skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't tell Taylor Swift from Ariana Grande? I think this speaks more to the way you view pop music, than sonic similarities.
> I think some of those investors exist for sure, but what do you mean by "understand what stocks are"?

There does seem to be a certain type of investor who believes that the only important thing about a stock is hype, and not whether it, could say, even theoretically ever make enough income to justify its valuation. Of course, this can be true in the short term.

> Investors (I do own Tesla but not a significant portion of my portfolio) such as myself view it as a growing energy company.

That would surely imply a _lower_ valuation? You wouldn't expect lasting high margins in that business, whereas it is at least _possible_ (if not common) in the auto industry.
Given Kieferski's qualification "tolerant the times" I dont see that he is egregiously wrong. Emperor Ashoka who is considered kindness personified had Kalinga butchered among other places -- till his empire was big enough that more campaigns and conquests were unnecessary. At that point he turned the peaceful Buddhist.
Sure. To that point I'd say that there are those such as myself that believe that Tesla will realize that potential, versus not realizing that potential.

Tesla has the potential to create an actual subscription services that people would pay for. Autopilot is $8,000 right now, but activate it now for 72 hours for $50? Maybe $100? Now you might be eating into airlines as well. No other car company that has tried subscription services has been met with fanfare. Tesla is the only one who can get away with it.

Little things like that make me say that it's a trillion dollar company, easily, once they start realizing that potential. But that's investing. We use numbers, our own intuition, and then make decisions! :)
A good argument is nothing but a discussion.
And yet he has no explanation for why people will torture other people, to the point of death, for getting quiz answers wrong.

This kinda points to his hypothesis of these being outliers as being incorrect. The inherent selfishness, as he himself refers to, of humanity leads to the nasty and brutish behavior.

> I would point out that the global poverty has gone down dramatically during capitalism's reign

And yet the poverty numbers for the US, one of capitalism's biggest proponents, remain fairly static over the last 4-5 decades, times in which productivity and the GDP have flourished.
I know an attorney who was quite capable legally and with tech and spent his career in both. He ended up at a legal organization that also dealt with security.

The cybersecurity industry is absolutely full of crappy security companies worth jack squat. The legal industry is full of Luddites.

Being capable in both areas = some serious demand / profit.
> It was not inherent nastiness that led to the Holocaust, Bregman suggests, but years of indoctrination.

Arendt's entire report on "The banality of evil" was essentially a direct refutation of that exact argument. Nazi evil was 'banal' in a way, to use Arendt's term, precisely because it was, unambiguously, evil. There was not even the start of a colorable argument that it could be for any sort of "greater" good, no matter how construed. And the whole indoctrination part was as banal and as evil as the rest of it. Complacency towards authority demands and the diffusion of responsibility were the key mechanisms, not indoctrination per se.
Inclusion in the S&P doesn’t always indicate a big upside. I recently heard a podcast that suggested the opposite. If TSLA’s rise was based on such speculation, it deserves to fall.
They're earned the same way big movie star roles are earned -- by knowing the right people or sleeping with the producer.
I'm working from the article and not Bregman's work (though it's been added to my reading list) but the article does setup Bregman to respond to a strawman instead of Hobbe's actual argument.

One of the differentiators here is that difference between intent and reality. Most everyone, even very bad people, typically believe they are behaving ethically and "doing good". It's just that sometimes one persons good is another's evil. That's one of the issues the Leviathan fixes - it prevents these kind of oversteps by keeping externally enforced standards on behavior.
Thanks! If it is the recapcha string then it is just an old public string for local testing.

But I would upvote you 100x or send you a medal or something if I could, this is really super nice of you letting me know!
I strongly disagree about quoting thought leaders as an appeal to authority. It’s ok to quote thought leaders but focus on the tradeoffs. Most thought leaders embellish things for more clicks, or speak in generalizations that are easily misapplied. Telling your coworkers to do something because Martin Fowler “said so” is not a good argument
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/runk
I remember this JS prank, where you tried chasing the close X all over the screen.

Sadly, it is quite close to what actually happens.
Another comment mentioned dark patterns and opt-outs. Once they have your data though they also refuse to respond to deletion requests and whatnot.

Even major companies without any reasonable price interest in PII like Atlassian are guilty here. Their position is that if you've created an account and they unilaterally give access control to the account to a third party then since you aren't able to log in there's no way to verify your identity to prove that it's you requesting the PII removal. Proof of identity like a passport doesn't suffice, and proof of account ownership like login credentials also does not suffice.
I had an edge case with an authentication server (think okta) wrapped around a school login system. In occasional cases, with certain clients of the server doing a couple redirects of their own, we'd hit that 20 cap. It's not any individual system being irresponsible, just reusing other systems as they're meant to be. It's kind of like saying having a call stack depth of 50 in software is never acceptable.
Halting development of the open source dashboard really hurt me, so I setup my own little alternative:

https://github.com/skx/puppet-summary/

Simple to deploy, configure, and use. Although I always felt I should perhaps have based my work against the puppetdb to get a more dynamic "dashboard" it certainly replaced the old dashboard, and being only a single binary it is simple to install & manage.
> imagine if we were strict on HTML validation

You don't have to imagine it, this actually happened. I don't remember the details, but back in the HTML 4 era, there was XHTML, and if you gave it an XML media type, many browsers would parse it as XML and reject the entire document if there was any error (and display nothing at all but an error message).

There were a number of articles and blog posts about this back in the day.
And yet he has no answer for why people will willingly kill people over getting wrong answers in a quiz. Perhaps his hypothesis is wrong.
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What do you wish there was an app for?
Don't let the downvotes discourage you.
If it were an experiment, it would be more interesting than it is. Experiments can be fun.

Pop as we know it started as a social psychology experiment in the 1960s or earlier. It has now reached the phase where the experiment is over and the results have been published. That is why pop sounds so boring and samey now: the record execs know precisely what works, and all songs must contain certain elements if they are to chart, all while swapping superficial details around to sound "fresh".

The last time there was experimentation going on in pop music was probably the 80s. That's why Michael Jackson's chart-topper "Thriller" sounds so much more layered, complex, and interesting than nearly anything shat out by the chart toppers of today.
Given the choice between using library bindings in Python and similar bindings in C++ or Java, the world has voted with their feet. When it comes to easy to use glue languages, Python won.
Twitter is too aggressive. The same happened with newsgroups back in the day.

I think moderated forums are the future.
FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices
Have there been any studies that test if the absorption of Vitamin D (from supplements) is influenced by disease compared to healthy people?
Dangerous for the workers still in Belarus.

And yes, it is tough. It's a very difficult & complicated situation that I am thankful I don't have to experience.
I find it odd to encourage people to skip what I consider the most important conclusion for most people: "Vitamin D does not appear to prevent disease in healthy adults."
Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds'
All I can say is, I can highly recommend https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ — in my experience, conversation is very much still alive there.

In the age of FAANG's dominance on the web, it's perhaps the case that the trend is to seek alternative (non-web-based) spaces.
I agree, I hesitated to put it in the article. I decided to do so at the end, but I've added that too:

> Be careful though: not everything from evangelists will apply to your specific problem. Don’t invoke the Single Responsibility Principle spell without any argument why it’s useful and valid. Opinion leaders should provide you these concrete arguments; if they don’t, their names alone shouldn’t influence your decisions.
> It's not even necessarily the case that going outside is healthy, but that healthy people tend to go outside more.

This is a departure from the discussion of supplementing vitamin D though, isn't it?

I guess the treatment "go out and do sports" is a very different one compared to "X amount of vitamin D per day as a supplement" and the former may indeed be healthy, while the latter may not be, even though they both result in higher levels of vitamin D.
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Please link to an article explaining your claims, because the wikipedia articles you're linking to don't describe anything you're talking about.

I'm actually curious because it's an interesting proposition, even if I'm very skeptical.
But I'm still confused - the TSLA craziness is specifically excluded from index funds. If you had money in TSLA chances are you put it there yourself outside of an index fund and certainly not one that was S&P 500 focused (which is apparently the default choice).
IANAL - I don't believe acquiring another company and the PII along with it is necessary a GDPR violation. Article 14 of GDPR[0] lays out the requirements for what a company needs to do when a company acquires personal data, not directly from the data subject. I believe this is what applies when a company acquires another company. At first glance, it appears the email Scribd sent does comply with most of article 14 such as:

- They notified you they were acquiring your personal data.
- They notified you are able to opt out.

The email is missing a few things such as the legal basis for processing. The email links to the privacy policy and an FAQ, which might be enough to provide that information. I'm not sure.

Since Scribd is not processing the data for a purpose other than what it was collected for (they mention this in the email), continuing to process it for the original purpose is ok. Presumably SlideShare complied with article 6 of GDPR[1] and either asked for consent or used one of the other bases for processing the data before the acquisition.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-14-gdpr/

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
I'd say that precisely because Zoom is under a lot of scrutiny at the moment one should stay with it as long as there are no compelling alternatives (in general or for your use case specifically).

Zoom has acknowledged and addressed many of the concerns raised in the previous months, which is a lot more than many of their competitors have done.

By now, you're even able to have them route your entire traffic through nodes in specific countries or regions.
Going without a 3rd party window manager in macOS Catalina (2019)
CFEngine never really seemed to recover from the 2.x to 3.x migration. I know that's around the point I switched my fleet from CFEngine to Puppet.

I toyed with a simple puppet-alike, written in golang, called marionette (in hindsight a terrible name):

https://github.com/skx/marionette/

It isn't anywhere near as complex, or featureful, but starting with golden AMIs it allows the necessary changes that I need in a consistent fashion.
A lot of recommendations for Salt here, but wanted to point out they have had a pretty poor track record of security vulnerabilities. Something to keep in mind when evaluating alternatives.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1294...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078421
I've tried that as an experiment during the lockdown, after reading "Oxygen Advantage". For the first few days I was waking up without a tape, but got used to it.

I eventually ditched it because I didn't see any improvements.
In Swedish all of them are either loanwords or abbreviations.

https://www.synonymer.se/ordlekar/sv/ord-som-slutar-pa/c
The NO production might explain most of this through it's anti-inflammatory properties. The instant reduction in blood pressure is likely just the tip of the iceberg for UV's effects on the body.
>Firstly, are you saying anyone who happened to be born in China is complicit in e.g. the crimes committed against Uighur population and thus doesn't deserve to be able to legally buy an Apple phone in their country?

I am not saying everyone in China is complicit in the Chinese government's human rights abuses. Purchasing a specific product from a specific company is not a right.

>Secondly, if Apple exits a non-free country, do you expect that to improve the situation? Make the country freer?

>In China this would leave the population to local tech, which is pretty much owned by CCP and subject to its every whim—as opposed to Apple’s cooperating to the degree required to not break the law.

I don't expect it to improve the situation, nor do I believe it's Apple's job to improve China. Apple's job is to have consistent beliefs about human rights if they're going to pretend to care about them.

>What's the benefit to be had here?

The benefit is Apple puts their money where their mouth is. Saying they care about human rights and then cooperating with a serial abuser renders their policy irrelevant.
Well, not per-capita.
macOS Big Sur: Surtainly Not
I feel for the rather confused and well meaning non-subcontinent related people who have waded into a culture war.

In South Asia - especially India — the moghuls are a loaded topic at the moment. There is an extreme right wing government that is focused on a Hindu resurgence (fine) at the expense of non Hindus (not fine), and the central justification is look how badly we were treated in the past. All the moghuls have gone through a lot of revisionism and reassessment (also fine) but it’s all politically motivated to interpret current events (sad).
I don't know that I would use Telsa as an example. Sure, they are replacing fossil fuels with renewables, but I see this as trading one dirty commodity for another. Lithium mining is environmentally damaging and the impact will likely get worse as demand increases. So maybe a step in the right direction, but definitely not a true solution.
Ask HN: Is anyone building an Excel alternative for Mac?
It's 2020 and Excel is still sluggish on Mac.
I would focus on one field and go deeper, be it c,c++,python,javascript...I have been programming for many years, looking back, lots of time spending on learning many different things at different times, which is bad actually. If I can do it again, I will focus more on one or two areas and excel there.

A neurosurgeon or heart doctor earns way more than a family doctor, the former is specialist and the latter is knowing-it-all-but-nothing-in-particular.
This 100%. Earlier in my career I managed a bunch of VB developers and we used a number of commercial UI components. Without exception they were a nightmare to deal with.
My experience with AIX as a sysadmin ca 2005 was dramatically different.

Things "worked", but everything was OLD. CLI tools had bugs and warts that GNU figured out decades previously.

I remember having to use obnoxious workarounds when tooling broke because 'find' wouldn't even work properly once you exceeded a certain number of files. (Several thousand, IIRC)

And that curses-based wrapper for doing administration tasks... glad I forgot the name of it, to be honest.
How to Make a Simple Vision Board
I believe Tesla is facing real competition in Europe now, and it's a lot of fun to watch versus the (not undeserved) US Tesla monoculture.

But you can't use Model 3 sales in Q2 or Q3 (as of yet) to show how well or poorly Tesla is doing. They batch produce their EU cars, and the shutdown meant they essentially skipped Model 3 deliveries in Q2, and Q3 is only beginning to spool up.

It's possible the Model 3 will lose its EU crown to the ID.3, but sales will once more be strong.
Regulations are laws that directly apply across EU, unlike directives (which bind member states to make a law that achieves the goals of the directive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)#De...

So you can make legislation around a Regulation but can't override its effects.
Thanks! Much better now.
Very hard to quantify sun exposure and do this in a controlled way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y22Dx3jvafY
I'm on the same boat. Learning react and going through a course on Udemy, but wanted to see how a proper complexe application is built from scratch.
A kettlebell and a "Simple and Sinister" [1] book by Pavel Tsatsouline. Great (and relatively safe) way to get your fitness on the next level.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Simple-Sinister-Revised-Up...
Seems to focus way too much on the bystander effect as a straw man example of "human evil". A much better picture of human evil would come from studying war rape, especially that of a victorious army. Any victorious army. Think Soviets in Berlin, Japanese in China, during WWII. The English civil wars were full of it as observed by Hobbes. Furthermore, it is ubiquitous throughout history. Any human convinced of their impunity, such as a conquering army, will absolutely be brutish and nasty to their enemies.
Geghis Khan and Alexander would both make the case that they were helping the world by uniting it and ending micro-conflicts - the people they killed along the way were necessary sacrifices who had the option to instead surrender to something greater. There's also an element of "divine right" at play - they believed they were fulfilling a religious entitlement.

Napoleon would make a similar argument, likely one more based on a worldview about exporting French culture and values.

There are very few cases, perhaps the destruction of Babylon, where someone basically says "yeah, I did it because I was angry and didn't care".
YouTube reverses edits in YouTube Studio without asking or informing
Youtube used to have reasonable good deshaker filter. Now all those edits are cancelled and live shots are original jerky shit. Only later I someshow know this would happen and learned to use ffmpeg-deshaker properly. Editing one hour film is hard work, thank you very much again Google.
Realtime collaborative drawing (part 2): Server Sent Events and WebRTC
Indeed. This thread is going to be a playground for the shills trying to push the narrative that Hindu's were a pristine white snowflake who did no one any wrong but were subject to the worst miseries.
I don’t agree.

We have a ‘Centralized Control of Social Media’ Problem.
Ok, fair enough. They have a very clear 'no extraordinary rendition to or from the british isles' policy.

They will participate when the US takes someone from a third country.
I've not yet had the chance to play Eternal myself. With a massive backlog of games and my own hobby project vying for what little of my free time I don't spend with my two kids...

But from everything I've seen I'm deeply impressed with what Id has done these last few years. Of course, Id doing impressive things is nothing new, but these new Doom and the latest Wolfenstein was still beyond expectation.
Hi HN! Author here.

Sharing a book I released today about building developer portfolio sites.

A few months ago I reviewed several hundred dev portfolios on twitter, and found I was giving the same feedback over and over. I also had a lot to say on the subject; I've been involved with hiring for many of the orgs I've worked for, and I've reviewed a whole lot of portfolios in that capacity. I also work as a career coach for a local bootcamp, helping recent grads land their first role.

The book distills everything I've learned into a tactical guide. A portfolio site is only one small part of the job hunt, but I believe doing it well can offer a huge advantage.

I hope it's helpful!
I thought that too, till I bumped into the "I'm right and you're wrong because my ego is huge" kind of person. Even worse: when they are higher in the hierarchy, they use their power to impose whatever they want. No tests, using jQuery 'cause it's the best, microservises are good even if it's a distributed ball of mud (named after Stark Trek starships), and so on.

I agree with you in theory, but in practice, sometimes, with some people, this strategy will tend to infinity on a time scale.
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_Times

They're hyper right wing Qanon/antivax spreaders associated with the Falun Gong movement.
Everything I’ve Learned About Running Meetings Is from Not Wanting to Be There
It happened significantly before dang's involvement in HN.
1. Free doesn't excuse harming students.

2. And it's not all that free. It's a growing business founded on hype and freemium. CS50 peddles it's wares on edX for $180 per "program," and it's being monetized quite a few other places.

3. Beginner-attractive isn't the same as beginner-friendly. Ice cream is beginner-attractive to kids first learning to eat, but vegetables are beginner-friendly. With CS50, you'll waste a ton of time to, ultimately, learn very little and be convinced you've learned a lot. You'll definitely learn the slogan "This is CS50" with an impressive video montage, though, and that you're part of an elite crowd which managed to master Scratch.

This is the bane of self-driven online education. People shop based on novice perception.

Or, guessing from your one-comment account, you're a David Malan cult member who signed up just to post this one comment. In which case, good job! You got out of CS50 what David was trying to teach you. Carry on. Bring your friends!

If you're not, have an objective look inside. Tell me it doesn't look like a "free" Scientology audit.
Maybe it wasn’t meant that way, but it can certainly be read if one considers the “95%” as an exaggeration. That’s why I was trying to clarify if it was meant to be out of line with “cyclical manufacturing” or with “tech”
> Until the highest-level engineers who agreed to implement this are personally held liable for some damages, we are unlikely to see change.

No need, you just need to add fines that hurt and enforce them. GDPR usually doesn't ("we only want them to feel it a little bit, but it should not hurt"). Increase it so that a clear, intentional violation can actually bankrupt the company and you'll not see them at the large scale. A small player might still do it, but very few 100mm+ companies will risk it all and open themselves individually to law suits from share holders.

Google gets a 50mm fine here or there. Their revenue is 45bn. That's totally worth it.
I go into arguments with the goal of generating a diff of the logic trees in the participant's brains. In the best case, you find your assumptions are the same but that your reasoning differs -- these are often tractable. In the worst case, you find that you have irreconcilable fundamental assumptions. But even in such cases, the act of unveiling your assumptions allows you to gracefully "agree to disagree."