skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a zero sum game with extra steps. The "sum" varies over time. If both players come out ahead, then one always pays an opportunity cost equal to the amount they would've gained had they stayed in the market longer.

In other words, it's win/lose, not win/win once you extend the timeline and compare what it would look like had the trade not had happened.
Honest question: Is this against the rules? If there's a market a company wants to enter, wouldn't they just analyze the cost to build (both product, and market/audience), vs. acquiring (both product, and market/audience), then pick the cheapest option?
Yep, crypto is more or less the same as traditional finance in this sense. A few powerful individuals already control a disproportionate amount of the crypto world.

Like the sketchy folks who run Tether and Binance at the same time.

Or Elon Musk tweets raising and lowering the value of Bitcoin by a significant amount.

Even Bitcoin itself is largely held by just a few people. It's just another tool for billionaires to get even richer.
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"One of the biggest misconceptions is that the stock market is a zero sum game. Its absolutely not."

So when you make money in the stock market, where does the money come from?
I know it takes time and mental facilities you might not possess to actually read the article but it is about making climate change impacts in Alaska real to readers of the Washington Post, not to Alaskans.
NFTs likely make sense in a context like a metaverse where the bit of code is the law, and owning a digital item is the equivalent of owning a physical item within the metaverse.
Derivatives add another layer to the collective fiction. Even if they're useful for hedging, it still seems weird to me that you can use options to construct something mathematically equivalent to a share of stock without ever buying the actual stock.
I don't think this is a condemnation of Facebook, it's just interesting to see how these conversations are being conducted at a very high level.
This is misleading. No one has to this day "confirmed" that anthropogenic global warming is a "scientific fact".

We have evidence which suggests that climate is changing and humans may be responsible. But the global climate system is complex, constantly oscillating on periods ranging from days to eons, and our data is sparse, especially going back 20+ years.

The certainty behind this consensus has been drastically overstated by ideologues who have taken it upon themselves to prioritize action over accurate reporting. There fundamentally is no proof that the changing climate will be catastrophic or result in runaway, especially when our historic temperature data is not fine grained enough to measure abrupt changes on the scale of 100 years. Though it is taboo to discuss, there is in fact evidence that such a rapid change is not unprecedented, that the earth has been hotter than it is now in the past, and that past sudden temperature swings clearly did not result in a venuslike earth.

The fact that virtually all major climate change model forecasts published in the last decade or two have significantly overpredicted temperature increases is telling of the bias in mainstream climate science.

I similarly take issue with this revisionist history wherein oil companies "knew" of climate change 60 years ago and deliberately ignored the danger. A claim of catastrophic anthropogenic terraforming requires evidence collection and modeling capability that simply did not exist 60 years ago, and given the periodic nature of climate, we simply will not know if this warming will indeed continue and/or become catastrophic without a lens into the future. Our current modeling capabilities are still inadequate.
Not that I know if. I'm a layman I know pretty much nothing in that field so I'm just having a hard time dismissing the whole Ivermectin thing. Especially now that Merck will make a boatload of money with their new drug.

If I was Merck and I had a drug #1 that costs a few cents that might work and I can develop a new drug #2 that will cost $1000, then I'd probably not look into #1 much simply for financial reasons.

That might not be how it works but I simply don't know that.
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Doxing is publicly publishing private information. Reporting someone to legally bound authorities is not doxing. Relying on trigger words and sensationalistic language is a tell for a weak argument/stance.
The 4th submission of this story is sure to be the best one https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> The government could put in their contract "we get all your drugs that you invent" if they wanted that.

"The government" isn't an entity that can unilaterally decide anything. I think it's incredibly revealing that very little of this process is understood or publicized.
Is there a tool for making an donation to a bunch of open source at once?

Or a system tool that monitors what you use and helps you allocate donations?
> I have a similar gripe against "identity theft", which really ought to be...

... bank robbery by unknowing proxy. If we reframed the narrative, I bet banks and financial institutions would bust their asses to make things better.
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6 man week for a "message read" animation. What the hell? Am I reading that right ?
Don't we already own a portion of what gets created though? If Merck makes a boatload of money off of this, the taxpayers will indeed be taking a cut.
> But if people buy deeds instead of the house itself (i.e. most NFTs) then the link becomes broken and the signifier of “ownership” is less useful.

And as it is used for digital goods, the signifier of “ownership” is already broken, as multiple people can have a copy of the item without their being any ownership conflict, unlike a house.
Unfortunately not having a phone number on the back of the card saves a ton of money on customer service calls.
>> Yes, it's intentional scarcity. Why is it assumed that's a bad thing?

Artificial scarcity is not necessarily bad, but it is not realistic on its own.

The amount of piracy on the Internet shows that artificial scarity alone is insufficient.

>> When we license our code, there's a choice to limit it's use or not

Yes and the choice to impose artifical scarcity or not impacts how widely the code is used. Code released under unrestricted licenses is more widely used than artifically restricted code.
I've heard this strategy referred to as "follow the follower." Apparently it comes from sailing, where if you want to maintain a lead all you need to do is copy what the boat behind you is doing.
TSLA has not much to do with Tesla the company, it’s just a token that is speculated upon, like in crypto. Traders and investors, especially retail, don’t care about what a stock is intrinsically (except maybe old school and large ones like Warren Buffet). They care only if they will be able to unload to someone else in the future. As long as people believe in a narrative the reality of what the company does is irrelevant. 10 years of Bitcoin have made that clear.
The $505 reward amount is a cute touch.

Reading this post lead me to learn about the

https://www.sigstore.dev/

initiative which is interesting in its own right. Not being able to trust where the software we rely on originates, and hasn't been tampered with along the way, is a weakness that we've been turning a blind eye to, for too long.
Sorry, you are right. Non-tech companies totally slipped out of my radar. I never interviewed with one so I have no idea how it works there. I don't know what is more depressing an interview with a tech company or working on a legacy Java enterprise system at a bank.
If the British do release him, and these stories are true, I don't give him much chance of escaping a determined CIA...

He'd die in a car crash, have a heart attack, or commit suicide within a year if he stays in any western nation. His best chances might very well be to stay in prison... Or move to Russia.
They said "I see a lot defending the researchers involved", they didn't say they'd seen it in this HN comment thread :)
Yes, some movies depict the "eye" of the hurricane like that.

Wikipedia has this to say:

> Though the eye is by far the calmest part of the storm, with no wind at the center and typically clear skies, on the ocean it is possibly the most hazardous area. In the eyewall, wind-driven waves all travel in the same direction. In the center of the eye, however, the waves converge from all directions, creating erratic crests that can build on each other to become rogue waves. The maximum height of hurricane waves is unknown, but measurements during Hurricane Ivan when it was a Category 4 hurricane estimated that waves near the eyewall exceeded 40 m (130 ft) from peak to trough.

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A deed only has value because there is a government that enforces what it represents.
I feel like many of the same criticisms can be said of the coverage of this research. Like pointing out that the study showed a portion of teens said Instagram made them feel worse, but conspicuous omitting that twice as many reported that Instagram made them feel better.

I can understand the desire for discrete research when they (correctly) suspect that media coverage will have negative slant.
I know several people who closed their Wells accounts (and moved to other retail banks in the US who are just as shitty) when that whole high-level fraud thing at Wells came out (they were opening checking accounts for people without their knowledge and consent, yeah?).
Yikes, what's my thesis from 1998 doing on HN? AMA, I guess.

The idea was to make performance be a smooth function of policy parameters by adding randomization. In many systems it's a jagged function and hard to optimize.

For example: compilers have to make a choice whether to unroll loops. Unrolling generally uses fewer instructions, but also increases code bloat and therefore cache misses. Compilers have a policy with some tunable parameters to decide how much to unroll any given loop. Compiler writers tune those parameters by trying several to see what gives the fastest programs overall.

The map from parameters => performance is very jagged, because sometimes increasing code size decreases caches misses because of associativity. If you look at the graph at the top of page 38, it shows cache miss rate as a function of code bloat. Slight changes in size cause large, unpredictable changes in performance. If you add some randomization here and there and take an average across many random seeds, you can get the nice smooth graph on page 45.

Sadly, no compiler today does this. One reason is that people like reproducible, consistent builds.

There's also an application to network congestion control. I think this one has become less relevant over time, because modern networks have background activity enough to avoid performance artifacts.
A small number of Chevy Bolts have had their batteries ignite spontaneously, nobody has been killed, and now there are a bunch of parking garages that have banned Chevy Bolts from parking there.

Maybe not all autonomous cars will be banned when someone is killed, but I wouldn't be shocked if the same thing happened to whatever company that built the car in question that happened to Uber after they killed an innocent bystander.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/574921-former-...

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/29/steven-donziger-sentenci...
Before Python became ML's darling, there was Lush: Lisp Universal SHell by none other than Yann LeCun and Leon Bottouk[1], and I thought my Lisp knowledge was going to finally pay off ;) I've since moved on to J and APL. SBCL is amazing and aside from calling C directly, it is still very fast. Python is slow without its specialized libraries from the C-world, but SBCL produces short, readable code that is pretty efficient. There ECL[2] for an embedded Lisp, or uLisp[32] for really small processors like the ESP chips.

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It's not just increasing temps though. It's more extreme variations too. So Alaska will still be flippin' cold during winter.
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My understanding is that it is practically impossible to launch a health insurance company today, even with Google's budget, because the laws are so complex and impossible to digest that there is no way to sign up customers at a worthwhile rate.
> Honey mustard is usually horrible

I love the idea of honey mustards but dislike that almost all of them are dijons. Admittedly, that's partly in my case to do with a sensitivity issue with eggs and trying to avoid dijons generally, but beyond that I find dijons naturally already tend to be lighter/sweeter to start with and adding honey to that just moves things way over the balance scale to "too sweet" territory.

My favorite relatively recent discovery was a Kentucky honey mustard that is not at all a dijon! https://www.kentuckysmokingrill.com/product/grand-reserve-sp...

It's also unapologetically spicy, not just in a very strong mustard tang, but also a very nice balance of a good amount of pepper heat to really counterbalance the front sweet of the honey with some sinus tang and throat heat.

As someone that goes through jars of Colman's and Chinese Mustards somewhat regularly, and loves a variety of mustards for different occasions in my fridge, it's the perfect honey mustard for my tastes and almost exactly what I'd been searching for in a honey mustard for something like years.
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>The thinnest excuses to type are enough to start typing.

Yes, and that's how a forum ostensibly full of intelligent, creative people who want to satisfy their intellectual curiosity ends up with so many garbage threads wallowing in shallow mediocrity and bullshit.

But at the very least if you're going to attempt to comment on the TFA, you should be willing to put in the minimal effort to RTFA. I don't think that is an undue burden. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing an interesting article go completely ignored because everyone just riffs on the title and goes off on some political tangent or rant about the site's layout or something.
Sure I think they do exists somewhere?
Should we start a list of companies that do sane interviews?
I mean no take home "4 hours" assignments or one weeks test work arrangement or 7 rounds of virtual on site....
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Can someone explain to me why Facebook Messenger sucks so bad? The search function barely works, lags most of the time and scrolling up on conversations takes forever.

Discord is orders of magnitude better in those aspects.
Johnny's isn't good. For dishes like split pea soup, I recommend a visit to a Swedish apothecary in the month(s) before Christmas and Easter -- they have a great mustard which is particularly good for traditional food, and also (together with a creamier one like Graveleij and a little bit Dijon) great for mustard herring after my grandfather's recipe. :)
> Unless your dog burns fossil fuels

Cattle only burn fossil fuels to the extent that transporting water and feed, fertilizing that feed, and manufacturing and transporting fencing materials, antibiotics, etc, use.

Guess what? Your dog has roughly the same impact making and transporting his food, his water, his veterinarian supplies, any bedding you've purchased, bags to dispose of his feces, collars, leashes, toys, etc.

I don't have hard numbers but intuitively I'd guess dogs and cattle have approximately the same climate impact on a pound-of-bodyweight basis.

Dogs probably have slightly more, since they live in much more luxurious digs than CAFO cattle, eat higher quality feed, get to ride in cars, etc.
Comes down to software patents.

This is a damning doc if another company is suing them for patent infringement.
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Maybe they used TPM when they meant HSM
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Right, but is this person unemployed or not?
It has great package management with https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ and some truly great and high quality libraries, especially Fukamachi's suite of web libraries and so many others. Woo, for example, is the fastest web server. https://github.com/fukamachi/woo (Faster then the runner up Go by quite a bit)

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best most priveleged job? no social status, pay below marketing and sales execs, relearning tools every year, assumed to be replaceable, leetcode BS every year, doing incredibly hard work with little credit, the list goes on. engineering only pays off if you are a founder and manage to sell the company for a lot of money, which is a gamble. also, no protections such as unions as engineering is a white collar job. sure, there are worse jobs. but claiming that this sort of work is the best job ever is ridiculous.