skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn’t caught an analysis of alphastars performance so this was interesting. The consensus in the HN comments seemed to be that alphastar was overall not very impressive, relied on manipulating lots of ui elements really quickly, but machine learning experts were very impressed that this result was achievable at all with modern ML.

We haven’t even filled out the potential of basic computing. It wasn’t until very recently that lots of people started carrying out mainstream culture over the internet. And there are still tons of things that are yet to transition to being done through computers. The tidal wave of stuff that is going to be radically changed by ML is coming. I think people have this idea that it’s already here and look, things are still pretty normal. We haven’t even seen the results of general computing and networking. We haven’t even begun to see the result of ML. It’s going to be unpleasant.
My remark was more about how often this case is trotted out as setting a concerning precedent. Gawker basically acted like jackasses and blew their own leg off, and Thiel was just there to make sure they didn't miss. It's hard for me to see that as setting a morally troubling precedent, and it doesn't fit neatly into the narrative of "Billionaire uses money to destroy enemies" unless you omit most of the relevant details. Presumably they could have avoided the entire situation by not being shady and breaking the law. And the rich having better access to legal representation is not something that was changed in any way with regards to this case.
That still feels off to me. Thiel didn't go to court to argue for Gawker to be shut down, he argued something different knowing that the financial implications (that they'd specifically targeted) meant it would be shut down. Still feels like an incredible exercise of rich guy power.
The Gawker suit revealed Hulk Hogan to be a racist shitheal.

This one reveals Bezos to be a general shitheal.

I find it completely ridiculous Bezos’ fucking asinine assertion this was directed by Trump or his people.

As much as I absolutely hate Trump and his people, Bezos is clearly doubling down and attempting to destroy AMI by cooking up some wild conspiracy involving the Saudis and Trump and AMI.

Here we go.
These are some powerful scenes. In Japan, many of the media accounts of kodokushi (solitary death) describe the corpse as "mummified" due to it not having been discovered for months or years. Clearly the actuality varies quite a bit.
This is kind of a backwards philosophy because there are so many things you can test in the market. What you want to try to do is find an edge and then capitalize on it with the tools at your disposal, just my opinion.

Try this strategy and see if you can automate it. It's called the wheel strategy. What you want to do is setup a $200K account, and sell puts with certain deltas, and then if assigned, sell calls with certain deltas, until you get called. This will get you a relative return of up to 20% per year if done well. You can use your skills to figure out the best delta position to trade, you can look for high volatility to take advantage of. Once you get this completed, you can look for other trends. I always recommend starting with this because it's the easiest way to make some money in the market. It's a lot of work to do it manually, but automated, it would let you earn income while you are not doing much.

You will also want to read and understand what calls and puts are, and what selling/buy calls/puts entails. Probably want to do this with stocks like Disney, GE, and so forth, something with large market caps, small movements, and something you are willing to hold long term and which will not go bankrupt/drop significantly in the near future, disclaimer: I do not like GE at all, however, you also want to try this with 1 contract to start, because 1 contract is 100 shares. You can probably work with a smaller starting capital. If you get this implemented and working, it can generate passive income for you in a sense, or you can blow an account.

Edit: You want to settle/close out around earnings because the volatility is insane at that time.
the justice department certainly can in fact kill it
I believe they killed the feature that let you block entire sections you aren't interested in. If I'm right, you must take sports news from Google News, it is not optional.

Customizing sources is pretty limited too. The Science section is full of pop-sci headlines, often exaggerated from studies, rather than just direct links to new journal articles.

RSS might be the better option here...
That tax keeps people in jobs. That tax kept social capital i the town heart.

The bigstore on the edge of town, and mail-order destroys social capital.

I absolutely get the prices were higher. I have lived this experience in different times, and short of cash I resented paying that markup in the corner store. But now, older and I think a little wiser I realize that what I did, was suck energy out of the local community. I miss the corner store, and I miss fresh bread from a local baker, and I miss the small indie bookshop and record store.

If the price of these things for a small town is a "tax" then can we be grown up and discuss the tax? I mean sure, you can drive the utility truck down the road to the costco, but what kind of a local are you, if the store-owner is on their hunkers because you stopped shopping? Are you a local at all?
I suspect there’s a culture of entitlement at Google which results in laziness while people just sit back waiting for more options to vest.
> If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? (On that point, numerous people have contacted our investigation team about their similar experiences with AMI, and how they needed to capitulate because, for example, their livelihoods were at stake.)

Sounds like precisely why he felt the buck had to stop somewhere.
If they have no value in causing embarrassment, what value would they have as blackmail material?

There's nothing embarrassing about being naked but I'm sure most people wouldn't want naked photos of themselves made public.
You could try https://www.laserlike.com/. It's built by ex-Googlers from Search and News.
wasn't it generally agreed that the Gawker-destroying opinion probably would have been reversed if they could've kept it afloat for an appeal? the bar for "messed up" isn't where you'd think
The EU got it wrong with the popup aspect of cookies/GDPR legislation. It's just bad UX.

A DNT-style browser feature with legal weight behind it would have been miles better. Your browser could present a consistent interface for every website that requests consent, and allow you to set global defaults, etc.
It's all but inevitable that a news publisher will get a story wrong at some point, that's why corrections get issued. So it's still a lot of power to put in the hands of the already powerful.
I think most people want to write this kind of blog after slogging through the AWS learning curve. Then they figure out how to use it and the urge goes away.
For everyone complaining about "how could they not have failover" let me ask you this: Would you take a job with Wells Fargo to fix their infrastructure?

And if you did take such a job, how long do you think it would take you to get the budget and approvals from all the auditors necessary to fix everything?

How much would they have to pay you to take that job, knowing how frustrating it would be to get anything done?

And now you see why banks have such terrible IT.

(One of my mentors actually works at BofA, and says he only does it because he gets to work 6 hours a day, gets a VP title and a ton of money, but nothing ever gets done)
Another thing that strikes me is : Wouldn't that AMI lawyer feel embarrassed to type up that pathetic threat letter?

"Hi, I am a high-powered attorney; my client has instructed me to describe some photographs of you that some may construe as naughty..."

It just seems, I dunno, like beneath the dignity that one normally associates with being a lawyer? I mean damn, if that's what the job entails, I bet most people would rather drive a truck
i have done cps plumbing in C with poor mans closures for the entire interrupt path, and given its natural event-like nature, it really all comes out pretty nice.
Quite a bit, actually: daily active users, retention rates by day, sessions are among the things you can view.
The hyphen is associated with the a though. In what's posted, a is a list, not a map - the type of the parent is being declared by that hyphen.
I don't think it works that way. You can't get the majority of someone's fortune because of bad behavior.
"toxic" has replaced "problematic" as the new go to insult
There's at least Red Hat according to: http://www.esi.mil/AgreementList.aspx?type=2
I agree that’s what the article is about but the author is making an important point with the title: if the process for getting sites listed is broken, it follows that GN itself is thereby broken.

The author’s chosen title should be respected in this case. IMHO.
More likely they will forget you paid them.
In the food service industry, for example, your tips almost always reduce base pay until a federal, legal minimum different from the better known minimum wage.

I’m not saying that’s just. Companies abuse service workers, and use some legalistic convention to do so.

Would you go suing basically every restaurant for fraud though? Justice here really means legislating the wages and tips laws to be more generous to workers.
I think people in our line of work can easily beat the market because we know how a lot of money is being spent and is going to be spent, well before finance guys do.

I made huge returns buying amazon and nvidia 5 or 6 years ago because I worked for a big tech company just beginning big moves into aws and machine learning and everyone I knew at other companies was telling me the same story. I bought amazon at $300 and nvidia at $30.

When people say you can’t beat the market, I think they’re wrong in that you can be well positioned to see large amounts of money being moved around well before the market becomes aware of it, if you’re in the right position.

I think you just have to think hard about how well distributed the knowledge you have is.

For example— I think we all know kubernetes is going to be a big big thing and it’s only getting started— I don’t think the market as a whole knows anything about it — my only question is which companies are set to profit from it? I suspect that commodity providers are going to slowly eat away at aws’s profit margins as people move to k8s hosting. But I don’t know who is going to be the big winner yet.
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I love when stories like this come in and you see everyone defending the company because they redefined terms that obviously mean a certain thing. Part of the reason tech giants are so big is they do all these things that would be illegal for me and you, but they get a pass.
No, I'm not sure. I have ill-informed opinions which go to bad economics and I'd probably be written out of the reddit economics conversation which has a special place in hell for amateurs like me.

So.. I quoted the comment I commented on. What I feel here, is that small traders, at home traders, and people whose investments are managed arms-length by funds, are in a different place to people who operate "in" the market. And to some extent, these things which are driving significantly above longterm trend are things which the market regulator says it tries to limit: that whisper of future intent that three guys get in the mens room, and two women don't get in their other toilet, leads to a distorted outcome: the clients who benefit did not benefit from worked knowledge, they benefited from a point in time creating a distortion in who knew what to expect.

The LIBOR people setting the prices for money who decided to listen to their chinese-walled banker friends and set company friendly price, did everyone a huge disservice, in the act of making some people fantastic outcomes predicated on different knowledge of the process. LIBOR was not setting information, it was a closed-room price fixing game.
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The "Principle of Least Regret" is an excellent way to make decisions, particularly binary ones:

Given a choice between action X and action Y, and given all the facts and experience and self-knowledge currently at one's disposal, which option will you look back on in future with fewer/lesser regrets?

You then commit to the path that you currently judge minimises your future contrition.

The very literal minded will take this at face value and miss the point of the construct, which is that having committed to a given path you have minimised your regret even if it turns out to be the wrong choice. Because you can look back and say "given the information I had, it looked like the right one". Which is another way of saying, "if I had my time again, I'd do it the same way", only now with rational evidence of this claim.

Thus turning confirmation bias into an affirmative and effective decision tool, by preforming the outcome around it.

If you follow this procedure, you may still turn out unhappy, but you won't blame yourself. It is especially recommended for people who may otherwise experience chronic decision paralysis comorbidly with crippling imposter syndrome.
Agreed. ECS has several limitations that you don't really discover until you are fully into the weeds. Don't use it if you are just starting with AWS unless your use case is a straightforward website stack. Do not use it for complex microservice architectures.
This is blocked for me by Cisco Umbrella? :S
You don't see how it would be a problem for a teacher to assign reading material about how he is having sex?
Any reasonable person understands that freedom hits limits when it unjustly impinges on other people's freedoms.

Can you name an instance where a person or body is entitled to completely unfettered freedom, regardless of harmful external consequences?

The Golden Rule is one of the most ancient and foundational principles we have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
Outing is like revealing a trade secret. Once the trade secret is publicly known it is no longer a trade secret. However that reveal was on Thiel.
Google News was frustrating when I was writing articles. I use to write a lot of original content - lots of breaking news that would generate lots of interest around the web. Other sites would write articles and cite mine at the bottom, and Google News would still have them ranked higher even though I was linked to and sourced in their article and had published my article hours before theirs.

Even worse were the sites that didn't cite at all. They'd copy my source content quite heavily, and would still rank above me. I'd name and shame them if I could remember who they were - there was a common small blog offender that would do it every single time and never cite back, and would rank higher every single time.

I was writing for a fairly well known, high-traffic and highly-ranked site that was about 14-15 years old. But Google News would de-rank it in favor of smaller blogs. It didn't make sense and was quite disappointing.
Gawker was extremely and unrepentantly unethical. They destroyed themselves.
That's not how it works. They get a base pay without considering tips. If they get tips they get more. They don't get a base pay that gets eaten away by tips until the tips exceed their pay, otherwise why would anyone bother to work harder for the tips if they just get the same amount?
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For us, SoloKeys, it was via Kickstarter [1]. We have blogged for a couple months before the campaign, typically sharing on HN where we hit the front page 2-3 times. Overall we signed up 2.5K emails that then helped funding the campaign very quickly. Independently from a crowdfunding campaign or not, I think trying to generate some sort of buzz at a specific point in time can help amplifying your message.

Post-campaign, we launched Shopify + Amazon US stores. In a sense we reset from zero, because our product isn't recurring. I think the 3 key strategies to get the first 100 customers on the store have been: 1. speaking at a conference (clearly planned in advance), 2. Amazon US, because people can find you even if they don't know you, 3. again some blogging, for example I went back to all my major posts and added an update with a link to the store (example [2]), so new readers can find it.

[1] https://solokeys.com/kickstarter

[2] https://hackernoon.com/why-choosing-a-fido2-security-key-8cb...

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> the never-ending cycle of Hot Frameworks

React has been out for 5 years and it's popularity is only growing. It sticks. Alternatives aren't anywhere close, and the ones that do are just variations on the same pattern. We've learned something real.
> a company that does 780k/yr (65k/mo12mo)*

$65k is the gross profit, which appears to be before operating expenses are accounted for. He doesn't list the net profit in the tweet (as he does elsewhere in the post). In the other mention, net profit was just under 1/4 of gross profit. So he's probably netting somewhere around $15-25k/mo, depending on how much of his costs are fixed/variable. Still good, but considering how many millions went into the business, not great.
I'm going to push back against this characterization as "ghastly personal behavior". For one, it's not clear if he and his wife were already separated, at least at a personal level, before this affair. But this general idea that it's somehow "ghastly" to send a paramour love notes and sexually suggestive pictures is a sad remnant of our puritanical history, and the sooner we rid ourselves of this notion, the better.
>The incorrect way to use a microphone is to put it right in front of you like this (leaning in close) and speak into it because you pop your P’s real bad, and that could be dangerous on certain words.

Wouldn't a pop filter stop this?

That's what most vocalists use. They're like $20. I've got one for use with my compressor mic. It works great.

Also, i've been listening to a lot of tunes mastered for vinyl lately that doesn't use high compression(modern music). The same tracks on youtube sound noticeably worse not because of the file format but because of the automatic compression and gain youtube adds.

You have to take this into account when you upload a music track there.
In SF, I drove by a big road sign that said "DUI checkpoint ahead".

It seemed like the SFPD was advertising it a few blocks in advance and it was easy enough to take another street to avoid it if you wanted to.
For many blogs (after talking to others) all it takes to get listed is hiring someone who knows someone, and the majority of sites in Google News are never reviewed again once they're reviewed. I can understand why it should be limited _but_ I also don't think the current approach is a good one.
The question is not only whether alpha exists, though, but whether you can a) identify it, and b) access it.

Berkshire Hathaway’s stellar outperformance seems to have declined in recent years, right, and you and I can’t invest in Renaissance’s Medallion fund.

I’d concur that the individual investor has much more freedom in terms of basic asset allocation than most professional fund managers (except maybe hedge funds), but otherwise the general advice to go for a broad based index fund still stands.
It's using xterm.js which has limitations on windows, for example PowerShell/cmd.exe will report mouse movement and I have not been able to get xterm.js based terminal emulators (vs code, hyper) to do the same.
> My belief is that we've been slowly building up to using general purpose languages, one small step at a time, throughout the infrastructure as code, DevOps, and SRE journeys this past 10 years.

I think that you’re right, and I think it’s great, because we have a programming model in which code is data and data is code: Lisp & S-expressions.

It’d be downright awesome to have a Lisp-based system which used dynamic scoping to meld geographical & environmental (e.g. production/development) configuration items. But then, it’d be downright awesome if the world had seriously picked up Lisp in the 80s & 90s, and had spent the last twenty years innovating, rather than reïnventing the wheel, only this time square-shaped. But then, the same thing could be said about Plan 9 …

I’ve not yet had the time to take a look at Pulumi, but I hope to have time soon.
What else did you own in those 5-6 years? What was your overall performance vs. the market?
Real media outlets don't try and blackmail people, as Bezos makes clear in his post.
I wonder where they have stored those alleged incriminating photos... An S3 bucket backing some sort of CMS system they use to run that website?
This is exactly how it works. You get minimum wage. If you get tips, your wage can be reduced to the tipped employee minimum wage of some $2 per hour. Usually $2 plus your tips put you over minimum wage, but not always.
i don't know if "in the extreme". certainly not extreme enough to be extorted over. There is vastly worse things to be ashamed about, most people understand that other people are not flawless, esp. when it doesn't affect them.
The point is that Google News is inherently broken because the system in which it approves news sources is broken. If every headline had to do gymnastics to explain the precise, painful point, it would make headlines just annoying.
Try it how? There’s no apparent product available, no app; just contact info, jobs, and social media links.
That would be pretty high. Google's are in the neighborhood of $3/1000 for impressions and $0.75 per click. Recall that many SERPs don't even show ads.
The owner is a Trump affiliated scumbag who ran "catch and kill" cover for Donald during the primaries. These people are so moronic and unethical. I can't wait for this era of American Idiocracy to be over.
It's uncanny!
It depends on the state. Lots and lots of states have tipped wage laws that allow an employer to count tips toward base pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
I agree.

Once you've torn them limb from limb, once Pecker is rotting in a jail sell and the only thing the National Enquirer is useful for is recycling them into cup holders; then you walk into Playgirl and do a photo shoot of these exact photos just to make sure they all know it was never about the pictures.
I guess I'd start with last month's statements.
Not just the 604, but also the 66 MHz bus and the faaaast 7200 RPM Micropolis 2 GB SCSI hard drive... /swoon

I do kind of wonder whether I’d have learned more Unix faster if I’d have bought an SGI O2.
I've been tinkering with the idea of a "news" agency that basically just re-publishes primary sources.

Still haven't figured out exactly how it would work.
Almost like we need an ssl-like authority for email now. Ugh.
I guess you’re not well versed with mandarin. Those accents are tone marks, at least in the context of talking about Chinese tones or tones akin to Chinese tones.

But... you introduced the accents first in this conversation! So you get to decide what you meant by them.

I guess we can’t communicate since were using a different language. Learn how pinyin works with tone markers and then we can talk.
Where I'm from (Midwest), they'll set up the same checkpoint signs and then have an alt checkpoint waiting after the most likely exit point.
I'm shocked at the comments in this thread decrying DUI checkpoints. Does anyone not see drunk driving as a serious threat to public safety?
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alright, I'll give you that
Here's to hoping that this evidence gets us one step closer to impeaching Trump. The core theme of his letter seems to tie all of this back to the president.