skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately history has shown us time and time again that oppressive leaders disarm their populations before subjecting them to horrific abuses of their power. We aren't falling for it again.

I would (no sarcasm) love a link to any resources you know of that catalogue or chronicle the role of private arms in preserving liberal democracy. Big bonus if the resources are, or lean, academic.
You can go to jail in the UK for a drunk tweet on X (twitter). That is not a free society at it's core.

Your other freedoms are breath away from being all gone.
I think it's more self-serving for those in power to encourage a culture of victimhood, where they set themselves up as the saviors.

This is a standard political gambit: create or identify a group of victims, and declare that you will get "payback" for them and make their situation better. Of course you don't, but that's OK, you got their votes and you just recycle and amplify that play next time.
try telling the family of shireen abu akleh about how safe it was to be a journalist in israel
On an unrelated note, could I ask your opinion?

My wife is passionate about film/TV production and VFX.

She's currently in school for this but is concerned about the difficulty of landing a job afterwards.

Do you have any recommendations on breaking into the industry without work experience?
Obviously (which makes me guess you’re not serious) it’s not about the view but the natural light.
You do understand you are a literal example of what OP was talking about, right?

The Politics in this one are just too strong to sway anyone at all, regardless of what the argument is. You prove their point entirely.
Perhaps although I really think a lot of food people are eating today will be considered poisonous at some point.
I had a Oxo "Barrista Brain" that I really liked, partly because it would remind me when it needed cleaning, and could be scheduled to start brewing at a particular time. However, those fancy electronics ended up being the primary failure point 4 years down the line, the dial control failed.

I ended up replacing it with a Moccamaster and a Zigbee "smart outlet". Because the Moccamaster is so dead simple, I just leave it switched on, and use the button on the outlet to turn it off. To brew in the morning, I have a button on my headboard that if I hold it for 2 seconds starts the brewing. The "start brewing at X:YY" on the Oxo didn't end up working that great for me, because I get up at varying times (half an hour before my alarm this morning, for example).

So, I'd recommend anything with a rocker "on" switch and a smart plug, for sure.
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime investing partner, dies at 99
This is an interesting result. It makes me wonder if you could grow a silicon ingot in this way. If so it would cut the cost of silicon solar cells significantly (a big chunk of their cost is the cost of the ingot, the ingot cost is a function of time to produce, producing them quickly would get more ingots per unit time from a given reactor).

Another crystal structure that would be useful would be sapphire for things like sapphire screens and other covers.
It could be worse, sure. But those rooms (at least some of them) don't have any windows. Why would you build something like that?
I wonder in the 99 yrs of his life how often Charlie was anywhere near victimhood.
Also what does "a lot more lightweight and faster to use" mean when contrasting against Loom for you? Is their client particularly heavyweight in any way?
You are victim when somebody else harmed you. To be victim means that somebody else harmed you.

And when people in that situation blame themselves, it is great for abusers but bad for them.
Interestingly enough, Orange is called "oranju" in Tamil, a Dravidian language.
Show HN: Multilspy – A library to easily use language servers to analyze code
Multilspy is a library that simplifies the use of language servers for static analysis of code. Language servers are tools that provide useful information about source code, such as code completion, symbol definition, references, etc. Multilspy abstracts the setup and communication with language servers, and exposes a common interface for different languages. Multilspy currently supports Java, Rust, C#, and Python, and can be easily extended to other languages. Multilspy is part of the monitors4codegen project, which introduces Monitor-Guided Decoding (MGD) for code generation using Language Models. MGD uses static analysis to guide the decoding of LMs, to generate code following certain properties, such as type-correctness, argument number, method order, etc. MGD can improve the compilation rate and ground-truth match of code generated by LMs at all scales.
All you gotta do is look at the graphs to see posits are more accurate and precise for pretty much any given scenario, assuming the bits are distributed 'wisely'. Unfortunately, it's not easy to do in hardware and the hardware implementations suffer from rigidness.

I don't really want to get into the nitty gritty, as John will answer emails regarding this stuff. I've personally done so, and he's very polite and informative. I was using them for fractals, but using them in software, which was unfortunately very slow, but the results were amazing. I've read through his papers on them and it took me a while to really 'get it', but I did and oh man, even basic unums put floats to shame. While perhaps not a tremendous upgrade, I much prefer the distribution and accuracy and how there's far less overlap, NaNs, infinities, etc.
Value investing has very little to do with investing in ETFs/indexes. By definition, investing in an ETF can't be value investing, because value investing is about picking (yes, picking) stocks that are undervalued. And that implies going against the market. The complete opposite in buying into the market through an ETF.
Sounds like a clickbait headline. Reading the article confirms the suspicion. A lot of narrative being pushed in this.
The major distinction is that, in theory, some of those tribes are by choice, and some are unable to be changed. In the US, discrimination against unchangeable characteristics is illegal in many cases (skin color, gender, etc...)

I can choose to join the vegetarian tribe, and I can choose to leave it.

I cannot choose the color of my skin or my race.
I always interpreted this statement as "Don't feel like a victim", not "Don't feel like a victim." It's not an exhortation to suck it up and ignore everything wrong with your life, it's an exhortation to go do something about it. If you feel like conditions are honestly bad enough that a revolution is necessary, go revolt, don't sit there on Hacker News or Reddit complaining about how bad conditions are. If Coke is making you fat and being fat is making you unhappy, stop drinking Coke.

This framing isn't self-serving at all; if more people took it, there'd be a lot fewer folks that the rich and powerful could take advantage of, and a lot more power centers.

But curiously, I've noticed that many people who are powerful and ruthless also have a certain respect for people who will put up clear boundaries and take action to not be taken advantage of by them. It's like they're reluctant sociopaths. "As long as stupid and helpless people exist, they will be taken advantage of by someone, so that someone might as well but me." But it's almost like many of them wish there weren't so many stupid and helpless people, and respect folks who go after what they want even if what they want isn't aligned with their own vision.
Its not about seeing pictures of dead people, its about empathy.

Large parts of the USA cannot empathise with their own dead children in their own school shootings. Not because they don't have empathy, because its been shaped to not allow any kind of dissent from "accepted"(accepted by which team you support) view points.

There are almost no uniting subjects for the USA anymore.

It is far to profitable to seek division than unity for almost anything, be that guns, health, education, the constitution, the supreme court, equality, civil rights.

the Democrats are incompetent, and the GOP has ceased to be a political organisation.
Seems like a lot of effort for bad coffee, why not just use an insulated carafe?
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The use of union here is bit confusing (I think its unnecessary?), although I don't imagine it making any difference in the generated code.
> it's probably not healthy in the long-term to pretend like it's "your fault" ... Tak[e] a clear view of the causes of your current circumstances

There's always things in your control and things out of your control, but the notion of "victim" does zilch to clarify which is which. It's a pointless distraction, a snare for the mind.
“All things (e.g. a camel's journey through
A needle's eye) are possible, it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
In one long bloody thread, from tail to snout.”

― C.S. Lewis, Poems
I don't know if it ended up in court but Posten employees/Seko sympathy striked against toys r us in the 90s.
Ironically, revolutionaries and unionists would perfectly follow Munger's advice here: Don't wallow in misery, organise to change the circumstances that lead to it.

Though I'm pretty certain the he didn't have that kind of change in mind when giving this advice.
Certainly, but in every aspect of life, bad people try to take advantage through a variety of tactics. Checking inward for responsibility, accountability, and improvement first is a fine tactic, especially in leadership. Over time, and likely through experience, you'll learn how to sniff out the bad actors.

This is of course, harder to achieve when you have significant emotional investment in the conflict at hand. Detaching and analyzing yourself, and the situation can be a super power here.
I mean,

Seth Klarman

David Einhorn

Howard S. Marks

Joel Greenblatt

There are alot of famous and very good value investors who are at the top of their game right now.
This is kind of missing the point. People are in groups that do all kinds of things normatively that add up to obesity, like dualistic thinking leading to depression while be embedded in a culture of dissociation. Yes, it's a choice, and as the cultures that gatekeep people from meeting their needs grows and spreads, making and sustaining that choice becomes harder. Maintaining cultures that harm is also a choice. No one is an island. We're all programming each other and ourselves in every moment while not taking care about how we do it.
How was buffet ungrounded? If anything he was too conservative and his real estate still has predatory loans. The recent gains from BH are due to new management to the tech industry from other managers.
Right, but that's intended for the attacker to connect to from nearby? Also of course presumably if it's got enough hardware crammed in there to cost $170 random Chinese tech companies are not going to include all of that in their $25 dongle "just in case" you turn out to be worth compromising?
I'm with you. And the comments here are very quickly devolving into unrelated, or unproductive political nonsense.
Somewhat the height of survivorship bias. There are a many number of people that don't adopt a victim mentality, work hard, and try to get ahead and just don't. For every Charlie Munger there are tons of working poor that get up everyday, work hard for minimum wage, then go off to their second job.

My entire childhood I watched both my parents, who both had 2 jobs, work themselves non-stop to try to provide for us. They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit.

Asking the man who wins the lottery how to live a good life and be successful often ends up with them telling you to do whatever it is that they did. It might even be good advice, but it's a ridiculous appeal to authority. Charlie Munger got all this success and he did X, ok, did other people do X and not achieve this level of success? How many people did not-X and were perfectly successful?

It's subjective finger wagging dressed up in more appealing clothing for those that already agree with the opinions to point at and be happy about. Because at the end of the day, it allows us to blame people's misfortune on them, they've adopted a victim mentality and that's why their lives aren't working out. It allows the class that has the vast majority of wealth to deflect any critical examination of the power structure that perpetuates this state. You aren't underpaid, you just have adopted a victim mindset. You aren't exploited, you just haven't found a way to turn the challenge of paying your rent into riches yet.
Value investing is “an investment paradigm that involves investing in stocks that are overlooked by the market and are being traded below their true worth”.

Correct me if wrong, but I don’t think index funds come under that paradigm.
This is a welcomed addition of nuance, but I think it thematically fits with the general narrative. If your current situation is not optimal, and we pose a dichotomy of choosing to take control of your situation or self pity, then taking control is better.

I guess it’s some combination of feeling like a victim with a fatalist attitude that’s the real issue.
Could you point us towards some evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that would support your point? Have there been any large scale studies which show that following Charlie Munger's approach produces worse outcomes than the alternatives?
You can get some insights from the guy who made the task manager via his youtube channel
In mainstream Western media, it largely depends on group victim and privilege points of individual actual victims. You're not going to hear about the suffering of any individual Palestinian child while you are going to see a 30-minute biopic of an Israeli child playing nonstop. And "Support for Palestinians is antisemitism" screams Likud and ADL, while Jewish Voice for Peace and Combatants for Peace urging nonviolent solidarity and peace are banned, silenced, and ignored. This is the insanity of so-called liberal neoliberal left media beating the drums to war with authoritarian hardliner war hawks who want endless cycles of violence where only a political solution can lead to the lasting peace ordinary people need and deserve. This response to the "third intifada" is repeating the historical failures of America in Afghanistan and Iraq by a corrupt leader who was on his way to prison with a convicted racist in tow. Every civilian life lost is a tragedy, but unfortunately some lives are deemed more equal than others in the eyes of the mainstream media who have the power to put their thumb on the scale.
So you shouldn’t work hard because it benefits the people in power?

That mentality seems pretty self-destructive. It’s dumb to not at least try to impress the people who pay you. That doesn’t mean you can’t also take it easy and strike a healthy balance, but just outright saying society and work are bullshit seems insane when we have such a wealth of resources readily available to us.
This particular article goes deeper into the same subject and among other things, details government employees working for government agencies actively participating a way people attacking the Twitter files reporting claimed did not happen. What would make government censorship a story in your opinion?
The Arduino IDE definitely sucks for experienced programmers. I feel like they did a great job making the "zero to seven-eighths" experience pretty good for non-developers, but many of those same choices mean that the tooling drives SWEs batty.
Show HN: Translate Slack Messages Automatically
Hey HN!

A startup had built this internal tool that they used to communicate with their international team (London<>Ukraine). When they ended up winding down their startup, I acquired it from them, rebuilt it from the ground up, and I've been running it the past few years.

It's super simple: just a Slack app that uses the Google Translate API to automatically translate messages based on the team's settings. It supports over 100 languages and has custom settings per channel.

Let me know what you think!
> Reliable lock screen, even if popup menu is showing ;)

Impossible. I'm told if you're not running xscreensaver it is safe to assume that your screen does not lock!
Considering within 2 years the sitting president of the united states was banned from the majority of online platforms, along with various other figures from his political party, I'd say it was highly successful. I don't necessarily believe the source as it sounds a bit "outrageous", but if true they were highly successful.
That sounds more like abusive logic then wish to help anyone. "I do it for your own good".
Including those that weren't quite as dead as they were
All media has some sort of bias or agenda. This is pretty clearly an opinion piece, it isn’t as if they are hiding some secret anti-school-shooting agenda.
The "bad ones" in Santa Barbara never got built, no? So people definitely didn't live in them.
This is not meant to belittle your positive and well meaning post. But for people with real depression, giving the advice to just cheer up and look a bit more positively on things is the worst possible thing you can say and give as advice. I know it is often well meaning and comes from a place where people simply does not know what to say or do. And this leads to slight desperation. But it is wrong and leaves people with and in depression in even more blackness. Being a bit more positive has nothing to do with it. Depression is debilitating and has deeper causes. And one thing you experience with depression is that you loose the ability to use internal automatic denial to filter out the bad realities of the world. And basically the world is a horrible place, with some positive things in it. Not the other way around, even though that is what normal people see.
That's an interesting non-sequitur. Rather a whataboutism. I hope you get the healthcare and transit you need.
He didn't make money on you buying the "occasional" Coke. He made money by addicting you (the royal you) to Coke to want it over, and over, and over again.

I used to be that way. I'm glad I gave it up.
Amazing that a US colleague of mine was fired for saying "fuck" to another US colleague. Really free country that with protected speech...

When people say freedom in the US it tends to be people free to be assholes to their fellow countrymen.

Edit: I have freedom from not being shot in the face in Costco too! That's my favourite freedom.
The cascade of attention-deficit teenagers pinky-promise that it won’t.

Meanwhile, I understand that Wayland in 2023 still doesn’t support what X11 supported in 2000. If true, then it’s simply not fit for purpose.
> Every financial advisor and 401k plan recommends index funds by default, and it is how the vast majority of people and organizations store their wealth. It doesn't need any more cheerleaders or icons. It had simply become synonymous with investing at large.

This is passive investing, not value investing.

Value investing is very much active investing, otherwise how would you select the undervalued assets?

Value investing is about finding undervalued companies and buying them while avoiding the properly valued or over valued companies. It has nothing to do with ETF's or index funds.
Prediction: no advertisers will be dropping from Instagram despite the report coming from the Journal, and not Media Matters.
Someone tell the Israelis whining about "October 7".

Feeling like a victim all the way.
> professionals

On what human psychology? Name any random opinion, I'll find you a professional who supports it? It's not a field (unless you're dealing with individuals and their specific issues) where being a "professional" matters much...
Yes, surely. I'm curious if you have more to say about this. Semi-relatedly, one could read this article as a journalist attempting to convince the public to normalize a more emotionally potent form of journalism.
In 400 years, people could be interpreting the Harry Potter series similarly.
the numbers you're giving are throughput (byte/sec) not latency.

The comment you reply to is talking mostly about latency - reporting that S3 object get latencies (time to open the object and return its head) in the single-digits ms, where S3 was 50ms before.

BTW EBS can do 4GB/sec per volume. But you will pay for it.
Wow, what a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing that! Now I'm questioning the foundation of my career. :-S
The main difference with Syria is that those who are doing the killing are not funded by the US. Israel on the other hand is funded by the US government, especially its military. On the other hand, it is estimated that 90% of the deaths are by the Syrian government, which is not funded at all by the US Government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil...
I have great respect for Charlie (RIP), but there isn't much insight here.

The crux of the article is that self-pity is never useful, but it then presupposes that accepting personal responsibility is always useful. Personal responsibility is not the only way to ameliorate the great problems of our life. In fact, for the majority of human history, the idea of pivoting away from self pity from sheer force of will without the help of family and tribe would seem impossible.

Instead of naivly rejecting self pity, I would like a analytical approach to question like

How do we improve our ability to reject self pity?
What is the role of social capital in self pity rates?
What sociocultural issues have the greatest impact on endowing a sense of self pity?
How has self pity been useful for building political movements?
AWS Graviton specialist here!

The performance improvement is on a per-core basis. The pending availability of 96-vCPU Graviton4 instances is icing on the cake!
Rest in peace: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/charlie-munger-berkshi...
> "I don't make bad things my own fault. But I consider them my responsibility to fix."

^^^ This! It's only your fault if it's actually your fault - If the blame genuinely lies with someone else, there's nothing left to do but take actions to a) fix it, and b) ensure that it never happens again. Can't rely on others to fix things, because the fact is that most people simply won't even try.
Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant (preview)
It's not whataboutism at its best, no. Just as with self-driving cars, medical AIs don't have to be perfect, or even to cause zero deaths. They just have to improve the current situation.
The funny thing is that since this guy died at 99yo it means that 30 years ago he was still an old 70yo man. Screws with my brain sometimes
As far as I know, Knight did not have a "clean" kill switch, but they did have the ability to shut everything down. If they killed trading, that meant killing some processes that would screw up their accounting, which would mean losing the rest of the trading day.

Firms I worked at after the fact tried to make sure the kill switch was non-disruptive, and actually did push it once or twice.
> “Misinformation, they realized, could be treated the same way: as a cybersecurity problem.”

It is, when spread over the internet in a systematic and intentional way. It literally is social engineering.

There is a serious problem with misinformation causing radicalization and SV is doing only the bare minimum to give congress lip service, and it is getting measurably worse.

Malicious regimes around the world are fueling these efforts systematically and intentionally (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency) and know that this is a cheap way to cause domestic problems within the US at an arms length. From their perspective, this is a great weapon, and a trojan horse taking advantage of the US's cultural reluctance to censor.

Many here usually support a "no censorship in any circumstance" position, but I think that's a dangerous position to take in this situation, because it risks a future in which speech is free but automatically distrusted. Something needs to be done to cut these efforts off at the source before it (further) undermines our own trust in free speech.