skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You Should Look Into Low Cost Index Funds"

- Not sure how this helps your argument. Low cost != zero cost.

"I believe if you invest in a market cap weighted U.S. stock market, there has never been a 20(?) year period where you lose money on your investment adjusting for inflation. I'm sure there is another number for the global market. I think it is disingenuous to call something with a positive expected return gambling."

- In your own words "Don't invest in one company, sector, or country. And if you do, don't complain when it doesn't track the rest of the market." The probability that the US is the outlier is much higher compared to the cummulative stock performance of companies from 27 european nations being the outlier.

"This implies that having a market to buy and sell stocks is unstable and only being propped up by laws, but there are many stock markets around the world, so unless there is a large conspiracy to make investing inefficient through the use of large markets, I think we have to conclude that a stock market has some intrinsic value."

- The value generated from stock market speculations in the EU the past 20 years is close to zero [1]. So I have to conclude that the stock market is really useless.

"The only free lunch in investing is diversification. Don't invest in one company, sector, or country. And if you do, don't complain when it doesn't track the rest of the market."

- Or, don't speculate at all if you are not an expert and knowing that you are taking the risk of losing everything. No reason for the almost retired mom and pop to speculate on the value of my business. I am all in for long term investing (aka buy shares from the company). The buy-sell between stock holders - buyers needs to be heavily taxed due to the risk for the wider economy that these transactions can cause.

"Then why don't they? Aren't big bad companies only concerned with making more money? If finding investors without the stock market was more profitable, then wouldn't they?"

- I made this year 200% from speculating on Bitcoin and 90% from speculating on the recovery of the US stock market. Of course everyone tries to benefit from the game, but the reality is that only the middlemen are making money from the transactions. For the rest of us it is a zero-sum game. Some poor folks on the other side had to pay for my gains.

"This assumes that their owners and employees currently have enough money to collectively fund whatever venture they're working towards. To be honest I think you already know this but I'll bite. The world can be more efficient if we let people with money and no ideas give their money to people with ideas and no money."

- If only we had a solution to this! Oh I forgot, we have already a couple: 1) Banks and 2)"Issuing more shares". There is no benefit to the company when mucle6 sells their shares to whatever1 for 10 trillion dollars.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/sxxp?CountryCode...
The harrier costs $30 million, and the JSF costs "$80 million" (plus $1.1 trillion development / jobs program / pork / bug fixing)

Why didn't we just turn harriers into drones and build a lot of them?

It seems like we should be building a lot of cheap and/or pilotless aircraft.

edit: -4. I should refrain from posting unpopular opinions because it triggers HN's rate limiter and prevents me from posting the rest of the day. I just wrote a small essay I can't post anymore.
And here I am with a brand new Frontier fiber install and not only do they not offer IPv6, not only do they not allow me access to their 6rd relays because those are “legacy” from AT&T, but they also fucking block protocol 41 so I can’t even use a tunnel broker.
It can't be all that generous: "In just six months since release, Genshin Impact has reportedly crossed over $1 billion in revenue..." from https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/03/24/genshin-im...
"Taliban leadership offered just that, and we invaded anyway."

Do you have a link for this?
In my experience IPv6 is much simpler to deal with than IPv4; in fact the large address space with a 64-bit prefix as the network number greatly simplifies management and configuration and theoretically improves the CPU performance of routers by allowing allowing more aggressive route aggregation. When ISPs give /56 prefixes to users, users can easily set up subnets according to their own needs without requiring extra coordination and without breaking end-to-end connectivity. You are wrong that /64 prefixes are usually assigned to a single host; in fact the number of Internet-connected devices in a typical home has grown over time and can easily be a dozen or more.

If I were running an ISP, I would migrate the backbone network to IPv6 and just use embedded IPv4 addresses to avoid the headaches that come with router-to-router IPv4 links. With IPv6 you always have a link-local address on every port that can be used by routing protocols without relying on proprietary solutions that are not interoperable between vendors or having to assign an IPv4 address (and hoping that you assigned a large enough subnet for future growth). It is much easier to scale up an IPv6-only network and much easier to connect one IPv6-only network to another.

Of course IPv6 is not perfect. SLAAC did not really work out as planned and now we are stuck with an annoying mix of SLAAC and DHCPv6. Reverse-DNS is still a bit of a pain. IPSec is not what it should have been and too many IPv6 standards rely on IPSec for security/authentication. Even so, the core of IPv6 is a huge improvement over IPv4 for individual users, small network operators, large network operators, and the Internet as a whole.
well-explained Quora post!
https://www.quora.com/What-should-be-in-the-center-of-Escher...
In what sense are "locals" not in government, police, army or indeed the Taliban ?
This hopefully seem like the beginning of the end for the Facebook monopoly and excessive acquisitons.
Wigner Crystals (2017)
I second this, I've played this game casually for a couple weeks and never needed to spend any money. It just means slower progress, not no progress.
"The idea of P2P in competitive videogames strikes me as absolutely insane"

What's insane, is the idea that you want me to use and pay for some crappy AWS server that spies on my data instead of directly connecting to my friend using my own equipment
Heh, the same thing happened to Ok Cupid. (Caches of) one of the posts occasionally resurface on HN, as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055501
Silent Running: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Ravi, a Lua Dialect
US did it during WW2, and it seemed to work out fine.

Only thing is that when they left, we made sure the Nazi's didn't come back.

Right now they were training Afghans to have their own military, but it's all so corrupt that it is just an impossible task. Those who can will flee the country instead of fighting for it.
> people would be coming from Fresno, not San Francisco

Yeah. Bay Area is privileged to have the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct to bring them water from a reservoir in the Yosemite national park, independent of the local weather conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hetchhetchyprojmap.jpg
Gatcha is very similar to reality.

Games without gatcha are arguably more about grinding from an equal starting point and only unless the gamer uses bots/cheats or pays someone for what they want like level/progress an account or their account when not grinding themselves.

Gatcha brings the unequal reality we live in, well into the game world and where someone can spend their way to the goal without grinding as much. The reality we live, very much reflects the new game worlds that are now in existence thanks to gatcha and it's kind of remarkable that people are upset about it. We live everyday outside of games where one's misfortune or fortune reflects their life from the start to the end. The shortcuts that can be taken, what can be quickly achieved with funds, and that goes for anything from healthcare to lifestyle to even academics.
>To put it simply, badly implemented IPv6 makes it easier, but all the ways to make it on-par with IPv4 have been widely deployed since 2016.

Not really. According to the wikipedia article[1], you still have an unique address per device. It rotates daily, but you still can uniquely identify a device on a daily basis. This wouldn't be possible with ivp4 with NAT.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Stateless_address_autocon...
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Probably because you'd need a battery to store the energy generated via braking thus eliminating much of the environmental benefit.
Your intentions are good. But if urban use of water is indeed only a fraction (others say 10%) of farming use then we should should first focus on improving the efficiency of water use in farming and/or reducing the need for farming altogether.
> Climate change requires us to change our energy sources, which will require changes in the incentive structures of society

This is a massive understatement. If the claims of climate activists are to be believed, the only way to beat climate change is to have the entire industrialized world return to a pre-industrialized state[0]. Since not everyone will want to adopt the living standards of Zambia[0], effecting such a change also would inevitably involve killing anyone who refused. Every American would need to cut their energy usage by 90%[0] or up against the wall! This is about a lot more than the politicians and their donors, this is about reversing the clock on progress two hundred years

0 https://reason.com/2021/07/02/to-stop-climate-change-america...
> opposition is from older folks from the 70s who are worried about "population"

Absolutely yes and thanks for calling it out. Water is weaponized all over coastal California. "There's not enough water here" is a very convincing argument to stop construction on new housing. Santa Cruz does the same thing as Monterrey as does Malibu.

The results are often horrible infrastructure with septic tanks leeching into creeks etc. but housing remains scarse which is a win for entrenched property owners
https://www.outseta.com/ is the best tool I've seen that offers everything you listed.
He wouldn’t be able to afford the fuel (hovering burns a ton) let alone the training, I’m assuming it’s illegal to fly. I wonder how hard it would be to sell a harrier? I believe I heard of one retired military pilot buying one.
It’s not - but that doesn’t mean it’s a good solution. Clients should be able to know their globally routable address and ULA with NPTv6 seriously fucks with that, so I’m not a fan.
Is there anything similar to DataFetcher in python? I have been considering using Prefect which is a workflow system with caching.
> And let's hope that everything works and none of the 2000 imported node_modules blow up when this tutorial is 3 months old.

We have recurring Jira tickets for updating npm dependencies every two weeks. One developer is occupied between half a day and two days because the amount of breakage in the npm ecosystem is enormous. It’s ridiculous and sucks the life out of us.
I play counter strike with a delay of around 10 ms with servers that are hosted hundreds of kilometres away.
Not to forget Barry Leitch of Lotus 2 fame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSsq7HCNHw

Jon Hare & Richard Joseph with Cannon Fodder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2fulUF64w

And probably my favorite of all time, Chris Glaister's Lost Patrol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b47CRLL0kjE
What does that have to do with power grid failures?

Also having AC, even if it's not necessary, can be very useful.

"Seattle averages 24 days a year when the thermometer reaches into the 80s °F (over 27 °C). The temperature typically climbs to 90 °F (32 °C) on just one or two days a year."

That's high enough to cause a serious reduction in productivity/enjoyment. If the average person is exposed to those temperatures for 3 hours a day as a lack of home AC, and loses 10% of that time, that's 7 hours a summer. Multiply by minimum wage and it only takes a summer and a half to meet the cost of a window AC unit. Which should last a long time if it's only used one month a year.
A better explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqjZSHIKWzE
This is perfect. What a great tool!
Sorry, i am concerned about me, the consumer, loosing money
Hence the unicorn designation. If it was common every 10 year old girl would have one
I penny pinch every opportunity I get. But, my application of it is probably more relaxed than true penny pinching: look on ebay, craigslist, amazon, camelcamelcamel, online coupons/codes, 0% financing and pick the best one.

However, if the effort is more than the cost, I’d rather just pick whats in front of me and move on. Sometimes, it’s just better for my mental health to buy something outright than to research every single $ or alternative I could have saved on it.

I shop at a butcher whose meat is significantly more expensive than grocery shops, but the quality is unbeatable. I’ll shop at a farmers market or eat at a boutique salad restaurant, knowing that I could be just as satisfied with a .99 McDonalds burger. Again, I’d rather optimize for health and lifestyle over purely cost. But it depends.
The US government certainly has fleets of pilotless drones, both small and large.
> We’ve encountered nothing we can’t potentially improve

This statement is a bit exaggerated, saying optimistically.
We do need optimists if we are going to dream and build a great future. Techno-optimism has become almost a taboo, sometimes even within the groups that actually work on cutting edge tech (at least on the computing side of things). We shouldn’t be naive and ignore potential negatives of course, but more optimism and dreaming of a great future we can build towards should be encouraged.
You can't presume that. You have to show it. In particular, you have to show the new reservoir would capture water that would last long enough to matter.

It has been years since some of the large reservoirs were close to full. Where specifically do you believe new reservoirs should be built? And why do you do believe that they will capture water that keep from evaporating long enough to make a difference during the next drought cycle?
So I can't go to this url because my browser blocks it:

*This site can’t be reached: guce.advertising.com’s server IP address could not be found.*

The internet in 2021 is such a nice place to be!
I think this is forgetting a few things: The US benefits immensely by no longer being in Afghanistan, its a landlocked nation with limited accessible resources. For the first time in 20 years the US will not be bogged down in an active warzone. This doesnt benefit China or Russia. It might even get the US to finally realize their biggest risk is cyberwarfare/sabotage instead of blindly spending the equivalent construction cost of a high school on an Abrams tank
It's generous enough if you aren't aiming for every premium character. If you play all the story content and events, and are doing the daily quests, you'll pretty much earn enough for a guaranteed 5* (80-90 pulls) in about 6 weeks (the length of one version update).

So if you're a free player, you can save up for a character you really want, or just pull and be content with whoever you get.
That's so outdated. Everyone knows that words are literal violence now, and the worst offence you can give to someone is not believing in their ideology. It's like we want to emulate the religious right for some reason...
The peddler has Robin Williams voice and is therefore implied to be the genie.

The new movie also implies the genie to be the storyteller, as Will Smith tells the story of Aladdin in the live action version. But this time, the storyteller is a sailor.

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Shaharazad was the first to tell the story of Aladdin in 1001 Arabian nights. So it always was a story inside a story. Shaharazad wants to delay her execution, so she keeps telling stories to the sultan.

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Princess Bride novel is written by fictional authors, who are providing historic and dueling commentary. It is clear that some of the later fictional authors have erased part of the story.

So it too is a book within a book (which translated into a movie within a movie, with grandpa removing some bits of the story to make it more palpable to the kid)
As someone who is huge on Functional Programming, I'm not sure you're reaping the benefits you're talking about. Your dedication is impressive, but it's nowhere close to being required to build any kind of product.

Sure, I agree that learning FP will make you a better development, but spending all these learning resources in order to build a product is not very convenient.

I've been shipping code with mediocre languages all my life. Even now, I routinely pick node.js over Haskell or Rust just because the complexity of the solution I need to build is not high enough to justify writing amazing bug-free code. Sure, you may get more bugs and less help from the compiler, but there is more material online and I can easily find a cheap developer to throw at the project.

I've been developing for 15 years. After 5 years of C++, PHP, JS, I decided to jump into Haskell for my side projects. I can't say the learning curve was as hard as you made it out to be: there are plenty of great resources for learning Haskell and you don't need to go through Elm or Purescript (which weren't even a thing when I learnt Haskell). Actually the differences between the languages may make things more confusing.

In the last couple of years I stopped using Haskell completely, simply because Rust (a language designed to build things, unlike Haskell which is more of a language research project) is functional enough, pleasant enough to use and is developing a nice community.
The most useful FP concepts trickled down in other languages.

FP already won and nobody even noticed it.
I don’t think it is a given that, this time, there will be a post-drought that fills the current reservoirs. If so, if extra reservoirs were built years ago, they would have been useful exactly once.

On top of that, that ‘useful’ could have been very limited. For example, shortening a half year drought by a week would not be worth anything if it just meant crops would die a week later.

You have to do some serious modeling on expected rainfall, the costs of reservoirs and water usage to figure out whether additional reservoirs are worth the investment.
I tried on my iPhone SE (2020) 3 months ago and I could not get iPv6. Could be location specific. Because I specifically tested for iPv6 support.
IPv6 implementations are everywhere so the extra changes don't really impact networks.
Mobile game economics are funny like that.
Brilliant. Reminds me that sometimes the nested movies are the best parts of movies. The Dog Walker was my favorite part of Trainwreck.
There are many startups that have reached unicorn (1B) valuation by this point. Very very few of those have less than 20 employees.
> But as a Defense Department spokesman clarified, a fully demilitarized jet probably wouldn’t have been much fun, anyway.

> “Even if the lad were able to get the plane from Pepsi, it would not be one he could fly,” the official said at a Pentagon briefing.
Yeah. It sounds like a terrible argument. I'm sure the same Gifs are available on Imgur and gfycat.com as well.
I hate it when people describe software engineering as a "creative process". This gives cowboys the confidence that no one has ever thought of the problem they're dealing with before, and it's their job to come up with some revolutionary thing from the ground up. Every time someone claims to do that, I just dont bother looking into their work.
"Forcing IPv6 upon ISPs by decree will only make them do the very least possible in order to be able to check a box."

Which is more than they are doing now.

What real-world issues do you forcee. IPv6 either works, or doesn't
Something has to replace the addictive clicks that putting "Trump" in every headline created.
Once upon a time I had an original iPhone and a router that did nor have ipv6, but the App Store worked. So I don’t understand your "ipv4 addresses can’t be reached" part.
When AR/VR finally happens, UI developers will have to deal with complexity from a completely different paradigm. For me, React's biggest strength has always been its ability to organize complexity into a manageable order. Combine this with the large pool of developers and extensive ecosystem, I think React will be the go-to tool for AR/VR apps. For this reason, I'm super hyped for R3F.
I don’t think this is realistic for water. Economy of scale matters. Small-scale operators have higher costs and are more vulnerable.

At the small scale in the West, water comes from pumps that can go dry as the water table drops, or from streams that can dry up in a drought.
MIT Daedalus
The selling pickaxes to gold miners formula only works when people are pretty sure there is gold.

Funding development of orbital smelters would be an incredibly risky proposition given that pay-off would be contingent on someone else figuring out asteroid mining or something.

And as for "boring things". Same type of deal. It's risky throwing money at a problem that only has a payoff if someone else succeeds their own high risk activity. Like Bigelow currently has no staff, and has totally missed all of its planned milestones. Especially for the boring stuff, you're also going to be cramped up against someone selling solutions that just apes whatever the ISS does. Does only have instant coffee, and not having real laundry, and having to sleep strapped into a sleeping bag kind of suck? Ya. But YOU'RE IN SPACE (and that's roughly just the same thing as camping). The novelty alone should be enough to tide you through your entire first generation of customers.
Ok, I see. No problem. Thx for you comment, man.
I remember seeing this commercial as a little kid and fully believing this was a real thing that could happen and someone could fly to school in a jet. I thought it’d be so cool if I could win and do that someday.

I kind of miss being able to easily believe in something so outrageous like that. Nowadays I approach most things with extreme skepticism and a cynical opinion. The world has beaten me down.
> This, too, is an unrealistic expectation. To get better every day (or even most days!) is very hard to do and can put you on the defensive as much as the quest for perfection

Not just getting better every day (which already is very hard) but getting exponentially better every day! That is just plain ludicrous idea.
I store things like security questions along with the username/password for a specific site.
Being unable to maximize a specific character's potential is pretty far from where you said "there are certain important ways in which you simply cannot progress without spending money."

There's nothing in the main content that requires you to have a 5* character/weapon, even though it's certainly easier with them.
I think it's everyone's birth-right to see Earth in its entirety. Not in some picture or video, but to be in space and see it floating like some fragile embryo in the womb.

That's why I'm not overly cynical about the space billionaires who want to democratize trips to space and in the words of Bezos, 'build a road to space'.

Not seeing the very planet you were born on, from a bigger perspective is like being a caretaker of a prison (or garden!) never having seen the entire prison (or garden!) from the outside.
Not sure what you mean by that. Threaded and event-driven systems don’t necessarily have a predictable sequence. Same with data flow through any non-trivial web application using background processing.

I’ve worked on systems that run through a chain of background workers. Each job had a complete list of operations (one per worker) to preform. When each worker finished, it posted the job back to the general queue with the new state and one less operation to preform.

All programs are eventually sequenced. You can’t work on data that doesn’t exist yet.

I’m pretty sure I don’t lack the ability to understand what your talking about. I am sure I don’t know what the words you are using mean.