skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, there are large extinction events with hedge funds. The chance that RenTech (run by Jim Simons, former NSA cryptologist), beats all competitors, year over year, for over 35 years against a different set of hedge funds each year is much less than 5%. Also, to think that RenTech is insider trading is borderline ludicrous. They don’t even hire finance people. Most of their original employees come from the IBM linguistics lab.

I work in the industry, and to be honest, many/most hedge funds are full of shit. They have high fees and enrich themselves at the expense of their clients. But let me tell you, RenTech is the real fucking deal. No one can match their returns. In fact, they make so much money that their main money maker (the Medallion Fund), isn’t even open to outside investors (only employees get to contribute). Look at their historical return stream, it’s ridiculous. According to Wikipedia, from 1994 to 2014 it averaged an annual return of over 70%.

I don’t know what the P value is of that off the top of my head but it must be under .00005.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
> Are you're saying this from a short-term financial perspective?

I'd argue it was a stupid move from a short-term, long-term, and even medium-term financial perspective. Not only did TSLA subsume all of SCTY's debt, they diluted their shares doing so, and most analysts of TSLA value the solar/energy business at a 0 despite the $2.6 billion acquisition. How many other businesses can make multi-billion dollar acquisitions that people think are goose eggs two years later without that being considered a bone headed move.

> It's my understanding that they recently cut a major sales channel, so it's perhaps not surprising that the number of installations have fallen.

And why did they have to do that? Because Tesla had been negative free cash flow for so long that they had to stop spending any additional money on Capex. Had they been in a better financial situation, like, for instance, like they would be if they didn't do this acquisition they might have been able to invest in future growth and wouldn't have done two series of layoffs in the last 6 months.
All-in-one transparent transistors
"A"

"..or B"

"You claimed B!"

It seemed to me that he 'claimed' (if you want to use that term) that "A or B". I'm not sure what "A" was exactly, but he pretty clearly didnt just assert "B". Although sure, he did cast aspersions (or something), but he's hardly alone in doing that about his target. It would be novel to hear someone claim Zuckerberg is truthful, or say anything nice about the guy. The word "claim" was the problem here, I think. He may have suggested the possibility that Zuckerberg was lying, but claim that he was?! By what definition? "It's day..or night" "You claimed it's night!"
You seem to be thinking about something different wrt cost sharing and public healthcare. Cost sharing structure is a separate matter to risk pooling.

Taken to its conclusion we should all be in risk pools of 1.
I was very scared of flying for a long time. I fixed it by booking a flight a week for 12 weeks, starting the first week heavily medicated, and following the advice of a book on agoraphobia (Freedom from Anxious Energy). Then cut down the drugs progressively each week until it was none. Worked a charm
> Privacy-wise, base64 encoding can have benefits since it hides the content you access in larger encrypted bundles.

Uh, no.
It isn’t even DOM performance. DOM performance has been fast for about 9 years. The problem is not the DOM but rather all the slow abstractions, including query strings, insecure developers cannot live without.

If you are comfortable with the standard DOM methods your UI performance should generally be about 25% of JavaScript execution speed with exception to the visual render of large DOM node injection. It’s typically fast enough that you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference in performance compared to a GUI written in efficient native code.
No state but New Jersey. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-jerseys-tax-gift-to-florida...

Why are you so biased? High rates of taxation is not bad policy. Bad policy is far more nuanced than that.
I've pushed to get rid of the Electoral College for years. There are also people who want to keep the Electoral College.

What government do I deserve?
> While an important model, the core results of control theory are without a doubt stability criterions.

I'm guessing you mean "while they (kalman filters) are an important model...". What you've written involves a dangling modifier clause, which makes no sense.
Dude, it's not like GDPR is trying to solve some inefficiency in http caching, it tries to address a social ill where some people make profits by abusing the private information of others: it's not a technical problem so the solution won't be an browser extension.
Your wording makes it where you aren’t factually wrong, but a plane was in fact wripped apart due to the thrust reverser engaging on one engine of a 767:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004
Wat?

The internet is great. The absolute best. It is or can be the superset of everything else. All of everything is just a post, one upload away from being part of internet.

I'm sure the top 1 or 80% is cheap but that is always the case. Pop stuff is lowest comm denominator. The interest, the unique, the original is in tiny niches. And that is where internet shines. Niches are cheap to publish and have frictionless audience of the world.
Oh you're right, I typed that address by hand having found the page through the Google app on my phone, so didn't notice I wasn't using HTTPS. There's an issue on their GitHub that's been unanswered since November last year... https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/14591
I personally would like to have left temptation to spend time browsing the news, reddit, or other social media. If I could replace my iPhone with an Apple Watch, that'd be great (at least for me)
If you want to help break a monopoly, you'll have to bear with not having all the features only a monopoly can provide.

Scrolling a bit or even clicking on "More results" is not that big of an inconvenience for me to completely drop them. I will admit though that when a search fails for me, I may at times check the same search query at Google, but I now use Google for like 10% of my searches or so.
I disagree with that. The main appeal of a Tesla over other cars is the zippy electric drive train. The rest of a Tesla car... well, leaves a lot to be desired for. The Model 3 has already developed a reputation for being unreliable, and that's even with the simpler design of an all electric vehicle compared to an ICE vehicle. They mess up on all the things that every other auto manufacturer has spent enough time in the business to get right: panel gaps, paint issues, soundproofing, etc. That's a huge competitive problem.
If you are in an environment where you can guarantee that a piece of code runs in bounded time (no interrupts, no faults, etc), then locks can actually be used in lock-free algorithms since code inside the lock will always be making forward progress and will exit in or before some deterministic time. If the lock is fair and there's a bounded number of threads accessing the lock, then it technically becomes wait-free under these conditions since time to completion is bounded by n_threads * task_time;

This environment only happens to exist in very specific and uncommon settings, so it's not a generally useful concept for lock-free programming. It's common in the linux kernel to see spinlocks taken in sections which have disabled all interrupts, for example, but this is not an environment that normal programs can live in.
Not just that, PNG and gzip use the same compression algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE
What about (at least partial) cost reduction due to decreased bureaucracy of collecting data and segmenting population demographics and customizing premiums?
Tons of good advice on this previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654487
Perhaps the average person is not on hacker news.
Based on your selected quote and short comment I think you're reading that differently than the author intended. Note the start of that paragraph (which you left out):

> In some instances, base64 encoding might even improve performance, because it avoids the need for distinct server requests.

I.e. they are arguing inlining all resources and grabbing them in a single request has a smaller fingerprint. This is probably less true with HTTP/2 or QUIC
Yeah, I'm not opposed to a few buttons - like +- temperature, all blinkers, etc. But in most cars, the number of buttons is just overwhelming, so you probably need to take your eyes off the road just to find the button you're looking for!
GCP's iLB/TCP with HTTP Health Checks in Terraform for Stateful Services
I've had a few 128mb/$15/year for a few years now from RamNode. I've been happy with them
Hy may have changed since I last looked at it, but when I had looked at it, Hy was more of an s-expression syntax bolted onto python.

Some random thoughts on why this matters:

Clojure is very much not a thin s-expression layer for java; that would have been terrible (Python is more like lisp than java which is why Hy is tenable whatsoever).

In particular, CL style macros with out some first-class concept of symbols are a footgun[1], but I'm sure I could find other issues.

Another item that can't be ignored is that Hy selected the clojure syntax, which is going to be a turn-off for anyone coming from Lisp or Scheme.

Finally, there are hundreds of thin s-expression layers on top of existing languages, and most of them are terrible; Hy has done nothing to stand out from this crowd, so most lispers will not look closely at it.

1: See https://youtu.be/cPNkH-7PRTk?t=4786 for Rich's discussion of how he managed this issue in Clojure.
> but it isn't an instant catastrophic failure either.

Read the accident report and follow up on Lauda Air Flight 004. Boeing specifically was forced to issue a statement that it was virtually impossible to overcome a catastrophic failure outcome from a thrust reverser deploying at cruising speed.
They've update with a picture of the replacements, vnand ssd 860 pros.

Even the 4TB variant appears to be around $1k pre-tax at most, though.
"Taiwan, officially the Republic of China"...[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
I don't think anyone said that China can't tax the US company Apple for making products in China.
When did they not allow SSH apps? I remember using an AppStore SSH app on a first gen iPad about when it came out.
The most appropriate description of the Israeli scientists that they suffer from delusions of grandeur that are not supported by the data that they have or really anything at all
It is trivial to fingerprint the default configurations that browsers currently ship with, but it isn't very hard to make browsers much more resistant to fingerprinting. There's a lot of unnecessary information leakage in user agent strings that can be dropped. Most of the features that browsers have been adding in recent years as part of their quest to become full-fledged operating systems should be off by default for sites that the user hasn't approved. More than half of the estimated bits of identifying information identified by EFF's Panopticlick tool could be denied to trackers if browsers had better defaults.
Intel Xeon W-3175x: 28 cores for $2999
Additionally, buttons and knobs allow critical systems like HVAC to be operational and affordably serviced when the infotainment system inevitably dies. This was the primary reason I got rid of my 2015 Ford Fusion. The SYNC system in it became a generation behind and even when it was the latest generation it was nearly impossible to get it serviced at the dealer for software updated.
Your alternative "poisoned the well"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
> and it did used to be much more weird as a percentage of sites than now

Bingo.

There are still weird sites now. But back then, that's all there were.
Tesla's don't drive themselves though. Tesla has removed the FSD option from all it's model's since October. Most self driving engineers don't actual believe the strategy of using only standard cameras installed in the vehicle is going to work out long term, and their self driving unit has less funding than BMW's, GM's Cruise division, Google or Uber.

It's hard to see how they win the self driving game, and if they do, it will be years off.
This is completely on point ^. I remember those times, and I also long for a weirder, more creative and more frontier-like internet! The combination of a strong reaction to Flash, which had begun to dominate the web around 2001, and the well-intended, but simultaneous push for web standards created an insurmountable course over-correction. Then the iPhone's non-support for Flash in 2007 was the final nail in the coffin. The web was never the same. We got standards (yay), but we made it unfashionable to be really CREATIVE with code. It was no longer cool to do something totally different and unique with code. There was no longer any point in putting information on the web if it wasn't cross-browser, cross-device, and future-proof. While standards have been a boon to our profession, they completely zapped the old internet. I am hopeful the pendulum will swing the other way.
Corporate takeover, and censorship as the Internet becomes commercialized. Takeover of payment systems that can ban anyone's account for political reasons.

It brought on the neoliberal trolls on 4Chan and Reddit. In some areas anyway.

The Internet is like working a job now, all fun is blocked by management.
If that enforcement tactic is ineffective, the EU can obviously elevate it's methodology. Companies which do business, transfer monies, and have offices and employees in the territory have a lot of potential assets to seize. Usually fines, which are levied on a regular basis, until compliance is reached, are adequate.
I'm impressed with the online verilog simulator. Very cool website.

https://github.com/sehugg/8bitworkshop
Have these records been passed through to https://haveibeenpwned.com yet? Would like to check.
The never-ending seesaw of responsibility: years ago, people complained that Facebook was doing nothing despite having access to critical information, at the right time, that could save lives by preventing suicide.

Now that Facebook responds to those criticisms - that's wrong too.

I've never seen such a clear demonstration of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" over the last few years as criticisms toward Facebook.
Tim Ferriss and Psychedelics
Comparing SAC/Point 72 with RenTech or Bridgewater is a joke.

SAC is/was run by stupid goons (I know a couple of them, they’re dumb). Bridgewater and RenTech employ top down systematic quantitative strategies (I also know a couple of them, they’re quite smart) that consistently generate alpha.

It’s easy to discredit people/industries that you are not familiar with. But I work in it, and awhile a lot of hedge funds are full of shit, there are a few that are the real deal.

You can systematically outperform the market year over year, and just because you might be more familiar with SV than Wall St doesn’t mean we are a bunch of crooks.

I work day in, day out, trying to make money for our funds investors. And honestly, I find it extremely insulting that you are calling all of us a bunch of criminals.

Edit: I’m sorry I sounded s little hostile, but I take pride in my work and believe I am helping the world. I think a lot of HNers are unfamiliar with the tech people on Wall St. And that’s okay, but we are just like you: trying to make money for the firm using technology and quantitative reasoning. The same kind of work you might do at FAANG, we do on Wall St.
It's great for tech research, but if you search for anything else, it's all spam/commercial sites.
I certainly wouldn't put siemens in mittelstand. But I would put them as worldwide competitive in a range of engineering spaces.

You don't buy the story? fair enough. GE trades worldwide, has local affiliates in Europe. They work in the same way inside the european union, but expatriate profit to the US.

Halliburton and Bechtel do amazing things, but they also do a bunch of things I personally think are significantly less amazing, like grab serious asset and business from the post iraq war teardown, where the US forces basically said "fuck you" to european companies and awarded contracts directly to the beltway. Thats what "no blood for oil" stories are usually about. Schlumberger might be a european company (ok, now incorperated in curacau) to consider in that light.

Massive generalisations are the root topic here. Somebody said "why can't europe do what america does" and the answer is "USA is number 1" is not really a helpful conversation, its silly. Europe doesn't "envy" the US, its competing. Sometimes things like GDPR serve multiple purposes.

btw to be fair, Thyssen Krupp has a pretty dirty past too. The Thyssen museum in Spain is a bit of whitewashing on a company which was in the "schindlers list" bad set, and Krupp had assets siezed for reparations in the wars in Europe so if I am a bit nasty about Halliburton or Bechtel its not like there isn't a lot of dirt to fling around.

Packard Merlin engines were Rolls-Royce exports. Rolls-Royce jet engines powered the world and were being made under licence in the USA, as part of the magic box export in WWII which got radar and the proximity fuze into the war from the USA side. Penicillin production depended on US smart but UK science did the basic work. DNA was Crick and Watson in a context of UK funded science research and Rosemary Franklin got robbed of the Nobel. Du Pont was founded by a frenchman with French capital...
That was a great read on it's own, thank you!
It's the same when I've taken consumer surveys at conferences, taste tests in the mall, etc.
They're not about "cuts." First they track probably hundreds of thousands of packages/projects. They set up a subscription model where they charge based on dev team size/org size and project utilization and they provide security updates, maintenance, and legal assurances for the open source projects being used. Maintainers who sign up to help "lift" sign on for certain amount based on the popularity/ubiquity of the project. They are essentially channeling the revenues from these companies and paying out the maintainers. It the same as Red Hat charging a subscription fee and providing a whole bunch of stuff around that but Tidelift is paying maintainers directly.

You can read more about it here: https://tidelift.com/subscription and you can search through the packages and get some cool info for a maintainer here: https://tidelift.com/about/lifter

I DO NOT WORK FOR THEM. Just think this is the future of sustainable open source.
What I wrote was nothing as advanced as that. Simple round-robin got it off the ground and I don't think I ever looked at it again
The claim was that there's another explanation, not that there's only that other explanation. Why did everyone get their feathers in a bunch over Facebook's integrity?
And this much turmoil in an accounting department is never good. In the last year, they've lost 5 finance VPs, their CFO, and a CAO that they hired and left a month into his tenure. That would be shocking for any other $50 billion market cap company.
I shudder to think what the others are like, because I use TM and get a ton of spam calls despite a fairly lowonline profile.
https://outline.com/cSY3HL
Interesting. What is it about Google's position that makes them not want to piss off the carriers? Apple seems to take consumer friendly, anti-carrier positions -- no-lock SIM, iMessages the default.

What do you think makes Google different? Is it because they partner more closely on handsets?
Consider using ScreenTime to block the most trafficked sites.
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Mercedes builds wagons in a factory which used to be Carl Borgward. Nobody knows that car firm, it died in the sixties but if you say "Borg-Warner" then you're talking the basic automatic clutch which is in every american car until CVT came along.

Maybe Mercedes builds lemons, but do you really think Ford never had a lemon? Whats Ralph Nader on about again? Edsel?
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It would generally be vectors sent, not pixels. If the kit or standard came with decent and common GUI/CRUD widgets and related attributes, then one would not typically need to re-implement hover indicators etc. on the client. (There might be a "hoverbordercolor=blue" attribute, for example to override the default hover color. And normally you wouldn't mess with the default.)

It shouldn't be slow and bandwidth intensive if you stick with typical and common stuff for productivity applications. If one values eye-candy and fancy animation above productivity and reliability, then they can use the existing standards. I don't propose replacing everything, just supplementing and/or extending for work-oriented stuff.

And CSS's existing absolute positioning is not absolute in my experience. I get different results in diff browser brands/versions/OS-settings. Screen size adapting was covered in another sub-thread. People are so used to thinking in terms of HTML/CSS that I have a hard time explaining what I have in mind. I may need to make a more thorough write-up.
God, the pain of interviewing.
I've seen a number of videos on youtube of reversers been opened, if not fully spooled up, off the ground. It's not common but it does happen, especially in high cross-wind or otherwise iffy landings.

Here's the first video I found but there are certainly others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RO66a_nvus
Because it would be fake, and nostalgia is an emotional quality that depends on authenticity.
>Whatever the reasons may be for this decision, it allows DDG to track all links that the user follows from the results page. That is no better than Google. It is not a privacy improvement in that regard.

I don't think that DDG is trying to have independently auditable level of privacy guarantees. What they are selling is trust. The trust that major tech companies have squandered over the last decade. I trust a couple guys sitting in an office in Pennsylvania somewhere way more than the faceless behemoth that is Google at this point. Who knows if that trust is worthwhile, or if things won't end up going the same way, but I'm on their side for now.
Titanium is used for medical implants as it is bio-compatible.
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I hope that my explorable explanation on neural nets will be a bit more fun and weird [1]. It is still very much in the early drafting phase but I already have cats! Neural nets shouldn't be scary, they should be fun.

I will do a more formal submission once I'm done.

If anyone has an idea how I can make it more fun and weird, please let me know!

[1] https://mettamage.github.io/Interactive-Neural-Networks/
React TO-DO App with the newest approach to state management (DDD)
I don't.

First, I've been with the same company for over nine years. Before that was four years, before that was five, and before that was ten.

Second, I seem to live in a different world that most software engineers. (Maybe it's because I'm in embedded systems.) Very few interview questions have been on algorithms - so few that it isn't worth my time to try to "keep current".
American foreign policy is to tell other countries to fuck off, yet get uppity when other countries do the same.
Sticky Navs Are the Browser Toolbar Extensions of the Modern Web (2017)