skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno about gamedev, but in regular software development there's very little overtime (meaning most everyone just works 40 hours per week, unless you're in a shitty/struggling company) and, if OT is needed, it usually compensated with time off work later (as opposed to extra pay).
didnt realize that link was behind paywall. It won't happen again.

Gist of the story is that an amateur law student was amazingly good at predicting AAPL earnings every quarter. Graduated, and started his own hedge fund.

Publicly advocated buying options because AAPL could only go up bc profits were increasing. That's also what he did with investors' money. Options expired worthless. All $$ lost.

AAPL price did not follow increase in earnings in straight line.
Oh my goodness, you literally wrote the ideas I was thinking about from a learning perspective.

I wrote about very similar things from a teaching perspective here: https://lelon.io/blog/how-to-teach-math

In fact, I've thought a lot about how to generalize these techniques to a data structure (i.e. knowledge graph) so that anyone can zoom in or out to whatever level of abstraction they please:

https://lelon.io/blog/boosting-scientific-productivity-again

Would love to chat sometime!
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Ah that's a good idea. It doesn't bother me at all (since I know what it is, it's rather comforting and brings back good memories) but never considered that it might bother people who have no idea what it is (I've heard it as far as 20mi/30km away from a shipping lane in the US.) I live about 1mi/2km from a canal that regularly has barge traffic late at night. I'll see if I can find a mic or equipment that can pick up the hum, then do a little study. It'll be fun and also make it easy to reproduce around the world.

Edit: I've also considered that the frequency could be a resonant frequency in the human body for some people, making it seem unnaturally loud. My wife can't hear it.
On pure utilitarian grounds, sharks are all carnivores who kill thousands of other animals over their life in horrific, painful ways.

That doesn’t mean that there’s not environmental reasons to justify shark conservation. But from the standpoint of animal suffering killing apex predators is almost certainly a net good.
> Apart from that, it is not really clear to me what you are trying to achieve
> To me self hosting and average user is not compatible especially in analytics where the average user barely knows how to use a computer.

This is exactly my point and my goal. First of all, when I mean average user I referrer only to those people that actually have a business/website to use those tools for, not to the average internet user. So, if they already have a website, they probably know at least how to purchase or even edit one (through code, WordPress or a visual editor).

My goal is that for those people, who are already technical enough to have their own website, "self-hosting" of their desired tool is just as simple as using 3rd party tools. It should not be harder to use self-hosted userTrack than it is to use Google Analytics. This is almost possible now, but the server/cloud providers are still working on providing APIs and services for making this more accessible.

Even now, you can go to certain GitHub repositories and click the "Deploy to Heroku" button, and with one click you have your own server running your desired application. The problem is that this is mostly limited to some hosting providers and to a very few applications. This should be possible to do, in an easy, secure and maintainable way for a wide variety of applications and hosting providers.
Beginner-Friendly Resources for Python
Very interesting. To bookmark when teaching to junior.
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You are pretty much stuck with exotic luxury cars, sports cars, and motorcycles, if you want a vehicle in a non standard color.

This issue with boring colors also is in housing, if you are going sell a house the boring colors work and even slight deviation can lead to having your rep ask you to repaint.

You can take it one more step, business attire.
It actually changed around the turn of the century with the events of the Spanish war. That’s when the US became an imperial power, there were many against it though
The book "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student" is a great resource to improve your authorship. It's dense, meticulous, and for me, invaluable. I consider it the literary equivalent of a technical manual.

It's quite dense, not a passive read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Classical-Rhetoric-Modern-Student-...
#2 doesn’t work. At least for heavily-traded sectors. Why?

First: “The markets will remain irrational longer than you will remain solvent.” Fed policy pumped in too much dumb money. If you don’t think like them, you lose.

Second: “Markets create their own reality.” Dumb money eventually creates smart results. Today access to capital is far more important than any other factor in success.

Third: “Opportunity is blood in the water.” Good investments are entrenched stable markets. Disruptive technologies kill margins for everybody.
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I wonder whether people heard the hum more or less, quieter or louder during the lockdown when everything was so much quieter. Anyone know of any change?

I've heard the hum many times in different parts of the UK and its usually loudest on bank holidays - that is, the days when things are most quiet. I think I'm hearing my own blood pumping away - a kind of merged drum beat.

Now - I have also heard the associated "Hummadruz" too - which is more of an insect / bee drone. I recorded it on my camera but the audio couldn't pick it up. However I was walking though a field where there were many foxgloves, dry stone walls and bees around in high summer. Non hive bees will often live and buzz in their holes, so the hummadruz could be literally insects.

The low bassy drone in both the hum and the hummadruz makes it hard to pin point the direction - it's why you only need one bass speaker in most hi fi systems.
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So long as there is transparency about how pay changes based on location, it is possible to do this fairly. The US Government civilian pay scale is a good example. If you are a GS-12 step 1, your base pay is $66,167, but that goes up with locality pay. A GS-12/1 in New York earns $88,651 but a GS-12/1 in Tucson earns $77,541. It seems like a big difference, but based on cost of living, the GS-12/1 in Tucson probably has a bigger house and fewer expenses. You could argue whether those numbers are right, but at least it's fully transparent. Companies that are moving towards this model should make transparency a priority. Perhaps you can negotiate for base pay and know that it will be adjusted by a certain percentage based on where you decide to live.
Actually the GPL never says you cannot sell your software. It just says you have to provide source with it and you cannot prevent others from redistributing the source.

Edit: no idea what the software mentioned above does, just correcting a common misconception.
A society that does not protect the elderly and the sick is not a place where I want to live.
I agree about the aesthetics, I had not thought about that before.
My favorite line in all of this is when he is getting grilled by Arsenio Hall about his background and says “It doesn’t matter where you come from, it’s where you’re at.”

I think that critics in the US are too obsessed with the idea of “authenticity”. Authenticity can be a useful device for quality control, and many authentic things are truly great. But it’s also often used to make people feel guilty for enjoying things which are inauthentic, which is really unfortunate.

Vanilla Ice is a talented guy, and “Ice Ice Baby” brought me a ton of joy in my youth. He really did not deserve the amount of ridicule that he received in the popular media.
Well you're in a dying breed it seems. These days liberty is not worth more than death. In other words, it's increasingly popular to trade some liberty in exchange for saving lives. Take away people's gun liberty, take away people's liberty to refuse wearing a mask, take away people's liberty to say hateful/hurtful things to the vulnerable on social media and you can save thousands, even tens of thousands of lives per year.

The problem with liberty is that some % of people (bad actors) abuse it to cause harm to others
> Invited on The Arsenio Hall Show, Ice walked blithely into the lion’s den... It remains a brutal interview to watch. You can practically see Ice’s career leave his body....

Way to exaggerate! The interview was very cordial, considering how much hate the guy was getting at the time.

Completely unrelated, but want to watch a brutal interview? Check Cathey Newman interviewing Jordan Peterson (who still managed to come out relatively unscathed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Not a life changing amount but not bad.

How much time would you say you spent on all of the promotion parts?
Please hack on GridRoyale, a life simulation for exploring social dynamics
FEDS are laughing at this, they do whatever they want to.
Excuse the ad hominem, but did you miss the food chain class in elementary school? “Very stupid” has exactly “fuck all” to do with how important they are to the ecology of the oceans. If the ocean food chain collapses, there’s no coming back from that for millennia. Like, what?

This compound is found in wheat! Wheat!
>All data is captured in a way that’s easily reportable to the government.

This is a feature? No thanks!
I have and have restored a few fender blues juniors and they are all quiet enough for residential. Just crank the volume but keep the master at 1-1.5. It’s not ideal, but you do get the desired sound.
I like to explain recursion by describing how I often write functions. I'll get to a bit where there's something complicated needed, like a loop with a lot of conditional logic. So I'll realize it's going to be complex, decide how that piece of code could be turned into a function by deciding what to send in, and what to send out, and then put that call in and finish writing the original function. Then I'll write the (so far) imaginary function which contains the complex bit.

So recursion is just realizing that I can do the complex bit by calling the current function!

Of course, this sometimes means that the function signature needs to change, to (say) include a collecting list or something. But that's the general idea.

I'm not sure if this has ever helped anyone :-)
A copy doesn't know it's a copy though. Your subjective experience of continuous consciousness doesn't really exist - this is most notable under general anesthetic (even people who report dreams - don't have them - you dream in the moments you're awakening, not while you're under). Sleep is the same - you only dream in the minutes of the morning, not through the night - not through deep sleep.

How would a copy know the difference? You lie down on a bed, are put under, and wake up - the copy having been made. How do you know you're not the copy? How do you know which one woke up?
If this sounds desirable to you, by all means offer yourself as a volunteer for human sacrifice in the altar of Mother Nature.

I'd rather have vaccines.
Well, I had other things as well (e.g., telcos, which did pretty well). It's just that when I started RIMM was on top of the world: this before the iPhone was released. Over the course of some time (I don't remember the exact dates/years anymore), AAPL went up and RIMM went down.

Which goes to show that being on top is no guarantee of anything. Just ask ExxonMobil (XOM): in 2013, a scant seven years ago, it was the largest company in the world (surpassing Apple).

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel/2013/01/25/exxo...

This past week it's not even largest US energy company:

* https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/investing/exxon-stock-solar-w...

I sold everything around when Apple did their split in that time frame, and moved to a more passive strategy.
Have you played around with dosage?
It seems you’ve put a lot of effort in it. Well done. Really like the design
There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)
A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
Handwritten codexes have existed for long, why is the printing press such a big deal?
Some unions get pretty big and have a monopoly on what they do. At what point do the union member organize another union against the union leadership ? My point is the government is such a union.
The headline is of course false. The founders got their first users first, and then got more users by putting their name on the UI of their products, which are embedded in public-facing publications, which their customers' competitors can see.

Savvy powerful customers like Amazon sign contracts banning disclosure of the relationship, for exactly this reason.
They charge a substantial fee for the right to be used as advertising.
Not a single real world engineering example and analysis. Concepts and culture stuff.
> Going with index funds is no more and no less than investing in the entire market

I don't think that's entirely true. When most people talk about investing in index funds they're largely talking about funds like eg. $SPY, not total market funds like $VTI.

There's certainly a case to be made that increasing passive investing in certain indices (like $SPY) causes companies within the index to be overvalued simply because of the nature of passive investing. You often see companies getting a big boost in their share price simply for joining the S&P, even though reason would dictate that there's nothing fundamentally different about the company.

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.

Without reading the article too deeply I'm not sure if that's Burry's specific criticism, but it's one that's not uncommon and certainly isn't completely outlandish.
I have a hard time believing most people would willingly use a system that pointed out their own inconsistencies. That's the type of thing people need to discover themselves, and tend to get hostile if it's not handled very delicately.
The premise of your argument seems to be that the number of victims that a weapon can be unleashed on should not be a criterion for banning it. Am I getting that right?

If so, can I please be allowed to have my own private nuclear warhead? I promise to only use it as a deterrent against a similarly armed government getting too "oppressive".

I promise not to set it off in a bout of drunken depression.
The opposite of that method is also valid, go on builtwith search on which website your competitors is installed, contact each website owners and offer them your solution
Hmm, good question. Hard to say really, but it is not a trivial amount of time. The launch itself was literally at least 20 hours. I did get 4 hours of sleep ;) But to promote the whole thing it probably took several days. Yeah that sounds about right.

For me it is more than just about the money - I do okay as a consultant. There's just a somewhat of a special feeling when you create something - a product - and sell it. It's just not the same as providing a service. I hope that makes sense.
It would destroy sales in large parts of the world where it's the default messaging app, similar to how kicking off WhatsApp would in other parts of the world.
That shit is really fucking transparent. Let's see how they try to paint this as damaging to the young. Remember, they're building up to talk about how bad isolation is for The Children(TM).

> The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates,

... and lower exposures to practically everything you'd vaccinate against. It's not like there's a 6 month window and the vaccines don't work after that.

> worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes,

Cardiovascular disease overwhelmingly occurs in older, COVID-vulnerable people.

> fewer cancer screenings

Cancer is far more common in older, COVID-vulnerable people. Young people get few routine cancer screenings, because such screenings don't make sense.

> and deteriorating mental health

Obviously you're going to have "deteriorating mental health" in a pandemic. However, there is literally zero reason to think that protective measures are going to cause more mental health problems than death all over the place. You have the fear either way.

> – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come,

Speculation.

> with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden.

Speculation.

> Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

There are a bunch of "experts" who think that school improves mental health. When you dig into why they think that, they have almost nothing. People who liked school think it's good. People who did not like school think it's bad. I'm definitely convinced that school sucked for my mental health.

> We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young.

Thousand-fold my ass, unless by "young" you mean under maybe 12. Notice that they want to send young adults back to work.

Also, it not killing you doesn't mean that it won't fuck you up. "We" also know that COVID often causes permanent damage to various organs in people who don't die of it, including young people.

> The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk.

There is, of course, no practical way to do that. Guess what, assholes: these groups you want to isolate are all mixed up with one another. They live together, and they cannot afford to do otherwise. The fact is that "the underprivileged" are the ones just about least able to send Junior to school and somehow keep him away from Grandma when he gets home.

That declaration is cheap low-effort propaganda from an association of rentiers who are afraid they won't get their rents.
Control is probably the main point. The python interface makes things easy but doesn't offer enough control for my case. I tested it with a cut down example (no video decoding, no funny stuff) and it all comes down to the batch size that is passed to model.predict. Large batches level out at around 10000 fps depending on the GPU and batch size 1 goes down to 200 fps independent of the GPU. This tells me that some kind of overhead (hidden to me) is slowing things down. I guess that I have to go much deeper into the internals of TF to find out more - so far I did not because it's a large time hole that only offers better performance in a part that is not super critical right now.

The GIL and slowness of Python become a problem when processing multiple streams or doing further time consuming calculations in Python.
The opposite has been shown to be true. For example, see the effect of wolf reintroduction upon biodiversity. They keep other populations in check which themselves would overall cause harm.

Look at the situation in the Scottish highlands. The entire landscape has changed beyond all recognition because of the loss of apex predators (wolves, bears). The deer population is massive, and it prevents forest growth and regeneration, and results in a landscape devoid of its natural biodiversity. This isn't just bad for the environment, we also suffer from related problems such as the spread of ticks spreading Lyme disease.
Sure, move past the innuendo and offer the theory so we can discuss. Throwing out the innuendo without any reason doesn’t help anyone.

Climate change deniers, for example, say the agenda “the redistribution of wealth“

Now we can have a discussion.
It's because BBG is a journalism outlet trying to get views. These article doesn't contain relevant information for sophisticated investors (which the large majority of BBG readers are not)
Why should I use julia over c++11 ?
RemNote: A spaced-repetition note-taking tool
I thought that they already a big pipe going from Facebook to the NSA...
AFAIK, product parts had labels since forever
Building an enterprise application with the .NET Core and RavenDB NoSQL database
Sort of the government version of Poe's law.
You can't fuel your own car in Oregon, or you couldn't the last time I was there.
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You are expecting competence from an administration which dole out management positions to their cronies.

Why not call in Crapita or one of the leading consultancy firms to handle it? That will get you even better (worse you mean?) results at wildly inflated prices as well
You are talking about a different issue (correlation between the stock market and the economy). The person you are replying to is talking about active versus passive investment (i.e. betting on individual stocks to beat the market rather than investing in total market index funds)
Yup. Stock Market is a lot like Family Feud.
You make a glib attempt at a parallel that's not relevant to the topic in the article. The point of this article isn't that we now have a "mechanical" process to make faking easier. That's been known for awhile. The headline specifically calls out acting for the purpose of deepfakes, but the article goes on to discuss the troubles deepfakes can cause.

It's certainly arguable that doppelgangers made "deepfakes" easier in the past, but only easier to those who could hire the actor. And that this technology makes it so that hiring the doppelganger is unnecessary, but it's by no means easier like the printing press made copying books easier.
Stop trying to force yourself to do stuff. Soon you'll only be able to function by making a project out of even stuff that won't be bending themselves to such, well , projects.
It’s worth pointing out that there are some events you can’t buy insurance against. You can buy insurance in case of a burst pipe but not a flood. You can’t buy insurance that will pay out if there’s a nuclear war. You can’t buy insurance that will pay out in case of climate change. The damage is too big, and affects too many people at the same time. Some tail risks are fatal, existential, and the only recourse is not to take the risk at all.
Carbon-negative energy source powers homes on walnut shells
Does the misleading "spreadprivacy" domain name really do more good than harm?

It's fine to market DDG as privacy respecting, but making an astroturf "privacy advice" org is disgusting.
Wow, that must be really annoying. I have it at a very high pitch.

I did get it checked out, and inner ear or nerve damage was suggested as a cause. However, they also suggested that poor posture putting strain on the muscles around the neck could also be a factor, and I have noticed it gets worse when I slouch for extended periods. If you haven't investigated this side of things, it might be worth a go.
> I was told by a friend, "Hey, silver doesn't show dirt as well."

I've had a green-ish brown car. It was exactly the colour of dried mud. I just had to remember not to lean on it :)

But yeah. Go to Toyota. Look for a colour. You won't find any. Even what's labeled as a colour is so washed out it may as well be gray.
Yet people bring knifes to picnics, walks, hikes all the time.

"Normal use of pocket knife" is how the police formulates one of the exceptions or carve-outs for legitimate use of a knife in public spaces. There is a lot of leeway there.
Why not use &#36; ?
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