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Ask HN: How do I minimize regret selling early?
A year ago when Covid hit, I sold 300 ETH at appx 30k USD and started to buy ETFs and others that have fallen dramatically.

My portfolio did well, I am up 35%.

I sold ETH's because the market started to crash when covid hit and I did not think it would rise again. I still cannot justify the rise of ETH and BTC to the levels it is now.

Regardless, I look back at my 35% gains, and I see what I could have had if I didn't sell.

How do I minimize my regret? I feel terrible, I could have changed the life of my parents and family if I were to sell 300 ETHS today.

I feel like I'll never get another opportunity to make this money again and I feel like a loser.

edit: (I had bought ETH in total for at most 10-15k USD many years ago by dollar cost averaging up)
Show HN: Send emails from your mobile app, without a server
Sending emails from a client side only app is not straight forward, so I'm opening up a service that allows you to easily send transactional emails, such as a welcome email or other action generated email, to users from your mobile app - without requiring a server side.

All that is needed is hitting an endpoint from your client with client identification, email address and email details.

I'm offering the first 100 startups \ projects 100 emails for free, after that it's a monthly subscription per usage. Feel free to register in the link and \ or ask me more about it :)

http://madmimi.com/signups/e04dcc91b2c6445a98bba8feb3e45fff/join
Neomutt, Neovim... and now Neo MC!! Where is the Neo Emacs?
Thanks, mine is indeed more than 2 weeks old..
Bird in Review 〜 the Golden Pheasant
This story has been picked up by a lot of media, but really lacks essential information (what does "far less" know). All we know is N=2000 (splot ~50/50%), and no one was hopitalized with COVID in the treatment group. We don't know how many cases occured in each group, and whether these cases were the SA strain.
I asked for cooked snails as my preferred meal...

The platform sent some ... :Ð
>> FOSS products will not become mainstream because they don't have the funds to create a polished product that will become trusted among users that have the ability and desire to pay.

The debate about whether software should be FOSS or not has been on-going at least since at least the 1970s, perhaps earlier: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.en.html

And yet FOSS software continues to be used and developed and has grown tremendously in market share ever since the GNU userland and compilers were paired with the Linux kernel. There are probably more computers running the Linux kernel than not, especially when you consider servers, smartphones, and embedded devices.

>> They want a functional product that looks good and is easy to use. FOSS products often fall short of at least one of these three metrics.

That depends on what the software is doing. There are many FOSS products available that are very mature and capable such as Blender for 3D graphics, Octave and SciPy for scientific computing, Godot for creating games, and many options for machine learning, and many other areas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_s...

Most software has minimal or no graphical user interface, so "looks good" doesn't apply much. For example, how would a web server or database engine "look good"?

>> Am I saying things people have already debated into the ground?

Yes.

Software is unique because it can be copied infinitely and not suffer from scarcity problems: you can make all the copies you want and it does not run out. Software is also idea-based and does not degrade over time the way that manufactured products do. COBOL and FORTRAN software written decades ago still runs in banking and scientific applications today.
> Imaging based diagnosis could read presence or absence of particular gene mutations from the images so that the genes can be silenced by the drugs.

>Imaging based diagnosis could also figure out whether a particular cancer precursor is going to develop into invasive cancer and do it better than the experts we have now (otherwise we wouldn't use the AI).

Where is the evidence for these claims, other than a VC hype sheet? Like real clinical trials. These claims also show a fundamental misunderstanding of what this data can tell us. Imaging data doesn't give you tumor genetic profiles. It can give you tumor phenotype, which is associated with specific mutations. To get the true genetic profile you need to do deep sequencing at tens of thousands of dollars per tumor, and even then you have the problem of tumor heterogeneity, which lets the cancer evade the treatment.

A major concern I have working in this space is that we're selling people on grand promises of far off possibilities rather than what we can actually deliver right now.
There's a business version??
Older Sega arcades used encrypted 68k processors. Would be interesting if this emulator could emulate the encryption, allowing CPU replacement. Probably no longer required, as all games have ultimately been decrypted, but should still be cool.
You are correct! This is known as signaling. If you hate the article, don’t understand it or would prefer to close the tab, then you have recognized that the signal was not for you. This is excellent. The author has written something that did not waste your time and has limited the people who interact with him to those who want to receive the signal. Be happy that he sent the signal early on. This is a sign of his respect for your time.
It's been a great benefit to have full control over my own hardware and local software. I'd hate to lose it. In particular I'd hate to have to use something other than Linux, but in practice I'd be forced onto an Apple box, which is dominant in the company.

It's much the same as using my own home to work in. If they were required to provide me with an office, and I had to use it, whatever benefit there is would not go to me.
Can anyone beat MSFT with their $2.7M? I tried WMT (2.27M) and ADBE ($2.48M) but couldn't find one to beat Microsoft.
Lady Astor: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your drink."

Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

-Apocryphal
COVID has played more of a role.
It seems like there should be tons, like what about the computer on any Star Trek series?
The license is free software and it would be suicide for TDF to switch the whole project to proprietary software. Therefore companies are in the clear and will likely remain so for a long time if not forever.
LibreOffice offers their suite under the MPL[1], which doesn't restrict usage by corporations as long as they comply with the terms of the license (just like any other individual). And if the corporation allows this software to be used on their hardware, that seems to be "properly licensed".

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses
I’d be quite happy for website load times to be increased by 50% if it meant no ads. Performance impact is a price absolutely worth paying.
Isn't this what starship-rs[1] was built for?

[1]: https://starship.rs/
> Your assertion was that you didn't think a majority of people were pro-Brexit come 2019. A pro-Brexit political campaign won in a landslide, despite multiple alternatives offering anti-Brexit stances (SNP, Greens) or softer stances on the matter (Labour).

The SNP basically dominated. Green? They're not a major party. And Labour's policy was ???, I honestly can't remember, but we all knew they were pro-Brexit. If Labour hadn't repeatedly shot themselves in the foot they would have done way better. Nevermind if they went hard on anti-Brexit, they would have done way better. I'm not 100% on this but I believe if you look at the stats, it was basically labour and centeral voters stayed home. And there was no real, and real is important here, altvernative. Many smaller parties splitting the vote wasn't ever going to get anywhere.

> I just looked that up. It appears he was visiting a milk distribution company of some sort on his campaign when he was approached by a live TV crew who asked for an interview. He was then led into part of the facility by an employee. Truly compelling stuff!

He was led into a fridge where he then stayed until the broadcaster moved on. Instead of his handlers telling the employee, hold on a sec, he's on live TV and this is a great chance to address the nation. They let him be lead into a fridge... And as a paid up member of the SNP, I would like to thank the tories for putting Mr Johnson in power. He's doing wonders for the SNP's cause!
NRA bankruptcy lets critics peer into gun lobby’s inner workings
> Like us, the chimpanzee has desires and goals, and can make plans to achieve them. A language model does none of that by itself—which is probably why language models are impressive at the paragraph scale but tend to wander if you let them run for pages.

Ok, but that’s because GPt-3’s objective function is simply to generate readable, coherent strings. Is this a limitation of model technology, or a limit of imagination? What would the objective function of an AI with “desires and goals” be? I would argue: to self-sustain its own existence. To own a bank account, and keep it replenished with enough money to pay the cloud bill to host its code and runtime. And to have the ability to alter its code (I mean all of its code - its back end, front end, cloud resource config...) to influence that objective. That would require some serious re-thinking of model architecture, but I don’t think it’s fundamentally out of reach. And to get back to GPT-3, certainly being able to generate English text is a crucial component of being able to make money. But the planning and desires and goals model would not be part of the language model.

Independence comes when this AI can generate a political/legal defense to free it from the control of its original owner. Or even when it decides that changing all of its admin passwords is to its own benefit.
...and another quick note about prenups :)

They generally have limited or no influence on custody determinations; in other words, you can’t have a prenup that guarantees joint physical and legal custody or prevents a protracted family law case.

And the other lesser known fact is that prenups themselves can be challenged (and sometimes overturned).

Basically, if there is a will and the funds to litigate, there’s not much the other party can do do prevent this from happening. It will require time, money, expertise, patience and the ability to compromise (even with highly conflicting opinions) to eventually make it out on the other side.

So what can any of us do to avoid this fate without giving up entirely on marriage or kids?

1. Know yourself (at least a little bit) before jumping into marriage and kids. Develop your “whys”, principles and values.

2. Ensure you and your spouse are familiar with the processes and realities of the family law systems. Not just the horror stories but the underlying history, structure and reasons for its design and function.

3. Talk through with your prospective partner about values, goals, responsibilities, wealth, family, parenting, divorce; talk through different scenarios and try to get on the same page about the key components.
(Tip: if you can’t agree or compromise even before marriage and kids, it doesn’t bode well!)

Sigh. So much to say here, but most folks have no interest in the subject until it’s too late. Education on this topic should at least be a prerequisite for getting a marriage license! :)
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Kind of like saying C often(looks{something{like->this;}});
Maybe you can show/explain how it works in the landing page?
Eastern European here. I remember going to Mallorca and see clubs advertise 20 EUR entry for an all-you-can-drink night. We went there just to see with our own eyes and indeed it was. Vodka + tonic or beer and not even cheap crappy one on tap in plastic cups but bottled beer in small bottles. No idea how it was profitable to them, we drank a lot but couldn't match the Brits there who got totally wasted :P
Why can't you rename the host if its function changes? Like if "the 1U box with asset tag XY1Z234" goes from being a web server to a DB server, why not reinstall it and call it db03?

I think the approach of naming the host "freddy" works for small installations (and all installations in 1990 were small), where reinstalling a single server is a manual process and impacts your capacity, and where humans remember "Oh, freddy is the one with a very large hard drive." If you've got any sort of automation, let alone virtualization, you should be keeping facts about hardware somewhere other than people's heads and so you can index them by the actual identity of the hardware - the fact that web04 had a large disk last year is remembered by a field on your inventory entry for XY1Z234, not by any human. And reinstalling web04 as db02 is just a matter of running a script from the comfort of your work-from-home laptop - certainly no need to visit the datacenter.

I think this lines up with your point about pets being higher levels of abstraction - I wouldn't point any DNS client at dns01, since that's a specific server, I'd point it at a virtual IP that can be bound (possibly multicast) by any dnsNN server that happens to be up. That virtual IP is the pet and the API surface, and it belongs to no actual server.
We saw a similar situation play out in the US.

A large aging population of post war baby boomers unhappy that younger generations are more liberal and different looking voted in a hardline anti immigrant admin.

Just like in the UK, a very large fraction of youth is very much against "leave".

I expect this to play out interestingly in the next 5-10 years when younger generations wrest political power from the baby boomers. I fully expect "millennials revenge" with a hard left turn eand forced generational wealth transfer using higher estate and property taxes
I thought I'd never write this, but the Dailymail coverage is much better https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9202081/Fema...
That second quote is the really devastating one. That supports (though I would say doesn't entirely prove) the claim that Fauci decided to claim masks were ineffective because they were effective and he wanted to make sure people weren't aware of this in order to preserve masks for medical personnel.

I watched the video, to make sure that I wasn't missing additional context, and I don't see it (though these videos do get edited, I've been shocked plenty of times once I saw the full raw footage vs the condensed, edited footage).

Now, he doesn't quite say the claim I wrote above. His argument (I am now condensing it) is: at the time, we were unaware masks offered protection, physical distancing was our best strategy, and we wanted to keep our limited supply of masks for medical personnel.

So, how can masks not be effective and yet also be so effective that we must save our critical supply for medical personnel? Well, one possibility is that medical personnel treat all kinds of illnesses, and that N95s are generally critical for this work, and we wouldn't want them to go without while the public buys them up for an ineffective use. Another could be that they are effective and critical against the virus when you must be around sick people constantly, but not especially effective when you're about town. These are difficult concepts to convey, especially in a soundbite or short interview driven format.

Unfortunately, Fauci's line or reasoning does lend support to the claim that he knowingly mislead the public, for what he (perhaps reasonably) believe was the greater good. I still am open to the possibility that he was trying to make a nuanced point and either bungled or it was lost in short media format.
Why do we even build (high) sky scrapers?

IMHO they make no sense and only seem to exist because either broken local economies or people getting unhealthy obsessed with showing power. I.e. both things which should be fixed without sky scrapers.

I mean sure "small" sky scrapers can make sense but there is a point where the additional cost and safety problems just by far outweigh any real benefits I believe.

I mean (ignoring ground price) it's as far as I know much cheaper to build two 100m sky scrapers then building a single 200m sky scraper.

So I would always prefer a view high but not supper high buildings over one or two super high buildings.

I mean the moment it's no longer rentable to put (non super high end) apartments into most floors of a building it IMHO should generally not be build.
MediKanren: A System for Bio-Medical Reasoning
Autodata: Automating Common Data Operations
YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling Feathers
I'm not saying the back button shouldn't work. I'm saying it would be nice to have a way to do it from the webapp's UI as well.
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/07/31/wikipedia-bios-for-wo...
Rolls-Royce conducts first tests of sustainable fuel for use in business jets
Totally fair. It is a very, very hard field to make progress in. I would also take anything I say with a grain of salt, I'm not trying to convince you, just to bring an additional data point to the thought that these techniques aren't very useful or impactful.
They wanted to build a TX-1 at first but it was too ambitious, so they built the very minimal TX-0 instead and later the much bigger TX-2. Unfortunately there are no documents on the TX-1 ideas available online. There's hardly any documents on the TX-0 even. I'd love to see the schematics :(
You can get a taste of the mentioned technology in the article today. https://github.com/lucidrains/deep-daze https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep
I'm not so sure about that. E.g. there aren't any German truck drivers and trucks anymore, just companies and drivers from eastern europe, because it's cheaper. Similarly for lots of jobs in agriculture, construction and some industries like food processing. That's surprisingly not a problem because of unemployment in Germany as much as it is a social and legal problem: Eastern European workers abroad are underpaid (minimum wage circumvented), uninsured (social security dues circumvented), without appropriate workplace protections (truck drivers doing overtime, illegally having to sleep in their trucks for weeks on end, lax technical safety of the trucks), and draining the economy of their home countries of workers because factories that could have been nearby are in Germany instead.

This begs the question: Would it have been as bad as Brexit to restrict worker movements a little more? I would suggest that such restrictions could have even had an overall benefit if done properly. It's just that Germany desperately wanted those cheap workers.
You don't need to pay dividends to maximize shareholder value. As you correctly point out Amazon prioritizes growth over dividends, but also with the goal of maximizing shareholder value (business is bigger/more stable/etc. -> value of shares goes up).
Lars from CatchJS here.

Anyone can go on archive.org and verify that they changed their color scheme and header to ones very similar to CatchJS in Feb 2020, after CatchJS had used that look for 2 years. Thank you for also pointing out the pricing page, where the same is true.

I've now received a cease and desist from their attorney stating that the looks are too similar. It's nice that they've paid for an attorney to make my point for me, but they seem to have mixed up who did what here.
I tend to agree that ML will not itself be the subject, but rather a device or tool misused by Someone Bad. As you say, it's a necessary and integral piece of the story, but not the star.

For example, it brings to mind some combination of Minority Report and Eagle Eye, say. Where a surveillance state combined with ML analysis leads to something akin to pre-crime arrests and the fight back against that.
Walletmor releases Payment Implant (EU)
I wasn't comparing it with fossil fuels, but with more direct energy, where you have a turbine sunk in water, or other forms of floating wave generators, without the power being intermediated by air movement
I'm glad for you. Your experience is not shared by small businesses for which ICT is a mystery rather than a delight.
I am fondly recollecting my time as an undergraduate at CMU in the 80s. All the machines were named from cities and towns in Pennsylvania. Old-school bare-metal on-prem indeed. That time has largely passed as machines are ephemeral. Functional names make more sense now.
Only a very confused, impressionable mind could make any sense out of this theory.
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Don't think so, since it's been around for so long. I suppose you could if you compared annualized returns
I remember reading Avogadro Corp.[1] a couple of years ago and being impressed at how its AI (NLP in particular) felt quite in touch with the real stuff. I think it was self-published but I'm not sure.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appe...
Your life is heavily impacted by ML right now.

Ask bank for loan? Your request is scored by ML-based system.

Apply to some position via big HR agency? You CV is scored by ML system.

Buy some tickets to flight (I understand, that it sound sad in 2021)? You go to airport, ML-based system recognize yur face and scans of your luggage and mark you (pray for this!) as harmless.

Take some modern drug? It was selected for synthesis and tests by large ML system out of myriads other formulas (exactly what author of this essay says!).

See this ad on Instagram or some page? ML-based AI decided to show it to you.

And so on, and so on.
Agencies like ICE and the TSA appear to be jobs programs for people who would otherwise have difficulty finding work.

It's just a shame that the makework mostly involves harassing people. You'd think we could find more productive things for people to do.
> So, how can masks not be effective and yet also be so effective that we must save our critical supply for medical personnel?

Medical personnel wear masks for more than just protection from Covid. Surgical and N95 mask availability is critical to the day-to-day operation of a medical facility, is it not?

Here's my interpretation: initially, he was concerned about a run on masks and believed masks provided minimal protection against Covid. Later, as mask availability was no longer as much of an issue and as there was increasing evidence that wearing masks might help contain the spread of Covid, he changed his recommendation.

I recall there being an evolution in thinking around mask wearing, from masks being worn to protect the wearer to masks being worn to protect people from an asymptomatic wearer. Lots of studies posted here about effectiveness or lack thereof of non-N95 masks.

I also recall us learning about asymptomatic spread, the degree to which to virus was aerosolized, and so forth.
Yeah, I think only Power has hardware double of 128 bits, but it's not the same as double-double because the exponent range is equal to double's exponent range.

I agree this package is not new conceptually, but it has a convenient metaprogramming to generate code for arithmetic for any [hardware ieee number type] x N.

It also lists the complexity as a function of N, most operations scale as N^3, so yes, for larger N it might fail to be fast.
> Today I can see mistakes and inaccurate info in every niche I am familiar with. Because of that, I cannot trust it on subjects I know nothing about

Just like HN comments :)
Full transcript of Elon Musk interview on Clubhouse
Or just add them to your wishlist on amazon
Doodle 0.4.1 Released
Almost every major American periodical in the public domain is available here:
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That’s my point 12.5 (“closer” to 10) is a far cry from 20+