skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$0-Fee Wealth Management Unless Our Portfolios Beat the Market
Much like in a casino, on Wall Street, the house always wins. Fees are the reason. There are front-loaded fees, back-end fees, fees for management, mutual fund fees, commission, custodial and transactions fees, plus additional fees that are hidden. Even "performance-based" fees - the 2-and-20 hedge fund model - hardly guarantee a return. The traditional big bank financial advisor model is broken and rife with conflicts of interest. Robo-advisors charge smaller fees, but for the most part, their returns have been modest at best.

But there's hope yet. Much like the wildly popular, fee-free trading platform Robin Hood, there's a new kid on the block set to take investment management by storm. Strategic Growth Investment Management (SGIM.com), run by top-performing UBS and JP Morgan alum Mitch Wonboy and seasoned technologist and investor Adam Forbes pledges a better-than-market returns, or you don't pay a cent for management for as long as you're a customer…”no fees unless you beat the market.”
SGIM is trying to change the wealth management industry for the better and believes that it’s possible to outperform broad market indexes more often than not by applying a mathematical approach to investing that combines the latest innovations in data analytics with proven, time-tested investment principles eliminating human biases from the equation. SGIM only purchases individual securities, so their clients know exactly what securities they own as opposed to the opaque characteristics of mutual funds and ETF’s. Also, SGIM does not use leverage, stock shorting, high-frequency trading algorithms, or any other high-risk techniques. “We are investors, not trades,” and with 5-minute signup, fully transparent pricing and bear market protection, the platform is appealing for more seasoned and new investors, alike.

It's a bold bet. SGIM's business model is already ruffling feathers on The Street as it takes on mutual fund giants and the massive financial advising industry.
Seems Maven is already supported, or at least in beta: https://dependabot.com/java.html
The contrast between colors in some of the national maps is really bad...I can't associate the colors with the data, especially for the lime green one.
It's so strange seeing these numbers and thinking "Really, I thought we got paid more?" It's making me think that perhaps I'm in a bubble. Everyone I know around me (friends, coworkers, etc.) makes at least 200k combined income, with the average being in the high 200s. This is at FANG, mind you. Are the salaries outside of FANG really that much lower? Even in LA/SF? Can anyone comment on that?
Seems to be an intentional honeypot. That said, the storing the binary code on an innocent image host was a nice find that wouldn't have happened had the attack been blocked immediately. Pretty nice win for that image host to learn to strip images and they can stop hosting malware...
I agree that they are getting better, and glad that in my experience they are not the same. DDG is better for evergreen topics, Google seems to overvalue local / recent now.
Only people in first world countries who have not experienced difficulties due to overpopulation , poverty etc. claim that Malthus is wrong, everything would improve etc.

Having been brought up in an average Indian family and looking at the future where we have a population which is sky high and even though the fertility rate is significantly lower today, you can see the problems first hand. There are no easy solutions now, that time is gone. Only crazy future looking practical things like what the Chinese did with 1 child policy when it was needed long time back would've had helped.

People should get out of their Western bubble, live in overpopulated cities in Bangladesh/India, travel in their public transit, try to find a job as a local without connections and then report back whether overpopulation is not an issue.
Yeah, this is why I snuck "by default" in there.

It's not that great unless it's required. For example, the bare "sqlite3" package name will always sound official/canonical next to "@JoshuaWise/sqlite3" and people will forever accidentally install it even though they want a scope. Just like how users type in domain.com when they really wanted domain.org.
NFS has plenty of good uses. Maildir works fine, sharing large datasets works fine, sharing static assets works fine, it's widely supported. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just stop putting the baby in boiling water.

NFS is a way to share files, not provide a reliable application platform. There are lots of options you can enable to make it more stable, but it simply isn't designed as an application platform, so it's all going to be hacks.

And keep in mind that NFS is not secure. Supposedly it can be secured, but I have never seen this in a production environment. Running an application over it is just a bad idea from a security standpoint. Home directories over it are a terrible idea from both a security and stability standpoint.

Finally, don't try to change a file and expect stability. If you need a new version of a file with some change to it, make a new file and use that new file path.
Sorry I wasn't specific enough, I didn't mean ICMP ping but some application protocol specific periodic request-acknowledgment exchange within a TCP connection in order to check that the connection is still alive regardless of what the OS socket layer says. Many application protocols have this, at least older ones, and I always thought the reason for it is that OS TCP stacks are sometimes unreliable or have unreasonable timeouts.

It's been a long time I've done network programming, though...
The definition of "separate" would be in similar trouble.
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seems like a poor choice to represent women with high-heels in an infographic about gender-based pay gaps.
How to Think Like a Mathematician [pdf]
Everybody stands on the shoulders of giants.
9 CEO Myths That Can Limit Your Business Leadership
> On IPv6 it is strongly recommended not to block ICMPv6 since it routes highly important information back to the sender or forwards to the receiver (like when MTU is reached)

The same is true for IPv4. Path MTU discovery is not new for IPv6. Most systems set the DF (don't fragment) bit by default.
The point of them is like any social interaction. To be entertained and connect with people.

I mostly only follow my friends on social media, but I can understand the appeal of seeing in to the lives of your favorite celebrities.
If the image is not lossy compressed (even if it is for the really clever) you can use a variety steganographic tricks to hide any data you want inside an image. Of course you have to have code to decode it.
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The late (and quirky) Julian Simon wrote on this topic, and on the related notion of ostensibly limited resources. Worth checking out if you are not already familiar with his viewpoint:

The Ultimate Resource, 1981, Princeton University Press, ISBN 069109389X.

The Ultimate Resource 2, 1996, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691042691. http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/
The bay is greatly skewed down by the number of startups skipping on base and offering buckets of equity in exchange. More established companies offering less in equity but keen on retention are driving compensation battles resulting in medians closer to 250/y.

But even then I'm shocked at some of the numbers. A median of 98 is poverty level in the city of San Francisco when you consider studios can go for 2500+/mo in the outskirts of the city. Shoot, after taxes as well as rent and before utilities and other costs of living, my napkin math suggests you'd be left with less than 24,000 a year. Doesn't matter how much equity you get, that's not liveable.

Considering I'm also a hiring manager and have seen others' offer letters when negotiating (and have also seen some of the competitive research that goes into pricing our own roles), I'm also pretty convinced the dataset used here misrepresents reality.
I don't think that applies here, right?

Because we don't know with certainty how hard it is to cheat at the lottery. Of course if it comes out that some people are cheating we'd know that that's at least one way to cheat.

So you have a large unknown variable there in your assumption.

How does the religion example apply? I don't understand that so much.
This sounds like it's gearing up to some Myers Briggs or Learning Styles garbage. I don't think you'll get very far with correlating personalities with code. I think you might be able to learn some temporary behavioral traits by studying code, but nothing like a "personality".
> Cost is size, not complexity.

You're narrowly defining 'complexity' as only 'complexity of procedure' and completely ignoring social complexity and specialization.

How about you justify why only the single measure of 'complexity' is sufficient for our discussion?

A few direct responses to your example:

1. Standardization may save costs overall, but they represent a form of social complexity (you now have
specialized bureaucrats and administrators to determine standards and communicate with troops, weapons must move a long way to supply every legion, training is now done in a centralized fashion)

2. This social complexity adds fragility to the system—if your army depends on having standardized gear to function properly, and barbarians capture your centralized workshops, then all of a sudden you lose the ability to equip the troops effectively; barbarians don't have that problem

3. It's not even clear that standardization saves overall costs here; it may save administrative cost at the Imperial level (it's easier to manage and train troops if they are interchangeable) but incur large hidden costs at the local level; in other words standardization may be an externalization of administrative problems onto the provinces. A direct example would be: if you force all the troops to use standard gear, they might fight worse than if they used weapons that were specialized for dealing with local enemies; also now your troops have a huge delay in being equipped from a central armory, and may end up pay out of their own pockets for local wares just to survive.

Anyone who has sat through multiple re-orgs at a large corporation will understand that what is 'simple' for the administrator (let's make the org chart simple and clear!) may actually cause tons of hidden additional complexity at the bottom layers, so that total complexity has risen even though things look 'simpler' at one particular level.
There has to be accountability if passengers are stuck on the tarmac for hours. You can't have one party saying 'I did my job' and the other saying 'I did my job' but the passengers are still sitting there.

Better to make the party with the most control responsible and have that propagate through the supply chain. If the airports are causing airlines to miss metrics or receive fines, the airlines should be putting pressure/changing routes until the airports improve. If everyone is just twiddling their thumbs then the fines aren't large enough.
The first paragraph mentions that this is a honeypot
May I ask what's FANG?
I had to google this: FANG == Facebook Amazon Netflix Google
New Apps Usage Report and Better Work for Distributed Teams
you are right, I'll correct it and change it to universal gender symbols in a moment
I don't know anyone making $200K outside a bank. Senior salaries in NYC (which is a high-price/high-salary city) tend to run around $150K, give or take 20% (for 10+ years of experience, not someone with 2.5 years experience and a "senior" title).
See also previous discussion from 3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012403 (67 comments)
HTML isn't the problem - declarative markup is a great way of doing GUI layout, non-web GUI frameworks tend to come up with alternatives that look similar. The problem is CSS, which is a fractal of bad design, broken at every level, from selectors to the box model.
Much like the porn industry drives progress in the video format wars, it seems that malware drives progress in the cryptocurrency space. I for one am very excited!
Whoops forgot the source: Belsky 2011
J's Low-Level Obfuscation Leads to Higher Levels of Clarity
Since it doesn't rely on the panel trying to block a very bright backlight, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdYSQ6nu-M

["Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon. Its CEO is Alexander Nix"]
`idlewords, but that's that got to do with Pinterest?
Fair enough, those are reasonable arguments the grandparents could (and should) have made.
“Nuclear War Survival Skills” – Cresson Kearney (1979)
100% agree, that's why I wrote "that conclusion based on these data : X,Y,Z". The important word is "data". I said data because with AI, the decision process may be quite a black box. The only thing you know is what data you put in. So to me, input data is part of the answer.

In my job, we grant decisions to help people or not. We could use some kind of AI to give, for example, a "pre decision". That AI would be trained on our current data but, in the end, it would interpret the profile of the person. So basically, it'd say "based on the profile of X, we've decided that ...". Now if nationality, for example, was in the list of data in the profile, I'm 100% sure that we'd have a lawyer at our door (rightfully).
Always wondered how IPFS deals with this
People looking over your shoulders, you sending a screenshot where you forgot the open file in the background.

I agree a text file is 'secure' enough for you but a lot of password systems also hide the password in the UI which is a pro inho (I use KeePass).
There's probably less than half a drop of oil in the tube and most of that is spat out. So as a poison, yes, no effect. But as a hormone, it depends. I don't know.
> and I discovered in the (DR-DOS based) BIOS at one point that the serial port's electrical behavior can be customized between being edge triggered or level triggered.

Things like that make John Titor's IBM 5100 story slightly more believable. Old computers often have strange features which are omitted from their successors due to being rarely used (for instance, the original IBM PC could use current loop on its serial port connector). One could imagine someone with access to a time machine taking a short trip to the past just to grab one of these old computers as a replacement for a failed one.
What's meant by "containing"? Regular wallet software doesn't allow access to anything besides transaction data. You won't be able to view any text or images.

The number "Pi" contains all hate speech and other illegal content imaginable.
Amazon description:
The book is written for the average person with the average items in a house or apartment. This is called EXPEDIENT CIVIL DEFENSE. You use what you have to protect and provide for yourself and family. Everything around you is a resource, you just have to understand how a bucket, a towel, rocks and clay can filter nuclear fallout out of water (it does!) and what everything else in your house or residence can do. That's why this book is good for any disaster, in any big disaster what is lost is the infrastructure that provides for us. Electricity, water, communications, sewage, transportation. This book show YOU HOW to cope and survive with what you have. This book can save your life.
Microsoft Brings Native HEIF Support to Windows 10
How many men were high heels and how many women have mustache? I don't think the infographics introduce confusion.
I'm really curious, how is ~$2000/month not livable?
Google is peerless and your analogy fails to account for the store not being a disinterested 3rd party. The war between AMZN and Google is bad for consumers because of the precedents it sets as well as the actual market effects. A slightly imperfect analogy that i still think captures the situation:

Google owns and operates a highway and allows gas companies to build filling stations adjacent to the highway. Amazon is only allowed to have their stations off of exit ramps
The religion example applies because it is the same phenomenon, but the one that has the most implications for how to live.

The phenomenon is that there is really strong evidence FOR something and really strong evidence AGAINST something. They are incompatible. Yet according to Bayesian reasoning you are like an ass stuck between two bales. You can't make a rational choice as to which is RIGHT, so people wind up picking one based on other reasons.

If you also consider Pascal's wager then that increases the weight on one side. In short you are between two massively compelling pieces of incompatible evidence.
doesn't mention what programming languages they used for the data.
> Recruiting and resume writing is what entrepreneurs call a "tie shop business."

I'm a (successful) entrepreneur and I don't call any businesses "tie shop businesses." In a quick search, I can't even find a reference to that terminology. That's a pretty condescending label, whether you mean it to be or not. The polite way to make your point is to talk about how certain businesses are designed to scale up rapidly while others are designed to be profitable with steady growth. Ideally, you'd make this point while considering the tradeoffs of each and acknowledging that advice about each is going to be different. Hopefully you'd make this point 1) where it's actually relevant, and 2) without reducing all the considerable effort involved in building and maintaining any kind of business to selling ties.

In any case, it's not accurate as stated. What you're saying is a false dichotomy. Not all companies designed to scale with venture capital are legitimately developing novel technology. In fact, having spoken to many of Y Combinator's founders directly, I would say most of them aren't, and many actually have well-defined markets with which to sell their products. Most "tech startups" are something closer to the application of existing technology than they are to the development of new technology. In contrast, a machine learning consulting firm can absolutely be developing new technology, and it can absolutely have difficulty finding product-market fit.

That distinction doesn't matter much, because both sorts of businesses can encounter significant difficulties, and both types encounter difficulties not subsumed by the other. Most importantly, most users active on Hacker News have yet to build any business. The author of this post didn't specify what sort of company they were looking for advice about. Your "advice" seems utterly misplaced and discouraging.
Well even CPU-bound async functions can have benefits in node.js as they can free up the single javascript thread to do other work while it does the CPU bound work on another thread in the native code.

It's definitely a bastardization of the terms a bit, but at its core it's basically a message-passing multi-process system that hides the implementation behind the well-understood (to most programmers that use node) async i/o
At one point "Split an atom" was by definition nonsensical because atoms were conceived of as the smallest, unsplittable bits of matter. But then we found out that we could split these pieces of matter we'd mistakenly called "atoms" and rather than renaming them we just changed the definition of "atom" to correspond to what we'd always been calling "atoms". In practice I don't think this was unreasonable and I wouldn't strongly object to doing the same with what we've been calling "The universe".
Agreed, I enjoyed reading your story and since OP left the question pretty open I thought it fit perfectly.
According to release notes:

New Features
[AER-5817] - (DEPLOYMENT) Introduced maximum cluster size of 8, introduced maximum of 2 namespaces.

[AER-5818] - (CLUSTERING) Rack-aware is now an enterprise feature.

and the old version disappeared
Fair point, but I still think the comment I replied to was too quick to dismiss. Especially the last sentence.
How to create Facebook Bot in Java in 5 minutes
Thanks, we've reverted the title from the submitted “Illegal content embedded in the blockchain” to that of the paper.
i find complaints against twitter to be somewhat alien because it is a fairly major source of good content for me. as an example, i just browsed my twitter for a minute or so on my phone and came across a discussion on programming languages, some cool generative artwork, an article on continuations, and i learned of david attenborough's new documentary on bioluminescence.

and i recently went to a design conference where i saw bret victor give a great talk. i found out about the conference on twitter.
I thought it was very funny. It was like you HAD to include gender pay gap to be politically correct, so you included a little joke to compensate
> Google's smart enough to know not to explicitly block a competitor, they just make it impossible for the competitor to participate.

This will be an interesting legal issue when it inevitably gets into the courts. A judge will want to know from Amazon what product features prevent it from participating in Google's product and then will look to see why Google has that feature in place. If its clear its only there to keep Amazon from participating, that can be found to be the same as explicitly blocking them.

If its structural however, such as an integrated shopping cart, that's much harder to argue is targeting Amazon so much as retailers that don't want to integrate carts.

It still feels an awful lot like using an effective monopoly in one space (search) to try to create one in another space (buy).
> Someone in the varnish org should be able to do a competitive analysis of Varnish, ATS, and Nginx in a couple days that would be enlightening and prudent use of time to guide your product development.

Really? I would say most of us are comfortable with how Nginx and ATS are engineered and how the kernel works.

If anything, I think the concern is the fact that you are working for a publicly traded CDN yet you came to this thread armed with nothing more than a load of BS and FUD. I will say this connected a few dots in my mind and possibly added some color to what others think.
"We can't really know" is a ridiculous thing to say about lottery cheating, when often a small investigation will show that yes, someone is definitely cheating. It's practically anti-scientific to phrase it as a shrug of the impossibility of knowing.

It might be safer to say that it's hard to know how much undiscovered cheating there if there is no discovered cheating.

The religion example is even less helpful, as religion isn't evidence-based.
If you have a cheat sheet on your desk, why do you also have to memorize it?
One of the biggest lie sold in the West is that if you work hard, give everything you should succeed. This has grave implications on policy and really blinds people born with a silver spoon to the real problems in society as they have a 'i deserve it and they don't syndrome'. Contrast this with a poor society that is growing rapidly where you see islands of wealths with certain individuals, at least people over there do not harbor illusions of meritocracy.

In general the more educated and developed a society is, it is much more meritocratic than others, however i still feel it is not enough especially for those who have everything stacked against them.

May be sometime in the future we would have a universal human rights charter that expands and decides what are the basic needs of a human that a society should provide in exchange for basic responsibilities. This way life will not always be a rat race and the poorest and unlucky can at least have some dignity.
Snowden Says Facebook Is a Surveillance Company
Safari does, by way of the OS Keychain.