skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freakonomics did a great podcast about index funds with him http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/

> Warren Buffett, the most famous investor in the world, had this to say recently: “If a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands-down choice should be Jack Bogle.”
$72 billion is more than the GDP of some EU member countries.
Can vouch for ThinkPad X1 carbon. I was in the same situation, MBP 2017 nTB and downgraded to a 2015 ThinkPad X1 with qwhd display.

Cost me 330 euros from eBay. Pretty good computer for development, but it only has 8gb of RAM.

Nevertheless the 2015 Carbon X1 runs Manjaro Linux with KDE very well, everything works out of the box.

More developers really should consider moving away from MacOS and "fashion" technology, and start recycling older systems. A web developer does not need the fastest most expensive device on the market. Especially not a $5000 MacBook with a bullshit touchbar.
Redhat 8: Wayland is the default display server
NAT gateways are one of the things that blindsided me on the whole "serverless" idea for hobby projects. To have a Lambda function with access to the outside world and your private network resources your $0.01/month function becomes a $35/month+ expense if you don't want to manage your own t2 NAT instance (and required patches, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, etc).

See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=234959
The kitchen always ends up being less useful than I imagine it will be because it's so unpredictable what basic ingredients will be there. Many are pretty bare-bones, and by the time I buy cooking spray or oil, salt & pepper, basic condiments, etc. I have spent more than I would have by going out to eat. They're great for longer stays, but for a long weekend trip I almost never do anything more complicated than breakfast cereal or a freezer pizza.
I admit I'm hoping (although not remotely expecting) that now that Spectrum is part of the GitHub/Microsoft nexus, they'll contribute some development time to getting RethinkDB going again, even if it requires another fork -- there was a brief "RebirthDB" fork that was, theoretically, going to become the official release, but that seems to have stalled, too. The 2.4 release has been "nearly ready" for over two years now, and I'm kind of afraid that the lost momentum will be unrecoverable very soon, assuming we're not already past that point.
GP just means that effectively that's what will happen. just like wow churches push money through think tanks and orgs that donate to political campaigns. The money will never go away it will just get darker and darker and darker.
Can everyone stop “killing” marketing already?
Please no. A hydraulic hybrid approach would be so much more appropriate.

https://www.epa.gov/cati/hydraulic-hybrid-vehicles
RIP. One of the biggest reasons the investment class was able to expand to the common person. Exorbitant fees, lack of knowledge of investments were huge barriers of entry to making passive income. Only the really wealthy really had access to both. The index fund and the low fees associated with it are huge reasons why savings aren’t lower than they already are. Upper middle class especially benefited greatly.
Look, if you don't understand what "virgin forest" means and don't want to actually follow links and instead want to argue endlessly hoping for some kind of silly gotcha, I'll just spell it out for you: yes my original statement that we absolutely did chop down most of the forests of the US stands; it was informed by facts beforehand and I provided them afterwards. You can read the gory details on your own time. Spoiler alert, forest grows back, but never the same. Lots of species perish in the process. It's incredibly destructive. Technically, yes, today we have more forest than we did in ~1910, making today's loss about 25% of what was there in 1600. But this is a long sidetrack; whatever in the heck you were trying to argue in the OP about us making the environment more stable, it's just plain not the case. We upend every ecosystem we ever encounter. I would recommend reading "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari. But at this point this level of discussion isn't productive, as you are currently burning karma all over this thread. HN is a nice community. Stop being a troll.
The story behind Bogle founding Vanguard is one of my favorite business stories and one of my favorite examples of contrarian thinking.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/eric-schurenberg/how-i-d...

I don't generally like the idea of having personal heroes, but John Bogle would be on the short list.
Making mistakes means the author delivered a lot of features to users that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

RethinkDB sounds terrifying though, I’d hate for my DB errors in production to literally have no idea what to do, it makes me feel sick thinking about :-)

I think we should aim for kludgy but boring working solutions first - for example I’m tempted to write a redux middleware that sends dispatched actions to the server and manually sync, order and manage conflicts in these events to build a “perfect” system where front end state management and backend CQRS perfectly marry up. It’s a terrible idea because I know how to build the Podcast app I’m making perfectly well without any of this nonsense.
why start a business or stay there if you can leave?

A lot of people will roll their eyes at this notion, insisting that companies don't leave cities because of corruption, but it happens.

I worked for a company that left Chicago for Seattle around 2009 for two reasons: Taxes, and the fear of growing large enough to be shaken down by the local pols.
Awesome,thank you.
My comment was not about WeWork's CEO, but rather in reference to the Galt's Gulch (Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand)comment. They made a comment that the heroes in Atlas Shrugged used their own names as the monikers of their companies. I was simply stating that the comparison didn't carry over to Tesla = Musk. That was all. It seems to have triggered some to respond to their own interpretation. Skin in the game was putting your name on your company, not a more ambiguous one to hide behind. I would argue that unless you can change your name, you are putting skin into the game by naming your company after yourself.

I also refrain from the concept of FU money, all that it connotates, and that someone else can determine how much I can have.
A great mobile experience on desktop is bearable and only needs tweaking to work well.

That depends on your product and your audience! Many (probably most) B2B apps work poorly in the constraints of mobile. If your users spend their 9-5 hours buried in your app at the office, they probably value things like hotkeys, multicolumn layouts, and high-information-density pages.
But also, if it's general interest that makes sense as well. Say an ad for BestBuy while browsing the NYT. That's one of the benefits of well trafficked sites - you can reach a pretty wide swath of the population.
Facilitating peer review does have a cost. You would be surprised how much it takes to find referees that are both qualified to assess the paper and do not have too close of a relationship with the authors. Then there is the whole thing of getting them to file their reports.
The place you booked did not have electricity and you did not get a refund for the prepaid week? I almost find that hard to believe. There must be something I don't understand here.
>commission structure is almost identical to what it was 30 years ago

Not to mention housing prices have greatly outpaced inflation and real wages over that same period.
> has no parole

Also, this is not going to be some "white collar resort" prison!

Anyway, it's worth noting how Lin's behavior was not just criminal to the point of outright sociopathy, but also - like most criminals' - incredibly lazy and complacent. That anyone knowledgeable in a CS-related field could target a vulnerable individual in such an extreme, sustained and long-lasting cyber-abuse campaign and expect to get away with it, is rather surprising to say the least.
But Fedora should remain wary of an over-reliance on telemetry. It's very, very easy to draw the wrong conclusions about things, leading to decisions that reduce the quality of the product.

As an example, there are very likely to be packages that aren't often needed, but are absolutely critical when they are.
Unicode 12.0.0 Draft
> The bigger issues are illegal immigration and human trafficking.

The US has a negative net rate of illegal immigrants entering (or becoming illegal) and has for years, and, in any case the main avenue of illegal immigration is overstaying non-immigrant visas.

I don't see much evidence a wall is well-directed at the problem of human trafficking in the US, either, especially as most human trafficking in the US is sex trafficking of US citizens.
Thanks for the reply. The past 9 months I've had to dive deep into rhel again, and it's been a disappointing experience, but that may be due to a) more than two decades comfort with Debian, and b) some number of third party addins to rhel 7 systems, but conflicts have been much more painful in the rhel side. I've never noticed or been bitten by the dash / bash arrangement. package selecting in both cases is defined by cfm (salt or ansible) so I've never felt pain in that front either. Systemd seems to be full commitment by Debian, including network config, but perhaps the migration scripts weren't working for your system(s).
Add to that the title company which actually does much of important legwork of getting all the ducks in a row, and doing the research and insuring the transaction. I've never had a real-estate agent that did much more than recommend inspectors/mortgage companies/etc. In the end I've never actually used any of the recommended people because I've been able to find better deals on my own. Pretty much once the title company is named, its more a case of relaying all the information to them where they distribute it to interested parties.

AKA, much of what you think your real-estate agent was doing was likely the title company. Even more so from the perspective of the seller.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/duties-roles-title-company-2...
I meant probability and not 'probably'
Buy data transmission for an obscure currency, use obscure lightning software to use the obscure currency to pay a company to transmit data to something you need to buy dedicated hardware for. Hapless optimism aside it’s hard to see what benign purpose this could possibly be used for.

It’s sort of strange to bother with anything custom. Bitcoin signatures have a free, encrypted data channel within ECDSA signatures. You can just broadcast those through the normal bitcoin network without paying Blockstream.
The buyer doesn't see the cost, although 3% goes to the buyer's agent, it all comes out of the seller's proceeds. As such, there's a lot less incentive for a buyer to go without an agent.
Yet more evidence that Rudy Giuliani is literally the worst person in the entire world.
That may be true for simple home purchases, but I know some active real estate investors and they really value the services of buyer's agents. These guys don't buy something in the hopes that it will appreciate in future. They buy something only when they know they're stealing it. ("Victims" vary: could be an out-of-touch heir, an overextended builder, a bank that's held onto a repo for 11.5 months...) On the day of the closing, they've already made their money. The right buyer's agent knows the business, the locale, the seller, everything he needs to know. When asked, however, he doesn't know his employer's name. That's valuable.
And the other fun "is it a conspiracy theory or maybe actually true?" thing about Vanguard/Index investing is the idea that it might be undermining capitalism itself because diversified owners aren't incentivized to compete.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-26/maybe-...
Hard to fully apprehend the impact this guy had on investing for regular people. In a very real sense, imagine the aggregate savings in fees he created for millions of people over the course of decades -- savings that were likely plowed back into people's retirement and total returns. Who else has done something for investors like this? I can't think of anyone even close.
A chat application is to node.js what a blog was to Ruby on Rails or PHP -- it's basically the default example of every framework and library. Low complexity, high throughput. So you'd have no trouble finding good examples and libraries.

For a while, Erlang was quite popular in that area, but as some orgs only used it for that and thus didn't get too deep in the tech stack, they were eager to switch to something they imagine they know a bit better.
> If you're conditionally making the second bet based on outside factors, then you might not actually be implementing a strategy of reduced variance.

This doesn't make sense to me. What are "outside" factors and why do they matter? When you place the second bet, you have risk that you are reducing. Whether that risk has changed since you placed your first bet has no effect on whether your second bet reduces your risk or not.

> I'd rather deal with simpler upfront scenarios.

I'm sure you would, but you have failed to explain the relevance of upfront scenarios to our discussion.

> If you don't have enough info you might overpay, but overpaying isn't gambling.

You have still failed to explain WHY you think reducing risk by placing a bet that you will be injured is not gambling but placing other bets that reduce risk are.
Just yesterday I watched this video on YouTube interviewing him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrCo0m5gSfc

I found the clarity of his voice and the mental sharpness astonishing, given his age. Further, I wish information about index funds would be better explained in school.
> Let’s say that it takes 5 minutes to publish each post on social media… With 7 articles a week on 3 platforms, that’s a couple hours of work per week saved.

But it doesn't take five minutes to publish each post. It probably takes less than one. I wish I could get away with this kind of impact analysis at my job.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction – 2nd Edition [pdf]
How do you implement and/or in graphql A quick search shows you have to implement the whole thing yourself
Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
Chicago's population has been relatively stable over the last 25 years

Wikipedia disagrees with you:

1980	3,005,072	−10.7%

1990	2,783,911	−7.4%

2000	2,896,016	4.0%

2010	2,695,598

The white collar business sector of the economy here is booming

Which is great for The Loop, and adjacent areas. But there are 50 neighborhoods in Chicago, and most are seeing population decline.
Don’t forget that tin foil hat!
I was talking about cluster B disorders in general, and not BPD in particular. A lot of the literature I've read seems to indicate that BPD in particular can be an unhealthy coping mechanism for extended childhood trauma, which also explains a lot of the comorbidity. But a high-functioning narcissist or antisocial or even borderline who doesn't have any other untreated disorders might be completely toxic to everyone else in their lives without ever suffering any consequences themselves, as long as they can cycle through victims and enablers fast enough.
Where's your source for that, keeping in mind overall volume and effecacy?
Congratulations, Blockstream! Great to see this come online. Will Liquid customers pay extra for this, or is it included?
From the seller's perspective, the fee is the same. The seller wants a piece of property sold and is willing to pay a certain commission and signs a contract to make that happen. They're paying for an outcome not an input, effort, or number of mouths fed/hands out.

Whether it sells to Abel who has a traditional agent, Baker who has a buyer's agent, Charlie who uses an agent who happens to be at the listing agent's agency, or Dave who doesn't have any agent at all, doesn't change the seller's commission charge, which seems roughly reasonable and aligned with the value the seller received.
Do realtors have any advantage when it comes to seeing the listing for properties before they are visible on the common real estate website (zillow et al)? I always assumed it was so, but I’d love to hear one way or another.
Serious comment: I assume this advice holds when the hostage taker has no means of escape but perhaps is less applicable when their location is not known? In the latter case, negotiation is probably still a good option but for different reasons.
* We Don’t Sell Saddles Here – Stewart Butterfield – Medium || https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c5952...

> The answer to “Why?” is “because why the fuck else would you even want to be alive but to do things as well as you can?”. Now: let’s do this.

They hired someone really fucking good at making ugly lower-case As.
Wasn't my intent.

Parent omitted reference to Debian, while bemoaning Ubuntu quality degradation - I would expect most people disappointed with Debian derivatives, but familiar with the tooling, would consider moving further upstream rather than outright abandonment.
>(It's one of the reasons why home inspectors are almost completely useless.)

I think this is more accurately "home inspectors recommended by the realtor". Home inspections are extremely useful, so long as they are working in your best interest.
The reviews should have some warnings about this sort of behaviour, if it's consistently a problem with the host.

I've used Airbnb many times and have never had an issue. Make sure you only use hosts with good reviews.
Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala (2018)
Also, Redfin gave me 1.5% back when I bought a house. Ka-ching!
I wonder how much of the purported "success" of retargeting is just mis-assigned credit? You research a camera, but it takes you some time to make a decision. In the meantime, you get blasted with camera ads, which you ignore. Then you actually make your purchase. Even though the ads had no effect on you, there's a fairly high chance you still purchased an advertised model at a vendor that targeted you with an ad for the camera you bought (there are only so many of each). The advertisers may claim credit for that sale, even though in reality they deserve done.

Even more egregiously, maybe sometimes the advertiser's metrics have some reverse-causality: you buy the camera, then they show you the ads for it; but something in their metrics isn't properly modeling the sequence of events (e.g. they correlate retargeted camera ads shown per week with camera sales per week). Then they mistakenly take credit for a sale that happened before the ad was shown.

That's not to say such mistakes always happen, but I wouldn't be surprised they didn't happen fairly frequently. Given that measurement is hard and both adtech and advertisers are motivated to present success stories, and may not be too motivated to second-guess positive-sounding numbers.
Before, Slack was associated with such a universal, recognizable symbol: #.

The symbol was and is a part of their product as well.

Now it’s just a multicolored blob.

I feel like this would be equivalent to Starbucks dropping the mermaid.

Then again I’m not a professional logo designer who gets paid hundreds of thousands dollars per “project”, so what do I know.
If you think the great wall didn't stop the Mongols then you're very misinformed and there's no point in debating. Research some history. The great wall was amazingly effective.
Would be really good to go into managed VPNs and VPC peering. These are some of the amazing things that the VPCs provide you that took me a while to figure out.
In Houston I had a car stolen from a dealership after I traded it in. The thieves took it on a joyride, blowing through pretty much every toll plaza in the region.

When I got a bill in the mail from the Toll Road Authority, all it took was a five minute phone call to clear it up. No paperwork or anything needed. The toll people said they'd confirm with the dealership and take care of everything.

I don't miss Houston. But I miss the people of Houston.
Fraud (e.g. with a stolen SSN) is another option that's used in at least some cases. Probably nowhere near the majority of illegal immigrants are using fraudulent credentials, though.
Nice try. Yet the reality is that you were not just wrong you literally made my point. We can deal with things also forest. 25% is nothing just like your “point” isnt a point at all.
Perfect, bots talking to bots. Now if we can only automate being influenced by ads the whole system will work perfectly with zero effort.
From the Philly.com article:

> “Jack could have been a multibillionaire on a par with Gates and Buffett,” said William Bernstein, an Oregon investment manager and author of 12 books on finance and economic history. Instead, he turned his company into one owned by its mutual funds, and in turn their investors "that exists to provide its customers the lowest price. He basically chose to forgo an enormous fortune to do something right for millions of people. I don’t know any other story like it in American business history.”
Design Thinking in Blockchain and Crypto
Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox
The 50's are not when anthropogenic warming began. It's just accelerated since the 50's.

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-clarify-starting-poin...
https://climateatlas.ca/climate-change-basics
Except the arrow in the Fedex logo was entirely intentional and highly brand-relevant.
Yeah, this seems way more clean.
Apple Plans to Cut Back on Hiring Due to iPhone Sales Struggles
Sorry, the electricity was out when I arrived. The host told us it was just temporarily due to the construction outside and the neighbors confirmed it was happening a lot throughout the last few weeks. We were never told about this problem. I didn't want to deal with no electricity on and off so I left.
I fail to see how they are overpaid. If someone sells 4 houses per year for 1M for 1.5% fee, that's only $60k per year. That sounds like a mediocre income in markets where houses even go for 1M.

I am using numbers for the Bay Area that I have heard of. Maybe other markets are different.
Which makes the website absolutely blank if you have Javascript turned off. For such a simple website, why use JavaScript at all?
That is the short of it. If you have a polished turd and shine a spotlight on it you will "fail faster" than if you you creep around in the dark. It is still better to fail fast if that is where it will end up anyway.

Put another way, good marketing doesn't fix a bad product.(ahrefs is a very good product)
I think you're behaving inappropriately by implying I'm some sort of misogynist ("a certain segment of the tech community", implying I think "women and sjw's" are trying to "emasculate" men or create fake rape accusations). Your implications are not only inaccurate and unwelcome, they are unwarranted. No fair reading of what I wrote could reach the conclusion that I suspect women are faking cyberharassment or rape allegations.

Kindly remove or correct your comment. Thanks.
Thanks for the correction. I thought Phase I was a pre-human clinical trial for safety, rather than a human clinical trial. I appear to have been mistaken.
Oracle vs Google gets more significant each passing day
Google "VTSAX". I originally had 3 funds but now holding just one - VTSAX. But of course, that will change as I get closer to retirement (still far :-))
But then Amazon can just release a cheaper replacement called InfestationDB.
Kansas farmers are running out of water. Can they pull off an miracle
I agree, and would also throw in Mac Lethal[1] :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Lethal
Truly a saint. His index funds and passive investing school of thought probably saved trillions of dollars and made investing in the markets accessible to millions of everyday citizens.

RIP.