skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>what will determine the price of stocks?

Do you think active investors determine the price of stocks now?
It's not any fundamentally different than Bitcoin, in fact it's probably better for money laundering than Bitcoin because nobody cares. Furthermore, the market cap was $400MM a few months ago, so does that mean we're still in a "bubble"?
Is brain hacking possible?
> I've since accepted that it is entertainment veiled as education.

Hacker News is neither entertainment nor education. It's just other people having conversations about a common topic of interest.
>> There are certainly many serious people who take are worried that too much index based investing will / is leading to inefficiencies.

It definitely is / will in the future, and they will be capitalized on. This isn't really a catastrophic event.
Off topic, would you be able to share the list of the articles given to you by your colleague?
You don't know what my site requires, so you're assuming that whatever hosting you just randomly want to assume is sufficient is enough and so you can discredit my legitimate idea for a possible way to get the required cost to run my site, and possibly also make a little profit. Would you rather have me borrow user's time and attention with ads, or bottom a few of their precious millions of CPU cycles per second? And in case you didn't read what I wrote, I'm not "stealing" anything. The site will be hosted either way, if I have to pay for it out of pocket at a loss then fine. But if people would like to donate CPU time to support the project, there is an off-by-default option to do so, just like there's an off-by-default option to donate money. I fail to see how this is evil.
Thanks. As I made clear, I don't much care, but that would be nice.

But I will also want to get black OUT of the inside where it is most important that I be able to see. There just some cheap, thin, white coat will let me see, and that's what's crucial.

It's not furniture or home decorating. Instead, it's just a mechanical part of a crucial tool for my business.

When my business works, then I'll consider art in a nice house but even then not in my server farm for my business.

My point is really just dirt simple, and I'm having a really tough time getting it across; I want to get the point across in hopes the makers of desktop PCs will hear and act.

Without repeating a dozen times, I just don't know how to be more clear: The PC I need is a tool, just a tool, for my business. I care, care nearly everything, about my business. The PC is not home decorating anymore than a set of socket wrenches is. For that PC, I have no interest in style, fashion, art, or home decorating.

For black, for me, it's really, really serious: Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work. It's that simple. Only that simple. I just need to see. With black, I can't see. With nearly anything else, I can.

I just want to see. Otherwise I don't care except don't really want a fashion statement. I'll put up with a fashion statement if I can see to work on the parts in the case.

Think of the case as something in a workshop or on a factory floor, not furniture; but I've said all that and don't know what to do to be more clear than just to say it again.

Maybe the problem is that the OP and nearly everyone else on this thread is talking about fashion, and I'm not and instead -- I don't want to repeat a dozen times.

I could scream loudly enough to be heard on Mars -- I need a mechanical tool I can see to work with, don't care about fashion, and don't want fashion to get in the way. I could scream that point loudly enough to blow down all the trees and houses in all of NYS. All it is about is just one word -- seeing. Nothing could be more simple.
http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?FizzBuzz
You can install nix-serve on any machine to share its binary cache (including patched applications). Then add all of the enabled machines to every machine's nix.binaryCaches in order of preference. If they don't have what you need, it will fall back to the upstream server. You'll want to make sure they are upgraded in an appropriate order to minimize the need to leave your network for updates. It's true this isn't well documented, but I figured it out in about a day and was surprised at how simple it turned out to be.

You can even go further and set up your own build server to service all the architectures you need to support.
Was there any consensus on whether Szabo is Nakamoto? He seems to be on the short list of people who had both the brains and the talent to pull off Bitcoin.
Ironically, Doge had a market cap of over 400 million a few months ago. It is now below 100 million. Does that mean the bubble already happened according to this article?
Ugh...no. The carbon footprint of cryptocurrencies is already borderline-unconscionable, and that's with purpose-built hardware that achieves efficiency beyond what consumer-grade equipment can. Moving mining onto consumer hardware and implementing it in JavaScript is a huge step backwards.
This is the actual headline, and I hate the EFF for creating it.

There is a VAST gulf between not passing a bill that would have created a positive situation, and actually passing a bill that creates a negative situation.

In addition, this need for this bill was created by the FCC ripping up the privacy protections, so it got introduced very late in the session. As the article points out, the fact that it got this far so quickly is a huge deal.
Anything over 10,000 AUD (about 8,000 USD) purchased with cash. AirPods are expensive but not _that_ expensive.

My guess is that they paid online for in-store pickup, and Apple asked for ID to confirm they're the one that made the purchase. In which case that's an Apple thing, not a government thing.
Right on. Yeah, I'd love to hear more. My email is yahn007 at gmail.
I was asking genuinely because I could not tell whether the person I was replying to was being sarcastic about the idea of not having comments or if they just didn't make the connection between "quiet" and "no comments".
In your original comment, you were implying that societies that lose privacy go south very quickly. As in that loss of privacy is causal.

I can't speak for Pol Pot, since I'm not very familiar with his regime, but with Hitler and the Danish, my understanding is that record keeping aided in the German occupation. Not that the Denmark went downhill after it started doing meticulous data gathering.

Can you give causal examples?
Those labels exist, at least in Japan. They're not numbers, though. http://www.barcode-net.com/products/recycle/img/ex-img_recyc...

The problem is when items have multiple labels, because they're not made of one thing. The simplest example is Saran wrap, where the box is "paper", and the part to cut plastic is either "aluminium" or "plastic" (there are brands that make it in paper so that it's easier, though). And both parts go in different bins. Bottles can have 3 parts: plastic cap, PET bottle, paper label. All in different bins.

Then you add rules where things need to be clean, which mean in theory, your toothpaste tube needs to be cut open, and cleaned, before putting it in the bin.

And different cities have different rules.
There is fair amount of really smart people inside China (in tech scene and otherwise) that probably want out [of the country] but don't know a clear path for doing so, I think efforts should be made to that clear path; to work on companies outside China [where they don't fear for their life if someone made a anti-government comment on their site]. Due to censorship by the national dictatorship such online effort must be done using randomly generated domains (known by word of mouth), hard to censor texts (eg. text inside images that use weird fonts; as intro inside pirated comics/movies/videogames, private messages inside Alibaba and other platform that the Government won't shot down)
Thank you. My reading of that is that the algorithm is theoretically pauseless, but the implementation has a fixed sub millisecond pause that doesn't scale with heap size or allocation rate. So they could make the implementation truly pauseless, but it wouldn't make any practical impact because of other factors like CPU scheduling jitter dominating. So to all intents and purposes it is pauseless.
or just inject (via extension or JS)

.itemlist .subtext {display: none;}
"X is not true socialism/communism" has become the new godwin's law.

Whenever the failure of a socialist/communist government is discussed inevitably is wasn't TRUE socialism/communism
I wonder what they are eyeing up to buy at the moment and what will turn up in iPhones in 5 years time.

Some sort of AI accelerator chip. Or clear phone / heads up display.
>>basically his idea was that while active managers will sell certain specific stocks (less volatile stocks) to fulfill redemptions in the event of a decline and/or crash,

This is true and leading to very good insight.

>>ETFs will generally just hit an (automated) sell on everything across the board. So proportionally they will sell off significantly more volatile small and midcaps vs large caps.

This is absolute nonsense and something you hear from active investors pitching you an anti-index fund strategy. Index funds and ETFs tracking indexes will not have some absurd sell off that disrupts equilibrium, they will... just proportionally adjust to the index, since that is what they do.

Did your smart investor friend go into detail how this massive disruption could occur (what conditions would cause such a cyclical crash, because the only thing we have in our past that even comes close is the Great Depression, and had index funds existed then, it's not likely this activity would occur) or what the details are?
I'm curious to hear about the design principles going into Fuchsia... ie Unix tried out X, but that inturn runs into issues Y and Z down the line.

i.e the "why" behind the design they've chosen.
So, no change then? Since those "home wifi" connections come through a centrally owned comms network.
> There’s already a license for BSD+PATENT, and it’s called Apache license. Is Apache setting a bad precedent as well?

That comparison is incorrect because the termination clauses are different. The patent license under Apache only terminates if you sue about the specific patents covering the software. By contrast, the Facebook patent license terminates if you sure Facebook (or an affiliate -- who is that?) over any patent whatsoever (including patents not covering the software, such as unrelated patents you own and which Facebook is infringing willfully because they know you dependent on React in your products).
> the ads are burned into the stream, so you can't block them.

Source? Adblock seems to work fine.
I'm not certain there is a technical solution to incivility, or at least, I suspect that technical solutions can only go so far.

Incivility is a social problem, and that requires community involvement and reinforcement of accepted norms, not attempts at operant conditioning through the UI.
Good. And I hope that the response to every negative ad, opinion piece, etc. is "So, about Equifax and their punishment..."

Being able to hang the Equifax albatross around Google, Facebook, etc. is going to be glorious.
It is not. In this talk [1] Eelco Dolstra touches upon that a bit also.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH5qU1qBXY&feature=youtu.be
Long threads are paginated too, now. I wonder how long that's been a thing.
As it always is with cryptocurrency. It's not sustainable, but at the moment a wasm + WebGL solution is better than plain JS. That's all I meant.
The type of strategy they employed isn't something small time investors could. It was a complex option scheme essentially buying options on their own short term trading.
Things is, all the funcionality to block certain content has already been created and tested (at length) in uBlock Origin.

Using a different addon for exactly the same purpose but for different content is the worst kind of separation of concerns.
>>People will withdraw money from their passively managed funds when the market starts tanking.

Yes, some will. Many will also counter this by buying up the same assets as the price drops.

>>in my view, the more money that ends up being managed passively, the easier it will become to beat the market as an active investor.

This is absolutely true but also has nothing to do with your friend's legitimately unbelievable scenario.
No, there is not requirement to show ID when buying electronics in Australia. I suspect that GP's experience was due to them collecting a pre-purchase, and Apple stores having some sort of policy around verifying the purchaser in order to prevent theft.
> Rust at least lets you prove a sizeable chunk of practical safety and correctness properties.

Not true in my perception. The things I do with conventional languages, I seldom worry about invariants that could be guaranteed by a more structural language, like null pointer safety or absence of side effects (I seldom worry about them because I seldom get them wrong).

Much more I constantly juggle invariants like "this integer is a power of two and that integer is an odd positive one. This other pointer resource is the one that correlates with the integers in that specific way."

These types of invariants are not practical to encode even in advanced type systems; I've even had a quick look and Agda and what-was-that-other-system-called, but it went quickly over my head.

> Yet another irrelevant, unjustified, negatively connoted description that has no basis in realty; first "experimental", now "elitist". Come on.

Not meant as an insult at all.

>> Get out of your little corner mate.
> What was your goal with this statement? This is a fairly technical discussion, not a Reddit politics thread. There's no need for you to stoop to vague insults.

Dito. Your counter-arguments seemed to be heavily implying that there is no way way of getting code done correctly in a language that is somehow "lesser" than Rust. And furthermore you seemed to be preconceived about what others' judgement of the relevance of "correctness" is (which is a vague term - it sometimes seems to be more than "it runs correctly all the time and we could even prove it correct or actually have done so, even if not in some fancy modern type system").

So that little punchline at the end was not meant in an insulting way at all. Just to give note how your comments were perceived. Not that I really need to tell you, but it's good to admit other viewpoints / take interest how problems are typically approached in other domains.

(By the way, I took an interest in John Carmack's recent engagements with static analysis and functional programming. I, for one, LOVE Carmack not only for being undoubtedly a genius who gets shit done, but furthermore for being so undogmatic about his approaches and views. You might have followed some of it, too -- for example, https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functiona... , and it's also interesting to see that in the end he backed away after having seriously considered Haskell for game programming. I'm not sure if he backed away from his (actually existing) VRScript implementation written in (untyped) Racket as well)
>>Investing through index funds and ETFs will correlate with a certain alpha

This sentence actually means nothing.
Now I'm beginning to think that you are trolling me. Memory allocators within the kernel works exactly the same as those outside of it. But for one stand-alone library using balanced trees, look at jemalloc.
Website owners are free to attempt this business model. I am free to choose what code runs on my machine.

Every business model has trade-offs, and no model guarantees income.
https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60001...

It's clearly the future of ad delivery. If you burn ads into video, you can't block them short of doing some kind of realtime detection against the video frames.

It absolutely sucks because the pause button has become a "play ad" button. There's no way to temporarily pause anymore without showing an ad. Hopefully they won't realize they can do the same thing for the mute button.
Did he though? It's been many decades with little if anything to show for it, and Nelson admits to this day he's not a programmer. So it sounds like his ideas are just drawings and equations on paper. That's design, not implementation.

Apparently there's some old demo version, but...

http://xanadu.com/xuspViewer.html
"Unfortunately this made it a very complicated package, eventually too tangled to improve further, and Rob had to get on to other things. "

So one volunteer (Rob) who actually made a working demo some years ago wrote spaghetti code that couldn't scale. That's as close as they can get to working software in decades? Granted the system they propose is difficult to grasp and likely math-heavy, but I don't see it as multiple-decades difficult given the progress computing has made in that time.

The more I read about Nelson and Xanadu, the more it seems like the people backing it have no desire to interact with reality. It's as if they expect their grand ideas, simply by virtue of being grand, will naturally create a viable product on their own somehow, and the "low work" of creating a viable product with a market is somehow beneath them.
Apple in 2018: Ever since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. We shall do the next best thing: block it out.
On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise (1989)
Thanks for the clarifications. This is all starting to make a lot more sense now.

Though I'm still curious how people usually distribute a cert like that internally and update it to keep it in sync with Let's Encrypt automatic renewal mechanism?

As far as I understand, Let's Encrypt requires a public facing web server on the matching domain to renew certificates, so we'd have to actually set up a server solely for the purpose of certificate renewal on a 2-levels deep subdomain, expose it to the public internet, and then propagate the updated certs from that server into every dev machine every time a renewal is triggered?

It sounds like there's little security risk with this approach as long as we use a wildcard cert at least 2-levels deep as you've described, as we don't have to trust this cert for real production traffic at the root domain. But I'm still wondering if there's some tooling I could adopt to streamline this process a bit? Or should I just bite the bullet and script it all myself?
Nice idea, but I must admit though, that I often look at the comments first to ascertain the quality of the article posted. If I see civil, structured discussion, then I am more likely to visit the link afterwards.

However, if I see off topic rants and arguments, then I tend to dismiss the article as an opinion or puff piece.

Generally like that the comments on here tend to stay on topic and thoughtful, although I am disappointed that some of my posts on here lately, which have merely been questions about aspects of the article, have been downvoted. Hope HN doesn't turn into another StackOverflow imitating over-moderated "that doesn't belong here" type site.
Yes, this can't be stressed or repeated enough!

The Soviet Communist Party was/is rather like Scientology. At the noob level, in the Pioneers (a lot like US Boy Scouts) it was all about ideals/ideology and honor. At some point, you realized that members got nice perks. More money. Access to stores that carried better food and stuff. And eventually, as you got into higher-level leadership, you started to get that it was all bullshit.
That's the reason TPB is using Monero. It was specifically designed to be mined on consumer CPUs with little to no benefit to running on a GPU or ASIC.
The original version of Android looked like and worked like a Blackberry: small screen with a physical keyboard and a D pad for navigation (no touch control).

When the iPhone was announced in 2007, they realized that on-screen keyboards and multi-touch control were the future, so they did a complete redesign, moving to an interface similar to the iPhone. Here's a quote from one of their engineers talking about the iPhone announcement:

“As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted [an iPhone] immediately. But as a Google engineer I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over’” Chris DeSalvo said. “What we had suddenly looked so… nineties. It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.”

http://bgr.com/2013/12/19/original-iphone-android-story/
It doesn't have to be visible. You can use display: none or whatever to hide it.
What's the point? The comments are the best part of HN.
From Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties':

Looking past the display, she could see a lot of old hardware side by side on shelves, most of it in that grubby beige plastic. Why had people, for the first twenty years of computing, cased everything in that? Anything digital, from that century, it was pretty much guaranteed to be that sad-ass institutional beige, unless they'd wanted it to look more dramatic, more cutting edge, in which case they'd opted for black. But mostly this old stuff was folded in nameless shades of next-to-nothing, nondescript sort-of-tan. [...] She pointed at the beige hardware. 'How come this old shit is always that same color? His forehead creased. 'There are two theories. One is that it was to help people in the workplace be more comfortable with radically new technologies that would eventually result in the mutation or extinction of the workplace. Hence the almost universal choice, by the manufacturers, of a shade of plastic most often encountered in downscale condoms. He smirked at Chevette. 'Yeah? What's two? 'That the people who were designing the stuff were unconsciously terrified of their own product, and in order not to scare themselves, kept it looking as unexciting as possible. Literally 'plain vanilla, you follow me?
Just wait for full on AI, then you'll see some real digital serf action.
No true Scotsman?
Ads obviously, as long as you're not using them to spread different kind of malware. It doesn't matter that much to me personally, I'll be blocking whatever garbage you put out anyway, but ads are objectively the better choice as they dont needlessly wreck the environment any further, nor cause unnecessary wear and tear on the hardware of your users.

Anyway, I'd be very interested in hearing how a card game simulator requires more than 8gb of memory and a decent cpu.
Efficiency doesn't mean profitable. Traditional miners require profitability while this system would only require some unknown level of efficiency. The equipment costs is basically negligible because you are using idle capacity of existing hardware. The marginal revenue also doesn't need to beat electricity costs because the people paying the electricity are not the ones who are receiving the revenue. For example if every $1 of electricity generated $0.90 of revenue, that would be equivalent to the site paying a 10% fee on the micropayments they receive. That would likely be perfectly acceptable to both sides.
you can exceed the speed limit by a certain amount while passing. at least here.
Expect to keep waiting. WebAssembler does not interact with the DOM and probably never will do. It is being developed as an replacement to NaCl, not V8. Page scripting will still be done in JS for several years.