skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's reasonable to assume that someone like a Fed president is aware of the perils of market timing, of information asymmetries, of the disadvantage that an individual investor has against institutional funds, etc.--is there any plausible explanation for his trading individual stocks outside of being in possession of some kind of insider information that gives him an edge on the market?

Surely he can't just claim that he doesn't know what he's doing.

And could a Fed president be in a position to have legal insider information that gives him an edge on trading individual stocks, or is any insider info that he could trade on illegal to do so by definition?
A Brain with “Multiple Demand” Is What Drives Human Reasoning, Scientists Say
CyberNinjas Arizona election review shows Biden and Warner won 2020 elections
Ask HN: Buying house – any disruptors I can use?
We are starting to look at houses and are realizing how much we will be paying for services that IMO are quite mundane.

1) Mortgage broker - This lady will charge us 1% (10,000$) to find us a suitable loan. Basically, she will compare about 10 loans and choose the best one. Software systems can do this easily.

2) The buying agent - so far she has not come up with any houses on her own. She finds the same things we find on line. I dont need her to visit open houses. Legally, in SF I need an agent to be present during the inspections. I can use the selling agent for a fee. If I use her to place an offer, there is a bias problem. A buyer agent may be biased towards placing a "strong" offer. The "stronger" the offer, higher the probability that it will go through and higher her share. I have researched the areas enough and am comfortable coming up with a price.

Are there any startups that are disrupting this space? Say mortgage brokers and buying agents rolled into one. Small flat fee for the mortgage broker and flat fees for the buyer agent only for services that I need?

Alternative ideas also appreciated.
GPT-3 Arithmetic (2020)
The Easiest Crypto Miner Yet – Thorg
Use ZFS if you can. However for legal reasons it is hard to use on linux, which pushes you to FreeBSD (I'm not sure about the others). FreeBSD can replace linux, but you will find a number of places where the software you use assumes linux and so things don't work right.

If you are doing NAS all on your own, then don't hesitate to run to FreeBSD. However if you want to a not do it yourself NAS it is a little harder. The most popular/polished commercial NAS is synology based on BTRFS. I personally use TrueNAS which is a great file server, but synology has some nice integration to photo and media applications and so I'm thinking about switching.
Moonwalking with Einstein de-mystified memory for me. As mrock described, in the beginning it was a lot of work building palaces and making associations, but like a muscle, things quickly got easier. In time, memorizing a list of 30 or so became pretty easy.
I was able to memorize a list of 875 North American bird species and then recite it from memory. Took about 35 min to read it all back.
As usual many highly upvoted takes here devaluing FB and claiming the ads don't work or are all just fake clicks.

Hate FB or not their ads work well and this article is spot on from my experiences, though words like 'attack' have clear bias.

I run direct response ads raising money for non profits and political campaigns on FB. This month has been a big struggle.

While I can't quantify how much is due to limited iOS targeting, I know that we get lots of value from targeting donor lists which is harder now and ios users donate more. Doesn't help FB reported a 15% discrepancy bug which would effect optimization.

I used to be heavy bull on FB based solely on the ads I buy and the ROI/value they provide. But I this has been a scary month. The bid market will eventually level out but if the targeting value loses say 25% effectiveness that will kneecap a ton of businesses who advertise there with thin margin.

BTW thanks for sharing this format I love Axios and this looks like a great tech focused 'smart brevity'-style
> never shipped traditional commercial software as a product (which is definitely a dying breed).

And why might that be? Isn't it because people realized they make way more money charging for PoCs shipped in a week than "products" polished over several years?

Nobody cares what your engineering methodology is like if it doesn't print money.
‘Our examination of the excluded data suggests that documents associated with Black and Hispanic authors and documents mentioning sexual orientations are signiﬁcantly more likely to be excluded by C4.EN’s blocklist filtering, and that many excluded documents contained non-offensive or non-sexual content (e.g., legislative discussions of same-sex marriage, scientiﬁc and medical content).’

Very disheartening, but I'm not surprised.
Is it just me or does it feel a little off-putting that he doesn't bother to post the pre-edited photos? What the picture looks like after potentially hours of tweaking in lightroom is less interesting for the average consumer than what the pics look like without any editing IMO.

Don't get me wrong, it's still valuable to see what CAN be accomplished, but most people aren't going to spend that amount of time, so show us how much work you had to put into post-processing for those results. Otherwise it just kind of feels like an advertisement for Apple.
My apologies for not being clearer that this is not only about the CPU. It's about all the components in the laptop, not just the CPU. I used the CPU in the example because it's a component most of us are familiar with.

It's not that the sensors are in useless spots. They're the best sensors in the best spots the designers could make work for the price point they're trying to hit.

To answer your CPU question:
CPUs have thermal sensors, probably the highest number in the machine as they work with clock speed scaling and the CPU is in the top 2 most expensive components. But each of these sensors is covering a large area, which may not heat up evenly under low loads.

A heavy load is the easy case and the one they're designed to detect: the CPU core is fully loaded, it's generating maximum heat, and the entire core area will heat up quickly.

A light load is harder to detect. Depending on die design and sensor placement, one corner of a core may heat up in a way the sensor doesn't detect well at low CPU loads.

These sensors are also only accurate "enough". This corner of a core may have to get to 110C before the sensor realizes it's overheating and throttles it. It could sit for hours at 105C, very slowly toasting itself.

But CPUs are, generally, actively cooled or have large heatsinks, so this is less of an issue in practice... though wrapping a laptop in a blanket overnight might make it an issue.

To move on beyond CPUs:
There are many thermally sensitive components in a laptop. Some of them have thermal sensors. Others do not. Almost all of them rely on convection to shed heat. Leaving the laptop effectively "on" and in a bag overnight may bring them to a temperature that damages them.
Nothing wrong with moving back to an area that you like. There are areas of the US that I wouldn't want to live in, even if it means making more money (like Silicon Valley or NYC).

I would say just enjoy the less stressful job. It's probably a good idea to learn newer technologies or have a hobby-level side project just in case you have to look for a new job. I became an expert in a system and got to that liw-stress zone, only to have my job outsourced. It's good to have other skills.

It seems many people believe a career is necessary and that a career means constantly moving up. It's possible that a step in your career might take years longer than someone else, or it might take a less traditional route.

I've come to the realization that I have a job, not a career. I'm a midlevel developer with "a lot of potential", but that will never translate to a promotion or real raise. I've become jaded by all the false promises and lack of progression, and that will create a viscous cycle. So for me, it's best to just see it as a job so I don't fall as deeply into that cycle as I would if viewing it as a career.
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Your mindfulness is appreciated!
Standups in legal row over ‘stolen’ comedy routine
Compare:

> Honestly, blaming it on the "Defund the police" movement is a lazy oversimplification

Alternatively:

> While the 'defund the police' movement is likely making matters worse, there are other potential confounding causes. For example, having loads of people — particularly those in lower socio-economic strata - without employment for an extended period of time [...]

I am all for the 2nd approach, but I will object to the 1st.
My Math Confession
There’s [essentially] no contentful benefit to any major site’s tracking any more, [almost] nothing is ‘collaboratively filtered” and “personalized” around the content and your interests, [by and large] only around ad placement performance or conversion.

The only remaining arguable benefit is that you will see “more relevant” ads, in other words, instead of seeing ads from whoever pays the most for your [well guessed] demographic, you’ll see endless “retargeted” begging for you to buy the thing you ordered last week.
It's a thunderous dunk while your team is down 40 in the 4th. A loud, but small, short term win.

"Excellent news" would be the halting of state subsidies for coal mining, and introduction of a carbon tax.
Apologies, but I am unclear if you are facetious or serious. (not native English writer.)
Can you explain what you mean?
Another classic stolen and then changed original people’s value. What represented the knowledge of ALL the tribe now means the knowledge of only a few.

In any case this is what the OP refers to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_knowledge

Tribal knowledge is jargon terminology used to describe information that is known within a group of people but unknown outside of it. A tribe, in this sense, is a group of people that share such a common knowledge. From a corporate perspective, Tribal Knowledge or know-how is the collective wisdom of the organization. It is the sum of all the knowledge and capabilities of all the people"
AFAIK, the main blockchains used for NFT trading are either already POS or moving to POS.

If you care about climate change, this doesn't feel like a particularly high leverage area to focus on.
Found the guy that holds the phone a bit from their face and talks into the edge like it's a sandwich
I got a request on spotify to continue tracking me. On some level I actually thought about saying yes if it meant spotify would get more revenue for my free consumption, and by proxy, musicians. I chose to say no. But I don't know if that was the right call. I don't care what spotify does with my data.
And since the formatting is probably already done by the author with TeX, and (in my experience) the copy editing done by scientific journals usually makes the paper worse, there's not much “value-add” here.
If we did not force every single wannabe pensioner to play in the stock market casino, we would not care about the players count cards or have bribed the croupier.

But here we are. In a casino. Us the dumb speculators against the skilled players.
one more question, if you'll indulge me: do you keep a number of empty palaces ready for when you'll next need one, or do you create them on demand?
I see ads on Windows constantly, usually for Microsoft Edge and Bing, but every install always comes with a link to Candy Crush as far as I've seen.

Maybe Microsoft dialed back the ads on the Surface, but on other platforms Windows is full of dark patterns to advertise Microsoft's own software. Just recently I've had to give admin permission to my computer to dismiss a warning from Windows Defender that I'm not signed into OneDrive.

I can't say I see the same value in the strong points of the Surface you see, but I have to admit that it's a shame how little good competition there is to the Surface line in terms of convertibles. Apple could easily outcompete Microsoft by providing a professional version of the iPad Pro that runs normal applications, but their desire for simplifying and locking down general purpose computers seems to prevent them from doing so. Other manufacturers like Dell and Lenovo simply don't seem to put out the same quality of hardware.
Read the comments at r/Portland to witness people realizing the law of unintended consequences in realtime.
Something that helps but is little-practiced is just making structures hollow. For instance instead of pouring 300 cubic meters of concrete for one of SFMTA's absurd high-floor boarding platforms[1], some agencies are building similar structures that begin by placing hollow, prefabricated, fiberglass boxes and pouring concrete around them, reducing the total concrete in the project by an order of magnitude.

A little bit of engineering goes a long way.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7801361,-122.3895982,39a,49....
Manufacturers that are interested in catering to that market don't have the capital/resources to compete with Apple on more common customer needs like performance and efficiency. So there's effectively a natural monopoly on high performance mobile devices which allows Apple, and a small number of other brands, to be customer-hostile in other ways.
> What are the tradeoffs comapred to JS, OCaml and Rust?

JS: Static types

OCaml: Readable, familiar syntax, presumably none of the "many standard libraries" problems. Hopefully the community is significantly less toxic.

Rust: Garbage collected. Yeah, I know that the borrow checker gives you more than just memory management, but having to deal with the borrow checker really slows most people down a lot (even if they're experienced) and most applications can't trade that much developer velocity for an extra bit of safety and performance.

> What's your pitch for developers that see new languages every 6 months, with usually more features

Presumably "fewer features"?
Not mobile ready, blast from the past styling, just what you would expect from someone who could kill you with one line of SQL.
Just define a small universe of allowable ETFs and options on those ETFs and be done with it.

This is not hard.
> Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer

An amazingly succinct title. Absolutely true. Whenever someone hypes up cryptocurrency, it is almost always for their personal gain, directly or indirectly.
Totally agree with you there. I really think they should start shipping with a second set of "inside" legs for those who want to use a tenting leg instead of using the thumb cluster.

I'll probably get to a smaller key count eventually. I'm almost finished adjusting to the Moonlander now, and it took me almost two months to get used to the loss of the separate F1-11 keys. They're now on the number row in a new layer, so I figure with enough time I'll get used to that and can toss more into other layers, but that's proving to be a slower process for me. I think I've had this board for almost 8 months now (had to look up my shipping info, as I thought it had been much less).

I really do love the fact that the mech keyboard community has spawned so many great keyboards, as it makes it so easy to find something that fits you best, and makes it so easy to customize.
You are not paying attention.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=china+ban+bitcoin&...
The thing about NFTs is that many people who buy them "don't get NFTs".

All an NFT is is a token that represents ownership, like if the title to your car or house deed was on a blockchain.

NFTs have some sane use causes like designating the owner of a valuable asset or creating electronic tickets that can be resold or transferred without some centralized entity like ticketmaster.

Prior to NFTs existing, would you purchase the ownership rights to a gif or tweet? Probably not. And that is what is dumb about the excitement around NFTs, some people with more money than sense seem to think that now that you can represent ownership on a blockchain some things, like crappy jpegs, have suddenly become valuable assets.
When you are that good, you can get away with a page that looks like this http://www.data-miners.com/index.htm
It's been clear for a long time that every single commercial VPN service is a waste of money. At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations. At worst, it's a government agency honeypot or someone like Facebook.

If you think you want a VPN for "privacy", use Tor Browser. If you want a VPN for any other reason that "normal people" think they want a VPN, you're probably wrong.

Why do we even give these companies the time of day?

(Small clarification - Most people who want VPNs should use a proxy instead. It fits the use case better. Those still exist and don't route ALL of your device's traffic over the tunnel.)
You can at scale. Separating bots from real people is a somewhat orthogonal concern, and given a large dataset containing mostly real people, you can safely assume vast majority of the data is not purposefully misleading. Vast majority is good enough for advertising, and mistakes in non-advertising use usually create a problem for the e-mail owner, not the database user.
The vulnerably allows any user-installed app to determine whether any app is installed on the device given its bundle ID.

XPC endpoint com.apple.nehelper has a method accessible to any app that accepts a bundle ID as a parameter and returns an array containing some cache UUIDs if the app with matching bundle ID is installed on the device or an empty array otherwise.
I mean, this isn't a new problem. If the kid of the CEO of BigCorp Ltd buys shares in MediumCorp Pty and then BigCorp buys MediumCorp the next day, the regulators will absolutely take an interest in that.
Seconded, though I think my array is perhaps only... 8ish years old?
VSLilyPond: VSCode Extension for LilyPond musical notation
> Here here! I think we need to deeply reexamine how much we pay officials. Senators/Governors should probably get triple their current pay with severe penalties for any financial fraud.

Singapore is an example of why this doesn't work. It pays the prime minister $5 million/year, in theory to prevent corruption. However he got around this by making his wife CEO of Temasek, Singapore's national investment company which everybody is mandated to invest in via the central provident fund. And it's all perfectly on the books and legal, because the PM creates the law, in spite of the fact that in any other context it'd be considered corruption.
We have a volunteer slack channel -- shoot us a message to contact@native-land.ca! We can use some React Native devs if you are into that:)
> So, for the sake of etymology I guess it would not be visualise but factualize or some other word.

In terms of the process, it's like imagining something using all of your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, balance. You want to make the abstract concrete so you're recalling an experience.
A single sensor by the exhaust fan would be an excellent proxy for the T anywhere in the laptop.

The really hot stuff have sensors themselves, so if anything else is hot it will be revealed in the exhaust
Apple does run a very large ad network themselves in the app store. They tried to run their own 'traditional' ad network and failed, so I agree with parent this is a business decision.

The article has multiple mentions of an upcoming broader Apple network? Is there any solid information on that?

They could win big $ if they rolled out a universal ID and controlled the infra/bids. Similar to their login button, it could be a more privacy focused UUID that users can revoke or maybe partition. Would love to see their marketing sell this as groundbreaking privacy lol
I vaguely remember one of my engineering professors mentioned mandatory job rotation within some defense contractors as a way to prevent that. The trade-off is that no one becomes an absolutely specialist in an area. His field was radar-related work.
"Real" blood glucose is glucose as measured by a reference standard device, like the YSI 2500, arterial blood gas machine etc. Finger pricks are accurate to within ~15% of the real blood sugar, and reference machines like the YSI are accurate to within ~1%.
I wont ask how you got my address.
Sweden was working on a digital currency. A friend in Sweden told me they over-engineered it by allowing other central banks to use it, and progress stalled.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, but it was just conversation over a beer. Someone else to confirm.
Saving Political Candidate Websites
Cavers Reached the Bottom of an Ancient 'Well of Hell' for the First Time
Does Apple use the same prompt for their own services tracking? If not, why don't they?
Why such keyboards lack F keys?

Having to press another key to allow F keys doesn't sound like ergonomic at all, less combos -> less strain for hands.
LineageOS arrives to trick out your Pixel 5a
Do you mean people not handing down tribal knowledge? Or preventing something from becoming tribal knowledge to begin with?

If the goal is to avoid something becoming tribal knowledge, then don't consider a project complete until it has been documented and a completely different team has deployed and supported the project without any need to talk to the engineers/architects/developers that created the project. There will always be feedback loops to improve a project, but if a completely unrelated team can't deploy and support something, then you have tribal knowledge that has not been communicated in documentation, including self documenting code and/or videos. There is much more to this of course and hopefully others here will add more tips.
Quite a lot of historical nations had most civil administration operated by eunuchs, for exactly this reason. Obviously not foolproof, as eunuchs have friends and family, and probably not practical to implement today, of course :)
Its simply a way to make some money off a generation that didn't grow up with napster.

Yes. I would download a car.
I was pretty torn about crypto, I saw most of what this essay describes but I also did find it as a potential global currency / computer system outside gov't control that could enable more as a result. BTC v. $ has been discussed to death but the BTC case isn't COMPLETE nonsense imo, in a world where trillions are generated out of thin air to prevent debt defaults and everyone supports it.

However once NFTs became a thing and the crypto whales started pimping it I saw the truth. These people have no vision beyond finding some story to get someone else to pay more for their crypto tokens down the line, full stop.
Investing in an index fund might even incentivize them to ensure the economy as a whole does well.
What if you want a VPN to unlock location based content?
Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans
Unfortunately they get around the laws by having their spouse or financial advisor manage the portfolio.
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0960982221011209?...
I know this is kind of arrogant, but to me the whole NFT debate, whether it's good or not, is a "hand me the popcorn" thing, partly, because I think the answer is entirely obvious
It’s gotten better. Wrangler tail works consistently now.
preact is much simpler than react (~3KB), and whats weird, it's also faster

BTW: code is very easy to read/follow
https://github.com/preactjs/preact/
Not sure why Rand Paul is in your list, or how it demonstrates your point that repubs are doing it more. IIRC Paul's problem was that the disclosure filing was late, not that he, or his wife, abused his position to make that one ~$10K trade for Gilead, the maker of Remdesivir, the only stock trade during his 10-years in the Senate.