skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised lot of people here think this is not bad news. It most certainly is. Think about it: Index funds don't make any moves by themselves, they simply follow the aggregate decision of active investors that are still in market. This is all good when they have < 50% share but above that now there is more asset that follows smaller assets.

Consider the extreme example: Let's say 99.999999% of assets are in index funds and now there are basically only 10 people left in market who are doing active investing. So when these 10 people decides to sell stock of some company, that stock will fall by some minor amount but immediately all index funds would need to react to this minor drop and sell their holdings. But that would cause more market drop and price would take a death spiral route. This basically means that those 10 people now left to do active investment can now control the market. Any of their small movements gets amplified by large gorillas of index funds.

Above is just tip of the iceburg. The secret of the success of index funds has been very simple: They aggregate all the active investors and these average turns out to be better than individual. However when number of active investors reduces, the variance would increase and this means index funds would become less and less optimal over time.
DNSSEC is the only true PKI we have. It has one set of roots and is workable even if we have competing roots, provided they sign roughly the same TLDs. The DNSSEC PKI is also truly hierarchical, while the WebPKI is absolutely not.

The web is absolutely built on naming of services that users can mostly understand -- that is, domainnames. Users cannot understand x.500 naming. So the web absolutely needs a reliable way to authenticate domainnames. WebPKI is not reliable, no way, not even with CT. That leaves DNSSEC as the only remaining alternative.

It's DNSSEC or WebPKI, and WebPKI is no good. So it's DNSSEC or nothing.
Does anyone ever question the competence of the media based on their ability to fall for such obvious bait time and time again?
Google's Adavnced Protection isn't quite as precarious as Maciej makes it sound. APP requires you to have two keys, one to store for backup, so it's hard to lock yourself out.

The recent trouble with their rebranded Feitan keys was kind of troubling, though.
The allegation is not quite that Huawei imported American goods into Iran. The accusation is that Huawei misled a non-American bank, HSBC, about its relationship with Skycom, a company that is accused of importing some American office computers into Iran. The US alleges that Huawei essentially controls Skycom, and that it hid this from HSBC, a British bank. Since HSBC does business in the US, it would not be allowed to give loans to Huawei.

You can start to see how far-reaching American sanctions are. A British bank is being told that it cannot do business with a Chinese company, because that Chinese company allegedly controls a Hong Kong company that imported small numbers of American goods into Iran. As I understand it, these sorts of extensive secondary sanctions are not normal, and are a sore point between the US and many countries, including some of its allies (such as France and Germany).

I would be very interested to know what gives the US any jurisdiction to demand the arrest of a foreign executive on foreign territory, for acts committed on foreign territory. Whatever the legal justification, though, this is a very unusual and aggressive step, and one that is transparently motivated by political considerations in the ongoing trade war.
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The issue isnt with Android flagships, especially the pixel line. The issue is that by banning android you van hundreds of low quality phones. Every iPhone is high quality & only a low % of android are.
We had a centennial farm in my family until about 8 years ago. In the day it was pretty good size, but it didn't expand for many years. Farm land goes up for sale very infrequently, and the economics of buying land even 10 miles from your main operation get very bad very fast with slow equipment and logistics.

Ultimately the farm was too small to be super profitable at about 600 acres (640 in a square mile). It was corn and soybeans, primarily to feed the cattle and hogs. They really couldn't make the economics of splitting between the co-owners, so one bought the other out.

The other operations in the area are 1000+ acres, many 2-3000.
That would probably be Vanguard, the only retail brokerage implementing non-SMS 2FA as far as I know.
Not to mention that there is a reproducibility crisis in psychology and social science, and delivering the message without nuance makes it even more irresponsible.
Fair enough, guess the original patrons knew best. How does Salieri compare to either tier?
The behaviors described in the article remind me very strongly of ADHD. It makes sense, because the article talked about Executive Function and people have long suggested that a better name for ADHD would be Executive Function Deficit Disorder (EFDD). Furthermore, ADHD and ASD seem to commonly occur together:

>studies show that between 30 and 50% of individuals with ASD manifest ADHD symptoms (particularly at pre-school age), and similarly, estimates suggest two-thirds of individuals with ADHD show features of ASD (Davis and Kollins, 2012). [0]

Perhaps looking into treatments for ADHD could help?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010758/
Interesting... How do you schedule this? If the queue is empty, do you back off and retry later, or spin the query until it returns a queue item, or some other way? It's a nice approach.
Lynx is still in use these days, and has been around since 1993.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Ugh, I have a watch vise for exactly this reason (replacing batteries on my snapback watch). It was something like $16 on Amazon, and will pay for itself within five years from me not having to pay much inflated prices to have a jeweler replace my watch's battery (and crucially, will save me a lot of time going to and from the reasonably priced watch repair places in Chinatown).
China hasn't taken any actions comparable to this. This would be like shutting down Apple's production lines in China with no warning - essentially a coup de grace to a major tech company.
> HN won't want to hear this but here it goes: (get your pitchforks ready)

It seems like welcome news to passive index fund investors.

Fidelity is offering zero expense ratio index funds, as well as some really low cost funds. The money to run those funds is coming from Fidelity customers who are focused on throwing their money away on other products.

> Forty-seven percent of institutional investors think digital assets are worth investing in

They think they're worth selling.
There are multiple dialects of english even within the US and many of them have different grammar rules.
“...a nonshit Amazon that didn't gouge.”

It's disruption time!
What do you mean? Most analyses of multi-armed bandit algorithms assume a finite time horizon. And if not, they use the doubling trick for infinite time horizons.
I don't know when you were a kid, but as someone who has been an adult for the entire life of the WWW: yes, it's much worse now than it was even 5 years ago.

I'll give you an example: my kid used to like to watch a show called Peppa Pig, so I would find clips on YouTube. Within about a year, people started posting really disturbing fakes in which Peppa is stabbed, raped, etc. They have the same thumbnails as the real clips, and Youtube suggested them, and autoplayed them after real clips. Including after clips from the official Peppa Pig Youtube channel! Truly a WTF moment for me.

Weird shit has existed on the Internet for decades, but it's only recently that it is being shoveled in front of regular folks as the default experience. I mean, these Peppa videos were the types of content that 4chan folks would have worked really hard to inject into normie websites a decade ago. Now, not only is it super easy to upload them to Youtube, Youtube will promote them to everyone for you! And seemingly not care about it!

It's one thing if a curious 12-year-old goes seeking porn or gross stuff or whatever... there's some inoculation in the fact that you had to go find it.

It's another thing entirely when the default experience for a 5-year-old on Youtube is to get served a video of her little cartoon friend getting murdered.
WebAssembly on desktop and servers is maturing pretty rapidly! There are several backend interpreters already in Rust and Go (life). The native, compiled options are even faster, Fastly's Lucet compiler and runtime was one of the first to implement WASI (https://wasi.dev/): https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...

The differentiator for InNative seems to be the ability to bypass the sandbox altogether as well as additional native interop with the OS. Looks promising!
I've rented tools from Home Depot and regretted it. The prices they charge are sufficiently high that you're typically better off buying instead of renting if you think you're ever going to use that tool again at all. Or, even cheaper still, is buying the relevant tool used off Craigslist, in which case you can generally use it for free, and sell it back for what you paid for it if you don't end up needing it again.
The effects of the Lehman shock and 3/11 disaster hit the middle class hard, the blame is pointed at millennials for being thrifty (Why aren't young people buying luxury cars? Why do young people buy everything second hand?), but the reality is that middle class Japanese have less disposable income than 10,20, and especially 30 years ago
I think this really highlights the stupidity of the "okay symbol". As long as we allow people to change the meaning of words and symbols, this will continue to happen.
For multiple passes, is it ever possible that the next pass shrinks the size of the code? Off the top of my head I don't see if this is possible, but I've always wondered this since it would then suggest you could end up bouncing back and forth on every pass, unless explicitly avoid it somehow... can that happen?
There's also a fantastic talk on this paper at the SF PapersWeLove meetup going over it https://youtu.be/-O0-HEZAwg8?t=1025

Really enjoyed this paper, the talk, and this technique. Quite clever!
It’s become impossible for an average person to know what news is true or fake. It’s time for disruption
A rare gem of an opinion to find on HN. There are a sea of unjustified and incomplete stabs at transhumanism and anything in that realm.
Very simply, sanctions evasion is enforced differently from other domains. In any case, China is a terrible foil for the rule of law. Meng will get a fair trial in America. Nobody from anywhere would get the same in China.
> That doesn’t actually have any impact on the healthiness or taste of the fish.

Maybe not per se, but farmed salmon is vastly less healthy and the artificial coloring makes it much more difficult to tell the difference.
I clearly remember using the web browser bundled with early NYC ISP The Pipeline in like 94. Netscape eventually came and blew it away, but it wasn’t bad for what (I think) was the work of basically one guy.
Yes, of course. You can use a contextual MAB and include the traffic source in the context. Contextual MABs are much more complicated and expensive to implement though.
Netscape's huge differentiator was running on 16-bit Windows. All the other browsers needed either NT or a Unix workstation. This was prior to Windows95 so regular folks were still running Windows 3.1.
There are sentiments in this article that I think will mislead people into doing nothing with their lives. For example,

> "Ambition for the more obvious and boring forms of power — political, financial — may not always be inherently evil, but it does tend to have unfortunate side effects in the form of poverty, slave labor, pogroms and unwelcome territorial advances."

This is how ambition works in a zero-sum world. It doesn't mention technology improving the lives of people. There's a related essay by Paul Graham, "How to Make Wealth" [1]. The "Wealth and Power" section is relevant.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Trump has already publicly announced that he's willing to use Huawei as a bargaining chip. This isn't vague speculation. It's something the President of the United States is openly saying:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-say...
"hundreds of the brightest minds of modern civilization have been hard at work not curing cancer. Instead, they have been refining techniques for getting you and me to click on banner ads."

Just out of curiosity... Have you ever purposefully clicked on an ad on the internet? I honestly dont think I ever have.

ps. I mean an outright overt straight up ad, not, for example, some article linked on HN that is a thinly veiled promo piece for something.
The thing is, in a campaign context the backup key is often inaccessible. If you put it in a safe place (like your safe deposit box or home office) and are halfway across the district, it won't help you.

I'm also not exaggerating how fragile the things were when I tested them. The head of the APP program had a broken one on his keychain.
"More CAs" == worse. I don't know what "different distribution" means.

Anything that doesn't have a strong hierarchical binding to the names users understand (domainnames) is simply not going to have better security than WebPKI.
Call it a genetic algorithm if you like. I’m looking for incremental wins in a world of infinite possibilities, not truth.
It's not worth my time to return cheap items. It's a huge hassle, because I need to go somewhere with a printer to print the return receipt, attach that to the box, then go somewhere to ship it. Definitely not worth all that trouble to get a few bucks back.
Lol, I’d make a poor guide. My grandpa knew seemingly everything. At his peak, he owned a few taverns with his brothers and seemed to know and get along with everyone.
So in this analogy, Amazon is basically a junk shop. Yet they have a much better reputation than that, somehow.

Note that I don't buy things at junk shops in real life.
> what gives the US any jurisdiction to demand the arrest of a foreign executive on foreign territory, for acts committed on foreign territory

She violated American laws with American products using U.S. dollars for years. She then travelled to an American ally.

This is a stupid counter argument.
It's not professional guides and sherpas anymore, it's an industry. The summit became a pure management problem. The recent "Everest" movie described it very well.
I think it's simpler than that. Humans desire political power because there's an evolutionary advantage to being in charge of your tribe. Primates care about the politics of their tribes, so do we. No need to delve into secondary, non-specific human needs. It's a direct, intrinsic motivation.
If these kind of incidents aren't optical illusions or equipment malfunctions (two very big if's!) then the next most likely explanation IMHO is that these are drones being used by foreign nations to probe our nation's defenses and/or send a message to us that they have some very advanced unmanned aircraft.

If true (big "if!") that would explain why only military pilots have reported these things.
I clicked on an ad for women’s yoga pants once. The retargeting makes the web a constant stream of delights.
Just to be clear, my point was more about the shopping experience and organization of it rather than the devices themselves, and the difference between "Here's one good polished device for X that we stand behind, and there's a few other variants and options on the next page if you want" versus "Here's a hundred choices ... some of them might be real stinkers, and it's your own fault if you pick one of those, so it would be unfair to blame us for that ... We're not going to recommend any specific one because that would be showing favoritism".

I think it's possible to offer a lot of choices while still being like the first category. A site could emphasize how the other products differ from the recommended flagship model, instead of leaving you to try to figure out how exactly all the products differ.
The problem is that sites like Dell do not satisfy the fiddler either. Behold the terribleness:

- Head over to dell.com and search for Products->Desktops->For Home (already forced into one choice I don't want to make, Home vs Work)

- Look at the AMD options. Threadripper is listed under processors, so pick that (noting in passing that "AMD Radeon" is somehow also listed as a processor option, and remind yourself this is one of the largest PC retailers in the world not knowing the difference between a CPU and GPU.)

- Get presented with 12 options, none of which are ThreadRipper machines.

- Notice the box at top right that says "Sort By" is set to "Lowest Price". Change it to sort by "Relevance". Finally a ThreadRipper model shows up - but only in 2nd place after an Intel system (!)
tldr: they "recycle" by burning everything
I was sure I was misunderstanding the paper, but my quick read matches yours. They seem to be analyzing just this one query. Another error is that just counting the number of times the curve passes in and out of the query is too simplistic. With z-order, and presumably with Hilbert curves, you can grow the query very slightly to greatly reduce this number. Then you just have to filter out the false positives. I've implemented all this using z-order, in a variety of systems, including a relational database query engine, it works really well.
In my whole lifetime I’ve only stumbled on a scmp article once or twice but lately it seems they have been pushing on ‘educating’ the western world . I literally see scmp news everywhere now, FB, HN, and YT. Are you guys experiencing this too ?
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Changing economic conditions definitely makes a lot more sense to me. And activities in the middle of the night tend to be more expensive anyway (just think about bars and clubs), so you can save plenty of money by just going to bed and walking around for free the next day in the sunlight to hang out with your friends.
Unity purchased the company behind TextMeshPro and made it free.

It is vastly better than standard Unity text rendering in every way.

This is a note for future readers, and less of a reply.
Spot on! Nothing has changed from the colonial era except having been dressed up in "genteel" clothes of "rule of law as long as it is to OUR benefit". Every country is learning from this and nobody is going to trust the US anymore. It is all lies, sham and hypocrisy. The western countries have lost the lead in Wireless Mobile technology and instead of admitting it and redoubling their efforts to win back the lead, they are engaged in tearing down the company and the country who beat them.
Swell – To Do List and Task Manager – Google Chrome
AB testing doesn’t eliminate time based biases such as novelty of new features, special events, pay day, tax day, etc.
They are called "windows" in Vim. That's why many related commands begin with Ctrl+w.
As far as Vim split navigation goes (and especially for those of us using Tmux), check out https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator.

It simply allows you to use Ctrl+{h,j,k,l} to navigate across Vim and Tmux splits as if they all were part of one cohesive IDE. Additionally, it spares you from having to maintain a configuration blob in your .vimrc thanks to being bundled as a plugin.

I don’t think it auto-creates splits, though.
It adds one more, yes, but it is exclusive. That is, if a domain wants to use DNSSEC and DANE, then that is mandatory for clients that support it, and for them WebPKI becomes a non-issue.

The fact that DNSSEC is a true PKI, and the only true Internet-scale PKI, and one that is 100% aligned with the domainnames that users understand and which are embedded in URIs and email addresses, and the fact that DANE gives one a way to opt out of the WebPKI mess -- that all makes DNSSEC/DANE superior.
By remote location, do you mean from where you are now or remote from the selling point of its product?
In theory, yes. If you had a good estimate of marginal economic costs then it would be easier to conclude if there is collusion. In practice, it is very difficult to estimate economic costs. This, for example, would include estimating the opportunity cost of each company's investment.
Not wrong on this.

We use gRPC in our tech stack but some pods handle far more connections than others due to the multiplexing/reuse of existing connections.

Sadly Istio/Envoy solutions are in our backlog for now.

We can't fault gRPC otherwise. It's way faster than if we were to encode/decode json after each microservice hop. It's integrates into golang nicely (another google coolaid solution!) so a win-win there.
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We'll be reviving draft-dnssec-chain-extension as an individual submission.
From their perspective, whether it is bait or not, they only benefit from commenting on it. People buy into their news media if it either asserts what they already believe to be true or outlines something outrageous.

This news coverage is just the beginning, but it'll probably fizzle out because it's a lose-lose for news media. It has also been started in public and is easily debunk-able.
> Cheddar isn't orange in every state right?

At every grocery store in the US where I've ever checked, they sell both "white" (off-white) and "yellow" (yellow/orange) cheddar. Yellow is more popular.

They also sell colby, which is a type of cheddar, also usually yellow.

What is regional in the US is the shape of sticks of butter! It's either "Eastern-pack" or "Western-pack" depending on which side of the Rocky Mountains. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter#United_States

Since the Rocky Mountains are the continental divide, that means you can stand in a spot where rain the falls to one side of you ends up in the Pacific Ocean and on its way passes by sticks of butter in one shape, and rain that falls on your other side ends up in the Atlantic Ocean and passes by differently shaped sticks of butter on its way.
Incremental wins can still lead to dead ends. My phrasing was off in my post. I meant to say that the fallacies aren't that the tactics never work. Just that they can stop working without you really realizing it. A heuristics that can lead you down a dead end.

By all means, keep doing it if it is working for you. But don't confuse it as good advice. And stay vigilant.
Or order it from Target.com?
Swell is a chrome extension that turns every new tab into a kanban task manager. Boards, Tasks, Subtasks, and Pomodoro Timer.
I screwed up backups and lost a lot of data customers trusted us with. Maybe we could have recovered from that, but it sent me into a depression that kept me from doing anything professionally for the next two years. That was twenty years ago, and I’m still ashamed to talk about it with anybody who knew me then.

The startup was just me and one other guy. He went on to become a priest. That fits his personality perfectly based on how quick he was to forgive me.
It's not a Google product obviously, but Snapchat runs on GCP. That's quite big. Is that not a "real" product? Admittedly they're on App Engine, a much older product than Kubernetes, but I suspect they'd be able to run on Kubernetes, and perhaps that's what they would choose if they were to build from scratch right now.
Simple: Aesthetics are just about the only input we have when comparing similar items at the store. If you see a bright red, salmon-colored piece of salmon next to a grey one, the price difference would probably have to be significant to overcome that disparity.

Same thing with produce – there’s no good reason to dip anything in wax, but all else being more or less equal, people will almost always pick the shiny apple over the dull one.