skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A small number of companies are almost 20% of market value.

That's been a 'tradition' for a long time:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/07/the-nifty-fifty-and...

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/11/26/the-nifty-fifty...

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

* https://etfdb.com/history-of-the-s-and-p-500/

* https://www.qad.com/blog/2019/10/sp-500-companies-over-time

It's just that which companies have been the top 20% has changed over the decades.
It only takes about 30 seconds to show that the BH site is anything but dogmatic. For example, check out the Hedgefundie thread on risk parity investing using leveraged ETFs (now at 9000 posts):

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=288192

or this recent post on factor investing:

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=257223 as proof of the board's openmindedness.

The bread and butter for BH is the unsophisticated investor who is paying their Edward Jones advisor 1-2% for an overly complicated, underperforming portfolio. These folks are better served by a simple plan (like the three fund portfolio) that they administer themselves. Their success in investing is mostly driven by advice to save and maintain long term exposure to the market. Saving that 1-2% makes a meaningful difference in their retirement lifestyle. Ordinary people can come with their portfolios and get free, unbiased financial advice that saves them thousands of dollars a year.

Investing discussions are the tip of the iceberg, though. Anything related to personal finance is germane. Discussions of tax planning, estate planning, withdrawal strategies, with participants who are experts in the field, are invaluable. For example, this long running thread with monthly posts that tracks a forward test of a mechanistic Variable Percentage Withdrawal strategy (as an alternative to the 4% rule):

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=284519

Personal Consumer Issues section is golden for advice on purchases.

It's real secret, though, is the heavy moderation. It is very strongly curated around its subject matter, and in particular its "no politics" and "posts must be actionable" policies work to ensure that it has a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
Part of the funds' expenses (thus the expense ratio) are investment in techniques/technologies to avoid getting fleeced by hedge funds as they rebalance.
When I modify a program, I often refer to its history. So my preferred form would be something like a git repository, rather than just a tarball.
1. SQL injection as a service.

2. It should implement this logic server-side.

3. No hashing + salting of passwords.

4. It should retrieve one user at a time, rather than all of them.

5. Not understanding basic control flow.

...

There was probably a presentation about this project, where the author received a round of applause. This person was likely promoted for finishing this project in record-time.

The developer that spent time reporting the issue lowered their own performance metrics in exchange for a bug report that was given a low priority. When the developer objected to the prioritization, the project leadership got pissed off and punished the developer evaluation citing reasons such as "does not align with business needs", "has poor communication skills" (talks abstract things that nobody understands or cares about).

By the time this defect was found and fixed, the author likely pushed 10 different other defects just like this. Also, other engineers copied and pasted this code multiple times because it's working and has unit tests.
These things should be banned in my opinion. They're so inefficient and never get the room down to a decent temperature.
Fences and lockable doors or gates are one thing the company can do.
You're right that 0.9% is a lot, but the expenses get absorbed by the bond yield. The total difference of return between 0.5*SSO and SPY over the ten year period (2010-01-01 and 2020-01-01) is 28%. Maybe you're right that that's more than "slightly" worse, I'll change the wording.

Moreover, when doing at the historical returns, I do use UPRO, not just 3xSPY, so the expense ratio is included. It's not included in the chart that goes back to 2004, but I do mention that that one is synthetic and inaccurate.
The law in Canada regarding child pornography is so broad that a depiction including stick figures having sex with an arrow pointing to it and the caption "children having sex for my gratification" would count as child pornography.
I think RFS' loss is a little deeper than ablation of a contiguous block of symbols, since characters and numerals aren't likely to be represented sequentially in the brain they way they are on keyboards or ASCII. I agree with your conclusion otherwise. I see no connection to cognition in what the scientists explored.

Specifically, RFS' loss was specific to both encoding (recognition) and decoding (writing) of only those numerals that have no analogs among letters (not 0 or 1) had failed in RFS. Presumably this implies that the neurons that map the visual coding for numerals 2-9 in the cortex to and from their underlying concepts were lost. However the concept of each numeral persisted, so RFS could learn replacement glyphs and map them to the concepts, thereby using them as equivalents to numerals 2-9.

So I agree with you, this seems like only selective damage to the V2 or V3 portions of the visual cortex used strictly to encode/decode numerals 2-9. I too see nothing related to higher cognition or consciousness, at least in the early stage of RFS' disease mentioned here.

Methinks the author at Science Mag who summarized the work got a bit carried away in seeking cosmic revelations therein.
The internet is a place where everyone, everywhere is "around". You can talk about who to blame all you want, but blaming the attackers just means that you'll be attacked by people who don't care if you blame them. It's not an effective way of solving the problem.

And remember that "the problem" is that the attackers hijacked the accounts of people using twitter. Twitter had a duty to take adequate measures to protect those accounts, and failed to do so. The victims are the people whose accounts were stolen, and the people who were defrauded by the hijacked accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Pocket_Computer
That's just echo chambers...
Stop with this CCP propaganda.

China blocked Facebook and Google because those apps gave access to significant information that the government couldn't censor outright.

The scales were never even, so now this is just a much needed correction.
Yes, abstract thinking is different than concrete thinking. Thinking about an engine part is concrete thinking. Manipulating that part in imaginary 3d space in your mind is abstract thinking. 100% of programming is abstract thinking. Abstract and concrete thinking are done in different parts of the brain. Here's the first google result I found on the topic. I think this stuff is really interesting.

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/abstract-thinkin...
It's the form you would prefer to modify, not the information you would prefer to have available. I'd prefer to have all the information in the world available, but that doesn't make everything the source code.
You misunderstand me: They didn't call me back to get the evidence I had, which they had no other way of obtaining.
Have you tried clicking on the course material section? Maybe I should have shared that link instead.

https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/ocaml-class/class-01.htm...
My preferred form of a work would be the a VCS repository with the complete history (assuming it is a familiar VCS like git. If you are using some obscure VCS that I can't get to work, I'd settle for a simple source dump).

Almost every project I have worked on has went out of its way to maintain a good history. Wheather it is by cleaning up commits before merging into a main branch; making sure history gets copied when a reorganization moves a significant amount of files to a different repository, or making sure history gets copied when an entire repository moves over to a new VCS.
One bit of awfulness the article missed: Rather than scanning for the username and then checking whether the password is correct, it scans for a match on both username and password. So if you have the right username but the wrong password, it still has to check every single username to conclude this; it won't stop when it gets to the username you entered.

I mean, not that it should be scanning through a list to find the right username, but still...

(And yeah, I suppose that would allow for some sort of username enumeration via a timing attack, but somehow I don't think that's the reason they didn't do that here...)
If the blotters of our local PDs are any kind of guide, I'm wondering if there's any crime that's reported with an accuracy rate higher than 25%.
Manufacturing child porn IS repugnant, even if it is a deep whatever. Is that so controversial?
Personally I would hold the cash until there is blood in the streets. That is the time that fortunes are made. We arent quite there yet, possibly next year.

In 2000 investors were screaming at buffet because he was sitting on billions in cash. They were saying he had lost his touch, he should pay a dividend etc.

Then in 2001 the crash happened and he was able to get some great deals.

The time to buy is when everyone else is saying dont buy, things have fundamentally changed.
How is that different from any follow-based network?
Law enforcement has been known to continue running seized child pornography sites in order to collect data on the user-base, the justification being that overall rates of viewing child pornography are reduced through additional arrests.

It's an difficult ethical dilemma. How are we categorizing the harm done to victims of child pornography? Is it based on how many different people see the same image or just the number of times the images was viewed in general? Obviously the victim isn't getting some sort of electric shock every time somebody sees the image.

Do we include it additional harm if the identifying features of the child in question are unavailable? What if the victim doesn't know they were part of the training model or that there are even images of them on the Internet? Would it be ethical if training data from children in non-pornographic situations was used? What if somebody had child pornography made of them but allow their image to be used (donated?) after they were 18?

I'm not claiming to know the answers.
Wow...CCP supporters out in full-force right now downvoting anything critical of China.
I'm in an elevated risk group, and I'd like the right to decide for myself if taking the vaccine is worth the risk.
The effect this has on, for example, tv commercials, is amusing.

There are actual aired television commercials where the quickly spoken disclaimers include "death" as a side effect. I only notice this because I have subtitles enabled. They say it very fast.
Could someone with your experience help me on where to get started if I want an in depth knowledge of the kind of stuff you use on a day to day basis? Would preparing for and writing the level 1 CFA be a good start? (I'm a mathematical physics graduate who's done quite a bit of software in finance but not specifically in trading).

I've read quite a bit of quant material, but I would also like to know what to learn from someone who is steeped in the industry as I'm sure my knowledge is quite a rough approximation of what I should actually know if I were to claim any expertise.
> Saving that 1-2% makes a meaningful difference in their retirement lifestyle.

If you really want to see how much a few fractions of a percentage point can effect things a fellow named Larry Bates has a really good interactive page where you can enter various numbers:

* https://larrybates.ca/t-rex-score/

Starting with $100K, with returns of 5%, over 25 years:

* a 2% fee will net you $209K at the end

* a 1% fee wil net $266K

* a 0.50% fee will result in $300K

1.5% eaten away in annual fees, compounded over 25 years, sure adds up.
This premise is predicated on the "how much is enough" theory. Higgs kept teaching at Edinburgh University for years and years, because he loved his work. The exploded 'maslow' theory has this quality which is sort-of half true: if your intent was to find stuff out (tm) then your fuck-you money is probably a lot less than Elon Musk, or George Soros.
Asking? Is that what they're doing?
Your conclusions are entirely unsubstantiated...
Yeah once they figure out the monetization part, the ecosystem would be complete. They've been working on that. I don't think it is as efficient yet. But you can also look at Chinese version of tiktok, where they have already a full ecosystem and lots of people making lots of money off the platform.
> return is always associated with risk ... this isn't true ... only systematic risk generates return

On the contrary, your criticism that "only systematic risk generates return" does not invalidate the assertion that "return is always associated with risk". Perhaps you misinterpreted the direction of causality implied by that assertion, thinking that it meant risk is always associated with return?
> Even animated child porn is illegal because the theory goes, it drives demand for the real thing.

Not in the US it isn't.
When I had my ISP in 1993, I gave every new customer a copy of Stoll's first book. Great book then, great book now.
Dapper Query Builder Using Interpolated Strings and Fluent API
Were you going for a comic effect or tragic?
> If somone designed a calculator today, they would most likely be made from ABS plastic, in a clamshell case. An ARM microcontroller that replaces essentially 70% of the chips, and it would be impossible to repair.

Interestingly, my Casio fx-115ES PLUS (which I love, BTW) uses a obscure but cute little architecture called nX-U8/100. Although I am a bit sad that it's hidden by epoxy like most cheaper calculators :(
I mean... the dialogue is hilarious and the acting is all over the place, but in a charming, cult-movie-esque way: I'm enjoying it a lot - a lot more than a lot of films I've paid to see.

I'm also really impressed with the filmmaking: shots, editing, stunts, and effects are all at least decent, and often very good, all things considered. The gunplay has this sort of low-budget John Woo vibe that I really appreciate, and I find it funny that it somehow manages to weirdly prefigure some of the aesthetic and style of The Matrix.

You must have had a ton of fun making this film, and I'm glad you've finished and shared it with us.
I too. If a name is unfamiliar to me, even if it's no more than 5-6 letters long, I can't for the life of me recall it. But I can remember random sequences of numerals up to length 12. Why?

I wonder if there's some term for this malady, like 'literophasia' or 'numeraphilia'? I wonder too if it occurs equally as often in both genders. I would guess not.
The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.

It doesnt matter where the original account is stored.

Those accounts are part of a large network of fake news spreading, with a lot of cash apparently originating from the country government itself..

The individuals themselves keep all the free speech rights.. they can go to newspapers, social media or speak on the streets. The only thing that is blocked its the accounts that are bounded to this fake news network process being judged by the supreme court.

Free speech cant be used as an excuse to constantly commit abuses and crimes that menace to demolish democratic institutions.

Democracy must have means to protect itself from malicious actors that are massively lying in a industrial scale fomented by big money from populists that dreams becoming dictators.

If part of this money is public, this is even worse.

We should have learned at least one or two about how the proto-fascists used every immoral and even illegal trick in the book to turn a democratic society into a fascist nightmare.
That same clip has been going around for nearly a decade. Shame there’s little more to show for the software; I think that’s telling in its own right.
Im not sure. Im strictly commenting that, we can never take away from him (i think) that fact that he has like... everything
The blank slate theory has been thoroughly debunked at this point. I explicitly said it wasn't about being smart vs not smart.
They mentioned "working closely" with Coinbase and Fold.

I hadn't heard of Fold, so I checked it out and they're currently marketing a credit card that rewards you Bitcoin instead of "cash back", points, or airline miles.

Not very relevant to this discussion, but Fold emphasizes "opt out [of] surveillance" and "opt in [to] privacy". I went to create an account and saw the "sign in with twitter" option, and here are the permissions they're requesting:

- See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections.

- See your Twitter profile information and account settings.

- See accounts you follow, mute, and block.

- See your email address.

How can a company think this aligns with that sort of marketing at all?
> Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about?

It has become clear that China is not on the road towards freedom. That theory failed.

And it is because that failed, that we need to take a new approach to things. The way to get China to change, is to pressure them to change.

And we can pressure them, with economic pressure, by engaging in some of the same tactics that they use against us.

If they are going to defect, eventually we have to respond in kind, in order to not put ourselves at a disadvantage.
It’s huger than you think, the rest of the PC makers are stuck between 1-4% net profit margins.

But their pricing isn’t going to be greatly influenced by R&D costs, it’s going to be driven by hardware costs. Those R&D costs are ongoing expenses, Apple is always working on new technologies. A rough rule of thumb is retail is twice hardware costs. Most Intel CPUs cost between $200 and $300 each, while Ax processors in iPads and iPhones cost less than $100 each. And another big factor is the SOCs for Apple Silicon will integrate lots of capabilities that require separate cards or coprocessors on current Macs, including high performance GPUs, the T2 security chip, etc.

So it’s reasonable to think Apple will be saving $100 to $200 in hardware costs for the Apple Silicon “equivalents” of their current lineup (Equivalents in positioning, but faster, slimmer and longer battery life versions). That directly translates $200-$400 lower retail prices, which Apple will use to drive higher sales volumes. That will spread R&D, Design, Marketing, Sales, Admin, and Support over more units, supporting spending more to promote and sell them and more on design and R&D in the future.
Why would they exit? Are you under the impression that they exist to do anything more than profit as much as possible?
> apportions the damages of anything that goes wrong on the party mostly responsible for it

That is usually interpreted to mean the party with the money gets stuck with the damages. Nobody sues a penniless person.
Not the worst, though. It maybe insecure because the app was intended for internal use.

I did, however, see some shitty stuff in my job. Like, someone iterates a hashtable to find a key. I didn’t even know what to explain to that person when I reviewed the code.
Maybe it was one of their own...
The Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down state laws banning fake child porn. Since the 2010s a few people have been convicted for it, but only alongside convictions of real images. They probably saw no point in appealing if the other charges would stick.

States have obscenity laws that restrict sale and advertisement of this content, but possession cannot be banned by obscenity laws. Think about the mess that would be enforcing this law. You can't objectively determine the age of a fake character, unlike a real person.
China doesn't allow western companies to operate freely in their country, so why should US shoulder the blame here?
While that article references an incident from 10+ years ago, agreed, CSAM can be on any website with UGC. I’m sure a large amount of false reports is from legal adult performers that appear to look young though.
> The only thing we know so far is that this vulnerability in Secure Enclave affects all Apple chips between the A7 and A11 Bionic, similar to the checkm8 exploit that allows jailbreak for almost all iOS devices up to iPhone X.

Actually, the exploit requires a bootrom exploit like checkm8 to work. This is why it doesn't work on newer devices.
Welcome to the wonderful world of ‘alternative data’
> I sure hope they can reverse it in court.

This will be diffcult because the original order already came from our Supreme Court. However, it was decided/signed by a single justice/judge. The appeal asks for the matter to be decided by whole court (11 justices).
Yes it is. Anti trust law has never been

A) used against a company that has at most 50% market share (Apple)

B) In the US always been focused on consumer harm and based on does a “monopoly” cause consumer prices to go up. Facebook/Google costs consumers nothing and no one can honestly claim that Amazon/Apple prices have increased because of anything they have done. (Disclaimer: I work for AWS)

C) The republicans were more worried about Facebook/Google’s “bias against conservatism” and in the case of Facebook, one Republican representative grilled Zuckerberg about Twitter’s policy that affected Don Jr. and the administration has repeatedly gone against Amazon because Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Hilarious, and a great breakdown of what's wrong with the code!

But also, in an article calling out programming falsehoods, this snippet is a bit odd:

> Even if apiService.sql returns a value synchronously (which I doubt), internally it have to open a connection to a database, make a query and send back the response, which (as you may have guessed) can’t be synchronous.

Sure it can, it's dead simple to write an API that accepts a database query and returns the result synchronously.
Is this the same or different than the "New ‘unpatchable’ iOS exploit could lead to permanent jailbreak for iPhone 4s to iPhone X" from September 2019:

* https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/27/ios-unpatchable-ios-exploit-j...

* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/devel...

* https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091219
There is currently no satellite to satellite communication with the first iteration of the technology. This means you need ground stations to receive the traffic coming from the user terminals. This can either hooked up directly to the internet backbone (ideal), or bounce to another satellite closer to the backbone connection.

Basically, user computer <--> user wifi or router <--> user terminal <--> satellite <--> ground station <--> fiber <--> peering to other internet providers.
What about spam? Scams? Child porn? Doxxing? People's very personal data? A bounty to hurt a specific person, with included address and identifying information?

There's always an exception. Some amount of moderation is always necessary, and naturally there will always be gray area cases.
What if the US and allies are
Less open to China, and offer to me more open again if China also is more open?
But the dev made 15 commits this week and knocked out 5 Trello tasks. All tests pass. Top performer.