skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious why unusual whales did not compare performance to market performance over set periods. I looked around for some papers and was unable to find anything recent. CATO published a report showing there is weak performance difference between senators and their stock portfolio [1].

If they are outperforming this should 100% be remedied but I'd be open if anyone has comments that would contradict this report?

[1] https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/relief-...
Compared to the other nations in the EU Germany is near the top in taxes, near the bottom in median wealth/savings, near the top in productivity, near the bottom in home ownership, near the top in total life-years work until retirement and near the bottom in retirement pension as percentage of the working income.

Germany was a wealthy country once, now it's a disgrace for the median citizen. It's bureaucracy is overbearing and inefficient. It's political class at once haughty, arrogant, incompetent, and corrupt.

Anyone but big business, the rich and the government paid parasitical classes (politicians, bureaucrats and the state media propagandists) gets fucked all day, every day.

Germany is a country in decline. The leadership of the ruling party of the last 16 years is indifferent if not actively hostile towards the common people while the major opposition parties are, if anything, even worse. They have the cool rationality, economic competency and sober long-sightedness of an ethanol-pickeled naked mole rat in a blast furnace.

I wish I could believe otherwise, but as things currently stand I fear that Germany is done. It'll just take a few more decades until everyone notices.
My roommate scared me away from bitcoin in 2010 because it was filled with child pornongraphy. I wish I would have never had that conversation because it was trading for like 1 dollar.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/bitcoins-blockchain-caught-loaded...
Sure, speculating on insider information on public markets is a great way for anyone to make a lot of money. It's also highly illegal, although there does seem to be some fairly prominent views that allowing insider trading would actually help get relevant information priced into the public markets.

But even if you're one of those proponents of insider trading, surely this is clearly different and worse than that, because prominent politicians surely have some power to influence winners and losers.
I feel most non-MKBHD reviewers do this everywhere else too.
A legislator implementing a tax code is not an all-seeing god able to divine all the consequences of their proposed law. They have an intent, sure, but to say that every consequence of their actions are intentional, that's too simplistic.

The result, which is that large corporations have a tax rate lower than small businesses, is what is important. Do you want a company, as it grows bigger and spends more on the legal implications of its business structure, to be able to lower its tax rate? Do you want to incentivize bigger companies to have more tax agility than smaller ones? I don't, and I don't believe any legislator would hold such unpopular views.
Using the Zoom "record in the cloud" feature should roughly correspond to how people hear you BUT it does not let you know if eg your setup echoes someone else's voice. Bother someone, find a friend, ask your manager, geek out about audio, something.
This sounds like a good way to spend 2 years happy and then in the 3rd year spend a monumental amount of money hiring a world-class compilers/databases expert to 10x the perf of DB migrations :)

But, yeah, this happens with REST APIs too.
> That is because nobody is running in these isolation levels.

Any isolation level below Serializable isn’t fully ACID. (Particularly, its not “I”.)
Building mobile UIs – Flutter vs. native Android SDK (2020)
They already have it, don't they? In the form of "Special Effects by XYZ" the credits, I believe.
You could create a self-hosted runner to test things out on. I'm not sure how hard it is to match Github's VM configuration but I don't think they veer far from the stock ubuntu config for instance.
Just about every resource (books, websites, videos...) for indie film makers makes a point of stressing the absolute importance of good audio, but it's still often ignored.

As you say, people will forgive bad image quality before they will forgive bad audio.
Shameless plug; I recently wrote a blog post about suggestions on improving your audio for remote teamwork:

https://dockyard.com/blog/2021/02/08/improve-your-audio-to-b...

Although I do suggest the Shure MV7 mic, which I use, there are example of really cheap ways to immediately improve how you sound over conference calls.

Another tip I talk about us using RNNoise, which does an excellent job at cutting out background noise while preserving your voice. It's built in to OBS if you ever want to try it.
If they're happy with the lives they live, then how are their lives wasted? Is it possible they just have different values?
A real life Boat of Theseus.
Show HN: Easily offer and share expertise one-on-one
When Covid hit last year, all of my math tutoring business moved online. I took that opportunity to try out a number of different platforms and services to handle scheduling and payment. In the end I wasn't satisfied with any of my options, and so I built my own tool using React and Firebase, called Unstuck, that fit my needs. I've continued working on it in recent months, and built it out so that anyone can create an account and start offering one-on-one online appointments. Unstuck lets you create different kinds of services, set your default availability, and creates a booking page for customers to find a time and request an appointment. Payment is collected up front and transferred through a connected Stripe account. Check out the launch post to learn more, read through the graduate student starter kit to get a better understanding of the product, and see how I connect Unstuck to my personal website here: https://johnholler.com/tutoring

thanks for looking!
> But in the US's case, it's because Internet commerce and ad-tech companies mostly exist within the US, and so you can't have a profitable torrent tracker / pirate-TV streaming site / etc. because — if the DMCA says you're not to be traded with — then you won't be able to get these US businesses to place ads on your site, or engage with US payment processors, etc.

The DMCA doesn't talk about who can be traded with, in general. It mainly places obligations on companies which host third-party content if they want to receive liability protections beyond what the law previously provided. The payment processors may not want to participate to avoid secondary copyright infringement liability, but that's entirely unrelated to the DMCA.

Similarly, the ad tech companies have their own separate reasons for not wanting to piss off the media companies, and the DMCA would not be triggered if the infringing content is not handled through those companies' services.
In most situations this is called insider trading and is considered unfair in public markets since the trades of insiders may be concealed, like through a family member.

Within an organization making a decision that advantages oneself is unethical since the purpose of the most organizations is not to fulfill the personal interests of its employees.

It would make some sense to convert all property holdings of a government employee to financial instruments related to the health of the government such as treasury notes. That way their personal interests are at least aligned with those of the government. To the degree that the instruments measure aspects of the government that are not totally aligned with the governed is a problem however.
Another pointless bunch of words designed to drive traffic. There is no need to justify a blog being closed source. He just wrote that post to get a few more people on his site.

Oh and the sparkle thing is rubbish.
Samsung is shipping 5nm too, it's not as good as tsmc 5nm but it is close.
AOC was vociferously calling for the shutdown of Parler on Twitter, when the protest was coordinated over Facebook and Twitter too. Imo, she's just a classic Democrat politician with a louder mouth, enough to rival the Republican mouths.
I agree that both money and involvement is necessary. But in our current world, nonprofits have a lack of money, not lack of involvement. Nonprofits talk all the time about how difficult it is to fundraise. And all the charities GiveWell recommends still have a lack of capital.

I think EA's would 100% want to fix the structure of society, if that method was resource efficient. If you believe that changing the structure of society is more resource efficient (in terms of time or money) than donating to AMF, GiveDirectly, or Deworm the World, please publish your analysis.

How much {money, time, etc.} would it take to convince a government or people to adopt a certain policy? What would the benefits of that policy be? How much pushback would you get from opponents? What are the risks? If you can successfully make an argument that changing a policy would be more resource efficient than current efficient charities, that would convince EAs to direct more resources to politics.
It's too late now anyway
Yes - in addition - just have documentation sites like unusual whales which track the trades, holdings and profits of politicians - create infographics prior to every election and distribute them to existing voter information/polling prediction sites like real clear politics.

Politicians already long on certain stocks can also profit from legislation that they are passing. Being privy to insider info which leads to continuing to stay long a stock is an advantage that wouldn't be detected by just sharing recent trades.

In addition to trying to eradicate insider trading - just shedding light on existing holdings by US office holders will have a huge cleansing effect that will go a long way to showing potential biases/conflicts of interest.
Link to the event: https://status.docker.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f0...
How about worrying about protecting privacy, preventing fraud, better wifi for moose or something that actually would be good for everyone?
Setting aside the security issues (legion!) and the implementation issues (manageable but hard!) you have to think about the maintainability of the codebase. Retrofitting schema changes into a codebase full of SQL statements fucking sucks. Every time I've dealt with this I've found that having an API on top of your DB is far better for maintainability.
Anything that uses the word democratized is something I'm not interested in. It's scary that paying money is considered to be some kind of representation.
Sure, but ultimately it's only a crime if they get caught. And even then it seems to me that they can get away with it too easily.

How about electing honest people, instead of constantly voting for the establishement (w. a few exceptions).
looks like Reuters changed the content:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tsmcs-q1-profit-rises-19...
> laser-focused willpower and endurance

do you ever just.... listen to yourself talk...
We should thank Sony for creating a practical incentive for people to engage in the enjoyable hobby of reverse engineering, jail breaking and firmware hacking.
I like the word antifragile instead of redundancy. I don't operate a datacenter, but in my own personal computing space, I try to build antifragile systems that can bounce back from failure rather rapidly. It is astonishing for example, just how many times I have to roll back a Windows 10 install because it likes to randomly break for whatever reason. It could be anything: a faulty update that corrupts the whole OS. The hard-drive gets filled up really quickly when doing gaming video captures, or games that do really heavy writes to the SSD and wearing it out within a year of use.

Currently I use virtual machines to mitigate this, and you need a beefy setup to do this. If a virtual machines fails, I have a 'template' virtual disk image where I can start afresh. One caveat to VMs is you can't do gaming since you're emulating an OS, so when I can I use a bare metal solution for gaming. You can do basic gaming for games that use low resources (like Minecraft). But forget about playing Crysis or other monsters in a VM!
Subscriber-based access excludes the overwhelming majority of possible readers.

Amongst the most successful subscriber paywalls is that of the New York Times, boasting about 5 million paid subscribers.

Given about 130 million US households, this means that 96.67% of the country's households lack access to this source.

And before any comments on the merits or failings of the source in question, again this is among the most successful and widely used subscription paywalls extant, and it excludes over 95% of potential readers.

The exclusion cost is absolutely immense.
> This strikes me as very similar to an abusive, narcissistic person miraculously having a change of heart and wanting to mend the path of destruction behind them after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Even calling it a change of heart seems to give him to much credit by implying this letter actually represents his real feelings as of right now.
This tool is so noisy that it's nearly unusable.

"Unity" is a tiny tool?
I disagree with “it does suggest there is a problem there.”

Without statistical evidence we cannot make that claim. There may be a problem, but there is so far no statistical evidence to suggest so. There are anecdotal findings but there are anecdotes about space aliens and we don’t craft policy around that (that the public is aware of.)
99 percent invisible has a good article and map, I remember spotting one of these hiking as a kid and my dad explaining what they were.
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-a...
Are you saying that these insane leveraged trades won't be happening if elected officials are compensated more? That is a preposterous assumption! You're right, trading isn't the issue. Greed and abuse of power are, however.
considering zwift has over 2.5 million users, and a billion dollar valuation, I think the market is larger than you think. I personally know dozens of people who use zwift nearly everyday (although my friend groups skews heavily towards cyclists/fitness enthusiasts)
> and choosing letters from a menu seems like more exertion.

How about from a wheel?

https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
On that topic has anyone seen any EPYC Milan CPU available anywhere? They were supposed to have been released last month but are nowhere to be seen.
That's just because no one wants Intel at the moment.
How is it evil? To me, it is a mildly amusing coincidence.
I do the same. Dozens of commits to get GH Actions working correctly.
>I have a totally different experience. I accidentally submerged my iPhone X in the sea as I got off a boat[1]

You were lucky and got it replaced under goodwill, as iPhone X has an IP67 rating[1] and specific about sea/salt water damage -- the kind you have described. Back home, you would have had to deal with a lot of grief[2].

[1] https://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/04/iphone-x-ip-67-water-res...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204104
Why would you believe that both the individual voters and their delegates wouldn't be susceptible to almost all the same corrupting and manipulative factors that plague voting systems today?

The OP is correct...spending in mass media on the various issues would almost surely allow the purchasing of voter mindshare just exactly as advertising today drives sales of almost identical branded products for inflated prices.

Don't get me wrong...in general I like the idea of "liquid democracy" (I remember it being called "Superdemocracy" back in the 80's when MajorBBS creator Tim Striker very much lobbied for its creation)...but it would be foolish to believe that the same forces that corrupt modern politics wouldn't be able to corrupt it as well.
Pushing countless commits is fine as long as you are doing it in your own branch.
Although Peloton charge $40/mo if you bought their bike, or $15/mo if you use your own bike. $15/mo is in line with competitor prices for similar services. So it really seems like the extra $25/mo is “vendor lock-in” premium.

There are features gated to the Peloton bike which gives a downside to the bring-your-own-bike route and muddies the waters somewhat. If the Peloton app supported ERG mode with full interactivity, I’d probably be willing to pay $25/mo, because it is a really high quality service.
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> Order a smart phone, return a faulty/old one of the same model, sell the new one. Profit.

Don't sellers there record the serial number of phones? I thought it was routine everywhere.

If the serial number is recorded for the transaction then they can't just send back any other phone with a different serial number.
Why should they be held under less scrutiny than CEO's? They typically have to clear their stock sales with the SEC months in advance.
It'z funny that I often compare the way things are to spots|zits. Something I do quietly to myself, in my own mind :-)

Too much/little X causes outbursts of Y.

The question is, has Earth got a few spots lurking behind the earlobes. Or is there a feature-length episode of Dr Pimple Popper taking place?
This is excellent, thank you for sharing. I would love to hear which of these people have used, and found fun or useful.

I have been enjoying Bitsy games and poems recently and am excited to discover more projects in the same realm.

Here are some nice ones:

https://haraiva.itch.io/novena
https://polclarissou.itch.io/moss-as-texture-as-space-foldin...
https://ludonaut.itch.io/vestiges
https://cephalopodunk.itch.io/radical-archaeologist
https://haraiva.itch.io/topography

The other highlight from my quick skim is basiljs, which makes indesign scriptable through a Processing-like API. As an occasional book designer, that sounds like lots of fun!
Wasn't able to get a new dishwasher because of "no chips".
I enjoyed this because a) funny and b) hardware.

More hardware posts on hn please. Thank you.
there is no inflation
Learn new skills early in the morning before work. For instance, right now I spend 1h before work each morning dedicated to learning Flutter.
PC piracy has been neutered by Denuvo, which is the most effective DRM the platform has ever seen, and has been embraced by almost all major publishers.

Ubisoft embraced Denuvo for all PC product in 2017. Thereafter their PC sales revenue and PC's share of their total revenue has hit record levels.

The other factor is that with the rise of Crypto, PC torrents are now filled with miners and other malware.

The other factor is the largest games being online-only or having exclusive online functionality.

Digital distribution (Steam) is an aged and established concept now. What Steam provides is not and has never been unique - they just had the best exclusives (Valve games).
I'm sure some did, but I got sick of the slowness and lack of expressive ability with every ORM I tried and just went back to SQL strings.
Google backs effort to bring Rust to the Linux kernel
I was talking with my brother last night about online course platforms. I was arguing that there's plenty of graduate students or professors even in these times that would have the time and skill to host virtual lectures/classes and teach from a standard textbook if the price was right. This is opposed to platforms like udemy which aren't known for their quality nor academic courses.

But my brother argued that most inclined to make a course would prefer passive income from a prepared course. What are your thoughts on this? Personally I would pay a premium over udemy's already overpriced courses to learn how I would normally at university so long as I could attend live lecture conferences as needed if I needed to ask questions about the reading material or problem sets etc.
A lot of justified negativity in this thread.

On the flip side, are there any congresspeople who have publicly put all their assets in a blind trust? Any who have advanced bills requiring this of their colleagues?

The solution to problems like this is elections, and you would think "My opponent is insider trading while I literally can't" would make a great campaign ad.
wouldn't all of this templating lead to immensely increased compile times?
You would have to consult with an attorney and show them the initial agreement, but I would think that once you agreed to financing terms the price would be finalized.
You resolved it perfectly.

My experience with flatfiles dbs was not enough to interpret it correctly :p
I encourage you to read the original source. A letter to shareholders is not a press release. This was legally filed with the SEC.
French submarines are a bit different from, say, US or British ones. They are refueled at 10 year intervals, and designed accordingly (e.g. there's a big hatch above the reactor which can be removed for the refueling), and they use LEU fuel produced in an enrichment facility that also produces civilian nuclear fuel.
That is: death by a thousand cu... er, subscriptions
It's the other way around. First there was personal debt, then impersonal money.

In the beginning you would just lend stuff from other people and give it back, or with consumables give something back of similar worth.

Precious metal was pretty rarely used, as its main benefit is that you need almost no common trust relationship.
Pfizer CEO says third Covid vaccine dose likely needed within 12 months
Demonstration of complex biological organism self-assemby
This is the same as a removed member still having their browser cache containing team data.

The advantage of this design is you get an app that is extremely responsive and offline capable. Then you just need a reliable way to sync changes. And you always have the option of just re-downloading the entire team db again if it gets corrupted somehow. You could even have logic to indicate the sync status of each table so that you don't need to download the whole table...you could just populate it as your need the data...like a cache.
Midori has been overhauled and is Electron based now.
old [0]
new [1]

See also this extensive list of browsers [2].

[0] https://github.com/midori-browser/core
[1] https://gitlab.com/midori-web/midori-desktop
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Web_browsers#WebKit-bas...
I couldn’t agree more regarding misanthropy.

I would like to note though that if we start mining and settling space, our growth would in fact be essentially unbounded.

Combined with the fact that some types of stars are expected to continue radiating energy for trillions of years...
People won’t complain in person if they’re looking at me from a bad angle or I’m standing near a window
> Yet somehow the sum total of their activity results in a conscious being

That seems like a slightly peculiar idea of what a conscious being is.
To start with, there needs to be lots of advocacy for insider trading investigations
Each possible update path can be stimulated in linear time (or is it polynomial? It depends how you measure the cost of searching for a location to apply the update rules, and weather the update rules are fixed), but stimulating the full multiway system has unbounded complexity in the general case.

The reason they suspect that quantum computers will not provide an inherent speedup has to do with the cost of "completion", i.e. measurement, which is explicit and finite in these models.
Ahh I see. It is great they (and the other smart trainers) have now embraced ANT+ FE-C and Bluetooth Smart. Peloton are all about lock-in. No thanks!
Request is a hugely overloaded term in computing systems. HTTP requests, Customer or Service Requests (which are an object in ERP systems).

So corporate speech has moved to using "ask" to model an actual request.