skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative assets are less risky, because they have less market exposure, and when uncorrelated (or less correlated) return streams are mixed together, the volatility of the portfolio is reduced.

It's very common that a shitty investment with high volatility and low returns can actually improve the risk adjusted returns of a portfolio. Like gold, for example.

Also, hedge funds are significantly less risky than holding the S&P 500, since most funds have less than 100% net long exposure. And market neutral funds have 0% net long exposure.
Sun or SGI used to do approximately that. They sold downclocked/locked core chips that could later be unlocked for a fee (from memory, time-limited fee).
Doesn’t herd immunity for a country of 350 million need somewhere on the order of 220 million to have been exposed and recovered? I don’t think we’re anywhere near that yet.
I don’t see how that could possibly work, unless your goal is to create brain dead monkeys.
I think a lot of people didn't understand or know about how the eBay auctions worked [0]. I only learned about eBay being a second price auction, effectively, ages after eBay was a thing. Without knowing how the proxy system works doing an auction would be pretty frustrating because it'd look like you were usually instantly outbid.

[0] At least the later version I don't know if they used a different scheme earlier. They must have because the sniping services that existed in early eBay don't really make sense with proxy bids.
Thanks for the question. So a pretty big difference from the outset is the type of customer we focus on (again, correct me if Learnworlds is different).

Where Learnworlds is focused on creators who want to build courses that are asynchronous. We are focusing on live instruction particularly with businesses that have already been handling live instruction so teams of tutors, trainers, teachers, and coaches.

In many ways Learnworlds is quite similar to Kajabi, Teachable, and a whole host of other great tools for building online courses.

In our case, we started with thinking about existing businesses where a primary concern is team management as the instruction is live. Coordinating live instruction already requires a pretty different software stack from an online course.

In a coaching business of twenty tutors, you have to manage twenty instructor schedules against schedules for your students, figure who is owed what, who you have to bill, and provide space for live online instruction.

The last few months, particularly in New York, have made this coordination problem far worse as these businesses look to move online while trying to keep their branding and identity front-and-center.

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Now a number of our users have already asked to be able to sell online courses/materials, and we have been experimenting with blending asynchronous online courses with live instruction, so it’s on the roadmap. Right now, however, our focus is uniquely bringing existing businesses with live instruction online.
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Some of these large asset managers are awful. Last time I was looking at the people managing California Public Employee Retirement System fund, and it was making abysmal moves all over the place. I felt sorry for the people with their savings there.
Thank you, until now I was totally unaware of such systems.

But good to have things stored locally than to have them uploaded anywhere to then be used for some analysis (puah, probably a point to be discussed).

Personally I'm OK if used for&against the driver (from a technical perspective, not as souce of abolute truth) if the duration of the recordings are short.
You’ve got to think of all the people a teacher teaches to over their career and the strength of the interaction. Yes entertainers can make a song that winds up with astronomical airtime. But teachers inform how people think throughout their entire lives.
Agreed. But it's also because Elastic and ElasticSearch aren't the same thing. You probably want https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elasticsearch-7-9-0
I'd love to see a non-Fastmail writeup of using JMAP - I was seeing if I could implement push notifications for certain emails coming in and it looks like I'd need to handle the entire mailbox.
I don't like the BBC because of its political slant, but in this case I feel their reporting it verbatim accurately absolutely helps the cause against racism. That's my problem with suppressing hate speech. Best way to get rid of it is to keep the people who deploy it out in the open, where the free market of ideas will dispatch with them efficiently. It's how someone like Daryl Davis can literally change the world:

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...
In this forum we should assume good faith nonetheless.

The flu certainly makes for a better comparison for discussion's sake than something like smallpox or the bubonic plague. Let's not forget the Spanish flu was also a flu.
Temporal/Cadence provide unit testing framework that automatically skips time when workflow is blocked. So you can unit test using standard language frameworks (like mockito) to inject all sort of failures. And the tests execute in milliseconds even for very long running workflows.
A lot of power poles have been replaced recently in my town and surrounding area. Most of the newer poles are a bit taller. Some of the A shaped towers were replaced with giant poles. Some giant wooden poles were replaced with towers. For the most part, the changes were aesthetically pretty minimal. Not a single one of the new towers has cameras, a smart LED street light, cellular stations, or sizeable advertising displays.

Most of those other things, I have seen, but on different projects lol. Like the LED street lamps have been phased in on most streets out here over the past few years. They also upgraded the light-up street signs to have LEDs and replaced the yellowed, cracked, faded glass with shiny new glass.

All of those things were super solid improvements though.

Of course, we could just act like the town is evil, defund everything, and then have them sell the rights-of-way to companies that would almost certainly squeeze the blood out of the infrastructure and place advertising on it.

Maybe they'd put cameras and use machine learning to determine which streets are the busiest, and find out more about the demographics of people who walk the street, so they can decide how long to leave the lights on - oh and sell that data to further profit lol.
I've seen this strategy around the web on reddit and bogleheads and I appreciate the sentiment, but 2020 has made me more aware of risk than ever before.

I feel like the past decade has given investors a false sense of confidence about their stomach for risk. Especially young investors who enter the market AFTER 2008. On top of that, the extremely risky options available on platforms like robinhood make investing in 100% stocks look like a risk-averse choice.

Sure, if you're 22 100% VTSAX is reasonable. But I feel like this approach is too common given the risk involved. Staying the course with an asset allocation you can stomach is more important than potential for gains
What if the table names were generated automatically instead of allowing you to specify them? That way the "lupiform" table is talking about Javascript while the "wortle" table is all about cooking.
If they made any guarantees about profit that would be breaking securities laws, so what case could he have?
Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power.

Ibid., Book 1, Chapter 5.
> What are the most likely vectors of information disclosure or alteration in the cloud? Is it Ninjas descending on us-east-1a to steal the hard-drives your data is stored on?

Why doesn't AWS use full disk encryption everywhere, such that the ninjas would find only random-looking data once they plugged the drives into the machines back at their base?

Arguably people wouldn't want to pay the financial and performance cost for this security if they are just hosting publicly downloadable files in their S3 buckets, but I would hope that the cost would be negligible these days.
If only a certain foundation's corporate half didn't fire its Rust browser developers.
Absolutely. Going through the process made it clear to my wife that she'd been coping with ADHD for a long time. It also made me realize that I was outnumbered. ;)
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> you get no profit.

Marginal value of production is almost always lower than average value, because of diminishing returns. Profits are made on the average value.

A Marxist take in this is that labour should be paid on the average value of production, and labour should get all the profits.
We are at around 50,000,000 cases. It is looking like herd immunity or at least R<1 is happening at around 30%. There are five states so far that have reached that point- NY, NJ, LA, FL, and AZ. So we have 45 more states to go. As a nation we aren't there yet. I would guess that in a few months we will be given the pace at which this is happening.
Who knows. He's a large donor, but donors have trouble suing institutions over conditional gifts. So even if he made a gift that was conditional on beating the S&P, which would be a rather extraordinary string to attach to a gift, odds are stacked against him.

Guess: he knows he doesn't have a winning case but wants to raise hell. If the fund moves to more passive management then he won either way.
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Meanwhile back on planet earth, nobody actually cares if you use a no-code tool or if you think HTML is real programming. Go nuts.

The entire tone and premise of this is so shitty towards people who write code, it's quite ironic that it's talking about someone else's elitism. Projection
This looks like fun, backed it. There is a lot of difficult pieces that have to come together for this to work though, and it is not just the hardware, if the game itself isn't good enough then the whole thing falls apart. I really enjoyed playing Beatsabre on Oculus.
No cynacism meant. My mistake. "motivations" was incorrect. I was trying to ask about how the business of AWS manifests such a thing. Which I think you've described. Thanks!
But the people who make iOS work for apple, can't they use an in house proprietary tool set, to develop it?
The original XBox 360 was developed on PowerMac G5’s.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1686/5
Is there a serverless workflow solution for google cloud yet?
The three links in the third paragraph of the article describe the meaning of license in this context:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/56861355

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us...

Excerpted from the Stack Overflow answer:

There are three frequency levels, so-called licenses, from fastest to slowest: L0, L1 and L2. L0 is the "nominal" speed you'll see written on the box: when the chip says "3.5 GHz turbo", they are referring to the single-core L0 turbo. L1 is a lower speed sometimes called AVX turbo or AVX2 turbo, originally associated with AVX and AVX2 instructions. L2 is a lower speed than L1, sometimes called "AVX-512 turbo".
For code itself, which is what this change affects, code signing is verified by the kernel at page-in time. Combined with W^X, there's no way to bypass it. Verifying associated resources is done separately by userland and is a somewhat messier process.
Thank you so much for the kind words and support! These are all great points that you brought up! We'll be adding a new feature shortly that will allow companies to upload logos and we will (albeit manually like you mentioned) convert them to vectors.

I can't thank you enough for the positive/constructive feedback. It's really hard creating something new and staying positive with all the naysayers!
Do you want the manufacturer of your computer or its operating system - and only them - to be able to specify exactly who can and can't develop software for it, and whose software you can and can't run? I don't, and I don't see any situation where I'd want a single entity to have that power, even if it comes with security benefits (which are not mutually exclusive to this setup either).
It doesn't seem like they verify every app to ensure it is free from malware. Since they respond in the affirmative if they app is signed (by not warning), it seems reasonable for a lay person to believe that an app that doesn't throw this warning is free of malware.
> Lesson 6: Algorithmic Colonialism

What a choice of words.
Sure, but it does indicate something likely to be wrong, relative to normal rust code. If every C++ function is unsafe then it becomes less clear where the actually unsafe rust bits are.
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I've always wondered about those one-use aluminum-air batteries one guy was developing. (search for tevor jackson aluminum air battery)

They might be more palatable for aircraft.
On the other hand, employers are also barred from colluding to keep wages artificially low, which arguably would be considered a “negotiation strategy” if one follows your interpretation.

I agree though that employers have naturally more negotiation power in the vast majority of cases.
Yeah the original application borrowed heavily from our first product which predates LiveView so we stuck with what we knew. Our first product actually predates contexts and schemas in Phoenix. We started working on it around the time Phoenix was deprecating models from 1.2 to 1.3.

LiveView is incredible, but I haven’t used it enough to know the shortcomings. From the outside looking in, it does seem nice to work with a view that’s already nicely coupled with the app.
Can someone explain to me why every Covid submission that makes it to the front page of HN seems to take the 'denialist' perspective? Is an agenda being pushed? There must be so much important science being done right now, surely we would rather hear about that.
I try to make myself fairly easy to find as a show that my intentions are not to mislead :)
What harm does a living wage do? What kind of fucked up bullshit question is that? Folks gotta eat and pay the rent and all that.
I was able to follow this until the point of escaping the container.

How did they get the user wouter created on the host and how did it have sudo access?
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There are people with actual skin in the games, you know, their lives. Your business goes under it sucks but you won't die.

Only in America would people legitimately make the argument that it's ok to expose people to risk because people someone is losing money.

Who are you to put a value on my loved ones lives? 1/100 chance, 1/1000 chance, why does any of that matter? Fuck your business, it won't bring my parents back. It won't replace scarred lung tissue in COVID survivors or heal neurological damage.

Preventable death and disability, especially using easy measures like mask wearing and lockdown, should always be preferred over monetary issues.

Modern American values are morally corrupt and disgusting.
How do you define that 220 is the right number?
> imply

> misleading

I... don't think misleading means what you think it means. Misleading statements (pretty much by definition) don't imply falsehoods. They "merely" "suggest" falsehoods to those who don't already know better. If they intentionally "implied" falsehoods then they would be called "lies", not "misleading".
As an econ major, I've come to the conclusion that the dismal science is equal parts making models and explaining why they don't work.
> Masks have really torn everyone apart

Everyone?

In nearly all countries, people simply wear masks when appropriate. The common fight against the virus brings people together, if anything.

To watch the self-destruction of the USA about the "great mask debate" is somewhat baffling.

> There are plenty of nations and States within the US without mask mandates

You need to look at mask wearing, not mask mandates (believe it or not, there are people who wear masks voluntarily); and correct for a whole lot of factors, such as density (compare Hong Kong and Alaska). Then, from what I gather, evidence supports masks.
Does the donor have some right that his donations be used as advertised? Could a donor sue because a charity squandered the money by spending it hookers and blow? Does poor investment stewardship resulting in the charity having 20% less money damage the donor differently from wasting 20% of the money? I’m not a lawyer, but morally I think the university is in the clear as long as their waste or arguably poor stewardship was reasonable. Did they knowingly make bad choices (especially if some kind of personal benefit/self-dealing was involved) or through an honest effort come to a different conclusion than the donor preferred?

Subjectively, I get the impression that the lawsuit is performative and the donor is trying to pressure the endowment to engage in a more modern textbook passive investment strategy. I don’t blame him - I feel the wealth management industry acts as a parasite in many cases. This case sounds like a common arrangement for a university endowment, though, so I feel it would be hard to defeat with a lawsuit. But I bet the suit gets the university a bit of a break on those fees.
I actually grew into this position. And like 60% of the time people don't ask me to show up, I just do. Or someone points me at an issue.
Ironically, I believe it's the increase in democratic processes in American politics that's responsible for this.

See, historically, when we spoke about parties, we really spoke about their respective establishments. The voters decided which one would be running the show at any given moment, but internal party politics were not readily accessible to the outsiders, and thus candidates and platforms were also vetted by the party establishment. Since establishment tends to be conservative by its very nature, this provided a screen against more extreme positions. To be clear: the politicians would still run on extreme positions, if they saw it as advantageous - but that didn't mean they'd govern accordingly if they won.

Then we got primaries. It's not that they didn't exist before - the first ones date back to before the Civil War. But they weren't anywhere near as common until the second half of the 20th century, and even then most were non-binding (and their results were often ignored when the "wrong" candidate won them).

And the primaries themselves changed over time, generally so as to broaden eligibility. In most other countries (where primaries are internal party matters), you have to actually be a member of the party in good standing in order to participate in that party's primary. The American system, where you merely need to register party affiliation in advance, is much more lax - and by now, even that formality is no longer necessary in many states.

So, voters now have a lot more influence over party politics. And this caused a nasty feedback loop, where agitprop that's thrown by the establishment at the voters, solely for the purpose of convincing them to vote one way or the other (appealing to emotions, especially fear and anger, since it's the most effective way), is regurgitated and injected into internal party matters and policies. So the party platform moves further away from the center, and its agitprop shifts accordingly, creating even more radicalized supporters, who again feed it back into the party etc.

Tea Party was a wake-up call in that sense, when a bunch of traditional Republican candidates lost to grassroots crazies who said mostly the same things, but who also sincerely believed in those things. Trump is also part of the same phenomenon - he might not be a sincere believer, but he appears as one to his followers. And there's some evidence of similar processes happening in the Democratic party. Slower, because its electorate is a broader coalition with more conflicting goals, and so the direction in which the voters move the party is less clearly defined. But you can see the internal radicalization spill out on some issues already, and there's more to come.
I've seen new hire SDE1's call out jassy in an aws allhands. And jassy seriously answers those questions. Very impressive.
It looks like you get Quell single player free for life and the subscription is Quell +, I may have missed something where it mentions you need a constant internet connection though.
Quote from the kickstarter:
"Everyone who buys Quell gets the base game, for free, for life."
I was thinking like a food co-op instead of a regular store or credit union instead of a bank.
Also Fauci saying that there's "no reason" for anyone to be going around in a mask. (Not, "we don't know if it will help", not "there are more effective measures you could take", but "no reason".)

(Edit: This is from March, just to be clear that he's not saying that now.)

>Fauci: Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.

>LaPook: You’re sure of it? Because people are listening really closely to this.

>Fauci: …There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/outdated-fauci-video-on-fa...
I don't think everyone should homeschool.

However, I do think a lot of people put their kids in school because it's easy, not because they couldn't homeschool them.

I've been surprised several times that the immediate reaction I've gotten when I tell someone we're homeschooling is "Oh, I could never do that."

The truth is almost anyone can. I used to think it should be more regulated and only "good" parents should do it.

Then I saw a single mom with only a high school degree and terrible teaching skills take her failing boys out of public school, homeschool then for a year, and send them back to school a year later, more in advanced placement classes.

If she could achieve that on n her own, without spousal support or any of the right skills, then this is within most parents' grasp.

I suspect she was more willing to suffer and fight for her children than a lot of wealthy parents are, though.
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USA was never truly multi-party, except for very brief transition periods (like when Whigs collapsed and GOP appeared).
Do you like firefighting and having uncomfortable conversations with people all the time.
Interesting. Coincidentally, a recent episode of EconTalk [0] taught me that the plague had a big impact on Shakespeare and his work.

[0] https://www.econtalk.org/ben-cohen-on-the-hot-hand/
Or a good spam prevention technique. I think it's a good idea to discourage sending large quantities of emails as a technique for contacting support fastest
If it writes its binary to disk and then executes and also writes an authorized_keys can it really be described as "fileless"?
The lengths you have to go to talk to a real person at Google!
The fact that everyone will get the negative tax even if they stay home (or volunteer, or work on a passion project). If you're only going to pay an extra dollar per hour, nobody will take the job.
Wood's cool factor is underrated.

I worked with a salesman in Sweden. We sold very expensive mainframe software. One of his things was, when someone signed up, to present them their copies of the contracts in a beautiful slimline rosewood briefcase that the customer got to keep. So beautiful it made your eyes water to look at it.

Of course he brought one to meetings so the customer could form a longing for it. It seemed like he may have buffed it with furniture wax as well, perhaps there was an olfactory element at work too.

Without doubt this object of desire moved the needle significantly in getting people over the line on a sale, they wanted the wooden briefcase so badly. He was extremely successful.