skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend Dan and we both worked on the same team at Google. He figured out this idea where he sold SPY puts each month to generate enough income to live. Covid tanked the market temporarily as this story touches on and he lost everything. Turns out he was leveraged as well and got margin called. I think he was playing with around $300k in real capital. He filed for bankruptcy last year. Its tempting to think we can outsmart the market there are so many of these stories.

The funny thing is I also quit Google shortly after Dan did and independently had been trading stocks to live as well. Fortunately I started as a result of the pandemic dropping the market. Once I started raking in money, I left the job. I know of Dans story bc I went to him for advice. I thought he was still in it.

His story was a reality check and made me somewhat more cautious. But really only in the back of my mind sitting next to another question: “when is it my time? When will I need to back to work bc I have nothing?”
Sounds like you need to do a lot more research before commenting on this? It's pretty easy to find in the Litestream docs that it replicates to S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, and other options even including SFTP. In fact by off-loading the storage integration details to Litestream, the Tailscale people now get seamless storage vendor independence almost for free.

This is what a really smart and future-proof solution looks like.
The principle of "assume good faith" is essential to even basic conversation. In its absence, intelligent exchanges are fundamentally impossible.

Which may be the case here?
PNG can't transform noisy images into something more compressible, but it uses better entropy coding compared to QOI.
It’s legal in Canada in a limited fashion to licensed suppliers and therapists.

I’ve had similar experiences and I’m excited about the possibilities.

The stigma might take a while to go away for some people who have been so conditioned that “drugs” are for “burnouts” and “frying brains”, but there is real work being done in the space by compassionate and very smart people.

I’m sure it’s a growing field elsewhere too.
You caught me, I'm one of those blank slate extremists who say harmful and unreasonable things like "Individual humans are capable of overcoming biological tendencies." Hard to argue though that eugenics, forced sterilization, biological justification for slavery pale in comparison to the damage of various examples you've detailed
His successor was Mauno Koivisto.
Working a a real-time search engine and search feed by crawling online communities, with some elements of bookmarking and tagging.
Well then I have a great solution for you: don't pay for it. You're not in the market for this app. It's akin to crying because you can't afford an expensive car.
> compressing them as much as I could

I noticed this takes hours with ect. pngout ranks in second place with respectable results, but is fifty to hundred times faster.
Yes, the more I learn the more I learn I don't know. However, I've worked in infrastructure, security and finance (institutional & retail banking, funds and insurance) for the majority of career. I'm also currently doing a doctoral thesis focussed on smart contract security, so I do know a bit about this.

The whole premise of blockchain is execution of intent, in an untrusted environment. The threat you are concerned about is collusion, and the best control against this is further decentralization and scale. Proof-of-Stake (and many DAO's), do provide more assurance against malicious actors by validators risking their own stake if they try malicious activity.

Ultimately, I am confident that the "dark forest" will give us much more security and transparency than the current closed/centralised system.

You seem quite entrenched in your view, but I'd like to ask. What would it take to change your view? If the answer is nothing, can you really claim to be thinking about this critically?
I’ve been able to extract 6 figures per year for the last 3 years in the options market. This year may end up at 7 figures. I’m also well aware that I could lose it all. We’ll see. The basis of what I do is look for irrational behavior of the masses, patiently wait for the realization of truth to start spreading and buy long dated options into it. The real challenge is knowing and recognizing your own cognitive biases and understanding that almost every human shares the same biases. So in knowing yourself, you can know the irrationalities of the masses and the next realization they will come to. This is an incredibly important tool. Another is patience. Short dated options will kill your account. It’s only a matter of time.
It's a bad sign that I can't tell if someone spent a lot of time on an elaborate April's Fool joke or if it's a serious C++ proposal.
Two years ago the S&P 500 fell 12% in one day. You'd need about $1,250,000 invested in it to lose $150,000 in that day. That doesn't sound like an unlikely balance for a 401K after 20 years to me.
> Do you consistently (over several years) beat the reference index ? [after fees]

Most fund managers don't achieve this:

"Most active fund managers in the US failed to beat the market over the past year, according to another dispiriting report on an industry that often claims it will come into its own during periods of volatility."[0]

An a complete outsider to that field, I'm curious how (and why) they keep their jobs.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/7e4c0d91-8b6d-419b-9be3-80131d5cb...
I guess it's good society is at least thinking about mitigating the downsides of AI but implementing AI legislation at this point seems premature to the level of pointless.
Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse
EDIT: I see the "view on Github" link now. Wow that is subtle.

I feel like I'm missing something. I know I could just do an internet search to figure it out, but why doesn't this site include instructions on how to install one of these themes?

I've tried to get into vim in the past, but you know how it goes... limited time and all that. I've gone through vimtutor. All I can really do from memory are the basics. Some of that is still on me for not committing, but sometimes I wish more was done to make vim more approachable. I hate to say it but little things like this with the color schemes are probably a big part of what drives adoption for a lot of people because it encourages tinkering.
edit: Chrome evaluated previous [[clang::lifetimebound]], and that wasn't enough:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRZr-HJcYmf2Y76D...
That is my point though, is people claim others question the origins of COVID-19 or the dangers are conspiracy theorist, but most of the time their doctors just repeat whatever they are told or led to believe without any significant reliance on any studies of their own. The entire medical system is built for lower-tiered physicians to just repeat whatever their superiors tell them, and many times those superiors could be connected to pharmaceutical companies with an agenda that doesn't disclose all the facts.
This number doesn't seem to account for other countries (e.g. most of Europe) prescribing similar enough drugs - e.g. Ritalin for the same reason much more than Adderall.
In my movie collection, I replaced almost every DVD I could with Blu-Ray. Not just because the quality is better - it was, as the author mentioned, the massively improved scratch resistance. When you have kids, it becomes cheaper in the long run.

Also, we’re a quality over quantity family. We don’t want thousands of movies on several subscriptions. Everything we’ve ever liked fits on two four-foot-wide shelves.
I agree it's gutsy, but I don't really see the risk - if BotW had "flopped" it would be a footnote like Link Between Worlds; it wouldn't have sunk the company. Arguably it could have damaged the Switch's reputation.

Interestingly it seems Nintendo understood that it could possibly not succeed, by where they placed the story in the timeline.

Nintendo, at least ever since the success of the Wii, hasn't been unwilling to make gutsy moves - but even then they do them in ways that they have fall-back positions if they're not as successful as they'd like.
If you always play with the alphas then it's no wonder you think everyone primarily cares about status. Most people primarily care about resources, the tribe and religion.
Apparently. I generally don't include lying in my toolbox.
yeah, this is actually something we are looking at for the Saab T5 engine series. It uses an integrated coil pack for all the cylinders, which in turn means, a failure of one is a failure of all. I know some of the tuners have switched to using more normal coil pack setups, but unfortunately the T5 system is pretty unique so its not a thing that can be easily hot swapped.

One interesting tidbit is the coil packs run a bit of current over the plug when it's not sparking to measure ionization to determine engine conditions (i think mostly knock)
I get some of us don't like him, but nobody has done more to popularize personal computing. That is value creation whether you like it or not.
Solopreneurs Are Changing the Face of the Economy
unfortunately I can't find the full paper anywhere but here is a TL;DR: https://twitter.com/AaronJCorcoran/status/150995472613724979...
Let’s break it down:

1. Do the birds have easy access to food resources?

2. Do they have to take flight to look for food?

3. Do they migrate?

4. Do they have predators in the wild?

5. Are they aggressive or docile?

6. Are they domesticated?

7. Are they monogamous or promiscuous?

Take all the bird examples you can think of + chicken/eggs.

Make a table and let me know how my ‘shoehorned’ theory fails. Unlike you, I am not an expert. Or a scientist. I farm and have been a chef. I haven’t had an opportunity to check for ostrich penis, but I have cooked them for breakfast.
A lot of conspiracy theories aren't completely wrong either.
Bitcoin and Ethereum? Sounds like they bought high and panicked at a 50% drop. Plenty of documentation that this approach is guaranteed to fail, and always corrects in a few years. Appreciate the downvotes.
Your opinion is in fact the popular opinion through out history. Picture the see no evil hear no evil monkeys.

Stephen Pinker is a very nice man with a soothing voice and a very curly haircut. And he attended Harvard. And has a warm and fuzzy message of optimism in his best selling mass market book, which has angels in the title.

Pixar should make a character based on him. Practically a real life Dumbledore. Surely everything will pan out just so.

Meanwhile, the "sate of the world" is such that he wrote his prognostications over a decade ago when the US was still the single remaining superpower in a unipolar world steeped in the longest stretch of relatively violence free global economic expansion. And at the moment they ring hollow.

Of course we all wish for the positive trends to continue indefinitely, but the night is in fact dark and full of terrors. It really is. Baseless optimism is simply the flip side of the doomer-ism you deride.

Everything is still on the line. Everything.
Some of the messaging that stuck with me was more focused on "flyover country" being forgotten by the coastal elites, and I think that message resonated with people because it taps something very real. It seems plausible to me that trade liberalization has contributed to the rising wealth of Americans living near the coasts while simultaneously damaging large parts of the economy in the middle of the country.

I do believe trade liberalization has important benefits, and may even contribute to increasing the total wealth of the planet and alleviating extreme poverty, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of the costs, and to mitigate damage and ensure that huge swaths of the country aren't insulted in the process.
If that is your taste, you should definitely take a look at zpaq [1] which uses an embedded bytecode with a not-too-long specification [2]. It is tuned for compression algorithms but any general algorithm can be programed; for example there is a project that turns zpaq into (slower) Brotli [3].

[1] http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html

[2] http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq206.pdf

[3] https://github.com/pothos/zpaqlpy
HN title is wrong.

Should be:

A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games
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That is a specific case during war between already warring tribes. It has nothing to do with murder being permitted in certain cases.
They do. But the only way to get legislators to budge is by appealing to their owners directly. Psychedelics will never be legalized unless it benefits big pharma.
His point, I'd say, is that whatever the choice (including not choosing something consciously) should be done consciously. I.e. You should be aware that you aren't choosing anything, or that you want to pursue money, or fame, or whatever.
Are you actually calling Retool a true no code platform? You have to connect to an external datasource and you have to write JS.

Budibase, glide, Adalo are more no code.
That new definition sounds pretty broad. Does that make vitamin C a vaccine? I think it also stimulates the body's immune response against diseases.
Reliable from a engineering/technical PoV
Surprisingly enough, you can get that from the BMW i3.

- The monitor is necessary but it is not a touch screen and it comes with a nice clicky knob to control it. Plus you can make shortcuts to go to certain screens with the radio station buttons.

- 2014 - 2017? all shipped with a 3g module that is now unsupported and not working.

- You can get access to munros teardown report for $10(1), and if you know where to look ;) you can find the service tech training manuals and their repair instructions for free which are all very detailed.

- realoem.com has exploded parts diagrams with part numbers for everything.

The only negatives really is:

- buying OEM parts comes with that BMW price premium and the dealer will 100% rip you off if you ever take it to them for repairs.

- The OEM tires, the only kind that fit on the OEM wheels, have terrible tread life.

(1)https://munrolive.com/support-%2F-store/ols/products/bmw-i3-...
If that's really the case, why does pretty much every software license feel the need to include a liability disclaimer? Genuine question, I've often wondered about this.
This person's individual story isn't particularly interesting, though it's well written and explained, but I think the psychology behind why more normal people are "yolo-ing" money into investments is a really important one to think about on a societal level and is going to explain a lot about the coming years.
open source books look like a cool idea
I have a dog too, a girlfriend and friends and family also but me and my dog are together 24/7, sleep in bed together, etc. At this point his death will be devastating, I already know it will completely wreck me.

I worry people will think it silly to go to pieces over the death of a dog, but I am right there with you, it is a massive loss.
> The reason for government distrust in USA is fabricated by those powerful people that do not want to make it obvious that they are abusing the rules and use the common people as human shields to protect their shady interests

Many of those powerful people work in the government, so yes the government is the reason of people distrusting the government.
Now on to the more important challenge. Making our understanding of the human genome more diverse and less specific to certain geographic areas. This is already having an impact in studies, drug development, etc based on genomics.

Investing in organizations such as H3Africa will be important.
If you are developing software, imo, the toolchain has to be open source.
“Bitch, I’m from Detroit” is the best possible response to that, even if they had a real gun they would’ve (or should’ve) relented after that response, lol.
The watch hardware is waterproof (but not submergeable), it works for 1 day without special optimizations (all-disabled-low-power-mode on original firmware about 2 months), it has a sunlight-readable display which should work with GPS for at least 6 hours without any optimizations. That's enough for a trip. It only has 8MiB storage space, but that should cover a couple hours worth of GPS track. It's the same device as used by Bangle.js 2.

The web site was put up before I started the firmware work, so obviously no pictures :) They will come once the project becomes more useful.
The TypeScript Thread
I read someone once describe the lottery as not buying a gambling ticket, but buying a few moments of dreaming about being stupidly rich.
Tech companies are extremely risk adverse when it comes to hiring the "wrong" person. More interviews means more people to spread to blame over if a wrong hire happens. At seven interviews, if everyone signed off on the bad hire, that wasn't anyone's fault, it must have been that the hire was skilled at deception or some other deflection.
I have ADHD, when I take my Adderall I feel like I am a normal person. However if I take a break for the next 3-4 days it is like having a major depressive episode, super tired, no interest in anything, and a ravenous hunger.
Sodaplay! That brings up fond memories… The original page was a good example of an early (highly–) interactive playground. Some of the user-contributed constructions/creatures were simply amazing.
I was pleasantly surprised with new Journeys feature, something that I wanted to see in my Chrome history. Now we have the ability to see inbound and outbound links in our browsing history. Example: https://i.ibb.co/tbCz5JC/Journeys.png

Google's description: https://blog.google/products/chrome/finding-answers-gets-bet...
Applied a bit more surgically, this is actually a pretty good idea. Take for example PNG: the header for the actual image data contains a one-byte field titled "compression method" with only one valid value: 0 for deflate. The idea at the time was probably that deflate is great, but something better might come along. Now almost three decades later we have plenty of better compression algorithms, but still all PNGs are deflate, because anyone who sets that header field to anything other than 0 breaks compatibility with every other PNG implementation that already exists.

If instead PNG was implemented as a definition of the metadata format, the "filter" stuff for making pixels more compressible, and a compression field that references a webassembly implementation of the compression method then libraries could still use their own optimized implementation for compression methods they know, but fall back to downloading the webassembly version for any method they don't know natively. You would have perfect backwards compatibility and could evolve the file format as technology advances.

The advantage of webassembly in that context is of course that it's trivial to sandbox, and the snippets don't need access to anything but their input.
Psilocybin for mental health treatment has been legalized in Oregon though a voter initiative. The new law requires a lot of administrative setup and therapy is not yet available however.

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Pages/Orego...
Are toxoplasma-infected subjects more attractive than non-infected ones?
I set up a status based prompt too - but in bash instead
Approximately 22,000 homicides, so not sure how those numbers help whatever you're trying to argue.
You couldn’t even legally kill those people yourself. It was aimed at leaders and judges. What’s written is only a tiny small part of the whole legal and ethical system. You can’t try to understand it by reading a literal translation of just the written part.
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The term is probably being used too freely, but that would hardly distinguish it from a dozen other concepts in current political discourse, and we will not understand the phenomenon if we insist on it being rooted in rational distrust, and also ignore how useful they may be for people with ulterior motives.

We are not rational beings; we are still mostly creatures of instinct, with the ability to be rational. The latter brings with it the ability to rationalize.

We all, to some extent, prefer to hold beliefs that imply outcomes we prefer (or, equivalently, dispel undesirable outcomes), and that can lead us to take positions on that basis, rather than on what the evidence supports.

That, in itself, would not be a conspiracy theory, as there are many cases where the evidence is inconclusive. The hallmark of a conspiracy theory is, firstly, the doubling-down on a belief despite evidence to the contrary or a lack of supporting evidence that should be there, and secondly, a particular form of rationalization for doing so, which says the evidence must be fabricated or suppressed, as necessary. All considerations are subordinated to the goal of preserving the initial belief.

Anyone with a passing familiarity with 20th-century history has enough evidence to see how promulgating conspiracy theories can help nefarious actors, and also how they work.
I remember a TV show from the 90s that discussed minitel called Beyond 2000. As a young kid I loved that show as they always covered cool technology at the time.
From my perspective as a millennial...it's because getting enough money seems like an impossible task. Salaries at companies are not keeping up with inflation, it is difficult to get a higher paying job. Companies don't reward loyalty. Housing and rent are increasing at an absurd rate. We're getting married in our 30s+ (if we get married, a lot of people in my generation don't want to start a family) rather than starting a family in the early 20s like older generations did so there's not much need for money. It increasingly seems like hard work and effort are not rewarded.

And so life for millennials and younger is way different than it was for boomers and older. Life is more like being a vagabond rather than the stereotypical financially-successful family-oriented life of older generations. I blame the social breakdown over the last two decades and I blame the failed economy. Just have to live life day-by-day and whatever happens, happens.
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