skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of complexity, it's a matter of power, or rather, information asymmetry.

Buying stocks isn't really investing, it's more akin to gambling like Poker, with all other investors at the table.

Many of those investors have massive computers, R&D firms, brilliant minds, 'inside information', and relationships with those companies and CEO's.

So what 'millenial' is going to trade better than those?

Zero. Or at least in the long run.

The only way to 'beat the man' is to have more knowledge than Wall St. and that is extremely rare.

So what 'Robin Hood' does is sign up fish to feed to sharks.

It might make sense to put a chunk of savings in a broad array of stocks (some in bonds, some in gold, some in cash etc.) - but 'trading' against Wall Street is about as smart as playing Poker against the best in the world thinking you're going to win.
It nicely shoots down the idea that tipping is required for good service. Done.
I don't know whether the original story was -ahem- embellished a bit or not, but I do know that after forwarding this to a sysadmin friend of mine running a host of Sun boxes at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, he got somewhat obsessed with replicating this bug - turned out on his hardware du jour the range was some 1100km (700 miles.)
That list seems a little middle-classy, you have bands like Pet Shop Boys (which I admit I do love) but you have a great and unique artist like Fela Kuti missing, which invalidates it all. From his wiki page [1]:

> Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. He has been called "superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend.
and

> Fela Kuti was a political giant in Africa from the 70s until his death. Kuti criticized the corruption of Nigerian government officials and the mistreatment of Nigerian citizens. He spoke of colonialism as the root of the socio-economic and political problems that plagued the African people. Corruption was one of the worst, if not the worst, political problem facing Africa in the 70s and Nigeria was among the most corrupt countries of the time. The Nigerian government was responsible for election rigging and coups that ultimately worsened poverty, economic inequality, unemployment, and political instability, which further promoted corruption and thuggery. Fela's protest songs covered themes inspired by the realities of corruption and socio-economic inequality in Africa. Fela Kuti's political statements could be heard throughout Africa.

Later edit: Just found a 1999 David Byrne interview [2], with him talking about Fela Kuti and appreciating his work, he even mentions a Talking Heads song based on Fela Kuti's style, so all things considered this must have been just a slip (from David Byrne's part, I mean) or something similar:

> But it’s obviously informed by, he’s bringing a lot of what was happening on this continent back to Africa. Just amazing! The lyrics and everything, having something to say that wasn’t just party music, that made it pretty incredible too.

and

> So…in Talking Heads there’s a song we did called “The Great Curve” [on the Remain in Light album], where we tried to do a Fela-type groove and then kind of take it in another direction. There are some sections that are straight Afrobeat riffs and stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

[2] https://arthurmag.com/2009/11/03/david-byrne-on-fela-kuti-19...
I have tried LXD casually over the years and it might seem frivolous, but I can't get past the lxc commands making rectangles in my terminals. Is there a way to disable that and output plain lines like most Unix commands?
If you need raw speed for storage why mess around with EBS or any other network storage device. Your case with videos. You could shove the videos for permanent storage on S3 and then use I2 instance and it's ephemeral storage to serve videos. I think I2 NVME drives push 250,000 IOPS per drive and you can get up to 8 drives per instance.
Looks fixed now. Thanks.
Americans pay more for wireless data compared to most other developed countries
Only now when re-reading your comment do I realize that you said "any throw you could possibly produce", in which case you are correct. I was thinking that you were talking more about the "fire a stupendously powerful cannon to get an orbital (or closeish) trajectory" situation, in which case the velocities would be high enough to not use a uniform gravitational field. My apologies for the misunderstanding.
It doesn't take into account the curvature of the earth. The commenter was assuming a simpler flat plane.
2 Stalagmites Found in Chinese Cave Are 'Holy Grail' for Radiocarbon Dating
Normally it could be effectively optimised away and just treated as an extra argument.

But it's also required by the spec that `foo().method !== foo().method` when returning new functions from a closure in `foo`, so the function has to be wrapped and a new structure allocated each time to differentiate.
Yeah, I never meant to suggest that it was wrong (except in the most literal sense!). Comparative subway costs do not make MTA look good!
Clickbait title doesnt tell you what causes meat allergies. It's ~~Rocky mountain spotted fever~~ lone star tick bite.
Just looking at the report's second graph, c5d.4xlarge has twice the throughput of i3.4xlarge, which is incredible. I wish AWS would release a new generation of "i" instances, with the same large amount of local storage as i3, but built on the same platform (including Nitro and processor choices) as c5/m5.
For positions filled people that are completely replaceable in hours, including finding and training them?
Because it makes powerful people fabulously rich. That is all you need to know.
yikes, not at the enterprise price point. that's well over six figures a year; might as well hire a technical writer to sit with all your team members.
Another great point to GCP:
-- You can setup an 'organization' that will hold multiple projects, in a hierarchy of folders. You can set permissions/roles on a folder, and have them propagate down to all projects underneath.
But for customers who want to experience what it feels like to float around in zero-G, it provides a lot of value. 5 minutes of microgravity and 500 milliseconds of microgravity are vastly different experiences, it’s like comparing skydiving to jumping off a chair (both of which, incidentally, also provide a “zero-G experience” of sorts). No need for the snarky last sentence.
Judging by their recent activity, Simple won't respond well at all. They've been in a downward spiral for the past few years post-acquisition by BBVA. All the original founders have left amidst a revolving door of executives, and the company has struggled to launch new products and innovate beyond their initial budget features.
I used a debit card to pay for dinner. Merchant accidentally charged me 15 times.
Noticed the next day - called bank. '7-10 business days to resolve', or I could go get the merchant to refund it (which I did immediately).
That money came directly out of my checking account, and was 'gone', functionally until I got them to credit it back.

Same thing happens on my credit card: the credit card company floats the missing cash for at least 30 days, at no loss to me while it 'gets worked out'.

And that's with everybody (merchant, bank, etc.) agreeing it was an accident. If it was actually fraudulent, I dunno how long it'd take...
> Most large banks have thousands of employees

Hundreds of thousands, actually.

Wells Fargo had 262,700 employees in 2017. Bank of America, Chase, Citi - all had over 200,000 employees that same year.

These numbers have only gone up since then.
This however doesn't explain North Dakota.
By "emotional" vs. "rational" the parent is probably referring to the type of investor/trader that would use a Schwab account, meaning someone who understands the risks they are taking on and won't flinch when the market goes sideways. Nothing to do with UI or product design.
We use pictures, but nearly universally those pictures require a shared culture to understand, knowledge of a complex language separate from the image. The images are metaphor, representations, of complex ideas. On the Voyager probe that language was math and physics. The image is not the communication, but a pointer referencing something in the shared database.
Amex does chargebacks in 2 clicks. WAY easier.
'If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.' No one mentions the change in attitude towards programming. If it wasn't correct YOU were not good enough.
> It’s worth noting that if you shoot a cannonball dead horizontally, it hits the ground at the same time as it would if dropped from the same height

No, it doesn't, because the Earth is curved, and air resistance. With a relatively dense, aerodynamic shell and energy sufficient for only a short flight time, both of these effects are minimal, so it's approximately true, but lose any of those and it stops being a good approximation.
google still has their hands in chromium, so it's not much of an improvement over chrome. there's supposedly a way[0] to remove all of google's shenanigans from chromium, but I doubt the brave folks are going to go through that much trouble.

Also, for those who care about licensing, chromium is a licensing nightmare. half (or more?) of the repos in the externals directory when building chromium have no license specified.

0. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Hey all - Seth from Google here.

Thank you to the authors who worked on this report. These types of reports help us better understand the ways in which our customers and partners utilize our platform. Our team is reviewing the report and will provide a response as we conduct our own benchmarks.

Varying factors impact these types of benchmark analyses, many of which are difficult to isolate and control. As an example, I refer to some of the benchmarks others have posted in this very thread.

As a technical practitioner, I'm positive there are areas in which cloud A outperforms cloud B and vice versa, giving users choice and flexibility. As an employee of Google, I can assure you that we are committed to providing best in class performance and availability on our platform.

Thank you for your patience as we review these findings and craft our responses.
Thanks for sharing! I have never laughed so much in a long time. Fantastic story.
Losing money on investments of client funds was how MF Global went broke, for example.
Why do people fall for this sort of stuff so easily? There is a pattern of western governments regularly organizing subversive, extremist, headline grabbing testimonies to further foreign policy objectives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

I don't think the Chinese government is great either, but I'm pretty cognizant that the level of anti-China FUD is directly proportional to the accelerating economic growth and foreign influence of the nation. China is causing very positive economic development in Africa, Pakistan and other regions that are more than happy to partner with it.

I for one am not so worried about a Chinese Surveillance state being thrust upon Europe or the US.
One of the rich tech people that reads this website should make a nonprofit to manufacture and sell generic drugs at-cost. More rewarding than investing in another social network or adtech platform.
I wouldn't be surprised given their investor docs mentioning America, their £1bn valuation, and their current growth rate, if Monzo launched in the US in the next 12-18 months.

They are a definite contender for your list.
The answer might be obvious to you, but it is not to me. That's why I asked..
Fine let’s leave Iraq to the side. We funded militants in Syria against Assad and sold weapons to Saudis against Yemen. We looked the other way as Pakistan genocidally raped Bangladesh in the war of independence. How about the United Fruit Company? School of the Americas? Wait how about this list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

Please go justify that and then say USA cares about sovereignty of nations!
I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

Or try too hard to, and reveal their true intentions.
I can provide insight here...

A typical archive might touch 50+ services. Each of those services has an API to export data which is called. If any service is down, the whole thing is delayed.

Internally, each service has to go retrieve all the data. All the data. That's typically a very expensive operation - A datastore for a document editor would perhaps be designed for an average user to store 100k documents, but perhaps only access 10 per day. There's a good chance the data is sharded per user, which means the work of retrieving all the data is going to fall on just one machine/storage server/application server/rendering server/whatever. That server still has other users to service too, so we can't hammer it flat out with your request.

Many types of data, when old, get archived on hard disk, since the chance of a user accessing an email attachment from 2009 is very very low. When creating a mail archive however, all those old mail attachments need accessing, and remember there's a good chance they're sharded by user, and therefore all on a small set of disks.

Remember most of the applications were designed before data exporting was a thing, so typically there is no API to read all data, and instead it must be implemented as a 'list all objects then retrieve objects one/a few at a time'.

If a disk seek on a 7200 rpm disk takes 10 milliseconds, and you have 1 million mail attachments to retrieve in random order, thats 3 hours, assuming no other load on that disk cluster.
There are many dimensions in which working with GCP is a lot better for small and medium apps, if only the proximity to Firebase.

These results are, to my mind, quite questionable. They certainly don't line up with my personal experience and the measurements I've done in the last year.

AWS is much harder to use correctly right now, to me.
Still easy to do, even between a couple of hosts:

https://imgur.com/DwbRfDs

Embarassing, yes. Especially since it was ongoing for, um, months.

nullmailer really likes to send mail. But some MTA's don't like to accept mail larger than a certain size. Ugh.
Just because China has mass surveillance and is partially a police state, it still is a chaotic place where you can mostly jay walk with impunity. State organs are poorly organized and integrated, and there is no easy way to verify the implementation of whatever edicts come from the top.

The central government also don't care if some local politicians are involved in the prison organ trade for a few extra rambos, as long as they keep it under the radar....
While visiting, am I free to loudly denounce the government?
I’ve seen this several times before through the years, but somehow missed the ending.

> “I'm looking for work. If you need a SAGE Level IV with 10 years Perl, tool development, training, and architecture experience, please email me at trey@sage.org. I'm willing to relocate for the right opportunity.”

I wonder how things turned out for Trey...
I've been eyeing 7 cubic feet (IIRC) chest freezers, a number of which are around the $250 mark.

I have a friend who's big-time into growing and harvesting locally, including as a part-time job. The trouble is to keep up with the influx; I'm thinking of freezing some of it for the colder, lower harvest months.

P.S. Through them, I've discovered this significantly suburban county is teaming with... I don't know, sort of a sub-culture of like-minded folks. It's been a rather interesting year.
I should have used a more descriptive term than meaningless.

Transpiler implementations do not count as hard restrictions on whether or not a proposal can change in the future. They're allowed to do whatever they want -- the fact that they create demand is very useful, but should not be seen as a restriction on whether or not the standard can evolve past that point.

"It's also pretty rare" is exactly the problem. They can change. When browsers ship a non-standardized behavior that's on by default, they are effectively cementing it. It is very hard to correct a broken implementation that is live, in the wild, on normal sites. The fact that these changes are rare doesn't make it less important to follow the established process. Stage 3 is one last safety check before the feature gets turned on for everyone.

What is the point of having a stage 3, if browser makers treat it as equivalent to stage 4?
Well yeah, I didn't say that it was exactly like it. It does give you the ability to float and even do tricks in the (moving) air and experience Newton's laws almost like in Zero-G, though.
blender / adobe photoshop / 3ds max

their UIs are nice designed and practical.
Not that I remember but I have had alternatives before and generally like them.
Do you have a link to any of those stories? My experience with financial firms is completely contrary to what you're saying here.
I look for alternatives, preferably open-source. I often find them. ("Often" being qualified by the number of apps I install, that isn't many compared to most people.)

P.S. If you use such an app, and there's a route for donating (one way or another), do so. Feed the ecosystem.
> in a completely Newtonian universe (ignoring relativity), if you shoot the ball at high enough speed it will never hit the earth.

Right. Assuming a perfectly spherical earth, at below orbital velocity, it hits the ground somewhere; at orbital velocity up to (but excluding) escape velocity it (assuming the cannon gets out of the way) orbits with the low point at (and opposite) the firing position, and beyond escape velocity it takes a curving path getting ever farther away.
Pros:

Prestige and name recognition if you can turn it around. It’d be a ticket towards working with other YC startups that have stalled, as well as non-startups that have stagnated. Maybe it gets you on a partner track at YC.

You’re interested in the space and think you can execute better than the previous CEO (and you can work with the limited remaining resources the company has).

If successful, everyone’s equity isn’t worthless.

Cons:

You’re likely to fail, but get paid in the process. You’ll still have a compelling story to use for future employment (“this is what I learned from failing”). More importantly, other people’s jobs depend on you.
A lot of nations have torture prisons.

USA has one of the highest incarceration rates due to the stupid war on drugs. It has enabled drug gangs - no less scary than ISIS yet ignored by our media and populace - to take over large swaths of central America. And so on.

All we care about is blocking refugees from getting in.

HOWEVER!!!! That is external.

Internally, the USA has some of the most respect for human rights and freedoms of any country.

This would never happen on any significant scale in the USA:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...
> You also incur some inflation risk.

Every dollar-denominated investment incurs inflation risk, including any sort of cash account like a dollar saving/checking account.

> If you're investing in the treasuries via an ETF or via a broker, you are incurring additional counterparty risk.

That counterparty risk is exactly what SIPC insures.

> Investing in a 10 or 20 year bond is obviously different than having a checking account which can be emptied at any time without penalty and without having to go to the market to find a buyer, so there's a large maturity mismatch that's being incurred by your counterparty, RobinHood

But RobinHood can make certain reasonably safe assumptions about the flow of capital into their various accounts, and adjust based on that.

For example, while they're growing, every withdrawal will be matched by a great amount of deposits. So they'll always have the cash in hand to satisfy withdrawals.

Of course, if they ever stop growing, that assumption no longer holds. But the very nature of startups is to bet on growth, even at the risk of potential bust (since failing to grow rapidly means failure).

> The part where they pick up the pieces could take weeks or months; if you need the cash before then, you're in trouble. If you can afford to wait, you're right, no big deal. I don't expect RobinHood to go bankrupt tomorrow, but if they were wiped out as part of a wider financial crisis, it's possible that under those conditions you'll need access to your cash quicker than you think.

Absolutely. I would keep an emergency fund in an FDIC-insured bank account somewhere else.
That's true of the nominal rate. A nominal 3% divides to an effective daily rate of 0.0082 %. But the effective rate is (1 + Nominal Rate / n)n - 1 or just over 3.2%.
I prefer aws to google and msft for account mgmt purposes. google and msft are so dead set on binding your logins to your global accounts which might be used for other things.

I know someone might argue that aws and amazon.com are sharing the same account, I guess they "can" but its easy to make a new aws account with just an email - I think we manage about 12-15 different aws accounts. We tend to isolate major clients or projects by making entirely new accounts. I don't feel like I'm working uphill to keep multiple aws accounts from merging or somehow binding to my personal shopping account for amazon.com. With msft and google it feels like I am always almost "tricked" in to binding multiple accounts and login states together.

I would argue that once you have an account up and running most of these guys are similar with differences. The ui on aws isn't glamorous but I find its utilitarian simplicity pretty easy to deal with and get most things done.
your absolutely right. In the long term house prices must be roughly pegged to inflation and if society is actually making progress on providing houses it would be even less than inflation. anything else simply isn't sustainable.

that doesn't mean it can't be a safe place to put your money which is not a bad investment actually. For the last 10 years inflation has been beating what a bank can return.

Of course, there's a huge difference between living in your house or renting it out. If you live in it, you're taking a pretty big liability. If you rent it out in a rent to own ratio optimized location, it can be a very good investment and return 6% after all expenses (roughly 4% after income taxes), plus the principle is inflation pegged in the very very long term.
I bought a decent chunk of VTI @ 133.00 this week, glad I had some roth contributions left
Why aren’t mvno providers more popular? I pay less than $20 a month for my plan.
Anecdotally, a significant enough amount (not a majority, but enough to move prices) of 5M+ home purchasing is from foreigners looking for a pied a terre in New York. Emerging markets have not been doing well, so there is less of that activity.

IMO this is why a free-for-all relaxation of zoning doesn't work in New York, because a few select global cities (London, Paris, New York, etc.) have global appeal, and therefore market demand is not limited to just locals. Oligarchs aren't exactly looking to set up in the Bay.
That is nothing compared to interest expense on CD's or other interest bearing accounts. Checking accounts are one of the most attractive sources of funding for banks (notwithstanding maturity mismatch).
> Here's Clinton's stance in March 2016

Was that her public or her private stance?
Player Movement with Alexa Voice Commands in Unity
No need to melt it, just decrease the structural integrity so that when stress was applied it would fail.
Pornhub’s owner has more user data than Netflix or Hulu, here’s why
AWS and IBM Want to Move Internet Traffic Off the Ocean Floor and into Space
An occurrence I hate. Personally I didn't see it at all until about ten years ago, it tends to arise at those same establishments that interrupt your conversation to ask you if you are "fine".