skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't follow Berkshire Hathaway much, so I'm not aware of what Warren Buffet has said on this topic, but it sounds super interesting.

After a bit of digging, I found this Q&A from the 2019 shareholder meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRIJQJXRVo&t=17980s

And the meeting minutes in PDF form (see page 120, question #32):
https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.contentres.com/media/documen...

The text from that document...

32. It’s easy to make 50% on a million, but much
more difficult on larger amounts

WARREN BUFFETT: Station 9. We’re just about — yeah, we’ve got time
for a couple more.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: My name is John Dorso (phonetic), and I’m from New York. Mr. Buffett, you’ve said that you could return 50 percent per annum if you were managing a one-million-dollar portfolio. What type of strategy would you use? Would you invest in cigar butts, i.e., average businesses at very cheap prices? Or would it be some type of arbitrage strategy? Thank you.

WARREN BUFFETT: It might well be the arbitrage strategy, but in a very different, perhaps, way than customary arbitrages, a lot of it. One way or another, I can assure you, if Charlie was working with a million, or I was working with a million, we would find a way to make that with essentially no risk, not using a lot of leverage or anything of the sort. But you change the one million to a hundred million and that 50 goes down like a rock. There are little fringe inefficiencies that people don’t spot and you do get opportunities occasionally to do, but they don’t really have any applicability to Berkshire. Charlie?

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, I agree totally. It’s just you used to say that large amounts of money, they develop their own anchors. It gets harder and harder. I’ve just seen genius after genius with a great record and pretty soon they’ve got 30 billion and two floors of young men and away goes the good record. That’s just the way it works. It’s hard as the money goes up.

WARREN BUFFETT: When Charlie was a lawyer, initially, I mean, you were developing a couple of real estate projects. I mean, if you really want to make a million dollars — or 50 percent on a million — and you’re willing to work at it — that’s doable. But it just has no applicability to managing huge sums. Wish it did, but it doesn’t.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Yeah. Lee Louley (phonetic), using nothing but the float on his student loans, had a million dollars, practically, shortly after he graduated as a total scholarship student. He found just a few things to do and did them.
This genuinely seems like a psychedelics hit piece. This joombah mentions taking psychedelics with zero preparation: alone, on a whim, without concern for dosage. For real? I have no sympathy for him. Nobody is this naive, and if he is perhaps it’s Mother Nature doing her magic.
In the US at least, "Truth in advertising" laws are anything but. They have loopholes you could drive a train through.
Functional Ad Blocker for Facebook (Chrome/Win 10)?
Facebook has become a cesspool of scammy ads and grifter nonsense, but I still use it 5-10 mins per day to keep up with events and community connections.

My ad blocker used to work, but no more. What are people using these days?
What makes this situation even more frustrating is that analog sticks have been around for a long time now. I still have controllers from the PS2/GC/Xbox era that work just fine after all these years and countless hours of play, and have no drift whatsoever.

Even the earliest analog sticks like the N64 (Which used LEDs for tracking) didn't suffer from drift — although it did wear out considerably mechanically!

I just bit the bullet and replaced my Joycon's sticks with 3rd party hall-sensing ones, which have worked great so far.
We've been through two large pandemics in the modern era and neither caused the destruction of human civilization. Even the really bad pandemics of the medieval era that killed large chunks of the population did not result in the destruction of humanity. We also lived with serious endemic diseases for a large fraction of our history and they didn't bring about doom. This means that the chances of extinction due to pandemic are still very slim.

Nuclear war thankfully has still not occurred. Even if it were to occur one can hope that we would have enough sense to limit how many weapons were used. The fact that MAD works wherever it is in place indicates that humans are not as gung ho on self-immolation as the media makes us out to be.

Ecological collapse and climate change are two different things. Total ecological collapse is much harder to accomplish barring a massive event such as an asteroid impact.
Photos are basically showing you if the property is worth inspecting by hand. I've seen it go the other way too, terrible photos and a fine place.
I think if they are going to allow discrimination for "religious" reasons, then I think then the whole issue is gone to dust. I should be able to discriminate against your religion then as well, because I am not religious.
A period of rapidly-expanding advertising.

See Hamilton Holt's Commercialism and Journalism, dating from 1909:

<https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft>

And I do mean see it. Read the damned thing, or at least the first dozen pages or so. It's a highly-readable, information-dense, and exceedingly insightful look at the development of commercial publishing in the US at the time, and its author is a magazine publisher himself.
Yeah, I ended up taking https://github.com/gofinance/ib and rewrote my own wrapper. This took a long time but has been stable since. I'm basically only doing buy lmt, sell lmt, cancel, and updates orders though. So, the logic is pretty simple. Catching all the return messages and structuring them correctly took tons of debugging, trail, and error. Basically, mapping the messages into the correct orders for state tracking.
I would assume a bad trip can cause PTSD not unlike other events that are usually associated with PTSD.
OpenJDK Quality Outreach Program
Yeah that's fair. Though even by that metric the majority (~58%) of the APIs are something one needs to work around?

Presumably that stacked towards the less important ones, but still not a good look
Ice is water and wet.
>Microsoft figured out how to license an OS to third party OEMs and still allow end users to update their hardware without depending on the vendor for literally decades.

You're cluelessly comparing apples to oranges. ARM smartphones, for better and for worse, are not like the Windows based IBM X86 PCs in any way when it comes to boot process, OS and drivers interactions.

ARM SBCs which is what all smartphones are, are completely different than X86 PCs which have more open standards when it comes to booting and driver support, versus ARM where it's mostly proprietary blobs different from vendor to vendor.
I found this quote in "Notes On A Nervous planet" by the wonderful Matt Haig a few years ago. It was the first time I felt "seen" and like someone else could articulate this weird feeling I sometimes had...

"People who have never had a period of living with anxiety and panic don’t understand that the realness of you is an actual feeling that you can lose. People take it for granted. You don’t get up in the morning and think, as you spread peanut butter onto your toast, ‘Ah, good, my sense of self is still intact, and the world is still real, I can now get on with my day.’ It’s just there. Until it isn’t. Until you are in the cereal aisle, feeling inexplicable terror. When trying to express what a panic attack feels like it’s easy to talk about the obvious symptoms: the racing thoughts, the palpitations, the tightness of the chest, the breathlessness, the nausea, the tingling sensations inside your skull or your arms and legs. But there is another more complicated symptom I used to get. One which I have come to realise is at the heart of what my panic attacks have always been about. It is the one called, tellingly, derealisation. Within a feeling of derealisation, I still knew I was me. I just didn’t feel I was me. It is a feeling of disintegration. Like a sand sculpture crumbling away. And there is a paradox about this sensation. Because it feels like both an extreme intensity of self and a nothingness of self. A feeling of no return, as if you have suddenly lost something that you didn’t know you had to look after, and that the thing you had to look after was you."
well if we are this far then can it be a precedent to disallow the website itself from serving LGBT folks? what about Muslims?
The source you linked to states that funding has fallen around $1220 per year per student, after adjusting for inflation. But it goes on to state that tuition costs have increased $2708 per year.

So what are universities doing with that extra $1500 per year per student? I agree that schools should be better funded, but ballooning tuition costs are more than just a lack of funding.
That makes sense if they behaved like typical loans. However, student loans can’t declare bankruptcy, refinance, etc…

The good debters are not covering the bad debters in this case.
What is your favorite SQL dialect and why?
My favorite SQL dialect (which is probably seen as a downside more than a positive) is MySQL. The two main reasons are:

(1) Being able to use both single- and double-quotes for strings (probably a tiny thing, but for me I enjoy that, perhaps because I have a python background);
(2) having types that always coerce, such as `SELECT numCol=strCol` or `SELECT date="2014-01-01"`.

On the other hand, a dialect like BigQuery seems too strict for me, erroring on something such as `SELECT 1="1"` or `SELECT date"2014-01-01"`.

What is your favorite SQL dialect and why?
I’d love a complete breakdown on how this case even made it to the Supreme Court. From my (very limited) understanding the situation in this case is essentially a hypothetical?
Dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves
Yeah, the same problem exists on the Switch. The console manufacturers should have switched to more expensive Hall effect sticks, which are not affected by this problem. I think the XBox controller also doesn't have them, but maybe they use simply higher quality parts here.
I've been thinking about this comment for a few minutes and do find it interesting. But the extremes of the comments and quotes above make it clear that even displaying your product is an ad; demonstrating how it works to a crowd would be an ad; telling someone that it exists would be an ad; there seems to be no way to tell the market that your product exists without that being defined as an ad.

So I would answer you with, given the extremes defined above, that indeed advertising is a necessity since good products would otherwise rot inside the inventor's home. It being illegal (say, for example) to have ads would mean that it is illegal to even tell anyone that you invented a product.

I think there's got to be some kind of give from the anti-ad side if we want to have _things_ in the world that do stuff - because if I can't even say "I made a better product that does x,y,z" then how the heck is anyone ever gonna find out about it? Where does the word-of-mouth kick off even?

You gotta _tell_ people you made something - but that's an ad.
See also: https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/papers/LRBNI%20origins%20v4... which describes some of that history.
Ohh. Sad to hear Navy Nuke is anything other than perfect. I had a great time in the Marines. I knew the GI Bill promises were BS and the training I got would not be applicable to the real world (honestly, how often do you call in fire from naval artillery in your corporate software development job.)

I joined explicitly to play GI Joe for a couple years and explicitly chose a job that had me frequently out of sight of my chain of command.

And I knew from family members the tradeoffs involved with making it a career.

The military always had s** jobs, but if you played your cards right you could avoid them mostly. Sounds like it's harder to avoid the crap these days.

Should mention I was in from 85-90 w/ a couple years of reserves. Ymmv.
> Don’t think Reddit would be starting anything.

The API changes and the ensuing chaos are at least in part because of OpenAI scraping Reddit’s content.
Well you have to consider the inherent bias on HN, in that the trough of disillusionment is HN's default state of mind regarding literally every topic. It's really rare to see a thread where most of the comments aren't negative.
Or the courts got exactly what they wanted. They can't rule on something until a case makes it to them, and if they specifically want to rule on something do they actually care if the case is real?
You can. That’s the point.
Yes mostly answering questions and also summarizing and exploring by asking for explanations (understanding there could be non trivial amounts of hallucination)
Really appreciate you offering advice. Will book time after the long weekend.
This looks like a sofa took a selfie
It has the health disadvantages of sugar, because it contains sugar (fructose). Don't be fooled by sugar in a different form.
I believe that "not religious" is considered a religious belief. I'm pretty sure that "religious" beliefs can even include things like not wanting to take a vaccine (according to some courts).
> If you thought you could install RHEL packages on SLES, what did you think the difference between RHEL and SLES was?

I didn't know what the differences were. I learn by doing. Everybody has to install and try a distro for the first time at some point. Unless you are arguing that you were born with innate knowledge of Suse, then at some point you didn't know either.

> Also I'm not sure what "new" or "existing" users have to do with it. I've never used RHEL so I'm technically a new RHEL user, but I don't have the misconception that distro packages are interchangeable.

I would argue that you actually have the misconception, so this is ironically pretty good evidence that "new" or "existing" users does matter.

In the RHEL ecosystem, packages can often be installed on any other (non-Suse) RPM distro, as long as the dependencies are met. For example, Fedora packages can be put on RHEL or CentOS or Alma or Rocky or Amazon Linux or Oracle Linux or Scientific Linux etc. I have some packages built for EL9 that are installed on my Fedora machine right now. Putting on a different distro you run a risk of having broken dependencies, but things are largely the same.

The same is also true for Debian, Ubuntu, and many other .deb distros. This is far more common in the linux ecosystem than not. Suse seems to me to be the odd-one-out here.
I love IB. They give you a papertrading account as a testbed. The executions are pretty close to reality, even in low liquidity markets.
Cilantro takes that cake for me.
“Lifestyle”?

Care to elaborate there?
How far should that go, if you are hurt lying on side of road should an EMT be able to refuse to server you based on religious feelings? what about an ER doctor?
It's wrong. In a magical world with zero ad blocking, advertising is still multiple different players all competing with each other who will jump at ramping up effectiveness no matter how damaging it could be. It's a competition for a limited resource and there's a ratchet effect.
This blog post is missing a few things from the official docs: https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/macros

---

The way we do this kind of thing at Notion is very simple. We have normal CLI commands that generate code and write it to disk, and we check in those outputs. Then in CI, we run all the generation commands and verify the codegen is up-to-date. Checking in generated code means it's really easy to understand the behavior of codegen and how it changes, and everyone gets excellent typechecking and auto-completion of codegen'd artifacts.

The downside to static codegen is that the "templates" we use for codegen need to be valid Typescript files, or we risk breakage if imports or types change.

Bun macros have some advantages like execution at build time for stuff like Git SHA interpolation, but because these macros can't actually emit code, they feel less powerful that straight-up codegen. I could replace a lot of the Notion CLI commands with Bun macros if:

1. There's a return type for macros that emits code, like:

// src/macros/prism.ts
export function emitPrismImports() {
const importOrder = toposortLangagues(PRISM_LANGUAGES)
const imports = importOrder
.map(lang => `await import(/* webpackChunkName: "prism" */ "${importPath}"`)
.join('\n')
return Bun.code`${imports}`
}

// src/client/syntaxHighlighting.ts
import { emitPrismImports } from '@notionhq/macros/prism' with { type: 'macro' }
async function highlight(text, lang) {
emitPrismImports()
return Prism.highlight(text, lang)
}

2. There's a way to run `bun build` and just do macro evaluation. I need to continue using Typescript, Webpack, Jest, etc for now, so we need eval'd macros on disk so they can be typechecked, tab-completed, and bundled by other tools.

The uncompiled versions still wouldn't typecheck nicely though :thinking_face:
As an advertiser, I don't want them to incentivize people to click on ads, because then people will do it despite lack of interest in my product, and thus just add noise to my numbers. Unless it also leads to an increase in conversions (doubtful) that just makes the individual clicks worth that much less to me.
> Not everything has to be illegal just because you’re annoyed by it.

No, some things should be illegal because they're public officials using semi-private communications channels for public communications in the course of their work, that the public won't have access to without agreeing to a TOS with that private company.
Keep in mind that half of America can’t participate in politics and news (and others). Their views are deemed wrong think and their accounts are banned.

This is effectively the type of censorship employed by communist regimes like China.

This is all facilitated by the Apollo app and the 3rd party api. The amount of censorship is really depressing. Anything that disrupts this at least a little is a huge win.
So if i enumerate a host and find a git dump that includes private api keys i can do whatever i want with them?
Anonymous pubic SSH for access to the tools is really a nice option...
>The XBox controller also still lacks a gyroscope

This is the big one for me. For me it is such an improvement in both "feel" and in my real performance that I cannot go back to a system without one. When MW2 released without gyro support, I played briefly but wound up putting it down until that was added in an update.

The PS4 controller had a gyro too that was essentially never utilized. I was really hoping this would be the gen when all the major vendors included it, but Microsoft, alone, opted not to.

The speakerphone built into the controller is great too. I can run all the game audio through my hifi, and still talk to my friends on in-game voice chat without using a headset.
Thanks! Appreciate the detailed info on GPU’s and cost very much.
Dark energy telescope reveals early look at almost two million cosmic objects
That's the clear goal, yes.
> even at the cost of complicating the message

The problem is that complicated messages don't scale. If your cause can't be reduced to a buzzphrase, you cannot achieve wide-spread change. I'm not trying to be deliberately edgy or cynical, it just seems like a fatal flaw of mass communication and human psychology.
Alpha and beta printings are more rare and the exact price is hard to get a handle on.

But for the most abundant printing, the buy list prices here are reasonably representative (for a one is very good shape - most will sell for less due to condition): https://www.mtgprice.com/sets/Unlimited/Black_Lotus

Honestly, you'd be better off looking at the reserved list as a whole if you want to get a sense of more general returns. It's wild how much things spiked a few years back. I play legacy in paper regularly and have a large collection I actually use, but it's getting to the point where even I feel like I should sell out.
I have tried psychedelics at high dose and never had any issues with derealization. However when I started meditating 1/hr per day I started noticing things just started seeming "fake" and like I wasn't a "real person". Backing off to meditating 30 minutes daily, it completely went away.
Oh this is amazing! Even works on iOS 15! Thanks for the recommendation.
also check out the Blind app which much more focused on this topic.
Do you mean a phone wouldn't broadcast an IMSI, without a base station nearby?

It sounds like passive IMSI catching is possible though - https://harrisonsand.com/posts/imsi-catcher/ at least when a phone connects to a base station.
Yeah, I'm not saying this is low risk. It's more about trying to build a system to be in the right place at the right time. It is massively risky. I was sort of hesitant to even write that comment because you constantly see all these youtube day traders selling courses on making 1% daily. If you try that you'll lose money extremely quickly.
Stack blocks
No? I resonate with this take.
Not all data on the internet is permissively licensed and copy righted. ChatGPT being able to give opinions derived from a 1992 article on the fall of the soviet union from the NYT ... is debatably subject to copy right. However practically, the ship has sailed on ChatGPT. We're not going to legislate away AI.
Realtors thrive on nepotism though and double ending jobs with their friends or even themselves. There's plenty of homes that are bought and sold without hitting any public listing site. Agents just might call up another agent the know and go "Hey I got a buyer for a 3br in these neighborhoods, you guys got anything coming up?" and vice versa. Without an agent you are locked out of that side of the market and probably at a serious disadvantage, overpaying for property that didn't manage to sell through this "premarket" for whatever reason which could in fact be for red flag issues.
The McKinsey "Bible" for structured communication is The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. I've coached dozens of engineers who found its insights helpful in structuring their own communications to non-technical audiences, even about complex and nuanced topics. Highly recommend reading it!
I wouldn't recommend anyone to smoke DMT or changa, it's way too strong and it's difficult to make sense out of the experience afterwards.

Ayahuasca is an amazing medicine. If you decide to do it, do it in the Peruvian Amazon, read the reviews carefully of each retreat center before you decide on which one to go to. Follow the diet and any other restrictions, this is especially important AFTER drinking ayahuasca. The shaman will tell you what to avoid and for how long. Don't use kambo, bufo or rapé before, during or after the retreat, it will interfere with the treatment. A lot of vendors in Iquitos will try to convince you that it's good to combine rapé with ayahuasca, but it isn't. Ayahuasca works best alone. Basically you should only be doing ayahuasca (and mapacho if you like to smoke).

It's a very powerful medicine and if you drink with someone with bad intentions it can be very dangerous.
wow, that's intriguingly similar to what I experienced in my life.
Good points. Just to answer, Google is dying. Search and YouTube are legacy technology. It looks like they hit a runaway economic train where they must enshittify their product worse to keep the balance shit, which drives more people away, which requires further enshittification. Google is in major trouble.
The "stay humble be kind" is a bit over the top tbh.
what?

> cidium "act of killing," from caedere "to kill, to cut down" (from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike").
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=homocide
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fratricide
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=suicide

lots of others
If the husband was determined to move, that just meant they would get less money, not that they wouldn't sell. Oh well
There's a more recent iced Roadmap here: https://whimsical.com/roadmap-iced-7vhq6R35Lp3TmYH4WeYwLM