skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on whether and to what degree indexes are affecting price discovery:

If prices are being set predominantly by active investors who are truly buying and selling based on bottom-up, security-level research, then the percentage of assets that happens to be invested in passive funds is not that important, because price discovery would be working exactly as you and I would hope.

But if prices are being set predominantly by (a) active investors who are chasing indexes because they don't have a choice, (b) active managers who are being forced to sell positions to cope with a high rate of redemptions (from investors who plow that capital back into passive strategies), and (c) traders who grasp this dynamic and shrewdly exploit it for as long as possible; then price discovery might not be working as we would hope. Prices would no longer be reflecting perceived risk; they would be reflecting the (temporary) influence of this once-in-history dynamical process.

Burry makes a compelling case, I think, that the latter is a more accurate description of the current state of financial markets than the former, and that this state of affairs can only persist so long as capital continues to flow from active to passive strategies at such high rates. Globally, assets under management are not infinite, so capital cannot flow indefinitely from active to passive strategies: Sooner or letter, this dynamical process must exhaust itself.
Do people have multiple WeChat accounts in China?
An audio version of Twitter would be utterly insufferable. It’s bad enough reading it, but to listen to the same thing would be an effective torture device.

Like /r/publicfreakout on steroids.
While not as cool as 60s experimental stuff, library music still exists in the modern world too as subscription services for content production companies. It can be fun to browse in it's own way.

This particular track I've heard all over the place: https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/last-dance_64740
Not really: Either I'd rather my data not be used by other parties at all, or I'd provide my data with consent and knowledge of how it is being used. I see no inherent value in a system designed to allow my data to be used without my consent while claiming my privacy is still protected.
> Meanwhile, Google hid Dragonfly from the internal team that was supposed to review it's projects for ethics issues. And it was pressure from journalists

No. It was pressure from employees, employees who had ethical concerns. Employees who, I'll note, you consistently badmouth for continuing to work at Google. It's not like a journalist just magically inferred that Dragonfly was a thing one day and wrote an article one day. And Congress had almost nothing to do with it, lmao.

> The government doesn't "police themselves", the system of checks and balances ensures one branch polices another

That's true for things that aren't FOIA. But you mentioned FOIA. Which exists as a way for the executive to police themselves. The courts do exist as a check on the executive, (and local governments). So again, how are those stingray FOIA requests going? Note also that "law enforcement" is an FOIA exemption.

> This was a recent story I read: https://cdt.org/blog/digital-is-different-pole-camera-ruling....

This was a targeted piece of tracking that requires a warrant. Dragnet monitoring often does not require a warrant. In other words, setting up a single camera to monitor a single house needs a warrant. Setting up a hundred cameras to monitor the public doesn't, although getting data from them to target a specific person might, at least if it was being used to imprison them. When was the last time Google imprisoned anyone again?

It's also really, really amusing to see you claim that Google is subject to no public accountability. There are absolutely ways you could try to hold Google accountable, if you actually think that they've done something wrong. You just need to be able to convince a Judge. Same as for the executive branch of the government.
Yes, a greatly improved experience is exactly Stripe's MO. That is innovative in my book.
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I'm curious about what kind of situations you're using this pattern in C++. Not objecting to the practice in any way, it's just that I haven't encountered many situations where I wouldn't just have created another function for the allocating case that called the non-allocating one.
> I do well under pressure and even look forward to emergency-like situations.

I hate working under pressure. It's agonizing. However, I also produce my best work when under pressure. So, I guess I get to choose between producing the best I can and being happy!
Will add it, thanks for your suggestion!
Square had similar program called Square Capital. I actually didn't make the last 2 paymenta totaling around $2500 and they stopped emailing me after a while. No collections nothing
> This constant inflation helps to explain much of the rising inequality in the United States, as well as the rising costs for interest-rate-sensitive assets like education and housing.

This goes against my current understanding of inflation. I thought that high inflation benefits _borrowers_ (ie not the upper class) because it reduces the effective interest rate of loans. Is this taking that a step further and saying that the reduced cost of borrowing money actually increases asset prices because of inflated demand, resulting in increased wealth for asset-holders and unobtainable prices for asset-purchasers?
Will fix it, thanks for noticing
It’s recursively encrypted. You would have to solve it sequentially.

Unfortunately not. I did this as a learning experiment to learn vue and improve my front-end skills.

The essential structure of it is a 2d array[message,cipher], where the first index is the title + first message encrypted by the domain. Then each element after is a message + cipher with the secret message being the last message. To configure the encryption, each element pair is encrypted in reverse with each resulting encryption being added to the end of the next message separated by a special character sequence.
I think it's a good opportunity to buy the small dip in Match. That stock has done incredibly well (doubled this year) and every earnings report has been massive as far as new subscriber count goes.
Alternative financing is always going to be expensive. Most businesses won't have access to bank rates, so they often have to access capital via alternative lenders (factoring, Merchant Cash Advance, high-interest fixed-term loans) that often charge upwards of 50-60%.

Comparatively, 20% APR isn't so bad.
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Well, and of course Stripe doesn't (and hasn't) peddle itself as a value option or a business that gives you the "best deal". The best part about Stripe is convenience, as with all their products. If you take out a small business loan through Stripe, and you use their other checkout or payment tools, it makes repayment automatic. That's the selling point. I don't think anyone looks to Stripe for low fees or value loans.
The Landauer limit is about a billion times smaller than this, so there's room for power savings before we hit any physical limits.
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I don't think OP meant that as an optional parameter, but more like:

// Definition
foo * bar(foo * useme);

And then use as

// Allocate foo for me pls.
foo * result = bar(NULL)

or

// I'll allocate the buffer myself ktkxbye.
foo * result = bar(malloc(…))
> Anarchists are socialists and anything otherwise is misusing the word.

So.. you're saying that the other anarchists "own" the word itself? How does that work, exactly? Is it their private property, or merely a personal possession?

I jest, of course; I mean no offense.

The fact is, "Anarcho-Capitalist" is the most precise term for the economic side of my beliefs I've found. "Voluntarist" is the most precise term for the social side. I'll continue to use those terms until I find more descriptive ones.

> I'm sure you'll come back with something about republicans wanting big government to police morality, but those differences mean almost nothing when your economic incentives are aligned.

I'm pretty disillusioned with both major parties; I'm not going to be defending "Republicans".

I generally get along better socially with people on the political right, but that's because I grew up in a "Red State" not because of a greater number of shared beliefs.
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Isn't this inherent in a fixed fee, though? The faster you pay it off, the higher your effective APR will be. Whereas with a traditional loan your APR is fixed, but you end up owing more money the longer you take to repay it.

Seems to me like they're targeting businesses that do not meet your assumption of high sales volume.
How does this offering compare to Square? Square Capital has been around for years now.
I've asked this question before and consistently failed to get a clear answer - why is there any deviation between index fund weighting and market cap?

To some extent, I'm sure the definition of a "public" company comes into play. Not all stocks are traded in all exchanges, so you could include stocks only listed on one exchange.

Then there's the practice of many index funds picking the top N stocks by market cap. This seems like a backwards practice to me. The small cap stocks should be limited in weight by... their small market cap.

Then there are other hairy factors. Even out of the stocks in an index, it seems that weight does not correspond to capitalization. The reason seems to be some historical drivel. While I can understand that is the way it is, I fail to understand why it should be that way.

Why should an equities index fund be anything other than public companies proportional to their size? If people prefer large cap or small cap, then those variations should be offered as special boutique products. But it seems that we have it backwards, where the default offering is based on arbitrary non-proportional weights, and with a cutoff restricting it to large cap.
And there would be hedge funds that would try to exploit this eventually pushing things back into balance
Isn't this dependency injection though? As in, the caller must manage the buf() dependency on it's own - promoting performance and other qualities like code reuse. For example, the caller might have a library that manages creating these buffers for large bytes or maybe over network or what not. Then such dependency injection will promote code reuse of the library as well.
Is it that overcrowded? IAC and Spark own basically everything. Its like Ford and Chevy having 20 subbrands, but no one else makes cars.
Well, there's this: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-new-a...
Google is developing Fuchsia as a possible replacement for Android's Linux kernel. Are there any reports or rumors about Apple developing a next-generation kernel (perhaps with a safe language like Swift and optimized for mobile devices) to eventually replace Mach/XNU and its historical baggage?
Awesome. Wattenberger's blog is also really good (from a cursory glance). Really impressive stuff, can't wait to read it all.
Are factors ever a good deal?
There's no such thing as a stable connection to the backbone. That's a myth. A single construction crew digging in the wrong spot can take out a whole bundle of fibers. Now your 5G network has a huge dead zone.
I wonder what the breakdown is within the index ETFs on what money is in 401ks, Roth, institutional investor, etc. If a big portiton of it is retirement accounts those aren't moving much anyways.
We built a similar feature at Hover as part of our GDPR efforts. https://www.hover.com/blog/hover-and-your-privacy/
k is right that d3 has some helper functions for drawing on canvas, so most of the methods here will work:

https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3#drawing-svg-shapes

Canvas is way more performant than SVG for a lot of shapes, since they don't have the overhead of a DOM node.

But in general, you want to work outside of the browser if you have that much data. What I'll usually do is either:

- write a python script to process my data and use d3 for the final visualization, or

- have an API that returns a sliced portion of the data and create an interface that will request different sliced datasets when interacting with filters, controls, etc.

This election dashboard is a good example:

https://currents.parsely.com/election

it hits two endpoints, which return basically the maximum amount of data you can expect a browser to handle (the massive dataset is processed elsewhere). You could create an endpoint to return different views when you click on, eg, a different date, although then the user would have to wait for the data to load.
One of my colleagues, for his PhD research, wrote a jQuery-based tool to do something similar to that (still under development): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a5b4/5bb7b0091963781390557e...
MFA means all employees are now issued a yubikey to login?
I like the dark movie theater analogy for beginners e.g. in a dark theater, how would you know what row you're sitting in? You'd ask the row in front of you "what row are you in?" and they'd shake their head and ask the row in front of them and so on until they finally get to the first row, who would know they're in the first row, and at which point they can answer the second row's question all the way back to the row that originally asked the question.
so great to hear it, thanks for the kind words!
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I'm guessing that what Stripe is really bringing to the table here, is what they so often do: considerable simplification of annoying, often slow, red-tape-heavy processes.

Their entire existence has been built on that. They look for the burr in the saddle. If PayPal had not been so incompetent with their API, Stripe probably wouldn't have had enough of an angle in the beginning to gain broad traction among developers.
I appreciate your insight on the matter. I just want to point out that it's hard to take any claim you make about your desire to protect privacy seriously when you work for a company like Google.

Seriously though it was an insightful read.
>What kind of API would one want tosee here?

In C it's almost always Length | error_code
You have to consider that after a wreck, both cars have to come to a stop one way or the other.

Imagine being rear ended while you are stopped at a stop sign. The difference in momentum is small and there is no significant damage.

Now imagine going 80mph down the highway and someone going 81mph hits the back of your car. Still a very small difference in momentum, but your car is very likely to lose control and roll or hit other cars. It's not always the initial impact that does all the damage.
But when would that be needed? The argument is optional, and null is its default value.

But the way the overloads are collapsed into a single function, there has to be a run-time check for that null.

Using a null to indicate "argument is not there" is a C API trick. That parameter won't be optional in C.
My bad! I had set the `autoplay` attribute to `"false"`, thinking it wouldn't autoplay. And it didn't, at least in Firefox, but reading the MDN docs for the `video` element, I can see that browsers'll try to autoplay the video if it's present. It's fixed now.
- Because of a perfect balance between simplicity, elegance, and pragmatism.

- Because of "true" REPL. Having to be able to evaluate any expression without any ceremony, right from your IDE, with one or a couple of keystrokes is remarkably liberating. No language I have tried gives me that enormous boost when prototyping things. Even refactoring existing code is much faster, because of the tightened feedback loop. Only Smalltalk comes close enough, sadly, Smalltalk has been dormant in years, and I don't think it ever comes back as a pragmatic choice to build a business upon. Whenever anyone retorts "Python has REPL, Ruby too, etc." - it is just sad to see their ignorance. One has to give a heartfelt try to understand what makes Lisp REPL so unique.

- Because it is currently probably the best PL for building web-apps. You get real code-reuse, which even in NodeJS with JS/TS turned out to be an unfulfilled promise. You cannot merely share say data validation logic between back-end and front-end, even in NodeJS, let aside other languages. In Clojure, this turned out to be possible, even though you essentially might be running things on two completely different platforms - JVM and the browser.

- Because you have access to tons of libraries. Java and Javascript interop from Clojure and Clojurescript is lovely. Why re-invent the wheel if someone has already done it?

- Because of the fantastic community of genuinely inspiring, smart, and extremely friendly people. When you work with Clojure/Clojurescript, you always feel a step ahead of the crowd [working in other, more popular PLs]. So many things in different languages got inspiration from Clojure: destructuring, immutability, state management (redux, Elm), React hooks, etc. etc. And at the same time, Clojurists never feel shy and actively "borrow" good things from other languages, libraries, and tools. Clojure community of active members has probably fewer people than work for Google, but they generate and enhance so many awesome and cool ideas.
The EU didn’t do that, states did that.

And if I’m not mistaken part of the reason why it went away was the EU kept giving them advice to stop it.
It is true some Googlers leaked the data that started this. But everyone who organized the Walkout has already left, many others have left for ethical reasons regarding Maven or the like, and the number of events of unethical actions Google has undertaken is significant. At this point, it would be very suspect to me the suggestion that anyone truly ethical would remain at this juncture, unless they were actively attempting to sabotage and undermine the functional capabilities of the company.

But apart from that leak, it was Congress, not employees, that shut down Dragonfly. Google is happy to dismiss employee concerns, as they've done over and over again. But after Sundar was dragged into Congress and repeatedly questioned about helping China, shockingly, Dragonfly disappeared. It's very revisionist to suggest Google shut it down to placate their own employees, rather than avoid action from Congress.

Remember that after some 20% of Google's employees walked out with a list of demands, Google dismissed 6/7ths of those demands without any further comment on the matter... and the employees didn't do anything further to retaliate. Google is well aware that ignoring employee complaints works, but ignoring Congress does not.
Yeah, this is going to break up a lot of marriages, imo. People are going to get suspicious of their spouses facebook activity in a way that they aren't currently.
The important question here is what are your average monthly sales? (e.g. what is the expected term and thus APR of the loan?)
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I prefer James Thomson's presentation on the history of easter eggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAaqSr-yShc
I work for a big tech company and I can guarantee you that it will not count against you. Some of my very successful friends
and people I look up to come from conservative backgrounds and are outspoken about it.

That being said you need to be respectful of everyone, regardless of their religion, ethnicity, gender identification etc. I think it is very possible to do that and still be a strong conservative.
Does Stripe offer (or will soon offer) a similar loan program for EU based businesses?
If anyone is having issues loading this site like me -- it looks like DNSSEC for this site isn't validating properly.

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/wattenberger.com
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I know that control systems exist and I could find two companies that make those - Fujitsu and Mitsubishi. But I don't know anything else about how these systems are made. Books, reading-lists, articles / article sources most welcome.
I forgot to post the link: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/innovation-almos...

Sales slump in 1993 - I don't think that agrees with your thesis. Maybe they put out so much stuff out of desperation, to find something that sticks.
Very true, I did just recently pass up a great deal on an NVMe drive because I can't use it in my current setup. I believe PCIe 2.0 will also bottleneck USB 3.2 (or Gen 2x2 or whatever the naming scheme is now), and whatever GPU I upgrade to next (I read that it's a bottleneck with the GTX 1080 and up)

NVMe is the only thing that will cause a noticeable improvement for me though, seeing as I still game on a 1080p60 monitor and generally don't need that sort of speed from any USB peripheral.

Still, the processor itself kicks ass and I think the only reason why most people would need to upgrade are for newer peripherals.
> Except that they choose to go to those workplaces. They may choose to do whatever they wish with their own time and labor.

I’m reminded of the factory workers in other countries whose indigenous land was stolen by the government so they could no longer farm. The one fertile farming land land was used to build factories. And the indigenes people, who no longer had any land to farm on, finally “chose” to work in the factory.

I disagree with you strongly that voting every few years is the definition of democracy if you mean to say it is the entire definition of democracy. There’s been thousands of years of history and philosophy as it relates to democracy and voting every few years is far from the only idea people have had about it. In particular voting for representatives is participation in a representative democracy, which is one kind of democracy. There are others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_assemblies
It's very relevant to the point that it's hurting content creators, though, who want people to actually visit their site, and not just read Google's summaries.
"If I hear there is a squeeze and have cash I'll throw it in:"
For how many billions will you buy? And why did you not throw it in in 2008?

"who wouldn't?"
People who are leveraged?

"It's never the case that x٪ of the market can exit at once regardless of how it is owned."
You may not have heard it. But this is called a stock market crash. One is expected soon. So enjoy the ride and keep your money dry that you can "throw it in"
This project makes extensive use of Algolia. Lazyday is our minimalist approach for finding a movie or show to watch with 0 ads.
Except it turns out it's actually a heist movie, and they stole it at the beginning of the movie.
For those of us suffering from Noassatall, who cannot comfortably carry anything in our back pockets, a thin phone fits nicely in the same front pocket as a wallet, without getting scratched up by the keys in the other front pocket. I too would like a heavy phone, but I think it could be thin and heavy if made from the right metal, instead of glass and plastic.
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