skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of the Assyrians who carved into the stones of their public buildings scenes of them killing and torturing their enemies. I don't think that would go over so well today.
Isn't this just Jevon's Paradox applied to software?

when technological progress ... increases the efficiency with which a resource is used .., but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Defending Yourself in a CHRO Ageism Complaint
an alternative approach is to use an SMT solver, finding a valid program that satisfies some constraints (like, program syntax).
Also deep learning has been showing promising results.
But the most impressive results that I have seen are still implemented a brute force search, for example, winning entry for ARC challenge what implemented this way:
https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge...
You prepare for a risk by remaining within your circle of competence. That means, you never invest equity that you need in short-term span. Second, you make sure that your equity investments are diversified. Third, you only make equity investments if you understand - if not, you stick to diversified funds.

I'd like to quote Buffer from his Berkshire Hathway 2013 shareholder letter

> Most investors, of course, have not made the study of business prospects a priority in their lives. If wise, they will conclude that they do not know enough about specific businesses to predict their future earning power.

> I have good news for these non-professionals: The typical investor doesn’t need this skill. In aggregate, American business has done wonderfully over time and will continue to do so (though, most assuredly, in unpredictable fits and starts). In the 20th Century, the Dow Jones Industrials index advanced from 66 to 11,497, paying a rising stream of dividends to boot. The 21st Century will witness further gains, almost certain to be substantial. The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners – neither he nor his “helpers” can do that – but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well. A low-cost S&P 500 index fund will achieve this goal.

> That’s the “what” of investing for the non-professional. The “when” is also important. The main danger is that the timid or beginning investor will enter the market at a time of extreme exuberance and then become disillusioned when paper losses occur. (Remember the late Barton Biggs’ observation: “A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.”) The antidote to that kind of mistiming is for an investor to accumulate shares over a long period and never to sell when the news is bad and stocks are well off their highs. Following those rules, the “know-nothing” investor who both diversifies and keeps his costs minimal is virtually certain to get satisfactory results. Indeed, the unsophisticated investor who is realistic about his shortcomings is likely to obtain better long- term results than the knowledgeable professional who is blind to even a single weakness.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2013ltr.pdf
Sorry, but increased variance is very much in line with systemic climate change. In fact, it's one of the main predictions as climate change means disruption of the normal distribution, not just pushing the median but increasing the standard deviation.
Hunter Biden is a PEDOPHILE! - Arrest him now!

https://twitter.com/vakushevan/status/1348012249479307266
Some emails of my university are filtered by Hotmail. They don't go to the spam folder, there is no bounce message, they just evaporate.

It's getting harder and harder to have your own email server.
I love software especially because of this. You don't need credentials, just a willingness to study hard and Leetcode and you will get high paying jobs. Amazing, no gatekeeping at all like other professsion.

Software Engineering changed my life, and the life of my family. Me and my mom only had savings about $12k back then in 2015 and I lived in NYC, didn't know that it would change my life when I started studying programming using that money.

Hate all you want about SWE and Leetcode and JavaScript (lol), but they paid my bills, and my family's bills, and my old single mom's bills.
Whataboutism blah blah blah.
I have no idea what equivalence you're accusing me of, you seem to have made up a whole story about what I am saying that isn't there.

Edit: OK, I'm not making that equivalence. My use of the word "adjacent" was deliberate and intentional. That's the point of this whole debate.
What kind of capital assets in particular?
Currently PRC pressures Taiwan to maintain the status quo, which is that both the PRC and ROC are different factions of the same country. While Taiwan ending official "claims" to the mainland might be seen by the PRC as slightly less bold than declaring independence, the PRC would likely implement the same damaging economic sanctions and increased military threats, so in this case Taiwan might as well declare independence.
Yes. But there are, of course, plenty of reasons why this policy is a good idea besides the unlikely possibility of malicious/suicidal actions on the part of a pilot.
Yes! Precisely! Somehow people started associating UFOs with flying saucers and aliens. How would they know it's aliens if the U stands for unidentified?
Not sure I agree with this view of software.

Social constructs are not immutable any more than physical ones. They're more likely to change, from what I've seen.

Making software is about groups of people interacting, side effects of the software, and lossy interfaces more than it is about mathematics.
Lenovo launches AR glasses for enterprise
No, because you'll be using a disposable SIM card only for WhatsApp installed in the Android Virtual Machine. Facebook won't have access to your own smartphone and your activity.
Are microservices meant to separate data too? As in, each service has its own database.

Wouldn't that lead to non-normalisation of the data or a lot of expensive network lookups to get what I want/need?

What is the point of micro services anyway :-)?
I haven't used Fiverr but I have recruited on craiglist and in-person for what I would call a 'social media editor' and never wound up happy with the work I was getting and what I was paying for it.

In my mind a writer like that has to write "a lot" of articles (e.g. a lot of words total, but not many per articles) and be expected to reach a certain levels of quality, but not to do the amount of work that somebody might put into some things. I felt like I could reach that standard myself but couldn't really get others to go there -- some people had no standard for quality at all, others wanted an hourly rate I couldn't afford for what they produced and thought my piecework rate was too low. Maybe half of it was intrinsic to the situation, maybe half of it was my not being good at hiring/managing and not trying for longer.
Invest in Siberia and Canada now. Don't forget to also invest in weapons to keep millions of refugees out of the new bread baskets.
Different goals.
IRC needs a central server.
This is peer-to-peer.
They did not publish the tweet. They provided the tools for the tweet to be published. There is a distinction, as they had no hand in the act of creating the tweet itself.
Trust me, people will continue to willfully and repeatedly misunderstand this, no matter how much you explain the first amendment.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at what you said. "Just requires a report".

Okay here is a challenge for you. I'll give you links from 2016 - 2019. Try getting them removed. I have been reporting them for months now and Twitter hasn't acted. Twitter sucks at this. It only removes Right Wing content. But maybe Twitter will be willing to take your report seriously instead of mine. So here is the list:

2016 post: https://twitter.com/lil_cmb/status/765737247781949444?s=19

2018 post: https://twitter.com/DutchessOfDork/status/100553860903276953...

2018 post: https://twitter.com/MadamePete/status/1017462143279681541?s=...

2019 post: https://twitter.com/jcmithnoy/status/1085855272793366529?s=1...

The ex-PM of Malaysia literally tweeted that Muslims have a right to kill millions of French people for massacres of the past. On Twitter. I am sure nothing of what Trump tweeted matches this racist hate. Yet Trump was banned while the ex-PM of Malaysia deleted his tweet by himself without any repercussions from Twitter. Read more about it here: https://twitter.com/AskAnshul/status/1347803217405509632

When it comes to Social Media I have a huge list of things that these companies have done wrong. And it just keeps growing. So when you say "Just requires a report" I feel like laughing at your innocence. I have a list of Instagram accounts that spew anti-Hindu content daily. Have reported them multiple times already. Facebook doesn't remove them. I don't even want to link to them because it is that bad!
Thank you, I was about to point that out as well. Ecosia advertises with "we plant trees" because that is what people understand and want to hear. Under the hood, there is a lot more going on. Ecosia does not only support one but multiple projects with a variety of goals, including reforestation, preservation etc.
What's also nice is the fact that their are extremely transparent about their finances. They are a registered non profit in Germany and they frequently publish their finances and other insights, which is always extremely interesting
I do think about plumbing, sewer, ect. It's good to know how it works so that you can fix it.

While moving thinking up the stack may be an option, I don't think that's really what's happening. People would rather use that time for leisure (look at digital consumption). Not to mention, knowing the basics of these services is very elementary. The people capable of thinking further up the stack would not be significantly impacted by possessing a basic understanding of simple services.
Kind of funny? The US branch of libertarianism ain't exactly left wing.
The specific people that broke in should be charged with breaking and entering. The people that entered without permission should be charged with trespassing. The people that fought with the police should be charged with assault. I don’t think there’s a case for a terrorism charge.
Microsoft summarized it nice [1] :

Advantages of public clouds:

Lower costs

No maintenance

Near-unlimited scalability

High reliability

Advantages of a private cloud:

More flexibility

More control

More scalability (compared to pure on-prem solution)

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-are-private-...
I work in the US for a “startup” company. They’ve gotten a big round of funding and are hiring like crazy.

There’s constantly this exhortation to “work hard” and “overcome the obstacles”. People work ALL THE TIME. There’s an underlying pressure to be on constantly.

And I’m asking “why?” I’m an IC. I am by no means invested in the company. If some big event happens, the C-levels and investors may pay out. I might be lucky and keep my job. I’ll bet money that the good health insurance we have and “unlimited” PTO goes away when that happens.

So again, why should I put in extra to make someone else rich? I have no problem with working within reasonable bounds and trading my skills for a salary. I don’t want to start my own business.
The data points at the top are at 16.6 year intervals.
Recent data is represented by a line.
The punch line is not the absolute temperature (as this wanders around a fair bit), but the gradient at the end.

Because the recent data is over a period of 166 years, you can turn the line into 10 dots which represent each 16.6 year 'line' average.

I think you should try this yourself. You will find that the averaging only smooths out brief transients between your new dots. In the case of the comic, it has no effect on the gradient at 2016.

Having more data doesn't change the average slope - it simply allows you to measure average slope over shorter distances.

So unless you think the joke was "haha we've been at this temperature before", I suggest it is you who is being ... what you said.
Didn't Mozilla migrate their IRC chat to Matrix recently?
Ask HN: What broswers do you use and why?
Apple, Hyundai set to agree electric car tie-up
Twitter is the nazi version of twitter, gab is the freedom version.
I bought a house with a mortgage, and while that is not the primary reason for buying it, I suppose it is an inflation hedge of sorts.
It's increasingly difficult to tell what's sarcasm and parody.
That's why the A is capitalised ;)
“First they came for those that tried to lynch members of congress”.

Yeah, I’m fine with this. You aren’t?
Yes, and? The point is that Firefox substantially depends on Rust and is the most prominent OSS Rust project. People would notice if FF went away one day. No one would notice if pandoc disappeared until they got some weird files they needed to convert.
It is an interesting topic, and I hope your later writings will achieve more attention on here. I am also curious to see any possible proposals for overcoming the price information issue. I haven't heard any satisfactory proposal, that doesn't start with "all the jobs will be replaced by machines, and then ...".
As other commenters already pointed out, you're only accounting for price and not distributions. The actual average annual return over the past 10 years is about 6%, and since inception is about 7%. [1] [2] That far exceeds the 15% price return spread over 24 years.

A 7% average annual return over 24 years is not necessarily bad. On an absolute average basis that trails the market by 3%. [3] That return could still be legitimately superior to investing in SPY,
depending on risk goals, if its volatility and beta exposure is sufficiently low that it beats SPY on a risk-adjusted basis. Then you may even be able to beat the S&P on a total basis, safely, with leverage, depending on the volatility ratio.

Therefore the point you're trying to make would be better construed with an analysis of the beta, volatility and Sharpe of GMWAX. By definition the beta of SPY is 1, and the historical Sharpe is around 0.72. It's correlation with the market is about 1 and it has (again, almost by definition), 0 alpha.

GMWAX has close to total correlation with the market, with a beta of 1.02 and negative alpha less than that of SPY. It has a Sharpe ratio of only 0.34. That means this GMO asset allocation fund is not beating the market, even on a risk adjusted basis. Moreover the explicit mandate of the fund, to avoid market downturns but otherwise track the market's upswings, is not being met. It is both underperforming the market and highly correlated with the market.

1. https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/investment_he...

2. https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/gmwax/performance

3. https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/spy/risk
Or before that, the economy crashes again because of multiple lock-downs everywhere.

Or the vaccines turn out to not be as good as we hope.

Or..
Indeed. But with platforms being privately owned and centralized, the scale at which they start being problematic is fairly small.

The likes of Facebook/Twitter/YouTube have blown past this limit a long time ago.

At this point it's too late for regulation. You can't effectively break them down. Nationalizing them is pretty much unfeasible since they have so many international users. So the only solution left seems to be to shut them down completely, and let the competition do their job (it won't take long, considering Internet timescales). But maybe before consider what kind of regulations these competitors will have to live under. (Maybe a built-in time limit before they are shut down in turn, and the cycle starts all over again ?)
>The problem now is your tech overlords

No, it really isn't, and this fear-mongering rhetoric is extremely unhelpful. There is bi-partisan support for antitrust actions towards these companies. If trump's (former?) followers are serious about breaking up big tech, they should stop repeating trump's baseless lies about how big tech is some sort of satanic radical leftist communist conspiracy, and get it on these bi-partisan lawsuits.
The obligation to apologize for nazi references in one's rhetoric went out the window the moment actual nazis started getting mainstreamed into politics again.
I think it's polite to introduce a path with a leading "slash". As in "cat slash etsy hosts" rather than "cat etsy hosts". It helps the listener to switch modes.

I knew one old-timer who pronounced TTY as "titty" and didn't mean it as a joke. It was clearly how he was taught to say the word. Perhaps that's a good argument for not blindly sticking to traditions.
It's linked in the article https://ea.rna.nl/2016/01/10/a-tale-of-application-rationali...

"This was actually part 1 of this story: A tale of application rationalisation (not)."
High pressure would probably be a more likely explanation for a shower. As for the feasibility... we're talking about technicalities here.

I do think it would be interesting to see it, though.
Nobody is saying you’ll definitely get bad results from this, but it is a large waste of time. I say this as someone who did the same thing, always struggled to figure out why I had problems, and had better results when I simply stopped babying it.

IMO your problem was likely the lack of washing. Soap and scrubbing will not damage your patina in any meaningful way. What washing does do is removes the caked on, half-polymerized bits that causes food to stick (and which creates a negative feedback loop of problems).

Your cast iron is not a precious flower. Your grandmother did not fret over the decision of which oil to use for optimal seasoning. Use it, abuse it, and clean it out like anything else when you’re done (if there’s visible residue). If you want, dry it out on the stove top afterward and wipe a thin layer of oil on to it.
On the other hand, hiding complexity behind closed doors can be a very valuable thing, if it lets you keep track of who knows about the complexity behind each. I can't count the number of issues I've encountered that would have taken minutes instead of hours if only I'd known which specific experts I needed to talk to.
The hard part with this is it sort of requires currying once you have >1 arguments, or something equivalent. I suppose Python could carve out an implicit behavior where the first or last argument is what gets fed into, but that feels potentially confusing as the calling syntax is now "lying" to you. In JavaScript doing a proper currying style isn't too hard because of arrow-syntax, but using python's function definition syntax to make a curried function would be hideous (not to mention, the standard library isn't done that way). Maybe you could have a "curryify" higher-order function. Or, the final option would be to have an explicit "insert previous value here" syntax as a part of the pipeline syntax, which is something the JS proposal has played with. Makes things more verbose (|> double(#) instead of |> double), but is maximally flexible and minimally confusing.

In short: it's a lot more complicated than it seems, but I agree that this style makes this type of thing 1000x more readable.
It's surreal that with everything going on in the US & the world, this is one of the priorities that made it into the bill.
How many far more interesting (for an attacker, any attacker!) things we do in a browser are subject to those exact same attack surfaces? That's a bit like saying that a school library has weak security because the checkout desk wouldn't stand a chance against a focused attack of the Red Army.
Nobody as far as I can tell was objecting to the removal of illegal content from their platforms.
> so you find ancient maps with East as the top.

I have seen that before with the T and O maps [1], where Asia is presented as North. They are nice, simple maps for their age

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map
Does it also sound bizarre that there are people that believe QAnon, fraudulent elections, lizard people in gov't leadership positions, flat earth, etc. These are actual things people believe in, so of course there will be people that believe the forecast is fake as well.
So my freedom to choose with whom I would like to do business is not for me to decide, but is contingent on who else does not want to do business with them? Implying that if nobody wants to do business with them I am no longer free to make free choices?
I'm trying to connect your comment to parent comment and I'm struggling to find correlations. Are you implying that there are powers at play responsible for sensationalizing weather headlines to make forecasting seem untrustworthy?
They probably pay via 1099 which is risky. It’s the same vein as driving for Uber or renting your place out on Airbnb
Part 1 is linked in article

https://ea.rna.nl/2016/01/10/a-tale-of-application-rationali...

"This was actually part 1 of this story: A tale of application rationalisation (not)."
Yeah, a good example. Having seen 50 solid minutes of raw footage, describing it them as "extremely violent" is about as accurate as describing BLM protestors as criminals (e.g. it describes a very small minority).
Fortunately, in the US, the constitution prevents the government from forcing private companies or individuals to promote/broadcast/display the messages of government leaders.

It’s a little weird he tries to characterize Twitter exercising their ability to choose who has a voice on their platform as a new thing. That’s not new. They’ve been doing this all along.

If you only promote free speech in defense of authoritarian sedition, you aren’t promoting free speech. You’re promoting authoritarian sedition.
William of Rubruck
> it makes my head hurt

Oh that sounds potentially bad... I don’t know about you, but did find that I tended to turn up the pressure too high so that it feels like it’s giving my neck a good stretch. I’ve found that I can leave it quite low and get the same benefits without any pain. One or two docs have warned me in the past that it’s possible to make things worse if I do too much. So, anyway, be careful!

I’m in the same camp too, a life of sports and outdoor activity. I’ve crashed mountain biking a few times and suspect my neck trouble stems from or was accelerated by that. But when I told my doc that story, he listened and responded with “so what do you do for work?” I told him software, and he was like, “yeah, so I’d lean toward a couple of decades shitting in a chair with bad posture being your main problem.” That’s when I got the treadmill desk.
Seems like this might be more related to Bitcoin (it recently hit an all-time high of $40k) than plots against right-wing groups:

```
I am aware of at least 2 markets that have paid for attacks against other markets within the last few weeks. I also know of one wishing to pay for retaliation attacks.

This behavior from market admins is absolutely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. You have [b]no idea[/b] of the ramifications this has, it is way beyond just taking your competitor offline, inadvertadly, but you are causing a problem that is a great deal worse without even knowing it, if market admins wish me to disclose these other issues to them, they can contact me directly and you will soon rethink your poor business strategy.

– From here, there will be extreme consequences for any Market admin found to be funding attacks against any other service, market or not. You know who you are and I won’t publicly out you here for it, for the time being.
```
The American Abyss
On a (somewhat) related matter, I find the experimental search for inconsistencies in measurements in different directions in space and quantization of length scales very interesting as well. There are some experiments done constraining the level of anisotropy or space quantization in our universe. These are of course interesting for the "universe could be a simulation" crowd; basically searching for limitations and/or bugs in the code..