skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me maybe put it a bit differently: companies disrupting or creating markets usually cannot be understood or discovered easily with a look at the balance sheet or income statement alone...

The ability to create, grow and protect rents is more complex and often only understood retrospectively.

I honestly don’t have a good answer how to do better. I know that “book value of equity” is useless for me.

Think about the oil and gas industry.

And even if the fundamentals don’t look great per se: in a time where money is printed like crazy, many industries fold - where are you gonna put your money.

Tech’s growth might also be “lack of other opportunities”.

Buffet would have done mich better/Value investors would have done much better had they understood how the world changed and adjusted their views.

I mainly do S&P500 ETF. I dont outsmart markets.
Have to agree. I spent a lot of classes struggling to keep up because my handwriting was too slow and poor. Like others said, I discovered fountain pens helped but it was not a cure for the problem.

Felt like anytime there were hard demands to have good notes, I spent most of my effort on taking notes rather than actually doing anything that benefitted me like comprehending what was being taught. Situation improved in college when I was finally able to record and use a laptop but I still found maths to require a friend to utilize as a notetaker for lecture.
I'm not sure this improved much on existing solution like Taiko (https://taiko.dev/) which seems better than Playwright in a number of ways
Really nice effort.

The question is though: why? :)

But cool nonetheless
same here for multiple URLs that definitely work if pasted directly into the browser.
This all too often happens at other companies, many times inadvertently without any fraudulent intention, just by being not well-run.

And even when they end up raking in the bucks, for the shareholders it's nothing compared to what it could have been.
I am 47. This Buddhist quote captures the rapidity of life - "Days are long; Decades are short".

Be kind. Really try to be kind. As young person, I am sure you already can recollect a few instances you have been kind; increase the frequency and amplitude of it.
Don't listen to other people.
The risk profile of vitamin d is different than chloroquine. Taking vitamin D on weak evidence still passes cost vs benefit.
Kitsch and fascism have been linked for quite some time. Fro Dwight MacDonald's "A Theory of Mass Culture" (1953):

When to this ease of consumption is added kitsch's ease of production because of its standardized nature, its prolific growth is easy to understand. It threatens High Culture by its sheer pervasiveness, its brutal, overwhelming quantity. The upper classes, who begin by using it to make money from the crude tastes of the masses and to dominate them politically, end by finding their own culture attacked and even threatened with destruction by the instrument they have thoughtlessly employed. (The same irony may be observed in modern politics, where most swords seem to have two edges; thus Nazism began as a tool of the big bourgeoisie and the army Junkers but ended by using them as its tools.)

https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...

(The link is stronger than evident in this passage though most of the connections are more verbose than merits quoting here.)
Yeah I'm just a normie, and CTRL-F is search in seemingly most software :D
I actively avoid trying to let nostalgia creep in too often. I don’t spend much time reminiscing, listening to old music, rewatching things, looking at pictures, etc. This seems to not match what most of my cohort does, but I recognized a correlation between too much looking back and feeling somber.
Is it? Most of the new-grads I know, many with no prior full-time experience, make around $120k, and of the 9 I regularly keep up with only 1 works at a FAANG (and makes a decent amount more than $120k). The others range from startups to BigCo fintech to backhouse software role in legacy Fortune 500s. Granted, most of these jobs are on the coasts, though (but not SF)
First, you'll probably never think of yourself as old. You'll look in the mirror and wonder why 20 year old you has all this gray hair and wrinkles.

Second, it's ok to let things slide for a while, but the longer you let them slide, the tougher they are to fix (and if you wait too long, some things can't be fixed). See plenty of other comments about teeth, back, RSI, diet. If you decide to let something go for a while, pick a time to follow up on it, and reevaluate.

Third, problems get bigger, stakes get higher. But you'll learn more tricks for coping with those problems. Sorta grim, but suicide rates by age climb till 50ish. around then you'll have (sorta) seen it all, there's not much that the world can throw at you that'll put you in a complete tailspin.

I can't tell you how to live your life. I'd suggest, be true to yourself, be true to your ethics. If you don't know what those are yet, try to figure out who you are. When you're stuck in a stressful situation, at the end do you want to feel vindicated? do you want to have a great outcome for everyone? do you want to just leave it all behind? Do you want to just grit your teeth and get through it? Those all point to different values, and can help you figure out who you are.

Some people age gracefully and some don't. some people get to make choices about that, and some don't. It's going to be ok. Everybody gets through their life one way or another.
>> Agreed. The state has become much too inefficient.

> This is frequently stated as fact, but no evidence is provided.

an in-depth analysis is beyond this particular computer nerd, but does it not suffice to observe that, dollar-for-dollar, US public services seem to do much worse than elsewhere in the world? education is a good example. per-student, the US spends roughly the same amount as or more than other OECD countries, yet seems to get much worse outcomes.
Seeing the detail analysis of what is now an esoteric item is really fascinating. How much work does it take to get a close look at a chip this sized?
'Revenge porn new normal' after cases surge in lockdown
Here in Tasmania, and given the tone of my skin, in order to get enough sun exposure to provide for my vitamin D requirements...

I will spend enough time in the sun to damage my skin and significantly increase the risk of melanoma.
I am a different guy, but though I can’t prove that they did it to me... I did a domain search there in the 2010 and the next day the domain was taken.

It could have just been a coincidence. But the domain was released about 2 weeks later.
The article actually posted to this HN thread contradicts that or at least would imply a change of stance:

> We are also using the FPGA in Precursor to validate our SoC design, which will eventually give us the confidence we need to tape out a full-custom Betrusted ASIC, thereby lowering production costs while raising the bar on hardware security.
> You don't think developers should be able to write C++ code for the GPU?

To be clear, I don't think nvidia-paid developers should be able to write C++ Code for a nvidia-sold GPU. The world will be better if any developer (paid by nivida or not) is able to write code for any GPU (sold by nvidia or not). It is not nvidia role to say how or when software will be written. Their hardware is good and that's more than OK.

AI/CUDA code written specifically for nvidia is useless/deprecated in the long term. A lot of brain waste.
I love playwright, especially since you get three browser engines (Webkit, Chromium and Gecko) under one unified API.

I am little disappointed they don’t have a testing library built on top of it, so I’m constantly either trying to re-invent the wheel or I end up using libraries I don’t like.

Sam issue I had with puppeteer. I think first party testing integration would be such a huge win with this.

I otherwise have nothing but awesome things to say about the playwright project, it really is such a great improvement over selenium and I think it’s now got a more ergonomic API than puppeteer
vit D is an exception here, iirc it's the only 'vitamin' that doesn't fit those criteria
> Tape is a scam. PERIOD.

Tape is marketed at the "enterprise" -- which is why the prices are where they are for drives and tape cartridges.

Enterprises that have regulatory requirements for multiple "off-site" backups buy these, as they allow them to check the "complies" box on their compliance forms they file quarterly.

But as enterprise customers are also low volume compared to the mass market, both the drives and tape cartridges are priced to recoup the design/build costs across a smaller number of units sold.
According to Sophie Wilson, the reason Acorn had to design ARM was that the 8086 and 68000, with no cache, were limited by their bus bandwidth, and so weren't really faster than a contemporaneous 6502; their only real advantage over it was a bigger address range.

She is in a position to know.
It depends on the inference you want to make. Average treatment effects are integrated over the entire sample. But that means it can “miss” or be biased for a subsample. You can then explicitly model that subsample, but sub samples by definition have less power. It’s not just black or minority, it’s also any subsample, like a history of hear disease, or height.

For further reading google: “Gelman there is never enough data”
GoDaddy has enough similar bad practices that this typo of behavior wasn't surprising to many of their past users, it would seem, based on their responses. If they had instead had an upstanding reputation, more people would have argued for them rather than against.

This is the same reason why big tech often has frontpage hitpieces about them that are borderline made-up which don't get refuted much, as they already have so many enemies and questionable practices that few people care to try to call bs when they could just nod and upvote.
The anti-pattern in play here is that “the decision is in the hand of the least-informed”

I believe technical decisions should be delegated by the “aware” manager to the team to make or to the most-informed. But then if the manager in question is not the aware or if ego is at play then we start getting the type of decisions that are useless at best.
Better cowardly than broke and homeless.
Sorry, I've heard that bullshit excuse for years. I moved to typing because writing was so laborious for me. My handwriting is more or less the same as it was 10+ years ago at this point and it's equally slow and illegible on both hands.
I mean the fact that you in Java, etc. any function you call may throw an exception, which automatically propagates upwards from the code that calls the function, which results in part of the code in your function being executed and part not being executed, without any obvious signs of that (like having an early return or a "?" in the function).

If the exception is not a RuntimeException and not declared in the throws clause, then the compiler will error out, but in other cases the code will compile.

In Rust, you need to use the "?" operator when you call an exception-throwing function to propagate the exception, and if you don't you will get a Result, and a warning if you don't use it (i.e. not using "?" in Rust is like using Try in Scala).

If Rust code has no "?" or "return", then no exceptions will be thrown and the code will fully execute, except for aborts and panics which are guaranteed to make all visible memory inaccessible, so you will never see a partial modification of an object due to an unexpected exception being thrown.
"Cheap shares" are only cheap because investors are pricing in less growth compared to other countries with similar revenue. Common mistake new investors make is to invest only in companies with low P/E because they're "underpriced". But the pricing is the market saying they have little faith in their abilities to improve their business.

The obvious explanation is that the market is getting better at assessing growth. Of course there are companies like Tesla, Nikola, Snowflake with insane valuations relative to their actual business (and two of them are solid companies with real products and growth). It might be possible that people are pricing in too much growth. But when yields outside of equities are so low you kind of have to chase growth, which incentivizes investors to pile onto growth opportunities.
Thanks for another great post!

One thing I don't fully understand is the economics. How could HP make a processor that was competitive with the 6800 using inferior metal gate technology (which presumably meant a much bigger die size) for only $15 compared to $360 for the 6800?
I suspect one of the largest problems with converting an airliner into a house would be getting the legal permission to do it.

Obviously, the fact that it has been done means that it is legally possible in some jurisdictions, but it's likely to be an uphill battle--or completely impossible--elsewhere.

Communities that require newly constructed buildings to match the character of the neighborhood likely would never grant permission for an airliner house. Jurisdictions that don't have this requirement would still require building code compliance, which could be extremely difficult to achieve as the technical standards used in aviation are not comparable to those used in conventional construction or mobile homes. At minimum, you'd have major issues with insulation requirements, fire resistance, and emergency egress.

After all of this, you'd still need to find a bank willing to issue a construction loan/mortgage, and an insurer willing to cover the finished product.

$300K might be a very low-end estimate of the costs involved to make everything physically and legally proper.
I have solo freelanced for a little over a decade. The prior almost 30 years of my career was mostly spent in cubicle farms with other programmers. I started programming professionally (meaning I got paid to do it) in 1977, to give some context. I started programming for free, on my own and in school, in 1974.

One thing I learned early on, thanks to some good mentors and managers, was that expanding my interests and skills out of programming would improve my chances of surviving a layoff or getting made obsolete. The most recent incident, at my last full-time job at an educational software company, illustrates that. Most of the programmers I worked with limited themselves to a couple of programming languages, hated meetings, did not interact with marketing or sales or management except under duress. When the company's fortunes turned and they started laying people off, I survived. I actually asked the CEO (my two direct managers had been laid off) why more senior people had lost their jobs but I hadn't. He told me that I was the only programmer who had taken an interest in the business, could work with marketing people, and had expanded my skills when needed (I had to learn enough Lisp in a hurry to deal with a product the company bought and had to integrate, no one else volunteered).

I've had similar experiences in my career, and I attribute it to being that one person, or one of a small number of programmers, who took the opportunity to learn the business domain and contribute in ways beyond just writing code. I survived at another company that replaced a lot of in-house code with a Salesforce-like product, probably because I was one of the only people in the programming group who didn't crap all over and moan about the management decision (I actually pointed out that our backlog of technical debt evaporated when the company moved to a third-party solution).

I still write code most of the time, but my customers (most of whom I've had for 3 years or more, a couple for a decade) tell me they appreciate that I take an interest in their business and help them solve business problems, rather than just telling them that rewriting in Rust or whatever will solve everything, which most managers have heard (or tried to do) enough times by now to show some caution.
> There's a thing I see with younger tech authors where they don't want to admit it, but they're for the most part chasing fame

They'd see it as "making an impact [and standing to benefit from that]." Not casting judgment here. It's just that the motive really decides how you focus your time, which determines the outcome and the types of things you work on.

HN seems to be preoccupied with this notion of whether something is relevant. Thing is, as you get older, that is less of a draw, as your life experience shows you how to evaluate things beyond what other people say about them.
"There are some people (who are typically not dermatologists or experts in the biology of skin cancer) who have advocated for tanning to get vitamin D. But we know that UVB light causes skin cancer and that protecting yourself against it makes sense. As a doctor who treats patients who have melanomas, I want the general public to be advised that under no circumstances can use of a tanning bed or tanning in general be justified on the basis of vitamin D. Take a supplement instead."

https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/vitamin-d-myths-debunke...
Every actuator comes with a lot of overhead in terms of cost, mass, complexity, and two more limbs don't offer much of an advantage over a quadruped. Interesting point about insects, but this was a largeish vehicle. How many large hexapod animals can you name?
Exploits for this have been floating on Github for at least a week already. The vulnerability game has become pretty fast paced nowerdays..
Say no to fun stuff 20% of the time and invest that money - the younger the better. Time is your very best friend when it comes to retiring comfortably. But say "yes" to enough things that you'll have fond memories to look back on with friends and family.

Time does start passing quicker. Perhaps the brain slows down and you capture fewer frames per second, but the end result is you start to learn how important it is to prioritize to avoid having spent your precious time on trivial things instead of meaningful things.

Time is infinitely valuable compared to money. Do the math. You can always earn more money, but you will run out of time. Does that contradict my first statement? No. When you're older you'll want enough money to be able to spend your time as you wish.

The vast majority of things you think are of the utmost priority now will seem trivial looking back on them ten years later. If you can learn this early it makes it far easier to remain rational about your decisions and how much things are worth.

Your body will start getting in the way of things you want to accomplish. You'll get tired sooner, you'll have health problems that interrupt your momentum or require long periods of recovery, it will be frustrating to struggle at things that were once easy. Don't wait too late to do the things you are truly passionate about. Retirement might be too late.
> no architecture can ever

But that's the whole point of OOO isn't it? Keep executing stuff down the line while previous instructions are waiting for the cache to get filled.
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I agree. I used to fall asleep in classes taking notes. I ditched the notebook and started intensely focusing on the lecturer and trying to listen actively. Attention improved and comprehension skyrocketed. As long as what was covered was also found in printed material like a book, I was much better off.

It's n=1, but I didn't see any studies cited in the article either, just expert opinion and suggestions like the unweildly "Cornell method", which I have tried to use without success and never seen anyone else use.

It probably comes down to a lot of cognitive variation among people. In my experience, reviewing notes that I took during lecture has about zero productivity. They don't mean anything afterward, they just reflect a few bits and pieces that made it through eyes/ears, brain, and hand. I'd be better off with a stenographer's transcript or, you know, a book chapter I had read before hand.
Sometimes, but well-written PowerShell scripts can be surprisingly readable, particularly in comparison to bash.
I've always been amazed by this ability to track your ancestors hundreds of years back. Were the records that good back then?

I had lots of trouble getting birth records for my great-grandparents. The system in my country was terrible, if I didn't have the exact name and date of birth, they couldn't find anything. Nothing was digitized, maybe that changed but I doubt it.

In fact, I did have the wrong day but fortunately the right month and year for my great-grandfather, and it took them a month to find the information. It was expensive, too.
Steve Furber has said the same thing and Herman Hauser has said they approached Intel for an 8086 with higher bus bandwidth, but were turned away!
I don't think this exists on a small scale yet.

On industrial scales, CO2 is commonly removed with reusable scrubber chemicals, referred to as a group as amines. The amine acts as a CO2 solvent, removing the CO2 from the bulk gas. The 'rich' amine is then cycled to a separate location in the process where it is heated up, causing the CO2 to bubble out of solution, regenerating the amine for reuse, etc.

I don't see any reason in principal why this can't be miniaturized, but it would be a challenging engineering problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_gas_treating
Spot on. Bernie's rise in 2016 was partly in response to that . The actual left is powerless despite the response Bernie got in both his runs without large contributions.

Joe Biden is very much in the centre at best, given the new focus on trying to woo republican voters the party is shifting to the right.
> you need to design your code to rollback any changes before it

Citation needed on this one. In almost two decades I never once came across code that straight away required such rollbacks.
I used to own [myfullname].com. I inadvertently let it expire, and godaddy immediately bought it up and listed it for purchase at multiple thousands of dollars.

I don't often say something like this, but Godaddy is a terrible company. They have a long history of running sexist and degrading ads, and they supported SOPA until they were boycotted off using it.
certainly teasing out the most rational in all cases requires many more words than i can possibly write, but i think we're also looking at it from different perspectives. what's seemingly rational for the investor in the short-term may not be rational in the long-term or for the resilience and longevity of the economy.

the marginal utility of the next dollar tends to zero as an investor's wealth increases (assumed to be someone above the median in wealth/income), both to the individual and to the economy, but the economy has no signal to indicate that. it's assumed that more is better, greed is good, but that's clearly not the case from the many other, sometimes indirect, socioeconomic signals we have around us. those low-utility dollars tend to be less well-invested than higher utility dollars, even if the returns are net positive. for an economy, especially one predicated on the idea of being highly efficient at allocating investment, that's problematic.

further, washing otherwise fundamentally sound businesses (including tech and real estate) in too much money distorts their ability to discern the next best, positive-NPV (and sometimes counterintuitive) investment. in fact, studies show that managers will time and again allocate capital to negative-NPV investments if it provides personal gain (both economic and non-economic) at the expense of others.
It’s fact isn’t it? The US government as well as Americans themselves regularly use crimes done by Russia and China to distract from crimes done by their own government.