skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AAPL - I expect decent macbook sales this quarter due to the fact that many roles now need to go fully online that previously didn't have their own machines to take home. Yes, businesses could go with cheap PC laptops, but a lot of businesses standardize on manufacturers and probably went with what they standardize on for those employees that need to suddenly work from home.
Everybody knows every company doing any business in China supports slave labor. But what we don't realize is the executives and board members of these ostensibly non-Chinese companies are becoming ideologically attached to the Chinese way of thinking, as well. As the executives choose our political leaders here at home, we can expect concentration camps in the USA to flourish, and political and racial undesirables to be turned into hair and organs as they fall, exhausted from forced labor.

Every nation which joined with the AIIB and Belt And Road program is a Chinese satapry now.
I don't think he's saying that a single species of insect will have specialists in many different roles. I think he's saying that there are millions of species of insects and each species usually specializes in one thing so that they can survive in a specific environmental niche.

I don't think specialization by humans is bad, but I agree that specialization can go too far sometimes. If the person being paid to monitor a tank of fluorine loses the ability to do their own laundry or hold a conversation because they are spending so much of their time developing fluorine tank monitoring skills it's kind of a waste. Part of the human experience is learning and doing lots of different things. Even if our economy rewards hyper-specialization that doesn't mean that a person's entire life has to be focused on their hyper-specialized job.
Quality work! Sidebar, it's crazy to see you on the front page of HN; hope you're doing well man! --t--
The journals I’m familiar with outsource this kind of work to India.
The thing europe has is that covid-19 is under far more control. I don't see the us getting over our idiocy against masks and basic health care choices for a year, we'll need a lot more deaths to convince people. and some people will never get over it. A vaccine isn't coming that quickly either.
Meh, most of what they are buying is just our own governments debt [0]. Now, you can certainly argue investors are buying more equities now that there aren't as many treasury securities to buy, but equity returns aren't even abnormal from historical returns. Inflation adjusted Annualized S&P 500 Returns with Dividends Reinvested for the past 15 years are 6.738% versus 7.690% for the 15 years before that [1].

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm

[1]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
I think it comes down to convenience.

Paying in bitcoin is significantly more of a hassle than paying with a card, and it has much less recourse for a buyer that isn't careful (e.g. no chargebacks). Thus few people use bitcoin just as a means of exchange unless they have some specific reason for doing so that outweighs the inconvenience.

You thus end up with a fairly heavy concentration of criminals, fans of the ideology (libertarians and goldbugs), and very privacy-minded people. Of these three categories, the former draws a lot more attention than the other two, and thus bitcoin becomes associated with crime.

Physical currency is still convenient, and the state can go after fraudsters and thieves, so there's more recourse as well. In addition, it's the original form of money, so it has an established user base (so to speak) who aren't criminals. A closer analog to bitcoin would be very large denomination bills, which are both risky to carry and has little wider use; and, indeed, the EU is retiring its 500 euro note on suspicion it's mainly used by criminals.
In my case specifically, the product is logistics operation management software with different types of users like operations team, drivers, customer support etc. The product automates pickup, routing, delivery of packets etc. So it's an operational heavy product.
AMZN is the most obvious one, considering the general view that Covid-19 isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Thanks for article and explanation I am less confused now.

I wonder how large malware payload size will be when packaged with open-cv :)
Manchester United vs. Southampton – Premier League – FootballGH Video Highlights
Diversification is a huge luxury, which you can afford if you are worth over a 100 mil and focus your life on being diversified. Even then it's questionable whether you are able to bring it all together ala DaVinci, Alexander, Caesar, etc. Seems we are past that point in history.
Bitcoin is an incredible technology. It can survive on its own. Bitcoin is an important piece of future money. Bitcoin is not the new internet protocol. The system is slow moving and hard to change. Bitcoin can be compared to ham radio. But it can interact with other systems. This is how Bitcoin is different from ham radio.

I see Bitcoin as the first puzzle piece. We're searching for more pieces to construct the future of money puzzle. I think a missing piece is a crypto with inflation. I started a project to explore this:

https://bitflate.org/
Enjoy! I hope you find corporate finance as cool as I do. He’ll cover this but keep in mind there are a few differences with a firm such as yours who’s investors are less diversified.
Financial advisor =/= certified financial planner (CFP or CFA).

It's like how there are people at HR Block who will do your tax returns, and know a lot about the process -- but they're not a CPA, which has a formal requirement.

Similar to paramedics vs. doctors/surgeons, etc.
Does anyone know what's going on in florida with face recognition?
I got to #15...

"15. Law of Shitty Click-Through Rates: Most marketing strategies have a short window of success, as click-through rates decrease as tactics mature. For example, the first banner-ad has a click-through rate of more than 70%. Now we avoid them with ad-blockers."

And I thought WOW, 70% and I was curious if that's true. At least according to The Atlantic that is not true, but the number is still pretty darn high.

"The banner ad that’s widely described as the first ever was a little rectangle purchased by AT&T on HotWired.com in 1994. About 44 percent of the people who saw it actually clicked on it."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rH9hEb...

(Not trying to take away anything from this list, just sharing what I found)
> To me, it is super weird that research that is often funded by the taxpayer cannot be accessed by the taxpayer.

This is so completely true, and is something everyone should be fighting for. As for the U.S., it doesn't look like our FASTR bill has gone much anywhere at all.
You are getting down votes because of the disconnect between those posting comments of voting and experience in the domain. The gap is massive and very visible. I have yet to see anyone come online to say "I make a million widgets per year and fake chips are not a problem at all". Easy for keyboard warriors to have an opinion without ever having had skin in the game.

They raise truly legitimate first approximation concerns about damage to consumers without understanding the long term damage to, again, consumers is far greater when a hard stance isn't adopted on fake hardware. It's the satisfaction of "doing the right thing" in the one case (FTDI) at the expense of never again being able to protect consumers from fake devices by disabling them if identified.

Counterfeiters continue to exist because they are allowed to make money. Stop their ability to profit and they will evaporate as quickly as they popped up. That's what everyone is missing, it's this feeling that the consumer was actually protected by forcing FTDI to pull back when, in reality, the mob created lasting damage to the safety, security and quality of consumer electronics products until someone else has the intestinal fortitude to make a stand, which, given the ferociousness of what is social media today could easily take decades.

Not only is it it a lack of understanding of how the electronics supply chain works, it also represents a lack of understanding of how the economics of fraudulent products works and how it is affecting people, companies and jobs globally.

We need to get very serious about intellectual property protection or Europe, the US and the world will be converted into nothing more than service and agrarian economies in a matter of decades.
One can expect the internet to eventually come back, maybe even in form of ham radio (in a post-apocalyptic world there would not be FCC to enforce ban on encryption).
> "intellectual" sounding but certainly not actually "intellectual"

Sure. I was sort of intending to use the word in a way that didn't even make a distinction between those two things; i.e., I was using "intellectual" to refer more to the writing's style and tone than its substance :)

"Intellectual" doesn't necessarily mean "scientific" or even "correct". Maybe "academic" would be a better word for what I'm trying to get at.
> I've never seen whisky (Johnnie Walker or others) in a plastic bottle...

It's pretty common for smaller bottles of inexpensive whiskey, at least here in the US; I see (and buy) the likes of Jack Daniels and Jim Beam in plastic bottles all the time (e.g. for parties, since I know we'll have no trouble going through the whole bottle in a night).
Every since I got my own lab, I've been skipping "traditional" publication, for these reasons and more. I've had great success and satisfaction sharing my research via "DIY" publishing:

https://andrewgyork.github.io

Advancing my field is my life's mission, and disseminating my research is too important to outsource.

Believe it or not, Twitter has been crucial to the process. It's not great for nuanced discussion, but it's AMAZING for advertising the existence of technical information. For example:

https://twitter.com/AndrewGYork/status/1138963271594020864

https://twitter.com/AndrewGYork/status/1222319044755197952

https://twitter.com/AndrewGYork/status/1227747499454021632
Because options price in risk, assuming risk is accurately priced then there is never really a particularly great time to make money off of it. As a retail investor I highly doubt you would have enough information to beat the overall market at pricing in risk.

With regular stocks, sure they might well be in a bubble but if you knowingly invest money in a bubble, you have to time the pop. If you bought bitcoin at $14k you made almost 50% in a few days but if you didn’t sell then, you’d have been underwater for years
"Lightning network was supposed to increase the transaction rate, where is it now?"

Lightning network is deployed and increasing the transaction rate. Did someone say otherwise?
I really loved the video, funny :)
Who has access to your WiFi though, how do you know it's secure, do you check; perhaps an authorised person has some secrets from you.
I can't remember the last time I saw a stocked hotel mini fridge even before coronavirus.

(Why sell Vodka for $10 when you can sell bottled tap water with even higher margins and it's super easy to restock and give away to your frequent travelers?)
That is incorrect. Neither uploading nor downloading is strictly speaking forbidden. Only once it's been fully downloaded does it become illegal. Though a judge will likely defend the spirit of the law over the letter, making you guilty anyway.

The issue why uploading is even more dangerous is because then the urheber can demand damages for lost sales as well.

Don't take it on the light shoulder in Germany. Torrentung without a VPN can quickly get super expensive here
Ask HN: How do you document long term products
What are your tips or advice for creating product documentation which is useful over the long term.

Specifically I'm thinking of something which is well structred and can be used by new team members as a one-stop-shop for information about a product which would encompase design decisions, risk and the output of multiple projects.

What tools do you use and do you have any examples?
> I think it's fair to say that there are unknown innovations in our future that will drive cryptocurrency adoption

This isn't an argument, it's a statement of faith. Innovations such as what? What innovations? What technology? What is missing from society today that would suddenly make bitcoin useful if it existed? What problem exists preventing people from using bitcoin that would be solved with a new invention?

I believe there are unknown innovations in our future that will drive everyone to adopt my toenail clippings as currency, is that a good enough argument for you to start investing in Anarion's Toenails LTD?

If you asked somebody in 1975, "What is preventing people from making mass utility out of ARPAnet?" they would say "a connection to it". Because that's literally all it took: access. When the internet went public in 1993, Ebay, Amazon, Netscape, Yahoo, Altavista, and Geocities were all founded and seeing substantial usage within months.
Use a fan.
This looks amazing! I'm currently building my CV website has a static website with a homemade static site generator, which is sort of working but not as I wish, and I do not have time to improve it. For various reasons existing static site generators do not fit my use case, including that I like to code it myself for fun. So I will surely investigate how I can use your system.

As a general suggestion, if the intended users for your system are also not technical people, I would suggest to give some templates or a library of pre-made components, so that non tech savvy people can build their website with your tool. You could even sell premium components :-)
"There is no alternative", as noted. Associated with Mad Mags:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
And that's really bagged wine. Inside a cardboard box. So basically a bottle, but floppy, inside a carton.
You really should read some Japanese history about pre WW2, even back to the Restoration on late 1800s. Japan was very aggressive militarily, and assassination attempts against leaders not deemed to be in line with that were common.

The “Supernova in the East” podcasts might be a good start.
The Microsoft link is a study that shows 10% slowdown when reading text in which each word has one or fewer transposition of two adjacent internal letters.

Scrambling the internal letters leads to much greater difficulty.

The link notes this explicitly:

> This study only looked at letter transpositions of a single position, like the kinds used in the original hoax. I can only speculate how dramatically reading speed would be hurt with more dramatic transpositions
That's basically Marx in a nutshell. Great diagnosis, impractical cure.
Shakti: An All-in-One Database
Maybe talk to an investigative journalist anonymously? And report what you’ve seen..
> I'd happily spend a year alone on an island that had sufficient natural resources to sustain myself, with a reasonable supply of tools and other basic provisions.

Then what's stopping you?
The problem with multi tenant software is the overall complexity which should also translate to cost . Also releases requires having to keep adding feature flags/config.

I'm a bit afraid that this may lead to a very brittle software/architecture in long term.
Edit: You know what, after looking at your post history, I'm not interested in a response. Nor will I respond. That's because your entire post history (as far back as I went) consists exclusively of vehemently defending China on a wide array of topics. That's a bit of a red flag (pun intended).

Original post:

1. Sorry but "fitting the profile" is not compelling evidence. Of course they will pick people who "fit the profile". It's incredibly naive of you to think otherwise.

2. Since we don't know what percentage of spies they've caught I don't know how you can say they have a "proven track record" and therefore they are likely spies. What is their "proven" success rate exactly? What percentage? Can you provide citations?

I'm only vaguely familiar with the CIA incident you describe but - doesn't it follow simple logic that the CIA would support and encourage the narrative that all their spies were caught? Come on. Use your head.

3. It wasn't arbitrary. That's been established. As you said they "fit the profile" and served a political purpose.

4. Ergo nothing. The only "evidence" you've offered is that they "fit the profile". Laughable.

>One would need compelling evidence to demonstrate why they aren't spies

Wait what? Really? Is that how your version of justice works? The CCP has a proven history of lies and manipulation probably unparalleled in the world. I'm flabbergasted that you'd give them the benefit of the doubt without any evidence.

>But many people can't seem to accept China is a rational geopolitical actor who retaliated intelligently instead of randomly kidnap expats for shits and giggles.

You're intentionally conflating rationality with justifiability. They acted in their own self interest, which (by definition) is indeed "rational". Nobody disagrees that they made a smart (and wholly expected) chess move. The question is whether the move was justified.

None of the amateur armchair spymaster opinions you've offered come close to proving the move was justified. You've offered no compelling evidence other than "China wouldn't do that!" and "they fit the profile". Please.
Futhark implements bounds checking on the GPU
Check out emby instead. It's open source and you won't get locked out of your own media if your internet connection is down
The JXL standard isn't finalized yet.
Funny how the EFF only cares about police spying and not any other spying by the corporate mega corporations, which can be used as evidence by the justice system to prosecute.
Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel
You’re not looking at it radically enough. “How would a non-specialist survive in a specialized world?” is not the question the author seeks to answer. Rather, the question is “what would a non-specialized world look like?” and I think the answer is something resembling pre-agricultural society.
I appreciate the humor but that's more time consuming than comparing instruction cycle counts and data dependencies. It's also workload dependent when it wouldn't be if they didn't come up with this throttling thing even if out of order execution makes it complicated.
The design cycle time is longer. Every prototype requires a formal agreement with one of the fabs you work with, and usually involves a few million dollars changing hands. A few months is usually the minimum.

Even if it's expensive, owning a fab means you have the option to make prototypes of a design, or of parts of a design. You will never, ever do this if you're fabless.

We're good at simulating digital logic, but simulating analog designs is more difficult, and each process tends to have unique quirks. You want your designers to be familiar with these quirks, which is easier to do when everybody designing and using a process is under the same roof.

If you're making a chip that has exotic needs (voltage ranges, threshold voltages, RF performance, noise, thermal properties, bipolar + cmos, etc.) you will have more ability to tweak the process. Foundry type fabs typically offer a smaller "menu" of options that they're comfortable they can support. For example, I think you might have a hard time competing with some of AD's more expensive ADCs as a fabless semiconductor company.

Don't get me wrong... there are plenty of headaches to owning and operating a fab too.
The 10th percentile in America is not earning that-that much.

Nothing will make up for the low wages in China.

America could push up minimum wage some, but it won't change the dynamics of export/import.
I completely forgot about that. You are right. That must have been another factor with perhaps a bigger effect.
So basically you're saying that cryptocurrencies don't work currently because there are established solutions that already solve the problem it attempts to solve but it's totally going to work eventually due to unknown unknowns and it's unfair to point that out somehow?

Come on. Apply that logic to literally anything else and see how that sounds.

>The internet was backed by nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers. Is that really a fair comparison

The comparison was made by cryptozealots to begin with to justify the lack of results after many years of development and billions of dollars sunk into them. "How useful was the internet 3/5/7 years after its inception?!". Now that even this incredibly silly comparison fails to justify this waste of resources for so little results, cryptozealots have turned their back on it.

What's next, the timescale of the evolution of life on Earth? Who knows, maybe in a billion years Bitcoins will finally serve a purpose beyond buying cocaine online. HODL!
> 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax — even though they are the same thing.

I found this one particularly interesting
I think it is a problem that was already solved by TetraPack for a long time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak
I've had luck working through Toptal, but that was about two years ago. But when I worked through Toptal I could usually get a gig in two weeks. The pay is roughly equivalent to what I would earn in Sweden, or at least fair, if I consider that I don't have to do sales, billing etc, and can invoice 40 hours a week.

I think Toptal is better than UpWork or other platforms where the price is driven down by competition.

If you have any questions about Toptal or the application process feel free to reach out to me on mail[at]danielk.se

ps. not sponsored by Toptal, but I used them when I was in a similar situation to yours
This turned up over here too. [0] Apparently Intel's CPUs are more inclined to downclock than AMD's.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810654
I expect housing to get a lot cheaper when the boomers actually need to wring some liquidity out of the real estate they've been holding (hoarding) to pay for elder care.

Even if they do something like barter free housing for live-in care instead of selling, you expect a big effect on the rental market and a corresponding effect on the value of investment properties.
Outstanding art with only CSS and HTML
Except for protesting, still can't catch it that way.
They can get really large, especially if it's a dependency that has many dependencies itself! Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much for reading.
Failure isn't a word that I would use to describe schools — They do an excellent job of doing what they are supposed to do. Like Illich says, a single model isn't work for everyone, but let's keep the models that work for the people who want them.

For what I'm looking for traditional school is a tremendous waste of time and energy. Primary school skills don't actually need to be taught in anyway that resembles teaching. They just sort of happen naturally when you go about the business of playing and interacting with other people and engaging with society. So, my kids can do the stuff they want during the day. It doesn't take really any effort on our part as parents, other than being around them all day, which — to be honest — sucks. But for us it's a tradeoff that's worth it.

I wish we had something like the Sudbury School where we lived. There's just not enough people — Except in a few pockets around the country — That want something different for their children.