skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't mention this, but short selling is a fundamental piece upon which many other financial instruments are built, because it allows hedging

If you take away short selling, you take away many other healthy components of functioning markets. You won't have functioning options markets for example, because market makers can't hedge their positions

I'd actually like to see more short selling. Especially in small biotech companies. It is either impossible or expensive to short these shares, so no one does it. Valuations can therefore be sustainably too high -- it's as if these stocks live in a world of lower gravity

Having an active short market would also enable all kinds of interesting options trading strategies, and I think smart math-minded people would have a field day
That's exactly the attitude that lets assholes get away with what they do
Dual fuel system could reduce carbon dioxide emissions
>> start travelling through more modern airports

[No snark intended but] can you give us a definition of "modern" so I can compare against where I usually check my batteries from?

OT, but I did once attempt to get a hot chocolate brownie with ice-cream topping through gate security at FRA; the x-ray operator was fine with it but his colleague called the supervisor over. I was eating it (quickly) while she and I were debating whether ice-cream was "a liquid", she really didn't like that. I handed the last 1/10th back :)
Short sellers are incentivized to create false rumors and sabotage a a company's reputation. That's not really good.
Seems to me that it would be more efficient to modify BeautifulSoup's decoded xml output rather than doing a bunch of string search/replacement/copying.
> Users have an incentive to use it, but what incentive do website makers have to join?

I would suggest default layouts chosen/optimized for users. Users would be able to view different forms of content based on the website's suggested format, which is stored by default in the browser. This way, online markets/stores/shops and even ad-systems could be designed such that the user would already be able to view such content in a way that makes them want to click. From a business perspective, this means no more need for client-side analytics, no more browser marketing analysis team, no more front-end web designer, no more need to bother users with invading privacy just to get that key little piece of info. That saves tons of money! Heck - without even sending data to the server, the browser could be designed to bring up content most interesting to the user.

As for ads, these could be presented in an appropriate manner, maybe listed in a sidebar, but in any case, in a way that people would prefer viewing them. I don't think people hate ads, but I do think modern ad techniques suck, and most people would be happy to view ads if presented in the right context and in the right way. Why not let the user pick the how?

(In case you're worried about the lost jobs, those people can shift to the app-side of the web.)
In 2015 the WHO has issued this [0] [1]:

>Conclusions

Based on the available data, and using internationally accepted methods to assess the evidence with the most appropriate analytical techniques, WHO concludes:

1. Caesarean sections are effective in saving maternal and infant lives, but only when they are required for medically indicated reasons.

2. At population level, caesarean section rates higher than 10% are not associated with reductions in maternal and newborn mortality rates.

3. Caesarean sections can cause significant and sometimes permanent complications, disability or death particularly in settings that lack the facilities and/or capacity to
properly conduct safe surgery and treat surgical complications. Caesarean sections should ideally only be undertaken when medically necessary.

4. Every effort should be made to provide caesarean sections to women in need, rather than striving to achieve a specific rate.

5. The effects of caesarean section rates on other outcomes, such as maternal and perinatal morbidity, paediatric outcomes, and psychological or social well-being
are still unclear. More research is needed to understand the health effects of caesarean section on immediate and future outcomes.

[0] https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/maternal...

[1] (PDF) http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/161442/1/WHO_RHR_15...
I think that now, Firebase is build on Google Cloud Datastore. I have used Datastore in production since 2015, and have had no outages, but if I had to do it again I think I'd go normal RDB, just because query support is extremely limited (no full text search) and "schema change == data rebuild" issues.
This. One thing I have noticed is that when you have $billions in short interest in a stock, the manipulation is incredibly subtle, but also incredibly blatant at times.

For example, one can find many media articles that are almost certainly paid hit pieces against Tesla and Musk. When you have this much short interest, and news organizations that have contributors with financial interests aligned with the shorts, it is inevitable: https://insideevs.com/tesla-short-sellers-media-crusade/

I wish the SEC would begin to crack down on these abuses. Taking a short position against a stock is fine, but using your media connections to publish damaging and in many cases inaccurate stories is libel at best, and fraud at worse.
Interesting, I didn’t know that!

I guess for me the analogy is to the sphere in flatland being perceived as a circle - we can see evidence of dark matter but so far we can’t really detect or measure it directly. I wonder if the gravitational effect is the only clue that we’ll find inside “normal” spacetime.

The most exciting thing about that is the idea that the hunt for dark matter might eventually lead to an understanding of the “rest of the universe” where we would otherwise never have a hint of its existence.
> Vaginal delivery is associated with better outcomes for the child too. IMO that makes it not strictly the mother's choice.

Strongly disagree. The mother's freedom is not subservient to the child's wellbeing. Stable families are also associated with better outcomes for children, does that mean a man should not be allowed to divorce his spouse after they have children? What about second hand smoke or the psychological effects of parents' alcoholism on a child? I could go on (consider Vaccinations), but if a child's outcomes are the primary concern why stop at C-sections?

> Indeed surgical procedures should never be entirely elective.

Why not? What about plastic surgery, liposuction, or gastric bypass? This is a weird sort of medical puritanism.
> Highly shorted stocks are some of the most volatile ones.

I'm not convinced by this argument.

* Is the volatility caused by short selling or does volatility attract short sellers?

* Is it possible that short selling is actually reducing the volatility of very volatile stock?

Australia banned short selling after financial crisis. The result was increased volatility in stocks, less trade and larger spreads.
Unfortunately you have not provided a lot of examples to go along with your major complaints. I feel like at some level, every language will have its idiosyncrasies that create annoyances and issues. From what I can tell, you are describing concerns that would not void the use of Python entirely. These issues tend to increase with higher level languages as the complexity of the feature set expands and it become unreasonable to support every combination of every idea.

I don't know if you'll have better luck switching after making such a large investment in Python, but if you do find something to supplant it please document your experiences for other to learn from.
Most plants would be protected by trees, so trees kinda ... stand out.
>> if they do find something, you'll have some security guards come up to you and escort you to a separate section of the airport

I'm saying I have dozens of personal counter-examples to this claim, including another one from this morning, specifically relating to travelling with checked luggage containing batteries.

Hypothesis #1: maybe the "no batteries" policy is nowhere near as strictly enforced as people think it is?

Hypothesis #2: maybe other aspects of aviation security are nowhere near as strictly enforced as people think they are?

Who knows, maybe it is mostly security theatre?
Integrating NVMe Disks in HopsFS (HDFS)
An excellent suggestion, lets see if Microsoft are prepared to actually commit
Always refreshing to read and learn things things from enthusiastic lovers of learning.
Is there any language that does something really different with its network abstractions, compared to just directly exposing the BSD socket API?

I know that in Erlang for example, sockets are a type of actor, “owned” by the actor who spawns it, where the socket-actor will send its owner regular Erlang messages whenever it receives data; and where any actor can transmit data on the socket by sending an Erlang message to the socket’s actor.

I’m curious what, say, socket interaction in a dataflow programming language looks like.
You may want to try a nicotine salt vape.

That worked.

I am currently tapering down by diluting the juice. Yhat is working nicely.

Unlike tobacco, I am not in a hurry. Ending the health hazard was a source of constant angst. Today, it is about reducing cost and moving toward a more pleasure centered experience. Just getting rid of triggers.

The SMOK brand refillable vapor pens are great, not a lot of money.

Strength is there, at half the cost to start.

Good luck. Don't let people tell you it isn't rough. It is. I have kicked supposedly harder things before. Sucked, but doable.

Tobacco is no joke.
It is believed that this is already happening:
"The regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38210837
A map making tool for social relationships (alpha)
Do you mean that you’d use something like a managed Postgres AND build and run a backend service that interfaces a web client to that database?
I think you have formed a bit of a strawman argument here. Monopolies are never good for markets, pretty much but definition. Regulated monopolies, such as utility companies, are sometimes good for consumers though.

I don't exactly know what you mean by irrational actors are good for overcoming a market crisis, but I'd probably say that the market isn't functioning in a crisis and that irrational actors might put it back in a normal state, irrational actors are not good for functioning markets.
German man murdered by Turkish cyclist in Hanover because 'He was in the way’
Amazon EKS Enables Support for Kubernetes Dynamic Admission Controllers
Color me cynical, but this seems just like Opioids to me: they are warming up to it because its good for business.
Nope. That's not what's happening. Owners are perfectly happy to leave them empty.
Believe the issue people have with “dark matter” is really about the term, it points to a so-far unprovable solution as a goal rather than a problem. It elevates a hypothesis to already solved, just need evidence. If they called it the “galactic paradox” it would be more easily recognized as a problem to work on.

You can downvote but it only proves the perception problem, not wanting to hear it doesn’t help.
So does that mean using engineering and math as the basis of building bespoke software is not creative in that sense? Just curious, not criticism - because I always thought of designing the architecture of a large software system, making it work within constraints, codes, making it easy to work on, fit withing design constraints, a beautiful UI, even a new programming language as creative.
Fortnite is a service, not a product you can own. It's very much the same as Netflix, Gmail, or Dropbox.

Given that, why should it be okay to hack Fortnite, but hacking Netflix or Spotify would be considered criminal behavior?
Working on hard problems is rarely stress free.
Not finding an open office plan is going to be tricky. That’s been the fashion for well over a decades now. Buy headphones.

Complaining about colleagues and managers, is well... a bit sad. You’ve been around the block a few times. You know how people act. There’s no perfect place, you just decide what pile of problems you want to deal with.
its the only worthwhile thing left to speculate about. well that and i guess like number theory. aka life, universe, everything in it.

and even if someone figures it out i probably won't understand it :/
Or maybe you didn't get spotted so far and the airline you travel with is lax in this regard. I've definitely been pulled out for batteries in the past.
Darkweb Child Pornography problem
Hi I blog now and then and come up with world changing ideas.. They are far fetched but can work and I just want people to ask questions ..Anyway I m not trying to be a hero...I just want to let people realise the impossible...is sometimes possible..I'm sure some people think I don't base my ideas on facts or whatever ..but yes..people did loose their hope and take the word of market leaders as facts.. OK I want to know. Why is there no app that is globally a law to be on every phone??..where a kid can have access to it sometime if forced into prostitution whatever.. It blows my mind that apps are build for everything else ..but not a whistle blowing system growing from the deep web ...into the normal web? Maybe its ridiculous ..but well isn't the okes working at these massive global companies the worlds best? Or the apps that might be able to change the course of these shit practises..isn't as advertise as other apps?.I write blogs for my blogging sites The Blogging Blooger Blogs ..you can go look if you want etc..and yes I'f its stupid..well no problem..tell me directly..no need to be worried..I don't get offended by critisim... I like it ..it points out my faulty system or points towards the person doing the critism..either way..from critism you learn something. So please no need to follow my blogs whatever ..I just want to get some clarity before I will go do some more research ....thanks ..
Related to IBS, IBD, etc., I've found this subreddit [1] to be super helpful (not for me but for someone I know)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrohnsDisease/
Detecting Spam as it happens: Getting Erlang and Python working together
Tribler Invented 'Paid' Torrent Seeding Over a Decade Ago
This is true.

You can verify this yourself by owning a high growth, non-shortable, thinly traded stock (less than 200,000 shares traded a day). On a bad news release (such as earning) or just a bad sell off day such as Wednesday, you will how bad the slippage is on your protected stopped.

For example, you own XYZ and it was at $25 at the close on Friday. There was a bad release over the weekend and the price is going to be opened at $21 on Monday morning. You have your protected stop at $20. You would think you would get out at $20 give or take 10 cents for slippage. But when your received your filled report, you see it was filled at $17.

What happened is there is 0 buyer and everyone just want to get out. If there were short shorters, they would come in at market open to book some profits by buying back the share they have shorted.
I have experience with something like that. I'm 40 years old and been working remotely most of the time for maybe ten years.

I mostly find good projects online. Building prototypes helps get contracts.

However, the major problem I have had is finding those awesome low stress remote jobs or gigs that _also_ have "US market rate" pay and that can sustain it. I have certainly been successful in that to some degree but my current startup hasn't had funding. And rather than give up when he started running out of money, I cut my rate.

So in order to save money I recently moved to a beach area in Mexico. It has an amazing view of the ocean and is affordable.

However there are downsides. I have discovered new types of diarrhea that I did not know existed. The water was shut off for five days. And yesterday the ATM had an error and just decided it couldn't give me my $170 even though my account was debited.

So today I am trying to find an inexpensive place to live in the US again.
ART Algerie. Galeries D'Art Et Musées, Artistes Algériens, Œuvres
No it isn't. It's an oversupply of labor vis a vis jobs.

In the late 90s, high school students and gardeners could get jobs in tech.

When there are too few jobs for the population, credentialitis happens. This is why government jobs are pretty much all about credentials.

When there are too many jobs for the population, they lower the bar when it comes to credentials.
I used to be really good at remembering names. To the point where sometimes people i met briefly would get weirder out I remembered their name. As I've gotten older and met more people I've started forgetting names more often.

I've never really noticed anyone get offended when i've forgotten, thouhg i guess i don't know their thoughts, and personally I don't get offended when most people forget my name. I dunno I find after a quick little reintroduction and then moving on it's usually ok. Heh actually there's a friend of a friend I see occasionally and we've introduced ourselves to eachother every time. Technically we've known eachother for years now but it's just how it goes I guess.

The thing i've actually been bad with is using people's names in conversation. I don't know why but I used to feel weird saying people's names to them. I've come to learn though it's a bad habit and most people enjoy hearing their names.
Misoprostol is also a cervical ripening agent comparable to cervidil.
For what it’s worth, evidence has come out (explained well by this PBS Space Time episode [1]) that makes the “gravity propagates over more than three spatial dimensions” theory a bit less likely.

[1] https://youtu.be/3HYw6vPR9qU
Ok let’s take your simplified model assuming women and men are equally qualified but woman are less frequent due only to their choice, the top 10 are 7 men and 3 woman. Duolingo are looking for 2 new hires and hire 1 woman and 1 man. No problem.

Remember duolingo don’t hire 100% of the available workforce so they can stay 50/50 just fine, they are just snapping up the most qualified woman and making it harder for everyone else to follow suit.
Well, let’s be clear about the term “senior”.

These days “senior” means “3-5 years experience” and a salary to match.

When you have 20+ years experience, they don’t know what to do with you.
It is a phrase popularized by the most famous economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_spirits_(Keynes)
I remember faces but not names. I’m sort of the opposite; I won’t engage because I know I have forgotten the name. This is mostly because names are arbitrary and usually common “Hi Matt!”
Pennsylvania's state prisons, the ones this article is about, do have free libraries.
By your logic, people who are long are incentivized to create false rumors to pump up a company’s reputation.
I've actually quit for several months a couple of times, but the first really bad day made me run straight back to it. I guess part of what I need to do is educate myself on better coping mechanisms.

I will have a look at the SMOK stuff - thanks.
Nothing against shorting but you can write puts and calls without being needing short selling. Calls are naturally written by people holding a stock who don't mind selling some and puts by people with cash who don't mind buying some stock.
Firebase RTDB is basically the legacy product that barely works. Firestore is the post-acquisition product built on Google tech. It’s a rotten situation. I noticed the outage mentioned in this post because it took down Ford GoBike (and Citibike and all the other Motivate/Lyft bike share systems).
The 3+1 dimensional spacetime is not embedded in a higher dimensional space [1]. If there are additional dimensions, they have to be "rolled up" and tiny.

[1] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/...
Bitcoin must die
> Shorting a stock is like renting a car for a year

only if stock goes down. Stocks moves up too, in that case the analogy doesnt work.
Previous discussion in 2015 with the main authors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157558
Why not retire and contribute to open source? You can set your own schedule and speak to whomever you want or no one at all.

It amazes me that people in their 40s are working as software developers. Did everyone gamble their money away?

20 years in software developement is easily a few million in the bank + retirement account + home. Why not retire?
This is a horrible outlook to have. Dont blame the criminal blame the cops for not catching them. Sheesh.
How is marijuana even remotely as addicting as opioids? (Hint: it is not)
I'm just a layman, but the parent said "if string theory is true, gravity does leak into the multiverse". Given that I'd imagine the clumpiness of our universe could influence the clumpiness of nearby universes (and vice versa).
“You cannot turn a 70/30 gender ratio into a 50/50”

Yes you can. As long as you are not hirering more than 60% of the Total available workforce.
awesome-jq: A curated list of awesome jq tools and resources
The code in question:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/nc/

Unless I am mistaken, it was not linked in the article.
The cost of an inmate is greater than the cost of a student, per year. The industries in Pennsylvania's state prisons mostly supply the inmates with textiles and soap.
It's too much to paste here, but the reasoning they use for the copyright claim is laid out in the most detail on page 20, starting at statement 99.

https://torrentfreak.com/images/epic-golden.pdf

The lawsuit does also contain many claims of breach of contract, and goes beyond that, saying that they are also interfering with other peoples' contractual obligations since they have promoted something that has resulted in other people breaching the game's contract.
The analogy still works - you would just extend the car rental. And yes, sometimes short sellers do lose money on this transaction.
I can't help but sit here and think "so it's like the Forever 21 of apartments," ha

What's wrong with timeless instead of trendy?! (Rhetorical question)
I'd say shorting reduces volatility but not for the reason you state. If prices fall too much stocks are bought by value investors rather than short covering typically. Short sellers help prevent prices going too high both by selling and debunking hype.
Instead of going through each file len(note_range) times wouldn’t it be better to search for
noteref-[0-9]+ once and then bump the number on each found occasion?
That's really the problem here though. You cannot falsify dark matter, and you cannot prove a negative. Imagine I say there is a 5 headed green deer that weighs 2000 pounds and can speak Gaelic, but it's really good at avoiding being spotted - so good in fact that you can even look at right at it and might not see it. And you can even touch it and not even know you're touching it! What would you could consider an exhaustive proof of its lack of existence?

You can leave carrots everywhere, but perhaps it doesn't like carrots. Or maybe you didn't spot it eating those carrots. Maybe you left them in the wrong spot, or at the wrong time. Maybe you need bigger carrots. Maybe you need smaller carrots. Maybe it likes cooked carrots instead of raw carrots. Maybe you need a better camera. Maybe the reason you camera didn't catch it is because you weren't using a flash, or maybe you need to setup an infrared camera, maybe you need to play a Gaelic greeting on loop, etc, etc. You can compile a literally infinite number of ideas to try to detect our dear deer.

Instead with non falsifiable theories, all you can do is approach them from an abundance of failures. You've tried carrots, you've tried infrared, you've tried ..., and it's still not coming out. Each failure makes it more and more likely that our deer simply does not exist. Of course this does not mean it definitively does not, but nothing will ever mean that.