in the vm? (serious question)

React / javascript programming, is the most complex environment I've ever dug into, and it's only getting more complex.

create-react-app is great for hiding that complexity until you need to do something it doesn't support and then it's like gasping for air in a giant sea of javascript compilers.
Rarely. I just do a lot of integration/feature testing for actual projects. Most of my libraries have unit tests though cause for me it makes sense to write a unit test for things like matrix transformations or ensuring some generic gl interface func works cross-platform. But IMO its pointless to unit test a sign_in function, I'd rather just know the whole sign-in feature works.
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This sounds cool. Could you elaborate ? Like what is going to render whatever it wants ?
Some people argue for jubilees.

Which has the effect of limiting the sorts of loans people are willing to write.

I think some limit is a good idea. The idea that a city can borrow from the people living there in 20 years is sort of dangerous. Maybe not for durable infrastructure that will still have much value, but for present day services? That's a horrible deal.
There is really no way to control 3,000 people and have them all having the same understanding of and all applying the moderation criteria in the same way.

You'll be at the mercy of whichever out of 3,000 moderators ends up passing judgment on your post, whether they are liberal or conservative, whether they are having a good day or not, etc.

I don't see this going well for Facebook.
It's down for me in Berlin, Germany.
Yes, they do, there are just a lot more different kinds of "general purpose pieces" than in the past.
Yep. I think the licence was a barrier to the sort of research that Haskell has been subject to. Probably misremembering a podcast with SPJ tho.
Because in case of governments something spurious always happen. That's a special case, and it doesn't have to be that way.
> It casts doubt/worry/issues on the legal legitimacy of Uber's tech. Employees/Researchers won't want to become embroiled in this, if they ever want to license the tech I'm sure "what about google?" will come up and need to be mitigated.

Why would an employee ever fear another entity personally suing them? Was there a mass exodus from Google or Samsung after Apple's successful infringement suit in 2012?

Why would an employee performing genuinely novel work worry about her work being discredited?

I would expect a culpable employee to divest before his organization got caught. Some members of the Enron C-suite sold their stock before the debt hiding scandal broke. Maybe this is happening in Uber's Otto division; has anyone seen anything like this?
> In duck-typed like Ruby/Python, you don't necessarily know whether a piece of code is going to fail, so you assume it does. That's why you have try/catch blocks all over the place.

That's an unreasonable viewpoint. Whether you understand what a piece of code does at runtime is down to the particulars of the code far more than it depends on the language you choose, and it's nothing but code smell to put try/catch everywhere because the code isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing. At best we might agree that it's difficult to maintain a high level of code quality in a large Python project, but try/catch everywhere won't improve things.

There are generally two good places to put try/catch. The first is to put try/catch around a small piece of code that is expected to throw an exception, like parseInt(), and handle the exception right there. The second is to put try/catch around a piece of work which is large enough to make a decision about even when you don't know why it failed—things like top-level HTTP request handlers in web servers, or individual work items in batch processors where you can decide to skip the item and move on to the next. In either of these cases, you're using exceptions to alter control flow.

That's the same way it works in Python, Java, C++, C#, and so many others. And Go uses the same principle, too, even though Go uses error returns. Which is why I am still confused about your original comment—since Go does not have exceptions. Go literally just has panic() and return.
Strange that he doesn't even mention let alone discuss that the primary reason he lost may just be the reason Buffett originally cited which was the high fees of hedge funds/active management. That in most if not all market conditions, high fees preclude a better average return than index funds.

The only reason Seides provided which I found somewhat persuasive was that hedge funds tend to do better in downturns -- this is probably a traditional hedge fund that's actually hedged. I wonder if adding such hedging to an index fund in an automated way would improve performance or not?! Not sure if it's been tested.
> Powered by Standard Bank South Africa

Doesn't give me much confidence. Allgedly hacked & involved in a fraud case [1] [2]

[1] http://city-press.news24.com/Business/standard-bank-r300m-fr...

[2] https://businesstech.co.za/news/mobile/170629/major-sa-banks...
> The Shannara books were unoriginal, but not to a degree that they'd be considered derivative works.

First, as far as I knew only the first book was unoriginal. But I'm certainly willing to believe others are unoriginal too.

Second, when nobody can read a book without noticing "hey, this is exactly the same story as this other book, but with different names", what's left that both

(1) distinguishes it as "not a derivative work", and

(2) doesn't also automatically apply to any translation into a foreign language?

I have seen it said many times that copyright will not protect ideas, only the particular form they have taken. Without a pretty gigantic loophole, those terms would provide absolute protection to a translation, which necessarily cannot use any wording from the original.
If it works anything like OpenShift 3's on premise product, and I see nothing that says it doesn't, you can use whatever IDE you want, but the deeper you get into customization, the less "special sauce" you'll get. Maybe clippy won't pop up and say "hey, it looks like you're trying to use an out of date library!" if you're editing in vi and checking in with git or whatever.
Unless the brinks of defaults will happen in close successions in > 20-30% of the country, what are the incentives for MPs to vote yes on the backstopping for jurisdictions far from their own?

> Reform will not happen. That's code for "cutting benefits".

The benefits to be cut will happen in a few small areas given the size of the US, thus will not affect the majority of lawmakers. If the GOP controls the Congress, that doesn't seem like a large enough impact for them to change their overall ideology towards pension subsidies.
I've heard this a few times and think I agree. Anyone in disagreement on this? Would love to hear an opposing view.
What do you think of Foucault's argument about the shifting of deterrent incentives from the integrity of the social body (qua the privileges of the monarchy) to the the maximization of industrial growth and subsequent quantification and expansion of penal control across society at large in accordance with Bentham's utilitarian calculus?
Does your employer offer free matching? If yes, you're turning down free money if you don't make contributions. Also, might be worth looking into rolling 401K over into your home country's equivalent, which may or may not be something you can do.
Yes it potentially would: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
>They're playing different strategies. If you're a defense-driven team you play to win primarily be keeping the other team (call them the black swans) from scoring. To bring it out of metaphor, it's about risk-adjusted maximum return.

Yes, but that still reduces to a metric applicable to both investments; it just means you can't compare on return alone.

If hedge funds produce a slight higher return by but by taking significantly greater risk, that would be a legit strike against them.
I am sure they will be shared with as many people as can a) afford it and b) are of a similar mindset to the gate keepers.
Any individual power company would have to deal with this, but the graphic implies that the entire US will be inside the eclipse for a while. The usual strategy of buying from someone else on the grid who has a surplus won't be viable, they'll be relying entirely on standby generators.
I'm not convinced this would be worthwhile in the St. Louis suburbs as they exist today. For one, low population densities naturally diminish the value proposition of rail. But, second, the existing auto infrastructure is so good that people would likely still choose to drive.

Yes, I agree that we should strive for higher population densities and that we shouldn't have invested so much in automobile infrastructure, but given that this is where we are, people will make rational decisions.

That's what I mean when I say that we're already too "spread out."

By the way, on the off chance anyone's interested, here's a map of those original streetcar lines:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1W809wsAmB9GR3ZvyII...
Don't worry USA is on the same path.
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Yea, he got the greatest gift he could ever hope for at the beginning of the bet, and couldn't remotely come close to holding that lead. How often in 10 years do you expect a market correction of that size?

He's spewing nonsense now because he got caught with his pants down. His livelihood depends on convincing people that "hedge funds" outperform, no facts to the contrary will ever be accepted by him. He will always mark it up to being unlucky.

It really was a terrible bet for Ted, because it has heavily publicized his fund of funds incompetence to his customers and potential customers.
2.02 added the ability to network boot i think. does that mean i can point my bootloader to a remote host with a kernel and an initrd? does anyone know?
Not quite. Seides' claim is that, at the start of the period, the S&P 500 was valued at the high end of its historical range. It is somewhat reasonable to expect that it would come down from that high instead of going higher.
> If everyone has the expectation that the lenders and borrowers will try their best to live up to the contract they made in good faith, wouldn't it be a better equlibrium?

What makes you think Puerto Rico did not try? How much longer will the poor have to suffer until you accept they've learned their lesson? Some facts about Puerto Rico:

Puerto Rico is poor, almost half of the people live below the poverty line.

They already, for years had to pay higher taxes and fees on almost everything to fight the deficit.

Years ago the first economists called for a restructuring of the debt because it's highly unlikely Puerto Rico will ever be able to repay it.

For years, those with a good education left Puerto Rico because there is no hope of turning the country around while staying on the current course.

From some abstract moral-focused point of view you are absolutely right of course, but here I agree with Berthold Brecht: Food first, moral second. ("Erst das Fressen, dann die Moral!").
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Exactly this. Seides and Buffet are saying Buffet will win "unless they get a market crash" (the second in the 10-year period).

Yes, hedge funds seek to hedge their bets against bear markets, but if you require two major crashes in 10 years to break even with passive investing, the smart money should go elsewhere.
> but has surely solved the _deficit_. Greece has a strong primary surplus.

No, it hasn't. The "primary surplus' doesn't include any debt repayments.
I flew from DEN to SJU a couple weeks ago on 2 days notice. Flights were cheaper than going to SFO or PDX.
American Nations by Colin Woodard and History of American Law by Lawrence Friedman are probably the best intellectual cocktail if you want to go on a serious historical bender.
I love KSP but when people ask me if they should buy it I try to be as honest about the brutal learning curve as possible. It is definitely not for everyone.
He's great, and I appreciate his 10 year view.
I am fine with bailouts as long as systems are being put in place to avoid repeating it in the future. That's for Flint, pensions or banks. Obviously the prevention step never happens....
China's spy hunting tactics
Apologies if I overemphasized one portion of your comment. I actually thought it was informative, but think it lacked that one critical element of conflict in the practice as a whole. I now think I understand what you meant in the phrase "the identity of the property owner is unknown" is that this is an assumption under which the theory of the laws of forfeiture is operating.

Can you perhaps expand on why this assumption hasn't been successfully challenged as a basis for overturning many of these other cases where there clearly is a property owner? That's the head scratcher to me in how long this practice has continued.