skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Before "somebody" lost their job and sold their stock, there were X people holding Y dollars. Afterwards, there are still X people holding Y dollars

Maybe it's better to think of it as X-1 people holding Y+1 dollars :P

But really, I think the above poster answered your question with this bit:

> This adds downward pressure on the market since people must sell

Prices go up when you bid higher than the current price for something, and conversely they go down when you bid lower than the current price.

When someone sells in these situations, it means the current average price has dropped.

Also sometimes, when people are desperate to sell, they can really lowball the value of something causing its overall value to depreciate significantly.
There is a lot to a guitar. Players can be particular about the type of wood used on their fretboard, if the frets are slanted or not, if there are frets, floating bridge vs fixed bridge, locked tuners, intonation, weight, feel, electronics etc.

The guitar doesn’t make the guitarist but when it is a labor of love some do really care about these things.
> Electricity is cheap

Ugh, not in Europe, especially not now

https://euenergy.live/

And even in the USA it seems it depends from where you live

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
But Soros and his allies were not using confidential information; they were not insiders. I am not a fan of this kind of thing at all, but insider trading laws aren't relevant.

As for your last point, yes, if the Bank of England had surrendered earlier they would have lost far less money and Soros and his allies would have made far less profit.
Point is people have to choose a password and supply an email (for the company to spam) just to comment on a news article or submit a bug report. Of course passwords are reused for all that type of website.
2FA is a PITA when you don't even care if your account is hacked.
If money or reputation is concerned people take more care.

It is trivial to set a long random cookie on a machine that provides 2FA for all repeated use of a service until the user deletes tokens or changes device. No need for bad UX.
The quantity of money in the system doesn't stay the same. Speculators buy financial assets such as stock and real estate on credit. This increases valuations and causes more speculators to buy financial assets on credit, or at least stop paying back their other debts as fast so they can hold more assets, to capture asset price gains. When the process slows down eventually the expected asset price gains will be lower than the interest owed on the debt, causing a sell off.

That's the basics of how a credit bubble works.
> Most modern games can detect alternate layouts and remap keys automatically, and for those that can’t it’s not difficult to remap them.

I have a wildly different experience, most games never manage to detect my AZERTY keyboard, and some don’t even let me remap easily (case in point, stranded deep does not even let you remap or see controls during the tutorial, which was a truly awful experience). Nowadays I force qwerty during games to avoid issues caused by developers not understanding that there are different layouts out there.
I'm in the software business, not IT. Having it quietly work for years on end is a win for me.
That depends on which country you live in. In my country (The Netherlands) you pay a fixed percentage of the value of your portfolio. Dividends are not taxed.
I make a promise to trade around 40 hours of labor for money each week.
A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use – IEA
And away we go.
You make a promise to do a reasonable job. Sometimes it's the company that makes a promise for you (feature and deadline specified) and then it's not really your responsibility to complete the promise.
It's not fair to blame users on this, because it's impossible to "teach" people to come up with and remember 100+ hard passwords and recall which service which password belongs to.

Passwords were the problem to begin with. Easy to implement, but extremely hard to remember and use correctly.

MFA is part of the solution to this problem.
At best, it's a bad practice to collect personal information without a privacy policy. IANAL so I can't say much beyond that.
Automatically commit your Dev.to articles to your personal GitHub repo
Relevant blog post 'Now They Have 2FA Problems':

https://www.go350.com/posts/now-they-have-2fa-problems/
I still haven't forgiven the manjaro developers for their habit of - instead of actually trying to help - sending users to the arch linux community support channels with instructions to lie about which distro they were using to get help under false pretenses.

I don't think they still do that but the lack of any sort of public apology that I've seen makes me suspect that they only stopped because they got caught.
But is it just a question of education, or also a question of usability? A nice, random sequence of alphanumerical characters that can not be connected to the user at all is, unsurprisingly, hard to remember for the user. Dumb stuff like reusing passwords and choosing pet names is a mistake from a security perspective of course, but also a mitigation of the poor usability of passwords. Don't expect the user to remember dozens and hundreds of strong passwords.

Rather, I would advocate password managers. For me personally, the simple usability of Firefox's integrated password manager (auto-suggests a strong password on account creation, auto-saves the credentials and syncs them across devices) has done more to improve my passwords than all education. I guess I am lazy, but many people are.
Interesting. Investing in Berkshire is like investing in a diversified index fund.
There is a centralized solution to it. At most well-run companies, all the SAAS apps you log into will be tied to your Google Apps account, so you'll MFA to Google and to nothing else. Not only that, but Google will "remember" (cookie) your device, so you MFA to it only once in a blue moon.
If you want an ergonomic keyboard with a configurable thumb cluster I'm fairly certain your only options are mechanical.
Ausschalten – Einschalten – Geht (aka: have tried switching it off and on again)
I agree, I don't think I'd call Soros a leftist- a liberal, maybe. But leftist is wrong- he's a wealthy capitalist, and leftist thought generally involves anticapitalist views. In fact leftists generally view center liberals as their most effective enemies.

But yeah the right always tries to portray him as leftist to try to connect him with "antifa" as part of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Can you cite an example? A quick google search for 'NPR "the livestock medication Ivermectin"' leads to https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030208101/mississippi-livest... which explicitly states it's a version -formulated- for livestock.
Electrolux is one of those companies that I avoid at all costs. Everything they make is garbage.
> In the UK, if you're on a high rate (but a short contract), you can at least look forward to when interest rates fall.

At the cost of never being able to predict your monthly outgoings in the face of turbulent financial markets.
Or roads are badly designed, in a way that their psychological speed limit is higher than what is indicated. But the lower limit can have more reasons, such as noise pollution near a residential area, or pedestrian safety.
You should see what happens when you lose your phone and didn't save your recovery codes! 2FA is great until it isn't
I need to validate but I expect many of these tools will not handle piped input properly, use event loops or otger tools that expect keyboard input as events not just streams. Other prosaic applicationisms abound- How does one send cursor up, or F10 to get into a memu, to an app via stdin? The paradigm falls appart, & TUI's as distonctly different elements than regular cli tools rears it's ugly head.

Tools like espeak and dc that you cite fall into the conventional cli-tools camp. By compare mamy of the TUI tools we see here have their own autocomplete systems embedded in the program, multiple screens, full terminal layouts, multiple on-screen focus-able areas.
> The Democrats did the same exact thing with Russiagate. Both in terms of the accusation and pursuing it through legal channels, all based on fictional evidence to boot.

It’s incredible that this is still being parroted even after the Russian invasion. Go and read at the actual Muller report and Senate Intel report vol 5. The findings of the us senate and special counsel are that Russia hacked the 2016 election with the intent of helping Trump, and the Trump campaign worked willingly with them on this effort and lied about it to everyone.

Most notably, Trump’s campaign manager was sharing internal campaign data with a Russian Intel officer, who transmitted the data to the GRU. This is the collusion we had all claimed was happening, and it was found. Calling this a hoax at this point is willingly spreading Russian disinformation. This is the position of Vladimir Putin, that Russian interference in 2016 was a hoax. Think about that, as he bombs and targets civilians. Why are you still carrying their water for them on this front? What if, actually, after all these years, you are wrong about that? What evidence would it take to change your mind?

Let me ask you this, as you say the Russian scandal was based on fictional evidence, how many pages of the Mueller report and Senate Intel report have you personally actually read?

Here’s their bottom line:

It is our conclusion, based on the facts detailed in the Committee's Report, that the Russian intelligence services' assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral process[,] and Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity, represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modern era.

Trump and his associates participated and enabled hacking of his rivals in 2016. Russian collusion. Republicans authored that report, btw. What’s your position on the 2016 election after reading that?
I want to point out most cars made after 2004 or so have no physical connection between not just accelerator and engine but more importantly wheels and steering wheel.

So their usability is as good as the software written to control them and the motor/sensor windings, etc.

Not unlike the software controlling that microwave.
The number of shares sold and bought are always exactly the same.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moergo/glove80-the-incr...
Firefox's default settings are optimized for usability and not breaking websites. For privacy and security some of that must be sacrificed. The Tor Browser, LibreWolf and arkenfox user.js all make Firefox less usable, or not usable at all in some cases.
Is that what actually happened in this case, though? (Not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know).

I ask because the decision to short the pound was a coordinated attack among many powerful financial institutions. There is a reason collusion in other economic areas is illegal, precisely because it allows a "mispricing" to occur compared to what would happen if their were arms-length, fair competition.

Again, I have no idea if this is a valid criticism of Soros' trade, but the part of the article about him convincing other investors to go along with trade reminded me in a way of the agreement of SV companies not to poach each other's talent, which HN loves to decry as illegal collusion to depress wages.
You think SpaceX is more likely to achieve commercially viable fusion than MIT and ITER?
Electrolux are a horrible company. They seem to have borged a whole load of other brands, which all have now descended to Electrolux's abysmal standards.

- They don't support their own products; the warranty is served by a third-party

- Their products are built to a price-point, and fail just after the warranty is up

- Spare parts are expensive

- They apparently have neither an email address or phone number

The water heater in my AEG dishwasher failed three times in six months. Each time I had to wait a month for the repair man to arrive, declare that my water-heater had failed, and come back two weeks later to fit the part.

I don't understand why market forces haven't bankrupted them.
I don't think the value investing concept really addresses the birth rate bomb the author mentions.
Value stocks give better returns because they are riskier, not because of the quality of OP's analysis into what companies are worth. And why do they ignore the fact that indexes can be diversified across countries? These counterarguments seem to only be applicable to single country indexes.
Are there still consumer white goods brands that aren't lowest-bidder Chinese crap? I've learned not to trust brand names anymore and just assume everything is crap and buy cheap stuff that I wouldn't mind replacing at the smallest problem.
> I have a feeling that actions of central banks are poorly discussed

You and I have very different definition of “poorly discussed”.
George Soros has been known as "The Man Who Broke The Bank of England" pretty much since it happened. It's a riff on a much earlier phrase, "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo", which has been around since the 19th century, referring to a gambler. It pre-dates the current right's antisemitic obsession with him by quite a long way, and I don't think it's been used as a pejorative term at all - more a mark of respect. But I could be wrong about that.
Cool! What are examples of this? It’s really hard to find the data sheets for these. Or at least I couldn’t
Widespread physical and genomic adaptation to environment can occur within weeks
I like MDN. But Mozilla's staff didn't solve the code sample licensing issue[0] a year after the MDN's transaction to Yari (the new platform).

For now, it is impossible to tell whether a given code snippet is licensed under CC0 or MIT.

Good luck using code from MDN.

[0]: https://github.com/mdn/content/discussions/5901
The future of news with Bob Iger and Jon Stewart [video]
Of course the real reason for 2fa over sms, is that companies want your phone number as well as your email address.
They would have saved a lot of cents if the device wasn't internet connected tho.
> The US government does through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, effectively subsidising the mortgage market.

For so-called "conforming" loans (647k USD this year), the equivalent of which would be enough to buy a nice house almost anywhere in the UK except London, the nicer parts of the Home Counties or the South West.
Of course you're not lazy. You're just human. Our brain isn't designed to store and recall this kind of information.
I have a dozen or more devices that can burn down my house (or kill me in other interesting ways) connected to the internet because I am confident in the precautions taken by the engineers who designed them and mitigating the “hacker” threat model is mostly already addressed by precautions already taken to mitigate failing (“rogue”) controller boards present in their non-internet connected counterparts through 30+ years of iteration.

Specifically my laser printer has a thermal bypass switch, my smartphone(s) have charge controllers integrated into the batteries, my water heater has a pressure release valve, my oven is literally designed to withstand max heat for an indefinite period of time, my garage door is a death trap in four different ways (but has redundant safeguards for all of those), my kettle has has a thermocouple that trips when it boils dry etc. etc.

From a micro-morts perspective, adding “electricity” to an object makes it significantly more dangerous than adding “internet”. Ie going from a hand grinder to an electric grinder. But the utility is worth the trade off.
“Each Firefox download has a unique identifier”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163
7 in 10 long Covid patients are dealing with memory and concentration problems
No, Tokamak fusion just has no path to practical commercial energy production. The program is just a way to throw money to, mostly, military contractors, and to a handful of physicists, including some plasma fluid dynamics physicists. The last might be able to come up with actually useful ideas, eventually.
Related tools:

TLDR community managed man pages https://tldr.sh/

Cheat Sheet access to community driven docs http://cht.sh/

Bro pages (like TLDR, but without the great name) http://bropages.org/
> I have no clue how to get started…

Think WHO, not How.

Build out your own a strategic org chart of the people WHO really get things done in the new company.

Reach out to individuals for a simple introduction— see where your circles overlap.

Assuming good tonality, ask WHO you should speak to next?

Look for the outliers and power connectors. Those guys who seem to know and really get along well with everyone.

Personal experience— my second week on the job, I met a British Ex-Pat who ran our São Paulo sales office. He became my linchpin to all our overseas operations.
2FA doesn’t protect against phishing because the phisher can just create a form for the 2FA code and the victim, who already trusts the phishing page because they’ve already typed in their username and password, will give it to them.

2FA protects against attacks like trying passwords from a hacked database on other accounts with the same username.
But he isn't really of "the left", he has mainly funded centrist Democrats, not the progressive wing; as you say, he is a capitalist. And his influence is greatly exaggerated.
"I am there to make money; I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do" - George Soros

Someone who explicitly says that as a teenager, he enjoyed his time working for the Nazis while they were looting those targeted, is not going to be shamed over taking $1 billion in a trade.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWizajL7tA compilation of clips from 60 Minutes interviews, etc. (from 3m45s he talks about his time helping to confiscate property from Hungarian Jews)
>They require the user to know how the machine functions.

No, they don't. That's why they worked so well and was my entire point. All people needed to know was that they wanted to go forward, backward, or stop movement in whatever music or video was playing and that's a clear metaphorical and symbolical link. Someone with no knowledge of the function could walk up to a tape recorder and infer what the symbols meant in relation to what was happening.

The hamburger menu is not even intuitively a list and there's no connection that a user presented with it would recognize it as a call for a menu/list. There are plenty of user studies that confirm this.
Sorry. I may not have the exact words correct, despite having used quote marks. My point was that it was NPR, which is very mainstream, and that they were taking the idea that Ivermectin is for animals (and implicitly not for humans) as a given. I do recall that I heard it on their Alexa flash briefing bit.
It's because just about everybody has a phone.
Ask HN: How to attract your first 10k users?
What are some good tips for promoting a new app to your first 10,000 users and gaining some traction? (Without ads or scam of course)
If you assume that a bad bear market is a 40% drawdown, and since 2009 the S&P 500 has gained 20% on a good year, you only need just 2 good years or a mixture of some good and mediocre years to offset a bear market. So this means staying out of the market even for just 2-4 years may mean never having the chance to buy back at a lower price even in a bear market. Indeed, the market crashed in early 2020 due to Covid but only got as low as where it was in early 2017.

Also, huge firms are generating more cash than ever . This is $ that must go to shareholders such as in the form of buybacks , dividends , or retained earnings , even in the absence of growth. A $1 billion company that generates $100 million in annual profit means that every year shareholders become 10% richer even if the company does not grow earnings or size at all.

Less fertility not such a big deal if people have more disposable income and high standards of living to offset it.

Predictions of overvaluation , crisis, are commonplace and yet the market keeps marching higher. Pays to be optimistic as far as investing is concerned.
Most folks seem to believe that laws are an import part of society. The sages maintain that the appearance of written laws indicates that society has already degraded too far.

When passwords for computers were first introduced RMS objected. His password was "password", and anyone could log in using it.

Remember that RMS is correct (when it comes to computers) and reflect.

Why did he do that?

Because he knew that passwords on computers were stupid make-believe (we call it "security theater" now), pernicious nonsense.

Computers are where you put secrets to give them to hackers. Computers don't keep secrets.
Makes sense. Ziti could still be used on the dataplane to provide higher security on top of Cilium.

Could be worth having a chat with the team from Ziti, I know they are always interested to chat on things they can zitify - e.g.,
https://ziti.dev/blog/kubernetes/
https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen

They hang out here - https://openziti.discourse.group/
Exactly, it’s a pragmatic choice.

There are scenarios where that doesn’t provide sufficient assurance, but those scenarios are also not really suited for TOTP in the first place!
Intentional Malware? Are you serious?
Snap seems so obviously the wrong approach that I struggle to understand how it got this far.

Really, of the three big new-fangled Linux software distribution formats, AppImage is the only I've tried that didn't immediately turn me off.
> declaring HFT completely useless, for example.

Please do ! The amount of resources invested in making HFT possible and profitable is no where close to being justified by the benefits it brings to society as a whole.

Making financial information move in days instead of week ? Sure !. In hours instead of days ? Yep !. In minutes instead of hours ? Why Not !. In seconds instead of minutes ? Mmmh yeah, I guess. In milliseconds instead of seconds ? Stop it. Opening a road to put high quality cables and hiring some of the most clever folks on the planet to cut half a milisec on a buy/sell algo ? Fuck you.
With this type system is it possible to subclass string and int, to enforce types for, let’s say, firstName, postalCode, etc.
Agreed.

It's basic game theory, understanding adversarial finance, and applying risk management practices at the sovereign state (central bank) level.

It does seem strange today to bet somewhere in the neighborhood of $7 ~ $8 billions, to only realize a capital gain of ~$1 billion, but it's actually a really impressive ~14% return.

The issue I suppose is where taking that adversarial position, and then being outspoken about the topic, in essence a variation of pump'n'dump for short sellers... proclaim the doom of the British sterling, and the doom becomes real via market awareness.... or, is "market awareness" really just market manipulation?
Yep. They kind of hint at the end that the real solution is to actually fix urllib. Removing it is a mistake IMO, even if it's for "security reasons" but especially if it's for a bad API. I'd rather it be included and kind of broken than removed.
I wish I could use Yubikeys everywhere and that I can have multiple keys instead of just one. Only Google seems to get that second part right....
Are there still software features exclusive to Intel's chips? I remember my dabble in Android Studio was painful, since the 'simulated device' functionality was only available on Intel, while I had some FX-8??? AMD chip.

I'm not in the market for a new gaming PC quite yet, but it's also going to be a personal workstation, so I don't want to deal with anything like above if it can be helped.
From glancing at the "main features", it looks like this is just Firefox with some preference tweaks and uBO preinstalled. I'm not seeing anything I can't already do in vanilla Firefox either by changing preferences or about:config.

Is there anything in the browser code this fork actually changes?