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Ask HN: What was the article about how optimizing for being right was bad?
I remember reading an article here that was about how if you want to find the next big thing, the strategy of trying to be right the most often wont get you there. You end up making the same bets that most people will make which will tend to be safe bets. The article gives the example of the housing market a while ago: it looked like it was going to keep doing better and thats what everyone was betting; the person who made it big was the person who bet that it was going to crash. I find myself thinking about this idea about finding an idea that I disagree with the population at large and after having this discussion with my friend, I wanted to show him the article, but I cant find it. Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry if this isnt the way to go about this, but
after hours of searching I cant find this article and I think this topic is so interesting and impactful I would really like to read it again and show it to my friend. Thanks again!
When I try comparing my LADWP rates to PG&E, they seem pretty "competitive". Are Oregon utilities cheaper because of all the hydro?
Homestays are generally great:

1. interesting, respectful people / less "sterile" environments.

2. actually helpful in navigating the area.

3. broadens everybody's views (read: politics) to meet other people in person, see how they live and understand their viewpoints.

4. appliances/etc tend to work better, because they need them themselves.

I've had nothing but good and great experiences with homestays. I've also hosted which has been ok-good: 100% respectful and kind, but not always that interesting.

(I've been hosting/traveling for 15 years i.e. long before AirBnB)
Unless I've missed something, it would only require 1 customer with a serious risk appetite.
Oh, I'm very sure about later products and "great" would not be a descriptor I would use.
From interviewing to getting a job offer took me about a month
Looking at their history[1], they got commoditized. They were first clobbered as the OS vendors started to build in utilities that were good enough for most people, and later open source software was better.

Add to that they wanted to capture a larger demographic, so they've exited the hobbyist market entirely and got into PC optimization / AV / VPN snake oil. They became the crapware you have to delete from a new Windows machine.

And now branding themselves after ID theft snake oil? If you burned $30 a month at least you'd get warm.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Utilities
A key problem is the dearth of actual journalism today. The Economist being one of the few exceptions, along with Reuters (not sure how to classify them though).
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> we might as well take over and imitate those successes

Except PG&E is 100x larger than SVP and has completely different operations.
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I suspect the native Americans would disagree, and perhaps would have preferred Morton's alternative to the Puritans. Of course, when one looks at the exploitation by the British of indigenous people in other parts of the world, it would likely be equally grim.

It does make me wonder what the world would have looked like today, had Morton and his allies won out against the puritans. He was still old world money after all, and could have anchored commerce in Britain's interest. Very likely the "New World" would be under British rule, or perhaps would have rebelled at a later point in time.
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>certain pesticides are excluded for their toxicity.

They're not excluded for their toxicity. The exclusions come as a result of a limited list of chemicals used in organic agriculture.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Enhancing the Ride-Hailing Experience with AR and VR
This is a step above but I use an app that reminds me daily I will die.
If Xerox buys HP, is someone else going to buy HPE? (Any speculation on who?)
It'd be hard to prove it, but in practice it gets noticeably slower at peak usage times after exceeding the cap and stays fast at off-peak times, which matches the expected result of deprioritization.
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Did you image it to check for deleted data in unallocated space?
For anyone feeling stressed out here's a small exercise to feel a bit better
https://howitzer.co/how-to-feel-better-in-5-minutes/
As per my info, washing machines are available in reasonable enough capacities for most European and Asian families, so I do not think capacity is an argument against them. Also their cycle time is around an hour mark, so I think even that is not much.
Do Six Percent of SWIFT Transactions Really Fail?
https://aravindh.net

Made with Hugo and Tachyons CSS. Runs on Nginx+http/2 on an upcloud VM.

Not updated as often as I like/hoped, but still pretty proud of what is in there so far, particularly the ZFS write-up.
I did not own hives myself, but I did help my grandfather maintain his. This flow hive reeks of marketing and bullshit.

I do not see how this would be so much more beneficial to bees, you would still have to perform inspection. Harvesting the honey is, IMO, not that disturbing to bees and replacing wax combs with plastic? Yeesh!

Maybe someone more in the know can comment on this, but this just looks very bad to me.
Pokemon Go was also made in Unity.

I think Slay the Spire was Java.
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This was the work of spelling reformer Noah Webster[1]. He was quite influential in the United States, but unsurprisingly the British Empire was less enthused by his early 19th century linguistic innovations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
The problem is that Promise.all stopped infering tuple types. Promise.all([() => A, () => B]) should be Promise<[A, B]> but is now Promise< (A | B) [] >. This issue is being tracked here and a fix seems to be already in the making: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33752 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/33707
Organic herbicides and pesticides tend to be less effective, as well, thus requiring more frequent application using large farm equipment, belching exhaust and compacting the soil.
Sounds like the old your problem vs bank's problem joke, only with smaller amounts because RH isn't Goldman.
Adding the Taleb book to my list.

I recently read "The Black Swan" which I thought was an important read in spite of how unlikeable I find the author, how long the book is, and how tangled up the ideas are. It felt like a bit of a crazy rant, but worthwhile.

Thanks!
The Nat Semi & TI merger is an interesting case. They both had huge numbers of parts in the same categories, but little actual overlap in actual part catalogs. They complemented each other nicely in terms feature-space coverage. At the same time, building a modern semiconductor fab is so capital intensive that only huge companies can do it. So the economics of that merger were uncommonly attractive.
One could, and indeed, many do. Exploitation and wage slavery are terrible no matter the industry.
<insert pedantic quibble about value judgements rabble rabble good v.s. good at averting wars>

I think horizontal nuclear proliferation would make us (the US and others) less likely to invade other nations, and I would like to see a world where nuclear weapons are more evenly distributed so that we stop bombing so many children. I do see how my "more trouble than it's worth" line can be taken as leading into that, but I wasn't trying to go there even though I totally see it in retrospect. I think it's fair to note that this self-sabotage strategy can potentially make the entity employing it more trouble than it's worth to invade without becoming a threatening force. By making all of your tunnels and bridges useless in times of war, you're not a good route to other enemy lands. The more you're willing to burn, the less appealing it is to control you. What good is salted earth? If you additionally offer some economic benefits in trade, the chances of invasion go down even further... and you don't have to worry about provoking the enemy to attack out of fear. Honestly, I feel like nukes are a safer bet at deterrence, but I could be wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The self-destruction model is certainly cheaper.
In this case though, HP isnt the former powerhouse, which is alive and well, as HPE, reinventing itself and on quite an acquisition spree. HP is the printer and pc business they shed to keep themselves from bleeding out. HP is the kind of thing Lenovo likes buying, some scrap somebody else wanted. HP may have the larger market cap, but HPE is the company building itself for the future.
> And for the apartment/unit owners, a German court has decided that all the other unit owners must agree to such a wallbox being installed, so that's another obstacle.

Laws can be changed.
In the market of ideas, there usually isn't any reason that makes the good ideas unpopular. That's the default outcome.

Some good ideas eventually make it to mainstream / conventional wisdom because there's some second factor that brings them to the spotlight. For languages it might be a killer app, big corporate investment, etc.

In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4 Richard Feldman puts up a (well founded IMO) argument that OO became accidentally popular because of C++. C++ didn't do OO well, nor was OO the main benefit of C++, it just happened to be something that came with C++.
There are also more millionaires on earth right now than there ever will be of my exclusive cryptocurrency, MoonCoin. I’d be happy to sell you one for 1,000 USD
Is it possible to get some sort of measure for that? Is it possible for an outsider to understand if creation of value is a priority at a given company?
> wait till someone builds out their entire business with lambda/serveless.

Perhaps you could built in a "regular" fashion and just compile it like that? You could write normal code and let the compiler do the massive work to handle all that and compile everything into somethign that distributes over the network.
I swear it honestly seems like PayPal tries to make their site as hard to use and bloated as possible. I've never personally used their API, but if it's anything like their site, I'm thankful.
>Many own a war weapon at home

Although its worth noting that since 2007 the vast majority aren't allowed to keep ammunition for their weapons at home.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/soldiers-can-keep-guns-at-home-...
Norton Utilities, Norton DiskDefrag, Norton Anti-virus (earrrly versions) were all great, man I used them heavily. This news feels like more of a eulogy for what was Symantec
Wow. And it's not just the fake houses - the fake rocky outcropping are amazing - what a great way not to ruin the countryside.
Because the job is boring yet safety critical, you need someone who is conscientious. You need someone who follows the rules and tries their best to live up to their responsibilities. Committing an armed robbery is basically the exact opposite of this.

You see the result. It's not that she was looking out the window and zoned out and started daydreaming accidentally. She deliberately made the choice to watch TV on her phone. The car was not legal nor safe to drive without a safety driver monitoring, but she was incapable of providing any monitoring because she was watching TV.
Yes.

Spent some years working on an a class 2b diagnostic device. Potential for harm not that high, but the lack of rigour in testing leaves me wondering to this day whether it worked at all as advertised.

If medical devices are ever open sourced, millions of critical bugs are going to fall out.
Agreed, in theory, but what has Airbnb done to implement anything close to what you've described? From what I've seen, it's expansion without regard for existing residents.
In the context of a Facebook user, what is the difference between data and metadata?
I’d be very surprised if the “default state” is that pedestrians can be wherever they want. Can you cite the UK law that shows this? (I once came upon two guys duking it out in the street. I can’t believe their only crime would be fighting in the UK.)

In California (other states vary to varying degrees) there is a crosswalk at every intersection whether marked or not (as well as some marked crosswalks in other places). These are the only places a pedestrian may legally cross a road. Here cars must yield “right-of-way” to pedestrians, but pedestrians also have a “duty of care” for their own safety and others. Cars must yield but pedestrians can’t just step right out and damn the physics. On the road, pedestrians are confined to walking against traffic on the left side of the road if there is no sidewalk. Otherwise they should not be on the road. But, if they are on the road, drivers have a duty of care for their safety. Pedestrians can’t be there but if they are cars can’t just mow them down.

In practice, pedestrians generally don’t get tagged for jaywalking. (Walking in my neighborhood without jaywalking would be a death sentence because of blind corners. You have to cross the road often to be seen.) Where the law mostly comes into play is when pedestrians are struck by vehicles. A jaywalking pedestrian will likely be found legally responsible for the accident unless the driver was speeding or otherwise acted irresponsibly, in which case a percentage of responsibility will be assigned to each.
I don't think the Julia implementation makes much use of typing. A related Haskell codebase for Hamiltonian (not Lagrangian) mechanics that I found really helpful to scan was https://blog.jle.im/entry/hamiltonian-dynamics-in-haskell.ht... -
Okay but who prescribes Desoxyn? That shit should only be special order.

(Desoxyn is meth btw)
Perhaps they only need to cross to get to the store that only exists there because they built the six lane roadway.
Are you seriously suggesting that people with serious genetic disorders (physical or mental) should just make better lifestyle choices, and they'll get better?
Well, one thing is being profitable, and the other is how much money you can spend "right now". AT&T is posted Q3 revenues of 44.6 billion [1], and T-Mobile of 11.1 billion [2]; that's a significant margin. Building network infrastructure is not cheap and the move to 5G will be even more expensive, but users move to the network that is better for them _right now_.

[1]: https://investors.att.com/~/media/Files/A/ATT-IR/financial-r...

[2]: https://s22.q4cdn.com/194431217/files/doc_financials/2019/q3...
Do Robinhood users typically have nothing to lose?
Great use of AVX-512 VBMI!

Note that not many Intel processors support the two specific CPU instructions used (vpermb and vpmultishiftqb).

Cannon Lake Core i3 (not many of these around due to delays with intel's 10nm fabrication)

Ice Lake Core i3, i5 and i7: Released in September 2019
You are proposing an AirBnB equivalent of a hotel tax. It’s basically bribing/paying the permanent residents to accept the cost of the AirBnBs.

It depends on what the community is willing to accept. The richer communities probably would outright reject it. The next tier will accept something like you suggest combined with some monetary benefit. The one below that will just get bought out.

The middle happened to my neighborhood when a very exclusive school wanted to be rezoned to move in. They basically legally bribed the city with donations to the school district, voluntarily paying property taxes even though they didn’t need to as a nonprofit, and lastly limiting traffic via buses and shifting school hours. Their initial attempt was rejected and the above sugar was what got them in.
Why (mostly) ban shared code? If you have that many microservices the deployment has to be well automated; so rolling out updated services on library update can't be difficult, and the interface to a compiled library is about as controllable as the interface to a network service.

Is there a separate reason to those? Do you worry about the additional latency of additional service calls (for some trivial functions that doesn't feel terribly worthwhile)?
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This is a great reply and I think it echoes what I've seen written elsewhere. For example, this one by Herb Sutter:

https://herbsutter.com/2013/06/05/gotw-91-solution-smart-poi...
Eventually you'll run into the problem of defining a lie. How about a half-truth? Lying by omission?

The laws in most western countries allow for consequences in cases of slander and libel or where a person directly seeks to sow hatred and division against minorites for instance, defined as hate speech. Even that last part is somewhat controversial in regards to free speech, as some people think there should be no limits on speech at all.

I think the solution (or at least part of a solution) is to mandate open standards and transparency, especially when it touches politics. Provide federated social network standards that interoperate, instead of the walled gardens we have now.
It seems to me the FAA comes out of this looking terrible, even if the accusations are not grounded it seems absurd that no actions were taken to verify such a notice coming from a QA engineer in the company itself.

I wonder if other regulatory bodies around the world could/would/should have done something.
I start off in a new job feeling pretty ok, but quickly it just devolves into procrastination and anxiety. I feel to anxious to open my emails so I don't reply to anything and don't get anything done.

I actually took a remote job (hah) thinking that maybe getting out of the office environment would help. Nope, now all communication was online it felt even more stressful. They thought I'd been hit by a car or something when I just stopped contacting them.

Now my resume looks like swiss cheese and it's hard to even get interviews now. I mean, why would you hired someone who has so many short stints at so many different jobs.

I went to a top school as well, so I have to put up seeing my schoolmates making their millions and living lavish lifestyles. I just want a simple life and a job that I can do for more than a year.
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It's very similar, representation matters a lot!
Staying in jersey city is a great alternative to NYC/Hoboken. Uber through the tunnel or to the ferry and you’re in Manhattan very quickly.

I had an obligation in Hoboken a couple years back and stayed in a spare bedroom in jersey city for (I believe) $38/night.
I used to work testing printers for Xerox. Back then they were benchmarking their printers against the HP ones that performed a lot better. This is a bold move but one that I’m not sure will ever pay off. I always thought printers and consumer electronics is a low margin business and not something people really want to be in.
I love both kinds of AirBnBs.
They have second largest market share behind Dell. Who would be in the market to buy something just so they can tackle Dell head on? Cisco?
People do it. It's not necessarily easy, but they do. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Orders_for_Sentries
What is the future of nuclear energy?
No it's not, now T-Mobile will have as much leverage as Verizon and AT&T and will become horrible like them. T-Mobile so far is nice here, but for example in Germany is one of the despised companies.

The companies don't need to merge to become better for customers. They could for example have agreements and share their towers to improve each other's coverage.
Because of the triple leverage, a 33.33% drop would entirely wipe out the fund. Back to $0.
A 33% drop in a single day has never happened (1987 Black Monday was 22%) but it definitely does happen if you consider a longer time frame.

Hence why it's reset daily, as the other two responses explain.

And in case it's not been made clear enough: it's the very opposite of a sound investment. It's very much a risk management / trading instrument. It's something you would trade as a hedge or leg of a complex trade; not something you want to hold by itself.
The history of Switzerland the country is also very interesting. Basically a bunch of high-altitude towns that were rivals got together and decided to fend off their common enemy: low land despots.

Initially, it was just a few hundred merchants and peasants banding together and using home-made poles with sickles on the ends to fend off armored knights. But by the end of the rebellion thousands of people from dozens of hilltop villages had joined together.

That kernel formed an informal alliance that grew into Switzerland over time.

Even today, the various Cantons see themselves as kind of independent of each other. They copied the US constitution, but while the US became a more centralized and despotic state ... the Swiss kept the original federalist design of the US constitution.

Individual cantons have their own public or private health systems. They have their own education budgets. There is a huge amount of variation between the cantons. And basically Switzerland refuses to join most European efforts to disolve national boundaries.
Say it ain't so :-( T-Mobile doesn't need to merge its DNA with that of Sprint.
I think your 3/4 are true for some people, maybe for those who were taught academically flavoured FP in a computer science program, but on the other hand when I web search for "why functional programming", the articles bring up immutability and side effects first and rarely mention recursion or higher order functions.

Also, can't resist nitpicking about tail call optimization: clang/llvm and gcc implement it in a non-gc language (C), but meanwhile some FP language implementations lack it, at least Clojure does. So while there's more demand for that feature in the FP world and some FP languages like Scheme require implementations to perform this optimization, it's conceptually somewhat orthogonal to FP or GC.
By the way, glyphosate is not at all "incredibly toxic". Its toxicity, the debatable claim about causing cancer set aside since that is not about toxicity, is well below that of coffee. It would be safe to ingest larger amounts of glyphosate, and people actually have done that.
It still was an alternative to these 3.
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>> [...] The FAA, however, said it could not substantiate that claim, because Boeing had indicated it was working on the issue at the time.

> [...] I hope we can all agree that this is an embarrassingly obvious fox guarding this particular hen-house.

I can imagine situations where I would not agree, to be honest. If a manager says, "There is a bug in this system here" and I say, "I'm investigating that problem and will get back to you", it would be a bit strange for the manager to call a halt to my investigation so that they could start a new one. Usually the manager would wait until my investigation is finished. If they were still not satisfied, then that's the time to intervene.

In the same way, I would not expect the FAA to intervene on an issue if the manufacturer was already investigating it. They would wait until that investigation was finished. Sure, put a deadline on it, but it's pretty reasonable to say that you don't know where the issue stands because it's currently under review.
It does change, things do get better, but it takes time to see the change. Years usually.

In large orgs "conservative" managers who escalate and block issues usually don't get fired, they just get pushed to some other part of the org. And when/if the issue blows up, they get pulled back in to clean up the mess. Cause few others will have credibility. Same dynamic applies in reverse. The bunch that were in charge, during a blow up will be sent into the background. But will be pulled back when more "aggressive" management tactics are required.
When you see how many parsing ambiguity problems there are with YAML you begin to wish for XML. Other modern alternatives include:

https://jsonnet.org/

https://json5.org/

See https://arp242.net/yaml-config.html