skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically speaking, being a bad guy with access to Microsoft source code for a short time has very little impact or real-world relevance. They do thousands of updates a day, the build processes are lengthy and poorly documented, the overall direction of the code is subject to myriad political groups inside the company, and they're making massive improvements in multiple branches that will render that snapshot irrelevant within minutes.

The "best" market for any such code would be... what... China? Other than the possibility of figuring out potential hacks who could make use of the code in in its sheer mass? By the time you figure out something clever your version of the code is hopelessly out of date.
One side of the trade hopes to get rich selling the stock, the other hopes to get rich buying it. This year, it was in fact the buy side which got rich, but there's no inherent moral superiority of one side over the other (Have you ever considered that the market participant which by definition sold more Tesla stock than any other, overall, is… Tesla?)

I really don't understand the moral outrage directed at people shorting a stock. Personally, I reserve my opprobrium for stuff like getting people to pre-pay thousands of dollars for features that keep getting pushed back year after year, or shipping software in a twilight zone of autonomy that works fine 99.9% of the time and accelerates into a wall at 90mph the rest of the time.

And "gaming the market"? As in announcing an inexistent bid to take the company public?

But YMMV.
Thanks for the very detailed and clear answer!
I stand corrected regarding the "pushing" of ethical licenses. Of course it is a worthy subject of discussion.
No one has been able to beat the success of the iPhone or iPad ever since. If you’re using those two products as the standard, nothing else will compare, not in a long time.
Yes, unless you are among 20 top researchers who are working on frontier of ml. Bayesian probabilistic techniques does not work or are very slow for any practical purpose.
It's a quote from wikipedia: an electron, moving in a magnetic field, experiences a force perpendicular to its trajectory, so the work - the dot product of the force and trajectory vectors - is zero.

I should probably add one unscientific remark (orthodox HN readers: proceed with caution). Per [...], the secret of organic lifeforms and the secret of intelligence are very different things. Organic lifeforms keep their shit together by balancing two kinds of magnetisms - od and ob - to direct the electricity - aour. Od is constructive, ob is destructive and aour performs all the action. That's somewhat similar to scientific notation: the H and B magnetic fields and the E electric field.
Government can do whatever inflation adjustments that it wants.

What it can't do, though, is force people to accept them.

If you want your money to inflate, you are free to use any infatuation currency that you want.

But other people, who prefer to not be subject to inflation, are now free to not be subject to it.
Or just had a similar name or used a “bad” word. The data quality for those lists is very poor.
I would love to have access to NT source code, hopefully it leaks. The most recent leaks are way out of date and have basically been exhausted of their usefulness.
Their fees are surprisingly competitive, take another look. In places where fees are high it usually has to do with risks of doing business in the locale that they have to price in.
Things cost more, and markets are bigger now. It's like comparing wagon sales to automobiles.
The trend is your friend

Bet on winners

Stop out quickly
Developers opinions don't seem to have changed that much

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo...

Maybe they are all wrong. Maybe PHP still sucks just less.
Have you met North Korea?
Understood that is a concern for you and some. I hope it gets there. But I'm not sure most people care.

Bitcoin isn't a currency yet. Most people can call up their credit card and get stuff blocked and returned instantly. Debit cards are definitely less of a service in that regard though and shouldn't be used like credit cards.

But the services are valued by most people.

As a currency, and as someone mentioned earlier - it's currently terrible due to it having an unstable valuation.
Start a hedge fund ?
We just accepted the price of bitcoin in USD at the time the client bought BTC, and I accepted the risks of fluctuating price to myself. I actually gained somewhat, though, way less than if I'd just hold those coins till today. :)
Ironically I think this applies much more to your comment than theirs
Don't you have a similar problem with Russian currency? From Jun 2014 to Jan 2015, it lost more than half of it's value relative to USD.
I love HN. It’s probably my favourite news source. And usually I enjoy the comments just as much as the actual articles.

But I’m honestly wondering if the comments are generated by some version of GPT.

- quote comment
- interesting comment
—- contrary point to interesting comment
—— second level contrary point to contrary point
——- N contrary point
- citation point
- downvoted nonsense
- empathic point
- cynical point
—- anti-cynical point
——- anti-anti-cynical point
- useless but none the less necessary bookend quote comment
Could you describe those chains? Specifically, which EU regulations have been holding the UK back?
Completely agree, hopefully we get an updated leak. Windows 7 would be fantastic to have out in the open.
> C# is not nearly as good in this respect.

How so, I had nothing but issues when trying to deploy cross-platform Java because of the Java ecosystem itself being bad compared to C# or Golang where you just compile stuff and run it.
If you check out the C Hello World project you'll see there's quite a bit more to it, and it seems to be explained quite thoroughly.
Contamination doesn't even have to be self-replicating to be a major concern. Many organometallic compounds are exceedingly lethal and accumulate in biotic life. If alien tissue uses any to a significant degree, it would have disastrous consequences.

Obviously, the dangers of runaway self-replication makes even the smallest samples of primitive life potentially more deadly. And, while primitive life is far more likely in the universe at large, it is astronomically unlikely to reach our solar system undirected.
I and my fellow memers are really enjoying this. Thanks for posting it.
Short selling is not gaming the market and short sellers are an essential part of a well functioning stock market.
Note that "Ray Dillinger" is a very early pseudonymous Bitcoiner, on par with Hal Finney.

See https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-startin...
Yeah I did think of that as I was writing this response, but there is a difference though. As I note in the Catalonia example the sentiment is not tribalism as people generally want to retain relations with the foreign neighbors post independence (e.g. I bet most Scots want to rejoin EU post independence).

I bet even most people voting for Brexit didn’t want this hard “we are on our own, and we don’t care for nobody” type Brexit as you would expect if tribalism prevailed (as evident that most people even in favor of hard no deal Brexit still favor CANZUK).
Think about what other technology is 12 years old you’d call “nascent” - 12 years is an eternity in tech. The iPhone is 12 years old and bears only a passing semblance to what was launched. Bitcoin is practically identical.

The first ETF launched in 1993, and 12 years later they had 400 billion in net asset value - 533 adjusted for inflation. Your argument that the growth is unprecedented is specious.
The banned person was Indonesian. Something something his bank account. (One more reason for me why payment system of the future must be permissionless. Like, you know, bitcoin)
Yeah, infrastructure seems like the #1 difference.

The truth is, even somewhere considered reasonably bike friendly like Germany, bikes are still clear second class citizens compared to cars, in terms of transportation investment. In terms of quality of infrastructure and amount of space allocated in cities, there's just no contest there.

And in the US, it's downright pathetic. The general attitude of city governments when it comes to bike numbers amounts to, "we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!" Pointing to the clear success story of Vancouver BC actually putting forth a serious effort and getting results will get you nowhere, they'll keep on muddling through and feigning confusion as to why nobody wants to use their fragmented, dangerous bike network composed mostly of door zone bike lanes that suddenly end whenever it was inconvenient to continue dropping paint on the road.

I've lost track of all the painted bike lanes that suddenly disappear and then show up again 50m later because cars needed a dedicated turn lane right there, or the times the bike lane curves and yeets itself into the sidewalk with no warning. Even a quick glance at Google Maps with the bike lane layer on makes it immediately clear how badly bike networks are almost always implemented there.
The market is always right.

Everything makes sense if you have enough information. If something doesn't make sense that means you don't have enough information.
For all that we love moaning about each other, Ireland and the UK are probably culturally closer to each other than to any third country.
Inflation is the result of consumer demand outpacing supply. It's effectively a measure of how much work could not be done. From this perspective hyperinflation is just the result of the government demanding exceedingly far more work than the country as a whole can do. Prices adjust upwards until the existing money supply is exactly enough to pay for all the work that can be done.

If you have a lot of unemployment and inflation is low that basically means there is very little work for your people. This is the reason why 2% inflation is a policy goal. You always want there to be just a tiny little bit more work than there are workers. If there is a way to do more work thanks to technology that is increasing productivity it will be done.
>>We have a mentality in the US that government cannot do anything right

Well many many of us have the mentality that the US Government and various local governments SHOULD NOT be doing some of the things they are attempting to do, even if they could

See we believe in LIMITED government, VERY LIMITED government as such we do not believe in giving the government more resources to take over things it has no ethical authority to be meddling with in the first place
I think this is a sticky issue that continues to this day. The scope of Nintendo’s IP should include the delicate game balance of jump distance etc that makes the game what it is. On the other hand the creation of these other products is sort of ‘complementary’ to Nintendo’s products in the same way phone cases complement iPhones.
I lost all respect for the EFF after they supported the USA FREEDOM Act reauthorization of PATRIOT surveillance.
Point taken, but I think that's probably a best case scenario for government IT in general. I am lucky enough to work for a state-level 18F-alike that has the latitude to pay people market rates, but looking at what my coworkers outside of my direct org get paid I often feel incredibly guilty.
¡¡Feliz año nuevo a todos!!
Happy new year for everyone. Lets hope 2021 can bring us more joy than the last couple years.
I think this comment is peak irony. Also a fundamental misunderstanding of how markets work
> Are you trying to compare public school to prison?

With respect to how both environments force humans to adapt to the institution, and thereby manifest a perverse socialization, yes. The differences are in magnitude, not direction.

I'm reminded of the flawed "alpha" theory of wolf behavior. Turns out the observed dominance struggles were directly related to being in captivity; this form of "socialization" doesn't emerge in the wild.
I hope they make this work, TikTok's search is absolutely useless. Making TikTok search work would be better since I'm usually trying to find a video I've already seen, but I'm still hoping Google can do something useful.
> Governments do not have unlimited resources.

Who owns the money printers? Is it microsoft or is it the governments recognized by the USGOV?

Who has control over the monetary supply? Is it microsoft or is it the governments who control respective central bank?

Who has control over deciding whether microsoft is a monopoly or not? Again, its not the corporation.

Sure you can have corporations richer than most developing nations but that has no relevance on the policy/power balance between government and a corporation.

Even if all of the corporations in America formed a coalition, it is the government which has monpoly over violence that can decide out of whim if you are suddenly against them or with them.

Why would basic facts rub you the wrong way? Do you believe that corporations can control the military, police and paramilitary forces in the Western world?
I wish I was making any of this up. The federal government has massive, massive employee culture issues. This list is... a nice dream.

Much of what you describe is not unique to the U.S. government. I've run into many very similar scenarios in the jobs I've had over the years, from mid-sized travel company to billion-dollar healthcare companies.
Fair enough, my comment wasn't meant to mock yours.
Ask HN: New Year's Resolution?
What's your New Year's Resolutions? Mine are (1) waking up at 6am, (2) exercising for 5 minutes every morning and then (3) studying for 30 minutes.
Weren't AirPods the devices which set the trend of having a charging case. Like I don't think they were the longest lasting wireless earphones but they were one of the sleekest designs. And the charging case just helped them achieve that. Now ever wireless earbuds come with a charging case.
:( u could never guess his lyrics when listening to his songs. S
uch a great artist.
Fyi, "buy side" has a specific meaning and it refers to investment funds, pension funds, family offices etc. By contrast, the "sell side" are brokers and investment banks.
dang is amazing <3

Happy new year :P

And remember tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life, go live it! ;)
The TransferWise model is the future of global banking imho (disclosure: I work in the financial infra space). One user account, the ability to hold a variety of currencies simultaneously, and banking info for each currency to plug into financial rails for said currency (routing/acct in US, IBAN in the EU, etc).

Turns out money is just rows in a database and ISO 20022 messages, queued and processed.
You're spouting platitudes, which I enjoy sometimes for a dramatic turn of phrase, but they aren't helpful for rational discussion. They're best used for introducing a topic, but then we need a little more structure behind the facade.

Going back to the monolith question, the other day someone at the public utility helped me fix a mistake with my bill. That individual was not irrelevant to my experience with government power.
A Tesla collapse isn't inevitable. It could simply stay flat as the company grows, becoming more reasonably priced over that period. Sort of like what Microsoft did between 2001 and 2011.

Otherwise, Tesla will crash when the whole market crashes. If & when the whole market crashes, the Tesla crash will be a lot bigger than the rest of the market.
> Bitcoin is simply doing what was always done more efficiently.

Where by "more efficiently" you mean "vastly less efficiently", right?
Regardless of what mitigations Windows has in place, when you run closed source programs, without competent security auditing you never know what it's doing. Once you click run your precious user files are always in jeopardy. Even with GUI isolation, a point of contention in the article, it's trivial with a few bytes of code to implement some other form of keylogging which the user will run without much thought because hey, it's Windows, it's "secure" while having no real idea what the program is doing in the background. To reiterate, any execution of closed programs will result in execution of closed processes.

With the Windows model, you don't check your guests at the door. You can't search all guests so you assume all guests are hostile and with it you're always taxed with playing security theater which can not only be expensive in terms of hardware resources but mental resources as well as losing more control over your own environment. Because you let unaudited people in your home, before long you have to lock down most parts of it, even from yourself. In gaining control you've lost control because you don't control for openness in the first place. For the few binaries I run on Linux I sandbox them in a VM anyway. But different models, different hosts, each has their weaknesses.
Vulnerabilities have lurked for years and even decades in the Windows codebase. I'd not be so certain that having a snapshot today wouldn't help you find exploits for a long time.
I think Trevor Milton could tell you exactly what to do in such circumstances.
In particular you can't get any kind of security clearance if you have any history of cannabis usage, as far as I know. I wanted to enlist in the military a few years ago but unfortunately my history with weed means I'm more or less excluded, I think.
The market is usually right, but the market doesn't have all the information either.
It sounds like they want to have separate history files and profiles depending on what project they are working on. Maybe a way to organize them.

On the same note they may want to checkout terminator. It basically gives you a series of terminals you can split up however you want.
The article mentions they used other radio satellited to confirm it wasn't an artifact
Why doesn't the community collectively switch over to PyPy? It seems like it's better in all reguards.
The continuum hypothesis is an example of a statement that is independent of ZFC.

About futility of theorem proving: I think a useful perspective on this is that the context of formal logic with respect to "all mathematics" used to really mean "all of mathematics in one system" a hundred years ago.

This is the logicist program started by Frege and Russell - make everything formal - and this was shattered.

Now nothing stops us from formalizing some part of mathematics. Today, when people say "you can formalize all mathematics" post Gödel, it means you pick your area and formalize away, knowing that effectively proving consistency of your formal system (within the same system) is out of reach.

So nobody tries to claim "all in one system" but many logics and sets of axioms coexist without there being any distinguished one that is better (in the sense of effectively proved consistent and strong enough to be "useful").
It's not hard to 'pull off'. You literally just have to request it.
Actors on the long side can also be (and sometimes are) fraudulent, so this is not an argument against short selling.
I used to enjoy an extra hours swim or a cycle in the cool of the morning in summer, when the countryside was at its best lit by the morning sun, before daylight savings was forced on us by city people who needed the government to tell them to get out of bed an hour early.
The (wholly imaginary) one mandating red passports, I assume. The whole ‘sovereignty’ argument was always highly symbolic, and not very interested in specifics.
And fewer benefits. No longer can I travel, work and study freely anywhere in the EU.
Except that those ideological reasons are more important than faster and better... even assuming that is true.
Yeah I can’t remember any rapper who trended on HN. Made me glad as well.
Mozilla blog posts read like hyperbolic corporate propaganda. The style is really off-putting to me. Grandiose claims with no authenticity. All the bad stuff and controversy gets quietly ignored. What about the layoffs? What about the executive pay? What about the obnoxious Chrome-sucking/mimicking URL bar? What about the certificate extirpation issue which NOBODY was ever held accountable for and for which it took MONTHS and MONTHS for a Friday-6PM-style oopsie announcement to even acknowledge.

A little bit of reasonable descent could give Mozilla a lot of authenticity, but they seem incapable of that level of humility.

Occasionally I see private blog/reddit/tweeter posts from employees, but never in an official manner, and always with a hint of trepidation that they could be fired for speaking out.
Price discovery happens just fine in markets that don’t have short selling.

The laws of supply and demand don’t require short selling to reach equilibrium.
I think 50 is far too long. Patents for inventions that have the potential to revolutionise the way we live our lives only get 20 years of so-called protection. Creative publications that only provide emotional enrichment at best should be given the same or less time as patents.
Can't the government force taxes to be paid in the currency of its choice, thereby making taxpayers (residents, visitors, and their counter-parties) subject to its currency?
Jobs set the groundwork, but their silicon didn’t hit the ground until 2013 with the a7
I have turned to pypy quite extensively for pure-Python text processing tasks, where I often get a 10-100x speed up just by changing the command line invocation. For example, I wrote a proof of concept Rabin-Karp hashing approximate string matching algorithm to perform plagiarism analysis while I was working at Udacity in around 2017. The system never went into production, but pypy was super helpful in crunching all historical user submissions for analysis.

I’ve also had great success using pypy to accelerate preprocessing steps (when they don’t rely on incompatible c libraries) for machine learning pipelines. It’s the most painless performance enhancement trick in my toolbox before I reach for concurrency (in which case I reach for joblib or Dask).

The one oddity I’ve noticed is that using tuples (including things like named tuples) often speeds up CPython by a lot, but even plain tuples can slow down pypy on the same code—in some cases pypy winds up slower than CPython.

In any case, I’m low key in love with pypy, even though I can’t use it for _everything_.
MF DOOM did a song called "Iron Rose" with Cannibal Ox that, per Spotify, I listened to more times in 2020 than any other song, and I listen to songs I like on repeat a lot.

R.I.P.
Wow, you did that every day? Controversial opinion to consider, if you have the attitude that traffic laws are only for cars and serve only to inform bicyclists of the expected behavior of cars, riding in the Bay Area becomes much safer and faster. Habitually running red lights is important as it gives you an open road and a red light behind you. Also I always filter to the front(which I think is legal), abuse cross walks(I.e. get off my bike to stop traffic and walk it across a pedestrian crosswalk, also legal I believe). I biked in the Bay Area for years with that strategy and never had a problem, during work hours on week days I could beat cars handily on short trips. Some people will say this gives biking a bad name, but I think bicyclists getting hit by cars is a far bigger problem for the PR of cycling.
Pretty sure crawling and scraping is legal even if there's a robots.txt.
Could you have written the same thing 6-8 years ago about AMZN?

What you identify as irrational markets might actually be you simply being wrong.
I would guess the majority would goto his brother.
Frohes neues!
So Enron's valuations before its collapse were "right"?

dotcom bubble valuations ca. 2000 were "right"?

Your claim seems obviously wrong except in the tautological sense that the "right" valuation is whatever the market says it is.