skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but it's easy to look back at historical data and draw conclusions from perfect information. When actually making an investment decision facing an unknown future, index funds are relatively low risk. This is why people actually buy them. Making the pool of companies smaller will only increase the volatility.

I would argue that psychologicaly the S&P offers the least optimistic promise of return for an investment a person would realistically make, since it is supposed to represent the market as a whole. People don't like to make an investment if they believe its quality is below-average, so expectation of average returns is really the minimum.
What I got out of it is the concept from psychology -> distinguishing self from other. You want to make sure your perceptions are real and not projections, that your reactions are appropriate and not transference. The only way to avoid those things is to recognize what it coming from within yourself. I can see how that sounds stupid or absurd to a lot of people, however it's like the blub paradox - if you're looking up the abstraction ladder all you see is a bunch of strange words and jargon.

I can see fairly clearly, and some of that is due to psychoanalysis that nearly killed me. Another very closely related psych truism is that there are hidden influences lurking below your conscious perception, and often another level below that. Most people reject that notion (obviously, they can't see it) and some get angry (that's often a defense against finding that which is hidden).

When you see the dumpster fire here, it's the dumpster in their heads that they're not even aware of manifesting in the comments.
Related: Problems are Goldmines - Peter H. Diamandis

> https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
There's virtio-fs, but it requires a relatively recent Linux kernel.

For Windows, I have samba running on my host.
> Timing is crucial for good returns - depending on when you put in and take out your money the returns can be negative (even in cases where you hold up to 15 years) and in other cases quite good (best cases inflation adjusted annualized returns of 12% over 40 years).

Yes, timing is crucial. In your analysis, how much did timing change if you change the "sell date" into a 6 month window?
If it's a scam, how does it work? Who's getting scammed?
> plus, whoever idiot designed the usb-at-the-bottom mouse

The batteries last so long in those mice, plus you can get an almost full day's charge in about two minutes. It takes a real idiot to run into issues with it. :)
This is why there is a down-vote arrow and a reply button, right?

What I like about HN is that very often misunderstandings that initially seem believable get corrected with sources and explanation.
Open Saves: Open-source cloud-native storage for games
I agree. There is a lot of value in discovery. Just being on the App Store puts software in front of peoples eyeballs who otherwise may not ever know it exists. Is discovery worth 30%? I honestly don't know, but it's worth something.
Why would mining help? Resource extraction is the low end of earning potential. You mostly need the terrain and a willingness to pollute to break into it. It isn't that scarce. Industry makes much more than resource extraction and advanced services make more than industry.
Yes, there are services that sell the viewing data to help advertisers track conversion on their tv ads.
"It uses too much electricity" has become the new curmudgeon punt. I've begun ignoring it outright. Thank you for spelling out the bigger picture for those who are pondering the silly abuse of environmental concern signaling bandwagon. Maybe someday we can combat actual threats to our environment, probably using AI.
I'd love to see a fork/branch that does the same as the linked repo, but using the cdk for comparison.
Slackware was my favorite distribution until Ubuntu came along but not for the reasons you might think.

Slackware showed you the internals and I learned so much about compiling and systems architecture during the few years I was using Slackware.

When Ubuntu came around it was the first time I was able to plug in a USB stick and have it recognized immediately and I had to do some paid work to put food on the table.

Slackware is an excellent distribution for learning and I'm glad I used it in my early days.
Looking at your video, performance does not look good though which is expected from Elixir, Erlang is a pretty slow language.
Time to Change in Health Care System
Sorry, I should have said significant problems. If you send email on anything like a large-scale basis you’ll get on some kind of blacklist at some time – all you need is one user sending email to someone with a twitchy spam reporting reflex. What I was thinking about, though, is that it’s usually transient – e.g. out of hundreds of thousands of emails I’ve never had one bounce that way instead of being delayed, which is better then self-hosting on a long-time class B over a similar timeframe.
> Apple have been in the music business much longer than Spotify

Since 1968 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records
That seems to be a (delayed) redirect to the youtube.com home page, at least for me in Firefox on Ubuntu.
> I.e. don't put lots of money into the market when its hot & put more money in when its cold. That way you statistically have a better chance on getting a good return

Was the market hot in 2017, 2018, 2019?
because each subcontractor needs to be managed. They need individual priorities, contracts, and performance expectations set. The sheer complexity in subbing 100M of work to 50 competitors can require so much staffing in contract management that it would create more chaos and spending than it was worth for the change in capability. Scale matters because it simplifies management.

Source: my employer (not me) specializes in advising on the contracting for outsourced services.
Their uniquely informed perspective makes it very difficult for the less informed to detect deception. It's better that they supply data to independent researchers who aren't going to later end up at Google, and allow them to provide the interpretation and context.
So you are saying that pinch and double tap should just be removed from js specs because one company arbitrarily decided you can't use them anymore. Whatever.

Also, MS office and Adobe are web apps and far more complex than almost any "real apps" out there. It's completely untrue that web apps are not apps.
Same here, the variety of products seemingly exploded in the past year. I ordered this dried-peas-paste, which just arrived today, from which you're supposed to be able to make burgers, minced meat, and meat patties that aren't burgers (we call them Frikadelle here). Anyway, I'm excited so I wanted to share :D
"Winner take all" is of course not limited to the arts.

I see it everywhere, unfortunately.

At the same time, I see people "getting by" by finding a niche. In the arts it might be the guy that does intricate stipple art with his Rapidograph of dragons and makes bank going around to Renaissance Faires in the Fall....

(Okay, well, makes a little cash anyway.)

Sort of non-sequitur: watching David Bull on YouTube — you know, the Canadian ukiyo-e artist living in Tokyo? His "big break" came when he decided to pursue a 10 year project to (re)create 100 masterpieces of Japanese wood-block carving.

Imagine deciding what you are going to do, artistically, for the next 10 years of your life/career? And then to have to turn out a new piece almost every month for that decade.

And yet.

He finally started to see a return from repeat buyers ... collectors. And the collectors only grew over the years (and the collectors would want his back-catalog as well).

I know it's, again, not something everyone can emulate, but beautiful David found a way to navigate the path out of starving-artistry. Subscriptions and collections were the key.
The Apple TVs are quite over-powered devices compared to competitors. They come with A12 processors getting around 1,100 single-core and 2,800 multi-core Geekbench scores. To put that in perspective, the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S21+ gets 1,000 single-core and 3,100 multi-core. Apple is shipping an Apple TV with a processor that basically matches the best processors ever on Android.

That's quite over-powered for a device whose main function is decoding video which can be done in hardware rather than the main CPU performance.

The last generation came with 3GB of RAM which is also more than you see in TV devices. This generation might be 4GB.

Likewise, the remote is metal, comes with a scroll wheel, and is rechargeable rather than using AAA batteries like competitors.

I think the cost of Apple TVs is partly because Apple has decided to create a device with much better specifications. No other device is offering performance that rivals the best Android phones ever made.

I think part of this is that Apple is (half-heartedly) thinking of the Apple TV as a gaming device. They noted that you could hook up XBox and Playstation controllers to it during their keynote.

The real competition for an Apple TV is the NVidia Shield. The Shield TV costs $150 and the Shield TV Pro costs $200 - similar to Apple's price point, but with worse specs.

The Shield TV Pro is $200 and comes with 16GB of storage (compared to 32GB on the base Apple TV 4K at $180). The Tegra X1+ processor is no match for an A12. The cheaper ($150) Shield TV stick only comes with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. It's hard to find Geekbench results for the X1+, but this (https://androidpctv.com/comparative-nvidia-tegra-x1-plus/) seems to indicate Geekbench 4 results of 1,300 and 3,700 for single/multi-core. The A12 hits around 4,800 and 11,000. NVidia is selling a competitor with less storage and way less processing power for more money (probably less RAM too).

I don't think one can compare a Roku or Chromecast to an NVidia Shield TV. The Shield will run circles around those devices. An Apple TV will run circles around the Shield. Some of it might be companies not having the same business model, but some of it will be the fact that the Apple TV is a device with way higher specs.
Note that this is YouTube TV, not YouTube itself. They are separate services. Google has just muddied the waters repeatedly by moving a bunch of services under the YouTube branding.
Another happy NVIDIA Shield owner here.

I switched from Roku to Shield when the first Shield came out in 2015. That device is still going strong, still plays everything I throw at it, has excellent support with Kodi and Plex and every single catch up TV app is available for it.

6 years later, and NVIDIA is still issuing regular Android updates for it. The only Android device that's getting official support from OEM 6 years after release.

highly recommend.
Apple is now a monopoly.

They shouldn't be allowed to run an App Store, and they should probably have their services division peeled away into a separate company.

All of the mega tech monopolies need to be broken up. What business do any of them have being movie studios, advertising firms, car dealerships (Apple?), banks, and fifteen different marketplaces rolled into one? This is absurd.

Tech would be better if neither Apple nor Google ran their app stores, Amazon/Apple/Google weren't in the media business, and Google couldn't run a browser.

Break them up.
Is there a good way to run this on a S3 bucket?
It's your device, you should be able to repair it
Nice catch! I'll get that fixed up.
Thanks :)
Seems to be so common with these niche SBCs and accessories. They look so cool, but are unobtainable. People sometimes complain about the over-use of RasPis, but one thing they have going for them is that you can always find them available from many different sources.
It's crashing both times, it's just that the first time, Safari reloads the page. The second time, it gives you the "repeatedly" crashing message.
I was trying to set up Amazon Cognito (an authentication service) recently which basically needs a verified email address to send users emails for user verification and password reset, and I was shocked that Amazon has no basic email hosting service. Of course it’s easy enough to work around for my use case, but I was surprised nonetheless.
Sell in Feb 2009 and you'd have made a loss if you had entered at any point since May 1995

Buy at the peak in Aug 2000 and you'd have been in the red until Feb 2015

Invest in the Nov 1968 peak at 810 and you'd have seen red until Dec 1992

However invest $100 a month in 1985, increase your investment by 2% per year, and you'd have made a 388% profit by now, having invested $69420 (snigger) and have $338956 back.

That's excluding any dividends.
I don't exactly know what the MacOS installed does - but I do know that as recent as Catalina having MacTeX installed in /usr/local would cause it to flip out and take hours and hours to install.
This is a very tiresome argument that I have to continuously have with friends & family.

These days I just sit on the sidelines and watch people I care about throw money into raging infernos because they genuinely believe that a historical time series has some notion of inertia/momentum/hocus pocus/etc behind it.

After a certain point you have to stop trying to save other people from shitty ideas or you will drive yourself mad.
This is a good visualization, I think. Interesting that they include taxes here, though, as that can vary quite a bit by individual circumstance, and most long-term retail investing is probably done in tax-advantaged accounts like 401ks. Also, it's important to note that this appears to be in real terms, and so the period in the 70s to 80s is somewhat extraordinary. -2% annual return vs ~10% inflation isn't great, but also far better than cash.

All that said, it does show that the longer you hold, the more likely you are to achieve an average positive return. Note that the only negative return (again in real terms) is the darkest red.

Again, just to drive the point home, the neutral color 3%-7% return is after inflation. If the long-run average inflation is 2%, then this is 5%-9% average annual return which almost exactly tracks the common assumptions surrounding long-term buy & hold.
It's worth considering that what you are buying is a dividend stream and/or the possibility of a company being bought, which simply gives you more stock. When you essentially lend money to GOOGL or AMZN, what are you actually getting back besides a story?

Don't get me wrong, in the timespan of an individual's life it may well make sense to heavily buy into this system. I'm just making the point that it's current form is rather new and appears loosely connected to the real world and is subject to change.

To me, the current stock market seems like a fiat currency without the threat of physical force. Maybe the temptation will be to increasingly merge government with large companies in order to keep the plates spinning.
Safari is the new IE already.
I think a lot of newcomers to stock investing in the past year have been given the wrong ideas about the stock market.

When all of the headlines are about GameStop and Nokia and AMC and some kid who made it lost a lot of money on RobinHood, the stock market can feel like a place for gambling. Now that cryptocurrency prices are listed right next to stock prices, many people don’t even understand that stocks are ownership shares in real businesses instead of just another ticker symbol to gamble on.

Several times a week there are conversations on HN where commenters can’t understand how crypto currencies are different than stocks or how stocks are any different than gambling or why stocks can have any value without paying dividends.

I suspect many of those newcomers will be shaken out of the market during the next protracted drawdown. It’s unfortunate, because they stand to lose a lot over the course of a lifetime of investing.
is there an app ecosystem in cars?
I'd love to see the cost difference between this solution and running an EC2 instance with a traditional lite mail server (like perhaps courier).
I think a lot of people lump leetcode questions into one thing, when it can be as many things as one would like it to be. I like to do the easy questions to familiarize myself with a new language.

There are certain questions that are math questions disguised as programming questions. I like to do those when I feel like brushing up my math knowledge.

There are questions that test your knowledge on data structures. I like to do those if I want to learn that.

There are questions that test your knowledge on algorithms.

And there are questions that combine some or all of the above.

How one uses leetcode or leetcode style questions is up to them. I think exploring the extremes of possible answers for the questions is a completely fine way to spend your time. And I also think there are several questions on leetcode that should be no where near an interview. But people aren't perfect and you often see those questions misapplied in an attempt to gauge skill.
I have a cousin who is a theatre actor (here in Mexico). He loved acting all his life and I remember fondly going to see him at some of his presentations. However, in the last 10 years, the demand for actors has dried up crazily. He has been trying to get into programming (10 years ago was Java, nowadays is webdev) and asks me about it every now and then.

I'm always happy to help him in any way I can regarding technology, but man I am always feel very bad that he is pushed out of his passion due to a lack of demand in that sort of things.
LibAFL, the Fuzzer Library
sure, cgi-bin with a big load balancer
You can watch HD in the Netflix app on Windows if your hardware supports HDCP.

Edge on Windows also gets HD from Netflix and Amazon, because it uses the same DRM pipeline as the app does (Microsoft PlayReady).

There's no exemption from the DRM rules here, Edge and the app implement hardware backed DRM systems.
How to use Markdown if Markdown is not supported
Ohh does that mean we can have the argument again?
I live in a town with a sizeable IBM office. The number of tendrils coming out of it is crazy. To the point where everyone knows someone who is employed by IBM.

I wouldn't say it's only megacorps.

Universities have internship courses with IBM, and IBM have both normal and research contracts with the universities. Even tiny universities with less than a hundred students.

All the banks have contracts with IBM. All of them. There are hardware contracts, software contracts, and customised development versions of both of those for the banks.

Most of the schools also have IBM contracts. Not generally customised development, just deployment of prebuilt hardware and preconfigured software. Even the kindergartens do.

All the ISPs have support contracts. They tend to be more secretive about what the contracts are, but from what I hear it's mostly prebuilt hardware and very slightly customised software, and the support contracts are where IBM make the most of the income from the various contracts with the ISPs.

All the hospitals have contracts. Customised hardware contracts, but boring and preconfigured software. However, the support contracts are fairly busy and IBM have a really high turnover in the teams that support the hospitals.

The government buildings, of which we have local, state and federal, all have IBM hardware in them. Some of which has been under active support for three decades. Software wise, though, the government is edging away from IBM due to some recent fuckups that have seen IBM blacklisted for new contracts.
Go Modules Cheat Sheet
It can be, and not necessarily. `cgi-bin` can be as stateless as you want it to be. Just as stateless as lambdas, or other forms of "serverless" functions.

And thus, it can be distributed as well as any other stateless function.
It is like driving down the street by looking out the back window. You are confident there isn't a dump truck parked in the middle of the street, because you didn't see one in the last 3 blocks.
Yes most of HN comments are like this with the exception of a handful.
Not sure how well updated it is anymore, but I remember this juicy list floating around HN a couple years ago.

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
The world has changed now though. Betting against America is essentially betting against human progress.
Then how do I watch both of those services in 720p on a mac using a 140" projector that looks flawless?

Or, are you a first adopter type that only considers 4K+ "HD"?

1080i also works, but the projector is 720p native, and progressive scan prevents the jagged edges during fast motion.
Indeed - the graphic that compares the CO2e of 1 passenger's portion of a flight instead of the whole flight is particularly bad, given that the model is something that will be used by multiple people:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/06/239031/training-...
Isn’t it the case that for *any* arbitrary 30 year period of S&P, the worst you could do is 2x, and the best 1000x? And the mode something like 10x

For 20 years it reduces where I think some periods could actually produce flat or slightly negative, but the best and mode are still up in that range.

Hey, yeah. Investing is “risky”. Keep “working on your career”, and squirrel away into 401ks then.
When I was a kid with allergies I think it was 15% had allergies. Now 30% of adults and 40% of kids have them. https://www.webmd.com/allergies/allergy-statistics

Sometimes my throat is sore but its just allergy drainage. It doesn't help that the things I'm allergic to line up with flu season.
With local energy sources, I meant, local renewables energy sources. So no chemical energy.
Game Boy Classic has a lot of interesting puzzle and action puzzle games that didn't really get ported to any other platforms. Kwirk, Mole Mania (designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, even! super underrated), Amazing Penguin, Dexterity (kill enemies by flipping tiles Othello style), Catrap (one of the first games with rewind mechanics, predates Braid), Ishido, Quarth, Daedalian Opus, and Mario's Picross, which started the whole Picross line, still going on today.

If you include Game Boy Color, then you can add Hexcite (weird rules at first, but once it clicked I started loving it), Rox (drop dice, clear out everything between two matching dice), and Klustar (almost katamari-like, but with tetris blocks, very addictive).

I missed most of these the first time around, became aware of them mostly from Jeremy Parish's Game Boy Works retrospectives.

It's still on my bucket list to, one day, port my simple strategy game Proximity to either NES or Game Boy (or both). It's just a hex grid and number tiles that capture surrounding lower number tiles when placed, lots of fun, and the flash game went viral a long time ago.

Unfortunately most of these NES/GB game making software assume either platformer or adventure games, so to make my game I'll have to do a deep dive into the architecture, but that's okay, assuming I can find the time to do it. Still need to finish my Pico-8 port, first though, which is close enough I really should probably just release it. And I'm working on the third game right now, which I'm planning to add some fun Twitch support to, so hundreds of viewers can play the game along with the streamer.
My apologies if I'm whooshing on irony, but the clear fact is not that they are slow but rather that they have made a decision not to implement it, on every single development cycle over the last eight years.
This assertion ignores that apple makes a profit off the 30% cut. In other words: it doesn't correspond to a real cost to Apple.