skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first thought the article was a joke when I saw its length.

Their sympathy for Melvin Capital despite said “fund” seeking to make money by sinking American companies into the ground via massive “short” positions, as with GameStop, is just disgusting.

You don’t have to put others “down” to be “up”. There’s a way for us all to win. We certainly don’t need hedge funds to help us accomplish that.

EDIT:

“How they did it”:

Melvin Capital purchased substantial volume of short positions (many billions), collaborated with Wall St on how to best design the downfall of a business employing thousands during a pandemic, and even put out fake news articles & tweets to fool the Reddit mob out of fooling themselves. Did not work out in the end.

(No, I do not agree with Reddit’s current valuation. It is merely a remnant of the whole GME fiasco.)
Ruby was one of the languages I "cut my teeth" with to some extent, and I've always loved it's syntax and guiding philosophies, but was pulled away to PHP for my job, and ended up using other things for side projects.

So a project that compiles to native code but uses Ruby-like syntax is very much "what I would build if I committed to building a language". But I've kept pushing off learning it on the notion that I could always justify learning other things that were "version 1" and "production ready (whatever that means)".

I'm thinking now is the time to jump in and try this out finally.

Any real world users care to explain some domains that either are or are not well suited for this at the moment? Any "gotchas" with writing C-bindings, should I need to? Or is the library ecosystem fairly strong?
curiously - using an AI for Red Air/wargaming seems like an exceptionally good use case for AI that is pretty good most of the time, and pretty random at other times.

As a preparation activity you want to be prepped for both perfect play opponents and imperfect opponents that do crazy things like nuke first. Arguably such a system would also help eliminate bias in (pretend) adversarial commanders.
smh/fml... it's at $33k now.
It’s visually hidden for us to see, not for 1Password auto fill mechanism.
If an investor wants returns that are orthogonal to the market or that avoid exposure to specific factors, then ETFs aren't really an option. This is why pension funds etc. will have some investments in index funds but will also diversify into hedge funds and alternative investments.

Hedge funds and related investment vehicles aren't for most people, but they do perform an important function in the markets. Not everyone can invest passively -- someone has to actually enable price discovery.
Can you do a Google search and have a result that includes the secret videos? If so, maybe replace your direct links with links to carefully crafted Google search results, which happen to include only the desired secret videos? Not legal advice; for entertainment purposes only.
what about reproductions of sculptures, where the texture is perfectly reproduced?

I think authenticity has some value, but that value does not lie in the art itself.
If they curated like that, esp with employees, they'd open themselves to an infinite number of lawsuits.
None of those things are true on macOS. Maybe you could argue sideloading is harder, but only insofar as it requires a three word Terminal command. One I know by heart. `sudo spctl --master-disable`.
The OP's point is Microsoft is still making billions of dollars selling millions of Windows annual licences to both personnel and corporate users.

If they were to discontinue Windows they would just be throwing away those billions of dollars in annual income.

Since Windows continues to make Microsoft such large amounts of 'easy money' they would be stupid to not keep pushing it out to customers.
> but it is also not >$10B of software engineering

Really? How did you come to this conclusion?

Discord is, without a doubt, 10x better than Slack, Teams, or Zoom combined. They've solved the problem of a communication in the non-business space. That's huge.

For comparison, look at Coinbase, who has a 100B valuation. What they're doing is relatively trivial. Is that >10x the value of Discord?

I don't even think Coinbase is overvalued. 10B for Discord is just a steal.
You're probably right. The banks are the ones the bet on.
Good time to watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames again.
I agree with you, there is no good reason why a career should suffer from working remotely in a largely non-remote office culture. But a lot of dumb things happen in corporate environments when they shouldn't.
excellent question, by f-you money I mean serious f-you money (we're daydreaming, after all), so my vision is a literal stone castle as well as a nice farm. ideally these would be maintainable just by myself so maybe a modest fort-like castle and tiny homestead farm. not necessarily a disney castle and hundreds of acres of corn.

aside from the farm likely taking up all my time (for however long i'm able to sustain that), pursue all my interests: exercise, language, reading, writing, watching movies/tv, taking photos, making films, lifting weights, kayaking, hiking, rock climbing, cooking/baking, biking, playing video games, drawing, spending time with loved ones, studying, the list is endless.
> I come up with crap solution to a problem I am solving.

I think that you are trying to overengineer a solution because you feel that your first approach is normal or rudimentary, but not all problems that need to be solved require `good` solutions. Some are very straight forward like a simple CRUD or some might not require any further changes to the solution you have right now.

The root of the issue you are facing might be that you are too focused on this duality concept and worry about the current zone you are in.
I would rather suggest on focusing on solving the problem in front of you and not worry about how `amazing` or `normal` it is. Because sometimes you might need to build and try out a normal solution and then iterate to make it better. If you feel like your solution can be improved but you are unsure of how to proceed, create a RFC. A colleague who might see the problem with fresh eyes or has solved something similar before may help you out.

Replaced `crap` with `normal` since I believe no solution is `crap` if it solves the problem. It might require improvement in a lot of ways but that does not mean it is `crap`.
I'll rephrase what I'm saying.

What if the AI lies?

What if the AI lies and civilians die because of it?
GameStop is incredibly overpriced. Incredible waste of capital being poured into it.
Exactly. There are plenty of benefits I get from WFH that have nothing to do with productivity. My commute is 2 hours each way. WFH lets me recover 20 hours per week and use it either to catch up on work or (usually) for pleasure. WFH has allowed me to actually see my child during the weekdays and bond. WFH lets me eat a healthy, inexpensive meal at home rather than blow $15/day at the local oil-and-carb lunch shacks near the office. WFH lets me discretely run errands around my home during down time rather than having to just sit in my office chair picking my nose. WFH has saved hundreds of gallons of gasoline and carbon footprint from my commute. This past year has been pretty much all upside, and it’s going to suck to throw it all away because Mr. CTO just can’t bear to not have his minions crawling around the shiny office.
Okay, think about that one a bit: in the U.S., power shifted peacefully and a bunch of Republicans left the Bush administration to the private sector and academia because we have a strong tradition of not pursuing political opponents. That is not true of China’s system and not having separate power hierarchies means that you can’t just say, pull a Katrina, and fail upwards into a well-paid private job with no impact on your family. Nobody’s kids are being banned from going to Yale because their dad was publicly shown as incompetent or dishonest. The more that isn’t true, the more it’s unsurprising to see people have the instinct to reach for political damage control when the problem is still raging.
Did you mean crimped to solid core wire?
to be fair, I struggle to recognise -any- kind of intelligence applied to planning and strategy, so..
While there's some use to gain of function studies (they give us what genetic markers to look for for particularly human-adapted pathogens), researchers have been concerned about laboratory accidents for a long time. Like, it was a keynote talk at a conference I was at in 2008, which estimated a GoF study had an expected number of deaths of, IIRC, 1500. Every one - obviously in the form of a long-tailed but highly consequential outcome.

One of the keys there is that's not uniquely Chinese as a problem. Those researchers were talking about American labs.
This field should be clearly visible, even if 1Password would mistakenly input data in there.
>What if the AI decides that the course of action that leads to the desired outcome of winning the conflict is to kill civilians

I always figured that was what happened in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project, the computer(s) found a way to ensure / prevent a nuclear war / peace, by taking control of the nuclear arsenals on their own and ensuring peace via their own threat of nuclear weapons.
This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free.

https://www.mybalancenow.review/
Alternatives don't make up the core portfolio of large institutional investors such as pension funds. Instead, they represent a percentage of the portfolio. The purpose of this percentage is to mix in uncorrelated (or less correlated) return streams in order to boost the return/risk ratio of the portfolio.

It would be foolish in my opinion to just replace an entire pension fund portfolio with a couple ETFs. This isn't to say the pension funds are doing a good job (I don't think they are) in their allocation, but to say that everyone should just take out all of their money from hedge funds and put them into ETFs is irresponsible and not something any large investor would ever consider.
Biden's open border policy leads to immigrant surge
This is crashing Sync (the reddit app) and a parcel tracking app too.
That's pretty cool
Lastpass used to have an option for autofill to only fill empty fields, not sure if it is still there as I moved on a year ago but it stopped a little of that annoyance.
Cost of building new refinery ‘II cost Nigeria $12 bln, says NNPC
This is a fair defense of stoicism. It addresses my critique nicely.
de-fleshing leaves characteristic marks on bone. I believe contemporaneous animal bones show both de-fleshing and bone breaking for marrow. Brains have fats. If you're eating a person, you'd eat the brain (yes, I know ...) if you already ate marrow.

De-fleshing for ritual might not be distinguishable from de-fleshing for food. Except, maybe food would show signs of heating because, 5000 years ago I think they had fire, and fire makes protein yummy.

Lots of cultures in time past (and present?) leave bodies and then collect the bones, clean them up, do ritualised things with them. I think fewer cultures eat their dead, its not unknown, its less common.

I'm not an archeologist. This is just my opinion.
In the same post I linked, Matt Levine actually provided an example of exactly that happening to another similarly over-hyped company, AMC:

“In talking about GameStop, I have occasionally tried to tie the goofy stock-price dynamics to corporate finance. I suggested that maybe GameStop could sell stock at these absurd prices and use the money to, you know, be a better company. It’s tricky, selling stock at these prices, but in theory that’s what the prices are for: People are telling you that they want to buy your stock to fund your projects, so you might as well sell them the stock and do the projects.

AMC has done that! On Monday it announced that it had raised $506 million of equity (and another $411 million of debt) in various transactions that “should allow the company to make it through this dark coronavirus-impacted winter.” Good work. Even better, that same day AMC launched an at-the-market offering to sell up to 50 million shares into the market at prevailing prices, allowing it to sell opportunistically to any redditors who wanted to buy. Yesterday it announced that it had finished the offering and raised $304.8 million from that and a previous stock sale, at an average price of about $4.80 a share. Of course yesterday the stock closed at $19.90, so AMC would have done better to wait a day, but nobody’s perfect. When redditors are clamoring to buy your stock you should sell it to them before it’s too late; there’s no reason for the company to try to time the endgame perfectly.

Also yesterday holders of $600 million of AMC convertible bonds converted them into stock at a conversion price of $13.51 per share. Six hundred million dollars of debt, vaporized by Reddit enthusiasm. “In the absence of significant increases in attendance from current levels, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time,” AMC warned investors on Monday; four days and a billion dollars later, there is somewhat less doubt. A week ago it was not crazy to think this company was doomed; now it is entirely possible that it will survive and thrive and show movies in movie theaters for decades to come because everyone went nuts and bought meme stocks this week. Capital formation!”
So... pretty much everything I could do on .net framework runs on Linux and Mac now? Even Winforms, or WPF?

To be fair I haven't written .net code in like 10 years, and the docs explaining how to navigate the transition from framework to core were extremely confusing. Has that soup of different technologies solidified any?
One should also note that being detected and actually starting somewhere are two different things.

"Has this been causing small, stochastically limited outbreaks for some time before we picked it up?" is a question that has dogged several recent outbreaks.
> public shaming is directly part of that process in a democratic republic

When the wealthy can collectively lobby their way out of paying taxes, this process is pretty much useless. The middle/lower class don’t care so much to do public demonstrations.
The problem is, this kind of thing becomes annoying for users very quickly. When you use Discord, you expect that everyone has all of the features available and that moderation tools work properly everywhere. Lets say your friend is using telegram which is bridged to discord, now you want to invite them to a private group in the discord server, oh but you can't because telegram doesn't support discord roles.

And then on telegram you try to open an encrypted chat with someone on IRC, but their irc client doesn't support that.

Users don't care about talking to people cross platform as much as they care about everything working properly. Its easy enough to have 3 messaging apps on your phone.
Gah what then? I use strong passwords but almost all of them flow through my clipboard.
As someone who has colleagues who work in exactly this, it's not particularly surprising. Viral ecology is hard.
Honestly, anybody that passes a certain bar is probably fine for me. We already have that with medical licensing, board exams, residency matching, etc. If anything we could probably loosen the bar, since residency spots are artificially scarce because of the residency cap.

To be perfectly clear, I don't dispute ability exists - I just don't think that should be the ideal organizing philosophy for society.
Beyond the whole Google thing...

Their free tier limitations bothers me. You only get image snapshots of events triggered within the last 24 hours or something. It's essentially useless for trying to establish any information from checking your event replays.

For a while, the premium subscription had to be added per camera, which added up quickly. I think they've since changed this, because I had cancelled for a while then signed up again recently, and got premium tier for all of my cameras with one fee (can't remember how much).

Even still with the premium tier, I'm personally just really not a fan of their UI. Scrubbing through event replays is not easy to do. I've had cameras randomly disconnect for no apparent reason while others kept functioning on the same network just fine. I have one that is pointing out of a window, and it performs really poorly in low-light conditions against the reflection in the glass in whatever position I try. Granted, I also have a set of the outdoor specific ones, and they have performed really well with no downtime that I can recall, even in strong weather.

Just not worth the money IMO, wish I had went for something more open and hackable to my liking.
probably wouldn't link to the daily mail tbh, they produce so much garbage it's impossible to just take any story they write at face value
> With my earliest computers, I kept buying laser printers with more RAM than the computer attached to them (I did subsequently upgrade the computers).

I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had more RAM and a faster processor than the computers they were attached to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter
You can get a "refund" everywhere, because it's an unauthorized transaction. If the merchant will not refund, you simply call up the card company and explain how you agreed to a charge of $10 and were subsequently charged $2,000. The only reason the article was phrased as "costing" the author money is for clickbait.
I experience this 100% with writing music. I suspect most of it is around the need for your creation to be good, versus allowing it to be child-like play. If you're able to suspend the need to be good for a moment, you can start to experience again the joy of playing, inventing, letting go. Kenny Werner's book Effortless Mastery is a great reference for this.
I feel like what a lot of people miss about the decline of Skype was the move to smartphones. Chat, audio and video tech built for PCs with wired connections all needed to be replaced with stuff that accounted for the growing number of mobile devices. I remember the brief period where I tried to use AIM on my early Android phone, and it turned it into a skillet, basically, and the battery life was cut by hours just by running AIM. It's not a coincidence that _every_ chat app (text, audio, video) that was popular before smartphones were replaced by ones that were written after smartphones became popular, and it makes no sense to analyze Skype outside of that larger trend.
They have accumulated a cash war chest that is so big it's a liability... their way to deal with that is to acquire and offset costs and taxes which enables them to get bigger faster.

The system is working. but only really for the biggest.
Xkcd to the rescue? https://xkcd.com/936/

Gfycat already generates memorable URLs so it’s definitely possible. I myself do it manually nowadays (ie generate phrase password to be stored in manager so I can copy it manually if needed)
Community is personal (thoughts on community building)
"Should" is a pretty strong statement. GoF studies, like social media-based disease surveillance, are one of those things that has a compelling "Just So" story justifying its existence, but has yet to show that it actually does what it's supposed to do.

Also, the alternative is not burying our head in the sand. It's monitoring and studying nature, instead of forcing the issue in a lab, and investing in infrastructure and capacity that work against a broad range of pathogen threats.
It’s also the price paid by many who don’t get that seat. What happens to them?
> In the midst of a global crisis, the hedge fund has prospered.

The opening line itself should give away the bias. Despite the pandemic and everything else going on, there was no market crisis last year. Quite the opposite in fact. It was basically impossible to lose money, no matter what you invested in.

The article talks about hedge fund managers making record amounts of money – that's because that is what hedge funds are designed for. In an era where you can buy pretty much any security for free with a few clicks, their standard 2% of assets/20% of profits annual fee structure is absurd.

Sure hedge funds have made their investors money. The S&P 500, small caps, crypto, commodities, treasuries, currencies all have as well (and for a lot cheaper).

Here is a much more neutral take – https://www.investopedia.com/managing-wealth/hedge-fund-over...
IRC still exists but the age or IRC is long over. Sure, people still use it, but some people still use myspace. IRC is lacking most of the features that the average person considers the bare minimum level of features.

Being able to see messages while your computer was turned off is bare minimum. Being able to use your phone to connect and receive push notifications is bare minimum. Being able to share a photo is bare minimum. Having a profile picture is bare minimum.

Some of these features can be sort of had with client extensions or middle steps like irc bouncers but the average user does not care for this. It should just work and every other platform just works.

The average user also doesn't care if the proprietary messaging platform of the day dies and is replaced with a new one because its easy to sign up again on the next platform
Thankfully after much griping, Netflix did add an option to disable this in your profile settings.

That it's the default behaviour is still mind boggling.
I feel like it goes way beyond "impoverished" when the oppression and exploitation of free labor from a particular group is woven into hundreds of years of cultural DNA of the country, right from the very beginning written into the founding documents of South Carolina in the 1660s: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc05.asp (section 110)

There are so many intersecting social issues too, like America's experiment with alcohol prohibition in the 1920s and anti-prostitution laws that to this day are endangering women, enabling trafficking, and being used as justification for ever-increasing surveillance. You can guess which types of "open minded" businesses back in the day tended to host jazz music and be more welcoming to blacks. Most people in San Francisco, for example, know of the Fillmore District but probably not of Terrific Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrific_Street#Demise

Or the whole "Red Scare" McCarthyism thing, Hollywood codes, and anti-labor-union activities in the 20th century: https://isreview.org/issue/1/communist-party-and-black-liber...

I don't think this can be truly addressed without somehow dethroning and replacing the ruling egregore of America, but it is us and we are it.
If something is so frequently abused to become normal, it means the design is somehow wrong.

Design of context and the key/value storage there is wrong.
Because around half the EU production is exported whereas until a few days ago exactly 0% of the US and UK production were.

"Until a few days ago" because the US just recently agreed to send some vaccine to Canada. For the first time. Canada had been getting vaccine produced in the EU. UK is still at 0.
They did not list a high number of rejections though. Reading through it my first thought was “That’s all? What a weird flex!” In my maybe 20 year career I’ve probably been rejected hundreds of times. So much of tech interviewing is spraying and praying, and everyone is so picky. I’ve been rejected more than five times at a few distinct companies! The author listed shockingly few, unless he’s just giving us the highlight reel.
Thank you for your service; I wish you a lot more failures on your way to push the envelope in the space between fear and panic.