skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no fan of Uber but I think this is putting too much blame on them. If you see a toxic culture, leave. I know there are other factors, psychological things that keep you from making rational decisions etc. But lets please be clear: the world is actually a pretty brutal place for most of humanity. Most humans are stuck in a poverty loop they can't ever hope to escape. And we have a story of people who can't just say: "enough! I'm outta here?".

I'm certainly not putting the blame on Joseph, he seems to have suffered a lot despite having objectively been a good engineer. But lets not forget that we're all (mostly) at-will employees, there is nothing stopping us from getting up and leaving just right now. Personal responsibility is really important. Perhaps we should be teaching some of this stuff in high school? I don't know what the solution is IMO.

I've personally been in toxic situations as well. As soon as I realized my happiness delta was negative, I immediately started looking at other positions and switched.
Casinos do not make money on borrowing for gambling, but on gambling.
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if not constantly, then, really really frequently, i recompile Android projects.

before buying a new machine recently, i wanted to know what benefit a fast processor would offer for my specific usage pattern. so i repeatedly recompiled a representative Android project at different CPU speeds on my existing (over-clockable) machine.

the machine needed about 15% less time to recompile at 4.1 GHz than it did at 3.4 GHz.
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Pointer arithmetic is possible in Go via the unsafe package.

Here is an example.

buff := (*[25][80][2]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(addr) + 25))
The monthly fee for "gold" does seem a bit strange. But it gives you more than just margin. From https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/214681823-In... you also get instant settlement, instant deposit, and extended trading hours, which seems like something worth paying for.

As for "micro loans" - how is this any more predatory than a margin account at any other brokerage?
This looks like a really easy marker that we've topped out on unicorn/big secondary market.

When the smart big players start to take their chips off the table you can be sure this thing has peaked.
What are you working on currently?
Could be your project, startup or work... just curious.
FXP was pretty cool too and an FTP server can be used almost as local storage with the right apps.
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I'm a programmer. Although I want to, I don't "get" networking. I don't know the difference between a router and a switch. Is there a good primer on these things from which the "getting" could start?
The decisions to keep these systems around are not about technology -- they are about risk. Every IT lead in every bank knows the options for updating the systems. But they also have risk management concepts attached to their decisions, and because we are talking about banks, there is no such thing as small consequences. Banks are extremely risk-averse, so if the system is working and changes bring risk, you don't do the change. Figure that by the time there really is nobody left to maintain it, somebody else will have taken on the risk, and new products will be available. So there is less risk in waiting for those products than in taking on new development efforts yourself.
Better yet grab the audio book. It's not one of those books that is read for it's beautiful prose its read for its content. Perfect for listening when you have 15-25 minutes free.
The last time I opened regedit was 2014.

No, that's not true--I did once in 2015 to make a game written in 1998 work.

I think we can lay this one to rest.
Oh, also - by "alternative-type stuff" I was referring to alternative health. But I also like alternative/left-of-center technologies too :D
I think jtraffic meant adding a warning that HtmlWasher is not suitable for turning unsafe HTML into a safe version, e.g. for sanitising forum posts written in HTML.
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Go has pointer arithmetic via the unsafe package, it just makes it very explicit, as it should be.
High latitudes (above 50 degrees) have a big problem with solar power. Luckily, almost the only people who live that far from the equator are Northern Europeans, who tend to have access to hydro and nuclear. (this is why it's so stupid for Germany to shut down their nuclear power... they're replacing it with coal, brown coal, and gas!)

The vast, VAST majority of the world's population lives FAR closer to the equator.

Again, you seem to have ignored the part of my post where I mentioned installing enough solar to produce power even during cloudy days. Cost of utility solar is super cheap now. If it continues reducing in cost, it'll be plenty cheap enough to just install 3-5x as many panels as you need to provide power during cloudy days. Yes, solar CAN get cheap enough for that to be a good idea.
If they are saying "68% of high performance employees get pinged by a recruiter at least once a month," I'd believe it. Getting contacted by a recruiter is vastly different than having a new job opportunity.

Also, at least in tech, companies are in this weird paradox dimension where they are simultaneously extraordinarily selective, yet tend to not offer much in the way of extraordinary opportunities (whatever your definition of extraordinary is--pay, interesting work, benefits, telecommuting, etc.).

The funnel is wide and deep, and it's apparently not actually getting people through. The result, I suspect, is that there is a lot of recruiting activity going on but not a lot of actual hiring and job switching.
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Well, sure, but when greeting cards already talk to you, why not?? It isn't as if this adds much to the cost.
I suspect this will just shift focus to the Kernel Self Protection Project[1].

It may end up being the best thing that could have happened for kernel security in the end.

[1] https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...
This probably isn't the same source that your'e thinking of, but here's a well-considered answer on SO to the question "Why are the <b> and <i> tags deprecated?".

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/255588
It is very very common for Casinos to loan you money. This is how people often end up in debt by thousands (100s of thousands) of dollars to casinos, which causes all kinds of problems.

From the casino POV.. why limit their wins to what is in your pocket? Limit their win to what is in your pocket + what the risk model predicts they can make you pay back over time.
That all looks trivial compared to the challenges of fusion power, though.
They could introduce put options, at least.
Same exact situation here. Because I put in lots of relatively small dollar value trades $10 transaction fees at TD Ameritrade would eat all my profits pretty quickly.
I think its a concern, but how is it hubris on Uber's part? It's an allegation not a proven fact based on weak circumstantial evidence. In America you can sue anyone for anything. The fact that they knew about these downloaded files since well before he left Google but only did something now when Uber has a negative PR firestorm makes me very skeptical about Google's motives. If you know an employee download files, you deal with the situation immediately and make sure your IP is returned. If you're being ethical, you don't wait almost 1-2 years until a convenient time to use that incident to attack a competitor that out-executed you fair and square.
> 4 times a year.

I think if you have to switch 4 times a year, either you're exceptionally unlucky or exceptionally bad at evaluating jobs for their effect on your personal fulfillment/happiness.
I thought it was based on the % you traded?

So for example, if I was using an 100k account to trade, I had another 100k of leverage no?
got " An error has occurred. "

typical webshit.
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Of course, this is all based on a single study from the 1960's (Solomon, David, "Accidents on main rural highways related to speed, driver, and vehicle"), which has been pretty thoroughly debunked (http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/ruralspeed/RURALSPEED.PDF).
A pattern like "star a star a star a star" can be handled by the algorithm described in the article:

> Consider the pattern "a star bx star cy star d". If we end the first star at the first bx, we have the rest of the name to find the cy and then the d. Using any later bx can only remove choices for cy and d; it cannot lead to a successful match that using the first bx missed. So we should implement a star bx star cy star d without any second-guessing, as “find a leading a, then find the earliest bx after that, then find the earliest cy after that, then find a trailing d, or else give up.”

This algorithm doesn't work if the pattern has question marks.
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Perhaps I mis-remembered that it would only work for one of them. Haven't used HAProxy in a while.
http://blog.alphaarchitect.com/2015/03/16/shedding-light-on-...

Although that article reads like an ad for Interactive Brokers, it offers a bit of insight on the subject.

Namely how aggressive limit orders in an order flow situation will be less likely to fill in the face of desirable price movement, thus incurring an opportunity cost.
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I actually emailed support about this a while back and was told it's on the roadmap.
Conceptually i kept applying direction to success/failure. Eg, if one of them was correct, i kept fighting the assertion of the direction being correct, ie if 3 was correct i kept thinking 2 was related to 3's "correctness".

I imagine 1-2-3-4 would help my confusion a bit. It's weird though, i know it doesn't work that way, but i kept thinking that.
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I'd like to see a list of his investments that also includes the ones that failed, as well as the amount on each investment.

Are there places that track this info among VCs?
People do this when buying houses all the time, and often at a 5x or 10x margin, rather than just 2x. Even Vanguard supports this.
My wife has worked in the foster care system and in community based mental health counseling. It's amazing to me 1) how little empathy people in the community have for these kids who are very clearly being dealt a crappy hand in life, and 2) how little people realize the ways in which poverty affects a person's views of reality and their ability to effectively navigate the world.

In another HN thread, there was a discussion of how Utah has been far more effective at caring for the homeless and protecting economic mobility than the rest of the country. My take away from that article and discussion was the stark difference in Utah for giving a crap by the community for the less fortunate. It is the willingness of the Utah population to make an active effort to help people in their community on a regular and purely voluntary basis.

Teachers, social workers, and police officers can keep the train on the tracks - but they can't solve problems that aren't specifically related to education, social services, or criminal lawbreaking (despite the fact that everyone expects them to do so).

I don't know how we do it, but we need to start rebuilding community as a social network of interpersonal support rather than merely a zip code.
I read your comment twice. You only mention Uber and not "Waymo and car companies" unless your referring to a different comment of yours than the one I replied to here.
> Who uses Bookmarks any more?

"Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?" (19 days ago, 451 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064096
Because when you buy shares on a platform you don't buy them yourself. You don't have an account at the exchange. The brokerage buys them on their account.

So let's calculate the fees. For a given stock, FCKD, the bid offer is $4.50, the lowest offer is $4.60. Transaction costs for this are $0.10 at the brokerage.

Investor A wants to buy a share, B wants to sell one, on the same brokerage. Okay let's see.

Brokerage does nothing (because the amount of shares they hold on the exchange for their clients doesn't change at all). So they don't pay anything for that either. No transaction fees, nothing.

A gets to buy the share, and has to pay the lowest offer + transaction costs for the share, or $4.70.

B wants to sell the share, and he gets to sell if for the highest bid, or $4.50, and in some cases another $0.10 in transaction costs.

So the brokerage "captures the spread", and of course the transaction costs. In this case they made $0.40 for doing ... nothing, no share was sold or bought.

This is the official story. Now in practice, this means that a rather large amount of value is "stored" at the brokerage. It is a long accepted practice in banking that only a percentage of the stored value is kept. So while you might think that as a result of this transaction the bank/brokerage makes $0.40 in profit, but it doesn't. Assuming 10% reserve ratio (which is on the high end, usually either 2 or 4%). It makes (100% - 10%) * 2 * $4.55 + $0.40, and pays that out to it's shareholders/managers/... (twice, because once in cash, one in a share)

Now you might think that's where it stops. Well, not quite. They then go to another bank, and they say "we are holding an asset worth $X on behalf of our customers, can we borrow against that ?", and the next bank say "sure ! if we can do the same". So bank A gets a 2 * $4.55 debt at bank B, and bank B gets a 2 * $4.55 debt at bank A. Since this also counts as reserves, they then only keep 10% of that money actually available, and pay 90% out to their shareholders.

So now the bank has paid out (100% - 10%) * 6 * $4.55 + $0.40 to it's shareholders.

Needless to say, keeping this whole situation stable if the market were to gasp drop even slightly is more than a little tricky. Hence, "too big to fail".

That's why you want to be a bank. This is the reserve currency system we currently work with.
There is always some impact.

There's a disease in our energy discussions where if something has ANY effect or can be measured at all, it is considered a big no-no. We lack a sense of proportion. Radiation is SUPER easy to measure even tiny amounts, for instance, since you can look for the signature of a certain decay tree, so people hear that you can measure radiation from Fukushima and lose their minds. Likewise, people make a big deal about solar using up a lot of land, but then forget that agriculture uses up on the order of 100 TIMES the land that solar would take up if we relied entirely on solar for electricity. The sense of scale is entirely lacking.
I guess if one lives in SV, it might be.
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And we should all switch to Metric, give up fast foods, and call our mothers once a week... but look, it's never that simple because all of these things take effort.
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Just so they offer some form of betting against the market. I don't care how.

Creating beta-neutral systems with Robinhood would then be possible.
I haven't done any VNC client comparison, and don't use it regularly anymore, but JollysFastVNC[1] was originally written to be a much faster VNC client than the others that were available. Still works on macOS 10.12.

[1] https://www.jinx.de/JollysFastVNC.html
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It's not just the patches they provided for, it's also innovation.

The technologies these dudes developed are used in the vast majority of OSs outthere.

Instead of posting a cynical comment here you should thank them.
MicroFocus have a Visual COBOL [1] that works in Visual Studio or Eclipse and targets the .net clr and the jvm. Trial downloads available. Or there is GNU COBOL [2] with docs and faqs [3].

I'm not a COBOL programmer, though, and not planning to be.

[1] https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL

[3] https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io/
Probably because of the good response people have had to defibrillators that walk you through the process when turned on.
Well, I don't think this is a legal use of order flow (waiting days to make a purchase), but the analogy is kinda sorta on the right path.

Reality is more like "I know an order for NVIDIA is going to hit at $50, but I see it for sale for 49.9998 all over the place, I can go scoop some up at 49.9998 and put for sale at 49.9999 and make some money.

But then real reality is a step more complicated about when it is legal to do this vs not (front running is not legal, but things that are similar can be), and dark pool vs not, and you are way past what I know ;)
Sorry for the late reply. I fixed the issue. Thanks for the heads up.
Blackberry "won" the mobile OS game in the early 2000's, but look what happened to them: Apple came along with a better product and now Blackberry is pretty much a joke looking for a punchline.

No market is ever truly "won" - they are all susceptible to disruption, no matter what monopolies or duopolies may exist. Not saying said disruption is easy, but it is always possible, and personally I think it is something worth pushing for vs. settling for the status quo, esp. when said status quo is either closed (iOS) or not very user-respecting (stock Android w/Google services).
Or it could have nothing to do with that, and be exactly what he says - he achieved what he set out to do and realizes that he now wants to do something else with his life, and has the time and resources to do so.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but is this the list you're referring to? http://markcubancompanies.com/index.html

What is staggering about that list? It looks pretty much like any list of a VC that has survived. One or two big but not tremendous plays like Dropbox and a lot of companies I haven't heard of before.
While I can't possibly say that I know everything about your situations, one of the things that has worked very well when working with bosses I don't like is being 100% honest and trying to get to their concerns and trying to reach a reasonable agreement on management style. I get it that most of us programmers aren't inherently good at social skills, but its a skill that can be learned and has been incredibly useful for me.

Of course if the boss is just a dickwad, that is a pretty clear indication for you to leave. But more often they are just clueless about good management practices and/or have no idea that they're alienating the team.
(I upvoted you, I think your question is fine FWTIW)

Sadly, yes. Universities have moved away from teaching C. In ancient times, when I went to school, you'd start with an intro class in Pascal, then you'd take a data structures class in Pascal, and then you'd take some harder class in C.

About half of the people in the C class would drop out of Computer Science when they hit pointers. As someone who gets pointers pretty much instinctively, I didn't get it, the concept seemed really intuitive to me. But apparently that's not true for everyone, some people really struggle with it.

I think it really doesn't help that CS has moved away from C as a teaching language. C can be viewed as a pleasant, portable, assembly language. As such, it lets you "feel" the bare metal, much more so than a scripting language like Python or Javascript.
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Another option is to simply breed He3 with pure deuterium fusion; the output of the D-D reaction is He3 half the time, and otherwise tritium, which decays into He3 with a 12-year half-life. D-D produces neutrons but at normal fission energies, not the really high energy of D-T neutrons.

Fusion startup Helion, which is funded by YCombinator, is attempting a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reactor, saying the combined reaction would produce only 6% of its energy in the form of neutron radiation.
The autotagging feature would be so useful. I've been looking for something that does it for a long while.
'This is a step short of the lab's stated goal of "ignition", where nuclear fusion generates as much energy as the lasers supply.'

Which is just what I was pointing out. And it's a large step from honest break-even, where you count the energy input into the laser system (it's not 100% efficient). And a huge step from practical break-even, where you count the energy required to run the plant.
Programming in COBOL does not require a mainframe.
At least here, the signs say "State law: Left lane for passing only." Slower drivers never enter the left lane, and the right lane is consistently fast and accessible if you're willing to meet the speed requirements of going above the limit a bit.
And that interest is tax deductible
I haven't ignored the part where you mentioned overprovisioning. Where do you propose to put the excess power during sunny days? Stable baseline sources like nuclear cannot just be shut down or spun up on a moment's notice to accomodate a vast number of solar energy entering or leaving the grid. At the same time, we don't have a capability to store electricity at sufficient scale so we do need the stable baseline to cover a high enough percentage of our production.

The fact of the matter is, as long as we don't have a scalable storage solution, power sources where we can't regulate the power output cannot take up base load and can at best be a small overlay that can pick up load if the beneficial weather happens to coincide with higher load requirements.
What's the long play then? Surely Robin Hood isn't absorbing the the transaction fees as a loss leader just to increase it's user base? If that's the play, any other company can emulate that.. The incentive seems to be this may cause a price war with existing brokerages.
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Microservices are just the new bandwagon name for Sun RPC and DCE.

Every couple of years people decide to redo distributed computing stack.
Gold subscription is a fixed monthly cost whereas microloan services are interest based.

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/214681823-In...
No, I believe they were referring to Sacca's investments: https://lowercasecapital.com/posse/
>Even if you are a professional trader you'll take a bath on margin over the long run.

Huh? It would be difficult to find a professional trader that doesn't​ trade equities on margin. They pretty much have to due to the way the settlement process works.

The returns of a professional trader depend on many factors, including available capital and the capacity or manner in which the trader operates. That said, they're enough that the employment of margin and the leverage it affords is simply mundane and considered a cost of doing business.