skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol but there is not now, nor has there ever been, any question that alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than other recreational drugs...
But passive investing is just that, passive, theres no market information, no price information that influences the shares and prices. How is passive investing sustainable? Doesn't this destroy finance in the long run? Prices being completely detached from a listed company's financial viability and business profitability... thats bad isnt it?
Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits (1965) [pdf]
I'm pretty sure I read corporations are supposed to try and act in the interest of their shareholders. The preferences of users, content creators, and staff are all secondary to shareholders.
I think it would depend, wouldn't it? If the query can be answered directly from an index (there exists some index containing all of the columns required by the query) then an index scan would suffice and be faster by virtue of not having to scan all the data (the index would be smaller by not including all columns). I believe most modern DB query optimizers are capable of this.

If there isn't such an index, then it's a toss up: yes, going to the main table to fetch a row has a cost, but if there are only a few rows answered by the query, then it might be worth it. If there are many rows, that indirection will probably outweigh the benefit of the index scan & we'd be better off with a table scan. This would require an optimizer to estimate the number of rows the query would find. I don't know if modern DB query optimizers would do this or not. (And my naïve guess would be "they don't", specifically, that the statistics kept are not sufficiently detailed to answer any generalized LIKE expression.)
Roaring Kitty’s posts that kicked off the GME craze had some very thoughtful analysis. And recently I watched some videos about dividend investing on YouTube that I would consider reasonable investment advice.

I agree that there is a lot of gambling and excessive risk taking going on. And I myself stick to a 3 ETF portfolio because I like the simplicity. But to call it almost entirely just gambling I think is missing the point. There is some interesting and good stuff happening now in the intersection of social media and low cost trading, and it makes sense I think for VCs to be investing in that space.
Perhaps the business operators are sufficiently intelligent to do a cost benefit analysis of accepting cash? Perhaps they’re not, and they will go out of business.

I can easily imagine there are some businesses in some areas where the clientele almost always uses electronic forms of payment, where it doesn’t make business sense to deal with the minority using cash.
>> but a vast percentage of people are vulnerable to the gradual creep of addiction.

> Sorry, you're gonna have to back up this rather hefty statement with some facts. I've never seen any data to suggest that a "vast percentage" of people are at risk of becoming alcoholics.

"vulnerable to the gradual creep of addiction" and "at risk of becoming alcoholics" are not the same thing. A person might refrain from alcohol altogether because they believe, perhaps due to their family history, that if they drank on a regular basis they would become alcoholic. IOW, they feel they are vulnerable to the gradual creep of addiction. And they might be right. But as long they don't drink at all, they're not at risk of developing alcoholism.
(I am arguing from the perspective of a student at a university)

> So what costs a lot of money to run? The university, or the hotspot?

The startup scene around a university is directly influenced by it. It created the environment the founders were meeting in. They were not moving there for the coffee place but for the university, which put a lot of resources into the founders.

> Even if they are students, they pay for the privilege.
I don't believe that anywhere in the western world the university education is fully covered by the fees.

> initial assistance in the form of a loan?
yes, in form of a loan or other financial assistance, legal advice, mentorship etc. Every startup I know uses some small form of initial, external funding (including bootstrapping ones). It may be only enough to pay for the cost of living of the founder and cofounder for a year, but the small initial assistance is important. It is often a public program coordinated by the startup-program at the university. I include the financial support you get if you're a student focusing on your startup.

> The local water company also enabled those founders to meet
A lot of infrastructure you use if massively subsidised and is not covered by the cost (it might not be affordable by many).

> Unless you inspect the reason why that inequality exists, it says nothing beyond raw speculation.
I don't think so, because you can criticise inequality itself without inspecting the reason. Can society be fair with such a massive inequality? This is a valid argument.

I think a problem is that a lot of successful people when evaluating their life attribute all their success to their personal abilities. I think this is a massive problem and not recognised enough. I see every people as an interaction between their character and their environment. The environment forms the character and the character influences the environment. You are not an isolated agent just interacting with the world, born some way and destined to success. For example, many poor people are working hard with multiple jobs to finance their living, hard work itself is not an excuse to explain away success.

Also I was arguing that if the enabling factor is the important part then moving away does not prove anything, which is still my point.
> You are right about SOP vs. CORS, but the point is, that most clients that are no browsers have no SOP and therefore also don't care about CORS.

Clients that aren’t browsers don’t generally have access cookies or similar user credentials for third party services as a result of user interaction with those services that allow exfiltration of data without user intent in the absence of SOP.

SOP is a solution to a browser-specific security issue.
He's also, iirc, working on getting a healthier, synthetic, reversible alternative to alcohol approved in legislation. But I'm not holding my breath
Depends on the type of business. I'm sure there are lots of businesses where the vast majority of their customers pay with cards.
Depends on estimated selectivity and if the index covers the result as well.

If the criteria would fetch few rows out of many it can be faster to scan the index then retrieve the few matching results and even better if the index covers the results it never touches the table itself (index only scan).
I highly doubt the veracity of these sources, but I got worried and did a quick internet search:
https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/jpmorgan-chase-accused-of-purg...
I don't have much sympathy for these guys, but if true, there's our precedent.
The wild swings only affect the meme stocks. Just stay away from those and you'll be fine. "The market" is a lot bigger than one group of gamblers can affect.
> Why do you think GCP is worse than AWS?

Because the identity model is worse than IAM, and the quota system is insane. The global VPC networking being nicer doesn't make up for this, unfortunately.
The interesting bit:

> During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration. This occurred as it was trying to transition the flight computer from ‘Pre-Flight’ to ‘Flight’ mode.

Though you can't tell too much from that. It could still be hardware or software and induced by the environment or not.
If you order ice cream and it's scooped for you before you pay (as is customary in ice cream shoppes I've frequentrd), you have incurred a debt.
Do you think your whataboutism makes even the minorest dent in anyone's opinion here in 2021?
Just have your bot log off and "sleep" randomly for 4-10 hours every night, and log off for 15 minutes every few hours during the day. If you ever get a private message, have your system play a beep (or ping you on IRC then/Discord nowadays).

As for not talking to anyone, a surprising amount of people play MMOs just like that, so it's not really atypical for a player to never communicate. Runescape even has an account choice, "Ironman Mode", where you have to play the game self-sufficiently, and can't trade with or rely on any other players. You can still chat with other players if you want, but you don't have to.
Attack surface is much lower. Qubes is a massive improvement over a monolithic OS.
I don't know if that employer has been prosecuted yet, but I don't think it was legal. At minimum, it should qualify as illegal dumping under [GA Code § 16-7-52](https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2019/title-16/chapter-7...). [GA Code § 16-7-51](https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2019/title-16/chapter-7...) defines "egregious litter" to include "any substance or material dumped for commercial purposes."
Classic “rich get richer” effect, should be a law saying that it’s as common in society as the normal distribution is in nature
I sometimes suspect that this is a consequence of the anti-engineering mindset that a lot of the software industry embraces. Things like YAGNI, programmers don't need to study CS, not hiring testers, etc.

Maybe if software "engineers" were treated more like actual engineers then we would start seeing better results.
Please correct me if I’m wrong. But I assume that earning while holding is based on an assumption that the overall productivity continues to rise, while active trading is more of a zero sum game. Any gains you earn is somebody’s loss.

Now, the initial assumption could very well hit a wall.
How many folks are out there as active traders? I'm not sure how big en masse really is here.
> there are pockets of young people partaking in sophisticated strategies, and doing quite well.

If we could I'd make a 20 year wager that every one of those people will fail to beat the market in the long run.

It's very easy to make money on "sophisticated strategies" during an historic 10 year bull run.
I kind of hate the idea of encouraging young people to pursue speculation instead of building. Post-IPO investing doesn't create a ton of value for society.
So avoiding problem solving is a problem you solved?
Genshin Impact's anti-cheat is not completely secure: you can use it to read/write umode memory / read kmode memory with kernel privileges: https://github.com/ScHaTTeNLiLiE/libmhyprot

Mirror repo after the original author took the repo down, but still exploitable AFAIK.
Do they actually give you the ice cream before you pay?
> billboard or newspaper ad also had to be distributed in braille.

The law doesn't require fundamentally altering a product and it doesn't require unreasonable accommodations. The difference between an accessible and inaccessible website in terms of cost and effort, especially when set as an up-front expectation, is much smaller.

A marketing website exists to serve some purpose, what purpose could there be that would only be relevant to people who don't have disabilities? That doesn't mean everything on a site has to be accessible to everyone, there can be inaccessible "fluff" meant to make customers feel good about a brand while still allowing all users perform the important tasks like reading information about upcoming sales, details about products, contact information, etc. No one's going to sue over a glamour shot having bad or not alt text.
250 GB/day of logs with Graylog: Lessons Learned (2016)
> The utility does use the locale.

Which utility are we talking about? As the JNRowe's comment notes, there are at least three different versions of cal in circulation: util-linux cal, bsdmainutils cal, and ncal. They don't all do the same thing.

util-linux's cal only supports three modes of operation–proleptic Gregorian, Julian, and calendar reform hardcoded to September 1752; it doesn't support any other reformation date. It uses the locale to decide whether to start the week on Monday or Sunday, but not to decide the Julian-Gregorian transition year.

BSD cal (used on macOS, Ubuntu, *BSD) only supports 1752 as a transition year and ignores the locale. BSD ncal (available on same platforms) supports other transition years and will use the configured locale to decide which one to use; however, it still falls back to 1752 as a default if locale information is not available.
Day to day, there is Chexsystems, which is a whole ordeal. If you get on their naughty list, you will have trouble opening a bank account at all.

at my level of income, I am not really concerned, I have enough buffer that all my transactions can shake out no problem. At lower incomes, consumers are very sensitive to transactions settling too fast or too slow. A bill is due on the same day as payroll? Probably a 50% chance to collect either an overdraft fee or a late bill fee and you have no control over it. Get enough of those and your only resort will be fee-laden prepaid cards or cash-only.

Almost 2/3rds of Americans are 'paycheck to paycheck'. Do not scoff at this. Access to simple electronic payments needs to be equitable.
Agreed. But the balanced people are the least vocal. As Bertrand Russel noted:

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and
fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and
wiser people so full of doubts."

I am someone who moved from a programer role into management. My appeal to the balanced senior engineers is to speak up more. We don't have to swing as much as economists, enough to frustrate President Truman to say:

"Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists
say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other..."

But we can bring more nuance into discussions - especially calling out those among us with polar positions.
Client side there is also the DNT header which everyone, including Google is happily ignoring. So I'd imagine things will get ignored similarly here.
Scammer was able to intercept Google results on purchase of Tom Tom Navigator
Thanks! I've been building Nodewood in my spare time for the past couple years, but I've been keeping my hand in the bootstrapping community for about a decade now. I have a pretty solid history of _not_ considering these questions before launching something that seemed like a fun idea, so I figured I may as well share this and see if I can help others learn from my mistakes. =)
except it isn't: if enough gamblers stick to one ticker, they can break the market. options aren't roulette and stocks aren't blackjack. casinos don't have this failure mode.

gamestop was the example of what happens in the limit - only the DTCC prevented a global financial crisis as a circuit breaker of last resort.
Yeah, high culture often loses in the long run. The first Swedish literature that survives in living form (that is, it's read outside of seminars) is Carl Michael Bellman's drinking songs. They have outlasted all the overwrought poems that his contemporaries put out. I guess it helps that they're really very good.
The biggest thing missing for i18n is `next export` support; that's the only way to get true SSR (static exports) for something like GitHub pages.

It's a shame they haven't addressed that in months despite lots of folks asking for it.
Full disclosure I work for TransUnion, but the following are my own thoughts.

Yes, there are 3 companies that aggregate your credit information. However, the scores used by lenders are generated by 1 company, FICO. All TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian do is receive your credit information from lenders (lenders can choose which bureaus they report to) and make FICO scores available for lenders to purchase. As some else mentioned the lenders chose this. Lenders decided that they wanted to know what people’s lending history was with other lenders before they would be willing to lend. Obviously if a lender looks at your full credit report they get more info but plenty of lenders have decided to set internal rules were if your score doesn’t meet a certain threshold they don’t bother looking at the rest of your report. There are states that have started proposing legislation limiting what credit checks can be used for (such as not being able to use them as a requirement for renting an apartment). But honestly unless lenders either stop caring about your credit history or they are told they can’t check it there isn’t really anything to be done.

There is one alternative that might help from a credit score standpoint in Canada the CreditVision scoring algorithm is used instead of the FICO score. From what I understand CreditVision is a more sophisticated algorithm that weights trending data more so it helps people who are improving their credit have a higher score sooner. From what I understand Canada moved to it because it is supposed to be more fair than what they were using previously.
You forgot to mention that the external funds have performed exceedly well (20+%/year) over the past 15 years even after a 44% performance fee.

Also the external funds are different strategies than Medallion.
once again my weird anecdote:

I'm not a drinker, and used to be a recluse, but once in a while there's a birthday I cannot refuse. I get there, stay miserable, drink a bit, keeps miserable, gets home at 3am.

I woke up at 7am like a champ, jumping out of bed as if it was a 2 weeks holidays.

Alcohol gets very bad press today but for me, that tiny bit of alcohol helped me stay at a party which probably refueled some social needs (even if shallow).
> Jane Street isn't that successful.

Their historical record is very good.
Curious to hear what your CF setup is for WP. Any special performance tricks?
There is almost no reason to be obsessed over credit scores themselves. However, if one is interested in obtaining credit in the future, they should maintain a good history of re-paying debts (such as student loans, auto loans, home loans, revolving credit card balances, etc).

Obviously, if you’re a lender and someone comes up to you and you know nothing about their history of repaying debts, you would ascribe them a higher risk than someone who does have a history of repaying debts.

There are a few other factors that could cause you to look riskier, so it also makes sense to not go out and get an auto loan and sign up for a few credit cards before applying for a home loan, since now that you just borrowed a bunch of money, you’re a higher risk, and hence will pay a higher interest rate.
What it does do...for sure is make you go crazy.

Traders are pretty wired.

People building long term businesses (Like 10 year horizon plus) are on a different gravity.
I don't know if it's just the taste or some conditioned response, but having a glass of cold lager (or particularly a pilsner) at the end of a long day tastes like heaven to me, in a way that no other drink does.
> x86 phone

Sorry, what? I think I need to know more...
Agreed. If we ban tobacco ads we should ban alcohol too
> While you’re right about the majority, there are pockets of young people partaking in sophisticated strategies, and doing quite well

Active trading will is more likely to have larger swings than passive trading.

In the short-run the good times will be better and the bad-times will be worse.

In the long-run, statistically the majority (not all!) that play the game will lose over the long run to passive investors.

None of this is to argue for one of doing things over the other so long as people understand the risks that they're opting into.
The sapphire reserve has an annual fee of $550. Its not a card that makes sense for most people in my opinion, but if you can use its benefits (primarily travel benefits), it might pay for itself.
What many food trucks do to get around this is to require a credit card to operate the touch screen terminal used to order. They won't even talk to you unless you have a card.

In this way they can avoid people paying in cash by never taking orders that might use cash.
Thinking out loud, but to me, any economic system is flawed if it rewards bankers, hedge funds, venture capitalists, and speculation more than carpenters, plumbers, or any other profession that requires actual real world skills. My gut tells me that finance should be automated by computers without a profit motive because greed rots the soul and our environment.
Doubt that.

There is this so-called "Steam web API key scam" which is ongoing for years at this point:
Scammers create phishing Steam login pages to grab people's credentials. Just with these credentials, the damage an attacker can do is still limited because of 2FA. However, the biggest flaw is that it is possible to automatically create API keys for the phished accounts that allow 24/7 remote access of these Steam accounts without the user even noticing. With this access, scammers then automatically modify and alter trades at will and at any time in the future, milliseconds before people confirm them using their mobile device (2FA), e.g., by declining the original trade and setting up a new trade with a scammer's bot account that has changed its profile data to the one of the actually intended trading partner.

This attack is mostly based on phishing, spoofing and confusion, but it could at least be made much harder by preventing automated API key generation and therefore indefinite access to an account (e.g., by implementing email confirmations or captchas for API key generation).

Each day lots of children or laypeople are losing in-game items worth thousands of dollars.
I'm admin on a popular CS:GO and gaming Discord server with ~30k members and we see such reports multiple times a week.

Valve has no incentive to fix this as long as it's not their money or regulators start applying pressure.
If there’s anything different about GenZ, it’s that they’re crowdsourcing their plays, making them behave more like a distributed mutual fund than a bunch of gamblers. Time will tell if that performs better.
That is copy-book Sayre's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Agree, but not every DBMS supports transactions, and even when they're supported the application code may avoid using them for various reasons.
Can anyone here give a first account of what happened? And the impact? Too often there’s an agenda behind the story.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
> Let's face it. Shit is much worse now.

Respectfully, there is so much wrong with this that I don't even know where to begin. The homer simpson bit made me laugh though - in the US, Homer isn't seen as aspirational at all. Maybe you mean the Kardashians?

Still, the world is objectively better by any metric you'd care to use. You can find some exceptions as long as you don't control for historical or geopolitical context. If I had to guess, you're young and surrounded by populism and outrage porn on the internet - /r/latestagecapitalism, /r/aboringdystopia, rose twitter, so on, and so your opinion stems from being engrossed in that.

I will say that when I was younger(late teens/early 20s) I had a very similar sentiment as yours, insofar that the world's woes are easily understood and would be solved if it weren't for special interests who benefit from the way things are. The issue is you extrapolate way too far from this, and the solutions you arrive at are often regressive(and in some cases even already exist and contribute to the very problems you're trying to solve).
Author here. I loved "The Goal" even more than the Unicorn Project. Use the Theory of Constraints to identify your bottleneck and then limit WIP at the bottleneck or elevate it. By hiring, optimizing...

You are right though: go read The Goal everyone!
Nice!

> In conclusion, this was a difficult expression to trace because it was complex, and it could be articulated in myriad ways. Currently, the earliest example located by QI appeared in English in 1933 and was credited to Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.