skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who says they necessarily need to be picking stocks? Retail investors could still utilize the same vehicles they're using on large blue chip stocks if they had access to newer, higher growth-potential companies.

There are ETF's for everything today. If more small companies were available on public equities markets, then they would be included in a variety of different ETF's. The problem is that today you need to be an "accredited investor" to buy any of the high-growth potential private companies' equity, and even then, the best companies are usually raising capital from a small number of people and organizations.

This means the majority of the high growth in equities markets is captured by high-wealth individuals, and private organizations owned and operated by high-wealth individuals.
Without strong connections, it's difficult to gain access to any solid high-growth private companies.
Also, the interest rates for quality corporate debt have been artificially depressed post-QE.
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Innovation and the Neoliberal Idioms of Development
> Health care is expensive because of basic supply and demand,

Please can you explain the principle behind certificates of need, used in the US?

Because they seem to imply that greater supply will increase, not decrease, cost.
I agree. I never worked with swift and had to look up the terminology. Most of what the article refers to maps to terms from C++ (which is already horribly complicated and offers way too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot) or Java. That PWT sounds an awful lot like a vtable. In C++ you mess up by forgetting to add "virtual" (luckily we recently got "override"), but it seems swift's protocols add another dimension to make it possible to mess up in.

It's weird how people preach over and over how arcane and cumbersome old languages like C(++) are, with the neckbeards defending it with "well you just have to adhere to this list of best practices and it's absolutely fine", and then when some new and hip language comes along and offers just as many traps, the same people giving the "old languages" crap suddenly go all "well it's bad design to do that! Just adhere to this list of best practices here..."
What fascinates you? Start there.
SCP Foundation. Never really participated, but I love to read them.

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

It's basically a group of people writing formal reports on various paranormal things that the fictional SCP Foundation Secures, Contains and Protects (us from). Kind of like reading the paperwork and after-mission reports of SHIELD.

From Wikipedia:

The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that is the subject of a web-based collaborative writing project of the same name. The stories generated by the project describe the exploits of the Foundation, supposedly responsible for containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The main written works on the SCP Foundation website are articles written in the style of structured internal documentation about the contained SCPs. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories set within the universe of the SCP Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
I haven't done much with concatenate languages, but a rule of thumb is that if you see a bunch of dips, dups, and swaps, then you are probably doing something wrong. Those should be encapsulated in simple definitions.
He has a point. Why complain about Emacs when the problem is Windows?

To be fair, I am known to use all three OS's from time to time. I just have conditional guards to prevent loading packages that break on Windows. Mostly everything works the same. In fact, I originally learned Emacs on Windows back when I was a younger and noobier programmer.
Pink sheets.
Offer a reseller program.

1. They sign a Non-compete agreement to ensure they don't become your competitor. Get a lawyer involved to protect yourself.

2. They pay a huge upfront fee. Call it "licensing" or "new reseller" fee. If they dont agree, move on. This fee should cover at least 12-18 months of average profit you make per client generally.

3. On top of the fixed one time fee, they pay you a flat fee per customer that they onboard. This could be harder to verify so the upfront fee should be your minimum guarantee.

Generally profit sharing sounds great on paper but you wont be able to track those metrics unless you are the one who hosts the software.
> Japan will have to find a way to get along with China

It'll be very difficult to "get along with China"...
China (PRC) is the New Thug Nation

Look at China building "island bases" on South China Sea (ironic name, because the area is bordering Vietnam/Malaysia/Philippines)

China's trying to claim what isn't 100% its own out of greed,
even though the bordering countries are protesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTPMHC7zHY
I think the point is it's not possible to even build a high growth index fund anymore - at least not one based on US companies. Existing funds skew towards emerging markets, and would never include a Facebook 2008-2012 or a Dropbox 2012-2015, for example.
But you used Julia. I'm almost certain that if you applied your optimization to the C code you'd find that it makes no difference because `gcc -O2` already made it.
> In most societies today, it is accepted that we must be identifiable to appropriate authorities under certain conditions (consider border crossings, traffic violation stops as examples). While there are conditions under which apparent anonymity is desirable and even justifiable (whistle-blowing, for example) absolute anonymity is actually quite difficult to achieve (another point made at the Ditchley workshop) and might not be absolutely desirable given the misbehaviors apparent anonymity invites.

Border crossings and traffic stops occur in meatspace, where there is some potential for an actual threat. What exactly is the threat that justifies the need to identify individuals at all times on the internet?
> In March a pedestrian was killed in Tempe, Arizona when a self-driving Uber vehicle failed to spot her as she wheeled her bicycle across an empty road at night

Wrong, the car did spot her, but the emergency braking systems were turned off.
Having my car not start in Fairbanks was much, much more challenging than the outhouse. It took a lot of vigilance to make sure the battery stayed warm enough to hold a charge. I had to install heaters on my battery, engine, and transmission and remember to plug them in every single time I stopped the engine. If there was not a place to plug in, we left the car idling. If the car died, we were risking injury or even death from frostbite or hypothermia. That was a very serious challenge to have to deal with on a daily basis.

The outhouse, on the other hand, was almost zero maintenance. The only cleaning I had to do was occasional sweeping. It was nicely made from cedar wood with plenty of natural ventilation (no door), it never smelt terrible or felt disgusting. It takes a lot of work and money to make an indoor bathroom stay as nice as my outhouse was naturally.

I agree that you will find very many people in the developed world who think that going to an outhouse at 50 below would probably suck hard, but relatively few of them have first-hand experience so that's a hypothetical situation for them.

In Alaska you can certainly find plenty of people who voluntarily live this way. Not out of poverty or being a total recluse, but because the negative parts simply don't turn out to be as bad as it might seem before you've tried it, and the positive experiences associated with living closer to nature are deeply rewarding.
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I've learned this through experience. Every time I use snippets of code from somewhere I inevitably have to change it a bit. With code I take the time to write out by hand this is never usually a problem. I've usually got a good idea how the piece of code works and can sometimes even change it as I'm copying it out. But with code I copy and paste, I always end up struggling to figure out how it works while i'm trying to make it work with my code.

I've come to learn that taking the initial extra time to write it out by hand is definitely better than having to spend more time trying to figure it out and fix it later.
I think the real trend here is that small, fast-growing companies "cash out" not by having an IPO, which might get you an annoying "activist shareholder" lawsuit in a year or two as soon as you do something they don't like, but rather by selling to an existing, large company (Apple or Facebook or Google or whoever). Then, in many cases, the founders of the original company go out and start another one, using the money (and experience) they got from founding the first one. I'd say the real issue here is the amount of headaches involved in doing an IPO and being a publicly traded company.
In which case the capital costs of the vehicle will wipe out a good chunk of the cost savings from removing a human. Therefore, there will be no mass shift away from car ownership.
If you are indie avoid it until you have 100 users and some revenue.

The last thing you want is to be fiddling with k8s when you have 3 whole users and $0 revenue.

Unless your niche strongly requires fancy architecture start with a $5 VPS and take it up from there.

You will never look back and think "shit if only I had used k8s on day one it wouldn't have failed".

More often it's closer to "shit if I had focused on non-tech stuff more maybe it would have gone somewhere ... instead I spent 2 months fiddling with YAML files".
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Providing more liquidity for people to start with, coupled with making it more difficult for big companies to participate in anti-competitive practices, might make for a new renaissance in growth and perhaps even produce more middle class opportunity again.
Yeah man, I read that. I stand by my claim.
If you really want Bigtable, go use Apache HBase. It's very mature these days and performed really well at $dayjob-1.

There's a lot that goes into turning LevelDB into a real database. :)
Could you link the corrected inflation stats?

Also, link something about the Fed going before Congress with regards to the interest on reserves? (I think the Fed can do this without Congressional approval. It always had this power.)
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There seems to be an implicit assumption that autonomous driving would somehow make the cost of effectively renting cars by the mile (and have them come to your door) almost too cheap to meter. Whereas, especially for transportation options that involve multiple people in a vehicle, the cost of a driver isn't really all that much relative to the overall cost of operating a vehicle.

For any imagined scenario involving autonomous vehicles ushering in new modes of sharing, renting, etc., a useful question to ask is: "Why don't we have this today?" And, if the answer is anything other than "$10/hour for a human driver makes it too costly," then you should probably reconsider.
A better explanation is that stock market growth has slowed because real GDP growth has slowed [0], which it should match [1]. Why has it slowed? Well, economists have hotly debated this so you'll have to read into the dozens of theories but not once have I heard it is related startup IPO time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#G...

[1]: https://www.wise-owl.com/investment-education/is-there-a-cor...
This is a question out of ignorance, I mean it sincerely: Are you overweight, or a thyroid issue, or something? IANADoctor but to be sweaty at idle at 68F seems very unusual.
Making calotypes is my hobby!
Here's another good resource about Talbot

https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
This is precisely on point and is a proven strategy for Google. Chrome is another example.

Almost all their big open source projects are to mitigate existing threats, and it’s working out very well for them.

It’s annoying to see them trying to frame it as a “public service”, but guess that’s how to do proper PR.
1986 Microsoft certainly had plenty of cash flow and was already nearly a decade old company at that point. You can go back in time to 1960s McDonald's or whatever corporate success story you want. It was still a risk to invest in MS in the 80s. Its still a risk today. But retail investors had the chance to bet that desktop computing was the next big thing...or that fast food was the next big thing...
Oh, that's definitely weird then. Is there an RFC to have that fixed in some way?
I'm responding to the general lack of concern by the commenter above and most engineers I know. You and this other guy commenting are missing the point, I'm not talking specifically about this algorithm, but about engineers in general who don't care about wasted cycles.
Please post your OS and Emacs version.

Magit hasnt been slow for me since I upgraded to Emacs 26. Older versions of Emacs were not optimized for spawning processes on OSX and it was causing a 10x slowdown for some operations.
This is very accurate. It is extremely costly for companies to have an IPO. The regulatory burden is very high for publicly traded companies.

A history of financial laws designed to protect consumers has actually reduced the number of investment opportunities except for ultra-rich people.

Look up the definition of 'qualified investor' from the Securities Act of 1933. It prevents people below a threshold of wealth from being able to invest in certain things.

Similarly, based on my own experience having worked with proprietary trading outfits in the past, the FATCA laws just caused European banks to no longer want to do business with Americans which reduced the number of available investment opportunities again.
> “Innovation”: a ubiquitous word with a slippery meaning.

“An innovation is a novelty that sticks,” writes Michael North in Novelty: A History of the New, pointing out the basic ontological problem of the word: if it sticks, it ceases to be a novelty.

*

I find that the current usage of the word innovation is largely meaningless. As a word, it has a great ‘brand’ (reputation? cachet? connotation?) but in 90-95% of the uses and contexts I hear it in, its usage is so vague as to be almost meaningless.

See also: agile, privacy, feedback.
Has anyone contacted you yet with the explanation of the word "pygmy" and the tremendous harm that you're causing?

Wikipedia:

>In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.
> For internal sites, you don't need public TLS cert. If your device is joined to a domain, you already have a private CA cert installed

Thanks for that info, I wasn't aware of that. However, to my knowledge, Firefox doesn't use the OS trust store but its own. So for clients using Firefox, you'd still have to install the cert, wouldn't you?
You probably don't even need to do that. Facial recognition is to the point where a drone can navigate to a predefined area and find a specific person before detonating. Especially in a situation like this where a politician is giving a speech at a very specific known location (i.e. behind the podium on the platform).
> Buying $1000 Microsoft stock in 1986, you'd have seen a more than 1000x return in that amount of time.

Presumably you wouldn't be buying one stock, but a portfolio of other public companies, including Real Networks, Enron, and MCI/Worldcomm.

Backtesting the portfolio built on the thesis "buy every single stock at its IPO" has been shown to lag the market.
Elon Musk: New Onboard Computer AI Chip by Tesla Is 10 Times Faster Than Nvidia
So this is really British Election Tampering, not Russian Election Tampering.
Of course no mention in the article that the pedestrian was crossing unsafely.
Money parked in bonds?

When a bond is initially offered someone pays money for it, and the offering party gets the cash, and buys things with it.

That equation is independent of the form of money. Bonds can switch hands easily. Of course, if it turns out that the bond is junk, then it becomes hard to sell, so that slows down V indeed. (Which means the economy takes a moment to think when a lot of things turn out to be shit instead of gold. Credit becomes thin, etc.)
This may be yet another paradoxic, self defeating aspect of capitalism.
Capital seeks higher investment returns, and finds private, “alternative” investments like venture capital. This creates a positive feedback cycle where the higher returns from private/alternative investments like venture capital in turn lower the returns of traditional investments like the stock market, which leads to more capital seeking higher return elsewhere, rinse and repeat.
"Tremendous harm" How?
> As an aside, he says his son is the closest person to him genetically, but aren't his parents both equally as close to him genetically as his son?

And any siblings.
> I'm pretty sure companies would be happy to brick your computer for trying to access unlicensed copy of "their" data, if it wasn't for legal consequences that would follow.

FTDI actually attempted to brick counterfeit chips via their Windows driver: See for example

> http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-...

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493849 ).
who would seriously just switch jobs because of AC ?
Yes - we punished 1,000’s of good honest companies for the deliberate misdeeds of a few bad apples. Terrible policy.
One of the oldest hacker communities.
Many operations have an --abort option during the process.
In other cases, there's `git reflog`.
Disclosure is indeed good!

Doing more for the stock to rise by the end of the current quarter, and less to make company successful in longer term, is not so good. But this is known to happen, is it not?
My company does the same, and it can be convenient.

Twitter's public link shortener, t.co, is one of the worst, imho, because it ubiquitous (so you can't just treat all t.co short links as junk) and yet they make it really difficult report spammy short links. Often these short links get used outside Twitter's platform.
There is ring: https://ring.cx/
(and I have no idea of its quality/status/etc)
https://lowendspirit.com/

Proper ipv6, shared ipv4 with a port range forwarded for you to use.
Also, QE helped the banks, and banks were not started to offer lower interest rate loans to consumers. (Nor have they decreased other costs of accessing money - such as credit card fees etc.) So no inflation happened.
If the technology becomes commoditized, the cost reduction would be massive. A $30000 vehicle can drive 200K miles for the price of fuel and occasional cleaning. That's in the 30 - 50 cent/mile area, almost a full order of magnitude. Insurance premiums will depend on how safe they are - so they will be very low if self driving cars are to be allowed in any way on the road.
In-app browsers, I forgive thee not
re: density- Canada has even lower pop density than the US, and our universal health care system compares very favourably. Your arguments seem like nothing more than fear-mongering to me.
Not sure why you are being down-voted for stating something reasonable. Probably because you didn't add something "substantive". Sigh.
> You don't need Growth stock to retire

The returns in those index funds are driven primarily by growth stocks.
I don't think there is. I think the code is functioning as expected — it's just written in a super confusing way. What should probably happen is that the compiler should throw an error about redefining a function in a super classes extension. I'm not a compiler engineer but a check for that seems like it would be intensive unless that information is codified in the AST somehow.
I have changed over to neovim for most of my editing, but the one thing I have found is that it seems much slower to start up. Pretty sure this is a bug they'll fix soon, and other than that it's really pretty great. I don't actually use the Terminal window feature, but there are a few things about it that I like: 1)Decent python2 and 3 support (yes both at the same time) 2)Getting the * and + registers to actually work seems less annoying than in regular vim (ymmv at least I don't have to rebuild neovim from source to get these). (check out :he quoteplus and :he quotestar if you don't know - these are awesome)
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> will just outright block small email hosts

And that's exactly why self-hosting needs to be more dominant instead of just relinquishing power to large corporations.
Semantics. What I should have said is "when the valuation of a wide percentage of peoples earnings and assets who belong to an industry suddenly decreases from unforeseen outside forces caused by rapid technological advances..."

Or how about "when about 18% of taxi drivers nest egg devaluates and their retirement evaporates..."

To claim there is no difference between a restaurant failing and all independent taxi cab drivers in NYC simultaneously taking a giant hit that they did not see coming based on an (admittedly bad) policy of protectionism, is intentionally missing the point and I would say is intellectually dishonest.

Is a bailout the best way to fix this? I have no idea, seems like a relatively low cost way to fix what the city did but these things are complicated. I'm open to that discussion.

Are failure rates of the restaurant industry totally incomparable to this singular situation? Most definitely, and any argument based on this is flawed IMO.
Glycemic index and insulin response are two different things. Both can be measured directly in the blood and aren't a matter of opinion or anecdote.
One of the main drivers IMHO, and not mentioned in the article, is quantitative easing or the ZIRP.

Money is cheap and easily available (to select few) which has helped players in private equity to borrow and spend. Consequence of this is that companies can stay private longer as there is more capital available in private funding rounds.

Take for example the case of Uber which has managed to raise $21.7B [0], something that in past would have only resulted from an IPO.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...

_Edit_

Was off by an order of magnitude on the amount Uber raised.
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Just because what you're doing is private doesn't mean it's secure. Just because what you're doing is secure doesn't mean it's private.

No whistleblower should ever just expect that doing things the normal way is private or safe for them. If you wear a tinfoil hat, you need an entirely different operational language than typical users have, because your needs are totally different.
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Such a welcoming sentiment - makes me really want to be part of #osdev!
The downsides are you have to build both an android and iPhone app. Those cross-platform app tools aren't quite there yet.

Bluetooth is also lacking rather as a protocol for controlling embedded hardware. Generally, the hardware can't get internet connectivity through the phone unless it's 'app' is open. Bluetooth is also limited to only a few kilobytes per second, which for many use cases is insufficient (eg. streaming video). Some embedded hardware tries to set up a wifi hotspot for the phone to connect to to get round the bandwidth limits, but most phones can't connect to more than one wifi hotspot at once which is a huge disadvantage.

Overall, I'm disappointed with Google/Apple and standards bodies for not making a standardized solution to 'embedded device wants to use a phone as a UI'.
If they don't turn it on by default, only a small number of people will use it. If only a small number of people use it, why bother implementing it?