skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep telling me this, but I keep beating the market. It's been 20 years or so of applying very basic reasoning and getting ahead.

1. Commodities are bad long term bets because technology gets better. I remember people talking my ear off about peak oil and then the US turned into a net-exporter. Short term inelasticity, yes can sky rocket prices; but long term prices go down.

2. Physics based thinking. I knew electric cars were going to work because the math checked out.

3. Economics of scale works. Find companies that understand this and focus on it. When I saw Telsa focussing on a single car for a year I knew they would be a winner.

4. Software scales. People like to make money. Combine the two and its a real winner.

5. Sell when forward price to earnings after cash starts to look wonky. Which was 2007 and I think 2019. Covid and the direct stimulus kinda messed up the timing, but the market is still completely screwed. Either way, sell early and buy the crash.

Telsa, Apple, Shopify, Amazon, Google. Only really lost on Etsy (I can't believe how much they missed the opportunity to become a real platform).

Why bother investing in GM through a broad index fund if I know for sure Tesla will eat their lunch?

This isn't really get-rich-quick. This is looking at companies rationally and projecting where they will be in a year or two. And rationally speaking this market is out of wack and I wouldn't advise investing in even my favourite tech companies right now. I don't think this is Japanese Tech level of readjustment. I think there will be a -%50 S&P500 crash, maybe more, and then in 10 years Apple will be worth more than double what it is worth today. They have fundamentally better technology. Their software competency is below average, but their hardware, fit and finish, design, and cultural cache is world class and it is hard for me to imagine any scenario where they lose other than a US war with China.
With the $160k salary cap (now lifted a week or two ago) and the super unfriendly vesting schedule (where you get almost nothing after year one) and a “signing bonus” that takes two full years to be paid out[0] it’s unlikely they are in the same caliber overall. This is notably obvious when you apply for an internal transfer and need to go through a full interview loop again because the new team doesn’t trust that the old team were competent at screening out poor performers.

[0] imagine getting an offer with a million dollar signing bonus listed, only to see in the fine print that this bonus is paid in $10k increments over the next centry.
Most things "simple living" - working with your hands, living off the land, camping, etc. - are only enjoyable if they're optional.
It doesn't work like that. You can't cancel a bid/ask after someone in the market takes you up on it.
I think 'ars' is leading you into a rhetorical trap. The objective was never eliminating the wild virus, the objective was curing polio. The OPV vaccine is a bit like fighting fire with fire: you burn down the forest (immunize susceptible hosts) in a controlled fashion, so that the forest fire cannot reach homes (paralyze children). But when your house burns down, it's irrelevant if it was the "wild" fire or a fire set by the firefighters, i.e a attenuated virus that mutated.

What 'ars' seems to be missing is that this particular "forest" is very rapidly growing back, in some countries you have in excess of 5% of the population as infants each year. Those are new hosts that were never vaccinated, and due to the extreme contagiousness of the disease a few years of lack of coverage can reignite the fire. What happened after OPV2 withdrawal was that a whole new generation inoculated with only bivalent (type 1+3) vaccine became susceptible to cvdpv2 that was still circulating in small pockets.

Essentially, the campaign failed the end-game strategy, they proved they can reduce the infection to arbitrarily low levels using trivalent OPV, but once you take OPV away, as they attempted for a single strain, the epidemic reignites. It's irrelevant if it's a wpv or cvdpv strain. The end-game was always considered a challenge by experts, but a variety of reasons, Covid, political issues etc. conspired to make it very difficult.

This whole thread leaves me very pessimistic about the prospects of eradication. If a relatively inteligent and educated internet-person that has proper sanitation cannot understand these epidemiological dynamics and claims that "OPV causes more infections than it cures", what's the chance you can explain it to rural farmers, especially after the global rise of the antivax movement after Covid?
Yeah, a big part of being social is about stifling the expectation of rejection. No one is going to yell at you for asking how their day was. No one is going to call the cops if you send them a text "Hey, wanted to catch up. How's your week going? I saw this super insightful comment by nefitty on HN about being social and it made me realize we hadn't talked in a bit."
It was pretty much always open source and cross platform. The original version wasn't even developed on windows: https://github.com/SSCLI/sscli20_20060311

Although being open source and free doesn't necessarily make it open and accessible. The core CLR team do not listen to customers, particularly ones who complain about not wanting telemetry by default in there, ones who open bugs in the HTTP stack which spam logs for months and months and months and complete deadlocks and crashes.

Open Source has only completely absolved Microsoft of any responsibility to support their products to actual paying customers, who are told to open github issues now which are auto-closed after being ignored. I'd rather invest my time in any other platform without the other issues that it brings at this point.
I think you might be overblowing things. The quotes are:

> Staying in touch [...] require[s] little effort, time and resources but has an unlimited upside

In this case the "unlimited upside" is set in contraposition to the amount of effort it requires. It might not exactly true (it's not "unlimited") but it's "big".

> Unfortunately, for most people (me included) this isn’t something that happens naturally. So unless you have a solid system, chances are high that you won’t reach out to people regularly and miss out on a ton of fun and opportunities.

What puts it in context for me is that first one in the second quote: this article is addressing people with difficulties keeping in touch. If you're not that, the article is not for you, and at's ok.

Once that's clear, the other phrases read to me like motivational speech - for others and for the author themselves.

If the article was about weight lifting, it would start by talking about the health benefits it can bring.

A lot of friendships are (mutually) beneficial. Others are more neutral, and yes, some are pernicious. But you are not going to get people motivated to maintain them or make new ones if you lead with that. That'd be starting the weight lifting article by listing all the different injuries you can get.

> Zuckerborg meme.

I think you might be showing a lack of empathy here.
In Scotland the Royal Mail could not do private prosecutions and instead only did prosecutions via the regular public bodies - the procuratoer fiscal. So if the private prosecutions were themselves an aggravating factor, we'd surely expect to see a significantly lower rate of prosecutions in Scotland than in England? And the same goes for Northern Ireland

The data that I can see shows that 76 subpostmasters were prosecuted in Scotland which doesn't seem completely wacky out of line with the rest of the UK.
Ah, so maybe that was always only an issue on Linux, it’s fine on Windows.
ah, thank you; I will correct above
At least in the Nordics, most folks I know in the past years have been taking out floating rate mortgages.

Makes complete sense given interest rates are zero right now. However, if the ECB keeps getting surprised by inflation (like the Fed is in the US), interest rates may have to be start rising in fast, dramatic fashion.
Podio is designed for different use-cases than Jet Admin. What have you built in Podio?
You wouldn't even need centralized services to do this properly. Just bring back the old "My Briefcase" UI for device syncing, now additionally backed by a git repository for history, "fork" and "merge" support.
> Targeting means having an EU office, using an EU domain, providing EU languages such as Polish or allowing payments in EU currencies.

Nope. There's only a single requirement: having EU users.
> Picking individual investments is mostly a sucker's game.

Kind of. What you have to remember is what game you’re playing. While financial firms can outspend and out-research you at an individual level, they can’t take the same risks you can or move as quickly as you can. If I decide I want to go all-in on some company I can just do that. Your friendly neighborhood hedge fund? Not so much.

Most people should buy index funds or similar, no change there, and even those who decide they want to pick stocks should mostly have a broad portfolio, but you can pick stocks if you want and you can be successful.
It's not hypocrisy - taking responsibility is one of the reasons management exists in the first place.
Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges
I had to debug some of my own 15 year old C# the other day, quite a reminder of how far .NET has come. Back then I rolled my own ORM and it was fun but not a patch on EFCore.

One dark place some .NET devs got caught in the early days was some of the 3rd party ORMs. Nightmare of weird code, proprietary mapping tools and headaches.

I am still not sold on linq2sql either. Debugging that is never fun.
Lemmy exists. join-lemmy.org
> Either way, sell early and buy the crash.

Trying to time the market is akin to individual stock picking.

When it works, it’s usually just luck.
> Unfortunately, some people will be above the law, while others will be subjected to it.

This is a big problem, but hardly the only one.

There’s plenty of things illegal in various places right now which I don’t believe should be illegal. And some other things which were illegal and socially unacceptable when I was young and which are now not only perfectly legal but also socially normalised such that having a problem with it marks one as a bigot.

But even for the things which I do wish to remain illegal, almost all of them will need significantly reduced penalties in a world of omniscient surveillance.

To give a specific example of how the status quo would break if we had perfect surveillance but didn’t change anything else: In the UK, the minimum penalty is a £100 fine and 3 points on your license, and if you get 12 points within a 3 year period you can be disqualified from driving. Enforce that perfectly, how fast would everyone in the UK lose their licenses?
The question is not if you get paid or not but rather if you wouldn't get paid more doing something arguably more productive..
There's probably a lot of context missing here.

Take the London marathon for example. Anyone can take part, but only a few people are allowed to start at the front. Runners must achieve a certain time at other accredited marathons to be able to start at the front. Those who do are classed as Elite level runners.

So I don't see it as a boastful thing, just a matter of fact. If thewizardofaus has reached this status in their sport, then it's reasonable to use the term when describing themselves.
Now I wonder, if this is also possible on Pixel 5's SoC too.
Yes. I have been corrected above.

It is a longstanding power the Royal Mail had, in fact.

But yes, private prosecutions are protected by law and Royal Mail now prosecutes using the right of an individual RM employee to bring the charge.

So the bit I want to read up on later is exactly who the individuals were in each prosecution. Is it the chief executive?
> Counter question: Why aren't docking stations for laptops common in hotels/coffee shops/wherever? Or am just not staying in the "right" hotels? To me it just seems that the demand is pretty tiny.

Well, there is an attack called the "evil maid" attack. This attack can happen whenever your hardware is unattended for some period of time. A hotel where maids enter the room every day unattended is quite literally the scenario for this attack. Imagine the surface area for attack, where a dock gets modified, then an unsuspecting user plugs into the dock.

Not only is the demand tiny, but the liability is incredibly high for hotels.
Yeah those ORMs were horrible. We used NHibernate what with being sold down the river by Udi Dahan on domain modelling etc. That was a huge mistake too. Dapper is the only ORM that hasn't screwed us in some way.
Which is why the greyscale should be done with an alpha channel, so it correctly blends with the background, and supports coloured text.
Ask HN: What is the one OSS project that you're most proud of?
Please provide Github or similar public link.
The desktop GUI story is awful and Microsoft have no good ways of fixing it.

Most everything else is awesome. .NET core or .NET 6 is what you want.
It doesn't account for inflation, though.
Where are the cool free projects? This repography is yet another product that wants my money.
I've stopped caring but if I had to I could be paid a lot more to do something more productive. But sometimes it's nice to sit there and watch visual studio crash 30 times a day or lagging out when I hit a key because it makes me angry enough to go for a walk which I really enjoy :)
> I am currently considering Recaptcha during a login process

Please don't, think about your users. Just use normal rate limiting instead of forcing me to select more god damn street signs.
You are basically selling your soul to Microsoft. Microsoft is controlling virtually all development even on the open source side.

Also, expect to write 5-10 times more code than with other popular languages. You may not notice this when you come from Java or C++ because then it is an improvement.
Refs:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-and-redpilled
Profanity filter running amok? See the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Yes it can be applied to a small group (i.e it can be scaled down). i.e there is a plan to start small, but also grow big.
If so, what a monumental PR disaster to not lead with that instead.
Maybe it's just on my side but the l's in the flipped "all" seem to be either displayed upright or not at the correct height. Which would only support the linked article.
I can compare .NET core to Django and .NET doesn't hold a candle in terms of tools and ecosystem.
As Trudeau has demonstrated [0], cryptocurrencies can ensure an uninterrupted access to freedom of speech [1], despite the governments' attempts at silencing their opposition. [2]

[0] https://youtu.be/A651oDZvb0E?t=266

[1] https://tallyco.in/s/lzxccm/

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/freedom-convoy-2022-d...
If you just want the direct URL, then according to my podcast app, you can find it here:

https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nrss1.rss
Show HN: OracleMovies, OpenSea for Movie Rights
Too bad that it is almost impossible to actually purchase one.
> It's wrong in a way that is stable as well, and that is why it takes effort to fight: people easily get anxious about rejection, and they easily get it in their heads that the other person doesn't want to hear from them. Anything from "we had a bad interaction" to "they didn't reply last time" seems to be an excuse to cut contact.

I get that can happen with some relationships. But with all of them? I think that even accounting for some relationships where contact is one-sided, maintaining the "last contact" column is going to be a real hassle, and I find it weird it's not even mentioned.

> Kinda like TCP, you can have an open connection even though nothing is sent over it.

I honestly don't think so. A consistent lack of response usually indicates the other person doesn't care.

> I have a number of friends who are super warm and chummy when I'm near them, but they never take it upon themselves to initiate anything.

And I do think that the best thing to do in that case is to tell them that they should make an effort to initiate contact. I don't need them to be on a schedule, but I'd like to think that my friends won't forget about me completely if I stop contacting them.

Again, I get that some relationships can be one-sided. But not all. That's why I find it weird that the system doesn't really plan for that.
Take a look at the circle pack layout, it's what I use to group by schema

https://blog.miz.space/tutorial/2020/01/05/gephi-tutorial-la...
You have to choose between being a human or having a job.

It's not Amazon, the whole modern society works like this.

Humans are social by nature, but since childhood we are forced to avoid deep and meaningful relationships because everybody is a competitor, the "enemy" you should leave behind.

Instead of living, we are trained to perform and win over the competition.

Instead of making friends, we push people away and divide people into groups of winners and losers.

Instead of feel like humans, we are forced to ignore the feelings to keep going, keep performing, just like we were all machines.

And at the end, if you cannot keep up, you are discarded like trash, because you are no longer contributing to your employer's revenues goals.
Thank you for the chart. Germany is further down the list than even I thought, admittedly. How sad ist that. Here I thought that at least Germany having a good social safety net and free university would mean it is somewhat easy to pull yourself out of low income if you are intelligent and have the drive, as well as parents who gave you a bit of encouragement in your early years. Seems like even that is harder than I thought.

Do you have one for mean income to upper class by chance? Even +1 Std Deviation move would be significant in terms of wealth building.
ATL was elegant and clean if you were able to wrap your head around C++ templates.
Sorry, what do you want to say with that? I was talking in general, why Git repositories might contain commits which precede the creation of Git by a large amount. And I am sure, while no one committed the code in 1972 to any kind of repository, that the code snipped with its date is genuine. At that time Kernighan was working with other legends off the Unix world on Unix and the C language.
Yes

> Simpler rules on cookies: the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. The new rule will be more user-friendly as browser settings will provide an easy way to accept or refuse tracking cookies and other identifiers. The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies that improve internet experience, such as cookies to remember shopping-cart history or to count the number of website visitors.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eprivacy-r...
Exactly, game developers publish on Steam because they want to be on Steam while the App Store is the only way to publish for iOS and the Play Store is also heavily favored by the Android OS to make other avenues for publishing apps unrealistic. That said, a large value of Steam is the network effect (users wanting to have everything in the same store/launcher, friends on Steam for multiplayer) rather than platform features that others could directly compete with so I don't think the cut Valve takes is beyond criticism.
Good catch. I saw jasonelle and assumed it was a forked project.
According to Google:

> Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Cloaking is considered a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines because it provides our users with different results than they expected.

— https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

It’s clear that Google aren’t enforcing this rule thoroughly though.

Edit: It’s possible that the allowed sites are using JSON-LD to avoid being classified as cloaking:

> This page describes how to use schema.org JSON-LD to indicate paywalled content on your site with CreativeWork properties. This structured data helps Google differentiate paywalled content from the practice of cloaking, which violates our guidelines.

— https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
I played Ragnarok Online in 200x .. no other game ever came close in complexity and in-game features. It's a wonder what 70k lines of pure C code can do. Server software leaked early on, so the most interesting part was feverishly studying it, looking for exploitable bugs. And there were a lot .. :)

Later all EU servers were shut down thanks to GDRP.
If the seller is already in the market for an ask at 120, and there is a buyer ready to buy at 140, no trader can come in an pocket the difference in a regulated market.

If there is no buyer yet and a trader suspect there might be in the future, it could try to buy at 120 and hope to sell in the future at 140. Of course the the sale might not materialize and they will need to take the risk.
I always used it without the desktop gui frameworks and didn't have this experience, aside from a couple of abandoned 3rd party tools. One web thing I did has been chugging, unchanged for 15 years. Overall it has been great for me.

But getting sucked into silverlight would likely have soured me on it.
No it can be skill. Was Warren Buffet and Charlie munger just lucky, year after year? Was Michael Burry of the Big Short just lucky to short the mortgage backed securities market, no he also side stepped the dot com crash and bought value stocks, recently he had very nice shorts on Kathy Woods ARKK... clearly he isn't just lucky, he has skill. I used to think I have skill yet my results were random for about a decade, then I grew a lot emotionally and in wisdom/perspective, and now I too beat the market average in both return and risk.
I'm not sure whether you are implying Microsoft has changed or their PR?
Microsoft will frequently hype up things only to drop them 1-2-3 years later. Beware of the hype, especially when coming from MS.

Also, keep stuff up-to-date, MS will at the same time maintain things forever and drop them mercilessly (look at .NET framework itself; it still runs - so counts as "maintained"; but if you didn't migrate to .NET core/ .NET5 / .NET6, you're in a very bad position for the future. With the announcement of .NET core they made a lot of code obsolete).

The previous two things combined create a somewhat bizarre situation: you want to keep up to date with the latest things MS is up to.... but not TOO up-to-date, because you can get into the "hype that will be killed" train. E.g. .NET core 1 was too early to jump onboard - wasn't clear that it's not going to be an UWP. But by .NET core 3, you'd better pay close attention and be ready to invest whatever it takes to move on to the new tech. Probably around .NET core 2.1 was the moment when one should've confidently said that "MS is serious about this .NET core stuff"? (though the exact timing is of course debateable)
I mean, is it discoverable via the show's webpage?
That's a good outcome but Sega can change their stance at any moment. And they still have to like the game to let you publish it.
>Well, the issue is that baseline level of commitment is extremely low, to the point where I don't think it's an actual relationship if you only talk once a year. Once a year and zero are practically the same.

If your interactions sum up to a baseline level for a few times, you should lower frequency with which you contact a person. If it is already at the lowest level, you should stop talking. You are just making sure that you don't loose contact with anyone who you don't want to loose contact with, that's all.
I can't find it. But I'm on mobile and not in the UK. The page does reference https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/feeds-and... but that isn't the podcast feed (and seems mostly unrelated).