skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you can buy brightly coloured appliances. My toaster is bright blue. There was also bright red available.
Data on which stocks are getting the most mentions in WSB is useful to sophisticated investors/traders, because it tells them which stocks have the most retail attention which they'd be interested in counter-trading. Otherwise I don't think WSB is given any attention by sophisticated actors unless it's for humor/enjoyment.
Yes, my personal experience is 123F internal temperature around 4pm after car being parked whole day, one time in July in California. 110F many times.
MX Linux 19.2 KDE Plasma Edition– Features KDE Plasma 5.14
Never heard about NaNoWriMo before. Great pointer! Relayed to my wife, who has let her writing talent lay dormant for quite some time.
> The headline is of course false. The founders got their first users first

Let me guess - you're a fan of Snopes. Pedant.

It's a very good article, and well worth reading. Marketing doesn't consist of one magic technique.
Humanity really is misled. The production of cosmetics, which I believe is not particularly vital to anyone’s survival, could be cut by ~20% and we could manufacture the vaccine with no change in the amount of fishing of sharks. What is definitely interesting though is that I haven’t heard of this before. I wonder if it could be cosmetic product companies trying to keep things like this in the dark, similarly to how oil companies spread misinformation about fossil fuels? I don’t wish to don the tinfoil hat, but I would say it’s not all that unlikely that it is done. Information is the gold of our age, after all :)
+1 for the "powered by" acquisition channel.

1) Add "powered by"

2) Gain from brand awareness / leads it generates

3) Also gain by selling a higher tiered "white-label" plan that large co's can upgrade to if they want to remove your powered by branding.

Even if it fails as an acquisition channel, it can still succeed at encouraging an upsell path.
And the Amazon reviews are still live from the early 2000s!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B00001U0AJ/

> If you have a slow computer (less then 200mhz) the pictures will be a bit fuzzy and the lighting is bad.
What Does It Take to Be a Productive Facebook Advertiser
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You're not the only one - though I completely forgot I used to do that until I read your comment!
I nearly fell out of my couch laughing!

I lived in 3 different islands with tons of boats (from cruise ships to yaughts, to tankers, to cargo), have never heard "the hum" (nor has anybody else complained or mentioned any of the thousands there), don't even know what you're on about...
That and a maze of empty, clickbait deflections in the first 5 paragraphs and I couldn't even tell when we'd arrived at the point or not.

There may well be some good research and advice here but the presentation is trashy. State the conclusion in the first sentence and then back it up. Use a solid headline, not deception.
*why are extremists winning in a world where 99% of people are moderate and normal. These new right wing groups like the Boogaloo group and others were largely a reaction to left wing extremists groups after they were normalized. Extremists exist on both sides, the Guardian seems to forget this regularly and publishes its big tech opinion on a lopsided argument. Right wing extremists exist, but I also have a "black power" fist spray painted on a wall outside visible from my window. Its not a nazi sign, its not a white power fist...its a black power fist. Normalizing one side and making an example of extremism from the other is a bit ridiculous. Condemn it all. They could have easily pointed out both sides and why society at large is subject to few extremists amongst us which is largely a result of allowing online mobs to exist.
I find if I stop weight training I start getting wrist discomfort.

If you have wrist pain, starting weightlifting is risky and you should probably do these as "rehab".

But if you're going to take the time to do these exercises, you might as well do weightlifting to get exercise, strength bone density and longer life as well.
About Charles Forman
> When most people talk about investing in index funds they're largely talking about funds like eg. $SPY, not total market funds like $VTI.

You're not wrong, but for most people, most of the time, this quibble is not worth getting into.

Too many people are not saving anything, either because they (feel they) don't have enough income, are too scared of headlines, or just are not financially literate enough. If these people manage to get something (anything) going, even if it is into a 'non-optimal' S&P 500 fund, that's getting them from 0 to 80. I would be happy with more people doing 'only' that.

If you want to try to try to get them from 80 to 100, be my guest: but IMHO the perfect is the enemy of the good in this case.

> The usual counterargument to this is that we should reach an equilibrium where active managers will then be free to invest in companies that are undervalued simply because they're not a part of an index, but of course that also is making a number of assumptions.

There will always people who think they can do better, and some of those people will be right (at least some of the time):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman-Stiglitz_Paradox
The article doesn't say, but if it used an OpenStreetMap-based routing engine (which you can self-host because, y'know, open data) then the directions might misalign to the display layer which is Apple Maps. Therefore it must send your directions request to Apple. Which I guess is fine, they'll just see "some DDG user" requesting certain directions and it's definitely not the worst company they could be working with, I'm just a bit surprised that DDG went with Apple Maps instead of self hosting.
The story of “Bob”, the world’s worst market timer:

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
This is clearly rhetorical, not substantial argument. Using the same label for vaccine production, and wet markets ('exploitation' in your case) doesn't make it the same thing. From epidemiological perspective it's not even similar.
Nitpick: not all sharks are carnivores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnethead:

“Bonnetheads also ingest large amounts of seagrass, which has been found to make up around 62.1% of gut content mass. The species appear to be omnivorous, the only known case of plant feeding in sharks. The shark may perform this activity to protect its stomach against the spiny carapaces of the blue crab which it feeds on. A 2018 study with a carbon isotope-labelled seagrass diet found that they could digest seagrass with at least moderate efficiency, with 50±2% digestibility of seagrass organic matter, and had cellulose-component-degrading enzyme activity in their hindgut”
> Learning isn't coming up with new analogies for concepts you already completely understand over and over again.

You completely understand learning? :)
Off topic but is the username inclusion in the domain for github.com in the HN submission new? I've never noticed that before.
> Last year this time

WSB really hit the primetime in February/March this year.

https://i.imgur.com/oRxJe4F.png
Writing is like rubber duck debugging for me.

People always ask questions like "How are you thoughts if you are dead/blind?" I'm neither of this and most of my thoughts don't look like images, text, or sound. They are their own convulted thing, a thought.

Talking and writing about them helps me to "linearize" them and to find the holes.

Especially technical writing helps to get things in check. Did I miss some steps? Can I reproduce my conclusion from my text alone, without any extra input?

Write something, try to explain things, it can help you to understand better; even if you think you already know them well.

You don't even need to publish your stuff, though others people input can help greatly too, even if the just ask questions because they don't know the topic as well as you.
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Yes, this!

There is one musician on YT who said that he is simply doodling away on his groovebox frequently and that more than 90 percent of the results are shitty. But from those ideas that are somewhat decent he develops his music.
People that compare the two outcomes will decide to become new active investors that fuels what the parent to my comment is talking about
I feel like natural gas is so cheap that any effort is worth at most $5, for a huge house with lots of people. My total bill in the summer is only $10.

Might be worth shoveling snow on in the winter.
> but making an astroturf "privacy advice" org is disgusting.

Why?
Thanks for the write-up! Im curious, how did you promote ph launch? Did you have a mailing list to let everyone know? Where did the support come from or was it just through luck?
Are they usable for the purpose of writing a client?
Why would they do that? Passive strategies also did well over the last few months.
that argument wouldn't work with native tribes. These things are entirely cultural and specifically judeo-christian

You must have a cartoon sense of "native tribes," because this existed in many "native tribes" and other cultures around the world before the first missionaries arrived.
I dunno. I wasn't part of my then-wife's gaming group in 2006, but there were more women in it than men. The best Call of Cthulhu keeper I've ever met is a woman, and she'd been running games for at least a decade by then. Dueling anecdotes, maybe, but I think if roleplaying ever was a "no girls allowed" club, that must've changed considerably earlier than the author gives it credit for. Or maybe, as with most things especially before the whole world had really melted into the Internet, there was much more local variation than the author was aware of.
All correct. Referring to WSB as (having ever been) "nice people" also seems an odd way to view the sub. The entire fun of WSB has always been the
4chan humor coupled with the gravity of real money.

I doubt that pro traders are buying simple calls and puts like WSB. But selling them those options when groupthink takes over might be profitable, indeed.
I assume that pros reading WSB are reading it to better cater to and/or take advantage of that crowd rather than to “invest” alongside.

It’s akin to trying to get seated at the poker table with a terrible player. It’s not because you want to emulate their play, but rather you want to be in the game with them.
The real actor in a deepfake doesn't have to look much like the target person. The pool of usable actors thus explodes by many many orders of magnitude. Hence my comparison.
This is incredulous! We need to stop them before they organize to shut down streets, burn city blocks to the ground, murder innocent by-standards, and harass people in libraries and restaurants to accept their beliefs or beaten to a pulp!
Technically, in the United States, you can. Just get all your tax stamps, and make sure the DoE knows about your nuclear material. Good luck finding FOGBANK.

Also good luck filling out all the paperwork. There's a difference between outright banning something and placing an astonishing number of administrative hurdles in the way. Private nuclear weapons come with so much paperwork as to be esssentially impracticable, but never the less possible.

At least that was the verdict last time I looked into the question.
Especially with humans around
I don’t get it, is it some kind of SEO hack? It’s clearly branded as DDG.
Probably want to fix your HTML <title>. Right now it's empty.
roots in conservative Christian thinking

This existed thousands of years before the first Christian, and in almost every culture on the planet.

You might want to re-examine your biases to figure out why you assume that things you disagree with are automatically "conservative Christian thinking."
Several thousand years of Judeo-Christian cultural indoctrination teaching that because Eve tempted Adam into original sin, women and their bodies are inherently unclean and can lead men astray, and thus are to be treated as taboo.

This was going on long before Judeo-Christianity existed, and in almost every single culture on the planet before each made contact with the first Christian.
It clearly says "DuckDuckGo Blog" in the page, so your accusation that it's deliberately causing confusion is just plain false.
It's hard to call it "private" in absolute terms when the principle of operation of the service is to send your data to a third party.

Sure, it's less un-private than using the data vacuum that is Google, but it's still sharing pieces of your life with a random org.
I can understand this feature. At my bar we have to record contact details for every guest such that they may be given to government contact tracers if a COVID case is reported. Currently this is pen and paper
Regarding the author's point that you "need to narrow down and focus on a small enough splice, such that when you tug at its strings, you have a real chance to get noticed" — reminds me of a friend who sends the occasionally newsletter.

Rather than boasting a large email list, the friend signs off every email with the line, "sent to 27 subscribers." You have no idea who those 26 other people are, but you know you were hand-picked. This is not a list you sign up for, but it's one where you are likely to pay attention.

Audience matters a lot.
> 640x480 is not a camera resolution anymore

But 1280x720 unfortunately is
r/securityanalysis
Yup: follow Ben Carlson (the author of that weblog). As well as his colleague Michael Batnick (https://theirrelevantinvestor.com) and Nick Maggiulli (https://ofdollarsanddata.com).

All the publicly facing folks at Ritholtz Wealth Management seem to be top tier.
Funny, I thought we are apex predators. Why do you want to kill all humans? /s

seriously though, ecosystems are interdependent and predators have their place. I remember watching a documentary about white wolves on a remote isolated island keeping the local population of yaks and rabbits from eating the island clean. They are absolutely vital for that particular ecology. Similarly it is not our place to rank animals by importance, since we are as a species quite obviously imbeciles.
I wish I could remember the name of the book, but I remember a few stories. The author was a young broker, and had a truck driver client. The truck driver was pretty adamant about investing in this factory that kept growing every time their route took them out there. It was a tampon factory, and there was institutional bias about dumping millions into women's products. Truck driver ended up retiring early.

Another was Pep Boys, the name is stupid, hard to pitch to an institutional investor, but made tons of money when someone got over their embarrassment.

Aside from biases, He called out La Quinta, you experience doesn't have to be super deep. The guy recognized it was clean, inexpensive, not the Ritz but a solid deal for what you got.

The last strategy that I thought was sorta odd (but makes sense) is companies that own big chunks of other companies. Their example was AT&T being cheap, but owning big chunks of cell phone companies. We sorta saw the same thing play out with Yahoo and Ali-baba.

Peter Lynch! One up on Wall Street! Probably super dated now, but was a pretty interesting perspective on trying to see things other people didn't see.
Hey, author here. By "first users" I didn't mean they got their first users FIRST. But yeah, got your point. Changed the headline to "Powered by" - An Acquisition Channel Nobody is Talking About".
As a concrete example.

My father in law is a fisherman, of various shellfish. Puts a premium on being sustainable and a lot of his business is farm raised shellfish.

Rays eat the shellfish. They can decimate beds of shellfish.

Sharks eat the rays.

I've joked with him about raising sharks as a farm raised fish. He laughs but gets kinda terrified of the idea because he actually thinks it through a bit half seriously and is nervous about sharks.

I'm surprised there isn't aquaculture programs for sharks though if there's such a demand. Lots of sharks are small.

My impression based on reading a bunch of links is that a bit of genetic engineering and bigger demand would improve yields and efficiency of plant and microbial squalene. It seems like in this type of situation the differential is usually due to historical convenience.

Biomedical research is full of examples of this sort of thing. It's not exactly a beacon historically for animal welfare. Horseshoe crabs are a similar example that come to mind as a para llel.
The Mole: How a Dane Tricked North-Korea
IMO, the only reliable way is to watch them over a 50-plus-year period and look backward.
No list. As I said in the post, I had very little audience. Most of the success is due to me randomly messaging my Twitter contacts and asking for their support. I messaged ahead of time (maybe a few hours before?) just so it wasn't out of the blue. Everyone agreed. Some were already customers (I made some sales before the launch) so they left honest reviews of the product.

I think the other part of this being successful was the giveaway tweet, plus all the friends who just wanted to support me. I am really thankful they did!
Powered by has been around for 20 years, it's known trick and generally only applicable for the free tier of product.

One can imagine a Web page: powered by d3, hosted on github, protected by cloudflare, built by Travis CI and scanned by snyk.

It's somewhat tolerable, and it's cute.

But it doesn't apply so well for non free stuff.
Nice, however the site is pretty slow to load for me
Ahh you are talking about job interviews, I'm talking about 200 or 300 level college classes.

Both of my programming interviews had some tech questions but no white board coding. That said neither were exactly entry level.
A problem with (2) is what if all the companies in your industry are rubbish investments relative to the index. You may be able to identity the best business in your sector, but it may still be a worse investment than the worst company in a different sector.

A second problem with (2) is that working in a particular industry makes you already massively `overweight' that sector. If something goes wrong with that industry, you could be out of a job. The last thing you need is for your investments to go wrong at the same time.
A noble effort, for sure, but to properly adjudicate this could consume boundless resources.

On the other hand, paying Yelp money to take down such notices from a business's page could be a robust revenue stream. Didn't something like this happen before?
International statement: End-to-end encryption and public safety
that was a surprisingly good read
Dying breed? Golly I sure hope not. There's at least two of we liberty guards left at least. The entire country was architected around the premise of liberty being more important than the State's capacity to deliver perfect security.
So much can be gleaned from the way points. Google guesses home and work with great accuracy without the need for crazy fancy data analysis.
But are you going to trust aljazeera's signature on a [potential] deepfake of an American politician as the only source of truth about whether that video is real?
Where’s the url.?
There's also the medieval board game Rithomachia that is based on Boethian mathematical philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy
Interesting gas pump related differences between Germany and the US:

- German gas pumps are mandated to have a vapor recovery system, which sucks out the poisonous air vapors from the tank as it is being displaced by new gas. US pumps don't appear to be mandated to have such a system, but many still seem to have it. They also often have some kind of plastic or rubber seal behind the tip of the nozzle that prevents gases from escaping the fuel tank - irritatingly, this seal, which I consider a great and practical idea, is almost unheard of at German gas pumps, even though they are mandated by law to perform vapor recovery, and one would think that such a seal would help with that.

- The notion of pre-paid gas is almost nonexistent in Germany, and doing pre-paid gas purchases - including doing the dance of having to walk to the shop assistant twice or estimating the remaining space in the tank and only filling it up partially - are a typical "weird thing" German travelers encounter when they do their first US road trip.
Pumps here in Germany usually don't even seem to have the capability to slow down fuel pumping when the money runs out, nor can they completely shut off the flow. There are a few modern pumps that can do this, they allow you to pre-select an amount (that you don't have to pre-pay, the pre-selection is just a convenience thing for the customer), but most of them can't. There are a few automated, unmanned gas stations where you "kind of pre-pay" the fuel by placing a hold on your credit card, then fill up, and finally you complete the purchase at which point the account is charged the amount you purchased. But the size of the hold is usually high enough to cover even the largest cars' fuel tank to be completely filled, so it is untypical to hit that limit. Because of this, I don't even know what happens then with regard of the fuel flow: whether it actually stops (because of the aforementioned technical inability of most of the pumps in Germany to stop at a precisely predeterminable dispensed amount, implementing that might not be so easy) or whether it just lets you run past the limit and sorts out potential fraudsters later (by involving law enforcement and identification of the customer via the credit/debit card).

- Switching between different kinds of gas (octane differences, or premium fuels) is usually done by taking a different hose from a rack of 4-6 hoses + nozzles attached to the same pump. The US-typical switches you need to press to choose your fuel type are inexistent in Germany. These have also been a major hiccup source for first-time US road trippers in my circle of friends: "Why doesn't the gas flow? I've done everything right...ah, I need to choose which gas I want first!"
If comment was made WRT alleged fit for demanding performance - JIT-ted languages usually can't compete and unpredictable performance could mean unpredictable failures.
Author here. I disagree. When introducing something new, I want to start with HOW I came to the conclusion. Just my style. I understand you if you don't agree though.
Here’s my unscientific breakdown of how I view the Nolly, Cali, and Nameless plugins.

Nolly: most versatile thanks to its multiple amps, far and away my favorite for most things. I recently used it to mix an entire album of very polished black metal, replacing the real fuzzy mic signals captured in the studio. The band loved it. Extremely detailed. Got some gorgeous cleans out of it, too.

Cali: this one reminds me a lot of my own Marshall tube amp. It was the first one that really sold me on using Neural DSP plugins instead of amps in the studio. It’s a lot dirtier than the Nolly and I don’t find it appropriate for situations where I want a very polished sound. Recently chose this over the Nolly for a more organic sounding black metal project.

Nameless: this always sounds unnatural to me. It’s good and intense but I always come away feeling like it’s fizzy and flat. It’s a simulation of an amp Fortin made for Meshuggah, so I think it might have a very specific audience. Last year, I blended this with some live amp signals to get some added bite and it worked nicely but I haven’t reached for it since then.

You might also consider disabling the cab sim in the plugin and use a third party IR loader. I find GGD Zilla Cabs to be a complete game changer, a cheap and crucial upgrade to every one of Neural DSP’s plugins.
Wars, and plagues do help “the environment" when the latter is meant in the way too many environmentalist view it - as a no-human wilderness.
How much will they charge businesses to get it removed from their pages ?