skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would tend to agree with this but there are also stories of successful non technical co-founders who managed to pull it off, although it could be selection bias. Airbnb is an obvious one but another example is DiDi in China. Their story was pretty crazy, they outsourced the production to a third party and that company outsourced it to another company who apparently found some university professor who asked his grad students to build it as an assignment or something. Then they took the shitty app and ran around trying to get investors and I guess in the end they pulled it off
I don't read Twitter... I especially don't read the President's tweets.
Look in to opportunities for syndicated real estate investing.

You could also pursue investing in multifamily homes given you live in the Midwest.
So is Facebook temporary and TikTok is going to take over or is Facebook here to stay and TikTok is temporary? This seems like a zero-sum game for the most part.
This isn't laughing, it's desperation. Either they get bought now or they lose everything. India already banned them and they're terrified of a repeat.

I think over time social networks have found more stable userbases. Facebook isn't going anywhere, neither are Instagram or (unless the feds intervene) TikTok. It's not like it was in the early days where everyone abandoned the old platform, because the new one was so much better.
I'm happy to go through these in some depth, but the most obvious first response to this is, 1991... Is the landscape of 1991 the same as the landscape of 2020, with its 10% of the s&p in just a few companies, with Robin Hood kids, with money printing, with Seeking Alpha and information overload? Talk shows about stocks and news algorithms pumping stocks to the masses?

Some of your links are for active fund managers versus passive fund managers. Again, a red herring. No, there's not JUST a choice between bogleheading and day trading, and none of us here are active fund managers? Are fund managers (who have clients) compared to the likes of you and me ?

Some individual stocks you buy for the long term, others you trade short term. And sometimes, you can long a stock but only trade a percentage of the holding. You can keep it for a day or for years.
It's even worse: the people initially sorting applications are usually HR contractors. They give what they thought is a good selection of resumes to the recruiters, who do further selection, maybe some contacts, and give their picks to the hiring manager.

This is an important distinction because unlike recruiters, who are usually somewhat familiar with the company business and can recognize if not technical details then experience (e.g "Oh, this guy worked for 10 years at the shop known for its high standards!"), contractors are generic clerks who have no idea what anything in the resume means. They are given some words to look for at best.

In my opinion, submitting through web portals/jobs@ emails is already a losing proposition. I can recall many cases when I've done this, got no response, then a couple years later the same company's recruiters would hound me. I'd been quite successful when I went through an internal referral or directly through a recruiter. But, if you really have no choice and go through the web then the best strategy is to stand out with anything that can catch attention of a completely non-technical person reviewing your application. A cover letter is a strong move in this case. And keyword stuffing is also important for passing the first stage.
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China's spent the last decade or so repositioning itself in the global manufacturing chain to be closer to the US's position. ie. using it's manufacturing and logistics experience and capital to create Chinese brands that they can control and be known for. And as a corollary, less of an emphasis on bottom of the barrel manufacturing as a commodity. Essientially they want to be known for brands with higher quality like western brands are, _and_ keep high skill manufacturing like Foxconn, but push out low skill manufacturing to the south China Sea and eventually to along their belt and road initiative (and maybe Africa). They really want no part of low margin manufacturing anymore, having developed enough for it not to be worth it for them.

You can see the main thrust of this initiative under the "Made in China 2025" initiative.
Grub simple?

If you want simple use systemd-boot. It's a hell of a lot leaner than grub ever was. The config is sane and doesn't require a billion additional modules to be installed.

It should be the default at this point, especially after all of this fiasco.
I think that even Google can not save 1PB/s in 2020.
I really do like argparse.

It will cleanly do just about anything you need done, including nice stuff like long/short options, default values, required options, types like type=int, help for every option, and even complicated stuff like subcommands.

And the namespace stuff is clever, so you can reference arg.debug instead of arg['debug']
I don't see how any kind of dataflow analysis could capture for example accessing thread stack from another thread. Just too many ways to get the pointer.
> load some bitcoin in and short with 100x leverage

Sounds like a great way to have a crooked exchange make you insolvent very quickly. Be very careful using any kind of leverage.
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>This is how the internet is meant to work. A bunch of equal nodes.

Things evolve, things change, we learn, we adapt.

Many world governments will happily track down a dissident by their ip, kidnap them in broad daylight and then torture them. Just because you're not one of them doesn't mean those people don't exist and don't have real concerns.
I’m in the exact same boat!
> The goal is to make the land unattractive unless you optimize the use of the land and build high density.

That's right and it should be that way. The value of the land is a function of the success of the local community - it shouldn't be captured by a private investor while workers continue to pay income taxes to service and improve that land.

But if your only objection is that elderly/disabled landowners shouldn't be pressured to pay taxes many states already have laws like that in place, eg
https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/ptr/
Yeah the TikTok core audience and the Hacker News crowd have maybe a 1% overlap.
Look up "nouveau signed firmware". Phoronix has a bunch of articles on it. The Nouveau developers also talk about it at FOSDEM 2018 (and probably a later conference). This comment is a good intro: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

TL;DR starting with the 9xx series, Nvidia started making it so their GPUs would only run firmwares signed by them (likely to prevent counterfeits, i.e. 2060s sold as 2080s). So it is impossible to control the fans and reclock the GPU. There's no workaround, so even as the person who owns the device, I can't run my own firmware. AMD has signed firmwares too, but they actually release sufficient blobs to fully run the device.
arguably sovereign property doesn't exist in China
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Intel's i860 was released in 1986, that evolved to the i740 in 1996, and later on to the KNC, KNLs, Xeon Phis, etc.

The >= KNC products have all been "one generation behind" the competition. When the Intel Xe is released, Intel will have been trying to enter this market for about 30 years.

This market is more important now than ever before. I hope that they keep pushing and do not axe the Intel Xe after the first couple of generations only to realize 10 years later that they want to try again.
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If it’s all in the market, most wisdom says you can take out 4% a year and never run dry. Is 4% of your stash enough to live on? Congratulations you are financially independent. You can read through mr money mustache if you want more depth..
http://archive.is/cIJxe
So? You could have dumped money into ANY of the big tech four months ago and been up WAY more than 30%. The S&P500 index alone is up more than 30% since the crash.

Bitcoin peaked at 20k in December of 2017, and dropped to $3100 exactly a year later. Seems like anyone investing at the top, and there were LOTS of inexperienced mom and pops doing so, are down at minimum 50%. Without any type of dividends or stock in a real company.
Hey! No need to apologize! Just wanted to offer you a different perspective.
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> the willingness of the Federal reserve to print money (create debt). Without restraint nowadays.

Ben Felix, a portfolio manager at PWL Capital in Canada, just released a video explaining why this is completely wrong:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lP3BhvnSo

> Quantitative easing is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys government bonds or other financial assets in order to inject money into the economy to expand economic activity. But what exactly does that mean? In today’s episode, Benjamin and Cameron are going to address this topic, avoiding highly politicized aspects, like whether or not central banks should be involved in the economy in the first place, and focusing purely on the operational perspective of quantitative easing – what is it, how it works, and what the intended transmission mechanisms are.

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/109

> For instance, house flipping or starting a business. You can get better than the 5% or whatever you get after inflation in stocks. If you're really good at what you do, your odds of getting a better return go up.

That's nice if you want a different/second career or something. But there are those of us who are happy with our careers/jobs, and simply want something to do with our retirement savings… ain't nobody got time for that.

Of course the half-life on any new business is quite abysmal, so I'm not crazy/ambitious enough to take on that kind of risk.
Yeah it's up to the person using it to store them sensibly. I use an ECS so they are mostly all contiguous. I think that the pointer hurts the cache for the fist iterations, but once the whole array is cached I think the pointer becomes ok.

There is still that indirection though :(
Fair point, however it was blasted all over CNBC and etc, maybe I need to read the news less and my programming reference manuals more as a better use of my time
your partner is lucky to have an advocate to help navigate a very frustrating system. Take notes, get your questions answered, and keep records of every visit/drug/person.
I still see the link in the link in the English version https://imgur.com/a/GqrwNkc Perhaps you fixed the French version?
At first I was surprised that they don't use edge caching: it seems that all requests get proxied to a backend server, which use just two redis servers as a shared cache. A global internet site can't get good performance this way: RTT between NYC and Sydney is >200ms, so even if your application is lightning fast, it's going to feel slow to users in many parts of the world.

Digging around a bit, it seems that they do use Fastly for edge CDN: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overfl....

Still, it's an impressively lean stack.
Surprised to see such low peak ops/sec on HAProxy
currency != value
Seems like the high-level lesson is that tagged unions as traditionally implemented can be vulnerable in a manner that pointer/address-focused mitigations don’t affect?
FOO is Salesforce.
BAR will be my future start-up. After the IPO I will make sure that Salesforce acquires all our shares and your example will become the ultimate example for finance or stock text books.
and according to many, his election was partially a result of foreign tampering
The historic worst case for the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 is not being up from 1929 - 1987 - 58 years.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...

Edit: This ignores dividend reinvestment as ummonk noted.
https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1900 suggests 1929 - 1944 was probably the longest time.

We are in unprecedented times. Highest debt, lowest bond yields, crazy P/Es, historic GDP drop (worst since 1929, or since WW2 for some). We don't yet know how inflation/deflation will play out. CPI is useless. A lot "inflation" is going into real estate / land and the stock market.

I don't think past wisdom applies anymore. If you put money into most products (including most index funds) on the stock market today you are in fact stock-picking / gambling.

Also tech companies are partially up for a good reason.
Small caps have lost a lot earnings power.
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/128335311697343283...
Much much more than tech stocks.
E.g. tech stocks were almost the only ones doing any buybacks last quarter.
Stay-at-home companies, solid/value companies, and cheap stocks is where hedgefunds seem to move to. But yes, some valuations are bonkers. EV stocks, CVNA, W, ...

Personally, I've been late to the party, and needed to learn on the fly, BUT:
I now own a portion of gold and royalty and streaming companies (mining exposure with less risk of badly run mining companies. They lend money to miners in return for metal. I.e. miners don't need to worry about the price of the metal.)
Mind that GLD and SLV are not fully backed by gold and silver. There is significant counter-party risk (E.g. if the bank goes bankrupt you might not receive anything). They also haven't really been audited, and JP Morgan employees have been charged for price manipulation of metals.

I reduced my bond exposure, and I will probably soon move into gov bonds exclusively. I don't want to gamble on MBSs, CLOs, corporate bonds being bailed out. (The Fed and ECB's policies skew the bond market. Ratings and yields are (increasingly) not great indicators of company health).
There is little room for lower yields.
Real yields (bond yield - inflation) will turn negative or are already.
When rates eventually will be hiked, both stocks and bonds will fall. (See 2019 / December 2019)

I started stock picking. Mainly value, but really random stuff I find on Youtube investment channels and Reddit (Of course I read up on them, listen to financial calls. Balance sheet. Cash flow. Exposure to potential problems.).
I sleep better at night with a cheaper stock that has less downside, even if it isn't riding the current trend/bubble.

Other than that I'd keep a good amount of cash for potential opportunities. In the current climate, stocks could fall any week, real estate will likely be on sale (depending on how many rich people will try scoop it up at the same time), or perhaps you can buy a share in a local business.
I had no idea Donald Knuth towers over most at a height of 6’4. Wow
YOLO Tesla call options - Pretty obvious. Or Kodak, both great companies.
> Keeping spyware-collected data of private citizens out of the hands of antagonistic authoritarian regimes seems like an appropriate use of regulation, no?

Possibly, yes. And if your goal was actually to fight authoritarianism, you’d be sure to pass these regulations in some sort of democratic process. You’d send it through Congress and give the people’s elected representatives a chance to weigh in. You wouldn’t use an executive order outside of very extreme, time-sensitive circumstances, if you actually gave a shit about fighting authoritarianism.
Jobs positions must be posted in the official thread. Wait until Monday and read the instructions.
1) Create a virtual environment. python3 -m venv myproject (download an interpreter).

2) Run pip install. myproject/bin/activate; pip install requirements.txt; (download all project dependencies).

3) Start the application. myproject/bin/activate; python myapp.py

If you can assume that there is an interpreter available on the system, say /usr/bin/python3, you can use that instead of creating a virtual environment.

If you want to embed all the dependencies, you can save all the files created by pip install in the /lib directory if I remember the name well.

Should I write a full blog post with example? I used to deploy python applications in a bank, can explain all the advanced usage with and without internet access, with and without dependencies.
There’s already a story about Venmo seizing money from someone who used “ISIS beer funds” in a comment: https://www.inverse.com/article/13700-i-wrote-isis-beer-fund...
yeah but my US bank cards don't support it :( if I pay with my European cards people freak out ("WHAT IS THIS!!!")
How Kenya's print media is trying to remain relevant
Caveat emptor is the status quo, not the ideal.
DMCA is for one. I am not sure for "national security" reasons what options would be. It is definitely challenging to come up with excuses within rules of law. I would imagine that some combinations of failures to meet FCC regulation and "immediate" national security threat probably would do the trick. There is no guarantee that Apple AppStore or Google Play Store won't make a stand and challenge these requests in court though.
One of the commonly expressed intents for buying indices is lazy diversification. By having vastly unevenly-weighted indices, one fails to accomplish that aim.

Assuming diversification is the goal, your comment would only be true (that 1+1 and 2 are equivalent) if the constituent parts of hyper-scale companies operated independently. In reality, I'd say that rarely happens.

At best, you get something like Facebook (there can only be so many true chiefs). At worst, you get something like GE (cannibalizing viable businesses to feed others).

And all of this is to say nothing of that fact that, historically, Amazons don't become 2x Amazons with the frequencies that {mid-cap} become {large cap}, simply by virtue of total addressable market maximums in mature business areas.
One more to add is Reddit's Personal Finance, where this question gets asked a lot. The wiki (second link, search for Windfall) esp has a number of great articles on topics like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index
You're conflating index funds with S&P 500 Index funds, though. You can buy an index fund with _zero_ tech stocks. You can buy something like VINIX which has considerably less weight on the BigN tech firms.
A US passport won’t let you in right now?
No it doesn’t, He mentions His reasoning. Nothing in His reasoning gave off the vibe that he is afraid of others because they are different.
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One day... Once I understand what the hell a jacobian matrix is. I do want that stack of boxes :)
For future reverse-engineering, I think the biggest problem will be imaging. I can study processors up to about 1980 with an inexpensive microscope. But chips with two layers (or more) of metal are much harder to examine, because the metal layers block each other. And once transistors get too small for optical microscopes (1990s), you need an electron microscope, which is a much bigger investment. (Although there are hobbyists who have one.)

The other factor is understanding. A chip like the Z-80 is simple enough that one person can understand it completely. I doubt any single person at Intel understands everything about the Xeon, since it is so complex. And it's much harder to understand the chip from reverse engineering.

(That assumes the goal of reverse engineering is to understand the chip. Emulating the chip is a different story, since you don't need to understand what's going on. In other words, it's the difference between understanding how the 6502 works and looking at the visual 6502 simulator.)

As for software, I've hacked up various tools for my reverse engineering. I draw out the chip layers manually and then feed the layers into a program that finds transistors and connected components, so I have a raw connection map. Then another program finds all the gates. From that point, it's mainly manual, tracing out the gates and trying to figure out what they are doing. I'll make one-off scripts to help with various things. For instance, when I figure out how the chip implements a latch, I'll write a program to scan for latches. One of the biggest problems is errors, since I'll miss connections, short wires together, or so forth. Even if I'm 99% accurate, the 8086 has 29,000 transistors so there are a lot of errors. So I spend a lot of time looking at circuitry that makes no sense, then realizing that I left out a wire or something.
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> Even if you only invested in the peaks, you'd still do quite well over the decades:

This is not true for a 10 years period though

https://www.vizlit.com/finance/2020/07/01/sp-performance.htm...

You might to add that even though in the past economic growth has always been the case, it doesn't mean it will always be the case, especially now that the energy consumption more or less reached a peak
My mom was just told she has likely incurable pancreatic cancer, so I’m right there with you.

It’s frustrating because my sense is either due to doctors desensitization, or due to economics of cancer treatment, my mom feels like a commodity to them. Not a focus. As my mom said “this probably happened because they didn’t do chemo for 4 months before surgery”. I get a sense of “shrug” or business as usual from the docs. Now its moves into ongoing treatment. Because it’s the right thing? Because the hospital makes money from more chemo?

The whole thing leaves me feeling rather cynical
I am more interested to know how you cut up the actual content. A user from Japan liked a video from an American user a year ago, what happens to that? Are the users still on the same tiktok shard? Do we somehow remove all foreign interaction from the American shard? Do users from Canada get to choose which shard to go with?
This is all for a single site (location) though right? I wonder how many backup AZs they have and how they’re replicating across zones.

It’s surprisingly less infrastructure then I was imagining.
Fair enough, but cancer is a broad term. There are still many cancers where the only treatment is basically poison, irridation and/or butchery/mutilation. Hopefully that improves soon.

I'm guessing future history will reflect on how dark all of this was.
Ask HN: What Are Why Microsoft Would Buy TikTok?
Move them to Azure?
Says the type of person who thinks Europe is a country. I mean, this is amazingly ignorant even by HN standards.
Yes, and not only that, but the index funds a skewed towards entities with large market caps.

Someone could make their own "index fund" with 10% of it allocated to FAANG, maybe 20% of it in the largest tech names overall, and then a distribution of the largest market cap names, and lo and behold, one has an s&p 500 "index fund". Tesla's about to be added to the S&P 500. There are strong opinions on both sides - it's going up, no, it's going down. You don't have much of a choice if you're a Boglehead who bought into the S&P 500, you're just in it for the ride.
The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban
but what happens to past data