skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the stock won't always tank when they're doing something that'll negatively affect fundamentals, because too few people are actively researching & investing in the stock to affect the price. And then when a tipping point is reached and the stock price starts to go down, index funds will exacerbate the slide as they rebalance out of the falling stock and sell off its shares.

Normally markets remain efficient because they provide an incentive for people to actively research & surface all available information on a company's future prospects. If most people aren't doing this, then a.) the market price will be slower to react to bad information about the company and b.) people who do actively react will make larger profits, as they can trade on their information before the majority of the market takes it into account.

There's an equilibrium level of disequilibrium - as more people pursue passive investing, returns to active investors rise, until some of those passive investors realize they can make large profits as active investors, restore market efficiency, and destroy the profit potential of active investing. I'm not sure exactly where we are in that cycle, but there's some evidence that stock prices have become less volatile overall except for major news-related panics, which would be expected if a large proportion of people are passively investing.
Like a chip in your forehead or right hand?
Interesting theory. My theory was that there's incident management contractors get this sort of business and don't want to bother integrating with any existing company's infrastructure, so they just set up something entirely different.
Cool, very informative!

The bad thing about a print book is that you would have to type the code to run it... How would you go about running TeX? I find the most effective way to read source code is to run it (to answer questions like: "what's the output if the input is this thing", etc.)

I wish someone who's familiar with the moving pieces would put together a version that runs on a browser.
> if you are 100s of billion, I am pretty certain you're not concerned with .0000001 dollars

Be careful with that logic. Salami fraud takes advantage of low precision. You need to maintain enough precision to make it not worthwhile for your transaction volume.
You drag youtube with the DCMA because you don't know the location or person who did the 'upload', so the complaint has to start with the upload spot. The infringing object is also on youtube itself.

With residences you know exactly where it is, ownership is in a very well maintained database and it's not going anywhere. The infringing behavior isn't occurring on airbnb, but in reality.

Complain to your city / HOA, let some sort of due process happen and then have the city / HOA fine the homeowner out of existence until they comply. Expecting airbnb & other tech companies to act like government is not something you want to become a standard practice, because you lose your say in how that gov't works.

It's like forcing newspapers to remove classifieds because people are advertising stuff you don't like.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Most of us trust the Nobel Prize to be a mostly-neutral arbiter of excellence in various fields. That means it is not the worst kind of appeal to authority, but rather the best - referencing a well-known and widely trusted source.

Can you give us a reason we shouldn't trust it in the general case, since your claim extends to the general, not the specific?
There’s some screenshots linked in a tweet at the start. Based on that tweet, I’d argue the engine used in Far Cry 3/4, as well as the one used for the dead island/dying light games, are some obvious examples of offenders I can think of, but I’d agree with the author that its missuse/overuse is pretty rife.

AO was one of the primary shiny new things in game engine technology this generation, Nvidia also heavily pushed the tech as one of the new rendering features its recent GPUs are good at. Given this, I’m not surprised we saw some pretty questionable artistic direction with this stuff at times. It’s arguably now part of the PS4/Xbox One generation “aesthetic” in much the same way the over use of pixel shading effects can be argued to define the 360/PS3 era.
Well the idea of an index, whether done through a fund or not, is to buy some of each company. A value investing approach would be to find the better stock and invest in it, so Coke stockholders would rarely own Pepsi stock and vice versa.
This is a nice philosophy, thanks for sharing that :-)
Three-row crossovers are just minivans with different styling. The 2018 chevy traverse only has 23mm more ground clearance than the toyota sienna. If you put sliding doors on it instead of standard rear doors, it would be a minivan.
Not really clear on your tone, but HN exists as a tech forum because it is developed and hosted by Y Combinator, which funded Airbnb in a seed round (which I believe they still have, and assume is substantially valuable). So there is the probably more of a complicated community dynamic than "HN is extremely anti-Airbnb"
It's not entirely a jest, but it is funny to think about. The question will be then, as it has been every time before: what do we mean by "Universal" in Unicode?

One very obvious jest is that at the current rate of emoji expansion it may be inevitable to open up the next plane just for emoji.

Less of a jest is that there's always more symbols to encode. We've been a wonderfully creative species, and we're still rediscovering old written languages and discovering new bits of physics and math that can benefit from new symbols. We've got tons of interesting fictional language encodings to consider that are currently not likely to be encoded in Unicode today because they are locked in that struggle between the needs of Academia, the interests the Enthusiasts, and the money/complications of Intellectual Property laws. (Klingon, Tolkien's Elvish languages, D'ni, Timelord Sigils, etc.) But if those seesaws tip towards enthusiasts or academia that changes quickly. Meanwhile, creative artists keep inventing new glyphs and languages to encode.

That's just our one species on this planet. What if we discover more or get better at encoding existing non-human languages? Then we really get to test that "Universal" bit in the name, huh? (That's also obviously a bit of jest, but an interesting sci-fi hope/yearning there, too. It would be nice to encode some non-human languages for a change.)

So, all of the above, based on current assumptions (emojis will slow down, IP law remains vicious, Fermi's Paradox won't been solved in our lifetimes, etc) may still be unlikely to push us past the Astral Plane, but that doesn't make it silly to assume that we may never need to open the next plane.
> “biology” is misandrist and misogynist both.

When we’re anthropomorphising facts and telling them that they’re bad, something has gone wrong. Facts are not social actors, they don’t care if you try to shame them, they’ll still be true.

> The male human may as well be the male anglerfish and the life of the female is barely more meaningful than that.

I’m honestly not sure what meaning you’re looking for here, or what bearing that has on the conversation. There isn’t any meaning to life other than that which we make for ourselves.

> Why would we take the most socially complex species we're aware of, and then look at one of the most complex social interactions that species engages in, and say "well, but it's really just about making babies"?

Because that statement is true? Is your argument that we should reject reality in order to tell ourselves pleasing lies about the world?

> Yet I still argue that a woman's worth, not just to the world but even as a partner, is more than her physical attractiveness.

I agree. There are different kinds of value to be sure. However this is a discussion of sexual attraction and romantic partnership. Someone’s, let’s say, java skills, are not very likely to factor heavily. Nor are they likely to be a replacement for sexual attractiveness if it is absent.
Yea sure, but we all knew the Focus RS was a limited production release and they would only be making it for a couple years.
Q: What's safer than sky diving? A: Not sky diving.
> What stops other people from taking your tangible property other than the threat of state action?

Aside from morals, the threat of reciprocation, not by the state specifically but by the property owner who was harmed and anyone authorized to act on their behalf.

Unlike actual property, IP isn't based on reciprocation. The penalties for infringement go way beyond simply losing similar forms of IP.
"So many times in business, we have to rely on intuition because we simply do not have the time or resources to make decisions mathematically."

It can be really easy to forget if one gets on too much of a "science!" kick, but there's plenty of decisions we have to make in life without "science" backing it up; arguably the majority. It's a poor choice to then just throw your hands up and say "well, if I can't use this most reliable decision mechanism, I just won't decide!", which is, both superficially amusingly and profoundly, a decision anyhow.

I know, it sounds obvious when I say it. And it's the sort of error only a particularly sort of educated person could even make, so it's not the world's most common error. But it's definitely an error. And it's not always as blatant as all that; one you can see with some frequency on HN are people insisting that we have to do our programming with more attention paid to science, when in fact there basically isn't any. Maybe that's a problem. Maybe that's something "we" should spend more money on solving. But in the meantime, that's not a reason to throw our hands up and give up; we just have to do our best, and I think the evidence supports the idea that we can learn a lot about our field and get better over the course of decades, even if there isn't a "scientifically-grounded course" for doing so and all we have to go on is modestly-trained intuition (that definitely fails Khaneman's standards here, so the sloppier, conventional "intuition" not his precise one).
Thank you for sharing your experience and backing up the original post; this is something I will remember should the opportunity to work with anyone associated with ATAP come up.
This is awesome! Where can I find this tool?
Cf. "Life as Evolving Software, Greg Chaitin at PPGC UFRGS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlYS_GiAnK8

> Few people remember Turing's work on pattern formation in biology (morphogenesis), but Turing's famous 1936 paper On Computable Numbers exerted an immense influence on the birth of molecular biology indirectly, through the work of John von Neumann on self-reproducing automata, which influenced Sydney Brenner who in turn influenced Francis Crick, the Crick of Watson and Crick, the discoverers of the molecular structure of DNA. Furthermore, von Neumann's application of Turing's ideas to biology is beautifully supported by recent work on evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology). The crucial idea: DNA is multi-billion year old software, but we could not recognize it as such before Turing's 1936 paper, which according to von Neumann creates the idea of computer hardware and software.

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Also "Algorithmically probable mutations reproduce aspects of evolution such as convergence rate, genetic memory, and modularity"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00268v8

> Natural selection explains how life has evolved over millions of years from more primitive forms. The speed at which this happens, however, has sometimes defied formal explanations when based on random (uniformly distributed) mutations. Here we investigate the application of a simplicity bias based on a natural but algorithmic distribution of mutations (no recombination) in various examples, particularly binary matrices in order to compare evolutionary convergence rates. Results both on synthetic and on small biological examples indicate an accelerated rate when mutations are not statistical uniform but \textit{algorithmic uniform}. We show that algorithmic distributions can evolve modularity and genetic memory by preservation of structures when they first occur sometimes leading to an accelerated production of diversity but also population extinctions, possibly explaining naturally occurring phenomena such as diversity explosions (e.g. the Cambrian) and massive extinctions (e.g. the End Triassic) whose causes are currently a cause for debate. The natural approach introduced here appears to be a better approximation to biological evolution than models based exclusively upon random uniform mutations, and it also approaches a formal version of open-ended evolution based on previous formal results. These results validate some suggestions in the direction that computation may be an equally important driver of evolution. We also show that inducing the method on problems of optimization, such as genetic algorithms, has the potential to accelerate convergence of artificial evolutionary algorithms.
In the example, it was very difficult to change the star ratings. It kept bugging out and made it very annoying.
I would expect that with the new TreeSitter parser (and other improvements) Atom now feels faster than VS Code. Is that the case?
I think what you are missing is "base rate neglect."

Let's say the overall average GPA is 3 (or 3.1 for women):

https://blog.prepscholar.com/whats-the-average-high-school-g...

Then you would expect that to swamp the information that this person was an early reader. You might let the early reader have a slight effect.
There are active investing strategies besides HFT. One example is Buffett-style value investing, where he picks a few good businesses with large moats and great cash flow and then holds them for decades. This is about the polar opposite of HFT (where you hold for seconds and don't care about the underlying business at all), but both fall under the general category of active investing.
If you can reduce legal risk(accidents) by 50x or 100x and extend the road time by 2x or 3x, then paying a security person seems like a doable call. Especially if you can pass some of that premium risk mitigation on to the customer, if load value dictates.

Raw hourly cost may not even be the primary point under the manpower line of reasoning. It is certainly important, but not necessarily the key issue.
That's great! That's actually very inspiring. Good work! I do think that exercise is really important and that's something everyone should do.
Really? When I search for my own address, I can recognize that the properties which show up are generally shown on the map approximately 1 block from their actual location. Since addresses are not actually shown for each property, if I were trying to check whether my apartment was listed, I would have to look through all the units available within about a block of the apartment's actual location, and be able to identify it from pictures of the interior, which may be very similar to the interior of other apartments in the building. It doesn't seem 'really easy' and is definitely not intended to work that way.
And Microsoft already has Teams
Sorry to mislead you. I hadn't thought of a joke, but if I had thought of a joke and put it in, my posts get a lot more upvotes.

It might be my natural humor, or it might be people reading HN like a laugh however corny. I don't get feedback on why people vote, and am not allowed to ask.
I Second that.
I was sifting through the site but am unable to find out how much this costs. It looks good but seems to be tailored to professional news organization sized companies so it's probably quite expensive.
That's an odd way to look at it - given we need fat and protein, I'd rather think that carbs were the 'backup' mechanism.
It's easy to reference amorphous "best practices." As Tannenbaum said, it's nice to have so many to choose from. The real challenge is deciding which practices apply, and what authority to figure to recognize when determining "best."
> conspiracy to traffic narcotics

I don't recognize this as a legitimate offense to law in a free society. I see it as, yes, "running a free market". That the state chooses to serve its interests by finding differently is unsurprising. But why do you?
I'm dubious of the claim that ketosis is a "backup" system. If you think about primitive man, they probably wouldn't have had three regular meals a day. Lots of feast and famine.

I think people need to let go of the idea that ketosis is some sort of "special" state. It's just a metabolic state that's been suppressed by modern eating habits. Three meals a day and snacking is a cultural invention; not a biological necessity.

A lot of athletes prefer to exercise in a ketogenic state. I know personally I'm able to run farther if I've spent the day fasting than if I had a big meal at lunch. (I don't have the same initial burst, but I don't hit a wall either) (Not to mention that digestion is a very expensive process)

I think what's more unnatural is that modern eating habits are designed around blocking any sort of ketogenic state, which is where the easiest weight loss comes from. (Also, I need to lookup a reference for this, but I think I remember reading that fat burns a bit "cleaner" than sugars. Less free radicals I think? Something like that)

[For people unclear what I'm talking about with ketosis: basically, your body burns glucose first for energy. Then when there isn't sufficient glucose, it starts burning fat. The burning of fat for energy is what's known as ketosis. (I know I'm probably vastly oversimplifying). The thing about fat burning is it only kicks in at a significant level when glucose is depleted though. So if you're exercising while eating a chocolate bar and drinking a gatorade... well the exercise is good! But you won't lose weight)
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These thieves have to steal from a moving vehicle? Sure it's not impossible, but it's more Hollywood heist than something you'd see in real life. It will almost certainly happen a few times, but for practical purposes the amount of stuff stolen before the guys are caught will be less than what it costs to hire tens of thousands of rent-a-cops to sit in the backs of trucks.

Plus, these are thieves we are talking about. Pointing a gun at a human driver and telling them to pull over so they can rob the truck is something that could easily happen today but is extremely rare. The minimum police response time is something that's hard to measure. It might be many minutes 90% of the time, but if you do 10 or 20 of these heists eventually you're going to get unlucky and the cop will happen to be sitting at a speed trap right there are you're busting into the truck.

This is the fundamental problem with crime. You will get away with it most of the time, but when you don't you're fucked. It's a lousy career choice because the upsides are modest relatively speaking, and the downsides are huge. If you're going to be a criminal the trick is to steal enough to retire on and then immediately retire. Knocking over one random truck is not going to do it.
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While the state of California and some cities have been making it legal to construct accessory dwelling units, cities commonly prohibit short-term rentals in these accessory dwelling units. (Reference: Berkeley’s BMC 23C.22.020.D [1], and San Francisco’s Planning Code 207(c)(4)(D) [2]). In such cities, it seems that the law discourages you from adding an ADU with kitchen if you want to rent it out on Airbnb (or if you want to rent it out long-term, for that matter, if rent control would apply). It’s less restrictive to add bedrooms without the kitchen. I don’t think Airbnb will be able to build test homes in these restrictive cities either.

[1]: https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/html/Berkeley23C/...

[2]: http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/planni...
Worse than UTF-EBCDIC?
We do have a form of feedback in most languages - whether it compiles / is syntactically correct. Expert intuition gets tougher for higher level constructs partly due to both the regularity issue (with a sufficiently fast-moving problem domain what may work one year may be suboptimal later) and feedback loop.

Basically, consider it a form of Bayesian learning models. The difference is that with humans if the feedback comes too late, we will reject the signal as we have trouble separating actions and consequences.

I can conceptually explain why some commonly bad practices like hard coding variables or not using looping constructs for repetitive statements are to those that keep doing it, but I can’t give quick feedback showing precisely how tough it is to make changes around the code or to even understand it to those that write it because they have developed intuition about their codebase and are now mentally somewhere between Stockholm Syndrome and defensiveness.
Yeah... Also get a lawyer, quit Facebook, and start dressing for the job you want!
> Yes, right now you can't get the less-expensive Teslas, but eventually you will be able to.

They seem to be in no rush to make it, but seem to be living with the PR that it somehow exists already. That people can make a statement like "why get a Bolt when I can get a M3 for around the same price" is beyond belief to me, considering there is no available configuration of the Model 3 that is anywhere close to $36k.

The M3 is a luxury class vehicle in all actually-existing configurations. The Bolt is available at the price you state _now_.

It's just GM seems entirely unwilling to market and sell it in volume.
MIT's 6.00.1x on edX, it is a quality introduction to programming and python. I took it almost 5 years ago and would highly recommend it for motivated beginners. The most recent session seems to have just concluded so there may be another one coming up soon.
I will just edit this comment to report on the number of votes:

original vote plus:
6 upvotes - 15 minutes

edit:
7 upvotes - 1 hour
Are they thinking something like AB&B’d tiny homes? Pull one up to your driveway and rent it out. Stack ‘em in your back yard and rent ‘em out!
Is there anybody who really understands all the different encodings and character sets? I always get a headache when I have to analyze a problem in that area.
> You can always live in a smaller dwelling, wear worse clothes, eat cheaper food, avoid all paid entertainment, etc.

Indeed. And the more of these you can check, the happier and more satisfying your life is likely to get. Why maintain an unused mansion when a small, cozy place will do? Why follow the latest fashion trends when your four year old OCBD is in fighting form? Why eat lobsters all the time when beans are so nutrient-dense and cheap?! Why sit on your ass wasting away at the behest of a mediocre film when you could read a book instead?

The other major difference, of course, is that there are few irrational decisions quite as expensive as buying an idiot pickup truck to show off. Maybe a boat or an aircraft, but not much more.
That day will never come - at least not without blood in the streets - because we've painted ourselves into a corner.

Money is created via bank loans. The largest bucket of loans in the US is mortgage debt -- and it's worth trillions more than any other type.

Should this source of newly minted dollars dry up, the US could very quickly fall into a liquidity crisis.

So, yeah, it's easy to shake our fists at high housing costs -- but what most people don't realize is that almost every dollar you've ever touched or earned was born in some other person's mortgage.
>"I have a bunch of work to do and need to get counsel off my back"

You would have had a hell of a lot more work to do if you'd actually come up with the ideas you patented yourself, instead of stealing somebody else's bunch of work they did.