skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement about no investors beating the market is demonstrably false. Look at Michael Burry for example. What the statements about index funds say about is the average investor, not the atypical high performer. The argument is also weakened by $0 commission trading which did not exist when those studies were being done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry

> After shutting down his website in November 2000, Burry started the hedge fund Scion Capital, funded by an inheritance and loans from his family. He named it after Terry Brooks' The Scions of Shannara (1990), one of his favorite novels. He quickly earned extraordinary profits for his investors. According to author Michael Lewis, "in his first full year, 2001, the S&P 500 fell 11.88%. Scion was up 55%. Burry was able to achieve these returns by shorting overvalued tech stocks at the peak of the internet bubble.[13] The next year, the S&P 500 fell again, by 22.1%, and Scion was up again: 16%. The next year, 2003, the stock market finally turned around and rose 28.69%, but Burry beat it again, with returns of 50%. By the end of 2004, he was managing $600 million and turning money away."[6]

In 2005, Burry started to focus on the subprime market. Through his analysis of mortgage lending practices in 2003 and 2004, he correctly predicted that the real estate bubble would collapse as early as 2007. His research on the values of residential real estate convinced him that subprime mortgages, especially those with "teaser" rates, and the bonds based on these mortgages, would begin losing value when the original rates were replaced by much higher rates, often in as little as two years after initiation. This conclusion led him to short the market by persuading Goldman Sachs and other investment firms to sell him credit default swaps against subprime deals he saw as vulnerable.[14][15][16]

During his payments toward the credit default swaps, Burry suffered an investor revolt, where some investors in his fund worried his predictions were inaccurate and demanded to withdraw their capital. Eventually, Burry's analysis proved correct: He made a personal profit of $100 million and a profit for his remaining investors of more than $700 million.[6] Scion Capital ultimately recorded returns of 489.34% (net of fees and expenses) between its November 1, 2000 inception and June 2008. The S&P 500, widely regarded as the benchmark for the US market, returned just under 3%, including dividends over the same period.[6]
US Army plan to combat climate change lacks the fighting spirit
It’s not about trade deficits but about calories for citizens and crop land foot print+productivity
If we were faced with famine even army could provide sufficient logistical support.

The only problem during COVID was that it was not profitable. It was cheaper to dispose it than to try to sell it.
'Don't get me wrong, LGBT and such are important, but that's not the job of Mozilla.'

ESG Funds my friend, it is all about the money.
You're right on float adjustment. But shares of coke held by Berkshire are still considered part of float.
Original != Good - you'd need a discriminator for "goodness".
Ubisoft Scalar: cloud native game engine
I cancelled a couple of months ago (was on a Student membership and wouldn't let me extend). Things still take only 1 or 2 days to ship, but they hold off on shipping it for about 3 or 4 days.
Whether or not the market works itself out later, it puts everything into a weird state while the bidding war is going on. If iBuyer1 and iBuyer2 together buy up the inventory of a zip code for 120% of asking, then what are people who are willing to go to 105% to do? Maybe it just resets the market to whatever the drunken algorithm decided it to be.
Last I heard, you wouldn't need a DB since you'd just use the blockchain as a stream of events your website is built from.

That said, I have more reservations about this concept than the Hilton.
Right, and the fact that you disagree is why M-COOL seems like a good solution: put all the relevant info on the label, and let each person choose where they draw the line.
I kind of wish the inverse - they have some really good shows on Prime video, but I don't buy much anymore on Amazon (local stores have really stepped up the same-day delivery game).
More about Common Crawl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

> Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2011. It completes crawls generally every month. ...
Security is without doubt not a core selling point of crypto though?

The design introduces security problems that it then has to solve, and in doing so, reduces security in other places
I was one of the two guys who came up with the original concept for Librefox.

I was responsible for including uBO as default, among other things.

Great to see that the project was brought back to life as LibreWolf - Mozilla lawyers had threatened us with legal action because the name was too close to their brand. They expected us to drop the "Fox" part of the name.

Everytime I see LibreWolf on HN I feel proud that the spirit of Librefox is still alive.

The biggest issue with LibreWolf and what's stopping it's further adoption is lack of auto-updates (especially on Windows) and lack of usability - it should work out of the box for everyone. Currently the security settings are too strict in default mode. There should be different levels of pre-configured security levels users can chose in the settings (i.e. "standard", "strict", "very strict").

(I don't use HN for commenting, which is why I created a throwaway account)
We are fans of the clean docs experience this produces. Works great with Postman.
WTF – The Terminal Dashboard
I see... to prevent an army of zombie ovens coordinating to DDoS some service or web site...
Without him, all of the quoted effects would not have happened, right? It actually took his direct action to catalyze those events into the stated negative outcomes. So how is it not at least partially (though actually mostly) his fault? If someone kills someone else, do you blame the murderer's mom for his existence, or Walmart for selling the knife, or do you blame the murderer for doing the stabbing?
As others have said, on Ubuntu/Linux, ansible.

On windows, I'm still working on it, but chocolatey provides a decent starter for getting dev tools I need installed, just gotta figure out a way to save and restore configs.
wallofambient
Biden's Call with Xi Jinping has Ended – Here are Reasons it could be Critical
I'd suggest the Auto Tab Discard extension. It's wonderful.
Do you always know when you come home? Can you excuse yourself with i have to leave this meeting now or my house burns down in your job?
If you're sure you don't trust any dodgy certificates, sure you aren't vulnerable to any kind of downgrade attacks, sure you don't use any less-than-good sites, sure you're using DNS over https 100% of the time, sure you never use any unencrypted and/or unauthenticated protocols (like plain SMTP for instance), and sure you don't have any ports open then... yeah, I guess it's mitigated.

My personal preference would be to just use a VPN when on any untrusted network. At least then you only have to worry about the security of one "site," more or less. And of course your own open ports.
You've got a point in re: Python being good enough for several niches. However, I think the set of people who want to do all those things but don't want to use multiple languages is pretty small, like it's a hobbyists' market, eh?
A scientist typically wouldn't write web backend, a sysadmin doesn't do a lot of statistical stuff, etc.

A small startup might do well to make their MVP in Python, but as the code grows the implicit costs (of using Python) do too.

- - - -

In re: Rust, sorry I wasn't clear above. I don't mean that Rust is a glue language, I mean that people write e.g. grep replacements in it and things like that. Python does systems programming by being glue, Rust does it by being, well, Rust. It makes sense to me that Rust libs would get Python wrappers, but it also seems to me that that adds to my argument: Python is good for small glue, but crunchy things (like grep) should be written in e.g. Rust or Go or something.

(I feel I should mention in this connexion my favorite bit of obscure Python trivia: Python was originally meant to be the shell language of the Amoeba distributed OS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system) )

- - - -

One other thing about Python is that the packaging & distribution "story" is ridiculous now. The people in charge of that call themselves the Python Packaging Authority (which name, given what they're doing, reminds me of Brazil the movie) and they seem to me to be running amok, cargo-culting the crap out of what should be a pretty simple and straightforward problem. I could go on but I feel a rant brewing, so I'll cut it off there.

It's not just the PyPA folks that are having problems packaging and distributing Python. The Conda folks ship Tkinter in a broken state for five years now: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/6833 That's the default GUI system that's in the Python Standard Library.

Compare and contrast with Rust's Cargo, or Nim's Nimble, or Erlang's Rebar, etc.
NASA: First Woman
Firefox doesn't
Noticed the same, but I still think Zillow tweaks historical but just not as brazenly as Redfin.
All this looks like to me is Google developers use Chrome (surprise!). I've seen plenty of issues exactly like this at web shops where developers primarily use Chrome.
Reading that resulted in a rollercoaster of emotions. Yeah, government action will be needed for above to happen, but Bezos already seems to have bought them off...
They’re talking about the previous model there.

The Verge does a lot of 4K edits for their content, not just photoshopping.
TIL, thanks for sharing!
Australia launches program to curb stalkerware
Sounds reasonable. The agreement is that you sign up a household, and it's only been because they haven't been enforcing that part of the agreement that people have been sharing accounts across multiple households.

This is actually quite a good deal for those given the option - this is finally a sanctioned way to go about sharing the account, and it's cheaper than setting up a brand new account.
> The downside

If this wasn’t another house in the same neighborhood then the differentiator most certainly wasn’t Zillow or their pricing.
[Lake of Fire Screen]

We understand, maybe you aren't spiritual. That's okay! We value your business regardless. But you should consider that Jeff Bezos is a powerful billionaire that may one day bring about the Singularity and become Roko's Basilisk. We're not fucking around here, and we're upping the stakes: Some gods may be merciful, but Roko Bezos is not one of them

[Spend no money outside the Amazon ecosystem ever again] [Consign an endless number of sentient emulated versions of yourself to an emulated lake of fire]
In order to be successful on a new team or at new company I recommend The First 90 Days.

You could save time by simply reading and distilling this blog post: https://www.ricklindquist.com/notes/the-first-90-days
I asked to cancel my subscription once in a chat and they just flat out ignored my request although they said they would. I'm sure amazon has all sorts of scummy ways.
I think this is engendering a false sense of security. NPM's awful documentation doesn't specify whether it's possible for a dependency published 1 year ago to install, via a wildcard [transitive] dependency, a dependency updated today[0]. I have absolutely zero faith in the NPM devs' having considered this.

[0] In fact, it doesn't specify this flag at all. Nor does the command line help, or man page. It doesn't say a word about this, and it appears the only way to determine the semantics of this flag is to run it.
School board defies court ruling of discrimination against Asian students
Brave has some good ideas that could be adopted. Instead of completely forgoing features like DRM video, make them opt-in instead. The user can choose their level of privacy.
Ask HN: I ask for the link of an article of personal development published on HN
Can you give me the URL of a HN article, published between March and January (both inclusive), bound to an article written by a spy that explained how to get people to like you and influence them please? (A spy or someone working in the secret service of a country)
I think I remember one of the things he advised was to make people feel like they were making a choice.
Yep caddy is easy and painless
Could Russia plug the cloud gap with abandoned Western tech?
Is it perhaps a straw man argument? I've only heard people talk about high energy consumption in specific contexts like _bitcoin mining_.

I'm glad the tech community is starting to look at their environmental impact though.

While they're at it, can they please consider how many wasted resources they use on things like inefficient test automation which is usually only inefficient because they were lazy.
The quick demo looks pretty dope, but I am never gonna pay a subscription for a closed source token-identified cli tool. I would have paid a one time fee for a similar tool that doesn't phone home to check my api key every time I use it.
> * Audiophiles, as you note

I am not an audiophile, but I hear some variation of this mostly from people who have never listened to exceptional masters using really good audio equipment. Sure, the cost/performance ratio is usually prohibitive, but once you have that experience, I don't know how it can be objectively called "shit that just doesn't matter".

There is also using the aforementioned setup when high. For people who like doing it, the difference is even more obvious, and the ratio starts looking reasonable.
You have it backwards. Feeding people with meat is difficult.

This is why meat is expensive and why people in less developed countries can't afford as much meat as Americans.
Not me. I just want mixed residential housing. Yeah, it’s not happening because America made that effectively illegal. We’re finally rolling some of that back, but it’s going to take decades to undo and by that time the shortage will continue.
Buy in one of the surrounding zip codes? Wait out the idiots?
That's a good differentiator though. As methane, the gas is a significantly stronger greenhouse gas, and leaks are a persistent problem with natural gas
My kids love prodigy for Math. This looks very similar. I'm excited about it. It didn't seem to work great on mobile, I would recommend adding a warning when accessed on a non-desktop.
Are you saying AirBnB fixed all this? I don't see them renting much in late October nor passing out candy.
Ask HN: What do you think about the recent Web3 migration narrative?
There seems to be a constant narrative push of tech migration towards web3. And it seems to be coming primarily from VC firms having huge Web3 investments. I am yet to see an authentic dataset of this happening?
Damn these docs are gorgeous. Is there a free plan I can play around with? Would love to import some docs on this platform
I don't know... did that happen? Or is this a hypothetical?

It didn't happen (large scale intentional lying), but if my government openly lies, I will complain about it up and until they restrict my freedom of speech, and I'll use the mechanisms I know (using social media, salon discussion websites, etc) to promote my message.
This is interesting, but for me the barrier to entry is too high for me to try it out absent an urgent need.

Right now I'm thinking about visiting family sometime this summer and want to figure out the best time, so some sort of joint calendar might be good. But I can solve this problem adequately the usual way. I read through the front page and thought, "Oh, maybe!" But then I got to "Sign up or log in" and that was enough of a barrier that I closed the window.

The way to get me to take the next step would be to let me try the product anonymously, with just a unique link. Maybe a link that I can forward, as with Google Docs, to anybody I want to be involved. If I find it useful, then I'd be much more willing to jump through signup and account-linking hoops.
There's good news though if anyone reading this is concerned that it means they might be getting beef from Mexico that was raised in unsanitary conditions, with dangerous drugs, unhealthy diets and while exploiting low paid workers in terrible working conditions, which is that all of that is equally true of American beef, so there's really no difference.
https://www.sustasis.org/media has the announcement of his passing.
South Africa credit bureau breached, data reportedly held for $15M ransom
Ukraine is at a crossroads: join the rest of Europe or be dragged down into a dictatorship run by oligarchs. Giving up is not an option. If Russia wins the country is fucked for another generation.
> Tell me where the meat was born, raised, and slaughtered.

This! Can't agree more. In modern economies, something might be a product of few dozen countries (beef born there, raised here, slaughtered somewhere else, beans from that place and pepper imported from another, there's a can and paper label design and printing too, and of course a labor to make those into the final product - which might be distributed), so trying to argue about things as having single country of origin is just wrong and archaic.
Unfortunately it seems it doesn't support Cyrillic or Bulgarian well. I googled the mayor of the city I live in and there are 5 results all irrelevant. Unfortunately the experience in 'minor' languages is consistently bad in all alternative search engines.
Because the opposite is furthering hyperinflation.

Do not raise your hourly rates, expect people to work harder. That is what productivity actually is, working harder for the same income.
I don't understand this comment, maybe you can expand. It makes sense to me that what is desirable for a primary residence would significantly overlap with what is desirable for rental, comfortable space, walkable to a city center, etc. Is your point that people should be more accommodating to the rental market? IMHO I think all cities should strongly regulate what can be a rental and add tax to homes when it is not occupied, prioritizing affordable permanent residence.
This isn't just a "trendy city" problem, it's wide spread across the country.
That is the correct clarification,
we were essentially the unarmed bait being flown around, and that’s not the explicit mission.
+1 I have always been annoyed by Redfin's rewrite of history. At least have the decency to show two lines (original prediction for last year and how it turned out to be).
I wonder if we need something like the services NREL performs for solar cells - a standardized test suite that labs/companies can bring their research cells to be tested.
Wild-ass speculation alert! Please don't turn into FUD.

NSA floated a cipher a while back called Speck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)

After the dual-EC debacle it's understandable that people would be skeptical of a cipher from the NSA. People assumed Speck might be intentionally weak or backdoored.

Thing is... it's a stupid simple ARX cipher. Dual-EC was obviously suspect for multiple reasons, but Speck is so simple it doesn't really have room for any "magic" constants that could have been optimized to introduce a back door or vulnerability.

That means there are two possibilities:

(1) Speck is fine.

(2) The NSA knows something about ARX ciphers that we don't.

Option #1 is orders of magnitude more likely than option #2, but if we are entertaining wild speculation there's some for you.
Feel free to complain, starve, and rent forever.

There was no argument from authority. This is Modern Monetary Theory in action.

It is just the other side they didn't show you.
Whoops, yeah, mean to say "I've been using Zotero for the better part of two years now." A better Zotero there is not. :) Sheesh… must have been late or something—don't know why I typed that.
I wonder how this would have ended up if they just dealt in options instead of taking on the inventory. For those that don't know, a real estate option gives the holder the right to buy the property at a fixed price within a certain timeframe, in exchange for a premium. This would have been a much better way to learn the market than diving straight into home purchases.
Yeah, it definitely is. But that doesn't automatically mean they actually did it.

"Best practices" are moot unless they're implemented, and since the default is to log these things, then something (even a blog post from them claiming it's been done) has to exist to show it's there and doing the right thing.
The biggest exporter of meat products is Brazil, which conversely also makes them a really big importer of feedstock. The amount of scenarios in which a European/Asian war could somehow affect trade between the Americas without also involving the apocalypse are very few.
slightly annoyed you didn't do read.me
I worked for a big bank building out the software the call center agents used to service customers. One of the changes that was requested from on high was to make the UI around free shipping for replacement bank cards intentionally painful for the agent to use. The hope was that the agents wouldn't mention the free shipping option or talk the customer out of it since it added some annoyances for the agent.
They can have whatever values/virtues/etc that they please

Sure---but how society responds to a woman's choice is a collective act that she has little control over. Nothing in my comment suggested putting women in a box, exactly the opposite. It's a spectrum, where not all men adopt masculine values and not all women adopt feminine ones. There are women who relate more to what are thought of as masculine values, like fighter pilots, and it's great that society is increasingly accepting of them. But just saying women can join the men's club is not real social change. Real social change is respecting values that are not typically associated with men. Values revolving around love and human relationships, for instance, rather than violence and mechanics.

Ask yourself why the military came to mind as an exemplary set of values for the modern woman. I'd suggest that it is because you regard military service as a desirable epitome of masculinity, and if women can achieve that same peak, then they can be regarded as equals in society. But to your own point about choice, even if no women choose to join the military, we should have female heroes who are regarded on par with any male war hero.
PyCharm is really good when exploring Python. But this made browsing Python code on Github much more difficult. I've pulled down some project more than once just to get PyCharm's type inference and documentation. With type annotations it makes just reading the file without an IDE much nicer.
Rogan is not a news program and doesn't claim to be one . His thing is conversations with interesting people.H It can be serious scientists, questionable scientists, flat earthers, UFO people, Alex Jones and many others. He lets them talk and it's up to you do with it whatever you want. I personally find it very interesting to listen to political extremists, conspiracy guys, COVID deniers or flat earthers and learn what they are thinking. I don't need or want to be protected from wrong information. Actually it's very important to know where people you are disagreeing with are coming from. It's very unhealthy to only hear what you think is true.

If people want to get protected from wrong information a good start would be advertising. Maybe the woke people at Spotify should start there.
Google: Chinese state hackers target Ukraine's government
We are definitely a lot younger than Readme, no denying that ;)
We also are approaching the docs with different intent.
@gkoberger outlined here their goals.
We certainly focus on making the documenting process as easy as possible. You can spend minimal time and still generate very high-quality documentation. So you have no excuse not to document ;)