skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's curious how that extra few percent improvement (if that) in reliability of electricity has made us so much more dependent on it.

When I grew up blackouts were quite common due to tropical storms in summer, at the worst times you could lose power multiple nights a week and like you I loved them because they became wood fired BBQ nights. But because they happened frequently enough everyone was prepared, candles and torches were kept handy and put out out the first flicker of the lights, BBQ meats were kept in the freezer, there was always a wood stockpile, etc. Now that the electricity supply is more reliable we're far less prepared.
I worked on Encarta in the mid 90s. Here are a few tidbits you may or may not find interesting.

* The content was based on Funk & Wagnalls. Then we had a bunch of editors and writers cleaning up the content and adding new articles.

* The Windows version was always done first, then we ported to the Mac using "WLM" (Windows Library for Mac?).

* We used fractal compression for the images. If you never heard of this, look it up—pretty interesting. This was going to be all the rage, but then it wasn't.

* As a consumer product, Christmas sales were everything. Therefore, unlike most software, the schedule never slipped. There was a hard date for completion. Features would be cut to make the deadline, no matter what.

* When the web hit, we put professionally curated links into the articles. Best of both worlds. And you could get a subscription that would update articles and links monthly.

* We worked with WBUR to implement a brand-new closed captioning standard for videos.

* The codebase was ostensibly C++ and MFC, but it..was..complicated.

* Articles were edited in Word, with a bunch of custom macros, and exported to RTF. There was a lot more processing that went on after that to shove all that content onto the CD, but I wasn't too familiar with that part.

* Later versions occupied more than one CD. Swapping was a real pain, but if you had multiple CD-ROM drives, it would accommodate you.
yeah I'm surprised as I read through this a lot of it seems predicated on assumptions of what will happen outside of GE. I'm far from a finance guru (but I did buy some holiday IHG stock last night)...but this one doesn't read as fraud as much as a time bomb that could blow up at any moment, it just hasn't yet. Fraud is an entirely different level of claim. Dishonesty about the risk...sure...probably GAAPish'ing your way into a higher than deserved stock price...sure. But I can't even parse through the reports repetitions of the same information over and over with increasing strident bolded red text and skull and cross bones emojis what is the core thesis.
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If you are overweight, you already know that it is important for your overall health to begin shedding the pounds. However, it is vital that you lose the weight to reduce the strain on your heart. As the weight begins to come off your blood pressure should begin to reduce itself.

Exercise regularly and gradually increase the intensity of your workout. Make sure your doctor approves of the exercise regimen you will be doing. Take it slow at first. Do not over do yourself. If you do, it is likely that you will be sore and reluctant to continue exercising.

Stop smoking and drinking. These have very ill effects on the body and even worse effects on the heart and pressure. If you need assistance quitting smoking or drinking speak with your doctor for some assistance.

https://amts-news.com/secret-natural-hypertension-treatments/
I skimmed through the first edition, the book is heavily biased towards telling you to do everything you can(business logic) in the DB versus doing stuff in application code. Whether that's good or bad, it depends, but the book philosophy is to cram as much as application code you can into the DB, citing performance and less code to write as reasons.
Well that is the point of activist short sellers; not too different from security researchers having a monetary incentive with bug bounty programs.
FWIW, unless you're on one of their lower end phones you can also use Samsung Pay on a regular credit card reader. Most Samsung phones can emulate the mag stripe of a credit card if you hold them near the swipe area.
The sad joke, when comparing with other professions, is wanting to be payed while refusing to pay others for the tooling one uses.
I assume GP is saying that Citron’s reply to the quote is what makes them look bad. So this:

> The arrogance of that statement alone discredits his whole argument.

And I must say that struck me the wrong way as well.
You are mixing up the words “infer” and “imply”. But anyhow, no the other commenter did not imply that sea mammals have extra salt glands that humans do not.
> the risks are clear. High capacity Li-ion batteries have high risks and incident rates of explosion.

The risks are clear: high-capacity gasoline fuel tanks have high risks and incident rates of explosion.

Except... the fire and explosion risks of an ICE fuel tank are seemingly far greater than a Li-ion battery pack.
Read the footnote, the compiler had a habit of asking around for words.
Short-selling does cause the price of a stock to drop because the process of a short-sale is this:

(1) You borrow shares from your broker, and agree to return the same number of shares at some point in the future without regard for what they'll be worth then.

(2) You then immediately sell those shares on the market. Increased selling does cause downward pressure on shares as a result, in the same way that increased buying pressure pushes shares up.

(3) Eventually, you re-purchase shares for what is ideally a lower price and return them to the brokerage. Your profit (or loss) is the difference in price between when you short-sold and when you re-purchased, minus the fees your brokerage charged you to borrow the shares.

Where it gets a little messy is if the stock price goes up, you run out of margin, and your brokerage forces you to purchase shares to cover your position. Then you're buying them at whatever price you can get them. This in turn moves the stock further up -- far enough, and it may cause other short-sellers to get liquidated too, and so on. The stock may go parabolic like BYND and TLRY. This is called a short squeeze.
I find the title whimsical because GE actually bought part of Enron after its collapse, specifically GE Wind is a spinoff of Enron's wind energy division.
Depending on what you need and your traffic, a simple $5 Digital Ocean droplet with a nginx reverse proxy in front of Django would do the trick. It'd still let you run sqlite, but Django's pretty powerful when you give it postgres (which you could also run in the droplet).
> If humans can cause such systems to be overly complex, then humans can cause such a thing to happen in the finance industry as well.

This is fallacious. Just because something can be so doesn't mean that it is so.

I agree with your position but your reasoning is horrible.
The multiple loops are not for gravity assist (or gravitational slingshot [0]) as I had initially thought. It is for the Oberth Effect [1], which I only got to know of today.

From the Wikipedia article -

>> Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well, and then accelerates when its fall reaches maximum speed. The resulting maneuver is a more efficient way to gain kinetic energy than applying the same impulse outside of a gravitational well.

>> In some cases, it is even worth spending fuel on slowing the spacecraft into a gravity well to take advantage of the efficiencies of the Oberth effect.

Fascinating! To say the least!

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect
Here is another look at the GE insurance business with some napkin math regarding the adequacy of their reserves: http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2019/08/one-more-brief-com...
ARM sells, in addition to ISA licenses, complete designs. I guess that's a big advantage for those that can't afford to develop a full CPU from scratch.
>> companies did IN FACT time share servers.

> Ok. It was so uncommon that I didn't encounter it for the 15 years preceding AWS.

That just shows that.. you may not have enough experience. Time sharing was the norm before personal computers.

Some good reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
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wowee two pages of very large sans-serif text and "Think about this...". Is it just me or does this look like an 8th grade social studies report?
Is it really though? I can understand aspects of nature being necessarily complex, but a human invention's complexity seems almost arbitrary and something to be solved for. Like, mathematics is necessarily complex because it describes the universe. Could you speak more to the necessity of the complexity of finance?
None taken. The person I am trying to refute also didn't offer anything substantial either. I'm not a finance guy because it's complex so I can't point to specific examples of things that are unnecessary.

What I can point to is that when humans create systems that abstract we tend to make things unnecessarily complex. Our software is a perfect example. Statistically if most of the software we create suffers from this phenomenon how likely is it that our finance (which is also a very abstract system) suffers from it as well? Answer: Very likely.

If you want specific examples. The sub prime mortgage crisis was caused by a finance concept called a CDO that was so complex people could hide garbage assets away from view. Tax law (which is also a part of finance) is so complex corporations can find unintended loopholes that benefit them and harm the economy.
You have posted a nice example of how computer scientists become good at programming and then think they are good at other things. Quoting from Rational Wiki:

> Kurzweil has an unfortunate tendency to think that being brilliant at computer science means every other specialty can be treated as a special case of computer science. He thinks that the genome contains all the information needed to grow a brain, therefore it is a problem of Kolmogorov complexity and computer science, therefore we will be able to simulate one on computers by 2030. Experts on the evolution of brains think Kurzweil does not understand biology and thinks the genome works like a blueprint, whereas most qualified biologists think the right analogy is a recipe that takes as a starting assumption the informational content of the rest of life on Earth. In the case of the human brain, it literally cannot physically develop correctly except in the presence of a human culture (e.g., see Feral child). This leads to a certain exasperation on the part of those who actually know what they're talking about.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
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>So there exists a class of professional services designed to temporarily crash stock prices to make short sellers money? Curious.

There exists a class of professional services designed to uncover financial fraud. That's what this is (allegedly) an example of.

Investors can make money by correctly betting that a stock price will go down, hence they might be interested in funding research that uncovers financial fraud. The key point is that the stock price goes down _because of the fraud_ that was exposed -- not because someone _accused_ GE of fraud.

If someone put out a false report accusing a company of fraud with the hope of causing a temporary price drop, that would be illegal. They would be fined / go to jail and would be barred from working in the financial industry again.

For the record, I think Markopolis's analysis is wrong. Whether it was done in good or bad faith is another matter.
During the last financial crisis GE nearly imploded because GE financial was a hotbed of fraud , poor accounting and risk management. It’s not inconceivable that the same practices came back during the last boom years and and are only coming up now because someone looked. The thing is it might be a good buy because it probably won’t blow up nearly as fast as people think
> Tesla’s could conceivably catch fire sitting in your driveway.

My mother had to drag me out of an ICE car when I was three because it caught fire in our driveway, so I'm not sure you're comparing equivalent things.
The guy you replied to is an Indian himself which makes his comment a bit ... perplexing.
How do you know they’re actually making less than $25K without audits?
There is, or maybe ought to be a penalty to getting caught and having users defect.

So perhaps they are calculating one or more of:

* Nobody will follow up and figure the claim that the policy will be changed was a lie

* If somebody does, people won't care, or won't care enough to stop using the app
Shorters _are_ people looking to sell the stock at the current asking price with the hope that they can buy the underlying equity at a discount in the future. Your statements are literally at odds with one another.
From the manpage[1], you could also permanently allow a device by passing the "-p" option.

usbguard allow-device -p <id>

[1]: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard/blob/master/doc/man/usb...
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I've been there (Gardner Island). In the mid 1980s, as a grad student on an oceanographic research cruise dredging midocean seamounts for phosphorites in the equatorial Pacific, sailing from Pago Pago (American Samoa) to Funafuti (Tuvalu). Our ship (the Sonne, from Bremerhaven, Germany) anchored offshore and we took zodiacs in through the reef, which I remember as tricky to navigate without mishap. Strange, utterly lonely place. Saw the crabs, along with tons of sharks. Hot as Hades. We stayed for an hour or two, hiked around a bit, ate lunch by the lagoon, and left.
We are quite used to the reals we use in computation never being exactly equal, except by accident. Exact equality just isn't very meaningful, there.
So which country do you think can do it and still isn't doing it?

How many countries do you think are capable of doing it?
Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake”
I have a lot of respect for Ackman, but he got married to that trade.
It sounds like an implication based off of an axiom but it is not. It is a implication using probability. I just glossed over it.

Here's a better way to word it.

IF humans create many forms complex and abstract systems which is basically a bunch of rules and concepts put together into a category called software... and if most of these systems end up being over-complex....

Then if we do the same thing of creating a bunch of abstract rules and concepts into a system and give it a different name... lets call it "finance" then by probability the same thing will likely happen again.

There, let me know if you get it. Apologies for being vague.

Basically humans tend to create overcomplicated systems when given an abstract universe to play with, finance and software are both such an abstraction. It is both an intuitive property and a statistical one as I have shown above.
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Without getting too much into specifics, it was 3% higher than my current highest card.
Unfortunately when you’re in suburban US and you can’t or don’t want to drive, you’re stuck with little other choice sometimes...
The dog is one of the world’s most destructive mammals. Brazil proves it
>I would strongly caution anyone in possession of material non-public information to consult a securities lawyer before proceeding to trade securities based on such information.

I would strongly caution anyone in possession of material non-public information to consult a congressman to conduct the trade on their behalf.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-inv...

(And yes, there have been reforms, but those reforms were later neutered).
Man. When did I say I was good at finance? I literally said I don't understand it. I don't understand tax law either, but I don't have to understand tax law to know that it is so complicated that corporations have found loop holes they can use to exploit it.

Literally tell me how this is wrong.
It seems that way though I'm unsure too--check this link: https://easylang.online/apps/easylang.html
Politics ;-)
Well to be fair, the person who responded to you gave just as much substance as you did in your initial post.

It just sounds like you are stretching a bit - you've admitted that you're not a finance guy so it seems likely that you don't fully understand the reasons for why financial systems might be as complex as they are.

Sure, there probably are some areas that could be structured more efficiently (guessing here) but it also seems just as likely that there are many areas that are complex but for good reason.
I'm sorry, how does history require fewer hours than chess? Are you a historian or chess player? What does history 'performance' even mean?!
Would you mind sharing reasons why you think that?
Looking at the ruby docs, my interpretation is that if a gem is published only on github registry, there's no good way to use it as an indirect dependency (no good way for a gem to list it as a dependency) -- any app using such a thing would have to know the list of all of these indirect dependencies on github registry, and list them individually in the top-level Gemfile, along with their correct github source.

This seems to limit the utility for ruby. I'm not sure if other supported platforms have similar issues?

You could already do a lot of what github registry for ruby does by using an existing feature where you could already point to a git repo (not just GH) in your `Gemfile`. What this adds is just the ability to resolve multiple versions from github using ordinary rubygems resolution. The existing feature forced you to manually specify a tag (hoping there was a predictable tag for a version) or SHA, or use whatever is on master HEAD.
This is the same DoorDash that is continuing to steal the tips of the Dashers?

Pass.
I don't remember Pepperidge Farm. What was it?
This XKCD makes a similar argument highlighting opening habits rather than notifications: https://xkcd.com/2183/
Polarization is orthogonal to habit formation.
Or the latecomer pleb shorts are getting squeezed or the hedge fund "bought the rumour, sold the news".
They're on the young side for the business and definitely didn't pioneer the concept. Also, Muddy Waters (Capital) is a hedge fund at this point.
Which is a glorified wrapper. Why on earth would you make a decision to lock up all of your eggs in the Microsoft basket? Diversity is a good thing. Just look at what's happened to the web industry with Chrome, and now it's basically too late.
I wonder about the idea where we measure a metric, and cut off the tails of the distribution. This presumes we have a regular means of sampling the metric to lend a time profile of it.
Without DRM, I won't send you the file. If I don't send you the file, you can't play it at all. So DRM has increased what you can do.
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Just wanted to add that Erwin Hoffmann has actively maintained s/qmail (and related djb tools) for quite some time. =) Please feel free to check his website:

* http://www.fehcom.de/sqmail/sqmail.html
Errata: adding at the end "for average case performance".
i would say that went away because the rubygems ecosystem (including the invention of bundler) improved enough that there was really no reason to use github as your rubygem server. It didn't give you anything but a slightly confusing proprietary alternative with no added value. So people rightly stopped using it, and it rightly went away.

It's not clear to me what the value added for ruby specifically is now. (Yes, I know rubygems.org has problems; but this has feature problems with indirect dependencies compared to rubygems.org hosting).
We changed the URL from https://medium.com/@EthanZ/on-me-and-the-media-lab-715bfc707... to the author's own site.
There are definitely more deer than in the past. The elimination of natural predators and the decline of hunting have let their numbers explode.

https://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/22/too-many-deer/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-really-need...
And he lost
Should we let the market forces play that out? No tip, less incentive to join Door Dash as a driver. Also fix the minimum wage laws.
OP> The real lesson is that once a technology [loses], the people who invested in the [loser] will run around forever calling the [loser] better.

rumanator> [...] those billions are comprised of a hefty number of people who tried both and the vast majority determined that overall git is an unquestionably superior tool

The majority doesn’t determine every persons taste. Git is the dominant DSCM; it’s well represented. Why be so defensive if some minority likes hg semantics?
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He is also at CitusData: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/01/12/dimitri-fontaine-p...

By the way, I used to think Citus was bought out by IBM. By no, they are part of MicroSoft.
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It's... not like that at all. Did you read the comment you replied to?
Setting up a logical rock and a hard place for poor Markopolos with this one.

If he shorts the stock, he has a bias. If he doesn't short the stock, different people would probably be saying "if he is so certain, why isn't he putting his own money in?".

At least the logical outcome makes sense; everyone in the financial press should be considered untrustworthy at all times on all topics.
> Classical models can only simulate superposition with an exponential amount of information to model each possibility of a sequence of qbits.

This is not true at all when the qubits are only in superposition - not in entanglement. The state of n unentangled qubits is just 2n numbers, compared to the 2^n numbers required to describe an arbitrary entangled state of n qubits. To simulate 2n real numbers, you can encode them in the (amplitude,phase) of n electric fields etc.

Shor's algorithm works because it uses entanglement - as does every quantum algorithm that shows a speedup.

Let me try in a different way. If you don't know whether you are living in a universe whose laws are classical-non-deterministic or quantum, you do a Bell experiment. To to do a Bell experiment in the quantum world you need entangled states - mere superposed states won't do. If you have superposed states, you won't be able to tell the difference between classical and quantum.

To put it yet another way. You design any quantum experiment which may use superposed states, but not entangled states. I will look at your design and design a corresponding classical non-deterministic experiment. Then we will go to our trusted friend Charlie and ask him to run the two experiments for us, and then return the datasets for the two experiments, without telling us which is which. I assure you, there is no algorithm that will allow you to look at the experimental datasets and tell which was from the classical experiment and which from the quantum one.
The parent said history may take more hours.

I don't know much about chess, but fields like software and math are analogously low on information volume compared to history, making a much lower baseline on hours for good talent. I'd say musical performance, likewise.
Django's tagline is "The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines".
DNA is nothing like source code. Why do people keep repeating this analogy.

At any rate, cell differentiation/compartmentation within a tumor has been observed, so things do get blurry indeed. It's also worth noting that there isn't a single definition of 'species' and it's all just semantics that changes depending on your field. (The traditional 'inter-fertile over two generations' you learn in high school is helpful but doesn't stand up to many observations.) Ultimately a species is what biologists say is a species.
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