skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An extremely interesting paper that puts into perspective a lot of investment "knowledge" shared at nauseom almost everywhere.

> Investors have seen countless charts of US stock market performance which start in 1926 and end near the present. But US trading long predates 1926, and the foreshortened perspective that results from a focus on post-1926 data can be misleading.

> The goal is to challenge shibboleths about the expected outcomes of buy-and-hold stock market investing, and to raise questions about the expected performance of stocks versus bonds over long periods.

> Put another way, since 1928 dividends plus inflation accounted for 99.7% of the nominal wealth produced, as of 2008, by investing in stocks.

> Total return measured on the century scale presumes an investor who never needs to spend the dividends or interest received. No real investor, individual or institution, has that luxury. And there is one class of individual investor, now of growing importance within the financial planning literature as the Baby Boom generation ages, for whom the total return metric is particularly malaprop: retirees. Once portfolio accumulation ceases with retirement, portfolio income must be spent to live. Under those circumstances real price return, over short periods lasting two or three decades, becomes an important metric. By that measure, an investment in stocks has been dicey indeed.

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Just to whet your appetite some more:

> Figure 4 [1] illuminates how much of the long-term return on stocks since 1926 has been due to sustained high inflation on the one hand, and to the favorable enhancement from re-investing dividends on the other. Under the one depiction, the portfolio returned about 9% compounded, from near the high in the Twenties to near the low in the Oughts; under the other, only about 1.5%.

> Few contemporary investors expect a multi-decade return on their stock portfolios of 1 2% per year. They have no reason to expect such poor results, because most investors have never seen a post-1926 chart of inflation-adjusted, price-only returns, and have rarely seen any charts extending back past 1896.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/QCtugvC
This seems like a better solution that just tweaking Linux to make it take only "a few seconds" to pull up an image. I'm curious what downsides/traps there are in this approach vs. sticking with the single flat directory.
The issue was that people couldn't tell if you were recording them.

We are all extremely aware that everything we do can end up on the internet and potentially damage us.
Apostol's Calculus changed my life when I was 18
I didn't know about this software, I'm currently giving it a shot, I have a tiny bit less than 20k pictures and seems to be working great.

Thank you for the amazing suggestion!
Wrong belt.
Do you truly believe that that's the issue that will arise with uncensored platforms?

Many more people want to see nudity than want to read nazi rants.
It sounds like you're ignoring / neglecting the "public square" argument completely out of hand, which is the general response to stances like this.
Congress passed laws authorizing the spending. If they don't want that spending, they can pass new laws repealing it.

Also the same Constitution that grants Congress budgetary authority also provides that:

> The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

The debt ceiling is unconstitutional as it would cause the Government to default on lawfully authorized debts, in contradiction to the 14th amendment.
Thanks :) I unfortunately can't take the credit for this beautiful theme. Credit goes to https://radoslawkoziel.pl/ who made https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal which I based this off of.
This article is oddly-specific about the possible use cases for an electrically switchable conductive film. Somehow I doubt that S21 attenuation in the non-conductive mode is going to be low enough that anyone is going to want to put this around their radio antennas.

Unfortunately I can't tell because sci-hub hasn't added new articles to their database since the case against it in India started in 2020 and this is locked behind a paywall.
Everything from that Stripe data about IP addresses in Europe is just pure cringe.

Did you know, that at least in my country, nearly everybody is behind CGNAT, so hundreds if not thousands households has exactly same external IP address and this rotates very often.
So you constantly have same IP address, which hosts tons of torrents with porn or movies (nobody cares about torrents in my country). etc.
I just noticed that "L" and "R" are left and right arrows respectively. That's delightful.
Plants have no brains or analog at all, plats reacting and signalling is no different than a bacteria moving along a concentration gradient.

The animals I mentioned do, even if very simple ones. If you really want to question this bivalves are a better example, as I've seen many debates in vegan circles about them.
>Why should someone else get to control what my software does on my machine?

For the same reason someone else gets to control the layout of a magazine you buy. The browser is yours, but the page you're accessing is not. It is the creative expression of someone else, why should they not have the right to express themselves freely? Why are you insisting on absolute creative freedom and editorial control over other people's property?

I mean, ignore javascript entirely. Why should someone publishing to Gemini not be able to set the background and font on their site? Gemini doesn't even allow even the tiny bit of individualism offered by the old web.

>Seems like a pretty punk-rebellious attitude to me.

You're view is literally rebelling against other people's freedom because what they do might not suit your tastes, and you don't feel others should have the right to violate your sense of aesthetics. Wanting to control everything isn't punk, it's textbook authoritarianism.

But I doubt we're going to see eye to eye on this.
I enjoyed Automating the Boring Stuff with Python

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
If you were to take a handful of trending tech from the past decade, and plot peak hype against utility, I'd wager ChatGPT and related technologies would rank pretty favourably. Crypto and VR have gone through similar hype cycles but the utility falls short.

ChatGPT has it's shortcomings, but I've found myself returning to it over and over again. Then consider what this technology will look like in a few years time and the conclusion is that, imo, the hype is justified.
"just glance up at the address bar" is not phishing-proof, and is failure prone.
Reading math textbooks typically involves solving a lot of problems, so you saying it like it's books OR problem solving doesn't make sense.
I think conventional camera gear will do it.

If you enjoy this view into microworlds, here's one of my favourite macro photographers. This is a collection of garnets (sand grains) that are 0.2 to 0.3 mm across. That's basically dust IMO!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/194954457@N05/sets/72177720296...

He talks about his gear here. His technique and patience is extraordinary. His gear is fairly modest: Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark II camera, MC-20 Teleconverter, Olympus 60mm macro lens, Kenko 16mm extension tube, & Raynox 505 close-up lens. That's an older model of Micro Four Thirds camera (the format has magnification and depth of field advantages over fullframe) so you could probably acquire such a setup in the range of $1K used. And then spend a lifetime refining your art... :-)

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4690261
Maybe when Google was an exciting place to work and a darling of the internet, possibly somebody working there would consider going out of their way to help a user out and considered themselves empowered to do so.

I get the feeling that anymore people just don't care. There might even be disincentives to report or try to address such issues. It's maybe just me, but it seems the excitement over the dotcom has subsided and we're all just in a technical slump right now. Corporate takeover of the internet has taken hold.
Arguably, that was a curation and numbers issue. When it changes from 10s of letters a day to billions, curation becomes less of a concern and the argument can resurface.

Edit: for an additional example of this concern in the other direction - when a company or person or government tracks the movements of 10s of its citizens who are under active investigation, that's not seen as much of a problem. It's a numbers issue. When the same can track tens of thousands or hundreds of millions, suddenly it's a human rights issue around privacy.
I had a similar thought back in 2014. I had only studied the maths required for various engineering courses I’d taken.

So, I decided I wanted to study maths for the maths.
I was in the fortunate position of being able to self fund myself through the Open University (uk based) Maths and Statistics BSc.
One module at a time I’m now on my last module.
There many things I’d studied before (calculus, sequences) and many new to me (group theory, graph theory)
> The reason we don't do that is we are control freaks.

To be practical your service would need to pick up laundry at all hours of the day and be basically “on demand”.

Cats puke on your only comforter. Kids spilled something on your fancy jeans. You need towels, stat.

That being said, if the service did enough (say put the clothes away organized and folded and had a turnaround time of a few hours) people would probably find ways to work around the shortcomings of using a laundry service.
The Time/Life book "Mathematics" published 1969. I was in 2nd grade, liked mathematics and saw a book with that name and pictures. It was a high level survey of a lot of mathematical concepts, explaining things in a way I could understand at that age, but also in a way that wouldn't be talking down to me today.
You have it backwards, ATIS doesn't pull from METARs... the METAR and ATIS recording are both produced at the same time locally by the local weather observer (usually a controller in the tower), reading raw data directly from the on-field weather station and making manual edits as necessary. The two should match up exactly, but that's because they're both produced by the same process.

If the tower is closed, or it's an untowered field, the system can run in automatic mode. In that case the radio broadcast gets updated every minute, much more frequently than METARs get updated (every hour).
Not really. Most charities are themselves corporations.
Off-topic, but:

> the most frequently occurring letters in typical English text are e-t-a-o-n-r-i, in that order. (The letter frequency order of the story you are now reading is e-t-a-i-o-n-r. The higher frequency of ``i'' probably reflects the fact that _I_ use the first person singular a lot.)

Wait, I thought the letter frequency was Etaoin Shrdlu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

Interestingly, that Wikipedia article references the same "Secret & Urgent" book by Fletcher Pratt, but only for the Spanish letter frequency!

Also, though the header table confirms my memory, it cites a now defunct algoritmy.net website, and the per-language table below has a "citation needed" for english! The archived algoritmy.net website also doesn't mention what corpus it used!
2FA is any two of what you know, what you have, or who you are.

It would be so easy to have a Google Android/iOS app that lets you take a photo of a credit card matching a payment method from the Play Store or one of Google's paid services. That proves something you have in addition to your password.

Though, TBH, Amazon is probably in the best position to solve this problem. They have payment methods and they have physical presence everywhere. Companies like Google or whomever could hook into an Amazon API to verify identity with a one-time recovery code.

How do you get the recovery code? You show up at Whole Foods or Kohls or eventually even to an Amazon Hub Locker and prove your identity with a photo ID card. You're then provided a recovery code linked to one of your full legal name, an e-mail you've already had registered with your Amazon account, a phone number you've already had registered with your Amazon account, or a credit card number you've already had registered with your Amazon account.

A service that knows one of those things about you can then be recovered by submitting the key and selecting the link modality. (Keys submitted with the wrong link modality should be invalidated, obviously.)
Barely Maps
The way I understand it is that Amazon offers an affiliate fee to affiliates. When you don’t go through an affiliate they get to keep the small percentage. Smile was basically Amazon’s own affiliate program that paid out to NGOs. It did reduce their tax liability but it’s not like it’s free money. Assuming a corporate rate of 15%, when Amazon pays a charity $100, they save $15 on taxes. That mean they spent $85, so not exactly tax avoidance unless the charity they donate to is also owned by Amazon or some such.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
No weirder than having marketing arms.
Tangent: Some historic brick-built structurer in Cali are reinforced by apply fiberglass resin (just the resin, no fibers) to the surface of the bricks. This usually manifests as a glossy clear layer completely covering brickwork of the ground floor, followed by narrower and narrower strips of resin for the next floors. It can be applied to interior, exterior, or both surfaces, depending on assessment of the structure.
I can't help but think Wikipedia would be a better product if it was still run on a shoestring budget.

The cash overhang of the Wikimedia Foundation means that the internal incentives are to overhire, and for those overhired employees to make work for themselves.
If you're going to use PowerShell like a shell (i.e., to call external programs), you still have to worry about distributing them or variations between what's preinstalled.

If you're only going to use PowerShell functions and not external programs anyway, then PowerShell is more in competition with languages like Python, Perl, Ruby, etc., than it is with Bash.

PowerShell also falls down when it comes to the other distinguishing feature of a shell, which is that you gradually learn your scripting language just by using your computer, because PowerShell just falls flat as a daily login shell. This is mainly because it's unbelievably dog slow for a shell and lacks basic functionality like job control, but arguably also because of smaller things like its verbosity, extremely complicated profile sourcing behavior, etc.

PowerShell is still sometimes a good choice for cross-platform scripting, but I wouldn't say that's because of its compatibility.
> Beef is not factory-farmed.

That seems to go against common knowledge.

Cows spend about a few months to a year on a feed lot which is most likely a concentrated feed lot (CAFO is a factory farm). Veal seems to be especially cruel. Dairy cows seem to have it pretty bad for around five years from start to finish.
Thank you! Sounds much less intimidating.

My fear with machine translations is that subtle errors here and there might throw me off in something like math where things are precisely stated.

A year of part time study sounds doable though
Proton mail for the win
>Now, think of it from Nike's perspective: they've launched a new shoe and are seeing a whole heap of new registrations and purchase attempts. In amongst that lot are many genuine people... and this guy How can they weed him out such that snipers aren't snapping up the products at the expense of genuine customers?

Is it true that Nike actually wants to cut the snipers out? It seems like they're selling the shoes either way, possibly faster this way, and the resellers are doing free promotion for their shoes in order to resell them.
CNET Reviewing the Accuracy of Its AI-Written Articles After Major Corrections
Politely ask the people seated ahead of you to enjoy the lavatory for the duration of your movie.
I don’t care how well we can explain it, that’s magic
Don't forget that salaries in Switzerland are very high. In Geneva, the minimum legal salary before taxes is at 26$/h
There warehouses are significantly worse than average in terms of injuries per hour. They also frequently sell fraudulent items directly harming consumers.

I can’t think of a metric where they aren’t worse than the average retailer.
Wait, they have the authority to block your google auth app? Last I checked, the app is not connected to your google account.
And the app's functionality is open source (TOTP). So how does enforcement work?
or they go to www.jabber.org read the message and log in later
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics by Jeremy Kun
Now look at it from the other side. If it really was quadrillion times more probable to be born (hatched?) as a plankton, why exactly weren't you? Either tremendous luck, or something wrong with the assumption.
Is it just a company? Or is it also a club similar to Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Le Cercle and others that drawn in powerful elites that collude as a group to coordinate changes to corporate structures and policy that ultimately shape bits and pieces of society and laws of all the first world nations? Companies ultimately fund lobbyists and if most companies are on the same page then these groups of companies can coordinate to manipulate and fully control lawmakers. If I am just one company, maybe I can afford $20 million in lobbying. If I am in a similar 40% to 60% tank of similar thinking people from the fortune 500's that number potentially goes up quite a bit. I believe that is called plutocracy but there is probably a better word.

Am I giving them too much credit?
Honestly, unless you're very gifted, a book on its own is not going to be enough to really develop your skills. You need to work interactively with a teacher.

Wouldn't that depend on what level of skill we're talking about? I believe that most people who need to learn just, say, high-school algebra/geometry/trigonometry/etc. can probably do so with "just books" if they are motivated.

Heck, I'd even venture that most anybody who is motivated enough can learn at least through Calc III on their own using online resources. I'm going through Calc III right now actually, using a combination of books and online videos, and there hasn't been anything that has struck me as particularly challenging so far. This after only making it to Calc I before I dropped out of school "back in the day".

Getting a degree in math is a good start, but even then it will be limited if you don't work with other people, go to office hours, form relationships with professors---embed yourself in the culture, so to speak.

I think these things would be critical if one wants to become a mathematician. But for somebody who just wants to learn more math for the purpose of reading (non math) research papers (maybe in machine learning to pick an obvious, if possibly trite, example), solving problems in everyday life or at work, or possibly even for doing research in another (non math) field and then writing up their research, I would think of all of those things as being "nice, sure, if you have access, time, money etc. But not even close to absolutely essential".

Unfortunately the OP didn't really say what their goal is, so it's hard to say what advice makes the most sense for them.

Also unfortunate is that for probably most people who are working career professionals, there likely isn't enough free time available to go back and do an actual math degree in school. So learning on ones own from books, videos, etc. is probably the only viable choice.
I agree. I think the redesign is good (and overdue) but hiding the table of contents by default is bad.
One book that describes these tests, and how they've come to dominate low-level jobs is titled Punching In [0]. The philosophy is that what sort of personality that would be successful at, say, Home Depot, would be completely different from American Eagle. At many retail companies, you cannot get into the payroll system unless the personality test system approves your application.

My experience with the same sort of personality tests that you've described is somewhat similar. When trying to get hired (I was desperate for anything at that time) at WalMart, the personality tests seemed to ask 3 basic questions - but about 20 different ways to approach each question - (a) do you get into fights at work? (b) do you steal? and (c) do you care if your boss steals?

0: - https://www.amazon.com/Punching-Frontlines-New-Brand-Cultu-e...
To clarify - a random SWE's random peer from 25 years ago is much more like to be in an influential senior position, than a random SWE's random peer from a job 13 years ago, or a random SWE's random peer from a job last year.

Your friends are statistically more likely to be closer to the top of the pyramid than mine, and my friends are closer to the top than a fresh no-name college graduate's.
Wonder how the rabbi feels about the mites and spiders that we all end up swallowing on a regular basis. What an absurd reductive view of life.
FYI: "got" is also the name of the OpenBSD re-implementation of git (supposedly, an acronym, "game of trees"): https://gameoftrees.org/
For some odd reason...I first read "exorcism needs donations to survive" and went what???
You can scan any QR code with the iPhone default camera app and get the string back that way. But yeah, all QR codes are just encoded strings.
This article helped me to understand how totp works and how it can be implemented [1]

[1]: https://digitalbunker.dev/how-do-time-based-one-time-passwor...
> Affirmations do not work.

It depends. They definitely DO work for some people and do nothing for others, YMMV.

When they work, the carefully chosen words and ideas in the affirmations help to remind us of things and steer us towards more mindfulness.
This gave me a good chuckle, and definitely speaks to the imprecision of language and how shared cultural context and understanding does a lot of heavy lifting. Context and understanding that everyone takes for granted but may not be apparent to some, even those in the culture.

Almost certainly HR and your therapist were not interested in every infinite possible though you may have ever had, but whether it was something you seriously considered or planned and may have even made intent towards actually completing.

> but I genuinely don't understand people who have "never considered" it - how do you block & limit your mind? What mental fences do you have that you have never "considered" such an obvious course of action in the likely billion of seconds of thinking?).

Having an intrusive though pop into my head ("You could totally just jump in front of the train!") is not the same as actually considering the steps towards actually planning suicide. I have had intrusive thoughts, but I would say I've never "considered" suicide.
Peter Daszak of Eco Health Alliance Faces Calls to Quit
Mega Millions Analysis
So, do we throw this guy off the cliff too?
Cyber-crime gangs' earnings slide as victims refuse to pay
John D. Duncan III's Homepage – delightful old school site
Oh no small family shops are evading taxes…good thing corporations don’t that…
This is something we are thinking about a lot. We developed multiple mechanisms to make sure we inject the IDs in a safe way. You can see the code here: https://github.com/keyval-dev/opentelemetry-go-instrumentati...