skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might be interpreting the original claim too harshly. Yes, literally parking $15 billion in the SPX wouldn't have worked (or at least, he couldn't have done so immediately without altering prices).

But attacking that example doesn't diminish the spirit of the claim. If we step back from the SPX and talk about investing in a diversified portfolio of equities in general, it's fully possible to quickly invest $15 billion without meaningfully altering the price. The reality of the past decade's bull market is that Michael Dell could have invested $15 billion into the market and turned it into $26 billion.

Of course, that's just the positive claim; it remains a normative as to whether or not he should do anything. But from a purely numerical perspective: yes, he could have invested in diversified stocks and gotten a comparable return.

Responding to your edit:

> So it's clear the SEC at least doesn't agree with the premise that a single billionaire cannot affect the market.

Rule 13h-1 isn't a useful heuristic here, for two reasons:

1. It was philosophically inspired by, and designed to track trading activity of, HFT firms. In particular, the idea is to keep a closer eye on very fast trading activity which could suddenly correlate in the same direction. If the aggregate activity of many amateur investors begins to correlate it's not necessarily a problem; it is a problem if many traders over a certain threshold begin to correlate strongly. Notably, this is why the rule includes a "circuit breaker" clause for halting trading.

2. The rule specifically excludes ETFs exchanging hands. In other words, this rule wouldn't apply to someone who approached a very large firm with billions of dollars to pour into a collection of ETFs.
After reading both the article and that ad, I suspect the reason is because it doesn't resemble any sort of "ad" in the traditional sense --- yes, it's "sponsored content", but I don't see it trying to actually sell me anything.
>(100% grass fed)

That's a scam. All beef is grass fed for most of its life. The divergence occurs near the end where grains are given for marbling and increasing weight. Cost of grains > cost of alfalfa, yet you pay out the nose for "grass fed" at Whole Foods (or similar)! HAHAHAHAHAHA! xD
In the UK taxis have a more rigorous safety test each year (more rigorous than the normal safety test all UK cars over 3 years have to have), but that wouldn't help in a situation where it was in an "accident a month ago"

Not sure about lyft, but Uber certainly does allow you to report such issues -- certainly more easilly than the majority of taxi or private hire companies.

Again in the UK you can always simply complain to the licensing authority -- easy to do with uber (you have the registration and driver's name), but fairly easy to do with http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/taxicomplaintform.htm

Despite all this, entrenched taxi drivers still complain about uber in the UK ("it's too popular and causes congestion and pollution, unlike black cabs with their express lanes for rich people to bypass the traffic")
I’m curious as to which country it is that only teaches C++ for all programming?

And why that is, sounds very particular. I started programming in C and C++. Back then it was the knly languages I could find books for in the library and I had managed to get my hands on a Borland compiler via an older cousin, but I wouldn’t have picked it as a newcomer language today.
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Isn't this exactly the business model of news organizations like the NYT? People do stuff, they write it down for free and sell it to people. Nothing new under the sun.

"According to Zuboff, surveillance capitalism distinguishes itself from its industrial forebear as “a new economic order that claims human experience as a free source of raw material.” "
That's not the argument you were responding to, though. This was: "His investment and turnaround of Dell was successful to be sure, but not nearly as spectacular as the article seems to be implying."
I was needing a fully digital (controlled) microscope stage and stand recently. I was suprised to find a lack of motorized stages compared to other items. It would be nice to have a modular stage so it could be used with different stands. Rotation and height adjustment would be nice as well.

Have you came across anything similar? It seems like it would be trivial to build similar to your other designs.
Dude, people understand that "this copyright law has doomed the internet" means "if you stop this or undo it, it won't be a reason for the internet's doom". Fortunately, human interpretation is fluid enough that they understand this.

Just like if I say "damn it! I left the stove on! My house will burn down" the driver will say "oh shit! Let's go back" not "Since you have guaranteed that the house is going to burn down at this point I am not going to act. By a strict interpretation of your words, there is nothing that can be done. Let us continue onward to the cinema"

Seriously, man. Come on. This isn't a language thing.
Whats your hourly?

I'm more laravel/mobile/node/vue/react, and I find I under-charge, but I think if I were doing WP I'd need to charge even less... Currently my best-long-term client pays $40...but I feel I want/deserve 60-70 and trying to land that for my next couple clients... do people pay you more than $40/hr for wordpress or do you just charge per project?
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Depends on the jurisdiction, in the UK Uber are exactly the same as a legacy taxi company and have to have the exact same insurance coverage. They're just more likely to do so.
Eat more mushrooms. I do a mushroom-heavy soup about once a week, usually lentils with an entire package of crimini mushrooms sliced up.

Keeping a variety of unsalted tree nuts and seeds nearby to conveniently snack on is good as well.

Edit:

For B12 in particular, it appears Shiitake and Lion's Mane mushrooms are best. They're not competitive with animal B12 sources, but every bit helps and mushrooms don't add much in the way of calories to a diet.

Personally I consume canned wild, unsalted sardines in water fairly regularly for Omega-3s and B12 specifically. They're small and have a short lifespan, which is desirable for a variety of reasons with seafood. i.e. Low on the food chain, and less time spent in a potentially toxic environment accumulating nasties like mercury. Sardines are considered a sustainable superfood by many. It's way better nutritionally than tuna, you eat the whole fish, even the bones.
Presumably, the government is shutdown until the votes are certified?

No. I'm not an expert in the details, but there are rules about how government services continue to operate during the period that Parliament is dissolved. The key principle, however, is that it continues to operate.
If Facebook wanted these parties to buy ads, they wouldn't have to pay users to hijack their facebook accounts in order to do it.
I've seen total compensation packages of $100k for senior engineers in SF/SV before (really low side), FAANG comparatively would pay $350k+. There are plenty of public companies in SF/SV that pay senior engineers $175k total compensation.

I also want to clarify that I didn't mean they always pay 2x over the competition, I meant that it's not unusual for them to. Also when I say FAANG - I kind of included similar large companies (Microsoft, LinkedIn, Salesforce, etc). There's also a lot of large companies that come close, maybe 80-90% of FAANG pay.

>Plus engineers who are really concerned about maximizing their income will generally turn to contracting rather than permanent work anyway

I think it's pretty difficult to get steady contract work that pays more than what FAANG does. I charged $175/hr when I used to contract and it was decently steady, but that only comes out to around the same I would be making at a FAANG minus all the perks/benefits. Also when you get to higher seniority levels, your pay at FAANGs start to reach into the 6 or 700's, meaning you'd need a contract rate of $300+/hr to compete.

Usually when companies need that high level of technical architecture/leadership - they'd normally hire someone full-time rather than use a contractor, so it would probably be difficult charging that rate while getting steady work.
This title is rather click-baity, and so is the term "surveillance capitalism." There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options. However, people continue to embrace "big tech" because it is convenient. Whether you want to admit it or not, these companies do plenty of good for people around the world.

I think the momentum of deleting our presence on these sites will continue to increase, but I also believe that it should be allowed to happen organically. Regulating this space without allowing people to realize its harmful effects and make the decision for themselves will only further polarize our society.

Edit: Since I'm being down-voted, I should clarify that I definitely support some level of intervention. I would prefer that to take the form of educating people on the importance of preserving their privacy.
Most passwords are worse, yeah, but 44 bits isn't great. With a fast hash that's less than a GPU-week. It's basically enough if you use bcrypt, but even then it's not protected from an attacker with a lot of money to throw at it. (8 GPUs per server, 10 servers per rack, 50 racks, suddenly you're hashing work-factor-10 bcrypt passwords at about 2 million per second and average cracking time is 50 days.)
It's complicated and depends on a lot of things. On a typical Linux system, bitblt (well, XCopyArea) and font rendering will go through XRender, which may or may not use the GPU depending on driver support. On xf86-video-intel, it will use SNA, which will use the 2D blitter on Intel chips. It's unmaintained at this point and a bit buggy so some distros turn it off. Instead, one might use glamor, which implements XRender on top of OpenGL, which will use the 3D graphics hardware on Intel chips. So it depends on your system configuration.

For other operating systems, the words and details change, but the overall idea of "it's complicated and depends on your driver and OS version and which apps are running and phase of the moon" still applies.
Who are you addressing? I actually upvoted you for your original response. I got that you didn't agree from the first response though.
Xwayland has had glamor support since the very beginning.
There are many single companies with a lower beta than the sp500.
Last week I watched a video about Vitamin B1. The term Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome [0] was mentioned. This form of vitamin B1 deficiency is experienced by some heavy drinkers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_Korsakoff_syndrome

Age, alcoholism, chemotherapy, dialysis, extreme dieting, and genetic factors also contribute to the development of this syndrome. The most important treatment (aside from cessation of alcohol use) is some form of thiamine (vitamin B1) supplementation - injection/IV/oral.

The causes section of that wikipedia entry says "Mercury poisoning can also lead to Korsakoff's syndrome." Maybe mercury contamination is another factor in the thiamine deficiencies observed in ocean wildlife.

Edit: added the clarification that thiamine and Vitamin B1 are synonymous.
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Thanks for explaining this to us non-USians.

So is the current problem is because the president can veto congresses appropriations? In a functioning government this seems sensible so the executive has a symmetric check on congress, but currently it gives the president unwarranted leverage.
The repo of the original interpreter: https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP

Which notable features are not implemented yet?

Goto statements
Object-oriented features
Namespaces
Multiple files support

The target audience would consists in students trying simple algorithms. By the end of the high school, students are only using very basic C-syntax: variables, arrays, functions, and a couple of functions from the standard library.

Some partial implementations:
iostream (only cin and cout and endl)
cmath
cctype
cstring
cstdio (partial)
cstdlib (partial)

Other includes could be added too.

What I am trying to highlight is if there is any possibility to increase the visual feedback for students heading first to programming.

Something more like an interpretor would be more suitable in this case, but the wasm compilation doesn't seem too slow though. Thanks for this demo!
I prefer to use SMS. I don't want to use whatsapp, because I don't fully trust it, and I think it will kill my battery life.

The backup feature does sound nice. I back my messages up to google drive, though.
Those website builders are terrible from a seo perspective WordPress can be moved easily from one hosting provider to another and can be optimised for search.

The sort of client that would be satisfied with wix is not the sort of client you want to deal with.
Yeah, "You're 76% German" makes my monkey brain think, "Come on, you're making that number up." But "76.2%" makes me think, "Ah, the miracles of science, time for a weizen of pilsner!"
That is something that is being actively worked on. Mars 2020 should already have much more autonomy than Curiosity has. See for example https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/from-oasis-to-noah-t...
I’m quickly arriving at the conclusion that there is no longer anything that resembles “news” anymore.

Media is so mutated by technology, and unrepentantly and blatantly biased, that we’ve reached a point of inversion where technology now more frequently obscures information, instead of surfacing it.

It’s funny that we’re reaching a moment where a tool invented to solve a problem plays an active role in creating the problem. Initially we solved informtion overload with search indexing, but it’s not about overload anymore. Now it’s about poisoning all sources.
an invasive species of fish that is rich in thiaminase -> thiamin (vitamine B1) is broken down by thiaminase -> predators like birds normally source B1 from fish -> B1 deficiency

The perverse effect is that the invasive species has an advantage in that its predator suffers, so plausibly the birds will prefer their usual food if possible, which increases the concentration of the invasive fish...
Another option is to run the requests through a sidecar process so you have one place for implementing these best practices across your stack.
Forgot about the pension. Thank you.
that explanation only applies to the great lakes, not to the birds at the baltic.
Better leverage would probably be demand side -- get a couple of major buyers (maybe for systems which can safely use older tech, like industrial or government or finance) to demand a baseline which requires open source/verifiable hardware, at least for certain systems.
I'm saying this based on the decrease of activity in Atom's repo (publicly visible in the "Insights" tab in their repo) and the fact that the last few releases haven't had any significant changes, expect the GitHub integration.
I love your enthusiasm! Why don't you shoot me an email and we can chat some point next week.. It would be really cool to get a great community around the project, extending capabilities and adapting the core technology to random equipment.

My email should be in my profile.
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In Romania. There are computer science classes starting 11 years old students in every school but Pascal and C/C++ are the only options.
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I think this type of classifying phenomenon is a sort of low level Bayesian filtering. One of my best friends is African American and he tells me he notices staff at gas stations and grocery stores eyeing him intently like he's seconds away from shoplifting with higher frequency in lower income areas and people brazenly crossing the street in broad daylight if they are alone and approaching him on the same sidewalk.

I don't know if there is a easy solution to advance society other than the passage of time and I think it's unfortunate people face these daily injustices. Thoughts?
I think the only thing I wish they'd done differently, considering the limitations of the time, is to disambiguate how you turn a note off. I don't know why you would release 1.0 of a spec with specifying that Note off and Note on with velocity 0 are interchangeable.
You can standout on Wix using Wix Code, which allows you to use your programming skills to code you site, your site backend and a dedicated database for the site.

You will not need to write the whole thing from scratch specific to the customer. Instead, just code the extra bits.

Having said that, I think there is a large market for websites designers and coders, and we see an active community on Wix of people who build websites for customers
That brings up an interesting question: Is that the current, best, or only basis for time?

I'd argue that many relevant time concepts are more framed by social conventions than the sun.

Most of us are more interested in concepts like "when does work start", "lunch time", and "when the store closes", than "when does sunrise occur" these days. In a pre-industrial society, those might be closely synched, but less so today.
That’s certainly a start, but the obvious counterpoint is GDPR, which was EU-wide rather than the activity of one minor constituent nation. All told it does feel like the U.S. goes well beyond most other Western nations in terms of locally and globally imposing their IP framework through laws and treties.
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> HTTPS change could be easy

Yes, but it adds load on download servers and increases the cost of serving VLC to users.
You are grossly under charging. The first advice I give any dev is to up your rates by 25%. Period. You will not lose any clients. I promise. But $40 an hour for those skills is nuts. In the US WordPress providers typically charge $80 and I tell all of them - ALL - that they should be at at least $100/hour.
Ask HN: What can you do against climate change as a software engineer?
When you read about climate change (or just environment protection) you can usually read about actions those are general: eating a plant-based diet, avoiding air travel, living car free, etc. Do you know anything tech specific ones besides don't buy a notebook/phone every year, and don't support companies with your knowledge who do not care about these things?
I assumed these were scams to get unique combinations of emails and passwords. Surprised they’re real. What’s to stop people from generating new accounts and signing them up?
Ooo this could be a great extension of the current microscope system! The only thing I've found is this https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2525155 which while not motorized, allows for height adjustments.

Consider making an issue (tagged improvement) on the GitHub page!

https://github.com/pachterlab/poseidon
The best part is that not only is Go supported, there is also support for Javascript, Java, Python, C++ and eventually others.
I should add that the GitHub page is here:

https://github.com/pachterlab/poseidon
Google runs my email and cell phone.
Oh. In UT1 there number of seconds in a day is constant, so it's value is defined by the rotation of the earth which is slowing. UTC is better than UT1 in that regard. Maybe UT1 is fine for humans, but really humans just assume ut1.
There are still many reasons to prefer MIDI cables over USB. The main one is that you can plug pretty much any MIDI device into any other and expect it to just work. With USB, you almost always at least need a computer or MIDI host device to act as an intermediary. MIDI cables can also be a lot longer than USB and (if the receiving device implements the spec properly) the devices are optically isolated.

There are a lot of potential technologies that could improve upon the antiquated MIDI cable standard, but USB is actually worse in a lot of ways.

CAN bus might be a good option; it's fast enough, and is already available on a lot of cheap microcontrollers. I haven't worked with it, though; maybe there's a shortcoming I'm not aware of.
Larger companies usually have more brand recognition == more applicants. Many smaller companies are essentially unknown to the public and need to rely much more on talent agencies to bring in applicants.
The logical play is that any wall is a long-running project. They can promise Trump anything to get him to sign the budget, and then immediately unwind their efforts once the smoke clears.

I honestly want to see them push a budget with something like "Canadian style health care plus a wall" to see if he bites.
I got started in tech the old fashioned way: by hiring into a 1999 dotcom with minimal qualifications.

I’m familiar with agencies because I have hired and worked with a lot of them recently.
What about jupyter and root instead? https://root.cern.ch/notebooks/HowTos/HowTo_ROOT-Notebooks.h...

AFAIK it uses clang for parsing, which is as good a C++ parser as any.
The `Canvas Defender` addon warns me that you are doing canvas fingerprinting on austinwalters.com. If that's the case, I'm curious why you need that on what seems to be a personal blog.
Ask HN: Best place to find devops / Heroku consultants?
Been stuck on a DNS / Heroku domain / automated certificate problem for longer than I'd like to admit.

Where do you find devops consultants? Specific website, or just your personal network?
That just depends on your definition of romantic. The idea of a whole life, the entirety of existence available to a consciousness being made to meet cosmic insignificance, is itself romantic and tragic. The words themselves have the capability to show any number of things, ranging from their desire to summarize their own life, to a banal statement that they couldn't possibly know was their last, to a display of terror or resistance, or a list of regrets, or a divulgence of soon-to-be-consequence-free dark secrets, or a last minute change to their will. It doesn't take some wishful thinking to associate meaning or interest to it, it's inherently compelling and drama-prone.
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Great that you found a way to work like that; I for one cannot. And in my experience, even with headphones, it is far less productive especially for coders.
You are probably undercharging. Not parent, but my WordPress specific work was either a flat fee for standard stuff (setting up a site, installing and configuring an existing theme, plugins, etc), or $50/hr for customization either through writing new plugins or adding functionality to an existing theme via PHP or CSS.

Laravel or other custom work starts at $125 for clients I'm expecting volume from or $150 for one off projects, again given in estimates as a flat fee for the project. If I expect something will take 8 hours to build, then I'm giving them a quote of $1200.

You can scaffold up a lot of CRUD stuff in Laravel in 8 hours.
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Thanks. For what it's worth, I live in the middle east.
"Harming people is bad, and we shouldn't do it. I hope that's self-evident to anyone reading this"

Whether you are a molecule, an animal, or a human, entropy dictates that to order to exist longer than your counterparts, you steal energy from them. If you're smart you team up with others for the common "good" (at the expense of whoever you steal energy from). So much for ethics.
Layering CSS gradients doesn’t work, unfortunately: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14926189/creating-a-grad...
tl;dr: Oxytocin > Dopamine.
While many people are using Wix and Squarespace, there is an active and large community of Wix Experts (who are not working for Wix) that are building websites for customers.

So I guess there is a place for a professional business for building websites