skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have personally seen both sides of the this and have worked on DRM solutions. The merits and efficacy of DRM highly depends on what you're locking down, how you lock it down, and who is being locked out.

For example. Hardware DRM (TPM/dongles/etc) is near impossible to crack, or worthless if you did crack it. Try and find a contemporary version of Steinberg/Avid software that has been cracked - to my knowledge it doesn't exist, at least not in a usable form.

I've also heard of some content where DRM increased revenue by a moderate integer factor.

On the other hand, I'm also aware of content in the same market that saw significantly increased revenue due to piracy, and other content where legitimate users pirated because it was easier to access than the legitimate content!

It's all a balancing act over how much your users can tolerate and how much benefit you see. There's no one solution for all digital content, and sometimes none is the best business decision. I will say that people deciding to use DRM are not stupid and have better numbers than the author of this article. The big guys know exactly how much money they would lose by abandoning DRM. In a smaller shop it's more of a guessing game, but that's just because we have less information and forecasting ability.
Two years ago someone tweaked Kaldi to build to wasm (https://github.com/adrianbg/kaldi.js). AFAIR it ran at decent speed in a browser (with small models), but it hasn't been maintained since.
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"Just do what your competitors do, but better" is indeed obvious. That would be the strategy. The tactics, however, are not so obvious, and the difficulty lies in execution. As just one of many possible example, even a great, visionary CEO might fail in the face of a stagnant workforce unable to adapt to the changes as capital runs out and debt runs high. And great, visionary CEO's are exceedingly rare.

Further, you assume that legitimate compensation would exceed what a predatory CEO could extract by self-dealing and gaming performance metrics. Even a successful business may have much more upside for the CEO in self-dealing rather than long term hard work. Why put in the hours to increase your legitimate compensation package when instead you can siphon the same or greater amounts via self-dealing? Or even just half of that, but in a tenth of the time before moving on to the next victim company?
The Incredible Machine, Lemmings, and just playing around with Logo were pretty awesome for problem solving fun, I think, back in my day. As for messing with causality, Braid comes to mind. To expand perspective, and for the sheer beauty of it, Gorogoa. Almost any RTS will give you a good feel for simple differential equations, combinatorics, economics, and a little game theory. I used to mess around with some incredible indie content on Kongregate, especially puzzle games, some of which were truly innovative and wonderful. (Too bad it is so hard to monetize awesome little indie games! Good luck to poki.com, itch.io, and their ilk!)

But the best foundation for the mind, I think, is to keep younger kids IRL, let them make up their own games, and keep it physical and outside as much as possible. Much of our human consciousness involves moving around abstract space, analogous to physical motion, and so learning to move and think IRL is vital to developing consciousness, wherever it may eventually play.
That’s what I was thinking but he did say “modern drug war”. But I was really thinking of earlier propaganda adverts and such although I didn’t know it was as early as 1906.
Comparing to phpBB doesn't make sense. It isn't incredibly unique, but maybe reading this will help a little? https://slack.com/enterprise
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TUIs are also consistent across platforms in a way that's generally not reimplemented by operating systems as UI frameworks are.
See also, from 2007:

"DRM advocates getting nervous about consumer backlash"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/09/drm-advocates-ge...

At a conference convened by the overlords of DRM, Sony vice president Scott Smyers admits that he circumvents the copy protection on DVDs (CSS) in order to make backups for personal use. Apparently Mr. Smyers doesn't agree with Hollywood or the Register of Copyrights, both of which argue that "backups" can readily be had in the form of new copies you can buy at the store. The corporate hypocrisy is obvious: what the corporate parent demands (DRM that prevents DVD copying), even its own employee disregards. We can't blame him.
Does this still hold up? 95% of my facebook feed is now shared posts that aren’t related to things my friends are doing, and are often posts about products. There is almost nothing I see on facebook that invites social comparison with my facebook friends any more.
I see, so you think I should continue to iterate and try to solve the problems I purport to solve, even if it doesn't reach an idealized version?
Brings TDD to another level!
I’ve worked on two projects (in early x86 assembler) that ran out of steam because they took too long to do and it was hard to onboard new developers.

I’ve also abandoned a few paths during projects because of libraries that were overly abstract, didn’t work and were thus hard to understand and maintain.

A product at a company I used to work for had to reimplement a huge chunk of code because the original designer left and the metaprogramming behemoth he wrote was too hard to understand, extend and debug. That one chunk of code cost about $500k and 6 months to replace. I’m unsure of the total cost of that effort as it delayed the next release at a critical time.

Abstraction levels need to be appropriate. Enough to make things simple - not so much that it makes life harder.
That's not what he said, sperglord.
Well, a person with the bully pulpit coming out announcing that you should all put your trust in Adolph sounds like considerable support. If some random baker did it, maybe not.
Some people you might expect to have a very high bps, like auctioneers, are actually using a sort of parlor trick to create the illusion of rapid speech (a form of intention skillful stuttering which, when done right, is perceived as very fast speech.)

I expect some people are capable of some small multiple of this average, but probably not anything seriously dramatic.

(Of course there seems to be no lower bound, as in the case of involuntary stuttering.)
So how many years until he ends up in jail? I feel like he's walking around a room with a giant bag of cash setting mousetraps for himself and he's gotta run out of room eventually. 2-3 years?
Ever had to turn the radio/music in your car off in some tricky situations?
This is related to how I take issue with many of the "progressive" things people are talking about with identity.

If you want people to be liberated from discrimination and oppression the best thing to do is change the general mindset to unity "we're both human" instead of reinforcing differences and creating new categories for people and then trying to enforce rights that only people in a certain classification can have.

The best summary of this I saw was the sign for a coffee shop bathroom. It had a list of genders: men, women, and a few others I don't quite remember. The problem I have with this is the bathroom was one room with a toilet and sink. There was obviously no need to be "inclusive", just put a sign up that says "restroom" and that's it. Nobody needs to be included or excluded, progress is made by making the shallow distinctions which get discriminated against – making those irrelevant to day to day life.
Maybe a relic policy of racist era is more appropriate. I would think today’s lawmakers are more likely to oppose mj because they see it as something lazy hippies and stoner kids do rather than a tool to oppress minorities.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while doing other things; walking, cleaning, cooking, traveling, playing games, etc. Every time I try speeding up, even just to 1.25x, I don't enjoy it as much, as it feels rushed and stressful. I think it could be interesting to learn to listen and read at extremely high speeds, but nothing more than interesting, and I'm even doubting the usefulness of it.
Ok, HN seems to frown on tomfoolery, but amen: JK Simmons was absolutely the best part of the Portal 2 story.
I think the point is people use the measures that you can clearly see easily (like the P/E), and therefore you don't go down to the level of the stock (oh, temporarily raised earnings, forecast for reduced earnings, and as you point out, negative earnings etc).

Note: this is not my argument, but what I understand Burry to be arguing.
FIPS also ,at least a decade ago, ruled out things like PFS because actually the federal goverent wanted to be able to audit past traffic.
What’s Up with LIGO?
This is one of the several reasons Linkerd moved from per-host to sidecars.

For mTLS, the moment you want to have identity per service (as opposed to one cert across everything in the mesh), you need the security boundary to be at the pod level.
Native ads like those can certainly be automated to a great degree, and at the very least use a self-serve interface. "Advertise with us!" links in the sidebar or footer or wherever.
My symptoms started at 19 (30 now) and I have not been off PPIs since then. IF and raised bed helps. Some weeks the symptoms are under control, some weeks they get worse.
A while back I wrote a solver that uses no backtracking, just constraint propagation, and it wasn't substantially more complex than this.

One of the key insights comes from noticing a feature of groups of numbers in cells. For example, suppose you notice two cells in a given row and they're the only cells in that row that the numbers 1 and 2 can be placed in - then one of them is going to have 1 and the other will have 2, and you don't know which but you can eliminate any other possibilities in those two cells. This generalizes to groups of any size in rows/columns/squares. I think that and maybe one other heuristic along with the basic rules about number placement is enough to solve everything.
Including Hacker News, no doubt.
New industry + lots of money being thrown around = lots of attention and snake oil salespeople.

Software development is riddled with unscientific practices that are derived from some person’s blog somewhere.

100 years from now when they’ve found out the optimal way to do development we won’t have all these methodologies.
Eh in that case I guess the MVP would be just a landing/signup page (as you mentioned), which could still be totally polished and cleaned up - so could still totally be a 10 :)
I am not sure what Australia, Canada, and the US have to do with it. In the last century, Soviets confiscated land and since then there are laws that allow property to be reclaimed. Land claims in Australia, Canada, or the US, if they exist, are in a separate legal jurisdiction.

There are similar claims processes in place for property confiscated by Nazis. Is that also inconsistent?

Taxpayer money was spent on maintaining these properties which is unfortunate but I suppose that that should not prevent rightful heirs from being able to claim property.
A Shocking Number of Americans Want to 'Just Let Them All Burn'
On the flip side, I listen to podcasts at 2x and now the hosts' voices sound weird when I hear them at 1x elsewhere.
I don't have any evidence to provide, but I just want to say that I think this is disingenuous. Choosing a product based on the value it provides you is not the same as accepting a bribe.
depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany this is a grey area or outright forbidden depending on the case, and this dump apparently contains numbers from numerous jurisdictions.

Also, needlessly to say someone who gives facebook their phone number for verification purposes does likely not expect that the data is leaked or sold without their permission.
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Has there been any kind of class action lawsuit against FB for this kind of crap?
That seems rather defeatist, doesn't it?

Also, please don't dismiss someone else's perspective as "clutching pearls" -- that's not really fair.
Sure, but as long as the adtech providers each have their own stable IDs for you, they can still use `google_push` to link their corresponding stable IDs together, uniquely identify you, and merge their respective profiles.

====

Page View #1:

- Acorp: google_gid=qwerty, google_push=foo

- Bcorp: google_gid=asdfgh, google_push=foo

- Ccorp: google_gid=zxcvbn, google_push=foo

By exchanging their `google_gid` values corresponding to the page load with shared `google_push` value foo, Acorp, Bcorp, and Ccorp can identify you as user qwerty-asdfgh-zxcvbn.

====

Page View #2:

- Acorp: google_gid=qwerty, google_push=bar

- Bcorp: google_gid=asdfgh, google_push=bar

- Ccorp: google_gid=zxcvbn, google_push=bar

By exchanging their `google_gid` values corresponding to the page load with shared `google_push` value bar, Acorp, Bcorp, and Ccorp can still identify you as user qwerty-asdfgh-zxcvbn, even though the `google_push` value has changed.
Physicists doubt bold superconductivity claim following social-media storm
Traditional banks in Ireland are pretty bad by European standards.

I'm with Ulster Bank ROI (which is actually a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland) and have had a fair share of minor issues with them. Their app also sucks big time.

They've had a major issue 6 months ago where a fair amount of folks were locked out of their accounts (or couldn't access the money, same same ultimately).

Friends at AIB have also had issues, like discrepancy between your online statement and the paper one, or getting their account straight up closed out of the blue.

I can't remember any specific with BOI but they also suck.

If you're in Ireland for long enough, do yourself a favour, get a Revolut / N26 account for your day to day, it's pretty smooth.
Yea but I'm looking for a vendor or someone who can do it for me.
The new intervention being “marginally better” can be questionable.

New interventions often aren’t tested head to head against their alternatives. Or inadequately tested against them.

So we have no idea if they’re even better, but manufacturers don’t want to risk the embarrassment of evidence that they’re inferior.
In my experience the best books routinely stop me dead in my tracks. I just started Invisible Man and every paragraph is littered with really deep themes, I can normally finish a 500 page book in a few days (a majority of my reading is done during my commute) but this will definitely be a slow burn.
RPC benchmark: RabbitMQ, Crossbar.io, Nats.io, Nginx, Traefik, ZeroMQ, GRPS etc
I'm genuinely curious about this simple recipe. Do you have any successful examples?
On the other hand I had a professor who wrote a book just to teach this particular course, and sold it for $5. It was a great text and a great course.
You might want to check out KenKen puzzles. They are similar to Sudoku and were created by a math teacher as a fun learning tool. IMO, they are quite a bit more interesting than Sudoku puzzles.
The fundamental reason this happens is that Index Funds aren't "real" stocks. You cannot really sell SPY. There is a bucket of shares owned by SPY. Those contain shares of the index' companies. There's an "owned by clients" bucket and there's a "share liquidity reserve" bucket (with shares of companies in the fund). There's also a (small) liquidity "bucket of cash".

And of course, that company can, subject only to it's own chosen limitations, "print" SPY shares and sell them. So there's never any shortage of those.

When people transact in SPY, the trades are satisfied from those buckets. The cash bucket for investors selling SPY, the reserve shares bucket for investors buying. Those buckets are then refilled by the firm behind SPY buying and selling shares so that their share reserve and cash reserve remain at useful levels.

But let's now say there's heavy selling, for whatever reason. Sells really exceed buys and ... the cash bucket runs dry. Well, now sales stop, potentially indefinitely. The company will try to refill that bucket quickly, but there's absolutely no guarantee they will succeed, and there's no timeframe. Because the price for redemptions is only determined when they refill the bucket, you have no control over when this price is determined. It could be days after your order went through. Most index funds also technically have the right to just suspend redemptions entirely, indefinitely. Because of the amount of money in index funds, this will exhaust liquidity on actual shares relatively quickly and the whole market will freeze (because: no buyers)

Burry's claim is that if this ever happens, and investors find themselves stuck in index funds with no way out, there is nothing that will resolve that situation. Buyers won't want in, because once in, no way out. Sellers will panic and REALLY want out. This situation will self-reinforce until the market is driven into the ground.

0. some random situation causes that sellers exceed buyers for an index fund enough to initially exhaust the liquidity buffer of that fund

1. liquidity buffer in an index fund is empty

2. because of this transactions in the index fund stop

3. this causes panic, meaning less buyers, more sellers

4. goto 1, with situation getting worse every iteration

It won't be a "flash" crash, you'll just be locked in your index funds until the crash is complete.

It's hard to argue that this situation is impossible, that it cannot develop. It also seems to me that his conclusion that if this ever happens, it'll self-reinforce is correct. That said, we are pretty far from this happening.
People tend to enjoy genre fiction because it is full of predictable filler. Not all entertainment has to be surprising or life changing.

Just spending time in the moment with an enjoyable story is not wasting it.
> I can read fast, and I typically go through fluffy NYT bestseller nonfiction at 600 WPM. But when I do this I constantly have a sneaking suspicion that I'm just wasting my time. When I read a good book full of new ideas, I barely go at 150 WPM, but the time always feels well-spent.

I do the same, but with Hacker News comments :)
If you have to do universal basic income, do it with a no cash back debit card with detailed e-receipts. My thinking is that, if people know their spending is being tracked, they are less likely to waste it.
We are not concentrating light below the diffraction limit, instead we are printing features below the diffraction limit with multiple exposures.

See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning

Edit: the exponential rise happens because to go 2x smaller I now need to double my # of masks. Of course, in practice overlay accuracy could kill you first.
No, I’ve actually recently had designs knocked back from a harness manufacturer because I specified 250mm and they didn’t think they could make it reliable.
> The article seems to be saying we'd all be better financial citizens if we put our money into actively managed funds, or did our own investing.

The evidence shows that most of us suck at investing. Further, I think Burry's critique is more limited:

> One reason he likes small-cap value stocks: they tend to be under-represented in passive funds.

IMHO, the problem he's stating is that people are focusing on large-cap companies. Basically the S&P500. And the S&P500 index funds probably do hold most of the passively invested money. But to solve this (small- vs large-cap focus), the solution is not to throw away passive investing, but to change the focus.

For example, instead of buying Vanguard's S&P500 fund (VOO), to buy their Total Market fund (VTI) which uses the CRSP U.S. Total Market Index:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Research_in_Securit...

Or perhaps a fund that uses the the Russell 3000 or Wilshire 5000.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_3000_Index

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilshire_5000

It's just that the S&P (and DOW) have more name recognition.

But generally speaking, these decisions are micro-optimizations. Just put away a little every month and re-invest and dividends, and over the long-term you'll do well.
this is too true. I put 666 Sigma in my profile and I didnt get a single application request. :'(
The word "enough" is doing a lot of work there.
From what you describe it sure seems true. You log onto a website looking for social interaction and instead get a face full of corporate messaging? Sounds isolating, depressing.
There is no such thing as free money. There are no such things as riskless passive investments that beat the reference market rates (which are close to zero these days). Therefore, index funds carry risk. Therefore, somebody (the bulk of index fund investors) will have to absorb these risks. All of this is nearly obvious.
That's my organization. Most of the actual work doesn't go through either process because the engineers know if they start discussing things in the sprint planning a manager will pick it up for a multi-year "investigation".
At which point you'll very likely learn that a lot of widget-related websites use ad networks because it saves the 2-3 administrators involved a lot of time and energy.

It's definitely possible for small websites to do ads directly, but it's a lot of work. Often more than is justified for a few thousand dollars a year in ads.
>Plus water evaporating from the ground isn't just based on lack of air humidity. It's also on heat of the ground. Just straight up steaming away.

No, this was inside where it wasn't that hot, though we weren't running A/C.

Also, the humidity in the cities is usually higher than in the open desert because of all the (yard) irrigation, water features, canals, etc.
Yes, there are many different indexes out there.

https://etfdb.com/indexes/equity/
Facebook frequently suggested my own mobile number to add it to my account when after I logged into the mobile webpage via phone (I never used any Facebook apps).

My only explanation for that was exactly that it had been farmed from a friends contact list.
OT: some comments here now have scrollbars on mobile (chrome) which makes scrolling the comment section rather cumbersome.

https://imgur.com/a/iua0GJw
Yes, I don't think anyone can deny that the CEO has done some very shady dealings, including selling stock right before the IPO, selling services to the company, leasing real estate back to the company and so on.
Devops anyone?
You get that problem if the paracord isn't pulled tight enough and trimmed.