skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've asked this at least once before on HN but...

... anytime I hear about values-based investing, I wonder about whether there's a way to customize the particular values and beliefs that an investment fund prioritizes or worries about!

It seems like the existence of the Catholic ETF that you mentioned is a sign that people are gradually expanding the scope of values-based investing, but I wonder if anyone would offer more explicitly fine-grained products.
I'm sure Apple's customers care about how much money they spend. That's the whole reason Apple strongarms developers into masking the higher cost of products delivered through Apple's app store.

I don't know anyone who would like the idea of paying an extra 15-30% for a product because of a do nothing middleman that's managed to monopolize a portion of the market based on demand aggregation.

It's literally the definition of what I've always understood anti-trust to be. Apple is using their domination in the phone market to manipulate the software distribution market.

The current tech companies (all of them) make 90s Microsoft look like a charitable organization. It's unbelievable to wander around the internet and see so many people advocating for systems that are terrible for the average consumer.

Wealth inequality seems to have an inverse relationship with average intelligence.
That's because on 2020-07-01 there will be a voting on constitutional changes. And Putin would like to give us a (false) hope that our life is going to become better and put his government in a good light.

Context:

In Russia we have a limit of 2 terms for presidents. Putin and his mafia don't like it, so he decided to be nullified and get additional privilegies (e.g. after he decides to resign, he will be able to dismiss a president).

Putin has even already signed the changes because he knows we are too scared of jail to protest IRL: even if you are protesting alone, police will likely beat & fine you (even if you are a girl or just holding a BLANK board) for an unauthorized demonstration. In one video the election chief almost laughed while saying everything is already decided and legitimate and they just want our opinion.

But for additional legitimization Putin set the voting. Probably he doesn't want the situation as in Venezuela. And he wants to increase his ego (his ego is very high, just compare inauguration of him and Obama/Trump).

He paid many famous people for short videos where they support some part of the changes, typical example: "I will vote yes because I like animals!" although we already have laws for animals.

And none of those videos mention that Putin would be the president forever. Only half people are even aware of this change (and many are forced by employers to make a photo that they voted yes). Oh, and our constitution doesn't work at all anyway. Gov-t people laugh at you when you mention anything from it. And there were news several years ago that a journalist got a suspended sentence (условный срок) of 4 years for extremism because he quoted the constitution.

P.S. >97% of Russian IT people seem to hate Putin according to the comments I read everyday. And Durov should hate him much more because Putin's mafia stole VK (that's our Facebook with nice UI/UX and awesome search) from his control.
Your analogy is just blatantly incorrect from the developer's perspective, very user-centric. You can't choose not to sell "patties" "McDonalds" if you want to actually sell your "patties".

And as I said, people were just as free to install other browsers than IE on Windows and Chrome on Android, but it was still considered bad monopolistic behaviour and they got punished for it.
The alternative to Google for discovery is Reddit. Reddit is the modern web directory:

- Directories are Communities defined by their link rules

- Human-curated

- Easy to start a new one

- SSO across all communities

- Built-in forum technology

- Unified comment technology for every website

You can get communities like reddit.com/r/Sizz for instance or larger ones like /r/esp8266 or massive ones like /r/sanfrancisco or planet-sized ones like /r/pics. And reddit itself plays the role of a meta-directory, with little directory networks (SFW-Porn being "the pretty pictures of the world" directory network) sitting between Reddit itself and the subreddits.

Reddit is an amazing amazing thing.
Not sure why I would switch to another chat, email, file, sync just because it’s from Mozilla
> It doesn't work with regular http auth so you have to copy the fields in manually then refresh.

There's a slightly easier way - escape out of the basic auth dialog box, open the 1password menu which will be showing you the website you're on and select 'Autofill', and then reload the page (ie Ctrl-R) and the basic auth is supplied from 1password.

Not great, but easier and faster than copying in username and password fields manually (and with keyboard shortcuts available to do each step it can be quite fast).

From 1password comments I believe the limitation is because Firefox does not allow 1password to interact with the auth dialog box (which isn't strictly a bad policy from a general security point of view).
Interesting to think that nowadays this might actually happen, i.e. some country or power might actually call the opposing power's achievement a fake, despite knowing it is true.

Back in the day there was a lot less information available for everyone, yet today this seems more likely to happen.
China certainly invested to drive down costs, but Germany provided a market for several critical years about a decade ago, to get that ball rolling.
Imagine a way to hold US brands accountable for what they stand for
Just throwing this idea out here, but maybe game consoles and retail stores are also operating unethically?
For a lot of internal corporate web applications, server side rendering is what makes most sense. These applications are always used from browsers on a company provided laptop. You don't need to worry about multiple frontends and "web scale"

Back in the day, it used be that internal apps were shitty to use, and had slow service layer code. But once the data got to the view layer, at least the pages rendered fast. Now with proliferation of SPAs, we have shitty user experience, slow backends and slow UI renders.
I urge everyone interested in similar topics (bioelectricity and natural electromagnetic phenomena) to grab a copy of Becker's 'Body Electric', it's a fascinating book.
I actually use GoAccess on my personal site, which runs on GitHub Pages. Obviously you don't get the actual web server logs (only GitHub has those), but I have a few lines of JavaScript that hits a 1x1 image on CloudFront with the page and referrer information, and then I download the CloudFront logs and use those with GoAccess. Read more here: https://benhoyt.com/writings/replacing-google-analytics/
...almost... i'll accept "an SPA on one server-side route for that one complicated page that's full of bells and whistles."

and then I'm still going to say "yeah, i'm roughly equally verbose and spaghetti-like in even the best most prescient framework from the gods themselves" and merely wish for the means of modularization: breaking my server- rendered page that my javascript "unfolds from" into further little bits that can each have their own smaller less-spaghetti like world without having to try to dynamically load and include javascript on the client.
Break it up. Divide et impera...
Thank you for your kind words! I totally agree about how flippantly people throw out the value-maximization point. And it is definitely true that the real standards which govern directors' and officers' conduct are murkier than the maxim "maximize shareholder value." The Business Roundtable's recent embrace of stakeholder theory seems likely to complicated things [1], and efforts by influential people like former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo Strine [2] and legendary corporate lawyer Martin Lipton [3] have meaningfully contested the accepted definition of corporate purpose outside of the academy in recent months. But I do think Delaware law is pretty clear on the principle behind D&Os' fiduciary duties. The best summation I have seen of it is in a talk that Vice Chancellor Travis Laster gave at UVA Law last spring; [4] it's a great talk. Cheers yo.

[1] https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...

[2] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/05/16/purpose-with-mean...

[3] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/05/27/on-the-purpose-of...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8v47XPcUY&feature=youtu.be
Finally, those Murican Republican Supervisors in Orange County have their dirty hands tied!
If you want a dynamically sized vector pointing to a datatype, I think `Vector [] Value` is most "semantically meaningful". And if you want to define your own map, `Map [Key] Value` is most self-explanatory... now that I look at it, I'm starting to feel that this introduces too many special cases and complexity into generic syntax to be useful for the actual language parser. I might stick with that in documentation/comments instead.
Even if it's the same from an investment standpoint I don't think most people would consider it morally the same. Sorting a stock is essentially betting its value will go down. If you don't really believe it will go down, shorting a stock is just creating a profit opportunity for someone taking a long position. Right?
I mean I would do the exact same thing. Consolidate dev mindshare around the organization. That doesn’t mean I have to like it!
Sounds like you're doing Python with 10x the steps! What's your use case?
"I'm saying "Consciousness isn't solved and that's irrelevant because we have purely mechanical explanations for these things that don't require imagining that they're conscious."
"

Seems you don't really believe in consciousness which is fine. In the end whatever humans think consciousness is can probably also be explained with mechanical explanations.
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Offering novel financial products is a much more complex business than simply managing assets. I don't think it would be a natural extension of the work the Vatican already does.

Good point about the expense ratio, though.
The Linux Subsystem for Windows 1, on the other hand, is called Wine and works impressively well. Better than WSL1 did, at any rate.
If you haven’t read “Magicians of the Gods” you might enjoy it. There’s some stuff that’s a little “out there” but the general idea of a cyclic cataclysmic event with a ~12K year periodicity seems to have some merit.
I love librivox. Perfect for drawing too. I find the phone app easier to use then the website though. Perhaps I might help out when I get some freetime later.
PWA anybody?
You gotta love this pope for throwing a wrench into the Catholic Church's conservatism.

Examples: this, easing on gay marriage[1] and masturbation, and the firebomb of insisting that if you don't care about refugees and you don't take them into your home then you're not a christian.

While I myself don't care too much about the institution - things like that do remind me of the Lindy Principle. Very old organizations may appear inert and stagnating only to remind you that they do have mechanisms of change and adaptation, otherwise they wouldn't have survived thousands of years.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_and_homosexuali...
I would think Apple has a monopoly either in selling iOS apps to consumers or, if you argue you don’t buy from Apple (but I don’t think that would hold under EU consumer law) in providing services to sell iOS apps to consumers.

A ruling on this might be tricky, though. It would have to argue that “iOS apps” are a separate market, that this is detrimental to consumers, and would have to phrase things in a way that there’s no collateral damage.

For example (possibly a very bad one; I’m not an expert in any law), theaters and music festivals typically sell their own tickets, passing on part of their revenues to performers. If, as is often the case, their show is unique, that might be called a ‘monopoly’ somewhat similar to what Apple does (sell iOS apps, passing on part of the revenues). They would have to find an argument as to why one thing is allowed while the other isn’t, and it can’t be “because we feel it’s different” or “because we don’t like Apple”.
That response letter is so sanctimonious. “We’re happy to keep distributing your app for free”, good lord. DHH is right, this is a monopolist shakedown.
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Storing an AST instead of text might be a way to eliminate parsing ambiguity of angle brackets for generic arguments (as opposed to comparisons). It might still be visually ambiguous, but I don't think it's a problem in practice (if the display forces whitespace around comparisons)?
> It's a fuzzy concept, but I think you're pointing toward something there's a need for. PageRank is/was useful in a lot of ways, it's just not enough by itself. Its weaknesses have been ever more apparent, and it has become less effective over time.

Would you speak to why you think this way about PageRank? What are its shortcomings?

To me, who only paid surface-level attention to this, it seemed like Google results were best when PageRank was the dominant metric. As they moved more and more in the direction of prioritising news, commerce and the aspects we call SEO, “number of links pointing TO the resource” became less and less important in the ranking. And as that happened, the quality of results dropped, and the content silo-ing rose up.

PageRank was peer-review. SEO is “who shouts the loudest”.
What's scary about Googling for specific ML questions beginning to look like googling some Windows problems? This kind of dichotomy already exists between people who interact with ML only through keras and those who use a more flexible library. If you fall into the latter category it's still easy enough to find the answers to ML questions that mostly pertain to the deeper stuff. Don't even get me started on the difference between people who do and don't know statistics theory. But the point is that all of these groups do ML and they coexist just fine.

On another note. I don't think technical proficiency (or whatever your elitism-metric is) is very correlated with using Windows as the primary platform. You can Google stuff related to a Windows problem and through that learn how to work with the registry, and yes, some of the things you need to do require you to RTFM. So this elitism also suffers from being off the mark.
I meant actually cutting them with a sharp knife, or scissors. So you could hide pieces in different places. For stuff like URLs, passphrases, wallet seeds, etc.
Argh I just worked on exactly this idea, as a tool for my company! What do people do when they see an idea they had/care about being implemented by someone else?
Preaching to the choir.

I'm trying, and failing, to make the point that policy work is real work, and that if you want to make a dent, I encourage you to learn how the professionals get it done.

But you don't need all that to get started.

Just call your rep, at any level, and get on their calendar. You'll have 5 minutes to make a pitch. You'll probably meet with a legislative aide. Bring some position papers. Weigh in on current (or recent legislation). If there's an upcoming vote, specifically request they vote Yay or Nay (per your position).

Then followup with a thank you note.

Then do it again.
I think it's mostly unique to knowledge workers, which is a broader category than just software engineers, but does not include most jobs. I think the effect is more pronounced in software engineering because of high demand, as well as the margins for software, like you mention. (Anecdotally, I have seen the same effect with friends in other industries, like electrical engineering and chemistry, just to a lesser degree.) With that said, I think it's significantly easier to put a monetary value on, say, an HR person or office administrator than an engineer or scientist.

There is also the issue that the value of two different knowledge workers, even at the same company, may be wildly different depending on their specific skills and the project they are working on. For instance, someone working on product features at a software company is much more valuable than someone maintaining an internal reporting tool, even at the same company and even if their skills and the type of work are nearly identical.

The point is, there are a ton of variables at play here, most of which can't really be measured, so everyone plays a guessing game to determine what engineers are "worth". The asymmetry of information also doesn't help, because it's hard to know how much you could make if you don't know what anyone else is offering—many people take salaries well below their potential and don't even realize it.
Make Democracy Great Again? :)

If you had such a t-shirt, I'd buy it.

While I side with your missions, that's also the problem. Three missions is two too many. Pick one. Start with a focused product and find a market. Etc.

We wish you luck. We need it.
I think this is a little tone deaf to the target audience. Not all developers want to aspire to extracting the maximum amount of resources from users. Some, especially beginners who want to code, just want to build something and build it well.
I wonder, is shorting an unethical stock morally equivalent to (or even morally preferable to) not interacting with it at all? What about options--long positions bad, short positions good? Can I go long on one morally monstrous company, if I ethically hedge by shorting another?

Now I want a fund comprised entirely of ethically evil companies. Not sure what I'd do with it, but it seems useful.
But is that unethical as well?

I mean, this story happens to be about Apple, but obviously other retailers could be, (obviously are), engaging in the same practice.
Second factor is historically new energy sources required rolling out different technologies to utilize it. And you often couldn't switch back and forth. Renewables are generally about electric power and electron is an electron and we already have fully built out distribution networks.

And you're right about regulatory pressure being a big motivator.
Sure, yes I agree with your pillaging the countryside example. I would qualify that though by asserting that the pillaging army is not threatening just property but the ability of the victims to survive. So yes there is a threshold of destruction that threatens life itself, and that would probably justifiably be met with deadly force.
You can, of course, pick individual stocks for the ultimate in fine granularity.

Is the desire for a fund driven by saving time doing your own research, or something else?
> creating a profit opportunity for someone taking a long position.

But this person is actually also you. You just bought and sold the same asset.
This is basically what DJI did. Sad world but I bet they wouldn't have gained so much traction and investment if their marketing wasn't always full of white people using them (they did this right from the very beginning).
Sure, that's sufficient most of the time. However, there times when your view might span multiple tables and you want to ensure that full table scans aren't triggered before your view predicate is acted upon.

This may also come down to how sophisticated your DBs sql optimizer is.
I don't know if there's something either higher up that you'd qualify as "can readily buy", but a [Raptor blackbird](https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html) would handily outclass the legacy PPC macs, and a [Talos 4U server](https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TL2SV2/purchase.html) (with two CPUs up to 22 cores each) would pretty much crush it.

Admittedly the latter is a $15k machine, which is perhaps may be pushing what you had in mind for "can readily buy", but it's for sale...
"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)
I may be a bit optimistic, but the moves to zero comissions and fractional share ownership should make it possible to do this kind of thing independently. Although, managing 500 stocks would be a giant pain, maybe a future wave of brokerage improvements will help with that?
If I may add a couple of things:

1. Buying 4K TVs as large PC monitors is a dangerous game, despite all the sweet lies about “convergence” supposedly enabled by HDMI. You have to make sure the TV has a true “PC mode” with true 1:1 pixel mapping and no “subsampling” (if it exists, it is usually enabled by labelling the HDMI input as “PC“), that you weren’t conned with an RGBW pixel format (or any non-RGB pixel format for that matter), and that the panel can display 6500K colour temperature in "PC mode". Also please note some TVs with IPS panels have a pronounced chevron pattern in their subpixel layout instead of the traditional 3 vertical stripes, which makes ClearType look slightly different even in true "PC mode" (I personally find it cute and inoffensive, your mileage may vary) and that all 4K VA panels have bad horizontal viewing angles.

2. Make sure your RGB levels match. That is, use “full range” for RGB 0-255 displays (PC monitors) and “limited range” for RGB 15-235 displays (TV monitors). Sometimes the drivers don’t get this right. If it’s wrong, and you get “limited range” on an RGB 0-255 display, you will get washed out blacks instead of inky blacks.
Doubly hilarious considering they are doing the same...

Almost envisioning the meeting:

A: "Hey, how should we get around giving google a cut?"
B: "..."
A: "Cool. Let's go ahead and make sure we block that behavior in our system while we're at it."
What makes a console less of a “General purpose computer” than a phone?

Again. Just like consoles and the Roku - the console makers get a cut of every game sold - even physical games. At one point, Nintendo limited the number of titles third party companies could publish and force them to use their manufacturing facilities.

No retailer just sells things at a markup that covers costs.
You're probably right, but I'm not interested in putting it to a vote. Most programmers are pretty bad at writing readable code. If the computer can understand the code, many consider it done.

I aim higher than that.
Chrome memory use could drop significantly after adopting new Windows 10 feature
Wow so now retail stores that have literally been around in one form or another for thousands of years are unethical?
You don't dislike infinite scroll, you dislike "Social Media Feeds".

Imagine you are on a blog and can scroll back through all the posts chronologically in an infinite scroll. The location of that data isn't happenstance. You can always address a particular post or scroll to a certain date.

"Social Media Feeds" are bad not because they're infinite but because the sourcing algorithm is obscured from you likely to drive "increased engagement" or something nefarious like that. Pagination isn't going to fix social media feeds.
Or, we could have an actual social safety net where if you lose your job and can't find one for a few months, you don't lose your health insurance, your home, and your ability to eat. Most people do not have sufficient savings to cover an extended job search, UI simply doesn't cut it, COBRA is prohibitively expensive, and Medicaid only kicks in at absurdly low income levels.
From a Catholic perspective, laws are only valid if they're promulgated popularly by the state. If the state makes a law and doesn't openly share it, the law does not need to be followed.

Only sharing because the Church has done extensive writing on legal theory and because the Church is transnational -- it's beyond the jurisdiction of any country and predates every country currently on earth.
I wonder why it's geoblocked in that case?
To clarify, Hey does provide only a login, and no outside linking (or reference to outside payment, as Apple requires). Apple is now requiring that in-app-purchases must exist for "consumer apps" that aren't "readers", based on a changed interpretation of existing rules. If the above sounds ambiguous to anyone reading this, that's the issue.