skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, you just look at the PC ecosystem and you can see the nightmare.

As somebody who's been looking and working in it for decades, I don't see it?

To me the actual nightmare are closed walled gardens giving users a false sense of security about the software they offer on their services as supposedly all being "vetted".

And because by now the mobile space is the biggest target there is, malicious actors have shifted their attack vectors accordingly [0].

Even with these walled gardens in place, we've reached a point where the mobile app ecosystem is going trough its own phase of "You need this Norton/McAfee/blah product to keep your device secure/optimized!" just like the PC ecosystem did and still does.

As such the "gatekeepers" have effectively failed at gatekeeping anything that ain't explicit sexual content.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/warning-over-hidden-apps-as-mo...
I'd like a unique card number with every transaction, that I set online to exactly the amount I'm spending. And it expires after that one use.

Eliminates risk of 'stealing' a credit card, mostly.

But it would use a butt-ton of numbers. Maybe a UUID?
Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?
"Not invented here".
Very poorly. VTF folks have also moved on.
I think at this point the benefits of HFT to markets (lower spreads, more liquidity, faster incorporation of information into prices) is pretty undisputed. I'll let you do your own research, but just to address your point about spreads:

When you participate in the market, the spread is the "price" you have to pay to transact. When this goes down, it benefits all participants in the market, and especially the ones that are doing "long-term capital allocation" you are talking about. Rather than take my word for it, here's a quote from the CEO of Vanguard: “From a data perspective, we can see what’s happened to our fund shareholders over the last 20 years, and they’ve benefited by that reduction in transaction costs.” [1]. If you're managing trillions of dollars of 401ks, pension funds, etc, and you are constantly rebalancing your assets, buying new allocations, etc, any tiny reduction in average spread is a huge savings on net. A big part of the reason why there's been an almost universal reduction in fund management fees, saving retirement savers an enormous amount of money over the last 10 years or so is this reduction in spreads. This is absolutely a huge benefit to society, and its almost entirely attributable to HFTs.

You're correct that it HFT is a zero-sum arms race, and maybe you could make the argument that in an optimal allocation of society's resources, perhaps you could have less than the current number of participants. But I think you could actually make this argument about almost all lucrative & highly competitive fields. If anything, HFT is more productive per unit of labor, relative to other sectors of society - that's why the compensation is so high!

The total number of programmers and quants that work in HFT, at least for the 5-10 significant players, is probably less than the number of programmers Google alone employs (last I checked, there are about 30k programmers working at google. There's almost certainly less than 30k quants and programmers working at the main HFT firms). How many programmers do you "need" to optimize ads for eyeballs? Or how many programmers do you "need" to make mobile phone games? Or work on social networks? etc etc.

HFT is a small, niche, industry, and I think extremely productive per employee relative to most other industries. It replaced the tens of thousands of manual traders that used to be responsible for arbitrage and market making with automated robots, dramatically increasing market efficiencies while reducing the amount of human capital required to provide those services. It seems pretty misguided to make the argument that HFT is somehow "bad" or a "waste" of resources, given how much of an improvement it was to what there was before, and also given how small the industry really is.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-...
Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr)
No. All my comments on the internet can be explained as "I have a serious medical condition and spend most of my time trying to distract myself from misery," a la: http://writepay.blogspot.com/2020/07/my-occupation.html

I know a little something about redwoods. I talked about redwoods. The End.

I bear zero responsibility for how other people choose to interact with anything I have said.
Short version of the data:

wild vaccine-derived
2015: 74 32
2016: 37 5
2017: 22 96
2018: 33 104
2019: 165 365
2020: 102 291

>>> more children had been getting polio from polio vaccines than getting it in the wild for a long time

I think that it is misleading to call the last four years "a long time".
Agreed. And then again: which problem did the iPhone solve exactly?
Hard disagree. I made every possible mistake that can be made related to being too idealistic about grad school; for example, I believed:

- My advisor and collaborators have my best interests at heart

- My primary role in graduate school is to develop novel, useful, reproducible ideas

- Grants, fellowships, and stipends are generous donations freely given in order to enable the above

- Quality is more important than quantity

These kinds of sentiments caused more damage to my career than any other mistakes I have made (fortunately, I survived...so far). When someone gives you money, they definitely expect something in return, even if that something is not always clearly stated, and that something is almost always related to the donor's own career advancement.

There are PIs who absolutely prey on this kind of idealism. They can find certain kinds of idealistic students, use them up, and discard them. Graduate students should be told from day one that they need to look out for their own interests, because no one else will. I'm sure there are exceptions, but they are just that.

The best that can be reasonably hoped for from an advisor-advisee relationship is a clear understanding that it is a mutually beneficial transaction with bidirectional expectations. It makes me uncomfortable that the OP document obscures this fact.

> they aren't paying you to advance their career

What are they paying you for, then?
And even worse, you won't be able to link to previous answers
CDK: Python/TypeScript to Terraform HCL
For example, readers might want to integrate their libraries into the knowledge base of their personal AI.
Stream raises 15m for chat and activity feed APIs
Complexity. Indexes are easy to manage.

You could short them to the same weighted percentage that they exist in the index but that's of course not completely simple and you have to pay fees for the shorted stock. If O&G had a convenient ETF (I don't know if there is or not, I imagine there is), you could short that rather than individual companies.

Shorting Facebook would be... interesting for your returns.
I interviewed there in 2007, and I got about 45 minutes with him. He's definitely really smart, and seems honest...but has some ideas that are pretty polarizing. It was clear to me in the first 5 minutes that I wouldn't fit in.

Over the rest of the interview with various folks there was a distinct split of believers and "yeah this place is weird, but I can't leave just yet" groups. Pretty clearly it works though.

Edit: One example. It's minor, but indicative of the weirdness. As a "visitor/interviewee", I was obligated to carry around a 6 foot flagpole with a sizable Zappos flag on it for the several hours I was there. Not a deal breaker by itself, but odd enough I knew the place wasn't for me, because there was probably more of the same coming. Maybe it was some kind of test?
Let’s look at the actual text of the article.

“Toronto-based startup TransPod has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government to study the potential of a high-speed hyperloop system and help it attract investors.”

And let’s translate that from polite Canadian PR speak: this will never, ever, ever happen, but it sounds nice, so we’ll put it out there.
Buy a normal fund, short the parts you don't like in equal proportion.
Atlas of the Human Planet 2018
Could be an awesome plug-in for IntelliJ (which is already super awesome compared to macos spell checker and text navigation)
There's something just a bit different about the sensation of biting into a slice of banana, though.
It’s well known that ex military who become police are much less likely to be involved in a shooting and they are much better at de-escalating.

We train the military much better than the police.
Cities of the World by Elevation (and Population)
bubble is coming
If Chrome switched to Google DNS for everything they wouldn't need to check for ISP interception.
Whatever. The man runs a vertically integrated monopoly which has been evading taxes for decades. You all need to quit with this blind hero worship for rich people. Sure he's saving Africa, but he fucked america first, and that makes all his spending and reading very underwhelming to me.
Thanks. For my understanding, what’s the standard definition of “when it is earned”? If it’s a 5 year contract must all revenue associated with that contract be spread across all 5 years?
Asana's financials are way worse. The margins and revenue growth are useless when they spent 87% of profit on marketing for the last quarter. It seems like it's extremely expensive for them to make new sales and probably not cheap to retain current sales. And even when you take away ALL of those costs, they would have earned less than 1/4 million in the last quarter. If you look at the picture for the whole year it's even more ridiculous -- they would've shown a loss of $14 million in EBITDA if you REMOVED all of their marketing. I really doubt that they'll be able to turn that ship around with any amount of growth considering how much the marketing expenses have grown (36% vs. average of FY2019, or almost 100% y/y).
Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static content, and not be an app development platform do we need another?

I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all its problems is fine, if someone is technical and wants more control and customization well really at that point Jekyll is pretty powerful, and if you want fancier you've got Gatsby or whatever the JS flavor of the month CMS is.

Is there a shortage of tools to allow me to publish a webpage? Is the problem of creating and publishing a website so hard that we need a new entrant to solve the problem? How much more complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS and JS put it on a webserver."?
s/policy/practice/

Published "privacy policies" seem to be a way of preserving opacity. It is nigh impossible, absent litigation discovery, to decipher what the company is actually doing.
I think they're being asked to fund pensions until the end of time, which regular companies aren't being asked to.
We share a mutual friend. Got a private tour of Zappos after they moved to Vegas.

Seems like a good guy. The office experience is very unique.

He also has a comic book: https://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-...
It's a symptom of browsers getting embedded PDF readers, which is a trend that was stared a while ago - long before Edge was a thing. Edge had to keep up with user expectations in this regard, so it also got one. But then, if you're already shipping a browser with the OS, and said browser has a PDF viewer, it's hard to justify also shipping (and supporting!) a separate app with the same functionality.
OpenAI API has a similar demo, the Wikipedia one at https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/
It’s good that he’s a billionaire that uses his wealth for truly great humanitarian causes. However, he is an exception and most billionaires don’t do this. And they probably shouldn’t have to, if we created a system that doesn’t allow for this kind of obscene enrichment of individuals.
Commercial for IBM's Selectric Typewriter 1960's [video]
I wasn't in on that, we had licensing, and I'm sure it was paid for. It was a medical devices company so they had pretty deep pockets.
The highway should be an 8 lane freeway, however it is a 4 lane death trap. Anything to get more cars off this road.
For me, it's cookie auto-delete -- their default tracker suppression still white-lists more than I'd like. Very likely to block updates over this while I consider my next move. (My threat model is not your threat model...)
Beyond assigning IINs more judiciously, credit rating systems could drop the concept of "more accounts = better credit". It would discourage people from opening 7 credit cards to raise scores, when 1 or 2 would do.
Why stop there? ipv6 license plates, citizen numbers, home addresses, part numbers, atoms, ...
Come next recession, IBM might even suck up Palantir for a few billion.
Curious what the community thinks about this. It feels like a step backwards, or at the very least, sideways. I have this opinion because it re-introduces imperative logic into declarative markup, in a way that is very easy to abuse/overuse. It also seems to remove the need for HCL altogether (why render to HCL when your language can call into a Terraform API?)
Don't recall, it's a figure from several years ago when I was dealing with estate issues.
350,000 cases/year * 32 years = 11.2 million cases, which is in the right ballpark, assuming we're counting from 1988.
You don't think courts or government institutions in China are subject to or follow Chinese law, or do you think that the state is particularly prone to abuse of the law (moreso than in the US)? How do you suppose "fighting the CCP" would work in practice? If you are up against the legislative and judicial body itself, you have only the law to support you. It's not really a good sign as you think that people are winning legal battles against the state anywhere, because that's merely a symptom of the state abusing the law in the first place. What matters is how much government abuse of the law that exists in the first place. It might be much higher in the US for all you know.
It's not trivial, but as the bug report points out, Adobe Reader can handle it.
I find it annoying. The whole update brought nothing but annoyances.
OpenOFDM looks like Verilog running on an FPGA; is that "software"?
The problem is the rest of the amazon ecosystems integration is great. If I buy a Kindle eBook I get a discount on the audio-book from Audible and they compliment each-other with good integration. for example the Audiobook picks up where I stopped reading, or the kindle will open where I last listened and I can ask Alexa to play my book when I have to stop reading and do housework.

its not lock in exactly as I can listen to/read my books on other devices android phone/tablet apple iP(one/ad/od) my tv etc... and while there is drm it is trivial to bypass (openaudible calibre), It is more there ecosystem acts as a value added such that while a kindle on its own merits is a inferior system together makes a better option then buying from someone else. this may constitute a classic abuse of horizontally integrated monopoly though.
1. SpaceX is not a community service.

2. SpaceX, one could argue, is being subsidized majorly by the US government, for strategic reasons. I'm pretty sure it would have gone bankrupt without government intervention.

3. Almost no passenger rail system is fully profitable, in the world. Just like education, it's something you still want because it's a community/public service.
> that I set online to exactly the amount I'm spending

Sounds like it would take longer at checkout though?
iPhone app allows you to test open source libraries without IDE
Defunding the police addresses the overspending. Despite millions of dollars for training, outcomes in police interactions haven't gotten better. Purchasing military surplus is another area they've spent increased budgets on as well.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, downvoting isn't for disagreement, it's for etiquette violations, etc.

I agree this is not the most sensible locale to test this. There used to be frequent VIA rail service between the two cities (I remember taking it as a kid, at least as far as Innisfail to visit my grandpa) and I believe that's gone, due to lack of demand.

The cities are close enough that driving isn't terrible.

Now, it does have rather flat and easy to deal with topography, so there's that.

Toronto to Montreal / Ottawa, that's a route where high speed rail is desperately needed. Even more so if it was extended to come from Detroit and/or Buffalo.

If we're sticking with Alberta, maybe Edmonton to Fort McMurray, to get oil workers to/from the north. That's a crappy drive, and long.
Yes. They're pretty explicit about this:

> So long as our Founders [...] meet a minimum ownership threshold on the applicable record date for a vote of the stockholders[...], these Founders will effectively control all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders for the foreseeable future. This could delay, defer, or prevent a change of control, merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets that our other stockholders support. Conversely, this concentrated control could allow our Founders to consummate a transaction that our other stockholders do not support.
Working in tech without being constantly stuck behind a computer?
So I’m an engineer and I guess lockdown has made me realise how much happier I am when I’m not sat behind a computer.
Although I do enjoy creating things and I’m constantly told how good of an engineer I am, but I really want to step away from having to ‘hyper focus’ and be strapped to my laptop coding.

Anyone work in tech and don’t spend much time behind a computer?
Pretty interesting, though I disagree with the videos on www.engineerguy.com that Selectric was a digital to analog converter. It converted a digital signal - a key pressed - into a digital output - a glyph printed, though tilt and turn take specific values from continuous range.
Projected 8 to 10 billion? , will end up being 25-billion at the low end.
Are you really curious?

It's the same reason that if Oprah took her billions to try and solve some global problem with her husband Stedman, many mentions of the work they were doing would not mention Stedman.

One is a famous individual who built up an obscene fortune, and the other person is married to them. And despite how involved their partner is deploying that wealth for the good of the world, people are just not going to mention the less famous one who didn't build up the fortune as often.
If your reality were getting stopped and frisked statistically more because of your color or pulled over more for “looking suspicious”, your viewpoint might change. There have been plenty of cases where Black men were “suspiciously” going into their own homes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/29/missio...
There are many reasons, but one specific to Hacker News is that Bill Gates writes articles that are posted on Hacker News.

Bill Gates also regularly gives speeches. I checked and Melinda doesn’t have any on youtube since 2013.

So Bill is very much the public face of the foundation, even though Melinda is equally active and her name is in its name.

Not the only reason, but worth pointing out a prominent benign one.

For instance, a parallel example is how ycombinator is often mentioned as being founded by Paul Graham, and Jessica Livingstone is left out. Why? Partly sexism of course. But Paul also was the public face of YC with his essays.

And we have evidence it’s not just sexism, because YC had four founders

> by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Tappan Morris.

I think the second two are even less well known than Jessica Livingstone, and this correlates with how much public writing and speaking she’s done as the face of YC and about startups.

(There’s a whole other discussion to be had about whether women are chased out of the public sphere, but this comment is long enough)
FWIW I trust Brave a lot more on privacy than Google. Almost anyone who knows both companies would. The only less reputable source for privacy information is probably something from Facebook.
With the EMV skimmer fraud is dropping. With 2FA on big transactions other frauds can be decreased. Some provider have a mobile app to accept the transaction and/or send a message after a transaction.
All of the effort that goes in to exploiting the humans would turn to exploiting the heuristics.
>I remember after the protests in Baltimore from FreddIe Gray, the police were told to have a much smaller presence, and not do as much proactive policing. It wasn't long before the people who actually live in those neighborhoods were complaining about the increasing crime rate due to a smaller police presence.

In a city with a black mayor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Rawlings-Blake), black police chief (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Batts), 50% black police force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Police_Department#Af...), and black district attorney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Mosby), when black suspect Freddie Gray dies in police custody in unclear circumstances, it's obviously because of racism so feel free to riot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baltimore_protests). (The accused officers—three black, three white—were acquitted by a black judge (http://www.courts.state.md.us/publications/jmonline/2012spri... .)

Reminder of Baltimore events during the original rioting:

* Baltimore Looters Take Everything But a Family’s Pennies / Chinese store-owners and a soldier who fought in Afghanistan both return to find their hometown transformed into a war zone. (https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/34cu4j/baltimore_loote...)

* (Deleted by /r/baltimore moderators on Reddit) Baltimore gang members directed looters away from black-owned businesses. "Instead, he said, they pointed the rioters toward Chinese- and Arab-owned stores." (https://np.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/34ek59/baltimore_...)

* City Paper calls the purse incident "a dumb distraction". Closest thing to an apology/retraction as is likely from the publication (https://np.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/347f0d/city_paper...)

and, inevitably, what you mentioned:

* Baltimore killings soar to a level unseen in 43 years. "Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years." (https://np.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/3fcawm/baltimore_...)

PS - I was banned from /r/baltimore after posting the above comment (https://np.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/4koc6n/officer_ne...) in a similar thread discussing earlier acquittals. No reason given.
Update: reinfection is now confirmed as possible in less than one year.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/first-confirmed-case...
Note that this includes pouring acidic beverages (most of them) into old pewter.
It does say "in accordance with our standard parental benefits policy", but I have no idea if that's standard for executives or standard for every employee.
Really? Last few times I've driven it I remember thinking how much milder (well, also boring) of an experience it was than driving the 401 in Ontario.

Now, in the heart of February with black ice everywhere, that's maybe a different story. But not sure more lanes would help.
Truth is, how many people is actually reading previous answers? I only do on stack overflow, and it is very time-consuming...
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350,000 cases/year * 32 years = 11.2 million cases

They may have some more precise method, but with this estimation 11 or 13 millions doesn't seams to be too off.