skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After you get over 1M+ AUM, your advisor should seriously think long and hard about lowering their fees, many will go down almost in half(.5%ER). Still high, but if you really desire hands-off do everything for me, it's reasonable.

Once you get to 30M+ invested NW, you can seriously think about a multi-family office and > 100M+ a family office just for you starts making sense.

Most people will have a hard time getting over 1M before retirement, so I left the other options off my original post.
It's true; I think this syntax was probably made more for reading than writing since the main place it appears in the base language is just `Meta.show_sexpr`, but it's still interesting to play around with, and parsing it has some fun properties like that you can use Julia's standard syntax as effectively a preprocessor syntax for the s-expression syntax.
This is the dark side of risk based security which often manifests. The code gets audited over a day or two and items get ranked by severity. The “minor” bugs are fixed much later if never and it’s ok because they are low severity. But if you pull on the threads of minor issues there are usually deeper issues at play. Further bugs might be minor if considered independently, but can be chained together to perform severe exploits. Given the resources, I think the best approach is to just aggressively eliminate all known undefined behavior in a application
Climate change is likely to result in appalling tragedies of widespread suffering, but it is perhaps less likely to result in the permanent and total collapse of human civilisation. To that extent, it is locally sustainable (but at a grotesque cost).

I don't think the argument is to not do anything about climate change. It is to continue to work with urgency to tackle climate change _and_ to do something appropriate about risks that could wipe out civilisation completely, where we have reason to believe our actions could to some degree mitigate the risks.
Ask HN: Who is playing TTRPGs, wargames, boardgames, and what are you liking?
I was looking over some tabletop games recently and thought it might be interesting to ask what/if people on HN are liking or playing.

Personally I'm working from a TTRPG supplement called Search & Destroy by Stone Mountain Press, adapting its "organizational combat" rules (for business battles, government agencies, etc.) to run company- through brigade-level wargames. It uses a narrative-driven dice pool mechanic and I'm working through it adding crunchy house rules here and there.

Love to hear what anybody else is up to.
>A woman has a right to say my body my choice. You think removing that choice is without controversy?

Choosing to terminate a pregnancy is not comparable to choosing to spread a highly contagious disease.
The demo assumes that zkSNARK, circom, snarkjs and my usage of them all works as expected. At some point in the future I can reveal the Proof to demonstrate that I indeed know the hash associated with the Impossible location (the hashes are known: see the source code).

You could also remix the demo and choose your own hashes for each emoji (see console when searching for coordinates to get its hash), and I could then be the one guessing your secret coordinates.

The demo runs locally by the way (no server needed).
I used to use this all the time and its a great app. But when I moved to Mac, it was not there for me. I recently started with https://obsidian.md/ and I'm pretty happy with it. Its all markdown and it converts from markdown to formatted text as you type. Plus, the price is right fore personal use (zero!)
> subtly slow down/speed up tracks to hit a deadline as needed

Jesus, I've always suspected this (listening to the radio and a song just feels a little wrong) but never had confirmation. What's that "feature" called?
Can you elaborate on this a bit?

The protocol itself, as far as how it conveys and interlinks information seems comparable to early HTML. Documents with very basic formatting, that can be navigated via a hyperlink, forming a web or information graph in the big picture.

It sounds a bit like you didn't enjoy the browser you used rather than the protocol? There are terminal based browsers that might seem very non-modern, but there are also full GUI browsers that aren't much different than a web browser as far as UX. Within the limitation of the defined protocol of course, meaning text only with basic formatting and no inline images.

I personally find the formatting limitations and lack of inline images leads to a richer experience of taking in the information being conveyed. It's almost like the difference between reading a book and watching a movie. Both have their place in our culture. Even today in the age of VR/AR, 3D IMAX films, etc., we still read books, and it is a pleasant experience for many to take in content that way. There are no distractions, only the content.

Gemini is uniquely enjoyable because the imposed limitations provide many of the same benefits that people enjoy about reading books vs watching movies. The modern web very rarely provides content in that form. Nearly every article is interspersed with all kinds of media to "engage" the viewer. I enjoy a lot of it, however, I think there is something to be said about just putting the text out there bare as it is.

Gemini creates a space where the content doesn't have to compete with distractions. All content is on equal footing and must stand solely on the written words themselves. No distractions. No way for one piece of content to sway you over another just because of high-budget media production. Just bare words that you must interpret yourself. It leads to an atmosphere that is engaging in some ways today's web cannot be, like a movie cannot be in place of a book. It requires a different kind of interpretation and imagination to take in, and I really appreciate that.
It is.

MIT is the public research arm of the DoD.

Most of fundamental physics research is military connected apnea way or another.
Other providers run attacker-provided native code directly on hardware, deeply relying on bug-free silicon for their whole security model to work. I honestly think that's far more precarious than what Workers is doing.
Went through a similar thing with accounting. Huge amount of mechanical & detailed training...which I promptly forgot 99%.

It leaves a lasting imprint/instinct on you though that I've come to appreciate though.

Similarly you might train someone in stats, they forget it all but then subsequently are better at detecting fake news because they can see the claimed stats are bullshit.

So I don't think "we don't use it" is all that straightforward
Why would they waste employee time on antitrust training if they were innocent?
Pindakaas (Dutch for "peanut cheese", which you would call peanut butter) on the other hand is available everywhere, at least in the Netherlands. Then again, peanuts are available everywhere, just put them in a blender or use a high-speed mixer to make your own. I've been doing this for more than 20 years now since Sweden is one of those peanut butter free countries (at least here in the countryside it is). The advantage of make-your-own peanut butter is that the stuff will contain only what you put in there, nothing else.
maybe our brightest minds ARE working on areas like this, but the smart folks working in social apps and advertising provide tools that help the bright minds collaborate?
I agree.

Many places around the world have vaccine passes that don't care about natural immunity, which is incredibly unscientific and dishonest. If the case rate is higher among the vaccinated, you're statistically less protected at a venue that checks the vaccine pass. It's counterproductive and ought to be abolished immediately.

Vaccine mandates that ignore natural immunity are equally wrong. Many hospitals in the US fired un-vaccinated healthcare personnel without regarding natural immunity, which led to staff shortages, which combined with this Omicron surge means hospitals are so desperate for staff, that many are allowing people to work with an active corona infection, as long as they are vaccinated. We're preferring actually infected people over un-infected, but un-vaccinated people. In a healthcare setting.

And the people responsible for this is claiming to "follow science".

It's absurd.

The only measurement that should matter is your immunity level, regardless of how you acquired it.
Giant cheap plastic things are essentially a worst-case use for Amazon because the individual delivery cost is most of the price. When you get a 5$ sled at Walgreens, it's cheap because you get in your car and do the last-mile logistics yourself.
> Unless it's a zero day exploited in the wild, it's not "on fire", it's preventing one.

Just because it's not widely exploited in the wild does not mean it's not known to bad actors and can't be used to cause harm.
you are welcome! Come by, it's a pretty nice community and many there have been retired for a while, so they can help you see the follies before you make them, if one is smart enough to listen.
Gun leasing is a real thing, and so is financing. If you lease in another state the commerce clause might protect you see a lawyer for details: https://www.guns.com/financing
> if you want to have permission prompts

Why would I want permission prompts? Most systems are single-user systems; if you're logged in, you're the administrator, even if you haven't yet invoked your superpowers. Arguambly you should have to confirm if you want to do something dodgy; but if all you have to do is say "Yes, thanks for the warning", then you don't need any kits.

Really, I have difficulty imagining this group of Linux users who are constantly hot-laptoping, so that they need multi-user support sprinkled all over the OS. I can see that it's useful in a pair-programming environment, where you might have a lab or workstations with a standard config; but apart from that, how often does someone else log in to a desktop/laptop computer you normally use? Or one you own?

I don't think hotdesking and hotplugging are urgent consumer requirements. I don't think the people producing this stuff are aiming it at consumers.

> or write something very similar to it

Or use what was written before, if it matches your use-case. That worked, for many people. Still does for some.
I don't understand what motivates a move like this. Is he really that indignant about Joe's views on COVID that he can't sell on the same platform. If so why? Because he cares about public health initiatives that much?
> Brainstorming establishes a shared understanding (depending on the group dynamics, you might call it a fiction) that the group, not any individual, came up with the idea.

IME, brainstorming sessions don't really serve that purpose except when they actually do result in real substantive collaboration. While people may have tribal identity as part of a team, they also tend to be aware of the group dynamics in the team and how decisions are actually made.

But, IME, lot of people in lead and management positions buy into the effectiveness of brainstorming sessions as tools of forging shared fictions in ways which are supported by the way people on the team look at the output.
The regime after the Cultural Revolution and the regime during the revolution were totally different people.

The majority of China's post-Cultural Revolution leaders had themselves been at least purged, but often also imprisoned and even tortured during that period. For example Deng Xiaoping had been purged and his son left permanently paralyzed (after a failed suicide attempt due to persecution) after the two became targets during the Cultural Revolution.

Basically anyone who had any sort of political power, educational attainment, or wealth was a target during the Cultural Revolution (a mildly difficult challenge is to find any Chinese figure of note who wasn't Mao who came of age before the Cultural Revolution and wasn't at least denounced. It's possible, but not as trivial as one might think).

The persecution was also often bottom-up, rather than top-down. If you had any attainment or pre-Cultural Revolution power at all, you were much more likely to be beaten, strung up, and imprisoned by local teenage Red Guards often acting of their own accord than the central government.

And so as a result there wasn't as much enmity towards the post-Cultural Revolution government by people who had suffered during the Cultural Revolution because often they had suffered together.
Ouch, I feel that.
All those things existed before confiscatory taxes were imposed on basically all forms of economic activity. None have improved while the government has stolen 50%+ of my income. In fact they have universally gotten worse, and still more expensive.

This is just "basic infrastructure as a service", except the only service you're actually getting for your payment is not going to jail. That's called extortion.
it's funny when you mention the difference between covalent and ionic bonds.

my teacher in high school chemistry or physics told us cutting a piece of paper was a physical, not a chemical change (the textbook spent a lot of time differentiating those). It wasn't until many years later that I learned that cutting paper breaks hydrogen bonds. H-bonds are neither covalent nor ionic, but more like in-between (partial sharing of electron density by two different nuclei) but can be modelling (approximately) using ionic models (partial charges separated by a distance).

Is breaking an h-bond physical, not chemical? I want to talk to my teacher.
As a maths graduate, I would like to see discussion around maths moving to computer science.

Is it more instructive to teach some maths concepts via programming, perhaps from ages 11-12 (algebra)?
To me, that's an experience I only have with AirPods Max, Pros totally fail to achieve that.
I doubt it. I caught it in Aug/September during the delta wave and am way less careful now than I was before. Not saying this is true or advocating a position here, but I feel like the pandemic is over for me, I don't have to worry about any current variants, etc. The people I talk to who have also developed natural immunity have the same sort of feeling.
Using probability and statistics and understanding their foundations are two distinct things. Prob/stat can be taught (to the point of utility) without calculus and often is. More advanced applications are inaccessible or only learned by rote without calculus, but that doesn't mean that you need calculus first.

Of course, this is what commonly comes up in topics like this, a confusion over the two notions: Understanding the basis of something and understanding it well enough to utilize. You don't need a graduate level physics course in electromagnetism to be a competent electrician.
Saying that some people might have been miscounted is pushing an agenda that is not pro science I'd say.

In London this number has been as high as 40%, so it's highly relevant to present accurate numbers.

But the only place science has won is in producing a good vaccine, the rest has been a shit show of crazy decisions and a hunt for those who didn't want to get vaccinated right away.

I sincerely hope sanity returns.
Just fwiw the demo runs client side as a static site - no server is really needed for proof generation or verification.

In a more ideal scenario the code and prover/verifier would all be running in a decentralized fashion (see zk-evms and StarkNet for example).
Or anything like that. It's an emergency, right? So what about people in medical school who have yet to be licensed? Grab them and have them do stuff. Retired doctors? Go get them. Whatever. It's an emergency. Get creative. You don't need things perfect. You need things to work. It's an emergency. Every second you aren't focused on solving overwhelmed healthcare is a second you are stealing from people through lockdowns.

I really don't understand why people are completely incapable of using their imagination to solve "hospitals over capacity". The only thing I can think of is perhaps hospitals have never actually been overwhelmed because if they were... we'd have fixed the problem already.
All big corps require you to take this kind of training.
"Shall Not Be Infringed"

I truly wonder what they really meant by this. Surely we can twist the meaning of words through legal interpretation until we can levy a tax on people for exercising their constitutional rights.
>> disputing every virus control measure proposed, despite the glaring evidence that they worked

> Not only did the measures not work, they were doomed to fail from the start and could not have possibly worked.

From mid-2020 to mid-2021, what were the average case counts in Australia or China vs. the US? That's proof there were measures that worked. If every country performed as well, or if China had acted as it did but earlier, it's quite possible that COVID would have gone extinct by now from that alone.

If we were doomed to fail, it was because of the perennial problems of human stupidity and selfishness.

> You've provided little more than your own disagreement, but no supporting arguments as to why.

I have: counterexamples. The bulk of your augment consists of adjectives and counterfactual assertions that things that did work well in places, couldn't work. My argument is if the rest of the world did as well as they actually did, then every place would have done even better, because "imported" cases wouldn't be a thing.

You brought up animal reservoirs, but that seems to be pure speculation, since I've seen nothing to indicate they've played a role, let alone an important one (excluding the initial human case). The counterexample countries seem like they'd be good natural experiments to actually provide data about how significant animal reservoirs actually are.

> My position here puts me at odds with political partisans

Only with some partisans, you're in quite good alignment with others.
Because they were trying to correct or prevent it? If they hadn't done the training, you'd be saying that they never even tried to avoid it.
> Unfortunately no other home automation platform (Google, Amazon) lets you keep everything on your local network

Exactly the reason I keep dealing with HomeKit annoyances.
Doesn't basing your conclusion on the two countries that support it, out of a pool of ~200 that exist, seem a bit tentative?

It's at about the same level as the counter argument regarding Sweden (which is one reason I made it).

Have a look through the studies I linked, you'll find several that perform rigorous analysis on a large number of countries, including in some cases specifically regarding excess mortality.

For example, have a look at Figures 2A and 2B from the following study. 38 countries compared by length of initial lockdown measures, versus per capita excess mortality for the period, and then the same measure compared across all states of the US:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28930/w289...

This doesn't support the hypothesis that lockdowns reduce excess deaths.
Yes but he offered them a choice to remove Rogan or himself. Spotify chose not to remove Rogan.
not to break/bend the rules, but simply commenting that this is a great submission
giveback
To be clear, this isn't Spotify censoring him or anything like that. He basically gave them the ultimatum "either remove Joe Rogan or remove me" and they (100% correctly, IMO) chose the latter.
The linked article is from January 5 2022, a year less a day after the events in question, right? So it doesn't contradict a claim about the original reporting.
Many people have lost trust in the government and the media because they have proven to be, in many ways, untrustworthy. Adding another social media site(especially one that is so focused on free speech it's lawless) is not going to help gain trust or create community. Have we already forgotten about the 2017 election cycle and the role that uncensored social media played in that?
Again, a category error:

You are failing to differentiate between the two subgroups of unvaccinated people, the previously infected/unvaccinated, and the purely unvaccinated. Additionally, you are not doing any further subdivision on these two groups by age. The blanket "one size fits all" strategy you are advocating is assuming that all of these groups are at zero risk for adverse events from the vaccine. Young, healthy males have a statistically zero risk of severe COVID complications, and a statistically small but non-zero risk of myocarditis. The risk of myocarditis from the vaccine falls to practically zero as you progress upwards up the age distribution, which is the exact group of people who have the highest benefit from the vaccine. You are talking about a gradient which impacts both the cost and the benefit, with a diminishing cost and an increasing benefit going up in age. Not taking this into account is so illogical, that in my opinion, people who hold this view are clearly blinded by bias.

If I'm going to get smeared as an "anti-vaxxer", I'm going to go ahead and use a label to describe humans who hold the rigid, data-resistant view that you possess:

Immunity deniers
BoJo is also trying that in the UK to save his office.

People being "tired" of something (pandemic fatigue) doesn't matter if loosened collective hygiene standards would kill too many people.
Doesn't have to be one thing. You can let there be a market of platforms. Just no profiteering, either directly or indirectly. Easier said than done, of course.

Also, shouldn't be .gov. Public benefit but not government-owned.
America doesn't have a poll taxation system, what's the spread on that $100 if it's adjusted for progressive taxation?
This isn’t a reason to not learn it or take it out of curriculums.

We use these skills a lot more than we may realize automatically and without really realizing we are utilize the skills.
Good, now try to convince the French. The vaccine passport is such a bad idea.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2022-01-...
Iraqi's no longer have the monster that was Saddam and are able to vote for their leaders. You can say that it wasn't worth it, that's a perfectly agreeable argument, but it wasn't just for nothing - it was always to remove Saddam.