skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One simple example is buying 2X S&P index ETF instead of 1x. There was a great article about the Kelly optimal S&P allocation, and with all the fees included it's about 2x. Of course there's increased execution risk for the ETF itself, which needs to be estimated.

Another thing where I may look stupid from outside is that I started to take some loan against my BTC and use that to finance my lifestyle, as currently (under $100k BTC price) my estimate of the Kelly optimal BTC allocation is more than 1. This is of course a personal estimate, I don't suggest other people to do the same thing, and again there's a lot of execution risk, so I do this only with a part of my portfolio.
I was speaking to a friend who works in the real estate side of banking and he informed me that the shortage was partly due to the foreclosure protection currently in place. He said that once that's lifted, a LOT of resident real estate will be entering the market. In short, if you own now and are thinking about selling in the next 6 to 12 months, sell sooner rather than later.
This is nowhere near reasonable. You said that "the article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted dark bytes" was "incorrect" with no further details. Only when pressed and provided the quote where you literally said exactly that did you start talking about some retraction.

But whatever, this is pointless. Russ was right and it's hard to take any of this in good faith. It feels like you're going to great lengths to avoid saying "oops, I was wrong".
Reliability. Purpose-built hardware switches don't crash, ever.
Without swap, you mean without virtual memory or without a swap partition/file?

Because even without a swap partition/file, the whole executable will not block physical memory, but will page in/out as needed. And whole sections of it will never be loaded at all.
Are You Stuck on Vision, Strategy, or Tactics?
In my university, the first two semesters were spent in studying subjects from all the engineering disciplines like mechanical engg, civil engg, chemistry, physics, maths, CS, EC etc and I though it was a very good thing too since you get to know the basics of most engg disciplines. If it was just you own discipline from the start it woulda been pretty boring.
> Meanwhile mandating APIs isn't mandating "software architecture". It's merely just a different form of the website that has a predictable structure.

That is software architecture.
This might be the best reply I have ever gotten. Thank you. This certainly explains why I hear about some companies enforcing FTPs. It kind of makes me wish SFTP was just full fledged ftp tunneled through ssh. I cringe when I remember trying to explain active/passive ftp to users when I did tech support for a local ISP, or later to server admins when I managed firewalls.
If I am watching a movie/listening to a song, Active Noise Cancelling will suppresses/lowers outside noise. That's good.

When I join a meeting on google meet/Slack Or attend a call on Cell Phone (any activity where I need to use my mic), Noise Cancelling headphone actually amplifies outside sound, like sound of Fan etc.

Currently, I am using Sony XM3 headphones.
If you were a top computer person (software, security, IT, etc)... emphasis on top... would you want to work for a government? Would they value you?
I have interacted with a level of the US DoD that is far removed from actual politicians. The situation there is closer to what others described: a pervasive, penny wise and pound foolish fear of being seen to spend money. It really affects everything: an entire professional workforce hired at well below market salary, wasted man-hours due to restrictions on equipment purchases, frequent reorgs to shuffle budgets around, etc. If this is anything like that, I bet they gave this to the cheapest bidder without consideration of much else.
>Google are just using your Chrome browsing data

"Just"? Google should have absolutely no access to your non-Google browsing history whatsoever.

That alone is pitchfork-worthy.
They appeared in 3.5, and the new pep is from 3.7, which will now be released in 3.10.

This isn’t something sudden especially not to anyone using type annotations.
Previous Discussions.

Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462717

Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25475037
This only works if google respects headers. Which they obviously don't have to. In other words, it'll be shadow tracking either way.
Same here. I think it’s time for a new model city, oriented to pedestrians plus micro mobility, running on green power, and with some pandemic firebreaks designed in. More affordable and entrepreneurial. In the same way that Levittown set the template for the following 50+ years, I think we’re hungry for a new model for the next few generations of human habitat. Building that is my life dream, but I have yet to figure out a way to do it without quantities of capital that I don’t have access to, so instead I post on HN :)
"MYTH 5: Women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns—for doing the same work.

FACTS: No matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists, it always comes back. The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing."

Source: "6 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die".

https://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/
" The fact that we can agree that bitcoin gives us a source"

'Sources of Truth' are a commodity.

There are any number of ways to do that.

There's no reason to have a $50B source of truth.

And FYI there is no value merely in a 'source of truth' it has to be put to use in some way, and BTC has zero uses.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/EO-N-06-19...
I've run into few issues:

1. Performance: lot of reflection and allocations, so not the fastest thing ever.

2. Case insensitivity: https://play.golang.org/p/LtwChO_tp0 this can be pretty unpleasant when it bites you

3. Unicode: It replaces invalid utf8 with unicode questions marks (dunno how exactly is the replacement character called) but does not provide any API to detect that it happened. So that can lead to silent corruption of the data.
Steve didnt even acknowledge one of his kids existed for years.
:) and my apologies, too—I didn't mean to be too snarky and irascible.

maybe we can agree that both Celsius and Fahrenheit are subjectively easier to relate to everyday life than Kelvin...
Sharpe is typically calculated on log returns. Price going to zero would weigh as negative infinity in log return space. Therefore Sharpe would also prescribe zero bet on finite chance of ruin.
> This is as crazy as it gets and shows how incapable they are of controlling this pandemic, even how little they care to seriously work on it, and I wonder how much this represents what they have been doing over the last decade in general.

Fully agree, the whole "Merkel era" was an era of political stagnation. The pandemic relentlessly uncovered that.

But now we've reached a new low, German politicians seem completely unwilling to fight the pandemic anymore despite a 3. wave caused by the B.1.1.7 variant building up rapidly. It's crazy times, the luca app disaster is just one manifestation of it.
That's fair enough. I was meaning nitpickers about logical fallacies specifically, not stuff like grammar or minor details of an experiment.

That said, is peer review really the place to dunk on a study because the whole goal is pointless? The work is done by that point, it's too late. It's the granting bodies that should be getting peer reviewed in that regard, but one of the root causes of the malaise in research is that the granting bodies appear to be entirely blind buyers. They care about dispersing money, not what they get out of the spending. If they didn't spend the money they'd be fired, so that's understandable. The core problem IMHO is the huge level of state funding of research. The buck stops at politicians but they are in no position to evaluate the quality of academic studies.
I am extremely skeptical that there is no financial incentive to being first-to-market and building a reputation as an innovator, even at a "higher level", especially when these incentives are completely overshadowed by the ones created by IP. I don't believe all financial incentive disappears just because you eliminate the ability to rent-seek through a state-backed monopoly.

The problem here is that people also love to defend the current system, while actively prohibiting alternatives from ever taking root.
Super cool.

With that said I bet this would choke on lots of actual Minecraft worlds, because people often build things using blocks where the semantics get thrown completely out the window in favor of aesthetics. Want a big mural on the wall? You're going to be building the wall itself out of differently-colored blocks of wool

Maybe they'll solve that part one day :)

Edit: That said, it could choke in some really interesting ways...
A short, but hopefully relevant anecdote: I play the sax. A musician friend called me last summer to get me to do a part on a new song he’d produced. Since it was during the summer surge I said I’d do it at home and send him the part, but he mentioned he had a Neumann mic for me to record with. I was curious, so I packed up and went to his place which he’d set up largely outside. I played my parts, then went home. When he sent me the result I was floored! I’ve never sounded so good - seriously. I asked him what plugins he’d used and he’d just added a touch of reverb, but nothing else. It was all me and the Neumann mic. Those things really do have a magic quality about them. There’s a reason people are willing to pay more than the cost of my sax for one.
Second this. Nobody actually uses it. It's a bit too theoretical.
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This is entirely dependent on the business and the pricing of the product. Monthly SaaS was basically crafted in order to bypass the procurement process, to make it easier for business customers to buy software on the corporate card. Part of pricing a b2b product is to understand the procurement process as well. A lot of b2b products have price breaks built around common procurement limits (i.e., 249/mo and 499/mo because common customer single transaction procurement limits are 250 or 500)
You can write bad code in any language.

You can invent BS about any language.

Linux kernel does not use glibc, why assume it would use the default generic application-level std lib for Rust, or for C++?

FUD does not enlighten.
Try this: https://archive.is/NAll8
If octopuses wanted to be treated humanely they would reply to this comment and say so!
And just the other month, we switched a transmission from SFTP to FTP because we couldn't be bothered to deal with the bottlenecks in the SFTP stack. HTTP? Maybe next year :-)
I would refrain from using Louis CK as any sort of a moral compass. For obvious reasons.
>Bitcoin trading volumes are in the several trillions per day. I'm not referring to those.

Where does that number even come from? I've been trying to source anything that's even vaguely in the same ballpark and coming up empty. Most of the sources I can find suggest ~$100bn a day.

But no, in any case, that's not what I'm talking about either. Nor am I trying to apply any moral value to the purposes to which payments are put.

The point is: you can't say "credit cards are small relative to BTC" without consider the segmentation of the payment market in the fiat world.

I encourage you to provide evidence of the size of the "credit card" usage (i.e. goods and services payments) of BTC. Good data is hard to find but it's self-evidently not in the "trillions of USD per year" order-of-magnitude.

If you want to talk about the gross settlements segment, again, BTC is a minnow. Sure counting every transaction on the BTC blockchain, it's a few $tn a year currently. Fedwire does that much every day, and that's only for inter-institutional transfer.
An individual's personal responsibility only goes so far to shape the social norms that your kid will be exposed to. If the thing you don't want your kid doing becomes a norm, then abstaining may come with additional consequences of sizable consequence.
Polio isn't spread by mosquitos. I think you're confusing it with something else.
For every one of you, I bet there are there ten others (myself included) who would hear about parties, see other friends make plans with each other, and realize where they stood on the social order. Maybe I am a half decade older than you (FB started when I was in college) but the day I got off of it, my close friends got closer and my FB friends lost all of their allocated memory
Many cities artificially block that citing things like "will modify the current architecture/aspects of the city" etc. Basically the argument is that cities shouldn't evolve from what they were in early last century, ignoring the major influx of new residents.
Serious question, could this be money laundering, bribery or something else shady? The fact that the owner made $2.5 Million on a stock sale for a seemingly worthless business seems like it could have some less than legal explanations.
And yet iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html
This may or may not be what you’re pointing at, but I’m a goal oriented person. Running and strength training I practice with metrics, programs, and progressions. I love it and have made great strides. I’m a state record holding weight lifter. I’m also a secular Buddhist and I meditate.

But I had a moment about ten years ago. It came from nowhere, though there was a lead up. I was doing something, relaxing but vigorous, and I felt all my self-imposed limiting thoughts and beliefs drop away. It happened in an instant and there was a mental and physical manifestation of the moment, it was tremendous. It lasted about 20 minutes and then it changed again.

I remember those 20 minutes very clearly. It upended everything I felt about my existence. It was like a drug trip, but not. It may have been a blink of enlightenment, though I wouldn’t dare to characterize it as such. It’s hard to define, but it’s been defined in all kinds of literate.

I’m not trying to recapture that, but I do try and live my life with the knowledge that it’s out there. Perhaps it can be approached, perhaps it can return again, in an instant. It came during a doing, that much is clear. I’ll keep doing.
The GP post had a sole purpose, to explain scarcity.
This is my guess. We’re busy monetizing our national debt, and real estate is the first sector that is calibrating to the new (much lower) value of the dollar. I would love to be wrong about that, btw. I think it’s going to be brutally painful for anyone who rents, and will effectively be like giving the entire country a pay cut and lowering the minimum wage.
But to really come close to laravel I would add something like blitzjs.com or redwoodjs.com. Blitz is built on top of next and adds ORM (Prisma), code generators, even authentication out of the box, so it's really close to Laravel. Redwood is its own thing AFAIK, but also aims to be closer to a full stack framework.
There is a ton of money exiting the bond market looking for yield, this is driving up stocks reducing earnings. Probably a lot of people exiting their previous investments looking for places to park their cash. I'm in this boat.
I see lots of racy advertisements on FB, and I have no idea why. For general privacy reasons, I use FB in a dedicated browser. I do not 'like' companies or products on FB, nor do I follow any celebrities. I don't look at pornography, nor does anyone else at my IP address. Do they just show me this stuff because I'm a man? FB knows I'm married, so I wouldn't think I'd be in the most receptive demographic for this sort of thing. Whenever I check "why did I see this ad?", it always just says they're trying to reach adults in the US. But my wife never gets ads like this, even though they are purportedly ads for racy women's clothing.

I don't use FB much, and stuff like this makes me think I'm doing the right thing (OTOH, I just realized I forgot my good friend's bday yesterday, so I guess it's good for that one thing).
The are merging with Rodgers.. expect a price hike in your future.
> I guess the hours of training don't count.

The sports these sorts of schools focus on are crew, polo, squash - those are designed to help Brahmins [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin
Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
You'll have to excuse a bit of unfamiliarity with linux internals here, I'm taking a guess, but I expect that filesystems are an example where you would see a clear win.

My assumption would be that a file system is calling the same methods on a few different objects repeatedly. E.g. "read me some bytes from this page" or "get the id of this inode". For each of these APIs you once write a small amount of unsafe code that encodes into the type system "and this is how you can call it safely", and then you repeatedly get to make use of that code with guarantees that you aren't making any mistakes that are too terrible (logic bugs still exist obviously, which on a file system could delete or corrupt files, but you aren't going to corrupt some random kernel memory by accident). That's a pretty big win in my mind.

Meanwhile file systems probably include a lot of non-ffi things I think rust is substantially better for too. Like handling of a ton of different error's (oh no, the disk failed to give me bytes. Oh no, these bytes make no sense. etc) in the codes "happy"(ish) path. And like parsing data structures out of bytes (correctly). Tracking exclusive access to various resources. Implementing compression algorithms. Etc.

The case where you would see the sort of issue you're discussing is where all the code is doing basically unique ffi calls, so you don't get any reuse out of safe abstractions. I don't know of any great examples of this, maybe things like boot sequence code where you're running a lot of unique things exactly once to initialize the hardware?
As someone who has dabbled in CUDA with some success, I'm going to be a little contrarian here. To me, the difficulty with GPU programming isn't the fact that CUDA uses C-syntax versus something more readable like Python. GPU programming is fundamentally difficult, and the minor gains from using a familiar language syntax are dwarfed by the need to understand blocks, memory alignment, thread hierarchy, etc. And I don't just say this. I live it. Even though I primarily program in C#, I don't use Hybridizer when I need GPU acceleration. I go straight to CUDA and marshal everything to/from C#.

That's not to say that CUDA Python isn't kinda cool, but it's not a magic bullet to finally understanding GPU programming if you've been struggling.
>I guess what I'm asking is, is it a bubble?

Yes, but there is a catch. You have no way of knowing when it will pop. Could be in a few years, could be in 5, could be in 10, could be in 15, could be in 20-30.

With this in mind, at some point, it just starts making sense to join the bubble on the ride up, instead of just sitting with no property and be proud of how "right" I was in my belief that it was a bubble all along.
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A Nobel winning economist was not impressed by the Kelly criterion. http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434F2005/C...
OP did mention price inflation as one of the factors.
From the second article[2] that follows: “This makes sense because the problem with the Kelly Formula for portfolio management is that it looks at each bet individually” i.e. the Kelly Criterion bets your whole portfolio on a single position. I presume any strategy that has multiple positions (a portfolio) cannot use the Kelly Criterion by definition.

[2] https://blog.alphatheory.com/2013/01/kelly-criterion-in-prac...

[0] https://alphatheory.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600356960... has an explanation of the “Alpha Theory” which I couldn’t quickly find on the alpha theory site.
It also doesn't support Web APIs that Chrome and Firefox have supported for 8+ years now.
Look at state, county, and municipal government. These are all soul-killers but generally come with livable pay and good benefits, and if you have any relevant skills at all, it's relatively easy to find an opening. There is also contract work for these entities, which can give you a chance to meet people, check out the landscape, and note which skills are in highest demand while you find a way to wiggle into the system.

Stay only as long as you need to or the environment will destroy you. Usually I'd say one year max, but you sound like you need more. Use your time to plan your future in detail.

Look and act happy. Defer to "authority" (i.e., the hopeless incompetent mutants who hire and fire). Smile a whole lot. Pretend that you like everyone even if you hate them all. Engage in friendly chitchat and help out with birthdays and potlucks when they come around. Fake it.

If people like you they'll give you a pass on everything as long as you don't set the place on fire or molest their children. If people don't like you then you're out of luck no matter how excellent you are, because it's government work, and government doesn't go broke, and if something doesn't get done today, or doesn't get done right, there is always tomorrow. And people just want to get through the day and go home and forget about it.
> my recollection from buying a house (even in the buyer's market of 2008? or 2009? eh), was that the seller had 7? days to accept/reject

The expiration of the offer is determined by the prospective buyer. You can write an offer that expires in 1 hour if you wanted to. But most people do say 1 week.

> so sellers now should be able to just accumulate a pile of offers, i'd think, before having to reject any?

Yes, most sellers here collect sealed offers for 1 week and then review them all at once. It's rare to have a house with no issues not accept an offer after 1 week. Some sellers even choose to just list for a weekend though. It's insane.
How did they come up with 13yo as the minimal age btw. Is it set globally? I feel like it's itself too low.
I am a first time car owner (with a Tesla) and yes, I struggled to explain my feelings when my friends asked "Isn't autopilot just adaptive cruise control and lane centering?"

Yes, it does just that (unless you buy the FSD scam), but it also feels like an integral part of the car instead of a addon for higher trim models. Everything (including the tablet) is centered around autopilot and it's natural to use anywhere. Would I use lane centering in a Honda or Hyundai? Maybe. I use the tempomat (cruise control) in other cars too, but I never felt comfortable in using just that to drive all the way to SF.

I don't think I would do that in a 2010 Kia. I might be wrong.

Tesla lessened my mental burden and I just watch other cars while it does its thing. I am also more confident as it watched other cars by itself using the cameras, it's like 10 pairs of eyes instead of 2.