skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it might not. I’m saying that if someone is passionate about a project, they might end up compromising their sleep to work on it. That passion is what makes the project turn out great. But all an outside observer sees is the sleeping in the office, so they mistakenly think that they can replicate success by forcing uninspired people to do so.
I can't code with anything else going on - except very limited forms of music.
Better be safe than sorry. Uncontrollable entry is actually uncontrollable and anything could happen.
"If your Mac isn’t capable of running the current release of macOS, or you’re dependent on key hardware or software which is incompatible, then the decision is made for you."

Since I need Mac for building iOS apps, unfortunately I couldn't rely on old Mac systems (say > 8 years old). Apple regularely increase the minimum OS version for running Xcode. Since v13.3, you need to have Monterey installed.

https://developer.apple.com/support/xcode/
> I’m sure you will be delighted about how long they support their phones.

Not generally. OnePlus only provides 3 major updates, for example. That's 3-4 years of use.

You can root for LineageOS or other custom ROMs, but then you lose Netflix and whatever because Android uses stupid trusted execution crap for DRM.
The blog is still active though. Somehow they fixed their layouts but kept old posts on the old layout?
I don't get it. Take the "Tagesschau" [0] for example. Now with all the ordeal around Twitter, they don't bother mentioning that this exists. They could even explain what Mastodon is and what makes it special.

[0] Tagesschau (German for Review of the Day) is a German national and international television news service produced by the editorial staff of ARD-aktuell on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD. (Quoted form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagesschau_(German_TV_programm...)
It's not really so much that the farm is foreign owned, it's that the very water intensive crop is grown so it can be shipped overseas to feed livestock for foreign populations. This is essentially "exporting water".

Which, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is when water is essentially so mispriced that it's a really bad deal for the place that is supplying the water, especially during a mega-drought.
Ancient viral DNA in human genome guards against infections
The Preppers Were Right All Along
A list of the servers is data, but where does one go to find out about the people or organizations running them? How do we know that that a couple of thousand of them aren't all run by one group?
> Sorry for pointing out, but such absolutists statements are easily debunked with a single 'black swan'.

The parent commenter was making a generalization, like "all birds have wings". The discoverability problem is a legitimate point. If we allow the colloquial English for a moment, it'd be interesting to hear informed opinions on how that can be solved.
But thankfully we don't live in a libertarian utopia where owning all the land means that you automatically run the world.

The land remains in America subject to American law which is decided by American voters. The value of the land can be recovered for Americans by e.g. taxing it and spending the money on services for citizens.
I really wish physical and OS network stacks would be able to give you the ability to send uncorrected bit streams. That way you can tune the error rate at the application level that makes sense. For example, with video streaming, you probably don’t need much error correction on the data stream as periodic i-frames would correct any transient glitches (you’d only bother to EC the control headers for the video). Then WiFi networks maybe wouldn’t have to be as careful about time multiplexing all the coex streams and some noise due to conflicts would be fine and not require retransmission (because the application layer could handle it).

This does come with tradeoffs (eg it may take your application longer to recover from the noise than a quick retransmit at the physical layer).

From a cost perspective it’s also maybe impractical because the computer industry gets efficiency gains by solving a problem for everyone at some quality threshold by giving up optimality for applications that could do something with it. Also you would still need to correct the control layer of the network (IP + MAC) just to make it work at all so it may be a wash (ie the incremental cost of correcting the data vs control + data may be insignificant).

Still, at least having the option as a switch that could be flipped for experimentation purposes would be quite neat to allow the curious to find new techniques / layers of abstractions vs what’s orthodoxy today.
Maybe I’m getting old but the UX changes in newer versions of macOS turn me off. I’m still running Catalina but that has to change as it’s EOL this year.

I use third party software to bring back some old behaviors but it’s an uphill battle, especially with things like the notification center.
If stocks are so over priced, can anyone show an example of an fund that's making a killing off of these mispricings?

Why would active management have failed to find and exploit these mispricings before?

Not saying these don't exist but it seems like this is a broad statement that is proven "right" if the market continues to dip and "the market remains irrational" if the market rises. Any claim that can't be disproven should be looked at with a lot of suspicion.
>Precisely what makes it art is the background though.

No, that's just the decoration on the dish that is art. The nutritional value and the test is in the core. The artisty is in the expression and observation and relatedness, not in the the backdrop.
They'll build Jurassic Park ;)

Jokes aside, I'm always astonished by how happy countries are to sell off their land to overseas investors. Obviously they'll care less about safety than the locals who live there.

And I'm pretty sure most UK citizens, to use a different example, aren't that happy about the London city center being divided between Arabic and Russian oil oligarchs.
And yet, lots of people are on there at this moment just having fun. Even if it doesn’t last, oh well.

These complaints remind me of the famous dropbox comment, as well as this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/359/
Alternatively, the following pair of articles, the first of which is already referenced as a footnote in the OP:
http://www.corsix.org/content/galois-field-instructions-2021...
http://www.corsix.org/content/reed-solomon-for-software-raid
An index fund is an investment you can pick that is a basket of individual stocks.

They are an easy way to get diversification in your portfolio and historically have beat out portfolios where people actively picked out their own mix of individual stocks.

A lot of the investors in the world are just investing in index funds which has artificially inflated the value of the stocks in each index fund.

When an investment has an inflated valuation that does not match the fundamentals of the underlying business behind the stock, there is a bubble.
We grow a butt-ton of soybeans in iowa, and I have yet to see anybody irrigating them anywhere. See, we water crops here like god intended - by water falling from the sky for free.
Bitcoin appears to be an alternative.
Investing for retirement shifted from a company taking responsibility to employees taking responsibility with the advent of 401k and similar plans instead of defined benefit pensions. Over time it has been noted that picking individual investments tends to do worse than simply buy everything.

As workers pour money into these non-discriminating investments, hoards of people are blindly investing and skewing away from efficient markets. Everyone (scare quotes everyone) is just buying large swaths of everything all the time without regard to fundamentals.

It's all good as long as this continues, but a shift in enough people no longer believing this, will reduce demand and prices will go back down.

In other words, people just buy everything because there is no alternative. If enough stop doing that, prices will readjust downward because too many stocks are overvalued due to the current wisdom of buy regardless of price.
The detail on the pillars of creation is crazy.
I can see the entire covid bubble blowing off just as fast as it blew up. Not a lot of people bought during covid but they will probably be screwed. For everyone else they just made less money than they would have liked to.

On a long enough timeline rent/interest rate = house price (simplified) so many prices have a long way to go
I wouldn't say "most". According to that site, of the 4880 instances list, 1909 are close and another ~300 are invite-only.

> it's expensive to run this

As the hype about Mastodon spiked after Musk bought twitter, I looked at it to see if I could set up an instance, just to experiment. I'm an experienced programmer and systems administrator. After perusing the requirements and installation process, I decided that it was too much work for a little one-person experiment. This is why I ask about who is running instances. Yes, I had a strong hunch it would be all nerds, but I didn't expect it to be require so much sophistication and outlay. One very dedicated person could certainly set up and run an instance, but most likely any instance of moderate popularity is going to require a team.
That actually seems… pretty reasonable and probably a net good? Why are people so mad about this? The Twitter status quo seems incredibly toxic.
The first tweet is easy to understand

https://www.newtraderu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burry-...

He's stating that too many people blindly believe investing in the top 500 companies in the United States is a good plan. This strategy was recommended by Warren Buffet after he won a very unscientific bet.

Michael Burry believes that these people will later want to exit their positions, and won't be able to because the amount of people entering these positions will be lower than those exiting. At which point, the bubble will pop, as the market won't produce buy offers as fast as people attempting to exit their position.
...no matter who is doing it.

Are we to believe the water usage would be less if Americans owned the ground?
Historically, this could be the underlying reason for the existence of various professions: adjutant, batman, valet, secretary, personal assitant - perhaps the main function they provided was just providing a presence?
Well, the scale of exodus was unanticipated? I mean Paul Krugman who has 4.6M Twitter followers just announced his Mastodon account. I think things will stabilize in a couple of days/weeks.
Slightly OT, I remember a non-crt, the Toshiba 5200 (which was more than a laptop a transportable as it needed mains connection), plasma screen that had a distinctive (slightly darker than amber CRT's) orange that was very readable.

http://laptop.pics/toshiba-t5200100/
Markets are supposedly efficient because people pick to buy companies that are good value for the profits they generate and sell companies if they become less valuable.

If people are buying index funds automatically in retirement accounts they are not making this judgement and thus all stocks in index funds are selling at a premium because of this automatic buying pressure. If enough people do this there is potential for the stocks in index funds to be overvalued.
Well, he is asking why the EU is not trying to influence US tech.
But I want my 4K Venus video nooow
Hey from Canada,

I've managed to keep my passion side project at top of mind for almost 2 years now. Not only is it a desktop environment in the browser, but it's also my attempt to bring back all the nostalgia moments I remembered from my last 20 years on the internet. It's my personal website and I like to think it will be something I am still working on in the year 2050. Getting feedback does indeed give me that feeling of connection.

The Code: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
The Site: https://dustinbrett.com/

Great post, thanks for asking!
I think there’s another option and that’s to get rid of votes AND comments. Using Twitter as an example, I think removing likes and comments and only providing a retweet and one level deep quote tweet would make it a much better platform. Of course, this assumes no bots as well.
What's really interesting to me is that at the right latitude you can dig in and find Mercury quite habitable.
https://archive.ph/D6dY0
People bought things because they believed that "number goes up", not because of fundamentals.
I took it as a reference to Knuth: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf [PDF] page 7 of the PDF, 5 of the classroom note.
You mean "DOM look with an eye"?

"DOM look like an eye" means "DOM appears similar to an eye". I was expecting that you turned the whole page circular or something.
If all the homes in your neighborhood are overpriced people will simply not buy them, and others who are less price sensitive will.

It’s very difficult to “make a killing” off overpriced equities.

Even lay analysts who read financial reports know most marketable securities in the US are overpriced. The ones that aren’t simply aren’t attractive investments.

Go peruse a few hundred US companies and read their financials. Tons of unattractive investments available today.
I've been following reporter Nathan Halverson on this topic (and other related ones) for years now. Some of his older work on this is still worth a read or a listen:

https://revealnews.org/podcast/high-and-dry-a-deep-dive-into...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/02/453885642/sa...

He's also a producer/face on a new documentary making the rounds at film festivals this year:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21820452/

There's a trailer on https://www.docnyc.net/film/the-grab/ as well as online viewing in mid-November. I haven't seen it yet, but it's been well-received thus far.
Such decisions cannot be made in a binary, absolutist way. Risk is reduced to some minimal level, not to zero. The risk here was very low.
If West would have political will to deploy.
Read the article, this is a good TL;DR. There was a China Standards 2035 linked but I didn't try to read a translation of it. Does anyone know if it says anything specific other than for rail or transportation?

The article also seems confused:

> On the domestic front, “the idea is to set technical standards high, essentially forcing manufacturers to upgrade their processes whether they want to or not,” Matt Sheehan, Marjory Blumenthal and Michael Nelson of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote. (China’s scientific research in the Arctic also plays a role in encouraging advanced industrial development.)

A grade standard (like military spec environmental ICs) is quite different than an interoperability standard (like pin spacing on ICs).
Using Reed-Solomon coding to recover from erasures (at known positions) is relatively straightforward. It can be understood with a basic knowledge of linear algebra and finite field arithmetic.

Using RS for error correction (at initially unknown positions) is quite difficult. I wrote a step-by-step guide on it including demo code, and it doesn't even cover the most efficient decoding algorithm (I used PGZ instead of Berlekamp-Massey): https://www.nayuki.io/page/reed-solomon-error-correcting-cod...
Burry keeps making crash predictions that turn out to be wrong because he was right about a significant one over a decade ago.

He predicts that index funds i.e. ones that track the S&P 500 could continue to decline by 50% or more in the coming year.
I feel like every crash you hear later about a few places that made a killing. So I'm not sure I understand where you're going with your rhetorical question. I'm sure there are people betting against the market now, too. Maybe they will make a killing. We can't tell until later.

You can never prove statements about the future right or wrong. The closest thing we get is putting your money where your mouth is. If someone does that, I may look on their statements with surprise, but not suspicion.
There are numerous scientists and government agencies on the record making official press releases claiming to have tracked the rocket debris to an area of Cotes d'Ivoire. There are photos in Cotes d'Ivoire of wreckage consistent with the rocket. Why do you need an "official investigation"? Who would you trust to do that? Why are you taking the word of the Chinese government?
After Twitter: rethinking my social-media use
The other explanation is that you two are friends who don't know each other's usernames
Periodicity in time is unusual to think about in physics, partly because you start to get wacky results. If you could establish a CTC in nature, it would allow for computers that can efficiently (i.e. in polynomial time) solve not just NP problems but actually even all of PSPACE [0]. You can interpret this in two ways. There’s the hopeful way: “we should spend a boatload of money trying to find CTCs in our universe since they’ll let us create super-ultra computers”. And then there’s the pessimistic way, that nature probably isn’t going to give us a free lunch like that. Sadly, I’m in the pessimist camp on this one!

[0] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/ctc.pdf
C and the Difficulty of INT8_C()
Maybe, it's still too early to discern what the end state will be. I feel disdain for the dishonesty and poor treatment of / regard for human beings in his sphere, though.

So far it's a case study demonstration of poor and uninspiring leadership.
That sounds more like a family heritage, though maybe most of the city councillors were conceived there?
Asking to speak to a manager regardless of industry is part of the expected process. A manager should be alerted to problems and determine what if anything needs to be done.

Is it rude

Rudeness has more to do with how the message is conveyed. If being tactful, professional, without emotion and stating only facts and observations, then I would suggest it is not rude.
I don't think there are short selling ETFs, or how that would even work.
> Politicians: “No, of course we don’t want war with Xi”

The think tankers they fund: “Kill them all”

One letter. No difference!
The comparison he gives is that of a theater which keeps getting more and more crowded but the doors remain the same. In the bull market everyone keeps buying more and more index ETFs which are highly liquid. However, over half of the underlying securities have low trading volume. As long as investors keep piling into the ETFs there is no problem. But when investors start selling the ETF, and the ETF has to sell the underlying equities, then prices may fall much faster due to low volume and no demand.
The menus, particularly for fortress mode, aren't the easiest so I'm looking forward to a reworked version in the Steam edition but I'm not sure if I'll play it if there isn't an ASCII mode.
Looks almost modern.

"Archaeologists suggest that the tank was likely visible in ancient times to allow access to the two stop keys, enabling the inhabitants to regulate the flow or shut off water distribution in order to carry out maintenance operations of the system."

In other words, valves!

The one less ideal thing is that it's made of lead of course.
Macs only look good at a 110 or 220 pixel density.

34" ultra wide 1440p has a pixel density of about 110 ppi, and that should work just fine. You might need to use a different cable, though. You should look your monitor up on rtings.com and search for notes on Mac compatibility.

I have a MacBook Pro 14 that I use daily with a 34" ultra-wide 1440p gaming monitor, and I've never had a problem. I had a MacBook Pro 13 before the 14 that also worked without issue.
Motorola, Intel, IBM Make a Mainframe in a PC – The PC XT/370
He's right in the long sense... but I still think he's probably wrong today.

But my problem with Burry's logic here, is that there's no "obvious" reason why index funds are unsustainable at 20% of the market. What if the instability point is 40%? 50%? 60%? 80%?

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When only 20% of the market is buying-and-holding with index funds, it means that you're still facing 80% of active investors. (That is to say: 80% of your buys, and/or sells, are "against" an active investor).

Even then, I'm personally largely a passive investor. Still, I've moved my money to cash and bonds more heavily, as interest rates have risen. Its not like I've checked out my brain entirely. I still make decisions, just with index-funds as my instrument.
The reputational "damage" would be limited to a small set of obnoxious font snobs whose opinions should not be considered at all, in that catering to their perceptions helps nobody in any useful manner.
Alternatives for dealing with overpriced stocks are abundant: shorting, options, index futures, etc.
Helping and mentoring the next generation of coders to be successful.
Whitey on the Moon poem by Gil Scott Heron (1970):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs
Kind of wonder how it'd go, if the rocket accidentally took out the head of a mafia family or some equally dangerous group. ;)
Nothing even remotely objectionable there? It's no secret that twitter has been a money-losing toxic cesspit for years. Making the moderation fair and transparent will go miles all on its own.
Java lacks a distinct uint type, but (since Java 8) allows you to perform unsigned operations on a regular int, effectively treating it as a uint.

It doesn't help that almost nobody knows this, though.
My two cents:

1) it may take a while to bond with the baby, keep at it

2) as the baby gets older, de-verbalize routines… less verbalization, more autonomy, less arguing/negotiation

Good luck!

Fatherhood has been my greatest blessing
Open source alternatives to popular B2B tools
> What is the minimum size field 2^bits for an RS(N,K) coding system?

Your field size must be at least N+1, noting that you shouldn't use the value 0 in the encoding matrix.

> What happens when you try to construct a Reed-Solomon code with a finite field that is too small?

Your system of linear equations doesn't have enough linearly independent equations.

> how could you make the encoder/decoder faster

Maybe put the lookup table in a 64-bit general-purpose register and use bit shifting, or in a 128/256/512-bit SIMD register and use extraction instructions (shuffle bytes, etc.).
Again pop-sci loves to invent terms and then sell those terms. Psychology is regularly guilty of this.

This is not a "phenomenon" with "invisible power" and it doesn't need a litany of semi-awed, near mystical, and pseudoscientific testimonials. That's just nonsense branding.

This isn't new or magical and there are other services that do just this with less BS.
> And I'm pretty sure most UK citizens, to use a different example, aren't that happy about the London city center being divided between Arabic and Russian oil oligarchs.

I don’t know how anyone could reasonably see that as a negative, this is foreign investment bringing in vast amounts of wealth to the country.
There are. I would assume they simply hedge with real shorts.
because they followed the rotary phone dial?

i've seen number sequence examples that start with 1-9 followed by 0 as the 10th digit. bogus/placeholder credit card numbers commonly used 12345678901234 type of sequence. since 1 is technically the first digit of any phone number, placeholder number sequences often started at 1 and ended with 0 for 10 digit numbers.

lots of people think of 1 as the first number (zero isn't really a number), so it's just a convenient place holder for that 10th digit written as a single digit.
Once you have market dominance, I guess you just need to barely get the job done, to stay in vogue.