skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do think that limiting yourself to 1 day, 1 week, 1 month horizons is... limiting.

The feedback loop on whether you've made a good decision can be a long time:

> For example, any competent basketball coach could tell you whether someone was skilled at shooting within the course of 10 minutes. Yes, it’s possible to get lucky and make a bunch of shots early on, but eventually they will trend toward their actual shooting percentage. The same is true in a technical field like computer programming. Within a short period of time, a good programmer would be able to tell if someone doesn’t know what they are talking about.

> But, what about stock picking? How long would it take to determine if someone is a good stock picker?

> An hour? A week? A year?

> Try multiple years, and even then you still may not know for sure. The issue is that causality is harder to determine with stock picking than with other domains. When you shoot a basketball or write a computer program, the result comes immediately after the action. The ball goes in the hoop or it doesn’t. The program runs correctly or it doesn’t. But, with stock picking, you make a decision now and have to wait for it to pay off. The feedback loop can take years.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-you-shouldnt-pick-individua...

Are you willing to stake your financial future on beating the odds that you're better-than-the-average/market? Especially over the course of multiple decades saving up for (e.g.) retirement, and then keeping your portfolio during the (hopefully) decades of retirement. (Of course you can do good enough to meet your financial goals, even if you could have done better using (say) index funds.)
I wasn't able to get it to work as recently as two years ago. Would you share a link to your recipe?
Where you fund successful people with leverage, and can generate value with limited work, you find 'hard work' supporting that.

That doesn't imply that 'hard work' alone creates success, value or leverage.
In these cases it might be better to commit it to a public GitHub repo which has real-time secret scanning and partnerships with a lot of providers to immediately invalidate detected secrets.
> People mostly aren't dying because they can't afford life-saving medicine.

I don’t where you live. But in California there are clearly destitute people on the street in need of simple medical interventions like antibiotics.

For whatever reason* they aren’t able to get medical help — and I’m not just meaning people in mental crisis and drug addiction. There are seemingly “regular” people suffering from what should be 19th century style deaths.

* I’ve noticed that EMTs are very cynical about helping poor looking people. I’m sure the classism extends to getting care, even when hospitals are legally required to provide immediate help without taking finances in to account.
I've worked on these projects, they still exist but are rare. You'll find most of these projects are in high end defense or other embedded systems projects that are highly, highly connected with building hardware.

Outside of this kind of stuff, software engineering is easier than most other forms of engineering due to an accepted lower bar of quality.
Update 67: Covid-19 Blood Clots
The "Pentel Kerry" is an excellent mechanical pencil. Anyone who wants good ol' erasable lead probably should go for the Pentel Kerry.

Its not a "Pen", but Jetpens does sell it and did recommend it.

The one downside is that Pentel's mechanical-pencil erasers are tiny. They are good quality rubber though and work well, but their small size wears out incredibly quickly.
Not a Valheim story [crypto-mining]
I went to add an RSS button to Safari from the Mac App Store, and the only option is two bucks.

I pay for software all the time but this offended my sensibilities. Not the paying for it, although I admittedly didn't, but that RSS has fallen so far that there's no free extension. Desktop Safari is a minor browser, but not so tiny that this should matter.

Substack supports RSS, so I'm cautiously optimistic about a revival. But that was a sobering reminder of its moribund state.
I use a reader that automatically pulls feeds from Twitter and other social media like Reddit. Just need to plop the URL into the feed field and they figure it out. I pay for it, but it's pretty nice for getting back to the old Google Reader feel.

(https://bazcux.com)
> that could only be explained by the problem being real

I gave an example where there could be another explanation.

> This is not a proof, just anecdotal evidence, but quite good one

it isn't anecdotal evidence because it doesn't describe a situation where his host experienced discrimination; it describes a situation where he felt he might be discriminated against. What if these feelings are unjustified? I'm not saying they aren't, but again, there isn't evidence supporting this.
This was 2018 and the link to fourthievesvinegar.org is dead, where are they now?
Yeah, it generally wouldn’t be legal even in Texas. But i don’t think it will matter much to your dead body that the person who wrongly shot you in self-defense is serving jail time, hence the situation is still considered dangerous.
Not sure if this is helpful, but here you go: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Nope, perfectly legal to fire someone for an arrest in Texas where he resides.
It's not just a problem faced by governments. It shows up with charity too.

Small cash transfers may be one of the most effective form of poverty relief in politically stable poor countries with at least a nascent market economy. In a peer-reviewed trial in Kenya it was found to have substantial positive effects on the local economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveDirectly#Basic_income_expe...

One of the most common uses of the funds was buy galvanized roofing. It's very expensive compared to thatching up front, but lasts a lifetime and eliminates both the labour and material costs for ongoing maintenance.

That would never have occurred to me. If I had wanted to help them with in-kind donations, I may well have sent something relatively much less useful, lacking awareness of their local context. Very real risk of sending coals to Newcastle, there.

I know that in some developed countries, organizations like food banks also run into this. People will donate food in-kind, but most food banks would rather receive cash to have flexibility in addressing needs as they arise.
I like attending Gather.town events.

However, usually chatrooms are better for discovering stuff.
I would be really surprised if the scam is taken down in just 14 days (without the media's attention), so they're typically able to get a couple of payouts at least.

Maybe this is just a single occurrence in a large scheme with lots more websites & separate payment providers.
Video game source code is very poorly archived, from experience in the industry. Ask practically anyone who worked on any games pre-2000 and I bet they can't find the source for any of their games.
How do we know you didn't alter anything else in the document?
Do you type a lot? Do you look at the keyboard when typing?
of course, true capitalism has never been tried, but this is what you might call 'actually existing capitalism'
The document you linked appears to be a request for a warrant, containing a third person account of an accusation. Has there been a trial, or any evidence presented in support of the accusation?
If the one day gains are due to his viewers, that seems consistent with the sells not doing anything. I dont think the average investor does shorts.
> also missing the energy that a mother transfers to her child in the form of love

probably simpler analysis to define a boundary around human population and only estimate energy flows that cross that boundary, ignoring internal flows
I've been to Mayo Clinic, and it was wonderful, especially compared to the regular health care system.

They have a reputation to maintain, and whether there is a hard scientific basis for this or not, I can see it being in their best interest to be able to state to their customers (ie, very sick people) that "all Mayo Clinic employees have been fully vaccinated".

People go to Mayo when they are very sick. It's not like the general population going to the grocery store. When you have a concentration of sick people in poor health, it makes complete sense to me to reduce their risk as much as possible, and vaccinated employees is part of that IMO.

I don't know if they have a policy of patients requiring vaccination, but if they did, I think it would be a good thing for the same reason: you have two huge buildings (in the Rochester, MN location) that are full of sick, weakened, vulnerable people who need specialized help. The last thing they want or need is to be exposed to Covid while seeking treatment.
Arc’teryx is my weakness
"And also that I could likely do just as much to protect those around me by continuing to only see people outside, wear a mask, etc. [...] I don’t know how we got Covid, since we were continuing to be pretty careful / anti-social."

I read this as "I thought crossing my fingers would help me avoid getting sick, going against the general advice in basically all countries in the world, and for some weird reason it didn't work!".

Just because you manage to find figures that confuse you, or back up your previously held beliefs, you get to say "the experts don't agree"? Your inability, as an engineer - not a medical professional, to make sense of seemingly conflicting data, gives you the right to proclaim that?

"I’m worried that if we don’t get off this path soon, it’s going to get harder and harder to turn back. And I don’t want to see where that ends up. At the end of the day we’re all just trying to do our best." - what if you're the problem?

Sometimes I think intelligence is mostly about the ability to rationalize your decisions.
Does posgres support case insensitive collation on standard varcharrs? Last time I used it that was not an option so it made everything a lot more complicated.
Postgrges also did not support hints for queries so tweaking performance was more complicated.
Both MySQL and postgres performed much worse with complex queries than MSSQL even after tweaking.
I'm not aware of any law before GDPR that permitted this. Normally, you'd have to have a court case and do discovery.

So I do think that companies shouldn't really have anticipated this when they formed their expecftations, unless they were formed after GDPR was approved.

Just being able to read interview feedback is enough to recognize who wrote it.
Sorry but equating a satellite restaurant experiment to actual restaurants is a false equivalency. Ask yourself how many of those Walmart McDonalds had a McDonald’s within a mile of the Walmart and whether or not they are still operating.

There was a Walmart with a McDonald’s in my town that closed, however the McDonalds in its parking lot is still going strong.
> Oh yeah! I was as surprised with the results as you are. I ran the numbers again and then one more time but got the exact same result! Cramer’s Buy recommendations beat the S&P 500 by a factor of 10 for the one-day time frame. But, if you held the stocks for anytime longer, you would have underperformed the market significantly.

On the contrary, this is the least surprising thing in the world. Most professional fund managers cannot beat the market in the mid to long term, let alone a TV personality like Jim Cramer. I'd instead be very surprised if the results had shown him to be a competent stock picker.
> But, now I do, since the crowd is going to get me rate limited or shadowbanned again if I dont offer up why I bothered voicing a contrarian perception.

Your original comment:

> > She told officers they were arguing because she would not give his cell phone back

> Yeah but did he get his cell phone back?

Just to clarify, that's not a "contrarian perception", or at least does not come across as one. It comes across as a tasteless joke (like ones I've heard too many times from morons who think domestic abuse is joke worthy).
> This may seem like I'm being pedantic, but I've seen fake DV calls before (unfortunately, more than once, though none directed at me), and officers are generally sympathetic to whoever is the most charismatic.

They're often more sympathetic to the female unless there's significant evidence to overcome that bias.
Make an open records request to the Travis County Clerk.
Ah damn also forgot CRUX. Anyone know tools out there that would allow for review across multiple repos/packages?
You're right, that seems to contradict the author's assertion that Cramer's 1-day performance beats the S&P 500 by a factor of ten. Maybe he made a simple math error somewhere---forgetting to adjust the daily SPY return by 10x when converting the units to a percentage, perhaps? Multiplying the stated .003% daily return by 250 yields .75% annual return, which seems wrong. Pretty sure the average annual S&P return from 2016-2021 was higher than that. Investopedia says the annual return is around 10% since 1957.
> and in the meantime it reduces heat and power and disk wear.

If drive-by SSH attempts - even a large number of them - are enough to have a noticeable impact on heat/power/wear, then you should probably consider, you know, not putting hardware from 1997 on the Internet. Really doesn't take that much energy on hardware built during the current century to reject an authentication attempt and log it.
But discrimination based on things other than race, gender, etc. is not necessarily illegal, or even wrong. When a company is considering candidates it discriminates based on skill, experience, demeanor (and the vague "culture fit", which is indeed worthy of criticism as a criterion). With AirBnB, the renter applies, and the owner has the [now quickly eroding] right to refuse. Basing that on things other than immutable characteristics is not necessarily wrong.
> here with new thing ones you want to heat up the air so you don't want radiator to be warm but air in well insulated building.

This is more complicated than this, and the construction industry has actually gone back and forth on this topic for the past 40 years. A few consideration against your point:

- When you heat air, you dry it up, which can be pretty uncomfortable for the inhabitants.

- Air stratification is a big concern: when you heat air up, it raises up to the ceiling, warming nobody but the spiders in the corners. It's not uncommon to have a multiple Celsius degree difference between floor and ceiling, even in an air-tight room.

- A house cannot be air-tight because you need to bring new air for breathing, but also to avoid excess moisture in wet rooms, which means your precious warmed-up air is being vented away, and you bring cold air from outside instead. There exists sophisticated systems with heat exchangers to collect heat from the outgoing air and warm the incoming air, but those are really expensive and far from ubiquitous.

- Under standard conditions, thermal comfort comes in roughly equal part from the radiative flux (from the walls) and conduction/convection (from the air) one. So you can achieve a similar level of comfort with lower air temperature when you have a warm radiative surface in a room.

At the end of the day, old cast-iron radiators are pretty good from a heating standpoint. (But they have multiple drawbacks, like being really big, and so heavy you can't move them when you want to refresh the room paint, etc. which means that nowadays, people usually prefer underfloor heating instead)
I’m not really sure I’ve ever heard a photographer aside from Hype Williams tout the efficiency of their use of film as an important thing about their work, and I know I’ve never heard anyone cite it as a reason a photographer is good at their craft.

Many photographers, including some regarded as the best portrait photographers working today, take photos by running the motor drive, generating up to 10 images a second, doing so in bursts through photoshoots that can last 30 minutes to hours, in the end only choosing one photo of thousands to present as the result of that session.

You’d have a hard time convincing me that a subjectively equivalent image that is the product of a shoot where the shutter is pressed less often is the work of a ‘better’ photographer. The number of images rejected from an edit just isn’t a factor in the quality of a photographer’s output.
That’s awesome, thank you for the link!
I think I think faster than stars form, right?
In some locations law enforcement is overwhelmed/incompetent/doesn't care. I've seen much more money than that being stolen, reported to LE by the bank and end up being returned as LE didn't even bother responding.
Research departments of major banks regularly issue public upgrades or downgrades of public company stocks. These move stock prices. The banks sell these research reports early to their investors and 20 minutes earlier or so to their most invested investors. And those can play on the recommendation against all the other suckers. This is legal.
A year or so back I bought just a bunch of decently recommeded pens to try them out. I ended up with my favorite being the Pilot Hi-tec-c Maica 0.4. It's cheap enough, they last, it writes real nice and dries quick enough for me.
It’s for “retail” investors as opposed to institutional. Simply a market convention.
Waypoint for M&A
I am in camp Uni-ball Signo 0.5mm. Its ink doesn't smudge or "cut out" intermittently with left-hand writing, both of which I experience with ballpoint and other gel pens.
Not the OP.

You can use gummysearch.com and launch a product that has already a customer base looking for using it.
I agree! There is a lot involved in building full-stack apps, especially with all the different tools available, and Molecule.dev barely scratches the surface.

I'll soon be adding presets and templates, which should reduce the complexity of selection. People often have requirements which I have not considered though, so the ability to customize everything will likely remain for them.
If it continues long enough, so we eventually reach a point where the original situation is used as the analogy?
That, analytics and auth. Which is a shame.

I can’t deal with most news sites now because I’m usually reading them on my phone. There’s just so much garbage between ads, scroll locked videos and JavaScript breaking the pages. AMP was supposed to help with this stuff but it breaks all the time too.

I know I’d happily pay for plain text content that I can format myself but I’m guessing there’s just no market for that sort of thing.
My guess is that there are constraints that make it unattractive to institutions.

Only 20 trading opportunities a day, fairly limited alpha on each trade (1-3bps), limited liquidity since you're just trading against the small retail population watching Cramer at that time, the possibility of getting picked off by another institution who figures you out...
Well, yes but my supposition is that it will trip some people up in unexpected ways. And given a tight timeline, the results will not translate into how good of a programmer they are. IMHO it will be semi-random whether good programmers can complete the problem. And of those that can, a sub-set will have (whether they recall it or not) completed VERY similar problems in the past.

I've found a great number of "easy" problems too challenging to complete in 45 minutes. And yet once I learned the underlying techinques / DS / Algo's, many "medium" ones I can complete in 10 minutes or less, even when I have not seen that particular problem. Conversely, I was able to complete some of the harder problems in 5-10 minutes without EVER having seen the underlying algorithms before, because I actually had in real life problmes but had never drawn the connection. The more leet code I do, the more I realize when encountering a new problem, it is a complete roll of the dice if it will take me five minutes or five hours, despite being of the same level of difficulty and even same class of problem. But this is not so surprising -- this is how the history of those algorithms unfolded. Many were one line of code away from a far better runtime, and sat for years before someone cracked it.

My main take away is, algorithmic style questions can be useful to test whether candidates adequately prepared and practiced from a given set of information, and is perhaps most predictive of their level of comittment / professionalism / base-aptitude. IMHO unless you are building a novel product or charting unknown territory (rare), its far better to be experienced, prepared, and well read, than it is to be smart. Perhaps. I don't take issue with Google requiring a wide variety of expertise in such problems to get in. I do have a problem with a random set of "easy" problems and then making judgements of people afterwards. But that's just IME.
> No thanks. Bad idea to replace the keyboard and have to carry a separate thing. There is a reason why the current laptop format is popular.

My daily driver is a tablet style x86 computer plus a Lenovo bluetooth keyboard. I feel so bad for people on laptops. It is so so so excellent to be able to raise my display up to eye level at a coffee shop or office (with a tablet arm, or just pile of whatever), and have my bt keyboard wherever I want.

The built-in folio keyboard is fine for couple hour sessions on a sofa or what-not, if there's not a good place for mounting the arm. But the gooseneck tablet arms are quite flexible & capable, so often I can find something to mount onto & don't need the folio keyboard.

In general, I find it kind of condescending to assume we're all doing it right already, to rule out change. I don't think many people have tried other ways of working. I field ~2 questions/hour about my setup most places I go- people see it & are blown away, they have to know. It's obviously much better, far better ergonomics & freedom, to separate the screen and keyboard. The conventional laptop form factor makes one stare semi-near-by where your hands are, and that coupling either a) leaves your hands weirdly high up or b( your eyes lowered / neck craned. The typical laptop is quite the usability compromise.
TL;DR

Yes, as good as reading on a screen. But maybe not as good as reading on paper (Easier to gauge where you are in a book on paper).
I've changed the title to stay as close as possible to what the submitted document says, on the assumption that the document is authentic.

The submitted title was "[name redacted], architect of GitHub Copilot, arrested for strangling girlfriend". I also assumed that meant "strangled to death" when I first saw it—I think the word "strangled" in headlines tends to imply that. Assault strangulation is obviously a serious crime.

I think the only thing it makes sense to do here is stay as close as possible to the available facts.
GPU and wifi drivers were problematic in the same era as the sound card drivers were, and really aren't anymore unless you have a nvidia card and refuse to use closed source for drivers moral reasons. Were seperate sound cards to have remained a big thing, it's likely they would have been resolved too.
Having the machine code from the ROM isn't the same as having the original assembler files, even if it's close.

I would over-comment my assembler just because it is an order of magnitude harder to scan over than C code. You also lose all the labels on your subroutines and jmps, all your variable names, all your data block labels.