skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am hoping that I will be on the right side of the pitch forks when it happens. I am building a farm, so when I said that I did nothing for a year that wasn't quite true, I should have said I didn't get a pay cheque for a year.

I do think You are right about the unfairness and expect the Occupy Wall Street and BLM protests will seem quaint if things keep going the way they are. I don't want to get political but am scared of what is comming now that everyone isn't distracted by the Orange man and are seeing how much wealth is being stolen from the masses.
Are their product/business owners aware of the legal obligations that their developers are signing them up for? Do the developers actually have the authority to enter into these licences?
The 8.3 naming is hilarious there.
I'm thinking of a globally diversified portfolio of index funds based on modern portfolio theory.

You can read about the investment strategy, but basically it comes down to risk adjusted returns over long periods of time.

It will become abundantly clear why Pokemon cards are not part of that strategy.

We probably have different definitions of active investing. I take my definition from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_management

In my mind, another way to divide the two is about assumptions about efficiency. Passive investors assume that the market is generally efficient, and do not try to exploit inefficiencies to generate returns. Active investors generate returns from perceived inefficiencies (information asymmetry, etc).
Didn't work for me. I just get "Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: ". I think that `file` will only pick it up if the bitrate is actually present in the ID3 info?
> I’ve been told that many have been abused and are not treated as urgent any more

There is an old type of PLB and a new type. That was a problem for the old type, in principle. In practice, the search coordination centres got pretty good at triage. Going down Route 66 at 70 mph, unlikely to be a real emergency; halfway up Mt McKinley, scramble the chopper. Accidental activations are far more common than abusive ones.

The new type broadcasts its serial number, and everyone is required to register an emergency contact person when they buy their PLB. If the beacon is activated, the contact person gets a call from search and rescue, asking what the beacon user is up to.
Slightly offtopic warning from an addict: do not start looking into watches. Especially mechanical ones. Their beauty combined with their flaws puts people on the never ending, wallet destroying quest for the holy grail. And the diminishing returns from jumping from a "budget" watch of 3-500$ to a "nice" one of 2-3000$ are ridiculously small.

Collecting mechanical watches is especially bad in these last couple of years because the prices have gone up by a lot with little to none technical advances to back it up. It looks to me like a ponzi scheme supported by the watch media (hodinkee in particular [0]) as they try to push watches as a sort of investment - which they are not it you actually wear them. The manufacturers put out one overpriced limited edition after another where the only thing that changes is the color scheme.

There's a lot to talk about and I'm sure I didn't do a good job of presenting my case in such a short post, but at least keep this warning in the back of your head.

[0] https://thetruthaboutwatches.com/2020/12/ben-clymer-hodinkee...
A recent one for me was alfredo, I've always had either the dry stove top packets or bought it from a restaurant. I was simultaneously amazed at how easy it was to cook and how packed with different types of fat it is, and this is in addition to the carbs it's normally bundled with.

It makes perfect sense though, restaurants rarely provide nutrition information so their sole performance metric is taste.
> Microsoft won't have GitHub compete with the Microsoft Store and its newer efforts like winget. It would unermine their unifying vision that has been in the works for years for no benefit.

Perhaps they could integrate github and winget/snap (for the linux side).

Like, here your Github release page, just one extra click and you can automatically publish to winget (for Windows) and to snap (for Linux).
Translucent Concrete
More akin to TF2 Hats or CS:GO knives -- expensive, limited supply, status symbol with practicality approaching zero. Also look nice, but so are cheap Seikos, or cheap CS:GO skins.
Cloud Computing Explained: Public vs. Private vs. Virtual Private
What are the differences between #PublicCloud, #PrivateCloud, and #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?

Public, Private and Virtual Private Cloud Explained in Simple Terms!
Unless you are completely off the internet, grow your own vegetables, sew your own clothes and so on... this comment doesn't make sense. We are giving extremely granular data every millisecond someone browses any ecom site. And you don't want to enter retail space because they monitor you? (Which they're not as stated in the article. They can only do anonymous tracking). Give me a break.
How the ultra-cold Ebola vaccine reached 300k people in Africa
They seem pretty happy though. I bet you they're happier than the average 1st worlder.

And they still exist, by the way. They mainly eat reindeer meat.
I think the dependency on ffmpeg should be stated in the README (unless it's there and I missed it?)
What about ffprobe (requires ffmpeg)?

For a FLAC file, I get:

Metadata:
Comment : Processed by SoX
Duration: 00:00:26.20, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 527 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16

You could extract 527 kb/s easily from this, too, and it should not be based on metadata.

I edited my previous comment.
They should issue a class of shares that are guaranteed to never pay a dividend or be redeemable for anything. Maybe they will trade even higher!
Hijacking the Clown Car
I had a go at making a SNES "Super Mario World" block CSS effect recently in order to play around with border-image properties. They're a lot of fun. I was tempted to do more of SMW but work got in the way... https://ooer.com/blog/2020-09-10-image-border/
DANE is a PKI whose roots are controlled by world governments, so pushing for it as an alternative to "single actors" doesn't make much sense.
Insurance spreads risk and as far as I know the small premium you pay, compared to the risk, won't ruin anyone, that's kind of the point.
Except that RSS is actually modeled after Italian fascism, and this is not a secret or anything. I was actually being literal there.

Moonje in 1931 went to Italy to learn from Mussolini about fascist organization and ideology, to use it for shaping RSS.

Here is a quote;
"“The Balilla institutions and the conception of the whole organisation have appealed to me most, though there is still not discipline and organisation of high order. The whole idea is conceived by Mussolini for the military regeneration of Italy. Italians, by nature, appear ease-loving and non-martial like the Indians generally. They have cultivated, like Indians, the work of peace and neglected the cultivation of the art of war. Mussolini saw the essential weakness of his country and conceived the idea of the Balilla organisation.... Nothing better could have been conceived for the military organisation of Italy.... The idea of fascism vividly brings out the conception of unity amongst people.... India and particularly Hindu India need some such institution for the military regeneration of the Hindus: so that the artificial distinction so much emphasised by the British of martial and non-martial classes amongst the Hindus may disappear. Our institution of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh of Nagpur under Dr Hedgewar is of this kind, though quite independently conceived. I will spend the rest of my life in developing and extending this Institution of Dr Hedgewar all throughout the Maharashtra and other provinces.”

https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/moonje-amp-mussol...
There should be a really wide (geographically), and at the same time not too sparse network of Briar users for sending messages with it to make sense practically.
Thursday was artificially limited, I want to see how Monday, Tuesday and so on will be.
Bitcoin: Addressing the Ponzi Scheme Characterization
If you want to see the "super secret legendary automated stock system", here it is.[1] It's an ordinary high-bay automated storage and retrieval system.

Watch companies making their own steel is not a new thing. At least for balance wheel springs.

Here's one of those classic Jam Handy films about watch mechanisms, made for the Hamilton Watch Company.[2]

[1] http://rolexpassionreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rpr...

[2] https://archive.org/details/HowaWatc1949
Greeks, like Armenians in USA are kind of a tossup case, see for example the YA novel "The Westing Game" where a black character compares themselves to a Greek with darker skin
They are working on their own hardware.
gemini:// space
Who says we shouldn't? In Romania, where I'm from, there is sports betting everywhere and a lot of people are addicted to it.

I think sports betting in general is on the rise, at least in Europe, and I can't imagine it having positive financial or psychological effects for the average person.

It's a predatory business.
> technical artistry is the same as it is in numerous other fine watches

How do you compare technical artistry? E.g. the article describes testing water resistance in a strict way; is it possible to say whether it’s brand markup, or technical artistry?
No thanks. Let's talk about removing taxes, not adding more.
Wait, by my own calculation it seems GME had way more shares failed to deliver than that. I count over *14 million* in December using the [two data files provided by the SEC](https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm):

$ cat cnsfails202012[ab].txt | csvgrep -d '|' -c SYMBOL -r '^GME$' | csvcut -c 'QUANTITY (FAILS)' | sed 1d | paste -sd+ | bc -l
14276093

How many of those are the same shares failing to be delivered multiple times? Lots I don't understand...
I’ve seen that explained on WSB. I don’t think there’s much confusion about it. Nonetheless, SI being that high will inevitably drive the price up to unwind, and take quite some time to unwind. The evidence of naked shorts (which Market Makers are permitted to do to enable liquidity) seems primarily based on FTDs.
What a grotesque remark.
OS-level VFS wrapper (there are a few places you can put probes here, another approach might be eBPS)

We used to sell the features, but that actually didn't work super well - maybe we can add a "technical details" page for the nerds ;)
Something I can't accept is the use of binary logs and the requirement for programs to access the contents of the logs.

Yes, most distros will put compatibility layers in place and create text "logs" in parallel. But if everyone is doing that maybe systemd's paradigm isn't right for the desktop even if it's great for servers.
That's not exactly true; market value does not exist in a vacuum, it's the discounted future cash flows of the component companies. You can certainly look at the earnings of the component companies, and see how much growth is being priced in with the current valuations (and whether you think that is reasonable or not over the long term).

Now generally timing the market is not recommended; however, if the market has been going up for 5% a year for the previous 10 years versus going up for 20% a year (assuming same levels of inflation), it paints a very different picture, so at least in broad strokes you should be able to estimate where we are in a market cycle (telling the difference between 1998 and 2000 might be hard, but telling the difference between 1998 and 1994 should be fairly straightforward)

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/invphiloh/valua...
Its Burma, the guy is lucky to have electricity and a phone signal in the first place...
> Why they would risk sanctions to do this is a mystery.

Sorry for offering wild conjecture, but the first thing that comes to mind is some kind of a payout to generals from China, who is hoping for sanctions from the rest of the world so that they can be the sole influencer in the country.

Or some variation on that theme: influence from China.

Or perhaps just some power hungry generals longing for the old days <shrug>
The problem is that in the years since Signal was launched like that, more and more countries around the world are requiring you to show ID to buy a SIM card, and then a copy of that ID is made and sent on to the authorities. So, the state has a one-to-one correlation between phone numbers and individuals, and so it can see who is using Signal.
> by all remotely reasonable standards a large chunk of the population are horrible people.

It can sometimes seem that way, but I think it's more accurate to say that large chunk are potentially horrible, and it's the situation they find themselves in that brings that out.

The implied hope here is that it will be easier to change such situations, than change "human nature."
TypeScript discriminated unions: Problems and solutions
We certainly intend to and try to apply the rules consistently, but the problem is that we can't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

One thing's clear: political/nationalistic/religious flamewar is not ok on HN regardless of which side people are fighting for or against.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
How did it go?

You might already be aware of this, but a less annoying way to test Safari compatibility is by using Epiphany (aka 'Web') as a substitute, since it's also based on Webkit. I've solved several Safari bugs that way.
If GHC intrigues you, I recommend looking up the CC class of languages as well. [1] The change from get/set to ask/tell has a surprisingly significant impact on how one thinks about shared state and communication between concurrent parts of the program, and the logical basis is still pleasingly declarative.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/popl91.pdf
> It’s difficult to get burner SMS numbers and also to activate a SIM from abroad.

Agreed, to an extent.

But not if you know how to do the legwork; I have 4 active Telegram/Signal accounts on sveral devices using apps that allowed me to register and acquire a US/EU based mobile number.

I completely lost al ofl those passwords and access to those old numbers (didn't use them after activation years ago) but it certainly is possible if you do the legwork.
This is good background and all makes sense, but in the context of Melvin we don't have enough data to know whether any of this is true in their case vs just being part of their pitch. (This is essentially true of all hedge funds.)

What appears to be the case is they were edging the QQQ until they incinerated half their capital in a week on a bad bet and poor risk controls. So we now know they are uncorrelated with the S&P, but unfortunately we only know they are uncorrelated to the downside. (We don't know if their outperformance has been a result of real alpha or a strong market plus leverage.)

We saw a lot of these funds in the strong bull market of the 90s and the takeaway I remember was that it's impossible to know ahead of time who's going to blow up and lose all/most of your money.
And yet its's optimized for engagement smh
Get one of these and you don't even need to populate a connector on the PCB, just buy the programmer once.

https://www.tag-connect.com/

I prefer the style with the little hook legs.
Are serious miners using consumer grade graphic card for mining today? I thought they’d customize their own GPU solution and that the used GPUs because of bubble burst would not be usable for consumers.
Is it opt-in for end users?
Oh no, no, no.

They won't be able to invert a binary tree on white-board, or a hacker-rank tab, in 30-45 minutes.

They're clearly not the smartest ones.
I once bought a genuine Rollex watch, for $10, and a co-worker said I'd been had. May be, maybe not.
It’s interesting that this is basically a PR piece for a highly controversial company, intellectual ventures.
Return to capital > growth of economy. This is the central dogma of Piketty's Capital.
Question is, will Chanos's five-year short bet against Tesla end up paying out?
Slave labour? I’ve said millions of times that I love exaggeration, but even I think that’s taking it a bit far.

Were you paid? Could you leave the job if you wanted?

Then it’s not slave labour.
This increase in browsers leveraging hardware capabilities is not necessarily a bad thing. Think of it as the cost of advancement. Chances are that most devices nowadays come with sufficient memory to handle these. And for cases where this would harm overall experience, there are always toggles.

Though not to underestimate the vulnerabilities some of these advancements bring. Some tech such as Bluetooth have been exposed to security bugs in the not so recent past. Am also partly concerned about how complex & almost OS-like browsers have become today. Read ChromeOS etc. They also expose too much information at the hardware level to webpages.

Though as complex as the big browsers get. We'll always have simple browsers such as Webkit-based Epiphany that still stay true to the traditional Web browser in essence.
Why was that flagged as a security risk?
Paywall-free mirror: https://archive.is/dHFTE
You’re talking about the logical fallacy as described by the page. I’m talking about the fallacy the page is poorly describing. The example quoted by the OP is an example of neither.
There are things that could be done. Aregentina recently put in a tiny tax on the very wealthiest. That could be done by western governemts.

The problem is the coming crash will knock shares back down to 2017 levels, the biggest gamblers will be bailed out again, and media attempting to blame it on u/Diamond_6969 will either work (leading to backlash against technology) or fail (leading to backlash against big finance)

Unless the average person with no investments is bailed out it would be pretty. 2008 is till fresh in people’s minds.

Wiping out student debt might help, but I think at this stage people want to see the wealthy suffer, and don’t care if it causes pain for normal people either. It’s the situation that leads to revolutions - if you have nothing to lose, why not risk it all to force some empathy.
Poorly written Wikipedia page, but I fo see LTCM was co-founded by a Nobel prize winner in economics. Their overly risky strategy seems at odd with someone earning a Nobel prize.
Hackernewclone
Wow this is infuriating! We are living in a world where nothing is real and everything is an IoU
And also: it happened at nearly at the same time, in the middle of the week were volume was getting lower to the days before. The price crashed just after, and the next day we have news that a lot a short positions were closed[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1355234358194556928?s=21
Of Mice and Men, Release 2.0 (1998)
Computer languages are a means of communication between a human and a computer. They clearly evolved closer to human readability and understanding, and away from computer language itself.

When you optimize, your code needs to be closer to computer language again, and therefore further away from human readability.

The only way to have both, is to have a system that can optimize the code automatically. We are getting closer to that, but still sometimes this is not enough.
This seems very much like APRS wrapped in encryption, no?
No, that's a lie. Manifest v3 is carefully designed to allow spying, but prevent blocking.
I don't understand how we're multiple years into a GPU shortage from both vendors.

Why multiple years? It's unlikely the current shortage will take that long, and it only started at the end of last year. In Summer 2020 buying a gpu was not a problem. Then the RTX 3000 series launched with basically no cards actually being available, and all following releases were like that from both vendors.

But both the RTX 2000 series and the Radeon RX 5000 cards have been easily available back then (okay, iirc the USA had some supply issues, but that was domestic Covid and not production related), so there was no reason for them to ramp up production for now during the last 3 or 4 years.
What I do is I make a list of vintage grail watches that I'm interested in, and I limit myself to those and stop looking at other ones. (Same thing with fountain pens.)

Right now these are missing from my collection:

- Seiko SCVF-009 "Red Alpinist" with green dial - I already have the cream dial (SCVF-007) and the black dial (SCVF-005) counterparts.

- Citizen 67-9356 Octagon chronograph, in both white dial and black dial configurations; I find this one interesting because it was like the only inexpensive hi-beat (28,800 bph) chronograph, complete with day-date and flyback mechanism, ever produced in the history of Japanese watch-making.

- Grand Seiko 6186-8000 VFA, in both blue-dial-and-long-hands, and white-dial-and-short-hands configurations. A ridiculously accurate Grand Seiko with a dial design that (I find) really stands the tests of time. Legend has it that the Seikos performed so well that the Swiss eventually gave up inviting them to the chronometer competition (because Seikos kept coming out at the top). I consider this model the pinnacle before Seiko resorted to "cheating" with the SpringDrive.

Curiously, I'm not really interested in Swiss watches.
Used to but don't any longer.
“Everything is an actor” implies that there is a category of actors
One for your nostalgia section, Geo for Bootstrap:

https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
>US-supported regimes killed something like a million people between 1950-1990.

They killed far more than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... 1965–1966, 500k - 1m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Laos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Cambodia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Myanmar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squads_in_El_Salvador
"The paramilitaries committed the vast majority of murders and massacres during the civil war and were heavily aligned with the United States-backed government"
>In addition, with inflation at or above 2%, the average person needs to see a substantial hike in their wages to keep pace with their current standard of living.

Inflation is what happens when there is a shortage of labor and thus inflation is generally associated with increased incomes. This stupid myth that CPI inflation is bad for workers should die. Your comment is also wrong that inflation is above 2%. If that were the case nobody would have gotten angry that assets have outpaced wage growth. Assets outpacing wage growth is deflation except it is not denominated in dollars but rather in housing or stocks.

No, the fantasy economy (read the stock or housing market being pumped by easy money) should not be part of the CPI inflation rate because it's not real. The entire point of CPI inflation is to measure the real economy.

Supply side economics are generally done to combat inflation, demand side economics are generally done to increase inflation and what we need is a stimulus on the demand side because there is already an oversupply of labor.
Not sure whether it makes sense to average all returns and call it "negative expected returns" across the board. As with any game that mixes luck & skill (like poker), trading has a variety of expected returns. My guess (based on poker) is that a large part of people are small losers or break-even (in poker because of rake, in trading because of trading fees), some are big losers (in poker called whales), some are small winners (regs), and some are big winners (truly good players / traders).

It's not easy figuring out in the beginning which bucket you fall into, but if you accurately track your poker / trades over time, then with a large enough sample size (assuming proper risk management of course) you should be able to figure it out.