skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two points in favor of paying someone.

First, most funds have goals other than beating the index, so if the index is your goal we should ignore them. However why is the index your goal? If you are far away from retirement (or whatever your reason for investing is), then the index is a good goal, but as you get closer to retirement you need to have an asset allocation that won't drop in value right when you need the money. The index will not do that for you.

Second, of those that attempt to match/beat the index, some of them do beat the index year after year. IF you can get in one of them you are better off. Note that IF is in all caps - this is a big if, very few managed funds beat the index on a regular basis. However if some fund manager beats the index year after year, that manager ought to be worth a lot of money to you (so long as after expenses he beats the market)

After considering the above, most of my money is in a target date retirement fund with a low expense ratio. I know I'm not going to beat the index, but as I get older they balance things. I know someone invested all in an index who retired right before a crash, the crash combined with his withdrawals to live cut his principal enough that he is now broke. (I suspect he didn't have enough savings to retire in other than best case scenarios, but even so his required capital to retire is higher in a stock index). I do have some play money in an index fund, if things go well I'll retire early on that cash, if things go bad, at least my normal retirement is not in trouble.
I wonder if BAM[1] coatings suffer from any of these ills (or anything else which would prevent them from being used in cookware), seems like they would be a decent way to go if the cost could be improved.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_magnesium_boride
Does not do well near Lake Erie:
https://oalley.net/map/b5y
Turns out the first quote was a bit off. https://www.stripes.com/blogs-archive/the-rumor-doctor/the-r... says that there have been some new Purple Hearts ordered, but there are still Purple Hearts from WWII in stock, and they are still being given out.

For the second quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War (first paragraph under "Summary").
Very interesting article. Some of the patterns it talks about are also usually visible in the output of many deepdream / style transfer software that are based on existing neural nets, which leads me to believe that they are indeed mimicking existing brain processes.

(TBH this should probably be titled HOW people hallucinate)
It does not take traffic information, so depending on the time of the day it may not reflect the exact area.
Why do you say that index funds are supposed to be low risk? That's not really true; they in fact desire to have precisely the risk profile of whatever benchmark they target and seek minimal tracking error relative to that.

Anyway, loans are marked to market daily with collateral required. Details are here: https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGSL.pdf

It is absolutely a risk, but I think you err by saying index funds are supposed to be low risk.
Reading "The Millionaire Next Door," as much a of a cliche or a classic as it is right now, really opened my eyes to some of this nuance for me. The book points out that many high earners are still living paycheck to paycheck, and some lower earners do quite well by saving aggressively. So who is rich, the software engineer who earns $120k/year in a LCoL area and takes expensive vacations and buys photography equipment and has a nice house & great car and has little saved, or the senior school teacher who makes $80k and saves a ton, but doesn't take the expensive vacations, drives a 20-year-old Civic, and enjoys gardening? What's the definition of rich? What's the definition of value? What do you want in life?

The other aspect is (as you and parent posters note) the comparison with others. If you live in an expensive area where everyone drives a nice car, pays for a gardener, and sends the kid to a high-tuition school, you'll stand out if you drive a 2008 Civic, have an adequate but not nice yard, and send the kid to the public kindergarten. "Comparison is the thief of joy," said someone. I personally was much happier with my un-professionally-landscaped yard and small house and used car in my middle-class neighborhood when I realized that those were reasons we have a higher net worth than most of our peers, not signs that we don't.
A job you don't want is better than no job at all.
"Right now it’s hard to find a pan that uses Teflon in the old continent."

The French company Tefal sells its frying pans across Europe. It is one of the most popular kitchen product around. As the name suggests, these used Teflon as some point. Is Teflon really not used any more in making these pans, and if not, then what is?

EDIT: I suspect that in the quotation above, the author really meant "PFOA" not Teflon.
From Sleeper (1973), set in a future USA:

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."

Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.

Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?

Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.

Dr. Melik: Incredible.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/quotes
Thanks for the chart - surprising to see that "Services" is now #2! Can't sleep on that iCloud / Apple Music growth
My question is where the break-even point is between adding more resolution / frames-per-second versus performing more expensive analysis. Given that the human visual system is not especially high resolution or speed, I would bet that they're already at the point of diminishing returns on the sensor side and the big wins would come from more expensive processing techniques, which https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671843 supports.
Thanks for mentioning this. I understand what you mean. I used to work for a 1000+ company that currently uses GitHub, JIRA, Confluence and Slack, all of them self-hosted. So yeah, and it's a German company, so they're extra worried about protecting their data. Self-hosted support is definitely on the roadmap. And will update the pricing page to explain this a little bit better. Thanks again for bringing it up!
Firmware. From Resolution section:

> HP has provided firmware updates for impacted printers as set forth in the table below.
It would be interesting if in addition to time or distance one could search by limits of energy.
Thank You! I have been trying to figure this out to connect to xfinity hotspots
The democracy you live in enshrines those rights on your behalf.

And it's doing a great job of it.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

[7]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-nsa-transforming-l...

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Thank you for your suggestion, I might try this, but I hesitate to add even more butter to our diet, since we're already eating a lot of it on bread.
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Ask HN: What is your philosophy when creating abstractions?
Hey, HN.

Having been in the industry I've seen people talk about abstraction in different forms, and displaying different sets of priorities for different properties of abstraction.

I was looking to find a list of things that people consider very valuable when building their own abstractions (or when evaluating which libraries to use in their projects), and what things they think make the codebase worse.
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Even black robots are impacted by racism
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
> Remember infinity allows all possible skewing of our current physics and all possible permutations of it.

No, it does not. Compare:

> If there are infinite numbers, and all numbers have a name, then there must exist a number with a different kind of name to the usual ones.

> If there are infinite universes, and all universes have laws of physics, then there must be universes with different laws of physics.

It's the same basic fallacy. There might universes with different physics but it does not follow from infinity.
> If you write software that will be run by others (which usually means open source, probably libraries), yes. If you write software that will only be run by you (pretty much all dynamic websites a.k.a. webapps land in this category), you don't want to have three different distributions in half a dozen different versions anyway, so you can pin yourself to the target environment just as well.

Yeah, my primary software development mode is 1) gather opensource software, 2) build web app or platform-specific app.

> Or use a distribution that does not break shit left and right, like Debian or Red Hat (CentOS).

It's crazy that this even has to be said in this day and age. I suppose distro specific patches to maintain a secure and stable api has gone away in favor of some vendored static dependencies that may or may not ever be upgraded, and rebasing your dependencies introduces the same set of problems.

I foresee dynamically linked go with platform specific binary packaging becoming the future. Recompiling the same bits of software ad infinitum is probably going to get old.
Not when the market has no moral compass with which to guide. Democracy is controlled by the market, and when you teach a computer to learn to pick the cars out of a picture so you can "prove you are not a bot" watch Real Genius you do have a moral obligation to what you take part in creating. If you say my piece is small and I can't stop them from making a facial recognition system/plate reader/password cracker then you are putting your financial gain above what your work does to others. You are part of the problem.
The more established, bigger, unethical companies will crush the "our products don't poison you!" competitors out of existence before they even get started. They will maintain their poison-happy monopolies. So without regulation protecting anti-poison competition, there will be no money in these alternatives, and the economy will remain unbalanced and literally deadly.
This trader likely bought their contracts with very high leverage, probably 20x, meaning that they had $20.8 million USD of BTC as collateral for a trade with a notational value of 20 times that (416 million). Other platforms with better engineering have software-defined risk limits to prevent people from opening up positions that are too large on high leverage.
Hopeful news is that some really efficient recycling technologies for mixed plastics are under development, like Magnetic Density Separation (MDS)

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ceg/research/stories-of-science/re...
There isn't any information, the CVEs aren't yet public.

> HP has provided firmware updates for impacted printers as set forth in the table below.
I would like to read more about this if you wouldn't mind sourcing your facts.
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In a worst case scenario, at least the people at those companies are somewhat intelligent. All other things being equal I would prefer an oligarchy of people who are intelligent over one composed mostly of idiots.
I'm not sure I understand why you call this pigeon-holing. The GP explained that the professional field of programming has very little overlap with the professional field of social dynamics, and I was simply agreeing with that observation. "Most programmers don't know how society will evolve" appears to me a similar observation as "most pilots don't know how to build a plane". I don't really see why that's an objectionable statement.
Ah yes, printers... The original Internet of Sh*t!
Doubtful. Glyphosate is one of the safest and most effective herbicides developed. If we develop alternatives to herbicides, such as GMOs or different growing methods, I can see that reaction to herbicides in general but not specifically glyphosate.
I got this email this morning, short and sweet:

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As of August 1, 2018, we introduced the following changes, which will be automatically applied to your affected Fidelity accounts:

•	Removed account fees and minimums

•	Eliminated domestic money movement fees

•	Lowered expense ratios on all Fidelity stock and bond index mutual funds

•	Introduced two index mutual funds (FZROX and FZILX) with a zero expense ratio

No action is required on your part.

---

I've never paid a fee for domestic money movement (EFTs) so I wonder what that refers to.

Fidelity also has an extremely attractive product in their cash management account (free checking account with ATM reimbursements)
I find this method works well with humans too.
Cookies rely on the cooperation of the user-agent. From the website's perspective, they are opt-in.
Cheers. It was a ceremony before of hacks/ethernet before. This just works and no extra gear.
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I like the little GG that flashes for a moment.
Using libflakey (lol!) is not necessarily a bad thing; The proper course would be to pull out what you need, make sure the interface you care about is sane and works well; you can revisit the upstream in the future.

Raw npm-style clone-from-master seems to be prolific, though.
I love this. I immediately wanted to see how two cities overlap, but found the UI a bit difficult for this. I want to be able to see where's the best place for me and my friend in another city to meet up for lunch or something. I wish you could search a city and then edit the time you enter until you see two blobs overlapping....bingo lunch spot.
https://d.pr/i/9DbVel

Unfortunately, to do this, I just had to keep entering new searches with incrementally new times. Anyways, just a feature idea. Nice work.
I'll say this in GCP's favor: it has an extremely generous free tier and a $300 credit for signing up, a ton of fantastic tutorials and walkthroughs at https://codelabs.developers.google.com, and they seem to be at the forefront of most major R&D advances in cloud computing over the last couple of decades, so you'll probably see new things there first (managed kubernetes, Spanner, and a wealth of fancy machine learning shit just to start).

I also recommend going through the "Google cloud architect" and "data engineering on Google cloud" courses on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/googlecloud.

The docs have gotten much better over the years, but you have to put in the time to really dive into them. They are essential reading, so put in the time.

Also the developer tools, (web dashboards, CLI tools, APIs, code libraries, etc.) seem to be light years better than what I've experienced with AWS and Azure.

Disclaimer: I used to work Platinum support for Google cloud. Now I'm an SRE at a company that uses AWS, and I play around with Azure here and there to see what's what

Whatever you decide to do, I recommend coming up with one idea for an application that can start simple but grow into something complex, start from the bottom with a simple deployment, and add pieces as you learn them so you can understand how everything fits together in the grand scheme of things. I picked election/voting software, which is good because it starts at just simple vote counting over an API, then grew to teach me auto scaling, data pipelines, machine learning analysis, etc.
But as a generalization I think it holds true. On average, free stuff is not valued very highly by the general public. Or rather, a person selected at random will not perceive much of any value is something given away for free.
There's nearly 200000 Filipinos in Qatar
The key point here is that you shouldn't be thinking of counting as a process that happens in time. How is infinity (here, omega) defined? We just say that it comes after any other natural number. So how to think about it? You shouldn't tell yourself:

- ok, take number n, it's smaller than omega, so what about n+1, n+2, etc. ?

You should be telling yourself
- ok, take number n. It's smaller than omega. Now check any other number m. If this property holds for any given number, then omega is greater than any given number, and thus infinite.
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I believe you mean obesity, not dietary fat.
Building better product search for the space industry
Re beating the index: Here's a bunch of managed funds that try to beat the index. Some do better, some do worse - say, 50/50. The next year, half do better, half do worse, and it's (for the most part) unrelated to the year before. So now you have 25% of the funds having beaten the index two years in a row. As you said, very few managed funds beat the index year after year. But even for those funds, the question is, will they beat the index next year with greater than 50% probability? I'm not sure that any of them will.
> This is exactly what I was talking about, you consider that your atom has energy levels and then you plug in classical EM fields, sometimes that's good enough to get somewhere. But it can never be classical because there's no way to have energy levels in a classical atom.

And this is what I'm talking about: this conversation is becoming an ever-shrinking pocket of you claiming, "well that's not classical", or "that can't be done in a classical theory", and me demonstrating that it has been done, toy theory or not.

I have no problem with discrete theories, I have a problem with people claiming something can't be done when it most assuredly can.

As for your derivation of old QM, I don't see how this is relevant. You seem stuck in the mindset that "classical theory" means building off of some known classical theory. As I've been saying, this isn't necessarily true. My discussion of classical theories are about the class of theories with various properties that differentiate it from something like QM.

People working on Bohmian mechanics are perfectly familiar with the history of quantum mechanics, see [1]. This doesn't somehow negate the fact that Bohmian mechanics can be viewed as a classical theory that nevertheless reproduces the predictions of QM. And it solves the radiating electron orbit problem just fine. Again, you're stuck thinking about this like classical mechanics rather than as a different classical theory that reduces to classical mechanics in the limit.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.1084.pdf
I don't think I have a regret from buying my home, but I hate the mortgage process.

There should be no down payment requirement. There should be no PMI requirement. If you can prove you can pay rent for a couple years, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to get a loan for that same amount.
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"There was a powerful sugar and corn lobby which artificially lowered the price of their goods so healthier, cheaper options could not compete."
The Americas have the likes of Watson Brake and Sechin Bajo, dated to roughly the same time as that, give or take a couple of centuries.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17678841
What does this imply? Bots? Just curious.
The problem is that getting the right regulations in place is really difficult. The dynamics that make this so are explained nicely in this piece:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/01/welcome-machine-kevin...
well, thank you for that grown-up comment. Many organizations will have questionable implications of the products they sell but in most cases, this comes down to things that are less obvious than selling something that has a substance that has been proven to contribute to cancer.
OP said:

> 36 hours, 3 times per week
Python Lists of Tuples
I always find it fascinating how much the mechanical aspect of hand-washing makes it more effective than many other methods of sterilization.
https://oalley.net/map/b6j is another pretty poor one. edinburgh to Anstruther is probably closer to 2 hours. North Berwick is more than achieveable in an hour. Callander (in the north west of the map) is closer to 90m.
A nickel bottle deposit was a lot more incentive to bother with collecting bottles and cans when you could get a coke for a quarter, than now when you need to trade in grocery bag full.

I remember in the 90s, we would always trade in our bottles before we went to the county fair, and that was enough for admission and rides and some fair food. I don't think the barrels and barrels of cans would get us in the gate anymore.
> I would never subject my users to this workflow. What you're describing are source distribution channels which are (ab)used to distribute applications. I have no idea if some dependency's native extension will even compile on their system. Do they even have build tools? Why would they?

If the users of your software are end-user desktop types, I can see your sentiment. My software is typically for building software (aka, libraries) or users that know how to compile things.
Define "wrong".

In particular, if most countries drive on a particular side, isn't that side the "right" side?
This reminds me of this [1] talk at 28c3 (Ang Cui on how to exploit HP printers by sending a modified PDF to them). Which lead to one of the most hilarious IT-Sec headlines [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVv7J2azY8
[2] http://gawker.com/5863388/hackers-could-turn-your-printer-in...
I find the opposite. It's easy for me to sleep on an empty stomach, but I get awful headaches if I havent eaten during the day.
Tim Cook to Apple staff: $1TR in shareholder value isn’t what drives us
I've read lots of articles from companies like Pinterest and Flipkart about how lightweight PWAs increased user engagement by some huge amount, like 200%. So why are other companies like Reddit spoiling their mobile web experience by pushing their apps so hard?
are there any games like for the mobile (especially android) ? I always though the mechanics of Braid would have been better adapted for a mobile touchscreen
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3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago
This headline isn't exactly accurate and the article is misleading. PFOA was used in the process of affixing Teflon to surfaces but is not present in the pan itself. PFOA has built up in the environment as a result of the manufacturing processes that use it.

It would be more accurate to say "3M knew that manufacturing non-stick pans, and a number of other products, was poisoning all of us in the '70s".

You didn't have to have a Teflon pan to be exposed and having a Teflon pan didn't increase your exposure significantly. Microwave popcorn bags and other food wrappers were hundreds of times worse.

Teflon pans remain safe to use. All these other non-stick products are potential problems but it's impractical to try to identify which ones have PFOA or PFOS... so it's a good thing it's being phased out.
The Okinawan diet is also famous for being a calorie restricted diet. There is a famous saying there that roughly translates to "eat until you are 80% full".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_hachi_bun_me

I'm actually surprised that Wikipedia says they consume 1800 calories a day. When I am doing intermittent fasting I am around 1400-1600.
Bitcoin whale has enormous losing bet, exchange makes other traders cover losses
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My cast iron pan is something I will keep until the day I die. Then it will be passed down to my daughter..
Thanks for explaining these things to me.
If you don't have operations in the EU then you don't have to worry about that nonsense to begin with.