jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Like chollida1 noted, it's more likely that pretty much everyone(even HFT outfits) are getting their data through one of the major providers like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters.

The real difference between HFTs, online retail brokerages, standard brokers, and others, is the quality of service for the data that they're consuming. The more current the data you're getting, the more expensive it is. That's why the tickers on CNBC or Fox Business are 20 minutes delayed-that data is effectively free at that point.

For a HFT algo trading outfit, they're looking at buying the fastest, most expensive data, which is real-time full tick. That means that they're going to be getting every single quote and trade for a given instrument from the provider. I would imagine that the online brokerages are also consuming this data, because that would give them a slight edge with price matching for their clients.

For normal day traders or brokers, they're probably using a terminal provided by their data provider(i.e. Bloomberg Terminal, Thomson Reuters Eikon, or Thomson One). Since these are human display apps, there's a lot more lag time allowed, typically in the hundreds of milliseconds to low single digit seconds. Here, the data is often conflated, so multiple quotes are combined to show the last known data state for the instrument. This saves on bandwidth and processing time, which is good if you're not colocated at the exchange.
How's it different from the pkgsrc tools coupled with the binary packages supplied by NetBSD (e.g. here http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/)
Racket to JS compiler by Danny Yoo. http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/
That's not what a slippery slope argument is. I am not arguing that some event must follow inevitably from the other without presenting an argument for why this follows.

Anyway, what bugs me so much is the entitlement. Sure, maybe you can find a job like that. But what makes you think that you deserve it?

And yes, there is a problem with being entitled. The world is already too full of selfish assholes. I really would not want to work with someone who is looking for so many reasons to be unhappy with a job.
>Many Hebei farmers bury their deceased loved ones in caskets, so it is unlikely that the high number of flourishing plants in the graveyards are linked to the decomposition process, Axmacher says. “It’s really just letting nature get on with things and not touching the area,” he adds.

I've heard the same thing about Chernobyl. The fact that people mostly leave it alone means nature is flourishing there.

> Researchers have found the land surrounding the plant, which has been largely off limits to humans for three decades, has become a haven for wildlife, with lynx, bison, deer and other animals roaming through thick forests. This so-called Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which covers 2,800 square km of northern Ukraine, now represents the third-largest nature reserve in mainland Europe and has become an iconic – if accidental – experiment in rewilding.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-chernobyl-ha...
Nice, Tai Le looks really close!

I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
The article's point is that no, it's not. That is a common justification for why animators get paid poverty wages though.
The problem is that “kibibyte”, “mebibyte”, “gibibyte”, etc. are extremely ugly words whose existence is fundamentally offensive. If you heard anyone say them aloud you’d think they were a toddler with a speech impediment.
That's no longer true. International markets now make up something like 50% of their profits.
Gotta defend my city.

While I don't doubt the police are racist, crime isn't actually that bad compared to other US cities. I live right outside of downtown and feel safe riding or walking almost anywhere in the city.

Winter is something to embrace like other cold weather cities - easier when you have snow then rain and mud like some warmer places. And in my opinion it makes the spring and summer all the more glorious.

Buffalo has had faced some hard times but the bleeding has stopped and past decade has seen the biggest improvements in years. It's legacy has left housing stock, infrastructure, architecture and culture that far outpaces other similar sized cities, at a similarly low cost.
> Apple doesn’t require 2FA.

They do if you want to be able to log in to any of Apple’s developer portal.

> It’s not practical to pay for a static phone number and SIP service.

It’s cheap to the level of being negligible. Exact cost depends on what number you want to get, but I’ve got a North American number that after initial SIM and porting fees is indefinitely zero-cost.

I wish we could do away with phone numbers. I’ve tried to do without, and found it impossible.
The inspector-gadget arm sticking out of the space shuttle does look pretty funny
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-...

I don't think the arm was related to anything with intelligence- they just needed some way to have a second radar slightly moved away from the main one on the Shuttle. The further away it is, the more accurate they could measure elevation, so they stuck it way out on a pole.

But I think you're right that it's possibly one of the most widely used GIS datasets. Some applications obviously need finer resolution than 30 meters, and lidar is more accurate for the small areas that it can cover, but it's still cool that they could cover most of the globe at 30 meter resolution
Tanenbaum’s Computer Networks is a pretty standard textbook on the subject. It pours a solid foundation in an organized and systematic form.

If nothing else you won’t be flailing around the internet.
I've always wondered why gamification wasn't integrated into things beyond web apps. Gamification is a concept, a lens through which we can enact persuasive design - there's nothing in there that says its web specific. Lots of Web 2.0 concepts came from 'real world' product design; I don't see why the relationship can't go both ways.
yelp, watch out.
This depends on the type of the game, but a fellow developer is beta-testing a canvas based game http://esdao.com . It's works quite well, with the exception of Mobile Safari to my recollection which is supposed to perform better with the next iOS update.
If this is Google entering the deal space then look out Gilt... some people might want to purchase you too
I can think of one. They could bring Groupon into Adwords and sell deals directly from searches. The auction mechanics of Adwords might work well with Groupon. Of course this would rely on Groupon working purely automatically - if it required any kind of business relationships and customer service (like it does now) then Google would kill it.
>But you could make the same argument against any US state that remains cost competitive due to the currency

True, but, there is a policial union of states in the US that doesn't exist in the EU. The EU is a monetary union without a political union, this means that it's politically unpalatable to explicitly redistribute tax money from the relatively rich to poor regions (Germany/France to Greece/Portugal) in the same way as Washington or London might to W.Virginia or Newcastle.
Agreed, I generally cann't hear the speakers either unless I'm right at the front, but that's sort of by the by. The main reason to is to meet people in the crowd.
I bet the dutch central office of statistics keeps track of it. But then if you don't trust the one government body why should you trust another?

Personally I trust the dutch police force and in fact admire them greatly. They handle dangerous and stressful situations much better than I personally ever could. That said I do see why you'd be mistrustful as average citizen, the most you'll have to do with police is reporting crimes such as broken windows or stolen bikes, in which case you'll probably get a shrug and a "we'll look into it" at most.

The police force is currently very well trained and adequately supplied, but as is the story in many places budget cuts are being made all over and I worry for the future.

In any case an independent research office looking into the crime stats wouldn't be a bad thing, but I suspect it's a rather tricky thing to gauge in the first place.
You may want to look into OpenNIC, in which anyone with the know-how can operate a TLD.

They have domains like .geek, .cyb, .null, .libre, .oss, and you use them by simply switching your DNS server to one of OpenNIC's mirrors. They also support TLDs for "emerging nations" like .ku for Kurdish people, .uu for Uigurs, .ti for Tibet.

Though I'm not sure what would happen if ICANN decides to sell one of those domains one day.
Where infant mortality is high, humans tend to have more children.
It's called constitutional democracy. There should be restraints on the power of even an elected government.
I'm pretty loose with my data but I don't like this. Does Starwood really need to know all of my transportation activity? And now I have to worry if Starwood offers its agents a "God View"?
Dart's Stream class is missing many of the composition, transformation and termination methods that you'd find in other FRP libraries. It's also lacking a concept of time-varying values, which to me are important for holding and responding to state changes.

Having functions like flatMapLatest, flatMap, combine, merge, scan, and takeUntil are pretty much essential to building any RX heavy application.

There are some packages out there that extend Dart's streams to add this behavior. One of which I'm the author of, Frappe. Of course, it'd be nice if Dart included this stuff out of the box.

https://github.com/danschultz/frappe
Number of features isn't a terribly useful comparison, however, since it assumes all features are equal. It's like taking the arithmetic mean of very different benchmarks as a benchmark score.

Writing tests for 'let' support, for instance, is harder than just testing that all the Array.prototype methods are now on TypedArrays, so those methods are worth twice that of let support, even though let is considerably more complicated to implement and game changing in its consequences.
If I were to guess, I'd say no based on one of YC's cofounders, Trevor. To my knowledge, his company Anybots has resisted that easier to get DOD money.
That court sounds like it is anything but impartial.

Language like that favouring one party in a dispute where the court apparently has no other way out than to come down in favour of the other party should be ground for a pretty strict reading during a performance review or whatever is the local equivalent. Disgusting, and I'm saying that even though I am neutral about the case (not having a dog in the fight).

Such language simply has no place in a ruling and suggests extreme partiality on the part of the court, something that should be avoided at all costs.
Neruda is my favourite.

I want to do to you , what the spring does to the cherry trees.

Here's another one

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

How he is able construct such powerful verse out of simple words and concepts always blows me away. Though it looks easy I've never seen a good imitation of his style.

Then there's this poem by Phillip Larkin that I like.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Shakespeare's sonnets are good.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Classical poetry is just really hardcore when you consider how hard it is to write within the constraints of rhyme , meter and the chosen form. It's definitely in the hacker spirit of doing things like the JS1K contest , or maybe crazy assembly optimised demos.

Also checkout Charles Bukowski and Coleridge.

Genius.com is a wonderful way to read poetry.
No, engagement metrics are certainly down because total number of ads are way up while the number of eyeballs watching them aren't increasing nearly as quickly. But it's actually really hard to measure engagement with digital ads since the vast majority of digital ads are display ads.

Furthermore, there's no real metric that can determine whether or not a user even looked at an ad: yes, the ad was loaded by the user's browser, but the user may not have scrolled down the page far enough to actually see the ad, or if they simply scrolled past it without actually looking at it. Because there is no good way to measure engagement, advertisers tend to create ads that promote being noticed over user engagement. Publishers have reacted by loading ads in different ways (e.g. multiple page articles, progressive page loading, etc.) to support higher ad rates on premium content.

There was a recent trend in last few years that showed mobile ads had higher engagement levels, though many in the industry now think that a substantial portion of this is due to "mis-clicks" on mobile ads. The trend is moving away from click-throughs as a measure of engagement as a result of unscrupulous publishers building sites that make it reeeeeally easy to mis-click on an ad. Regardless, measurement is a huge problem in the digital space when it comes to engagement; though the trends relating to engagement on a per-ad basis are almost certainly declining simply due to the increase in quantity of ad inventory and the reduction in transactional friction involved in advertising over the last 10 years.
“We are going to unveil the Tesla home battery, the consumer battery that would be for use in people’s houses or businesses fairly soon,” Musk said during an earning conference call last month.

Why the speculation? It seems like Musk already said exactly what is coming.
I'm really curious if they're going to offer the audio feed along with the video feed. We have the technology to broadcast audio from the players in basically every major sport in the US but broadcasters are terrified of doing so because... well let's say pro athletes aren't real big on self-censorship while they're playing.

I get the impression that the NHL (and NFL and everyone else) doesn't want home viewers to actually hear what the players are saying to each other and it drives me nuts, because I really feel like the interpersonal aggression is a part of the sport that nobody wants me to see.
Thanks, I've been considering this. It may be more work but I'd love to work directly with makers within a niche and set a 10% or so affiliate price, on a set of products e.g. a style of clothes, drones, IoT, wearables etc and create a long-term focus rather than trying to grab pennies/cents. Whoever's left that can still game the Facebook algorithm for millions of instant clicks (something I've never done/tried to do) would probably do great with these affiliates, like the kid who does dose.com
If these are improved prices I'd hate to think what the original prices were.

With AWS getting so good now I can't see the appeal for anything like this in future - I've got a dedicated PostgreSQL RDS instances which effectively manages themselves (auto backups/updates), for much less than the prices their charging for their MySql instances.
It's probably also worth noting that 9/11 accounts for 2953, or a staggering 85%, of those terror related deaths.
Several powerful trends have aligned to profoundly
change the way that the world works. Technology
now allows stateless groups to organize, recruit, and fund
themselves in an unprecedented fashion. That, coupled
with the extreme difficulty of finding and punishing a stateless group, means that stateless groups are positioned to be lead players on the world stage. They may act on their own,
or they may act as proxies for nation-states that wish to
duck responsibility. Either way, stateless groups are forces
to be reckoned with.

At the same time, a different set of technology trends means that small numbers of people can obtain incredibly lethal power. Now, for the first time in human history, a small group can be as lethal as the largest superpower. Such a group could execute an attack that could kill millions of
people. It is technically feasible for such a group to kill billions of people, to end modern civilization—perhaps even
to drive the human race to extinction.

I encourage anyone to read a relevant paper linked below by Nathan Myhrvold.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2290382&d...
Absolutely there's a spectrum and I certainly don't fully understand the full set of category theoretic structures (I'm slowly trying to learn, but.. its slow going). I just think that monads as programming constructs are quite simple. I don't doubt that in a full mathematical context there is a hell of a lot more to them and the mathematical reasoning behind how they work is surely beyond my understanding, but from a how they work, how to use them, how they interact with the language and what they enable you to do point of view, they aren't difficult at all.
Well, here's one option. Between Humble and Kingwood there are about half a dozen freestanding ERs in addition to a hospital ER at one of the Hermann branches. They would have been within 5-10 minutes of the vaccine's original location.

While freestanding ERs have a number of issues, there is a single attending on staff that is extremely easy to get hold of by another physician. He could have called at least one of them to see if there were eligible patients in the facility that would accept the vaccine. Yes, this takes time, but note that depending on traffic it takes about an hour to drive back to Sugar Land. I believe that if he would have dispersed the vaccines at one of those facilities, the story and perception of this physician would have been dramatically different.

My point in bringing this up is that there were other realistic options that he could have taken. It is not quite as simple as take the vaccine home or it goes to waste.
> There are also efforts making good progress

I agree but in the grand scheme of currencies and payment infrastructures they barely got out the door.

I believe today and for the foreseeable future BTC will be adequate almost exclusively for speculative traders and people who need legal deniability. Most people throw around narrow interpretations for why BTC would be good and they're all good explanations if you look just at selected arguments. Take the "BTC is great as a currency in countries with steady high inflation" stance which might hold if you consider only a really narrow set of set of BTC criteria.

I'm not ruling out anything for some future really. As a personal opinion I believe there's room for e-coins (I'll stay away from the "crypto" nomenclature as they may not rely on a blockchain or crypto per se) but BTC in particular has no real room in a CB for more than a fad (also speculative). Think at the central mandate of a CB: price stability and inflation. Controlling these is quintessentially antithetical to BTC as a main currency, or as a currency. BTC as a decentralized currency takes central banking out of the equation. Or conversely central banks take decentralized currencies out of the equation.

So even if you think of it pragmatically, no government or central bank (since they should be as independent from each other as it gets) would allow replacing the country's currency with BTC both for "selfish" reasons - they'd lose control. But maybe even more importantly for national security reasons. No country wants a coin which can be sent spinning just because some CEO (or worse, your enemy) decided to pull a shady maneuver for personal gain.

The kind of control currencies need to be fit for the purpose of a general, national currency for your citizens simply precludes using BTC at that scale. Should BTC ever become as "big" as a real national currency I'm certain it would show many of the same cracks. Except the small players (average Joe) would have nobody to turn to when things go sour. No central authority, no central responsibility. You see this whenever there's a new hack or financial maneuver that parts people from their hard earned cryptomoney how they suddenly lose that blind faith in "the coin that governments can't control" and start asking for regulation. You can only regulate when you have control.
> B. A balancing mechanic -- Some more universally-accessable way to inject income at the base of the economy.

Something like, for example, giving $1000 to every adult?
The chart shows that patients below age 60 have been hospitalized 80% more for severe Covid after vaccination.

Hard to not comment this cynically. That is bad.

Early vaccinated patients over 60 have 40% improvement. Keep in mind that the group older 60 is smaller in size compared to under 60, and the effect is smaller that adverse response in younger. Net negative.
The dragon attack at 4:05 was worth the price of admission.
They might not need to now, when most energy is generated by systems that run around the clock. But as we generate more solar, it'd be great if people could run more of their high energy activities like say, car charging during the day. I don't know of any way to incentivise this behaviour other than pricing.

Of course it's unreasonable to expect people to monitor prices on a minute-by-minute basis. But the future probably looks like "oh, car is low right now. I'll plug it in this afternoon instead of right now".
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
I was about to post the same thing. This works perfectly fine for EF Core, as long as you're aware that the mapping has to be directly in the Select like this so that it can be translated to SQL.
Somewhat off topic, but are regulators also considering mandating Basalt rebar in wind tower foundations, prohibiting steel rebar?

I don't know what the re-use story is for foundation plus tower, but it seems to me a bad idea to start with the assumption of rusting out the foundations.
I feel like this reads like the first 60 seconds of intro to one of those youtube disaster-recounting videos.