skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cash out refi everything you can. At 3%, 30 year fixed, with fed target inflation rates of 2-3%, you’ll need a < 1% real return to make money on the transaction (ignoring fees).

If you can’t get that with passive investments over the next 30 years, the banks will have bigger problems than your loan.

Despite your risk aversion, consider putting some in a robo advisor (mix of bonds, index, foreign index, etc), to hedge against a spike in inflation, or a crash of just the US economy. The dollar has been falling recently. The robo will auto rebalance as the economic climate shifts.

As for the cash holding, you can at least get 0.35% at Wealthfront in a cash account. (Does anyone know of a higher return cash account?)

Bond yields are slightly higher, but not much these days.

I’m in a similar position, and am also betting on a crash soon.

I have been putting 2-5% into a robo every few weeks (when the market flinches). It’s been a bad strategy (I should have gone all in a month or so ago), but it’s better than 100% cash. If the market hasn’t crashed in a year or so, I’ll be all in.

I bet against the market for most of the Obama administration (because the bailout / zero interest rates didn’t seem sustainable). Clearly, that was a mistake.

You can’t beat the fed, and right now, the fed is printing unlimited money to prop up ETFs and issuers of junk bonds. Also, investors are holding record amounts of cash, and are slowly putting it back into the market in seek of yields.

Good luck.
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Said the joker to the thief.
It's interesting that the number of birds change a lot from language to language.

In Spanish, the proverb is "A bird in the hand is worth more than a hundred flying." and according to https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... it comes from a Latin proverb that is "A bird in the right hand is better than four out (of it)."
> For all America’s warts it’s still the best place to live.

Serious question: have you lived in another country?
That's what I broadly covered by bad marketing and "thinking you already own the market". Apple could pull it off to be dicks to app developers because they were first to market. You simply had no choice. Google understood they need to catch up to IOS at any cost, so made it as easy as possible for anyone to start mucking around with app development. Sideloading required one change in the settings menu and you could shove as many random apks to your device as possible. For WP you needed to sign up for an account to even just launch the IDE. The included emulator didn't work on Windows Home editions, so you elegantly pissed off the curious teen on their budget PC. Sideloading was pretty much only possible in this dev setup with iirc one app at a time. Microsoft was third to the party and seriously came up with this kind of bullshit. And they wonder why they failed.
> The task is not that; instead we assume that we already have a table that correctly describes the TM's maps from bounded input to output when they terminate. His claim is that this table can be expressed as a function in addition and multiplication with the input as operands.

Ok, if the task is this then everything is very easy, I agree. I was commenting on a much harder task, i.e., converting a generic TM to a function adding and multiplying the inputs. That is something you can't do.

> is false, we can simply encode it as the encoded tuple of the TM and the input; this is a standard construct when we talk about simulating TMs with a UTM.

I don't see how that disproves my assertion. I was saying something different, which has to do with your (correct) first assertion: a TM cannot establish if another TM is going to terminate on a certain input.
I write cover letters to highlight specific experience which is in line with the work that company is into. This is just to help the decision maker. I don't care if he or she doesn't read. I would want to take every chance of getting through screening
ByteDance bought Musically for $1B in 2017 and turned it into TikTok. Three years later they are “forced” to divest it for $50B. They’re laughing their asses off to the bank
Sure I can understand not migrating existing dynamic websites to a static deployment model - don’t fix what isn’t broke. I suppose the question is more about greenfield projects, where in my experience writing a couple markdown files and pushing them to github and checking the “serve this” box is easier than managing a server.

> It's also not a money-making venture. So you have very poor ROI on making your charity site endure the rare hug of death. It goes down? Oh well. It'll come back up.

This is a very strange statement to me. My impression would be that if you’re running a charity site (or any site that makes money from being visited), you would want it to absolutely not go down during a hug of death, as that’s money out of your pocket at a time when it’s getting a ton of free publicity. Why make the site in the first place if you aren’t expecting it to provide value to either you or the viewer?
In 2006, I spent some time in the hospital after a bike accident. Someone who shared my recovery room was an guy with kidney failure & an extremely poor attitude. I learned he was running out of places to get dialysis because he kept treating the staff poorly & getting kicked out of the dialysis centers. Imagine having some poor newly hired receptionist trying to help this near death, abusive asshole & reading a note in the computer screen that said “do not treat this person under any circumstances”.
Use case(s)? I’ve have success working with financial services firms moving their comms from short code to push notifications in app. Always curious who is still using bulk SMS and for what.
Not only should they do that, but the argument that it would only pay for 1 week of the disaster is in bad faith; it wouldn't work like that at all, the arguer knows it. This is one of their snipe-hunts. The truth is that the looming depression could definitely and certainly be fixed by dismantling the oligarchy that has led to this state of affairs: getting people into the homes that have been used as vehicles for wealth preservation solves 1/2 the problems and corrects wage growth.
This is why I love Kaiser (kp.org) as they are the insurer and the provider. They haven't over-billed themselves with care for me or friends.
> Note the use of pointers, this forces other systems to take care of the actual storing of objects, leaving the physics engine to worry about physics, not memory allocation.

Based on the access patterns in the code (iterating through every physics object every step), keeping the physics objects behind a pointer is actively cache hostile! If at all possible try to have these objects in contiguous memory.
>I agree on balance people should generally play the numbers game, not the custom cover letter game. But, if there's a particular job you really want, it might help.

If there's some job or some company that you're really interested in and especially if you have some network there that might give you an "unfair" advantage, by all means go above and beyond to maximize your chances at that one company. But I agree in general that, for most people--especially more junior people--it's really a numbers game. That's not to say you shouldn't do little things that might make you stand out a bit for a given employer, but you should mostly be casting a wide net.
Okay, so in theory maybe there could be checks and balances in place. In practice, however, there are instead secret court orders, subpoenas, or "national security letters".
Not a single source or citation for some extremely broad claims.
It's true. Apparently, that's because mothers against drunk driving campaigned hard to have the drinking age re-raised to 21 after they got their hands on some evidence suggesting that it cut down on deaths due to car accidents.
The Python v2/v3 "issue" has been a non-issue for years now. If you're writing code to do a simple occasional job, Python is perfectly suited to that.
It'll be interesting to see if capital-s Silicon becomes synonymous with Apple SOCs. After all, Chrome did it to user interfaces and nobody bats an eyelid about that any more.
Observations about US policy and behavior is fundamentally a stencil of the balance of power. It's a democracy after all, balancing all those powerful interests and alliances is guaranteed to result in a mess known as “politics”. That's the tradeoff.
> I mean sure. But I’ve never once been rejected on a tech screen. Most people I’d want to take advice from don’t get screened out often either.

When technical screens are calibrated to actually be basic, it's probably fair to assume someone failing them is unqualified (unless they just get severe interview anxiety!).

On the other hand, many technical screens in fashion these days are the same level of complexity and depth you'll receive in the onsite, there are just fewer of them. I once received a Leetcode medium question in a tech screen. I solved it without having seen it before, but it was a shitty, unoptimal O(n^2) solution. I hate getting asked questions like this, and I have an academic background in mathematics and statistics.

I can totally understand someone who is otherwise a strong engineer not passing this kind of technical screen, because most people don't grind Leetcode. I wouldn't hold it against them.

The easy response to this which I usually hear is, "Well don't work for companies with dumb technical screens that have that bar." To which I respond, "Okay, but where else can I work which will pay me $500k/year to work on things I love?"
Like anything else in life this piece has good parts and not-so-awesome parts.

My opinion: take the good and forget the rest.

If I can draw the line on what is enough for me, I can lead a life that is happier and free of divisive depression that comes from comparing myself to others.
> but there was also Microsoft's vision of ARM (spec outright prohibits user managed keys, and nobody's shipping with anything but Microsoft keys).

Indeed. "Microsoft <3 Linux" they say. Right...
That's the great thing about open source, though. You guys can fix it yourself. Me, I'm stuck on Windows 10.
Thank you for putting a "what this is" paragraph in the referenced page.
The traditional method in a lot of Asia (per what I’ve read online) is to put a finger on top of the rice pointing down, so that your fingernail is touching the rice, and to fill water up to your knuckle.
Never take financial advice from internet
Yes, but it's pretty clearly transitional tech. Apple knows that it's shit. It's a stopgap until SwiftUI matures — and you can tell because SwiftUI is maturing fast.
> Secure boot can usually be turned off if its unwanted.

Emphasis mine. The main objection to secure boot is that, some time in the future, it will be mandatory; that already is the case for Windows devices with ARM CPUs (https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-c...).
Why wouldn't an HR person or hiring staffer immediately out the company or even sue them?
I know Python basics, what next?
The justice system has built into it the requirement to justify allegations against you though. By design everything in the justice system is transparent or its not admissible. So an opaque "score" of any sort wouldn't ever be acceptable evidence.
Totally agree. Just let me point out that this is not, theoretically speaking, an FHE computation. It is an "FHE plus a termination oracle" computation. Maybe no big difference in practice, but totally a different thing in theory, which was the point of my comment.
He edited it, but it's still false.
In the minitel era, everyone could host a service, you had to get specific equipements, but it was easy to get.
What was centralized, was the indexation, people had to know you phone number to dial in your service.
The West has always said that the Chinese bans to Western social media and tech companies were authoritarian and antidemocratic. How is this less so?

I’ve never heard of it described that way. I’ve heard it called “anticompetitive” or “protectionist”.

I mean, the US bans Kinder Surprise eggs, but I wouldn’t call that “authoritarian”.
All of the screenshots for outerra on the web site only show terrain with no urban environments.

This video shows urban environments, but the buildings seem to be low poly structures. Okay enough for a flight sim, but I doubt it would be pleasing driving simulator where you regularly see these buildings up close.
https://youtu.be/YV9eAN7RVOU

The fundamental problem is that the buildings aren't procedurally generated - they're discrete models. They're procedurally placed on the map, but it still cycling through a fixed list of buildings. It looks similar to the real world from the sky, but if you were to go down and drive around you'd see the same apartments and stores again and again.
>Because they are bought and paid by the same people profiting off the system.

I know broad sweeping characterizations feel good and are easy, but I can't help but feel they help those taking the most money from lobbyists hide from view. And I can't help but feel they encourage giving up entirely on government and voting in outsiders regardless of their actual qualifications, who double down on the problems instead of fixing them.

It takes a lot more effort to name some specifics either rules or people, but broad sweeping statements don't usually help.
Surveillance capitalism to the USA is like heroin to an addict: he thinks he can give up at any time, that he can manage the addiction and find the balance, until he realises that he is a slave to that addiction and can't change anything. The Congress could destroy this "big data is the new oil" business model, but they don't want to give up the money from big tech, they think they can manage this addiction and find a balance between greed and freedom, they find excuses that surveillance is a matter of national security today, but at the end USA will repeat the fate of that addict.
Compiling from most major non-web game engines to the web leads to incredibly bloated products. See: https://blog.playcanvas.com/playcanvas-versus-unity-webgl/

The blog is 4 years old but I think it's still relevant.
I don't think Intel is the reason for the few ports though... No other intel laptop has such few ports. It's Apple's own minimalism (and their extremely lucrative dongle business)
I have been a freelance coder for more than 20 years, I have worked on a lot of different subjects, I wrote compilers, small embedded kernels, shipped dozen of products, did thousands of OSS contributions…

But I would be terrified by one of those interview.

For example: How can you write a sort algorithm with 0 error in such a short time, without reference? I would never be able to do that. I "know" how they work, but with qsort() since C89 there is very little reason to write one, except if you have special needs, and those special needs are "the problem" not the sorting algorithm.

Or I would be unable to write the TCP handshake procedure on a piece of paper with just a pen, even knowing I wrote a mini TCP stack a few years back for an embedded chip.

I can think of a million technical questions for which I have no answer, how do you cope with that in an interview (with the added pressure…)?

I am genuinely wondering if I am bad, or if it is those "coding challenge" that are inappropriate.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

As for the Podcast, wading through a 68 minute podcast (via a link within a link on the submitted page) isn't for me.

Perhaps if the link to the Podcast was actually used as the post it might be better.
Derek's writing influenced me quite a bit in the early 2000s. I bootstrapped a software business from zero to near $10m in annualized revenue, and sold it almost half a decade ago. I contributed 100% of my equity into a charitable remainder trust because I learned about that idea from his website.

Since then, I've done a lot of "puttering". I'm teaching myself jazz guitar, and I'm currently enrolled in law school. I have basically unlimited time to read whatever interests me. If I could go back five years and give myself some advice, I would say that "enough" is not durably satisfying. Purpose is durably satisfying. Purpose arises from constraints. Having "enough" means you lack a particular type of constraint. Thus, enough" can get in the way of developing purpose, particularly if you are somewhat undisciplined like me.

(Also, I would abolish charitable remainder trusts from the tax code. I created one for lifestyle reasons not tax reasons, but after experiencing the tax consequences firsthand, I think they are profoundly unfair.)
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Common views of QM are derived from various interpretations, not basic axiomatic statements. This article discusses some work in approaching QM from an axiomatic formalism.
> I don't feel that it's deteriorating as much as that tech in general never properly understood how to do good localisation.

Absolutely not. I saw the i18n/l10n process in practice when I was contributing code to KDE. It was incredibly thorough and well thought-out (I actually learnt most of what I know about i18n/l10n at that time). Not just translating strings verbatim, but stuff like different languages having different plural forms (so you might need to translate "users" differently depending on if you're talking about 2 users or 3 users).

This is not rocket science. We know how to do it. It's just that most businesses don't give a shit. English gets you far enough in terms of adoption in most markets that you don't really have to care about l10n unless you have to fulfil legal requirements. (Also, some markets have bad rates of English literacy, e.g. China, but those are usually served by local app providers.)

> On some streaming/movie purchasing services, it can be hard to get a movie in the original version and not a localised one

Where I live (Germany), this has gotten way better over the years. Around ten years ago, cinema chains started offering screenings in original language (i.e. English) for the more popular movies. And cable TV started showing shows undubbed as well. The first thing I can remember there was Game of Thrones airing undubbed on the same day as the US release. I think the major reason was that piracy sites allowed users to access undubbed content easily. If you have the choice of watching the new GoT episode right now or waiting a year for the dub, most people are going to go with piracy. TV/cinema execs saw this and realized that there was a market to tap into.

Having access to undubbed content was actually quite eye-opening to me. Having only had contact with dubs up until that point, I only then realized how eye-wateringly shitty German dubs are. It appears to me like German dubbers don't really consider themselves voice actors (emphasis on the "actor" part). Sometimes it's like they think they're reading a newscast when it's actually an action scene.
Ipad apps on a mac laptop with touchscreen would be great. And some of the design changes in MacOS 11 look like they are making mac UI elements touch accessible.
Yes, it is stupid that in 2020 we accept articles against an app without hardcore claims. It is also no sense if these analysis are only targeting Chinese companies and not other top apps like FB.
It's a simple robot. Allows you to delegate and time-shift a set of tasks so you don't have to be interrupted while focusing on something else. For many of us, that is more than worth a bit of 'wasteful' product design, and can lead directly to increased productivity in several ways.
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Why Did We Move the Search Box? (Wikipedia 2010)
You said the minitel is centralized which is false.
Everyone could host it's service at home.
Service discovery was centralized, but everyone could dial in your service if they knew your phone number.
I think this is a neat project - congratulations on getting it out there.

I would love for the page to have more polish - maybe you could do it all using CSS and not JS :) about.me does a good job of this. I say this as a grudging backend developer: the "designy-ness" really does work to help any page seem more credible.

Curious: is it your intention to make money with this project? On the one hand, awesome that you're doing this for free and presumably trying to get users. On the other, I myself would worry that the service "might go away one day", and although charging doesn't prevent that, it may be useful to find some way to better communicate the trustworthiness of your application not just in terms of privacy, but longevity too.

Nice work!
> It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company

For the US government, whose only concern is who does and doesn't get to harvest the data from any spyware, yes.

For everyone else, I'm not sure how that resolves any spyware concern.
Apple should have cracked down earlier, simpler as that. The fact they didn't makes them look like hypocrites. I'm aware that it's impossible to go back to earlier and crack down then to not look like hypocrites. So it's important that going forward they are less capricious about enforcing App Store guidelines and don't make themselves look bad.
This entire article was a puff piece with no details and definitely didn’t say anything about phones.
As someone previously on your shoes, and. who now is able to code. do it yourself, seriously it's not that hard and you won't regret it, you can get an excellent CTO later when you need to scale and have already gained some momentum/traction/product-market fit.
I’m very uncomfortable about the fact a very young person (only 17 years old) has had his identity released like this... where was his fair trial first?

Regardless if he was behind the hack or not, this is not the way forward to a decent society.
> all you really need are slightly angled keys away from the center.

Citation needed. What if I don't like the angle TECK chose? Laptops for sure should start slightly angling, but if the unit is separate from the computer, why rant against user choice?
The only thing that holds me back from believing the above is that it would certainly cannibalize their sales of their iPad Pro.
What are the tax consequences that make it unfair?
A good solution for US problems is easy to fine, you create a competent team, you analyze 5 different countries with good health care systems(for ex you could have 10 scenarios and you analyze what happens and how much it costs). You make some decision and maybe reduce the possible implementation from 5 to 3 or 3, you then do some calculations on how much money is saved and how much people will have to pay. You create some educational/informational materials and then vote on it or do a referendum.

But you need politicians to take this serious, have them nominate specialists int he team that will do the analysis and accept the conclusions and promise not to change their mind in 4 years.

From what I read the current system is a lose=lose for both poor and rich and only a small number of people benefit.
While the price point would be huge, I have a hard time believing a laptop will cost less than their phone.
It's just round trip to Europe from North America (esp western north america) is actually ... an eternity, could easily drift into 100ms -- and not one I can optimize to get rid of. Whereas I can work my way down the software stack and find bottlenecks and deal with them.

Yes I can't control what TV manufacturers do, that is a wild card. But the quote taken out of context is more than a little inflammatory -- the network has a hard physical limit that the local device does not.

FWIW I'm just as dissatisfied with software bloat as the next person. Retro computing is one of my hobbies, and the latency measurements there are something to be envious of.

ChromeOS generally does better in latency measurements than other platforms; much effort was made there, much of it by people I know.