skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't see the USP of websites, apps, and games that run at a browser url instead of requiring app download? I encourage you to throw out your prejudices and try to answer that one yourself.

Runescape is a good example. It ran on the school and library computers when nothing else could (much less anything that needed installation). Runescape is finally beta-testing native mobile apps, and it's hard to imagine it rising to so much fame for such a long time without its decision to run in the browser.
That #10.5 point really resonates with me. Especially now with all of this isolation, it’s become very apparent that almost all communication on the internet is the screaming from inside the car type instead of the real human connection type. I made https://otherrs.com/ as an experiment to see if I could drum up more of that second type
Traditional game engines work in ways that aren't suited for browser based gaming. There is quite a bit of work that needs to be done in optimizing asset streaming without the need for long wait times.
The S&P 500 made sense when tracking all public companies would have been too much work, but this kind of bookkeeping has gotten much easier. For example, Vanguard offers a low-fee total stock market index: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTSMX

If your model is "buy everything" then you avoid many awkward situations like this one.
I co-founded a startup that had a technically-solid product that people swore they wanted. It failed. I've also worked for a number of successful startups. And I've consulted for startups that succeeded, and ones that sank without a trace.

If there's any pattern I can see with the non-technical founders, it's that some knowledge of coding is certainly nice, if only so the founders can talk to the actual coders. But coding's not the most important thing. The two most important things for a non-technical founder are (1) understanding their market, and (2) closing deals.

Steve Blank (a respected startup expert) proposed a way to prove that you can do (1) and (2): Collect non-binding letters of intent from future customers. These letters should say something like "If you can produce software that does X, Y and Z acceptably well, we would would like to negotiate a contract with you for $1000/month." (See Blank's classic "Four Steps to the Epiphany" for more details.)

If you can collect 10 of those letters, then you should have no problem finding a technical co-founder, and you'll be bringing strong assets to the table.

(The details might be different for your startup. Maybe your product is only worth $200/month, or whatever. But the key point is that you can go talk to customers and close deals.)
And the Swedish version I've heard compares one in the hand against ten in the woods!
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But the Facebook engineer making $500,000/year? They’re the ones buying up the houses and driving middle class people out of neighborhoods.
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Wait this sounds like demonizing the FB engineer for making the 500k even though he would now have to pay millions for a medium size/class/type home that was previously owned by (and sold for) a crazy amount by said "middle class".

I get very worried when I see this sentiment where somehow the employees of these companies are responsible for killing the previous fabric but what is driving them to these decisions is somehow sacred?
This is not true anymore. Apple funded a significant part of LLVM/Clang work in the 2010s, and then again with the aarch64 backend, but nowadays Google and Intel contribute much more to LLVM than Apple.
Hello,

Windows Client (laptops/tablets/...) devices with 64-bit Arm CPUs have Secure Boot unlockable. That article applied to Windows RT and Windows Phone, which were earlier projects.
Not a downvoter (nor a financial expert) but to check the argument seems at least reasonable to check whether the proportional return of Vanguard funds has decreased as the fractional amount of money invested with them vs. the total stock market has increased. Seems unlikely the answer is yes (probably because in fact you are not investing in "nothing" -- there's value in having money itself, same as interest at a bank, and you are investing in giving that money to lots of companies, not just one, and that's what you're making profit off of. So long as money generates money, why should the return taper off?)

Probably an interesting number itself knowing what the fractional amount of money flowing through Vanguard is as a proportion of the total.
This is awesome, I'm sure this was fun to make. I love digging into the python internals
To add to your point: Apple has been pretty rapidly shifting operations to India, precisely for this reason. I’d be willing to bet Apple has plans in place to move the rest of their manufacturing operations if China were to retaliate against it. Not saying it would be easy, or painless, but perhaps not as difficult as we’d imagine.
Which is why it specifically says "is similar to the list".

But you may be surprised how many list-like operations `range` supports. Subscripting, `len`, `in`, `.count`, `.index`. It might as well be a tuple.

And if you want to nitpick more, range isn't a function.
Thanks, that's insightful.

This means the phone screen is not a problem per se. However, would you propose to hire a good Deaf programmer for remote work if he only communicates by written chat or email?
> Microsoft is the only significant OS vendor with which Nvidia collaborates successfully

Canonical, which ships nvidia's proprietary driver with Ubuntu, is another quite major OS vendor that collaborates with nvidia successfully. Recently, Ubuntu's wayland-based desktop environment was also the first to work with nvidia's driver (the results of this work are open source).
I used to think that Twitter's 144-character tweets were the worst possible way to present information. Instagram's `pictures of text` show that it is possible to get even worse.
I've just passed this to friends and family. Thanks for sharing.
You can use the existing libraries for Wordnet with the version in WNDB format.
Taylor swift likely makes major ad revenue from YouTube.
Cell phones and Facebook are changing remote Nunatsiavut
I used to believe this, but then I realized why ordinary Republicans for the most part don’t care so much about rising inequality: they don’t live in places where it’s that noticeable.

In DC or New York or San Francisco inequality is always in your face. Public housing down the block from co-ops that even Facebook engineers can’t afford. But for the most part, republicans don’t live there.

My Maryland county is pretty red—Clinton was the first Democrat to win it (barely) since JFK. There are some very rich people here, but you can really only tell by their boats. The waterfront houses are mostly owned by retired middle class people. (We bought ours from a young couple: a disabled vet and a nurse.) The nicer waterfront houses are as likely to be owned by a guy with a successful contracting business as a business executive. The public schools are excellent and you can buy a 3BR house zoned for the best high school in the area for 3-4 times the median income. You could make $1 million/year (and some people do) but other than on a boat there is nowhere extravagant to spend that money. There’s no restaurant in the entire county that the vast majority of people couldn’t afford to go to for at least a special occasion.

And like I said, we do have some old money yacht racing types. Go a bit further out where the rich people are farmers with their wealth tied up in land, and the society is even flatter. The vast majority of Republican America is like that.
Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-Lidar stance
We used to have Appy which means shit in Kerala, India. Somehow a TV campaign made us say App-ee instead of the bad upp-e and its popular since then.
You could be interested in retiring early (or immediately), or you could be interested in buying property overseas and spending your winters in Spain.

Also "minimize risk" is not consistent with "maximize return" so that's not even a valid answer. Someone might say "I wanna put it all on Black", and someone else might be saving for their child. Lots of really varied answers are possible.
It's called storysprawl, the site is private now and has been off-and-on dormant and active for the last 25 years. More active now because of COVID. We've got around 1000 chapters written across 20-30 stories. It started out perl/gdbm, then php/mysql. More recently it has a smattering of react thrown in (particularly for graphically mapping the stories) and I'm rewriting the backend in scala/play. The tech has generally tracked my career I guess. :)
How so? My insurance company offers programs with apps or use of telematics. I don't use any apps and don't allow access to any telematics. After the location data scandal last year my cell phone company claims to have stopped selling location data. I don't knowing allow any access to my location data.
So true! You literally are doing something immoral which is bad for society!
Because there are already hundreds of gatekeeper entities involved with getting a company listed.

You are basically investing in the idea that:

‘On average, these companies are run by people who want the company to succeed, and as long as the population of the world grows, and the middle class grows, this will make money’

Everyone could invest in index funds, and this would still be true, because if the stock price gets too low, it would be rational for the company to purchase its own stock on the cheap which would set the price floor.
Friendly correction: You've been through the wringer (as in, laundry wringer, an old-fashioned household appliance).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-through-...
Obviously not “everyone” will ever invest in index funds. HFT firms, leveraged buyout folks, and prop traders at investment banks aren’t going to stop betting on individual securities. The people who have more information, quicker ability to act on information, or superior ability to analyze information shouldn’t buy index funds (they’re also the people who contribute meaningfully to price discovery).

A smart individual retail investor is statistically unlikely to “beat” those people, and should buy index funds.
Time frame - if you need the money next year your risk tolerance is very different compared to if you need the money in 10 years. You can't minimize both risk _and_ return, there's no free lunch
This is just a story I heard when I was a kid, but I think HN might either like it or have some more details about it :

There's a marketing story about a western company that tried to introduce their product to the Japanese market with the slogan: "as easy as cooking rice" - which, according to the story managed to insult every Japanese woman as cooking rice was - according to the story - considered more or less an art form in Japan at the time.

Anyone has details about this story?
OK, so how do we talk about the prevalence of awful off-shore software-development firms without being "xenophobic"? If you're going to lecture us on how we talk, at least offer an alternative?
I have had this problem every time I try to teach anyone to use Python. I have years of experience with messing around with all of the relevant parts of Windows, Mac, and Linux and it never Just Works. It's super frustrating when others are like 'it's easy just use x'. It's not. If you're a beginner, the setting up of a dev environment is far more of an obstacle to learning go code than the syntax or programming concepts.

Repl.it is one way to sidestep these issues but it's not perfect. Making people jump in the deep end and use Linux helps to some extent, but also brings its own set of issues and frustrations.

I don't think "add another layer of abstraction to hide the complexity" is often a good solution. Docker brings it's own problems too.
> The mass arts that the masses can afford to consume (TV, streaming music, and movies) are by definition based on popularity, so we can only have so many artists.

maybe it's a bit los in translation for me, but I wouldn't consider those things really art. For profit gigantic corporations don't produce art. I would say that most art is inherently not able to be a mass-product and therefore every city etc. needs its own art-scene.
Ah yes. The question I should have asked is: Is it more secure than not using it, and in what way?

Like for example, the Linux kernel isn't signed, right?
I think the major driver for it was that Joel Spolsky worked at Microsoft for a long time (among other things, he was a PM for Excel), and therefore knew the MS stack the best. For a long time, Stack Exchange ran on IIS + SQL Server, I don't know if that's true anymore.
I've been impressed by the "therapudic ecosystem" developed for coronavirus in the absence of a 'monotherapy'. The MATH+ treatment is an effective combination of available drugs and vitamins. I hope any future COVID drug is used alongside these options, instead of a "here's an expensive drug, now go home!" Approach that some treatments take.
Drug repurposing for cancer is a neat and vaguely plausible idea that's been eating up attention and grant funding for a decade now, without any successes in clinical trials.
What's next, marking Jewish-owned businesses and LGBT-owned businesses? We don't learn from history at all, do we?
in what sense is TikTok a "propaganda outlet"?
> What are those 175 billion parameters?

> According to Geoffrey Hinton — the godfather of ‘deep learning’ — parameter can be thought of as a synapse in a human brain ...

> They’re far, far smaller, the biggest ones we have right now have about a billion synapses. That’s about a million times smaller than the brain.

So his estimate is now off by a factor of about 100? How long will it take for the next couple of 100-fold increases in parameter count?
> And a noise on twitter is heard in the corridors of power today (tomorrow it may change.)

And is listened by who? Other social media users who are equally as unlikely to get involved? This is what happened during the Blueleaks drop in my opinion.

Moreover, what is the turn-around in the news-cycle today for even 'newsworthy' events, especially when calamity and Rage are the plats du jour by the Media and served by the 100s a day.

I highly doubt you can attribute seeing police budgets get slashed if it weren't for the mass protests, and rioting in the US and the wide-spread violence we saw that followed. Claiming that Social Media's role to be anything but act as a source of the real-time video footage of these events would be really over-reaching its impact. I mean even now, as Portland has removed DHS officers, what can you say the Social Media crowds did to ensure that occurred, because it was mainly a collective of present Human will that did that from what I've seen. I'm open to be convinced, mind you, as I think IF Social Media could fulfill its potential it could be a very useful tool in Activism, instead it just seems like another apparatus of the Panopticon. Which if they can infiltrate a Telegram channel [1], just imagine what they can do on open non-encrypted mediums like Facebook/IG etc...

1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-dhs-intelligence-report-...
Which seems inept, as "Damascus steel" is a sought-after material for knife blades.
Since people are handing out general investment advice, is it possible to invest in a country? e.g., if I think Central African Republic is going to be the next South Korea over the next 20 years, how would you invest to reflect that without just investing in a specific business operating in CAR?
It’s also not uniform. If you’re in a “medical tourism city” you’re much more likely to get high quality treatment than say a regional clinic.
Time period would be a good place to start.
> They stand at 3.58% annualised, i.e your money is now 1.4x of the original amount.

Do you have a typo?
> But businesses from the US in China always require Chinese companies to operate

This is a very common misconception. It was true decades ago, when China was just beginning to open up, but over the past three decades, joint-venture requirements have been removed from most industries.
Great to hear you are able to have these kinds of decisions to make!

Maximize return needs input
* when do you plan to use the money?
* what does maximize mean to you (more money is not always what people mean: Examples maximize social good, maximize for long term use in a trust, etc)?
* what are your goals?

There are many other questions that could be asked.

Recommend you hire a fee only financial planner.

Also take a personal finance class to help you understand the different types of investments you have (cash, index funds, real estate, land, etc) and to learn how each type of investment is measured over time.

Hope you find your path to your goals :)
Are you looking to help others, or help yourself? E.g. your goal could be to help low income children have better lives.

Your goal could be to live on an island mansion in 20 years.
> ISTM that the more people push on index funds, the more overvalued equities in the index become relative to those outside the index.

What "index funds" are you referring to? The S&P 500? Dow Jones? NASDAQ 100?

If you purchase a Russell 3000 index fund you are purchasing a piece in every publicly traded company in the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_3000_Index

Any 'pricing irregularities' are discovered, then they will be pounced on any few remaining active investors. I recommend you read up on the following:

> So what would happen if the majority of investors started to buy the market and stopped trying to beat the market?

> Mispricings would start to develop regularly, and the people that had continued to try and pick stocks would be able to profit. The profits that these people made would attract other people, and eventually everyone would return to chasing the dream of beating the market. Behavioral finance plays a huge role in market efficiency; nobody wants to accept being average by taking what the market gives them when there are hot shot managers that promise to consistently beat their benchmark. There is a lot more emotional attraction to investing with the guy, or to being the guy that can beat the market.

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-grosman-stiglitz-paradox/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman-Stiglitz_Paradox
There is a tendency to fight our way out of every problem. But what we truly need is to accept the problem, take responsibility and look for the root cause.

That is true “fighting”. But most try to destroy the symptoms so they can continue their path and usually continue the root cause.

Of course finding the root cause is not easy and it takes one to study oneself

I highly recommend the following book to everyone (including the “healthy”)

The 12 Stages of Healing: A Network Approach to Wholeness
Book by Donald M. Epstein and Nathaniel Altman
That's not xenophobia, which is dislike or fear of foreigners because they're foreign. A lot of people have had similar experiences with offshoring.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia
It doesn't seem to me like current shareholders are paying a lot of attention to the fundamentals, and will be just as happy to bid the price into the stratosphere after a further dilution as they were to bid it into the stratosphere after the most recent dilution.

The fact of the matter is that the entire purpose of the stock market is supposed to be to direct capital into productive investments. There is absolutely no way that Tesla management can look at the next 10-20 years of global economic and business developments (a period in which Tesla will likely be fighting for its survival as traditional automakers finally begin to compete in the EV space) and conclude that "gosh, there is no set of circumstances in which we could execute better with a few billion dollars of additional reserve capital in the bank."
Why would you hang your career on the fate of a single language? Most of the knowledge transfers just fine between languages. Over a career you can become an expert in several of them.
Is there a reason other than naked greed, why you (philosophical 'you', not you personally) would raise your prices accordingly? Keep in mind that even as a multi-millionaire slumlord you would also receive UBI (or else it ain't universal) which is enough to cover basic food and shelter.
My lockdown project has been hacking up my CFX-9850G calculator. So far I have physically removed the ROM of the calculator and replaced it with a new ROM (I was able to get old-stock chips from aliexpress) flashed with a patched version of the original OS that includes a new BASIC command to jump to a fixed location in RAM and start executing whatever is there. This means I can write and run arbitrary machine code in the calculator’s RAM by abusing the built in backup feature. The Hitachi CPU in the calculator is quite strange but by working with the little information I can find online [1] I have written an assembler and linker for creating compatible machine code from a custom assembly language. The resulting code runs much faster than in BASIC because it doesn’t have to be interpreted. Here [2] is a video of the calculator jumping into RAM and running a Game of Life program that I wrote when Conway died. I’m currently writing code to run the 3-colour display for a replacement Forth-like shell/OS with the aim to eventually get to the point where I can replace the calculator ROM completely with my own. Writing my own mathematical functions for a calculator is fun when (AFAIK) the CPU itself lacks even multiplication opcodes.

[1] http://martin.poupe.org/casio/
[2] https://youtu.be/cTB5YM898g4
I agree with the (downvoted) guy who said, I'm an index fund skeptic.

Something is true with index funds that was less true historically, which is the concentration of a few large companies in the largest indexes - as in, the amount of percentage of capital they have. Fact, FAANG make up 10% of the s&p 500 index, tech makes up 20+ %. It's NOT at all averaged out in the way the Bogleheads might think it is. Is it a "bet on the economy," or is it a bet on the stocks of big tech?

Which brings me to something else that appears to have changed: big tech stocks are viewed as a safe haven, increasingly. With the overall economy being in a shambles combined with a virtual work world, this is even more important.

Put those two things together, and the S&P 500 index isn't diversified.

Edit: we're at the top of the cycle right now, or so it seems. We're all waiting for the other shoe to drop.

But it's worse. What happens if you stick everything in there, you need the money in 5 or 10 years and you just hit the bad part of the cycle (look what happened in March).

I'm doing the opposite of what the Bogleheads do, even though I'm extremely familiar with this extremely conservative approach. What's the fun in risking my capital with some index fund that's tied to concentrated entities like that, when I can risk a small percentage of my capital on highly volatile stocks, and make a similar return? You can repeatedly swing trade stocks like SPCE and some of the biopharma stocks and make money over and over again with a tiny percentage of your capital.

I'm more interested in understanding how the bond market will work now in this strange new reality. Are bonds not a safe haven place to park cash?
Projects of similar size in JS have hundreds of dependencies, so 52 really isn't a lot
From what I know:
Jack Dorsey closed down Vine. It wasn't destroyed by any country. Bytedance bought Musical.ly(Chinese App) and merged it with Tiktok.
I have never used either but I from what I can see is Tiktok is an evolution of Vine but not a copy. Vine was probably just too early.
Yes, prop up a system of corruption.
The quoted price is not retail, it is volume pricing at 1,000 units for direct customers.