skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changes in stock come from changes in news. A "record earnings" is never really a surprise, and should change the stock price one way or the other. People price the stock by their expectation, and even if "record earnings" fall short of the expectation, the price will fall.

Dividends are just the easiest way to think about what a stock means. If the company keeps the money, you still own a piece of that profit. It's just not cash in hand. In the case of Apple, they have so much money that when you buy a share you own (among other things) $4 per share just in their (absurd) cash supply. (They own $200 billion in cash, which isn't a great use of their money.)

That doesn't mean that the market isn't irrational, but it's predictably irrational. Which means you can make money from it in one of two ways:

* Predict what the irrational people are going to do
* Ignore the irrational people and trust that in the long term (10+ years) the actual money that the company makes will give you a decent return.

The first is risky, because you're trying to predict people. That's most of what you hear about on the news, and looks like Instagram. It's stupid, but very profitable, because a lot of people bring in a lot of money.

The second is slow, and more work (because you need to find stocks that aren't already overpriced by irrational people), but in the long run it actually works out. Unlike the first option, you're not just gaining money from other people. You're making money from the actual company's earnings -- still not "predictable" but if you know the domain you can make good, educated choices.

The nice thing about the second route is that you can shortcut all of that by just buying a little of everything. That's what index funds are for -- pool your money with other people and buy some of every stock together. It works very well over the time scale of getting to retirement.

And the best part of that is that you can ignore the news. Over that time scale fads come and go. High-visibility trends that make headlines one day are just gone and forgotten. You don't even need to read the news -- in fact, you shouldn't.
> What it lacks is freely flowing funding such that risky enterprises can be funded even if 1 out of ten or 1 out of hundred actually are successful

Might this be a flip side of regulations that combat economic inequality?

If so, the two should not be addressed as separate issues. But frontpage HN posts tend to be "Applauding Europes' long vacations and progressive taxes" and "Bemoaning Europe's lack of VCs with fuck you money".
Yeah, but of what? Caching the downloaded file? I wouldn’t think encrypted file links would need long term storage of anything. You receive the link, key exchange is derived from key in link, file is downloaded and decrypted on-the-fly.
"user action spam" suggests to me that you had join/part messages displayed. Turn those off in your client. With those on, no wonder you couldn't see any signal through the noise. After that, just find the good channels, there's quite a few depending on what you're into.
Bad examples. Vaccines aren't safe if you make an absolute statement. They just pose a far lesser risk than an infection.

How about the Russian election manipulation? Racism and Sexism being endemic in the tech industry? Those are conspiracies too.

I agree however that that judging quickly is a problem. You are even perceived as slow if you reserve judgement for a while.
This cannot be emphasized enough, the equation is multiplicative not additive. Most people have an opportunity of less than 1.
Since the Cygnus days I have worked on on small solar thermal power plants (fit in a pair of containers), pharmaceutical chemistry, distributed databases, Symbolic AI, and Rand CastAR for a while.

Some programming, some hardware, some chemistry, always lots of fun.

Right now I’m working on data control and privacy.
> /r/antiwork on Reddit, that have a stated goal of ending work

This got me interested, so I checked it out. The top thread is literally about r/antiwork NOT having this goal: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/o032ek/for_anyone...

And "not wasting your life working for something you don't believe in" is quite a different beast. I believe even Paul Graham could say this, albeit with totally different idea about what you should do instead.
> It sounded like an intuition rather than a conclusion.

Fair enough.

> It’s an intuition that’s very familiar to those born without a leg up.

I was born to a blue collar family and I lived in a trailer until I was 6. I don't share the intuition.

I worked through college while my classmates skipped class, spent loads at starbucks, restaurants, etc. I double majored and graduated with a fraction of the debt of my peers, and I picked majors that are likely to pay well. I now make multiples of what my parents made together. N=1 and all that, but it's not "intuition of those born without a leg up".
Goldman had a library like this when I was there. I wonder if it ended up catching on.
Story of the year did you know what's the actual matter of meet mill and Jay Z?
To give an example: I was among the first airbnb users when it started. In the past few years I used booking.com more because I liked both their website and booking experience better. And yes, they offer private accomodation. Booking.com improved a lot while airbnb stagnated. I admit that I am not the target audiance for the airbnb "experiences" feature though.
Fair point—that line was a bit tongue-in-cheek.

But I'm comfortable living with contradictions, so I do believe there is a meritocracy, but I don't believe it's total.

Only wading in the shallows because I actually have some work to get to today, but to clarify by example:

I'm sure most North Americans around this forum grew up hearing lines like "you don't want to end up a janitor". Personally, I've seen episodes like factory supervisors ignore physical health requests because their faithful hourly workers were "probably just trying to get off easy" (no, they ended up losing their job when their back gave out). Obviously they were only a line hand, so they're probably a dirtbag, as the line of reasoning followed in that situation.. and so on.

Definitely not touching the hot mess of "marrying upward" or other potential confidence games.
Ask HN: Did you fully or partially quit smartphones?
If so, please tell your story. How? Was it for the best? I have found it much easier to quit social media than the smartphone, and quitting social media didn't solve my digital malaise problems anyway.
> I always ask what particulars are you missing or not there?

I should have been clear it was M1 Mac against similar segment competitors. Not the Pro / Gaming segment.

Most of those are comparing hardware spec on paper. As much as I like to shit on Apple's pathetic 1mm key travel keyboard, USB-C charging that fried the CPU, Touch Bar or ridiculously sized trackpad. Build quality of MacBook is still better than Dell XPS. Both external and internally down to component layout. From Trackpad to Speakers. I actually think the closest competitor is the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4.

Touch ID, M1 that has NPU for many ML task. Speech Recognition that is far better than on Windows. ( Both Apple and Google gets the benefits of their Smartphone scale ). Much better thermal with 5nm SoC. On a 25W max CPU+GPU system there are simply no competition. WiFi and Bluetooth that gets the benefits of being tested by the 1 billion+ of iPhone and iPad Devices. Generally faster SSD because not all NVMe SSD are made equal. Then there is the macOS and its ecosystem where its UI and UX are better designed. ( Control Panel vs System Preferences ? ) While macOS is now in its 3rd if not 4th facelift. Windows still have screens that are coming from its 2000 era. And there are possibly hundreds if not thousands of little things. ( Font Rendering, App latency, etc )

Most of the suggestions are 32 / 64GB Windows system which the M1 Mac currently does not offer (yet). And Gaming. If you Game you will need a Windows PC.

None of these includes the benefits if you already own an iPad or iPhone. Unless Windows 11 offer some massive leap forward. I dont see any thing on the roadmap in PC industry that could compete with the onslaught of ARM Mac. For the first time ever in Apple history the Mac has an BOM cost advantage compare to PC. ( Apple has higher margin so RSP would be about the same as PC )
France has invested a lot of money into this company. And it was approved to become the official search engine on many state administration's computers, even after an audit revealed the terrible quality of their product. Things are a bit shady around Qwant, and this is ground for all kind of suspicions (not that I'm endorsing any).
Restored my sense of agency, which has changed my life for the better
I’ve been diagnosed in France at 29. I had the chance to find a therapist that was aware of ADHD and transferred me to a specialist at the local hospital.

But it looks like I had been really lucky because France health authorities does not currently acknowledge the existence of adult ADHD.

That would explain why no one in Europe talks about it. I would add that since symptoms are really vague when explained, there is some sort of taboo when you talk about it because ADHD is just a sum of symptoms that, individually, are very common amongst the population.
Everything you’ve said is correct, but please don’t demonize a medication that I depend on to be functional. ADHD is a disability, there’s more nuance to this than black-and-white.

I was blown off by doctors for years when I was seeking a diagnostics because I was a successful person, but make no mistake: I was suffering. I am a textbook case. The stigma around this disorder is pervasive and it’s extremely easy to reinforce that stigma.

Stimulant medication doesn’t give me superpowers, it improves symptoms. I still have all the problems that come with ADHD, just... less.

Google is failing me, but a study a few years ago indicated that stimulants do not have a meaningful impact on the output of those who do not have ADHD. People often think they do because of the euphoria effect, but the euphoria is actually a transient side effect.

Stimulants should be paired with therapy, to better understand the nature of the disorder and developer additional coping tool.

(I’ve been on stimulant medication to treat ADHD for about half a decade. I was diagnosed well into adulthood.)
What is Huawei’s strategy here? Other than they need a non US search engine for their European audience.
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Agree with point about the torries, but UK remains a lucrative market on its own. They aren’t as powerful outside the block as within it, but no global company wants to leave the UK market.
LLCs aren't really relevant to this. The poster was commenting on bankruptcy laws with the assumption of familiarity. You can check out articles like https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10657-006-8978-..., but the gist is that bankruptcy in the US is forgiving versus being a terminal state in Europe. This is both in law and in society.

Once someone has gone bankrupt in Europe, they are historically, are a pariah. They will struggle to get financing to take a risk with another company. This is on top of a risk-averse system that generally places much higher requirements on non-bankrupt people seeking financing.

Compare this to the situation in the US. Here there is relatively easy access to financing at all sizes of organization. It only noticeably tightens when there is a recession or there are very serious issues with the founders. When a company fails there are more options for recovery, sell-off, acquisition, etc. Labor law permits companies to jettison all employees easily too in certain situations whereas that is much more difficult in Europe. Although this is starting to get away from pure bankruptcy law it overlaps.
Well, my logic is: if you go to university (ideally STEM) and have a modicum of practical skills, how hard really is it to become a plumber later in life? I'd imagine plumbing studies are shorter, some stuff you can probably transfer over from your university studies and you can probably apprentice reasonably easily somewhere.
You pretty clearly have no idea WTF you're talking about.

r/antiwork is a response to rampant capitalism rewarding parasitic billionaires, not some idea that people don't want to do "anything meaningful" with their lives.

Have a nice rest of your day.
If you are dosing once a week, aren't you getting a pretty good hit of euphoria?
They are different drugs with different mechanisms of action. One notable difference from my experience is that Ritalin has a stimulant effect, whereas Strattera actually made me tired.
There might also be a skew due to COVID. Many single people moved back in with their parents because why not, no rent to pay and you can WFH anyways. And it’s not like the social life would go anywhere.
I am considering moving over to alternative already. I don't want to be dependent on a project that actively dissuades people packaging it up.
That may once have been true, but it's certainly not true today. Kids born in the 2000s can expect to earn less than their parents, as income has been pushed up to the ultra-wealthy.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
I'll check out the book, thanks!
Yeah that’s what they want you to think. Just like how Ireland has the highest GDP in Europe or some nonsense
And the chicken tax is about chickens. Cute velociraptors that cluck and lay eggs. Even though it is actually about installing fake seats in trucks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

And condescension is about pretending the other person is dumb and explaining to them that the sky is blue and water is wet.

And American superiority is about somehow assuming that people in other countries don't know how to vaccinate against rabies.
The second infographic compares rent.
Ritalin is not a form of amphetamine. Ritalin's active ingredient is methylphenidate.
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The odds are pretty good if your parents are billionaires - a not particularly rigorous search suggests that some 1,186 of those inherited their wealth or 'self made' an empire already worth hundreds of millions into a billion.

It's disingenuous to suggest that a minimum wage worker with no safety net isn't getting anywhere because they're not trying, and to contrast their accomplishments with someone who started with wealthy, powerful parents.

For some, the adage "shoot for the moon - if you miss, you'll land among the stars" is fine. Take some risks, start a business, make a bet; the worst that can happen is you have to declare bankruptcy and move into a family member's vacation home. For others, the adage is more like "don't you dare shoot for the moon, if you miss, you and your family will be hungry and cold in a homeless shelter".
Following this, I think it might be instructive to ask what happened to EU tech successes that have failed. Nokia and the famous "burning platform", for example. Was it the case that natural market competition leads to there being only room for two phone OSs?

And a far more controversial question: would it be allowed? Or would a successful European world-dominating quasi-monopoly on the FAANG scale get banned from the US market? We've seen twitches in that direction (remember the "Tiktok will be forced to sell to Oracle" nonsense?). Or in the aerospace market, things like https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/26/bombardier-... or https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32542140 ; Boeing vs Airbus shenanigans go back a long way.

I found out the other day that one of the UK's longstanding tech companies collapsed after accidentally buying a CIA front organization for illegal arms sales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti#Collapse

Or ARM: are they an "EU" tech success any more? As their ownership is passed from Japanese Softbank to US NVIDIA.
Maybe not, Chesterton's Fence applies:
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
And let’s not forget to thank the sponsor of today’s comment, BigPharmaCo!
I used to get outraged at "Social Justice Warriors" demanding we rename everything with the slightest connotation of political incorrectness.

These days I'm too busy debating what colour we're going to paint the bike shed and shaving our herd of yaks to complain about the PC brigade forcing us to rename "blacklist" to "blocklist", which is actually more descriptive anyway.

This week we've been debating about whether to enforce double quotes or single quotes. I'm so far past caring about this shit that you could rename our primary git branch to "black_lives_matter" and I wouldn't bat an eyelid. If it makes someone happy, good for them. I just want to write software.

If I'm going to complain about naming, I'll complain about the >100 character long class names I keep finding in our codebase.
> IE: Each generation sees a "simpler" toolset being made available which opens up programming to a wider audience.

Nope.

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A frontend developer.
"do" notation?
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It has no concrete specific definition as far as I'm aware. It's just a colloquial phrase to distinguish it from something that has been around for a long time, while also drawing focus to its similarities.
Inventor of mRNA vaccines re: dosing and spike proteins
More like that they didn't go to a judge. Without court order it is much easier to continue working in the illegal underground.

So they couldn't make arrests of their informants.
Not going to comment on anything else since "flexible working laws" and "less relaxing lifestyle" can mean anything, but "light a fire under their ass until they are forced to innovate" is unironically and unapologetically good.

If there's one thing that consistently fosters innovation and progress it's competition. That's something that holds true everywhere. Software, industry, education, games, sports, you name it.
> I appreciate that child labor have been regulated out of the greedy hands of our capitalist overlords.

Child labour ended because of capitalism. The increased income and power that begets then allowed for child labour laws to come in - it certainly didn't happen in pre-industrial societies or capitalists wouldn't have been able to employ them in the first place. Same goes for slavery, not only did economic pressure from increasing automation make it less viable but the increased wealth and power of people within society who were opposed to it meant slavery was finally ended by the most capitalistic societies the world has ever seen.
They explicitly offered to do that, and also suggested 3 other solutions to address his concern, and he shot all suggestions down with what amounted to "I already told you what I want: Don't repackage my code."

The only entitlement form the nixos devs has been using a right which Frenck explicitly chose to provide when licensing his software.

In the end, the will have to fork it, and probably maintain a fork of HM, since he is relicensing it to disallow repackaging.
Another anecdote: I was diagnosed in middle school and prescribed Vyvanse, which I took for the duration of my k-12 education. Some side effects I lived with were loss of appetite, social anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and later on a complete suppression of sex-drive. These were brought to my doctor's attention but were more or less considered costs to a greater good.

I sought behavioral therapy because the side effects became too much of a burden. I hold a job and remain productive, but I still struggle dealing with my adhd without medication. I'm not sure there's a point I'm trying to make here, just wanting to share some of my experience.
We’re also starting to find that out now that we have kids ;). There’s also just odd situations that don’t fit into the hotel model.

Right now, I need a place to stay in Denver for 8 weeks with my wife, child, mother-in-law, and 2 dogs.

We’re staying with my MIL for her knee replacement surgery recuperation. So, there can’t be any stairs, has to have a walk in shower, must have a kitchen and have 3 bedrooms.

Impossible to find a hotel like this. We found a suitable AirBNB in about an hour.
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To be fair, caffeine also increases heart rate and blood pressure. I think it's common of stimulants
The OECD NEA numbers seem to assume the same interest rate for nuclear as for renewables. This is not a fair comparison, since nuclear builds are riskier and require a higher interest rate to account for the risk. Giving them the same rate is putting a thumb on the scales.
This isn’t remotely true. Activist academics may think it is, but an actual study of history shows that most wealth creation comes from establishing a solid middle class. Oppression doesn’t scale, fortunately.
You can't think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard, but you know FAANG employees who seemingly coast towards upper-middle-class riches?
Haha good point :(
> What would you tell this to someone who wasn't born into wealth or opportunity? You're pretty much screwed, don't bother?

I would tell them that they better advocate for a more equitable society or, yes, they are screwed. Too often self-empowerment is used as a way to tamp down any kind of organized push for equity. This is very convenient for those that benefit from the status quo.

I would argue that a truly useless model for life is pretending that the deck isn't stacked and letting those stacking it make out like bandits.
hey @rvz - appreciate your feedback.

This is a community for long-term investing (crypto is just one piece of this, plan to offer a stocks course later in 2021).

To me, long-term investing in crypto (which may seem outrageous to some) is 1) having conviction that core protocols (Bitcoin, Ethereum, a few select others) are going to increase in value over the long-term as crypto eats the world of finance, community, marketplaces, etc, and 2) holding those tokens for long periods of time. This is not about HODLing random "shitcoins" (like DOGE) just to be a meme.

There were definitely ppl evangelizing crypto in 2018/2020, but of course they werent the loudest. In any event, if you can take profits and buy the dips - more power to you.

For me, I've found that being a long term holder of anything (crypto/stocks) and riding out the mania/crashes is 1) less stressful, and 2) ultimately more lucrative.

Appreciate the feedback tho!
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>Airbnb only flags prior convictions, and though the host had previously been charged with battery, he wasn’t convicted."

Is the implication here people should be punished for pre-crime as well?
https://medium.com/@xzyfer/why-node-sass-broke-your-code-and...

What do you think of this example, where a library made a breaking, non-backwards compatible change, causing user code to throw fatal errors.

They defended their point that this is only a minor version increment since the working user code was actually erroneously working and should have been throwing fatal errors the whole time.
Thanks! There's a good book that follows your line of thinking: "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher.
I thinks he is looking for a "kindle" and really should get a Kindle. I actually own a Kindle and a BOOX Nova 3, they are two different products, not interchangeable if you are picky about which is better at doing what. I would have a E-ink tablet, a Kindle and a iPad depending on the tasks.
You can work exceedingly long hours with high focus on something you like.