skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im not super familiar with options so maybe I'm misunderstanding how the grant works. But the CEO hasn't actually traded anything. Isn't that a prerequisite for insider trading?
I love the US. But I am not going to remain in denial of our decline into a third world country.

If we cannot even accept where we are headed, we cannot imagine why we need to steer the ship.
Have you verified the other experts who are part of this "consensus" everyone always talks about but never measures? I would guarantee they're connected directly to the journalism / media industry, in fact it's blatantly obvious, the sources for all of those claims are not scientific in that Wikipedia section.

I mean, if there's nothing we can do about climate change and CO2 has no effect, none of them have a job either. The cycle goes [University PR] -> [Funding for the University] -> [Funding for anti-C02 efforts] -> [Paper] -> [University PR]. The process doesn't exist without the PR component which supports an entire industry. No wonder they have a consensus.

Also, I wouldn't trust the Guardian on something like this, as they're directly connected to these climatologists. You could probably prove it, but I'll have to sleep so no one will, and I'm not likely to come back here, I prefer to exist in reality, goodbye! Enjoy the coming economic doom in Silicon Valley.

> "healthy dose of climate scepticism". Beyond embarrassing and straight up evil in my eyes.

I don't take any point of view here ultimately, I keep having to reiterate that, there's a certain uncertainty to science. If it's evil in your eyes, maybe you're caught up in the middle of it. I think skepticism is important in any context as it's the opposite of dogmatism.

Anyways, I do have credentials, but it's a Friday night, if you're still interested in having a reasonable discussion I'd be happy to learn why I'm wrong.
In the USA you might also just you know, get shot.
I wonder if #8 is the issue here
I personally find lack of pricing a big barrier of entry for products I'm even willing to evaluate. Even if there's a good chance they'll be free for my use case.

I definitely understand how hard pricing is, but I think you'd be much better off taking a stab at something than leaving it completely empty.

The most fair/honest strategy in my opinion is to set some pricing in there, and grandfathering people at this price point. It gives you plenty of room to change pricing later without upsetting your early adopters (who can also be your best marketing channel).

Just my 2 cents as a co-founder of a company that introduced paid plans pretty much from day one.
Yeah you aren't trying to get it to 0% rate... you are trying to reduce it to a traceable and manageable amount...

Kind of missing the point of what it means to "get it under control"
I think thats a reflection on his thoughts on Goldman Sachs more than anything
I don't know whether it's easy to do on a MacBook, but it's more and more common to limit the state of charge of the battery to for example 80%.

Today's batteries don't like to stay fully charged for long, nor empty.
Yes, those two words appear in the article. Just once.

I feel like you are cherry picking when you call out those two words and dispense with the other 4000+

The author makes numerous excellent points.
... those aren't failed states, though? Failed state doesn't mean "shitty government" or "autocracy".
With a current release, but far enough out in the long tail of relevancy to have AmigaOS and the x86 port of VMS as neighbors.
"How many people from the 2008 crash"

Incompetence is not illegal.

And zillions of them lost their jobs.

What happened in 2008 was a kind of systematic problem, not illegal stuff by Banking execs ... mostly. A lot of the truly illegal stuff was petty: loan officers falsifying applications, individuals doing same etc..

As for the current let up in prosecutions, it's hard to tell if it's down 'because Trump appointment' or something else.

I mean 'net net' it technically went downward during Obama and may not have spiked during 2010 were it not for crises.

In the same article they indicate overall prosecutions going way up.

It could be that they are not insider trading, but moving on to other crimes.
It's interesting how the costs of collectivism are consistently pinned on individualism.

We get to this place because people see obvious wrong being done and say "it's such a shame the government hasn't done anything about this" instead of doing anything about it themselves. It's a complete abdication of the role of the individual in being a force for good in the world, i.e. the opposite of individualism.

And on the other side, individuals as members of large organizations are denied the ability to make positive change, because anyone close enough to the ground to see the problems is too far from the top to have the authority to do anything about them. Whereas if we actually had individual autonomy then people who see problems could fix them instead of standing around wishing somebody else would do what they would do if they were allowed to do it.
Are you seriously suggesting that when Democritus referred to "uncuttable things", he meant to describe particles that would in the future be named after his work rather than to describe particles that were indivisible?
Order as humans understand it is different from physical order. We see order as an array of ascending numbers or a house of cards. The universe sees order more like a state of 'useful' energy, where it's possible to extract it, and seemingly became ordered by putting energy in. This is why I think the information theory definition of entropy is a bit misleading.

I like to see it as a radioactive atom, which starts as a useful structure with potential energy that has an inherent timer until this energy is lost due to the universe wanting to return to equilibrium. So it's statistically extremely unlikely to get the atom back to its original energetic state by nature, but not because because it's literally impossible, it's just impossible to do this without putting energy back in and that's not something that happens naturally.

A reversal of entropy is entirely possible, it's just called doing work. Of course, we don't have the knowledge necessary to reverse each individual atom in the melting process of an ice cube, but one day we might. It's theoretically possible with enough work. Of course, there will always be a loss of energy, but i'm pretty sure that's an entirely different thermodynamic law.
It sounds like you would give the article a B-

Not exactly a train wreck then.
But Microsoft made the OS, hence why shouldn’t the user trust their neatly-integrated browser? The analogy still holds.
> The standard usecase of a sync API backed by a local DB with low request latency is typically going to be compute-bound.

> This is covered in the Django async docs

Where is this mentioned in the linked docs? I see four mentions of the ORM in the linked pages, including where it says they are working on async ORM, but I see nothing about performance for the ORM typically being compute bound.
I don't know much about work visas, but 2-3 Canadian folks I know hold or have held H-1B visas.

Reading this page[1], which was the top result after maybe three seconds of Googling, indicates that holders of TN visas cannot have "immigrant intent," which many of my acquaintances do.

[1] https://lightmanimmigration.com/tn-visa-or-h-1b-visa/
I personally see collectivism as a vestigial trait some people are left with from a time when it actually mattered for survival. Studies have even shown it to be a largely genetic trait. When we lived in small tribes, the fate of the collective directly affected my ability to reproduce. Today, it makes very little difference, and is largely illogical.

Call me a nihilist, but I don’t particularly care about people I don’t personally know. I honestly think it’s unhealthy to do so, particularly in the age of mass media. If you’re worried about 7 billion people you will never find happiness.
Political donations are a matter of public record in US, so yes - we as a society have decided that we do want to know and judge.
Buffet was commenting on the social absurdity of the situation, but that has little bearing on his investment strategies. Money is money, and I'm sure Buffet has similar contempt for quite a few industries he's invested in.
He has investment managers who can make independent decisions. Selling out of GS is obviously his move. Buying a gold miner? We can't be sure.
You can easily avoid homoglyph attacks or similar stuff by following the relevant unicode security considerations. I'm on
Moderately Restrictive level for General Security Profile for identifiers.
http://perl11.org/blog/unicode-identifiers.html

Forbidding mixed scripts fixes this attack. You also need to normalized names, and a few more minor things.
Alright. Let's wait until we become one for my comment to stand true.

Jeez. Instead of being pedantic about textbook definitions, just look at where we are headed. The head of state wants to obstruct voting to usurp power.
I'd assume that many people view it as an honor and a credential.
Gold is currently at all time high so he may alrady have won on it.
"Trying to do an election by mail, last minute"

It seems like you're implying that there is some negligence or conspiracy. No one could have predicted that United State's Covid response would be so poor. That realization only came about in May when we tried to reopen too early.

Mail was delivering fine 6 months ago. Can you cite any sources that study the infrastructure problems of the USPS?
Berkshire's public equity holdings are worth about $215bn. The Barrick position represents about 0.25% of that. It really isn't a big deal.

Aside from Buffett, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler each have about $10bn to invest - it is entirely possible that they made this investment without consulting Buffett (they don't have to ask for permission). In the past they've also bought Amazon - another non-Buffett pick.
Not always, the fat that gets trimmed is what makes things enjoyable in the first place.
Both sides may be able to agree that the COVID crisis is being used to usher in new norms.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/covid-19-the-great-re...
Show HN: Simple C# Microservice app on Docker
Mmmmm.... call it a C-. Some paragraphs are train-wrecks. There's about 1/3 of an only-semi-interesting but not-actually-bad article in here if you cut it down, maybe.
I think we can all agree that whether a human lives is not comparable to jamming fish in one's gullet.
I can relate very much. In my company I am working on a complex distributed component as single dev. I have created exactly what the article mentioned: overly complex structure, which I can hardly understand and surely nobody else will.

How can one train to write well structured, easily understandable code? It is not just code, also overall architecture and data flow.
> There aren't enough people willing to pay for a web browser in 2020.

As one said, their problems didn't start in 2020. Honestly, Firefox should have fought tooth and nail to be THE embeddable browser. We should not be embedding Blink/WebKit but Gecko or Servo.

It should have fought Google in EU, but kinda hard to do that when you depend on them.

The reason they got checkmated weren't made now, but several years before.
There’s also a difference between buying gold and investing in a gold miner: the former is purely speculative while the latter can provide a stream of income.
He's not buying actual gold; he's buying into a gold mining company.
Huh. At this point I'm quite curious if I know you.
Nice article, but I wonder what author would say about working with ORMs. When objects represent database tables it's not as easy to extract attributes into objects. Every extract, rename or move is a database migration, when you probably want to keep the old columns around for a bit in case things go wrong. With author's philosophy in mind it feels it's quite easy to bury yourself in that process instead of adding direct business value.
My first thought was that this couldn't possibly be hedge funds reaping the gains of a Republican government because the hedge business is doing pretty miserably. How could their funds be collapsing and still be insider traders?

But thinking about it further, there is still a category of hedge funds at the absolute top like Lone Pine, Viking, and D1 that are doing exceptionally well. D1 is newer but the others continue to defy the odds year after year while their peers collapse.

And I could probably name 20 funds in total like that. So maybe fewer funds are participating but they are doing it better?
The problem with group DMs in slack is that they are almost always better off as a channel - you can’t really add new people to a group DM. So you’re forced to decide if you should make a channel or not right at the beginning.

Group DMs can also have usability problems, and they tend to clog up the UI of slack. I currently have 5 or 6 group DMs going that all have at least one of the same people in all of them, so now when I use the quick switcher I see all of those. Some of them even have 2 of the same people in them - it makes it really easy to select the wrong group.
Hmmm...

"Look! I've reduced complexity; decreasing the number of object members by increasing the number of classes...

This only works if I don't need to think about the new objects much.
It is may look like the reasonable compromise on the surface but it really isn't.

Manifestos are about principles not pragmatic approaches, taking a stance is not free or easy, look at the stance RMS takes on open source and GPL for example. Had RMS and other pioneers in the open source movement did not take such ideologically driven stance at the expense of pragmatism , we may have parts of BSD maybe today but not the GPL driven open source ecosystem that all of us benefit from, even now it costs open source a lot look at linux and zFS .

You can apply the same argument with Google early on, they were hugely influential in reducing the amount and type of ads we were forced to see. They have developed great open source projects and provided a lot of good quality free services all funded by ad revenue, how is it really different from Mozilla then ? so should I see only those contributions and ignore what Google really does on privacy ?

Being uncompromising in the face of great difficulty is the only way of real, sustainable change and revolutionize how things work, had Google stuck to "Do no Evil"(whatever that meant to them) no one would worry about using Chrome, if organizations loose focus they only really exist to make money for employees/ shareholders/ management.

Also this is not sustainable model, that search revenue is going to keep dropping as they keep loosing market share, inevitably they are either going to drop Firefox altogether or going to base it of Chrome and shelve most of the team. If Microsoft cannot afford to develop Edge as separate browser, how long Firefox will last in this structure ?

We are better off forking off in a community funded model before the inevitable happens and try to build a sustainable project around that. There are enough companies who can donate few million dollars a year each to make sure Google is not the only player in town. Wikipedia raises more than $120 M / year, it is not inconceivable, that Moz foundation can raise a reasonable amount to fund the development of the key projects.
I attended a private college. Not only did I have to live on campus for all four years, but additionally, they forced you to purchase the meal plan. I made most of my meals myself; nonetheless, I had no choice but to pay for the meal plan.
All half-dozen of us thank you for thinking of us. ;)
Gcp doesn’t have a 1st party Kafka offering. Confluent cloud is still 3rd party just with some nice integrations with GCP.

If you have an issue it’s not GCP support or GCP’s eng job to fix the cluster. There’s real service uptime implications of this.
You missed this:

> I’ll also give a shout-out to our friends in the Operating Systems business: Windows, Linux, NOT APPLE FUCK YOU APPLE, FreeBSD, and so on, for doing such a great job of backwards compatibility on their successful platforms.

I share your desire for stability. I don't necessarily mind frequent updates for security reasons, but I'm getting to the point where if things are changing in big ways often, I'm just not going to use it --- I no longer find enjoyment in running on the upgrade treadmill, it's just work.

That said, I don't see a lot of hope for our outlook. Most people don't seem to have a concept of completable software. It would be nice if it were bug free, but getting to the point where the cost to fix bugs compares to the cost of leaving bugs as known issues is doable.
It’s not a USPS infrastructure problem, it’s a verification infrastructure problem. At least in my state, the only identity verification is a. the ballot is delivered to your registered address and b. you sign it.

I for example could easily vote for my invalid parent.

Would you trust someone signing into your server where the only verification was a password you mailed to their house unencrypted?
How does partnering with Pocket promote the open web? How does the iRobot stunt align with the manifesto?

Mozilla use to live and breath the open web, now they are just empty platitudes like Facebook and Google's commitment to privacy.
If someone didn’t have to commute or work a lot of hours in a part time job, they should have more than enough time to do those things while studying enough. Or maybe they prefer to hit the gym, there are lots of options.
Games have always had this dilemma. Content creators and level makers will simply try to push in as much as they possibly can until something says stop. Historically this has been the size of one CD but nowadays there are no such clearly defined limits.

If the engine starts compressing better then the map creators will just use that newly gained savings to add even more content.
Those climate events are worth studying but may have been regional instead of global in scope.
Worse compared to what? Compared to living together and attending class in person it's an improvement.
Now all we need is the acceptance of different brain types
OpenVMS on x86
> Relaxed atomics translate to native loads and stores

Native loads and stores with lock... and that is on x86. https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/asKna4 Definitely not the same as a native operation.

> In theory there is no cost to them

This isn't theory though.

> apart from the compiler barrier which prevents other loads/stores from moving past them, depending on the case

Why apart from? Why not include this obvious deficiency? It's a legitimate objection and a pretty important component to my point you can't just brush aside out of inconvenience.

> For larger objects, std::atomic uses a mutex, so it's kind of silly anyway. If you wanted a mutex, better to make it explicit.

Better in your eyes. Clearly not in the standard writers', or they wouldn't have introduced the functionality. My only point is if people do decide to use it (the reasons not being the subject of this debate), they come across this shortcoming.
You want a study about something nobody has observed?
Some public universities do that as well.
'I mean, if there's nothing we can do about climate change and CO2 has no effect, none of them have a job either.'

Sure they would. Sorry, but this argument is simply void, and to be frank, stupid.

Do you really think these people are so dumb that the only job they can do is program massive climate models?
Brave does (did?) not allow creators to opt-out of donation collection and by default opts them in. This means you as a user may think you are donating to your favorite creator but in fact Brave is just holding on to the money.

https://nulltx.com/brave-browser-draws-criticism-over-lack-o...
Search for "king tide", it's a relatively exceptional event and South Florida infrastructure is notorious for flooding during them.

When you build static stairs to a beach, you build them to access the beach under the prevailing conditions for most of the year.

This leads to submerged stairs during exceptional king tides, unless you want to make an articulated ramp to a floating dock. Guess which one costs more to build and replace every hurricane season.

If you build stairs to simply stop at the height of the highest king tide, you'll have a hazardous drop to the beach under normal conditions.

Do you recall what month it was?
Personal experience: I have to support an internal tool for a company in app engine. The contract is part time and I have to prioritize what issues to fix. The answer is usually "those caused by Google deprecating something". The nosql db some hyped individual has chosen years ago - "deprecated, we don't bother with solving bugs there". Email service: "it is in python2, but not in python3, look for management approval to use external service". File storage: "this library is deprecated, use whatever service is fancy now". Task queues: "nope, we are changing the api and calling it cloud tasks now, so please refactor all of your files to use the new semantics".

The list goes on and on.
Correct. The walking speed bonuses are:

30% faster for stone brick, 40% faster for concrete, 50% faster for refined concrete

Speed bonuses also apply to cars/exoskeletons making overall travel faster.
"In tandem with the usual electromagnetic pulses used to control quantum systems, the team applied an additional continuous alternating magnetic field. By precisely tuning this field, the scientists could rapidly rotate the electron spins and allow the system to "tune out" the rest of the noise."

It sounds a lot like stimulated emission/absorption.
"It's us" could use much more work. Suppose you could make the case

1. It's warming.
2. It's not us.
3. We're sure.
4. It's bad.
5. We can fix it.

What would be different? That point speaks exclusively to the morality of the issue (It's us: environmentalists are noble! - It's not us: environmentalists are evil!), not to what's happening or what should be done.
Again, what I see is Friedman and Simpson asking for fairly specific and concrete things, and those things not being provided.

More to the point, what I asked for in my previous comment has also not been provided! What does the knowledge that Sets are "just 0-categories" buy me in concrete terms? Does it facilitate the proof of any theorems in set theory?
"It's a mix of a pretty good cataloguing of disparate bad-sounding stats and figures about the US, many bad/misleading instances of same (any time there's a bad-sounding—or good-sounding, for that matter—stat missing any frame of reference, I get twitchy, and this has plenty), some dull and overstated predictions about the future, and some lazy narrative-building."

I see what you're saying. To me, this article is not about building a case for America's failed state. It's an argument for the perceived loss of American leadership around the world. Given that conclusion, the stats he chooses are exactly the ones on people's minds around the world.

Talking to my friends in China and Singapore, the George Floyd protests often come up as the US descending into chaos. There are comparisons to Hong Kong. Regardless of the faulty perception outside of the US, that perception shapes our leadership abilities. This article perfectly reflects what I've been hearing from overseas.
Id rather they just automatically replace ad units on websites with their own adnetwork making money that way.

Before you have a whinge about that idea, realise that google effectively does this already.

All it would take is for Firefox to say fuck it, you want to serve ads to our users? Fine, but you sell adunits through our network that is focused on privacy, not the network through Google or Facebook.
Nodding Brit nods