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> Only 1 of the original companies of the Dow Jones is still in it today

Small companies become bigger, driving returns. That's why you don't just buy the DJIA but rather index the whole market. Of course there will be turnover - the point isn't to lock into any one stock - don't look for the needle, buy the haystack (i.e. a broader-market index).

If you want to include crypto in the haystack, sure, fine, whatever, but at market weights, it's going to be a very small portion of the investable market of stocks, bonds, cash and other asset classes. At some point, it's enough to just keep it simple and broad. A fraction of percent of this or that won't make or break a diversified portfolio.
Here's one rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFNhuDQ0Tc
The consensus view is more vegetables and fiber, and less processed food.
The 17th when the advisory board meets for the second vaccine. For this the board meets on the 10th. Though you are right that we don't know when (or if) it will be approved, it seems unlikely they will wait that long after the board meets.
How is it going within Venezuela these days? Might that have anything to do with its relation to the US? Invasion isn't always the right measure. Invasion is the most expensive and most visible measure and the measure that is most frowned upon. The US has no interest in doing that, I think they learned their lesson. But there are a lot of other ways to retaliate.
Speak of the devil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25290009
Who do these people, the "United Nations", writing their "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," think they are with declaring union organizing a human right? (https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ - article 23)

FWIW, You can pick out any other number of declarations of human rights and the right to form and join trade unions is in them. It's very widely considered to be a human right, not some fringe thing.
Seriously. Gimme a finger-prick analyzer, eh?
I once taught in a physics curriculum that went a step beyond calculators. Students never had to do numerical calculations in the exams. For example, a question asking you to find a force, could have an answer like "F=ma where m=3 kg and a=2m/s". There were higher grades for showing insight into the physics that you could get by looking at the form of the symbolic equations you'd derived but would have trouble noticing if you'd substituted numbers early on.

I wish I had learned times tables properly as a kid though. I struggle with things like 6*7 on a near daily basis for my work and general life. Not really for number sense but for not having to shift my attention to a basic math problem while I'm working on something else.
If you own any amount of Salesforce licenses, you can request a Salesforce Innovation Center (SIC) meeting, and ask them to teach you how they do it. They won’t hesitate to pull in a VP who has been doing it for a decade and they’ll open the kimono and tell you everything you could possibly want to know about their approach.

You have to sit through some pitches for this access, and it will include lots of talk about how Salesforce helps, but there is a ton of value in the exercise.

The exercise itself is its own lesson in enterprise selling.
First, I appreciate the thought you put in to your response.

Every possible demographic has experienced some type of negative outcome from COVID. Most people make a full recovery. Have the fit and healthy passed from COVID? Absolutely, albeit at a staggeringly lower rate than others.

Personally, my wife and I made a decision back in the summer to get back to living our lives and accepting the consequence because we are a family of four healthy individuals. We workout several days per week. Our children are healthy. We don't eat like assholes. We are not licking doorknobs. We have stayed at home when we knowingly came in to contact with someone who tested positive. We respect others' decisions who have decided that stricter measures are right for their situation.

On the site I acknowledge asymptomatic transmission of COVID. If I am worried about getting sick then I should be taking all possible precautions to minimize my risk including self isolation, etc.

A large part of my personal motivation for starting this in the first place is because of the terrible way the media currently reports COVID which is almost exclusively through number of confirmed cases. I'd argue that stat means very little.

It seems true to reason that the sick and unhealthy are the group who suffer the largest impact from COVID. Health is a choice (obviously there are exceptions). Millions of people die every year in the US from otherwise preventable causes like heart disease, lung disease and various forms of cancer. Therefore my thesis is that we are punishing the responsible people in the world to prioritize those who have willfully neglected their health for a significant portion of their life. It's really straightforward to not be significantly overweight and workout 2-3 days per week.
I get it you’re a race realist, I won’t read all of your screed. Just say you love stormfront and move on.

But also, for the sake of clarity - white women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action, not black people. If you’re going to try to blame us for your problems, at least try to be accurate.
(Reply to nmca below, not sure why this shows above). If you make something legal you give them an incentive to obey rules. Yes they're very bad people, but it will attract better people as well. Once they become legal businessmen they will have something to lose.

It will take time yes. But it will happen. Policy should still be very tough on actors using violence, for example those private cartel armies should not be tolerated in the legal model.

But as the price drops due to legalisation they will have no way to pay for all those things anymore.

And yes the US prohibition is a great example as others have mentioned. The alcohol trade went mob-free pretty quickly.
It isn't about what it is today when life is good. It's about what it can become if life gets hard. If everyone agrees this is a good thing they'd all adopt the poison pill. After all, if the poison pill triggers, the organization is clearly acting against its principles and dissolution is better than continuation.

The fact that they won't, and instead use toothless codes that can be repealed when things change make it clear they don't believe this is an immutable part of them but is a marketing ploy.
My daughters attended a local public program where students had to achieve at least 99% on certain tests. The program started out relatively central, then was moved further out. The year after my younger daughter left, the program was split into two, with elementary students as far east as it was possible to go and still be in the district and the middle schoolers as far south.

The district would clearly like to kill the program. It used to be possible to get high school credit for the science classes and the district did away with that.

The one opportunity that students have in some other local schools to advance is to do Compacted Math, where they do 7th and 8th Grade mathematics plus algebra in 2 years instead of the usual 3.

Nowhere in the district is there an opportunity to go faster in English or anything else.

What I would have liked for my daughters is to be able to go to local schools and still have some advanced classes. Their local middle school has 3 classes from one school, 4 from another, and another 4 from a 3rd school. There's 275 kids in a grade. Surely there could be 1 or 2 classes for the fast learners and extra help for some others?

No way, that's tracking and the district refuses to do it.
That’s not quite right. Cannabis in the Netherlands is decriminalized. The production is downright illegal, but it’s not pursued by the law enforcement. Other than that I agree with the rest of your comment.
I'm getting into indie game development. I know next to nothing on game dev, but figured i'd still reply since this specific part interests me quite a bit.

> How do you manage / version assets? Git? Git LFS? ...?

Recently i started working and planning on a 2D game. However i wanted 3D assets, and so the process was very asset and pipeline heavy. As such i wanted my code to always match concrete versions of asset sources - blender/etc - and so i searched around. Git LFS fit wonderfully, with one issue: It's centralized.

Github's Git LFS support is iffy. Their pricing is harsh (imo, for an indie dev) and i couldn't find ways to prune history to save cost. Likewise the entire design of Git LFS requires a centralized server, something i didn't understand.

So since i have a passion and existing projects in various Content Addressable Stores, i decided to attempt to make my own "Git LFS" with a more natural Git-like behavior. Eg syncs over SSH, not requiring servers, etc. I don't want to link it here (anonymous account), but even if i did i wouldn't advise anyone use it - it's a toy project more than anything.

With that said i found the general workflow of Git LFS to be excellent for this purpose (minus the flaws i mentioned). Tracking binary assets worked wonderfully and allowed my code to always match explicit versions of the asset sources - making my pipeline feel very repeatable.

I am a single dev on the game project so i didn't test the binary [un]locking features though - but i hear good things there.
"Because capitalism" is always a terrible argument, whatever your position.

It's a very nebulous term. Does it mean free markets? Does it mean private ownership of the factors of production? Does it mean laissez-faire? Does it mean economic organization of a professional manager class, with management separated from ownership, and ownership characterized by tradeable claims on assets?
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AWS could release a literal turd and someone somewhere would use it in production. Which doesn't mean you should too.
> You can never rebuild a database, and starting with the delusion that you will harm you on the future.

That seems like a silly assumption. Who's to say you can't use databases that you can rebuild from scratch whenever you want? What about append-only logs built with CRDTs and the other ways?
Maybe it's a self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing, do we have high speed games today as we used to, e.g. [1]? If game developers assume shitty hardware and software, they won't make things that require better latency.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1TDNliM99U
Does a 240hz sensor help when the display responds at half that rate?

I guess it's because the latencies stack on top of each other?
Agreed, but in the American context, "fighting" union creation usually means a little more than just sharing informative messages.
SWIFT gpi can't compete with Ripple on a number of important issues. Ripple transfers don't pass through multiple banks and the actual value of the XRP is transferred, not just the data (of the SWIFT ledger).

> Banks can and do move billions instantly

We're not just talking about banks, and if I open my own bank tomorrow I can't use SWIFT the same day (the way I can with Ripple), I have no relationships with correspondent banks.

This is the added value to existing infrastructure.
I remember them being pretty infallible from 1998-2006.
In general? Employer-mandated web apps.

In my personal case? OpenStreetMap/Google maps.
> it seems obviously logical and reasonable that your resignation has been submitted

In the United States, there is a huge difference legally between being fired and resigning. You don't get to declare someone else's "resignation" for them.

Maybe that's the logical thing, but lots of people also bluff and fail.
As you observe, workers talking to each other to agree on prices for labor is the flip side of the coin from CEOs talking to each other to agree on prices for labor. But the latter is in fact illegal. CEOs can't talk to each other and agree to pay $10/hour for warehouse workers. Coordinating with others to set prices for labor or goods isn't viewed as within the scope of freedom of association. Union activities are in fact specifically exempted from anti-trust laws because otherwise they would fall within the scope of them. Workers can agree with each other not to accept less than $15/hour for warehouse workers.

You need something more than freedom of association to justify unions, rooted in the recognition of bargaining disparities between employers and employees.
Sign value.
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The fundamental point of bitcoin is that you don’t need banks. Whether that’s good or bad will be debated for years to come.
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1) Low correlation to other markets. Any 60/40 portfolio that moved just 1% of it's allocation to Bitcoin would have produced a higher sharpe ratio (higher return, less volatility) over past 5 years.

2) Many crypto protocols are already capital assets that generate income streams. These income streams can be discounted to the present just like the income streams of companies.
Examples:
- Ethereum (ETH): It has multiple use cases such as collateral and gas for execution (think oil) both of which contribute to it's value as usage grows, but it's also a capital asset that can be staked and used to validate transactions to generate an income stream. This is not much different than real estate or farm land being used as a productive asset to generate returns.
- MakerDAO: Protocol that generates a stablecoin (DAI) backed by debt based collateral (think mortgages against homes). The interest from minting DAI is repaid to unlock the collateral and burns (think stock buybacks) MKR.
- Yearn.finance: Protocol that takes stablecoin (crypto pegged to USD) assets and generates returns across decentralized money markets. Returns have been averaging between 10%-35% APR depending on the pool and strategy.

Finally consider the current macro environment. Stocks generate a stream of future income based in USD and fiat currencies. In 2020, the central banks of the major currencies have not only increased currency supply by over 50% (FED balance sheet in march was 4.3T, today 7.2T) but worked with top level governments to hand out the new printed money directly to consumers which is now money that will be hard to pull back out of the economy and they did it while GDP and economic activity has been stifled.

So a larger amount of currency backed by a smaller amount of economic activity is a depreciating asset. If the return on equity of your profitable companies is smaller rate than the depreciation of the currency you have a negative real return.

In order to prevent this companies may start to transact in a currency that has a deterministic monetary policy and can not be changed by the whims of a select few bureaucrats. As the most stable and longest running crypto network, Bitcoin stands to be such an asset. See Micro strategy (MSTR) and Square (SQ) moving treasury reserves into Bitcoin.

The way you value Bitcoin is you estimate the amount of global GDP (140 Trillion) that will shift to transacting in it and then divide that by the velocity of money or how often it changes hands. This will tell you how large a marketcap it will have in order to support that level of economic activity.

So for example if 1% of global GDP is transacted in Bitcoin and it's velocity becomes something like USD (1.5x) or the Euro, let call it a velocity of 2 then: 140 * 1% / 2 = $700 Billion marketcap.
[Redacted, since I don't want to fuel speculation]

It always was (also) about race/gender!

That said, I don't know Timnit, and I don't know her specific circumstances... I believe that Google is full of people who wants to solve these problems, but somehow leadership fails to capitalize on that. It might only be a few bad apples in the leadership, but each one wields a huge amount of power (hiring and firing people)...
Do iPhones do this if I enable location with "when I use the app" as opposed to "always"?
Its in the UN declaration of human rights and also if you think about it, in the Declaration of Independence.

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Congratulations and good luck to you.
For the record, I lean toward the theory that creating balance will eventually return the scale is equilibrium, and that is probably better in the long term than giving the scale a push to get to equilibrium faster.

However, your analogy doesn't make sense. No individual should be explicitly punished for the sins of an individual ancestor. But if some huge group of ancestors commits an atrocity against a target group that has effects lasting generations, to the point where that target group still suffers the ancestral hatreds to this day (just look at the dead posts in this thread - on Hacker News), then it's not exactly an outrageous occurrence if the society gives some boon to the targeted group. Of course, society is a zero-sum game, and a boon to any is a burden on others, but that's how the entire system works - there's no getting away from the physics of that. But to say the other groups are "punished" with no further context implies something worse than that. There's no way to compare this scenario with an individual person committing a crime against another.
Tim Sweeney is the majority shareholder of Epic.

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/118194495168648806...
Somehow you seem to be claiming that manufacturers and software developers can be forced to produce a better product than Apple by the government.

That seems implausible, but it also seems like they’d have just been outcompeted if that were true.
I want to believe it's an investment myself, but haven't been able to-- and by sitting it out we've of course lost a lot of money in forgone gains.

Where I get stuck, and maybe someone could help me here-- generally, you don't have to try to hard to imagine a future with cryptocurrency being more useful then it is today. That is, it is more valuable. BUT, why should that mean that its price should be higher? It's like looking at the pithy saying, "price is not value" in reverse.
BPS = basis points

A basis point is a hundredth of one percent:

0.0001
I'm not sure how easy it is to grow in other parts of the world, especially non-equatorial climates
Well, if you want to get technical with implications and waive normal process, she did not actually say "Or else I resign". I don't see that that argument holds.

From a legal perspective, she was quite clearly terminated. There was no point at which she "worked on a last date" (her exact words) with her management, they just sent her home.

Now, that said, except for her unemployment eligibility, there's not a lot of legal meaning to "terminated". A later law suit isn't going to be bound by definitions like this.
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No, you have to submit an official letter of resignation. Just threatening resignation does not mean you are actually resigning.
> These are also not trivial problems to solve for a poor country, without assistance from more developed nations.

Hum? You buy some batteries and install them.

You don't need geographic stability, you don't need stable property rights, you don't need widespread law enforcement. One can even solve it one house at a time, at a (not much) larger price.

What kinds of problems do you expect developed countries to go help poor ones with?
It's astonishing that New York managed to halt that. Some is surely getting better at treating people with the disease so that they don't die, but they must also have had totalitarian levels of compliance.

Exponential growth means that even a small amount of non-compliance will still be explosive, and with so many cases already there were enormous opportunities for somebody to fail.
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> Generally when releasing new code you want to do a gradual release so that a bad release is mitigated

Make each stored procedure not depend on any other procedure. If you change one procedure, make sure that every existing procedure can work with both the current and the future version. Once compatible, start upgrading procedures one by one. Add in monitoring and automatic checking of the values during deployment, and you have yourself a system that can safely roll out changes slowly.

I'm not advising anyone to do this, it sounds horribly inefficient to me, but it's probably possible with the right tooling.
> Virus Checker “I’ve been dying to write a new virus scanning algorithm, so I’m jumping right into that!” -> “Let’s design the UX”

So, if I am a security researcher I should worry about UX before diving into attempting to characterize viruses?

It appears that this article needs some explicit words on scoping. This is only relevant when strictly doing user application development.
I’m curious to know why exactly is Tencent‘s share in Epic relevant while unity is VC funded and has the same pressure of making money?
The Timnit firing is new and significant and wasn't in the previous discussion.
Bash is not even pretending such special files exist: /dev/tcp/somewhere is only an elegant syntactic shortcut for requesting a telnet-like network connected pipe in a context in which a filename is required.
For the child process, it's just a file descriptor.
Ask HN: I have 1k photos from my weekend away, what should I do?
It has happened with me many times that I go away for a weekend and take lots of photos. But having > 1,000 photos of a weekend is almost worse than having none? Trying to pick the ones to keep makes me anxious and looking at them all regularly isn't practical.

Now I have a few years worth of photos, probably > 100k. What should I do with them?
Good question, but in my experience (anecdata, sorry) this was not the case: in the Netherlands the government advice notably did not include mask wearing throughout the first wave (public transport excepted) and indeed very few people wore them.
The "anywhere in the world" part is really huge. As of now, most cryptocurrencies aren't run by nation states, unlike traditional currencies. Cryptocurrencies have to potential to become a global currency that's fair to all.

I actually think that the nation states really missed out when they didn't mint their own cryptocurrency that has the same value as their physical money. If they controlled a currency completely, they could tax every transaction! Surprised they didn't jump on this.
Take this benchmark as a grain of salt. Playwright > Puppeteer from technical point of view. Playwright is well maintained by some developer who started puppeteer and there are less bugs on playwright than on Puppeteer.

It may be faster but that depends on browser too right? Which browser version pinned to same? There are many other factors too.

Why playwright > Puppetter

1. Playwright supports cross browser properly. You don't usually see errors on firefox in playwright
2. Maintenance (Just watch recent commits, issues etc)
3. Less bugs on playwright
The entire advisory board was an activist flex on the part of Google, not a genuine interest in AI ethics (if it were, Kay Cole James would have no place on it, she has no expertise). So I'm not sure what your point is.