skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, would you mind explaining how getting vaccinated against Covid helps fellow citizens? If it is only to reduce hospital loads then can't the same responsibility be applied to those who choose to engage in unhealthy behaviors?
Don’t understand this. The tax savings only come from realized loses. In the long run SPY will likely best that including your “savings”.
Thank you! I wish I could add gifs in HN haha dancing around gif
Interesting, the figure does seem quite low to me. Boglehead passive investing has worked really well for the past dozen years. I expect the next 10-15 to be much more challenging given the extremely high starting valuations and end of the low interest rate and QE tailwind. I've been building algotrading models to help tackle the challenge of when to hedge at https://grizzlybulls.com
I don’t quantify this. Instead, I practice noticing what I’m feeling and deciding what to do next. I like making things in creative flow, and when my engine is flooded from too much consumption of media I need to let myself process and maybe even be bored—-it is worth the discomfort, because the ideas and connections start flowing in eventually.
Mostly is.
What do you expect? The purpose is to get quick, flashy results. Nobody is bothered to check this stuff.

Also, "$2.7B" is a highly suspect figure. There's no saying if you could actually cash out anywhere close to that amount.
HP 8640B puts out a clean and precise waveform. wonderful piece of test equipment from the world of RF.

put a short wire on the output, and tune it to 146.34 (for a second). bang, the local repeater will kerchunk.
Wordpress is still pretty good if you just want to get going and concern yourself only with content.

I personally use a static site generator (zola) to keep hosting costs down (netlify is free), and I like tinkering with code. A lot of them have great starter themes that let you get going in a few minutes, though.
I've had it run with only one ear, and it feels uncomfortably lopsided. Maybe if you could only hear in one ear or had a hearing aid in the other you would want to enable this. In general, accessibility settings seems to be a place immune from the simplicity police at Apple. There are often useful features in there.
Google already knows everything about you. Now they get to limit how much others know about you, under the rallying cry of "preserving user privacy". They get to decide how much of your profile they disclose to advertisers.

It seems like having the dominant browser by market share (where they gather browsing history), and the dominant ad platform by revenue and market share (where they sell that information), would draw regulator scrutiny?
From their license agreement:

> If you have used this plugin for FREE but monetized more than $1000, you are also required to get a license, or share us some Ad traffic as stated in win-win partnership model below.

https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic...

The project however includes the following the license: https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

Surely releasing code under an MIT license makes their statement invalid. Why would I be "required to get a license" and offered a couple of commercial options? It sounds like they need to get some legal help to properly license the project in the way they want to.

Furthermore, pricing should be clear. It's deceptive to hide it within their so-called "license" section. As a developer, why would I read the license section if it's clearly marked within GitHub as being licensed under MIT and has a LICENSE file confirming that?
They actually have MIT LICENSE file in the offending plugin repo.
Vanguard allows you to set up automated withdraws that are invested into specific funds, with one caveat:

`It’s important to note that you can only automate investments into Vanguard mutual funds.`

https://support.vanguard.com/tutorials/automatic-investments
The point is to reduce critical cases that cause hospital visits. Our system is overwhelmed as is.

The fact that this still needs to be explained 2 years into this is ridiculous.
When authoritarianism comes around, it wont just be surveiling. An a11n regime needs the buy-in of private leadership because the goal is to turn the state into an all-encompasing master of peoples lives, and work is a large part of peoples lives (especially in an a11n regime!)

Whether or not the state can surveil is a moot point if the owners of the tech are in on the game.
When I looked at it the fees were way to high to justify to bogelheads.

What is strange to me about robo advisors is that they are still charging a management fee instead of a flat fee. The algorithms are really basic and don’t have any real time changes so it seems weird to charge 25-50 basis points for what’s basically just an interview and time based rebalancing with some formulas that aren’t really better than existing ETFs.

I’ve been expecting this to just be a feature for vanguard and fidelity since the “advise” could just be client side automation rules that nobody wants to build.
Too bad Android manufacturers want to emulate Apple even with bad decissions. Headhpone port is getting rarer with each new release. Samsung S21 line doesn’t have it in any model afaik.
There's always a trade-off between security and convenience, and similarly, there tends to be a trade-off between different forms of freedom. If you want the freedom to choose any bank without any inconvenience, then you'll have to sacrifice software freedom. If you want the freedom to fully control your computing devices, then you'll have to be selective about the bank you use.
Some people really just don’t want an experimental vaccine which sidestepped the usual regulatory approval.
The government goons are some of the worst stalkers and harassers, which is exactly why they should never be allowed to collect this data in the first place. Our Founders understood this, but unfortunately, humans generally never learn anything from history.
There's also a further separation that is veeery relevant: age groups. There are sometimes graphs that split them out if you go digging far enough, but the graphs that make headlines are usually along the lines of "death rate, fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated" (which as you point out has its own issues). Not splitting it out into age groups gives casual readers the impression that mortality is evenly distributed along all age groups, which it most definitely is not.
A warning for those who remove dates from their content and care about invalidating bad patents and rejecting bad patent applications: If there's no date, likely a patent examiner can't use it as prior art.

I used to work as a patent examiner and I was disappointed when I found web content describing an element of a patent application I was working on, but there was no date that could be used to be certain the document was available before the priority date of the application.

You can use the Wayback Machine and similar archivers to get a date, but frequently the archivers didn't capture the page or didn't capture it in time in my experience (even if it likely was published in time, I can't establish that legally).

Before I quit, I spent some time saving a ton of webpages in one of the areas I was working on (water heaters) just because I wasn't sure how long I'd be at the USPTO and I could be certain of the date given that I myself archived the documents. It was a long-term investment, but could have been quite useful if (for example) a company tries to patent something they previously sold a long time ago and forgot about. The Wayback Machine often had spotty coverage of corporate webpages so I couldn't see all their products at a particular time.
That's even more weird given my experience with a pair of Beats Studio 3 headphones I have which are de facto a brand of Apple headphones. They've never given me Bluetooth grief once in years of very regular use, it's not like they can't do reliable Bluetooth equipment.
Plenty of HN users can, and do, disagree with that in ways that don't involve snark or personal attack. This isn't about your underlying views—it's entirely about comment quality. Comments like the GP lead to further inflammation and aggression in threads, which makes for boring, nasty, predictable discussion. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I also find the automatic device switching to be super annoying. In my experience it is both under inclusive and over inclusive. I have no idea how this passed muster for release at a company like Apple.

There is a way to turn off this feature in settings, BTW.
Betterment had that until a month ago: "Two-Way Cash Sweep", though that swept into their cash reserve account, not the investment accounts. They said that less than 1% of users had it enabled, and so discontinued it.
Any of those people will happily accept a stack of paper bills.

Have you actually tried depositing large amounts of cash on a regular basis? Sounds like a good way to get your account flagged and suspended.

Not to mention the Treasury's seeming animosity toward cash as an instrument of payment.
> In the first example, an investment portfolio is shown where roughly 10% of the holdings is in a group called "single stock bets." Yikes!

That's 10% of the entire portfolio spread out over (presumably) multiple individual stocks, which seems reasonable to me... is it not?
Fidelity also has a fully-paid securities lending offering, and I believe Ally Invest does as well. It's not just IBKR.
I really like Zim for journaling and transcribing RPG texts for easier reference.
Breyer to Retire
Same, but replace vim with Emacs.
Maybe they were trying to differentiate themselves from the offerings of a potential acquirer and prepping themselves for aquisition - particularly perhaps once they realized they weren't going to be able to beat the legacy banks.
I think the "build" can be considered a clear failure at this point, it would take 10min on the JPM "platform" to see that. Not acquiring ShareBuilder was a major loss, especially given that CapitalOne purchased ShareBuilder, took the customers, and killed the platform. Not sure why the platform couldnt have been spun off to JPM (?except perhaps competition?)

GS purchased FolioFN, which was a lesser player, but still a decent platform. JPM is going to have to gulp down M1 Finance and pay for being so slow to the acquisition game <-- My prediction!

Online brokerages selling order flow are very profitable, so even the "buy" decision seems like a no-brainer given the obvious monetization route. DRIP-style investment is even stickier -- you set it and forget it. Make it part of the Premier/Sapphire tiers and people dont want to move at all.
There is quite some misleading terminology being used in the field of nuclear fusion (see excellent overview here [1]). So I was genuinely curious what kind of Q is used in this paper, so here it is:

> In this regime, self-heating from α-particle deposition exceeds the external heating input into the DT8; this ratio is denoted Qα, where the self-heating is taken relative to the heating power to the plasma—for inertial fusion this is the PdV compressional work on the fuel and not the total laser energy (P, pressure, dV, volume change). Qα > 1 is a burning plasma.

So as far as I understand such Qα > 1 can be reached without sustaining neither pressure or volume, so one can think about it as an explosion rather that intuitive burning (somewhat continuous process).

To summarize: Q_total = total_energy_out / total_energy_in is what matters, not any Q related to plasma energy. Since to build a power plant we just care what it consumes in comparison with what it produces. For this particular case even though Qα > 1 you likely can extract just a tiny fraction of that energy stored in plasma, while spending huge amounts of energy to heat it in the first place.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY or as an article http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-close-is-nuclea...

Edit: I'm a big proponent of nuclear fission and fusion since both are the best (current and future) way of getting carbon neutral energy, which can cover the spikes in the grid and sun/wind-less days. It is just important to be careful with the terminology, which can be used to make research results more optimistic.
I'd argue that a specification must be a homomorphic version of the real code. A specification has fewer parts, but the relationships between the parts are same as in the code. I.e. it would be interesting to write a general specification for, say, a math typesetting algorithm and then add concrete specs that describe how that algorithm materializes in, say, different instruction sets. (I wish there were such specifications, because right now when you want to understand the general principle you have to rely on texts or dig that knowledge from the idiosyncrasies of different programming languages and individual styles.) I.e. a specification that can be shared between different programming environments. Something that captures the fundamental programming principles, not the "modern" features.
> Stealing candy from a gas station is wrong, but stealing an article from behind a paywall is right, because.... The latter is easier to get away with

They don't give you the option to pay for an article. The only two choices are pay a couple hundred bucks for an annual subscription that you likely won't use more than a few times, or bypass the paywall.

To follow your analogy, this would be like if the gas station only sold gum in packs of 365 - you want a day's worth of gum, but you can only buy a yearly supply. I'll bet you'd see a lot more people stealing gum.
It happens to me infrequently now and I work with a team I really respect. But it took me the better part of a decade to land there.
White House instructs gov agencies to beef up cybersecurity, adopt ‘zero trust’
UK data showed a ~1% chance of reinfection with Delta. Omicron is higher, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

> To the end of week 43 in 2021 (to 31 October 2021) 72,264 possible reinfections have been identified ... 7.9 million first positives

For Delta transmission from vaccinated individuals, a study of Vietnamese healthcare workers found that 70% of infections were pre-symptomatic, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

> 69 healthcare workers were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. 62 participated in the clinical study. 49 were (pre)symptomatic ... Breakthrough Delta variant infections are associated with high viral loads, prolonged PCR positivity, and low levels of vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies, explaining the transmission between the vaccinated people. Physical distancing measures remain critical to reduce SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant transmission.
Wow the price point is way above. I'm thinking about the mini phone in the movie Taken 2. I actually found a website to purchase a year ago but couldn't find it right now.
>Logging into those accounts is a pain in the ass

Just to be clear, we are talking about clicking on a bookmark, letting the password manager fill in the login info, and the clicking login or pressing enter?

>requires active effort to remember doing

Checking up on one's assets is something that should be on a periodic to do list. We even have devices that can be scheduled to alert us when it is time.
> Haggling is price discovery

True, but the discovery is made necessary by artificial opacity.

It does not benefit society as a whole and that's why shops are legally required to have transparent pricing in most countries.
I mean, of course "something" was lost? But...things were lost all of the time at the height of the old internet as well. No tech change needed. Communities would rise and fall, maintainers would move on and stop making things available, etc. It seems to me That is just how things change over time.

Like...if IRC was still the height of community, many of the IRC communities that were the most popular in 1998 would still be dead and gone now. Their archives would probably still be lost (it's not like we were better at archiving then). Like for any particular community that you can look back on and see people moving away from it into something else, I suspect people would still have moved away - they just would have moved away to a new IRC instead of...twitter or github or discord or whatever.

It just seems, to me, that people see normal cyclical community transition and blame the fact that it happened at a time when new kinds of communities were rising. I am not convinced that the two have much to do with each other.
The current system is fine for controlling new accounts that just show up to spew invective. They're quickly downvoted and/or flagged, even banned when they go too far. Multiple times I have seen article authors or project creators register a new HN account to specifically comment about work of theirs that has reached the front page of HN. They may write a dozen posts on their first day here, all of them useful.
Schwab at least has terrible UI and doesn't always have accurate numbers. (For example, their GL/share for one of my mutual funds reports the wrong price/share, using the same value for every purchase, while viewing the history tab I can see the actual prices from reinvested dividends...)

Not saying they aren't saving you the fees, but not a lovely experience.
I don't think having 10% of your equity investments in single stock bets is a yikes-worthy level of irresponsibility. It may not be the best way to perfectly optimize your long-term return, but for the vast majority of people it won't mean the difference between retiring comfortably and destitution—especially if actively managing a portion of your portfolio encourages a higher level of overall saving.
>> It has killed more than 865,000 Americans

> It looks like that's more Americans than have been killed in combat in all of the wars of the 20th century combined [1]

Like all deaths tragic, but let's not pretend young men, effectively kids, dying in war is the same as elderly & chronically sick populations dying of disease.
JPM have just made a $12b investment to fix that: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/news-stories/tech-investment-c...

I'm aware that these investments often go south. I've seen HSBC's foray into "Fintech" and it was rough.
Looks great! Love the OPA integration.
I do get some of the quirks, but not nearly that full list. If I'm on a call or listening to music through my AirPods when connected to my Mac, and then open my phone, they do connect to the phone, but it does not switch the audio away from the computer unless I tell it to on the phone.

I also have a pair of fancy Sony noise canceling wireless headphones, and they're much more finicky about connecting and staying connected than my Airpods are. Fundamentally the problem seems to be that bluetooth kinda sucks.
I guess they think of it as "[a] windows subsystem for [running] android". Or put in a different way "android running on a windows subsystem".
Good call by Breyer, not falling into the RBG trap.
Appreciate the shout out and your assessment is pretty spot on w/ #1 (I am one of the co-founders of CloudForecast).

We're actually huge fans of Infracost and what they've done so far. They've built an amazing tool for eng teams, who should always be the lead when it comes to managing cloud cost. We actually have a few customers using them along side us as well.

Congrats on launch, Ali, Hassan and Alistair!
> its currency is like any other decentralized blockchain base currency.

You did not answer the question of what is it good for. What thing is it doing that makes it important/interesting/useful/valuable?
Is early treatment considered a public health intervention, https://c19early.com/?
I for one, will be setting off fireworks on Tuesday, even though its against the law!
You can also set the yubikey to require a pin before touching. The yubikey auto wipes it’s memory of the presented pin is wrong too many times in a row. So just leaving it plugged in is much more sensible in that case.
This is the exact book to help you with that (not affiliated) [0]

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A target date fund suffices for most people. And I would need evidence to believe that Wealthfront's fees are offset by the tax savings and increased complexity for 95% of people.
> It is not a strawman if it speculates motivations, because people are rarely honest about their motivations, even to themselves.

In some contexts that may be true, but internet comments is not one of them.

The GP is just showing us the melodrama that's going on between some characters that live in his head. He was responding to them, not so much to me.
Excellent question, because it's likely a trivial number and a program that only still exists for PR purposes.
If we are, then I feel short-changed. Magic ought to be a trivial thing in a virtual world, and looking around, it ain't that magic.
I deployed my company website / blog with fly.io
It's a simple phoenix app w/o a DB, and it was trivially easy to set up. After having used K8S for Rails and Phoenix hosting before, their product is definitely something to keep in mind.
A life without a smartphone is already difficult. Possible, but difficult; it involves knowing people who have smartphones, and using fragile hacks, and doing without. With only “show the screen of your smartphone” proof-of-whatever being used, and the phasing out of paper documentation, it's not unreasonable to think we might end up in a situation like this. (Though, it definitely hasn't already happened; I don't think this is the case in any country.)
Sorry for the possible off-topic, but can anyone explain to me how the robo-advising is different/better/worse than constant passive investing into popular ETFs, e.g. $SPY, $BND, $VOO, etc.?
The Universe is disappearing, and we’re powerless to stop it
For HN, this is also an "I have seen the enemy and he is us" situation.

I say this with love, but judging from every week threads talking about half-million total comp at FANGs, there is probably no internet forum more responsible for the state and direction of the modern web than HN.
Strategy to Move the U.S. Government Towards a Zero Trust Architecture
> An authoritarian government comes in and demands that Facebook/Meta and Apple release a new version

That is why a surveillance resistant system should 1) have open protocol 2) have free & open & fully auditable implementations 3) be sufficiently simple that disjoint groups (and individuals) can maintain and audit compatible implementations.

It's easy to make demands when the system is centralized; I don't think such a system can resist surveillance (or censorship or much else).
>> The actual third category participants, to a large degree, don’t need much more than was available in 1993, or at least are savvy enough not to find themselves paying for it.

I'd disagree with this. In 1993, you couldnt do fractional shares, or auto-invest, or pie-based investments. In 1993, you couldnt purcahse $500/wk of BRKB/AMZN/TSLA because there was no product like that short of paying a mutual fund 150bps. You couldnt tax-loss harvest (like with WealthFront)

You can get that now with M1, FolioFN (GS), ShareBuilder (RIP). It is low investment and high-stickiness.

You're noting net work and involvement and profit, but I think stickiness is another factor to focus on.
Someone committing a license violation does not magically grant you the ability to steal 30% of their revenue. If you want to punish the license violation, take them to court.

Also note that the software is MIT licensed. Tucking some random additional clauses on your website or somewhere else doesn't magically change the licensing, if you don't want to use MIT (and make them free to use it) then don't use MIT.