skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Something in us seems to require exogenous chemicals to facilitate social interaction and bonding. I don't think it necessarily has to be that way, but it is. You can't talk about getting rid of alcohol or tobacco without discussing their benefits and offering alternatives.
i perfer black rice or mix or brown and wild rice
What would you rather have for the next 5 years? Why?
>There is enough evidence here to make a strong case against alcohol on a number of grounds (which Nutt himself does not quite do).

Alcohol is a drain on economic growth, damaging our productivity and forcing us to spend money on healthcare that could be used elsewhere. The CDC estimated the cost of hangovers to the American economy as $249bn in 2010. The Institute of Alcohol Studies estimates a cost of £1.4bn a year for British productivity.

And therein lies the core argument of the entire piece. Good old fashioned Anglo capitalist puritanism. Don't have fun that could be harmful or dangerous, don't have any pleasure, optimize your life for GDP and close your eyes and think of England.

I seriously wonder why people who argue along these lines and apparently write an entire book on the dangers of alcohol don't just skip that part and go to the actually interesting question and ask themselves why people still drink or do any other drug, because we all know that it's dangerous and harmful etc. But drugs are also a part of our culture, of our social life, they can be a source for creativity or just for pleasure.

There's another interesting little bit in the piece

>"Left unaddressed is why we think that alcohol is necessary to any of those (good and often great) rituals. It’s not. I don’t see why you can’t get most of those social benefits anyway."

I seriously wonder how long you have to hit people on the head with Tyler Cowen books until they actually start to believe this stuff. A ritual is a sacred, integrated activity. It's not some autistic utilitarian thing where you can rip a part out and 'get the social benefits'. You take one part out, the entire thing falls apart. But I don't think people who think like this even have any religious or aesthetic appreciation any more to understand this.
The problem with comparing software development with manufacturing physical artifacts is that the phases are mixed up. The manufacturing, creating the artifact, in the case of software, is a wholly automated process usually done by a compiler (or similar). The compiler doesn’t need to know shit about the big picture and usually produces the artifact exactly as specified, as your machinist.

So software development are all about writing down the specifications precisely enough for the compiler to create the artifact. Mixing up this process with manufacturing is a source of many of the problems in software development.
Isn't the echo voice-only? How does that even work?
Those aren’t managers.

Those are ICs who are forced to take management roles for compensation increases.

The best managers haven’t coded in a long time and instead grew their management skills.
We have one of those exact machines at the office. It's okey. The coffee is alright. The number codes are a nice feature. It's annoying that the cup sensor doesn't recognise transparent glasses so you have to hold your finger over the sensor if you want a glass of water. I can't figure out why they wouldn't use a ultrasonic sensor. Oh well. First World problems.
> I'm not sure how one gets software engineers to justify and back up their decisions like this on a regular basis, but I suspect it would help management trust their engineers more.

More balanced senior engineers (I know anecdotally that there are lots of them) speaking up and challenging their fellow-engineers to justify their extreme positions will be a good start IMO.
In production, of course yes.

In iterating development, you would expect one at a time so a bug would not affect a whole fleet.
A reference (that lays out the statistical arguments) is "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" by John Bogle.
As you specify people from Seattle, and these people went out of their way to point out that the people are religious, republicans who like guns, I have a feeling they aren't particularly open minded or tolerant people. Religious or secular, blue team or red team, basic politics shouldn't color your ability to get along with people. Fundamentally people are pretty similar, and American culture is quite homogeneous.
> were likely in some state of mild chemical dependence

> It's not useful to call these people alcoholics.

Whether it's useful is not the point, especially whether it's useful to you personally. Alcoholism has a definition, which revolves around dependence. If they're dependent they're alcoholics, and it's still different than non-dependent binge drinking. You're basically trying to make the same distinction I just did (contrary to your own "they're the same" from two posts earlier), except that that you're using the term "alcoholism" for the wrong side of the distinction.

> In my mind, attaching an "ism" to a substance is only useful to identify pathology

You're using "pathology" in a very idiosyncratic way, almost opposite to its real meaning. To a clinician, social effects are not pathology. The pathology is the causes and effects on the individual, so dependence qualifies but wrecking your car doesn't.
1. I think you'll find that funds that consistently beat the market for so many years are not taking investments.
2. Buffet himself says: "In my view, for most people, the best thing to do is to own the S&P 500 index fund"
Theoretically - and vice-versa.

Depends on what the avenue of exploit you're worried about is. You can disable BIOS flashing from the OS in the BIOS, but that might still be theoretically vulnerable to, say, compromising the Intel ME environment and flashing from there; a rootkit loaded in SMM could hang around until the machine is cold power cycled (and theoretically compromise the bootloader(s) to load itself and then chainload the "real" bootloader every boot); if you want to get really invasive, you could theoretically start flashing various microcontrollers attached to the system (say, a USB flash drive, or your HDD/SSD controller) to do malicious things.

These get increasingly unlikely (and unreliable, without knowing and targeting the specific hardware you're using) as your attacker model includes less resources, but not impossible. Intel ME code execution, BIOS and SMM rootkits, malicious USB flash drive firmware and HDD firmware have all been demonstrated (I haven't seen malicious SSD firmware, but there's nothing theoretically stopping it other than the controller doing a lot more on them), and a couple have even been found in the wild.
They’re making money up and down. For example, SPY is likely done climbing for a while. Maybe it will squeeze up to ~4160, but it’s either going to be flat or aggressively down in the coming days. Thursday/Friday was a very clear exit day. If it squeezes north and over extends further, it’s a very clear short. If it sits flat for a week until OPEX, it’ll be a clear buy for another leg up, then you reevaluate again.

This is what I mean when I say treating it like it’s your job. Go back and look at the big downturn last year. To anyone who was paying attention, it looked like a car crash in slow motion.

Only to those of us with other work to do, did it look like a flash crash out of nowhere. The writing is very clearly on the wall for all of this stuff, because the big players needs days to reposition, and will be moving billions of shares, and you can literally watch them do it.

The reason active funds don’t do as well as the market is because they have to hedge. You’re always paying a premium to minimize losses when you’re hedging, and you can’t exit fast when your position is worth billions.

It’s like turning a freighter, versus turning a speed boat.
This is quaint. Some parts of the world - China - bypassed the whole credit card and went to QR codes for payment with your phone.

Even in Europe there is progress over the USA. Chip and Pin is all some people have known, the idea that you should have a signature or a cheque is just unimaginable, only old people could remember that.

Cash is not without its costs. Bitcoin isn't the answer. The credit cards take a slice of everything, what we really need is a government that can make a payment system work for everyone, the customer and the retailer, with nobody taking their slice or selling your data. It just needs will.
People spend more money with credit cards than without, hence why almost all stores charge the same price for purchases made with a credit card than cash/debit card. Even though the store makes less money from the transaction due to higher payment processing fees for credit cards, it’s more than offset by the higher number of purchases and sale price of the purchases from people with credit cards.
Possibly something like an Asus ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) which has an Intel Atom processor, and a binary translator to run ARM code, for compatibility reasons.
Why do you think prices are completely detached from a company's financial viability and business profitability?

If I invested in a fund that's indexed to the S&P 500, and a company doesn't do well and drops out of the index, then the fund will sell that company and buy whatever replaces them.

Ideally, sure, the fund could have known ahead of time and sold before the company dropped out of the S&P 500, but that's trying to time the market, which generally doesn't go well over longer periods of time. It wants to capture gains in the aggregate over long periods of time, not maximize gains. The more individuals and firms try to maximize gains, the more likely they are to get bit over the long term.
Maybe a16z doesn't like it, but ,,buy and hold'' active investing works quite well.

Passive investing means doing what your bank advisor suggests. People are starting to realize that those advisors may not make smarter decisions on where the world is going than the people themselves.
This is what my main focus is on these days:

- Vue.js

- Tailwind CSS

- GraphQL (I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet)

- NodeJS (Rust - if I'm feeling adventurous)

- MongoDB (cause it's easy to set up)

I saved up some money and quit my tech job so I can 100% focus on learning these technologies. Right now, I'm focusing on learning the frontend part of this stack.
Author here. I loved the book and encourage everyone to read it. Use the Theory of Constraints to identify your bottleneck and then "limit wip" or elevate it.
You can see your friends without a bar too. Bars being closed was a huge thing for people. Opening bars up was more important then getting kids back to school.

https://www.epi.org/blog/we-prioritized-open-bars-before-giv...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/03/macs-staten...

> “The people have rights!” one protester yelled, reported the Daily News. “Open the door, I’m thirsty!”
Just curious is it possible to abuse this for malicious code? Just a thought...
This is true historically. But at certain times it's a complete no-brainer to enter the market or not. For instance consider post Covid at around March/April 2020. Stocks have dropped 20-30%. It took Moderna 2-3 days to develop a vaccine, is a 20% drop in e.g. Apple justified, or is it simply free money?
Typically in disability lawsuits, the plaintiffs are seeking nothing more than the problem be corrected and coverage of their court costs, they don't seek damages.

Unfortunately, in recent years, there's been a spate of lawsuit trolls primarily interested in a cash settlement and don't care if the problem is corrected or not. There are examples of this over both online and physical violations.
All of that is sadly true and it's a fundamental problem with humanity. I'd say that the only solution I am seeing is that the managers must proactively shut down the extremists early and hard.

If you demonstrate that you will not submit to extremists, I've found that a good chunk of the more balanced people are then encouraged to speak up.

---

TL;DR: Silence the bad and loud voices, and the wiser and quieter voices will start speaking.
> The whole notion that patents are only legitimate if you build something is completely bogus.

It's not bogus. It's actually the only thing that justifies the mere existence of patents. If it doesn't enable better products for us then what's the point? Deviations from this social contract should not be tolerared, especially net-negative activity such as rent seeking by trolling companies and individuals.
I tried using Python with import sh for awhile, but...meh.

https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/faq.html
Is this discord group open for everyone? If yes, would you mind sharing an invite link?
Product managers should never manage engineers, period.
> 6.0, 7.0, and CS1 were awesome on Mac

They're so old they're PPC-only. And 7.0 even has an OS 9 version. I definitely did use these versions in the mid/late 00s, and they were indeed snappy, but I was on Windows back then. Macs were prohibitively expensive over here.
Even an empty file can contain a bug, by virtue of being empty.
Of the many things I've tried, cigarettes (likely the chemicals rather than the tobacco) was the most habit forming. I remember working a co-op term in Montreal in the winter and taking up the habit. At somewhere over a pack a week was habit forming. Less didn't seem to be.

I've drank lots, both socially and just at home for no reason. I enjoyed having many different beers around and consumed what was on-hand but never got to the point I made special trips to stock it. Similarly for wines or spirits (vodka, tequila, whiskey, wine).

Lately since there's little social occasions to drink, I've taken to consuming a bottle of red per week with/after meals. It seems to help with sleep (since I also have a couple cups of coffee throughout the day) than without.

Edit: Also recalling that it wasn't all that long ago, historically speaking, that Quebec still allowed smoking inside the office, and there was one woman who I worked with that had a rolling machine and a large ashtray that always needed emptying. It was like a weird trip in a time-machine.
It's 2021 and I'm in Europe, and I still use missed calls for calling my family abroad. Typically goes like this:

- I call them on Whatsapp, but their Android phone is sleeping so they don't receive the call notif on Whatsapp

- I send a missed call via GSM to wake their phone

- They call back on Whatsapp

International calls are still expensive even within EU, while huge data packages are included in even cheap monthly subs. I can't comprehend the GSM operators' logic.
I think it is fair to say that no matter how much we go back and forth on this, we are never going to agree.

The gulf between what you perceive and what I saw is far too great a chasm to cross.

If we carried on, it'd probably get heated or it'd end up being a massive wasted effort.

I've been through this rodeo too many times before. I spend the effort to go find objective sources that prove the claims I make only to be met with shifting goal posts and denialism.

For example the link literally describing the PB getting declared a terrorist organization. We're just hand waving that one away are we?

Anyways ... That was a rhetorical question. I've seen the way this all goes.

In order to preserve my own sanity and respect the sanctity of hackernews' no flamewars policy I'm just going to tell you that I disagree and wish you a peaceful day.
One thing active trading does is subject you to much higher short term tax rates. You'll also lose a bit on the spread every time you trade, even with zero commission brokerage fees.

The longest stock I've held is Boeing (40 years).
unless you have to wget your tmux source/package ;)
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

There must be an intention behind that rule. If not, what differentiates HN from Reddit? Pretty much anything gratifies at least someone's "intellectual curiosity".
Citadel hedge fund. 19% annual return. After fees. For 30 years [1].

The most popular index funds (VTI, VGT) only have a 20-year track record, with a paltry 9% and 13% annual return, respectively.

[1] https://www.clearbrookglobal.com/citadel-millennium-d-e-shaw...
Yes, generally picking a winning stock is a winning strategy.
Video game cheats and anti-cheats are almost completely disjoint from remote code exploits like what are reported in the OP.
I am a hedge fund guy who invests his own $$$$ passively so make of this what you will.

There will always be a mix of active and passive.

Fundamentally - passive only works when it follows smart active. Actives do expensive research and trade against each other to arrive at the consensus price. Passives trade at that price for "free." Since both get the same price on average but passives incur no cost, they win on average

This breaks down if passives outnumber actives, or if actives are exceptionally stupid.

Imagine 100% is passive. That means any stock in an index will be bought tomorrow and forever regardless of price. I could exploit that in a ton of ways. For example, do a "squeeze" (think of the recent GME short squeeze but in reverse.)

Or, imagine company X will obviously default but stock keeps going up because passives are obligated to buy. Very easy to exploit by going active!

Finally - think about this. Does your index fund have any GME? That part of your portfolio trades at the price set by Reddit apes. The more of that goes on, the more tempting it is to go "active" on the other side.
I wouldn't likely have 5 cards at one institution on purpose, but I do have at least that many cards. I have a few affinity cards and they ocassionally switch banks, so it's possible I'd end up with several at one bank though.

The only one with an annual fee generally provides benefits of value beyond the fee, the others at least provided some value when I got them, and there's not much negative to having them, so I only close accounts if the bank is annoying (like Chase; not doing business with them again if I have a choice). Although I did close one last year because I was tired of remembering to use it once a year to keep it active.
If by "not be dependant" you mean "I can quit any time", I think only an unreformed alcoholic would strongly agree.

Even if you could arrange a definition of dependence such that it doesn't apply to a regular problem drinker, then I think the term loses it's utility. The physiology and psychology of dependence is an interesting topic, but the disease of substance abuse IS the problematic behavior.

EDIT: I had to clean this up a bunch, apologies for the butchered first attempt.
ok then, i'm wrong. Is it true that more generic manufacturers (assuming they are players in the exercise industry) are also adopting these standards?
They believed they were acting under the direct orders of the President of the United States, and that the military and police were on their side. If you refuse to believe the words of the people involved, watch some of the videos[0] from the scene - that crowd wasn't all there to protest, a lot of them were out for blood and vengeance.

[0]https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/
I'll also add I only have so much energy in the day, and after a couple of years of fighting against problems I coudn't do anything about and managers who couldn't make the changes, and customers that wanted it now, I burnt out, and instead of spending a useless zoom meeting to work on an improvement I use it instead to make maps for the D&D campaign I am running.
> Depends on estimated selectivity

This can't be determined with LIKE suffix wildcards and that's not how any of the commonly-used index data structures work (b-tree, hash, gist, or bitmap). Index metadata will not help in eliminating leaf pages, and every row is going to need to be scanned.
You want to leave wet clothes in the dryer for several hours before turning the dryer on? That doesn't make any sense. Why not just turn the dryer on when you go out.
Passive or active is not binary. Berkshire Hathaway’s strategy is passive by the WSB generations standards.
Ruby on Rails.

Still have yet to find something else that requires such little configuration and is so complete.
Huh. I suppose thinking back the guy that told me that generally didn't know what he was talking about. I never bothered to double check. I don't do anything that I need a fall arrest system anymore, but maybe I should do some reading.
That tweet says <$1500. ("less than half the original $3000")

33% of the manufacturing cost isn't nearly free, in my opinion, but it is definitely a loss leader product.
I wouldn't browse HN on my FireTV, but it's great for live streams of various events, which seem to exist on a zillion different websites (I just watched a wedding this morning on my FireTV using Firefox)
> However, the scores used by lenders are generated by 1 company, FICO.

I’m pretty sure all the big financial institutions also calculate their own scores. I can see it when I login to BoA, Chase, Citi, etc.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-credit-sc...

> Keep in mind there is no “one” credit score. It is important to know that you do not have just “one” credit score and there are many credit scores available to you as well as to lenders. Any credit score depends on the data used to calculate it, and may differ depending on the scoring model, the source of your credit history, the type of loan product, and even the day when it was calculated.

Edit: It looks like the government might mandate FICO scores for taxpayer funded home mortgages:

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/which-credit-sco...

> When you apply for a mortgage, lenders will generally request all three of your credit reports (one from each credit bureau) and a FICO® Score based on each report. However, the type of FICO® Scores they request are often older versions, due to guidelines set by government-backed mortgage companies Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

> There are exceptions, though. Mortgage lenders could use different credit scoring models for loans that aren't secured or bought by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. You might even be able to get a mortgage if you don't have a credit history or score at all.
> pays with a check and couldn’t figure out how to get their child some plastic

I was almost about to empathize but this is hilariously poor problem solving skills

Sorry your experience leads you to this path

The common denominator is your crappy bank
> Alcohol is a drain on economic growth, damaging our productivity and forcing us to spend money on healthcare that could be used elsewhere. The CDC estimated the cost of hangovers to the American economy as $249bn in 2010. The Institute of Alcohol Studies estimates a cost of £1.4bn a year for British productivity.

So? You live to work?

Incidentally, it's not hard to learn how to drink all night without having a hangover the next day. Look at tonics or water your wine. Easy peasy.
From my basic experience and observations of living in the UK (in some not very affluent areas), alcohol is used mainly to relieve daily stresses and the obvious social norms.

I suspect society has normalised taking alcohol to numb daily stresses or problems. So any sudden top down decision to ban it or trying to force a reduction in consumption by raising the prices would be met by a very forceful backlash. Any reduction would have to be conducted with a long term plan that redirects people from this reaction to stress

and also for me, alcohol has seemingly helped me through depression , along with excerse
I can only assume you didn't read my first comment about using the phone to specify the order.
That would be a greengrocer's apostrophe.
shhh, just go back to drinking from the hose.

(extremely bad news)