skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agreed. I was always under the impression that "10x" was just a way of labeling insanely gifted engineers with enormous outputs compared to the rest of us. Taking it literally and writing an article with math equations is missing the point (in my opinion).
This is tangential to RH, but nevertheless related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations?

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stocks it should represent?

I found it difficult to understand the intricacies related to this question.

Here is one example: Suppose I was holding ETF with GME stock in it, the ETF issuer might have decided he knows better and sell the stock expecting its price to drop in the future. Meanwhile the issue will attempt to "follow" the stock by other means. Ultimately is there a way to be sure the issuer will not fail, if GME beats all anticipated expectation the issue might fail to reflect the new GME price...

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stock?
Zillow Appears to Be Down
I think the GP's example is pretty reasonable. And like I said, I still don't really see what this has to do with FP. Clearly F# has trouble with it, but so does C++
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What is "2021" about this Github repo?
They were gaining _millions_ of new users a day this week. I'd highly doubt the number of people closing accounts will be greater than this.
Light pollution is the pollution I care about most.

Light pollution: not deadly.

Air, water, soil pollution: all catastrophically deadly.
We've mostly run out of things for horses to do, which is why we don't see so many anymore. Automation took longer but it's getting pretty close for a lot of simple jobs at the same time.
I think there are far more truly productive developers than there are people with popular blogs, many a github star or SO points. Of course, these are indicators of productivity, but I feel these metrics are too specific.
Great tips here thanks. I haven’t looked at custom themes before that sounds like a promising direction.
I believe Kurt Gödel once wrote an article called "Is Betteridge's Law Of Headlines Always Correct?"
> The advantage of UBI is that everyone gets it.

As opposed to a negative tax rate below some amount? Why would everyone not get that?

I guess it just feels like there are two equations that can be made equal so easily:

UBI_POLICY(income) = income + ubi_income - progressive_tax(income + ubi_constant)

NIT_POLICY(income) = income - progressive_tax(income) + negative_tax(income)

income + ubi_income - ubi_progressive_tax(income + ubi_constant) = income - nit_progressive_tax(income) + nit_negative_tax(income)

ubi_income - ubi_progressive_tax(income + ubi_constant) = nit_negative_tax(income) - nit_progressive_tax(income)

which seems a super easy thing to make equal. Is it the payments to folks that are different?
Do any user agents still use gquic? People still use old phones but pretty rarely old versions of chrome.
Archive link: https://archive.vn/ki5Vm
Even once you factor all of the that in, you receive far less money.
You'll never believe how clickbaity this article is!
> the fascists were probably unwise to force the issue in 1939.

They also had to get ahead of the Soviet modernization and mobilization efforts, and they did.
An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Like the internet, government used to be more decentralized. States were the dominant law givers, and it meant that power centers were more decentralized and local to the people being governed. Instead of most laws that directly impact your life coming from far away in Washington DC from politicians you will never meet and can't influence, you had laws from more local government that you had more of a chance of participating in and influencing (e.g. for the things that mattered you had much more _meaningful_ representation). When states could elect senators, it had more of a chance of keeping that power decentralized. Now government power, like the internet, is increasingly centralized which makes it a battle of the federal government to make the entire country do what "our side" wants. It would be better if most laws were decided locally in your state or city-- and other states or cities could do things differently. That would be good for everybody.
Anthos certainly has a different (one might say opposite) approach to Outposts. I was surprised that Anthos apparently doesn't use the GCE hypervisor, control plane, or Container-Optimized OS. Is the customer fully responsible for hardware management, OS/hypervisor installation/management, patching, etc? Does all that work end up negating the benefits of consistent API-driven infrastructure?
Just what I was looking for, thanks!
You're arguing against a strawman argument that you invented.

I didn't say you would get those crazy returns - merely pointed out that you would have beat the S&P 500 over the last 5 years with the strategy outlined by the parent post.

How well it holds up over a time period that also includes bear markets is another question - you can't just look at a bull market and assume it's representative of all time.
> `customer.accountService.createAccount(newAccountData)`

I believe that most OO implementations would read

accountService.createAccount(customer, newAccountData)

Care to elaborate if that was the main point of the clerk's schizophrenia criticism? Or if I'm misinterpreting just call me dumb, haha.
That's actually the problem. Each separate arbitration costs them a bunch of cash. If you run a startup in CA, you might want to look at this language because it could get you in trouble. A class action would probably be cheaper.
The traditional explanation of clearing is that it’s to solve the problem where I buy a share of Microsoft from you for $100. The trade won’t complete for a couple days so there’s a risk that either I don’t show up with the money or you don’t show up with the share.

This might happen because I went bankrupt, or MS starts trading for 1000 and you’d rather not give up the share, or whatever. To solve this，there are clearing houses that have collateral requirements to help ensure that the trade is executed as it was supposed to.

Most stocks don’t change that rapidly, so there’s relatively low risk that someone blows up. But GME has both extremely high volatility and is highly overvalued, which makes the risk of someone trying to walk away from it can’t meet their obligations much higher.
Well, I stated that it queues my interest, then I research it understanding it's probably not as good as it looks. I'm not sure I agree that's contradictory. I'm not saying they don't succeed in attracting me, I'm saying I don't buy based on ads.
Or around people being prevented from working rather than forced to work.
Robin Hanson is a pretty decent high-concept sf author, and his occasional forays into cosmic horror can be enjoyable too. It's just too bad he ended up in the wrong line of work.
While I appreciate your zeal, I suspect we will not proceed to real discussion. Setting aside that countries with histories different than that of the United States use bicameral legislature, consider how multi-cameral legislature might benefit a country even when one, relatively uniform, political party controls all houses.
Except the author is using X11 as many people will. And what this shows is how many different environments / toolkits / settings there are out there. It would be nice if distributions would do a better job of handling this for you. I’ve run into the same issues myself, and it’s kind of hard to believe that I even had to figure out these configuration dpi settings in 2021.
So.. They don't ban apps that connect to verboten services, but they do ban apps that acknowledge the existence of verboten services, and apps that remove barriers to verboten services.

That's cutting the hair mightily fine.
Seems like a potential confirmation bias here with regards to GME. GME may be in a feedback loop right now, but how many other stocks had the beginnings of a feedback loop but fizzled out? How many companies started to win but didn't attract the best employees?

Put it another way, is there any predictive power here or is it only something that can be observed after the fact? Seems like the latter.
> bit curious if DFV will be hired as a PM by a hedge fund when the dust settles

I kind of doubt this. Lightning rarely stricks twice, and unless he has a history of these sorts of moves who knows if he'll have a pick like this again.

Also, the money would have to be reallly good considering he's by-far set for life after this.

My biggest concern for him at this point is that he'll get dragged in to investigations regarding this. I agree with you that he specifically doesn't seem to have done anything wrong. I don't think he even ever said "You should do this", or insinuated that others should; it was just a "This is what I'm doing and here are my reasons why".

I hope the next couple years of his life aren't an absolute shit-show dealing with fallout of being the most "high profile" name (so far).
It shows all kinds of stuff unrelated to the thing you are trying to do, to the point of making it harder to do the thing.
It's called the "dependency inversion principle". People don't like to call it "reflection", and heap various layers like XML or dependency injection annotions on it, but technically, it comes down to reflection at runtime, as far as I've seen.

It certainly has its cost in additional complexity through indirection, but it's better than creating cyclic dependencies or giant balls of mud.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_princip...
You must have skipped over and didn't read the parent post at all. We're not talking about the wheel strategy here.
>The previous release was in 2016, so I was sure that XQuartz was dead for good.

Why though? It's not like the XWindows protocol changes that much (or at all).

Having to do a new release for a new architecture like Apple Sillicon, sure, but that's another thing.
Every screen’s density of pixels are different.
> Is there a way to full screen the slides on iOS Safari!

In the controls bar just under the slides themselves, click the "Full screen" widget to the left of the "Options menu" widget (looks like a gear).
Maybe send it to Jason Scott at the Internet Archive so it can be seen by everyone?
It makes me sad Mozilla is on the tail end of it's lifespan. Most of their funding comes from Google and their always playing catch up. Just look at their blog, it is nothing but politics. They have little focus on what their users want these days.
Oh yes! I’ve from time to time strayed from buying IKEA furniture with the thought that since I can afford it I should get something nicer. But whenever I pay something like 2-3 times as much as I would for some equivalent IKEA piece, the quality is usually worse and the instructions horrendous.

To really get better quality I need to pay something like 5-10 times as much as IKEA prices, and that it is rarely worth.
Better tools to government surveillance of citizens is the goal
This is great - a really clear summary! I can see myself checking back on this regularly. It's certainly a more positive stat to track than numbers infected / deaths.

I'd love to see a chart showing the number of people vaccinated per day/week, as well as the cumulative total - it would help interpret if the prediction made in the "UK vaccinated over time" graph is overly optimistic (i.e because last week was a dip in the numbers vaccinated) or pessimistic (more people are being vaccinated every week, so the curve will likely steepen)

I would also really enjoy reading a post going through how you made it - what tech you chose and how you're pulling the data from the NHS website. Although conceptually quite simple, I imagine there's some nuance to the implementation and if the tech isn't particularly exciting it's still good to read about pragmatic tech choices.
I would say intra refresh solves a different problem. You still have to wait for the intra refresh to cover the frame before you can start watching properly. That takes just as long as waiting for a keyframe, and needs slightly more bytes.

The benefit of intra refresh is that you avoid having any particularly large frames. If you're using a sub-second buffer, then intra refresh makes your maximum frame size much smaller without sacrificing quality. It's a godsend for getting latency down to tiny amounts. But if you have 1 or 2 seconds of buffer then it's no big deal if a keyframe is an order of magnitude bigger than other frames, and intra refresh is pointless.

Also it's not really a codec thing, it's a clever encoder trick that you can do on basically anything.
Once calls/texts work with 100% reliability and it isn't slow as hell I'm going all in :)
Sounds really close to the current student loan regime in the US when you think about it.
Even if they don't discriminate, what would ensure its not just used as a political tool even if an increase is overall harmful?

Seems like voters have a lot of incentive to vote themselves increases.
https://archive.is/VPPWW
If you read the essay in full, you’d see that he distinguishes between copyright laws meant to encourage authorship and what is currently meant under the “IP umbrella,” which is more about protecting monopoly power.
But we had a billion years left. We have plenty of time to do whether we are going to do before the "planets clock runs out".
What many people don't understand about the relatively low-risk options strategies like the wheel or basic covered call selling is that, because they are low risk, they are less lucrative than many simpler strategies.

The financial industry would not just leave that much risk-adjusted return on the table, after all. Just because a strategy is complex does not mean it is lucrative.
Doesn't mean they like it
For the same reason technology from the early 1900s has little artistic value... most people don’t appreciate it. Having said that, I have a nice 1960s pay phone on display and a LC Smith typewriter from the 1920s also on display.

My children don’t even know what they are.
Look at an example from the other end of the spectrum, Switzerland, a capitalist society with a good human rights record (at least that’s the general consensus among western nations).

One of their largest multinationals, Nestlé, successfully fought a policy proposal last year that would require Swiss corporations to follow environmental and human rights regulations across their entire supply chain (the Konzernverantwortungsinitiative [1]).

Weeks after this initiative barely failed to pass, Nestlé won a decision in the US Supreme Court meaning the country could not be sued by former child slaves in US court [2].

1. https://www.srf.ch/news/abstimmung-29-november-2020/konzernv... (German)
2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-slavery-idUSKBN...
If it were Robinhood suing users users over their terms or user agreement, then arguing that there is no contract might be a good defense.

This is the other way around. It is the users suing Robinhood claiming that Robinhood violated the contract by not making the trades. If the users established that there is no contract, they would destroy the foundations of their own case.
fsync is supposed to sync the entire filesystem, yes. On a SD card, I would expect it to do what it says it does.

However, on regular hard drives, filesystem devs and hardware vendors are all incentivized to cheat, since io benchmarks are big and obvious, while dropping data on the floor with power loss or failing hardware is subtle and hard to notice.

In practice, reliably syncing a file can be surprisingly hard: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
> I believe it when I see it. Isn't the majority of shares hold by the heavy pros anyway? I doubt the other Hedgefonds and Yolon Musks will sacrifice shit.

They don't need to. It's mathematically impossible for shorts to cover, because they've shorted more than the entire float.
Keep in mind that copyright also enables free software. Without it, there would be no incentive to share source code since there would be no mechanism to stipulate that modified versions must be shared. That would significantly diminish the role of collaboration and significantly increase the role of opportunism. It is also worth noting that copyright increases the financial incentive to progress the state of the art.

The real problem with the current IP regime is its use to impose restrictions that go beyond reproduction.
Probably because core memory was so ubiquitous in the 1960s and early 1970s, so there's a lot of supply. Almost every computer used core memory and each memory module had a stack of planes. IBM was producing literally billions of ferrite cores per year. (Of course that's not as impressive now when a gigabyte costs a few dollars.)
There's another NYT electric car thread happening at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25969677. Which article is more interesting?
Don't forget the media lied throughout that time too; let us not forget the craziness of satanic ritual abuse, or the lies that led to the vietnam war, etc...

The media and the government routinely mislead the public, look at in 2019 the intentional confusion of blackmarket thc vapes and tobacco vaping. Or more recently, the use of human trafficking.

To claim there was sometime in the past where the news was good and reliable would require overlooking a huge amount of actual historic malfeasance.
There are a billion ways you can split a democratic body in to a majority and minority. We don't give the left handed, orphans, or people whose name starts with F extra voting power because the righties, parent havers, and all the other name start letters could gang up on them. So if being a minority isn't an obvious reason on its own to be given more voting power, then there needs to be more reason to do so for the states, and every time I see this brought up the only defence is that the small states would have a minority of votes.
Yeah - I don’t even care about calls that much.

Texts, not slow as hell, decent battery life, would do it for me.
Well you would have done just amazing (as I pointed out) over the last 5 years. Better than 3x the S&P 500.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but one would need to look at how it performs over longer periods with more varied market conditions to answer your question.
Compiled from MacPorts, so source for AS...
I don't think this qualifies as literate programming, at least not in my book. Yes, it looks nice and everything but from my point of view OP just moved regular code comments to a side bar.

For instance, there are many comments that explain what values are stored in opaque-looking variables/parameters. But these are simply necessary (especially in data science, where almost everything is a tensor) and should be part of every decently documented program, anyway, and don't make this literate programming yet just because they're now in a sidebar.

Besides, there are a lot of comments that 1) just repeat verbatim what the code does, e.g.

Run through each layer for layer in self.layers:

(https://nn.labml.ai/gan/cycle_gan.html)

or that 2) explain what the code does because the code, at times, is unnecessarily hard to read and/or little modularized (no offense, OP).

These types of comments, I'd say, belong to the sort of comments and documentation that can (and usually should) be avoided. They don't tell me more about the code than what the code already tells me (or should/could tell me) and thus are not what I would expect from literate programming, either.

There are a whole lot of other types of comments that I would expect from literate programming, though, and these are mostly missing. There was an excellent article[0] a few years back by Salvatore Sanfilippo aka antirez (of Redis fame) where he identified the following useful comment types:

- Function comments
- Design comments
- Why comments
- Teacher comments
- Checklist comments
- Guide comments

Now, the OP's code checks off one or two items on that list but only in parts and in a few places. Overall, looking at the many code snippets antirez's article presents from the Redis code base, I find Redis's style is much closer to my idea of literate programming than the OP's code.

(Again, I hope OP is not taking offense to my comment. I am aware that they didn't claim they were doing literate programming.)

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191224044125/http://antirez.co...

EDIT: When I wrote my comment, I hadn't looked at all the pages/files and simply assumed the others I hadn't looked at would be similar. I've now noticed, though, that some of them do follow the literate programming style quite closely. Nice. :)
An article last week referred to this as "reflexivity".

* Reflexivity is a theory that positive feedback loops between expectations and economic fundamentals can cause price trends that substantially and persistently deviate from equilibrium prices.

* Reflexivity’s primary proponent is George Soros, who credits it with much of his success as an investor.

* Soros believes that reflexivity contradicts most of mainstream economic theory.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reflexivity.asp has some additional info.

I wonder if there's a way to marry "efficient market hypothesis" with "reflexivity on the edges" somehow. Well outside my ballywick, in any event.
Apparently this annoyed people. Note I'm not American.

This article talks about just how much the US supplied the Soivets :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor
I don't trade stocks at all, I just played a bit around with crypto for some years. For me it seems, as traditional stock exchanges looks like in stone age compared to the crypto world, when I really need days to make the deal in the background. Also then I don't understand how it needs one one side days to make the deal and on the other side there exist HF traders, who do many, some say as many as 1000 trades per second, maybe, I don't know .., but how does this work.

I remember some years ago, a normal banc transfer needed always 3 working days (so 5 over the weekend). Then came the crypto hype and the time dropped to less than a hour, even for normal people. I wonder if we see something similar here in future.

Also some crypto trading platforms, started to trade with stocks in different forms. I wonder how this will play out in future. I think traditional exchanges have to move forward fast now.
Because you aren't looking at it from the context of data races anywhere on the application, and focusing on RefCell alone instead.

Yes, Rust prevents data races when several threads try to modify a memory location inside the same process.

This is just a special case of data races, which may take several forms.

If several processes, or even threads are accessing an external resource, like a database, each of them can issue UPDATE statements on the same record, and it is impossible to validate which value you will get back, unless it is done inside a proper transaction block.

Ensuring that a SQL data race doesn't happen, might be critical, e.g. several people to the same plane seat, yet there is nothing on the RefCell or not using unsafe {} that can enforce it.

I would advise to read the "Data Races and Race Conditions" chapter of Rustonomicon regarding what guarantees Rust actually provides, anything else is up to the programmer to take care they don't happen.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
The same degradation happens with ICE engines - they lose power and become less efficient.

And batteries which are thermally managed (ie anything but an old leaf) will have a better lifetime than a typical ICE engine -tesla easily achieve 300k miles with less than 10% range loss.