skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medallion is far beyond 15%/year. Between 1988 and 2018 they had an average annualized return of 39.1%. And the variance is remarkably low: since 1990 there has never been a year with less than a 20% return.

These figures are net. And for what it's worth, I am in the industry and I don't know any professional who thinks there's obvious fraud going on. It's possible, but you make it seem like there's a consensus that it's illegitimate when you say "most sane people." Frankly it's the other way around.

People who think the returns are fraudulent tend to be outside the industry and thoroughly unacquainted with what quantiles of returns are rare versus implausible. They usually hand wave a misinterpretation of Buffett's famous bet against hedge funds and Fama's (strong) Efficient Market Hypothesis.
Do you happen to have a more verifiable source for your claim that COVID-19 vaccines are more risky than the flu vaccine?

Excerpt from the disclaimer in your source:

> VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to VAERS. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.
It's real, but I wrote this years ago. If you read the post a former warehouse worker explains how the ambassador job actually worked.

Guessing it got reposted because of Amazon's other bad attempts at PR in recent weeks. Lots of fake FC accounts out there now too, parodies and so on, but the originals were real.
After you shard some of the computation out to different processors to filter before single core aggregation, then you can push down some pre aggregation to limit the communication between parallel threads, and it keeps going!

Super interesting to see parallelism for reading logs this way, like for when you have too many logs for one core and too few for Spark
I didn't know about "variant=", thanks.
That construction is ok. But usually you want formatted output, let's say align to byte, and pad with zeroes. I've seen oftentimes (and did myself):

std::cout << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(2) << std::hex << my_int << std::dec << std::endl;

This appears to work until someone change the alignment to left somewhere in the code. Hence the correct code is:

// C++ type-safe equiv to printf("%-02x",my_int) - it's called progress
std::cout << std::right << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(2) << std::hex << my_int << std::dec << std::endl;

Also, is it relevant to keep the final 'dec' when we assume we can't assert the ios left/right state, so why could we assert the hex/dec state? Or maybe was it a bug to change alignment to left, and not restore it to right afterwards? Or maybe should you restore ios state in some centrol place, and never pass your iostream to some external libs? Discussions and wars ahead. Note that the bug above is very nasty because it will change say "02" into "20", which looks perfectly valid.

Note: I just noticed that in C++20, there is new formatted string proposal. You can't stop progress, but neither can you speed it up it seems.

Note2: the 'std::' spam is yet another indication that C++ is lacking common sense and utterly broken.
Depends on where you're touching on the resistor. Maybe you're lucky and touch the part closer to the null. Or you wear shoes and don't touch anything else.
You should add IceCream!
> Tony Hoare apologized for inventing the null reference: I call it my billion-dollar mistake.

Have we learned nothing? Many languages without NIL/Nil/nil/null/NULL existed already when Golang was born.

And this attempt to heal the damage hurts, too:

> “make the zero value useful” philosophy

This is like instead of programming by exception (Java), it's programming by ignorance (of errors).

I like a few things about Golang (handling of numeric literals, for example), but not this thing.
What about just requiring companies to identify paid messaging (like political ads: “Paid for by XYZ”)? Obviously this doesn’t solve any messaging coming from overseas, but it at least helps with companies with an American presence astroturfing their own reviews etc.
You don't need a machine gun. If you are using computer aiming and stabilization at close distances, it would almost never miss. A suppressed tube of subsonic .22lr would be quiet, accurate, and very light.
Ha, cool find! I dunno tho, seems to run well for me.
I'm having to teach the rescue collie what "oops" means, and that it's ok to eat things that I point out on the floor.

I've cared for many dogs in my time, and this is unprecedented.
how do you know what email someone signed up for Twitter with?
Docker is very nice to deploy on docker-dedicated servers, but on legacy app or personal workstations binaries are more flexible
There's quite a bit of data wrangling happening both in the backend and in the frontend.
Qovery is announcing multi-cloud deployment for full-stack apps
Wow really, that's a pretty big problem. Which country?
A lot of my work revolves around physiological research of bioelectrical signals produced by the human body. If you have spent as much time in this niche field as I have, you would know that this had to be a fake, both from the apparent context already stated along with details that others do not know. For example, for your 5 person "crew" to be using the Astroskin, let's just say that you would have to invest $10k-$15k to even start. The prices of the Astroskin are obscene and are not publicly advertised. Its extremely similar, slightly less advanced counterpart, the Hexoskin, is much more reasonably priced: https://www.hexoskin.com/

From a technology standpoint, the actual hardware and materials for an Astroskin system cost around $175-$200 (clothing set + processing unit) to produce, so they really are making bank.
Show HN: Clubhouse with Card UI for Remote Teams(Jitsi+WebRTC)
You raise a valid concern. At least in the Outback, a lot of things can be done with voice commands. It's not lightning-fast, but when driving, that's safer than both a touch-screen and physical buttons/switches.
Wasn't that always the case though only the medium changed? If you had a newspaper you could print whatever you wanted (as long as it wouldn't be against government or law), the same happens on social media only that everyone and their dog have their "newspaper".
He wasn't "former" CEO for the last 26 years though, talking about being disingenuous
And still doing a poor job of it.
Hand them a small hash/dictionary

{a=>1, b=>2, c=>2}
Have them swap keys and values.

See if they can cope with duplicates.

On large hiring spree (20+ hires, hundreds of interviews) I would walk in, give them that in any language they wanted.

Moment I saw they understood, I would let them know they passed and walk out. Let others handle the social aspects of interviews.

90% failed test or took ages to get to solution.

Remaining would finish it under a minute and be confused as to why we gave them such a trivial test.
A market in which prices _always_ 'fully reflect' available information is called 'efficient'. [Fama 1970]
Laughable.

Iraq - I didn't agree with it. But look at the country now versus 20 years ago... it's a democracy in much better shape.

Afghanistan - we needed to take out al-Qaeda after the attacks. The country is broken, and outside actors help the Taliban continue their terrorism. You support the Taliban? Popular opinion supports the democratic government.

Libya - Russia and Turkey are the big players there now, continuing the civil war. I guess it's not as simple as you make it out to be, huh?

And yet you gloss over the countries like Japan, South Korea, Phillipines, Colombia, Eastern Europe and Western, that have all entered our sphere after war and have done amazingly economically while retaining high quality democracies.

Without the US, the world would quickly devolve back to fighting warlord/autocratic ethnostates. Or an autocratic CCP-controlled world.
I think they used Graphviz: https://graphviz.org/
Real world locations via photogrammetry in new Cesium tool for Unreal Engine 4
want to try amazon prime for free? Then try amazon working cookies at https://techaty.com/amazon-prime-video-cookies/
A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
IPv6:
curl http://ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com
curl http://ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com/advanced

IPv4:
curl http://whatismyip.akamai.com
curl http://whatismyip.akamai.com/advanced

Both hosts are distributed around the world using the Akamai platform and should be fast for everyone.
To be more precise, Mark Getty of Getty Images is J. Paul Getty's grandson.

Some of the initial investments in Getty Images came from other members of the Getty family (who had inherited probably quite a lot of money from J. Paul) but that seems to be the extent of the relationship.
An hourly cache may not be up-to-date enough for many use-cases. But sure, let's say you have some caching on a timed interval and those are all the requests you see. Unless you block all outbound requests from the app, you still can't guarantee it's not reporting on you.

Imagine if you saw a header on the request that looked like:

```
Authorization: Bearer A17b2C23kd231h12309
```

That might look totally safe/normal at a glance. It's just an auth header, right? But who's to say there isn't extra info embedded in there? Maybe "A" means a conversion between USD to Euros and the number after it refers to the number of times such a query was made in the last hour. Maybe the letter after it is a signal for the order of magnitude of the largest unit amount (tens, thousands, millions, etc).

I have little hopes for end users (including myself) from ever being able to reliably confirm/disconfirm the privacy impact of closed source apps unless network access is completely cut off. Even if I monitored requests in Little Snitch, who knows what clever encoding schemes can be used to leak out data through requests that appear benign. That's not to say it's not useful to do so (many, if not most malicious apps like that would probably not bother to cover their tracks that well).
I've worked at various enterprise-scale companies over the past 2 decades, and this has been my observation too.

As you say, there are exceptions, but a lot of managers are there because they've "played the game" well - they're good at networking, know the right people, say the right things at the right times, and when they think it will help them, they don't hesitate to throw other people under a bus.
This is an extremely black and white way of looking at it, I would suggest you find some grey areas in your thinking.

For what its worth, a high percentage of people are living paycheck to paycheck, no matter how big that paycheck is. Many people will adjust their lifestyle to or above their means, so they have to live paycheck to paycheck to support that lifestyle.
What's with China and Haiti?
I tried to look at Google News, I don't see anything related.
I think the argument is that those systems DO contain significant downsides (ease of censorship, discouraging socially unacceptable viewpoints, etc) that you’d be porting to the web.
Nearly everyone involved in this debate is "fake".

The people railing against Amazon are mostly people who have never done manual labor in their lives and (wrongly) view people who have as little better than slaves. Even the Amazon (or ex-Amazon) employees who speak against the company are doing so in an environment where the only tolerated sentiment is attacking Amazon. There's no room for nuance. Perhaps that's okay and reasonable new provisions for Amazon employees will come out of all this or perhaps the debate will get less and less rational.

This situation makes me think of Ikiru, a Kurosawa movie. The main character is dying. He looks around for meaning in life and eventually settles upon a former employee of his, a young girl. He spends time with her and buys her things just to be around her, not out of any romantic of sexual motive, just because he's drawn to her liveliness, her attitude toward the world. Eventually she gets tired of this situation and no longer wants to see him. As she leaves, he begs her to tell him how she's so happy. She explains that she now works in a factory making toys for Japanese kids and this gives her life meaning. The main character decides that he can make his life meaningful by creating something durable in the world for other people before he dies.

My point is that we often view workers as oppressed but an Amazon warehouse worker contributes in a very real way to billions of people getting things that they need. I write code for a living and I'm not convinced that I contribute any more to the world than an Amazon warehouse worker. And don't think the workers are unaware of this, some of them take pride in it, whether or not they express it on twitter, and they should.

A lot of this comes down to your attitude toward the world. Are you a pessimist? Do you view human interaction as oppressive, is it mainly comprised of corrupt, powerful people manipulating kind, weak people? Or are you an optimist? Do you find it remarkable that things work as well as they do, do you take pride in your part, no matter how small, in keeping civilization afloat?

Neither of these sentiments is wrong but only one is taken seriously in certain circles.
Darn! Certainly a set back, if a brief one— they're astonishingly building new Starships every few weeks now. It was almost exactly 15 years ago that SpaceX attempted their first (albeit unsuccessful) launch of the Falcon 1.

Also, as of their 25th Starlink mission last week they now have 1320 satellites in orbit. Approximately ⅓ of all operational satellites are now Starlink relays, which is kinda mind boggling.
This doesn't match my experience at all, so can you expand on it? All of my medievalist friends all hate the term and both of the Wickham books in my possession have disclaimers about it in the intro.
So there you go. Lots of friction for competitors.
That's ... a -lot- of ground ...
The last two paragraphs are exactly where I undid all of my reading.

> In the USDA’s standard this is probably a net benefit - you basically know they are lying at all times, ...

Equating the USDA recommendations to lies, because their conservative recommendations are meant for easy understanding and practice undermines any of the above research. Since now you're left wondering what viewpoint the author is advocating any why I'm reading yet another science bashing writer.
I'm not completely certain what you're stating, so I apologize if I assume the wrong meaning. Please do correct me if that's the case.

> One could conclude that there is not a reliable way to determine when fouls should be called.

One certainly could conclude that, but it seems strange to me to give equal weight to the opinions of those who're most invested in the outcome. I would instead turn to a more objective measure--either the calls of the officials, or even a close reading of the rules and reviewing all the available observations of the event.

> One could conclude that the Constitution is such a badly written document that you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean...

I would certainly agree that there are many points on which the Constitution is unclear or poorly written :) The caveat of the constitution is that we don't have to exist alongside its poor meanings for eternity with no recourse--We the People are imbued with the ability to clarify and update the constitution, a power we've used many times to correct its shortcomings.

If I am to take your use of the Constitution as an analogy to the Christian bible, the opposite is true of that bible: we're unable to clarify and update it where flaws are discovered, and must continue to exist with it as the supposed-word-of-God in its current form. Just as with the Constitution, it is possible that new interpretations of the text can develop, but it's impossible to decide if they are truly "correct" with regard to authorial intent--something much more important of the bible than the constitution.

> Self-deception thrives under those conditions.

I absolutely agree. Part of what frustrates me about conversations around religious accuracy is that the stakes are (typically) set so, so much higher for the religious party: the threat of damnation, eternal torment, and not being able to see one's deceased loved ones make a powerful incentive to overlook otherwise obvious shortcomings in one's reasoning.
Hard to believe that most Americans care much about the Dieselgate.
If they did, how do you explain the massive amount of SUVs and pickups carrying a single lonely driver that you can see everyday on America's streets and highways?
Other than a highly educated and modernized young urban minority, I would bet that most Americans are not that worried about emissions.
Good opportunity for Hyundai to announce Alanis Morissette as the spokesperson for Ionic tomorrow...
> Dividend payments aren't free. In fact, you can see that for dividend paying stocks, the share price steadily goes in the months leading up to a dividend payment, and on the dividend date it goes down roughly equal to the dividend paid.

I thought it was a matter of math: company gave away some amount of money per share so it should have lost exactly that amount in valuation, what’s the catch?
I just use https://search.creativecommons.org.

Any photo I want/need is available, and I already clearly know the license. Unsplash etc. are good, but this is solid.
I just got a clearly fake robocall, from "amazon" about auto renewing prime but my renewal doesn't come up til December. There is a campaign here and I doubt it is amazon. And I'm not renewing prime, all companies turn evil at this size.
Why should I trust a social network company with my government ID when often they can’t even keep my password secure?

Or why would I want to use a social network with onerous signup terms?
Pickle (YC W21) Is Hiring
There are 2 things that I do to help mitigate this:

1) Block off a day (or two) for no meetings

2) If there is no agenda, no clear reason for meeting, I decline or email them asking for clarity for the meeting reason. If it is something that can be answered via email or slack, I typically try to encourage a response via those methods.

The biggest issue with meetings is the context switch, so if you can consolidate as many of them as possible, rather than having them peppered through your day, I find that to be the best way of dealing with them.

edit:

I forgot to add that I try to encourage people to schedule meetings during my non productive times. For me, the mornings are typically my least productive time, because I am tired, groggy and just starting to get oriented for the day. If I schedule them during that time, it allows me to use my afternoons which are my productive time for actual work.
They won't need to become luddites, we seem to have plenty of those.
I'm going to say something heretical here, but: I'm increasingly convinced that the whole compound interest thing is bullshit. Not math-wise, the math checks out. Just propaganda-wise. In practice, with interest rates available to general population, a typical person isn't going to accumulate any meaningful wealth unless they were already wealthy.

Say you're saving $500 a month for 10 years, on an account with 5% interest rate. After 10 years, you have $76,281, i.e. $16,281 over the $60,000 you put in. It's just 27% more - and that's assuming you can find an investment with real 5% interest rate, and without taking inflation into account. It's also assuming the banks won't pull off something funny, or that your country doesn't redenominate your currency. In this scenario of continuous savings, it takes about 27 years for the interest to double the amount of money you have. Again, if you can find something that pays you real 5% of interest. The real rates on low-risk accounts seem to be sub-1% these days.

I've been running some back-of-the-envelope calculations like these every now and then, and I'm yet to see a scenario in which compound interests gives me anything in a reasonable time frame. As it is, my wealth-accumulating strategy is just "spend less, and earn more" - with the latter part doing almost all the difference. But I can only pull this off because I'm privileged to work in tech industry, which has more money than it knows what to do with - it's not something I can recommend to my relatives with more mundane jobs.

(I guess I could get into real estate investment? I think I have too low risk tolerance for it, and I also have plenty of ethical concerns about getting rich off flipping houses.)

The trick with "if you live frugally and invest you'll end up with tons of money" is that unless you take risks and are lucky, "end up" is likely to come around your retirement age, when you'll have little use for "tons of money" except paying for medical bills - so you'll pass it on to the next generation, to give them a shot at the life you wanted to have.
They certainly are not acting like they don't care. It's full court press on anti-union propaganda from Amazon.
Tesla's EPA Driving Ranges Didn't Hold Up to Testing. Again Still Fell Short
Trevor Mahlmann has some photos: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/spacex-loses-another...
Public SaaS Pricing Database
A recent blurb on CBinsights inspired me to pull together this database on SaaS Pricing. Comments welcome
I'm thinking "backing, bracing, encasing" solar cells... wondering about interactions with heat and insulation; they used to sell "precast wall panels" that were aluminum over foam and cool to work with. This might be "powerwall" bait.
> In the specific case, I want to eat pizza the morning after ordering it. My track record clearly shows I’m not going to remember to put it in the fridge.

A much more interesting article would have been about string cheese [1]. It too is something you aren't supposed to leave out. Yet it is very common to put it in packed lunches that won't be eaten until hours later, or to carry it in a backpack all day to use as an afternoon snack, or to take it on camping trips.

With string cheese it is not just about people who can't remember to use a fridge ("Alexa, remind me in two hours to put the leftover pizza in the fridge" would deal with his problem). People are deliberately and on a large scale using string cheese that has been out beyond the recommended time.

Yet illness from string cheese gone bad seems to be very rare.

Is this because string cheese is generally sold packaged as single serving sticks in a tightly sealed wrap and comes from the factory with little or no bacteria, so it is not until you actually open a stick that the clock starts running?

[1] There are several different things called "string cheese". I am referring to what is commonly sold in the US as that [2].

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_cheese#United_States
I tied to use sshuttle on macOS client. But somehow the https://www.whatismyip.com/ still shows my client IP instead of the ssh-server's IP. On the other hand, https://www.whatismyip.com.tw/tw/ shows the ssh-server's IP correctly. I wonder if anyone knows the reason...
I would prefer a "fire fast" policy to the egregious and lengthy technical interview process that is common today.

However I've found that the few places that do say they supposedly have a "fire fast" policy, also have an egregious and lengthy interview pipeline also.
It's true Buffett had an average annual return of 20.5% between 1965 and 2018. Soros had an average annual return of 32% over about the same time period.

Both of them have been underperforming in the last decade or so. Medallion is still radically outperforming, however.