skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taleb didn’t use an “all-in” short strategy. I don’t know the specifics but he describes in his writings using a “barbell” strategy made up of about 90% very safe investments and about 10% high risk. For instance, 90% long treasuries and 10% in various options.

The idea is we live in a world of extremes today and something will happen but we don’t know what or when. So keep yourself liquid while sizing bets appropriately (Kelley Criterion in essence) and profit when the black swan event occurs. The additional, important benefit is you are liquid while almost everyone else is getting margin calls. This is an opportunity with many advantages such as buying low.

In essence lose a small amount often to win a large amount at some point. Similar to VC strategies or blackjack professionals when you could get away with counting.
Programming languages are addressed to humans, XML is addressed to machine.
That is the difference.
BTW the problem with lisp is not the parens, it is that it is too powerful for its own good. C++ and Java got there popularity from there restrictions really.
Einstein's breakthroughs happened alone, in a tiny window of highly productive years in his twenties. The rest of his life contained little of note and he never needed to build a huge/excellent team to accomplish what he's famous for. The "asshole" aspects of famous business leaders occur because they need to drive enormous groups of people beyond what they thought they were capable of.
As you surely know, WhatsApp already has this feature ("Live location"). I'm not sure that it's E2EE in WhatsApp, but I would say so. What does Zood Location offer over this? There's value in having a minimal app for the sake of it, but I would expect your userbase to be a small niche for consumers. There might be better vistas in B2B. See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25354165
Yep 2001 is pretty much night and day compared to how things work now. Not sure when was the last time you were in China but the impression you get would surely be very different.

Also I didn't totally understand your point, since the host paying for the meal is the only right thing to do in the Chinese culture. Of course, when it was in 2001, the police chief probably covered the meal using public money, if by corruption this is what you mean. (By no means would the restaurant be asked to just give out food for free.) As someone also pointed out, this has become much harder after Xi's crackdown on such spending.
Wouldn't the major differentiator be the safety standards?

You can't have a runaway reaction, because you need energy input to the magnet field to get more energy out. Instead of creating the right environment to get a chain reaction started if your control rods end up in the wrong place. Drop the magnet field and it all collapses.

Even if you lose control of it with the magnet field on the quantity is limited, tokamaks can only sustain bursts before going unstable. Wendelstein like designs would also be limited by the quantity contained.

If everything goes completely wrong you simply end up with a dirty bomb from the neutron bombarded core material and an initial burst of radiation. Sure not amazing but not a meltdown releasing vast quantities of heavy radioactive decay materials which can leach into the environment. Remember, fission is messy, it's not a chemical reaction where A+B = C. You get a spread of materials and energies, as seen by the Z number here. [0]

Essentially, you can at any point do an unsafe abort which might damage something or if everything aligns it's no more than a dirty bomb, but you will never lose control. Your Swiss cheese model needs to have far fewer and simpler layers compared to fission, vastly bringing at least those costs down.

I'm still betting on renewables for the near future, but my guess is at least harnessing fusion will have a place for projects with extremely specific goals in the 50-100 year timescale.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Th...
Which, at port 53, it is.

Obviously, it would work with DoT (853) only with cert verification disabled.
Unpopular opinion: SQL is better than GraphQL
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PlaneDivisionbyLines.html might be related.

I think it got really complicated when the initial shape was not convex. If its convex initially,then at best you can split all the groups in two, and in most of the puzzles you had to split all the groups in half (possibly not evenly if the group is odd) because you the number of lines you were allowed to make was roughly ceil(log_2) the number of dots.

But when its not convex you can potentially do better than just splitting all groups in half, and i found those the most challenging levels (i think it was either 20 or 21 that was like that)
Do we need to have free beer JIT, AOT and GC implementations for every language?

If I understood it correctly, a programming language has some foundational design decisions (including its memory and execution model) to attack a particular set of problems?
You can't compare this. There are much less bad actors in mobile traffic that constantly try to steal your keys, try to suck gas from your gas tank, hide in your trunk or trick you into insurance fraud...
I mean that the common "mental model" of a meal, if you can call it that, is still very much [meat] + [vegetables]. Most people conceive of it this way, hence the rise of "fake meats" to fill the [meat] slot.

What I am suggesting is a cultural effort to remake this mental model, rather than simply make better "meats".
I had no idea this was the case, cheers for the info! I'd just assumed USB C was the new hotness for all things now on
Gopium: Smart Go Structures Optimizer and Manager
Confounding variable is a more confusing, less precise name for the same phenomenon.

Omitted variable bias tells it like it is. A bias in a regression coefficient that results from an incorrectly specified model.
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why would they do that when they can run a script from halfway around the world and take profit without getting caught?

I'm thinking ransomware attacks, bitcoin mining farms set up on AWS accounts after stealing keys / racking up huge costs, bank account takeovers, stock market account takeovers...

Someone hitting you in the head is easier to avoid / easier to recover funds from. (and if you're in the US and have a gun, that person trying to hit you in the head is going to have a bad time)
This is the case for most non-fiction life/business advice books that come out these days. Many of them actually start out as articles/talks. The author then gets contacted by a publisher who proposes to stretch things out into a book.
What is your take on idea of ROW and COL tag in HTML5 specification?
Show HN: Micro-Democracy platform where Taylor Swift ≠ a swift tailor
We’ve just launched AyeTap, a service that aims to make democracy cheaper, more effective, and viral. It's a platform that allows people to leverage the power of the majority to change the little (or big) things in their space. We created AyeTap because technology has changed everything except the most important thing we do as free people: how we govern, listen and organize ourselves.

While the concept of democracy remains timeless, its practice is outdated. Why do we have to stand in line to tick a name on a ballot? Why do we wait till the annual HOA meeting to change something in our home? Why isn’t it easier to change the name of a building or a street? Why does it take decades to change a law? Or the biggest mystery to me, why do we need to vote for 435 people to go to congress so they can vote for us? The democratic process has remained primitive (I have my theory on why, but that's a discussion for another day and forum).

Launching AyeTap is our first step towards making democracy useful for things in your life. It's a free platform, but we will soon be rolling out a paid service (for private, customizable elections). We've created a dedicated page for HN, which summarizes AyeTap's features and explains why a polling platform needed to develop a language processing algorithm to figure out that ‘Taylor Swift’ is not a ‘tailor who is fast’.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback because no one else has seen our work yet and we have zero feedback through all these years coding in a basement :) And I'll be here to answer any questions about the platform (or our vision for democracy).
Gee, one could've almost mistaken one of these people for a regular nice person who has encountered bumps along the road (I say this with a deadpan face).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
I blame the way we design our computer systems. For some reason, every program a user runs on a desktop computer has full access to every file saved by every other program. And full network access, and a slew of other permissions. In seconds a single malicious program can make a right mess of things, or exfiltrate sensitive data. A ransomware attack hit a large aged care provider in Australia recently and encrypted the files listing which medication to administer. How? I’d guess that every program on every computer in their network has full write access to their network shares. We made these attacks easy to pull off with our insecure by default designs.

It’s like we’ve given every Tom, Dick and Harry a F1 supercar then we blame them when they crash the thing. The mistake is ours for not making better security models. Desktop apps should be sandboxed by default, and isolated like we isolate phone apps. For all the justifiable fear people have about apple’s control over what software can run on their machines, I think the app sandboxing and signing security model they’re working towards is the right one for 95% of computer users.
"Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies", 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
Can you save worksheets for repeatable plots ?
Some of Mark Ferrari's palette-shifting scenes can be found at:

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
Yep the introduction written by Jordan Schneider was really confusing and seemed to want to portray the crackdown by Xi solely as something to weed out dissidents. That might have been some part of it especially in high-profile cases, but in general the drive to crack down corruption and make the officialdom more service-minded is definitely genuine, and people have been taking positive note of this. A lot of previous officials have simply resigned and gone into the private sector in order to make more money as a result as well.
> Oh great. Do you have sources?

The trial simply didn't test for the effect the vaccine has on transmission, so the theory hasn't been disproven.
Ah, the ever-common excuse from corporate IT to avoid any work or change: "it's not secure".

If you add these I'll have bingo:

* "We already have X for this" (X is only vaguely related and/or does it far, far inferior)
* "it's too expensive" (said by $200/hour consultant vetoing $50/month SaaS)
* "it doesn't conform to the architecture" (used for anything that isn't Java and Microsoft Office)
Here is an article about how COVID has devastated businesses in NYC https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-businesses-closed-2020-pa...
Just reality. Peace.
Though it looks like these puzzles are far from randomly generated - they're quite artfully put together.
This is ridiculously cool. I'm curious to know more about the design/planning that went in to this.
Google has a forking mindset and they prefer having more say than letting other rule the roost. Look at Webkit, Google forked it and derived chrome so they can have more say. Android Kernel Team didnt back port their changes to Linux kernel for yrs. This has more to do with politics and less to do with development. My guess is Fuchsia may have reached a point of internal abandonment like most google projects which is when they thought of the last effort to salvage it before ditching it completely.
And vertical/horizontal scrolling.
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This has a real "Cut The Rope" feel to it. Cool stuff!
I think it's great for boarding passes, parking tickets, theater admission, etc.
Thanks. Assuming they refer to the exact same phenomenon, I agree that ommitted variable bias is better terminology.

I wonder why Wikipedia has separate entries for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omitted-variable_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding
Are you restarting the REPL on every change??
I understand where you're coming from. What you might consider is that many ideas can be abstracted out and applied to aspects of life that, on the surface, aren't closely related.

For instance, Range, one of the books that Gates recommends, isn't specific to any occupation, but can inform one's general perspective on the hazards (or benefits) of taking a software job that is more specialized, and whether it's the best thing for your career in the long-term.

Relatedly, I can't tell you exactly what genre the You're Not So Smart or Freakonomics podcasts fit into, but like a lot of good books, each fleshes out all sorts of high-level ideas that can relate to day-to-day life.

I really enjoy learning about behavioral psychology/economics-type stuff.
> In Ubuntu 20 air pod pros still don’t pair properly - I can use the earphones but not the headset microphone.

Do you really blame Linux over Apple for that? Bluetooth on Linux isn't great, that's totally true, but a big source of problems is the device makers. They often test against only the system they are targeting, and leave the rest. Nearly every bluetooth implementation has issues, but the Linux one is never tested/developed with like others.

> Then there are minor annoyances like plugging in an external monitor and keyboard to a closed laptop (thinkpad) and not having it wake up (need to open and close the case), or closing the case but then the power management doesn’t work properly so if it’s not plugged in to power, then when I open it the next day the battery is drained and the laptop has shutdown - losing any unsaved state.

I agree, this is insanely stupid. By all means I don't think things are perfect yet, but they are definitely better than they used to be. There are also easy things you can do to avoid these things, such as sleeping your laptop from the Gnome widget (or just run `systemctl suspend -i`) and it works every time. just open the lid to resume working. It's annoying that you have to do that for sure, but in my opinion learning simple workflow changes like that aren't a big deal in exchange for the FLOSS aspects, but everyone is different. Choice is what makes things great!
I’m not sure about that. When my body gets tired of sitting all day my natural inclination is to go lie down for a bit somewhere. I’m inclined to think that a few million years of evolution gave us the right inclinations.
It's kinda funny how many on HN talk about basic programming being hard, but also bemoan the existence of complex excel-macro-based workflows created entirely by non-programmers.
Swift and Cocoa. I did have plans to develop a Mac product this year but by the time I felt I was ready I had pretty much convinced myself I don't want to write software for Apple devices.

This is a bit of a shame because I much prefer Apple devices to Windows (or Linux) but I don't want to have to deal with the way they treat developers.
Twtpoll Polls as Chatbots
> Using the hexadecimal system contributed to save ROM space by minimizing the size of the graphical data at a time when it was very expensive.

This is incorrect, hexadecimal is just a different notation for binary information. It saves space when written down on paper, not in the actual ROM image.
ICBMs are far smaller and designed to travel far faster than any rocket carrying people would presumably go. It doesn't seem likely they could be easily confused.
Note that for the leftpad incident, the impact was build faillures, not remote code execution.
The problem with common APIs is that they are a lowest common denominator. I deal with this all the time with Microsoft's Bot Framework - which is somewhat shitty open protocol for writing chat bots that plug into a whole range of messaging platforms, including Teams and Slack. It's functional, more or less, but it by necessity has to target the lowest common set of capabilities of the services it plugs into, and that makes it clunky as hell. And you still end up having to write a bunch of bodgy platform-specific code to get it to do anything interesting.
Very nice. I love the aesthetics. I see why tumblr was such a special place for visual content, it just allows for the art to speak for itself and form it’s own structure. Reminds me of going to a Japanese bookstore when I was younger and looking at concept art for my favorite anime series.
Research: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking
Officially you do need to have the ‘dead space’ white area around the symbol as well or it won’t scan easily.
Exactly. There are people that are allergic to light, to water...you name it.
> And the little bit of information they provide, like a link. I don’t know.

I share the lack of sentiment to hype and overusing its name and symbol but I cannot agree about the sentence I have quoted about.

The QR code comes with titles and URIs, which provides nice way how to share some information with a distinction of their type, i.e. a contact card, OTP passphrase, WiFi credentials (SSID/passphrase pair). Instead of providing a password, which is hard to spell out, we can just share an image and in a moment after scanning we are connected to the WiFi. Been there, works like a charm.

We can also use them to share data of multi-MB weight over just an animation combined with generated QRs [0].

[0]: https://github.com/divan/txqr
My new, portable coffee setup : an aeropress and a grinder (1zpresso q2 mini). I'm making coffee everyday with this and it's been great. I used to think espresso was the only option, but espresso tools are not easily portable and I tend to switch country every year or so.
I also bought a portable 15inch screen for my laptop, not as good as expected but still a good use of 90€
> Does the race condition happen during the translation or execution? If it's former, we can somehow prevent it, right? The translation code is known.

During execution.

Qemu is the result of a huge amount of effort to make it fast. It'd take many, many programmer-years to build something faster.
In context, he was responding to Khan Academy using these same examples in a learning environment that they said was inspired by Bret Victor.[1] For what it's worth, he has been working on a collaborative computing space called Dynamicland for some time now that does explore his ideas and fit in with with his ideals.[2]

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/drawing-bon...

[2] https://dynamicland.org/
Re:your point about kids, as a brand new father, I think about this a lot. Kids model and mimic what they see, for better and for worse.

Up to a certain point 'reading from a Kindle' looks exactly the same as burying your face in a phone. Do you prefer physical books at home to model the reading behavior? Or have you found that young kids understand that e-book reading is not the same as phone-use?
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Read Spycatcher by Peter Wright.

It's an opinionated tale of someone actually doing the business of catching spies.

Even better for the HN crowd, the author was an engineer so there's some tidbits about just how advanced spook technology was even in the 50s and 60s (i.e. using acoustics to lift encryption keys through embassy walls as they were being typed)
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Well, put it this way. Let's say that most people is cut out to learn to responsibly use a computer; I don't disagree with this fact.

As a matter of fact though, the same people do _not_ use computers responsibly. What do you do, then? Metaphorically jail them?

There are lots of areas where as humans, it's easy to reach a "sufficient" level, _and_ the dangers of an insufficiency are well known. Punishments or strict measures just don't work.

Everybody knows that they can be sufficiently and with little effort fit, but especially, that unsufficient fitness leads to sicknesses and earlier death. In this sense, which punishment can be worse? Yet, this doesn't work.
What your business is doesn't change how people perceive moral judgment. If you were to solve world hunger, putting "righteous human" on your business card would still be in bad taste.
The hype was a bit too early when the codes were very hard to scan which was a big turn-off.

These days they scan instantly and have a lot of useful applications.
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The primary reason for calling it an abomination is that if they actually plan on having this used (especially if by other people) it will spectacularly break the moment Chrome decides to make their quirks mode more strict.

It's a fun hack, although not exactly very unique. See also the very old by now "Website in a PNG file" concept, which does the exact same thing: https://gist.github.com/gasman/2560551
Creative cities; Iceman; Car-free; car tires kill salmon; chilly; Covid race
I use it at my job working with mobile robots it's incredibly powerful.
Maybe, but I somewhat doubt it. Nobel-level work is usually derivative of only a few basic concepts, but is otherwise quite daring. The academic guild system has become nearly impossible to get through, and all corporate or government research depends on passing through that system first. Nobody can just get to work. First you have to get in. 99% of applicants are mostly concerned with prestige or career opportunities. 1% wants to do research. Then you need funding. This comes by helping professors on their ideas, not yours. Then you need a job. Better pick a popular field and find ‘business value’. Now it’s time to buy a house. Maybe you’ll get back to that big idea you had once you pay it off. Student loan availability turned the academic pipeline into a job requirement, and a job is then required to pay it off. We’re just entering the era of Nobel winners that started school during the Vietnam boom. It seems to me that the Nobel will cease to have any meaning in a decade or so. The trend is that contemporary prizes are given to politically valued choices from a huge field of contributors, or as an honorarium for ‘famous’ professors. The last 20 years of minted professors are far more focused on job security than great research, and it would be surprising to see a lot of individual breakthroughs at the Nobel level. And then there are corporate labs, which are run by professional managers handing out nebulous quarterly objectives with a side of panic. Forget about it. The biggest hope for ambitious research may be self-funded entrepreneurs. There must be, somewhere along that path to human colonization of space, a Nobel for Elon.