skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we’ve passed the point of simple choice for a lot of technologies now. If you expect people to stop using X, you need solutions to stop using ecosystems Y and Z, plus convince them to retrain and probably repurchase some apps.

And I somehow doubt this is considered in monopoly situations: we’re not just talking one product.
Being unavailable to the lowest income is a viable platform to run on in some districts.
I’m quoting an NVIDIA engineer here; I’m asking why they can’t write their own driver instead of waiting for Apple. (Though, I’m sure that people in the Hackintosh community would not shy away from stepping up if asked…)
Colleges grapple with how to help rural students on campus
My understanding is that yes, you're not covered if the bank suffers losses and passes them on to you. The entire industry is one giant moral hazard due to complete lack of skin in the game on the part of the banks. They don't own the money and aren't responsible for catastrophic losses (see the '08 and previous bailouts), but they control it and keep the upside. You're right, that insurance sounds like garbage, but I haven't bothered to dig into the details. Caveat emptor!

"Own nothing, but control everything." -John D. Rockefeller

edit: good note from /u/snowwrestler below:

> > It's not the cash/securities that Robinhood holds as part of their business, it's the one they hold for you. You may well choose to hold 100% cash or 100% securities.

> If I'm holding 100% securities, a) SIPC offers me no protection from losses, b) I better be making more than 3% return, and c) I would not call that situation "a checking account."
Why does everyone keep referring to checking accounts as "loss leaders"? They are more like "income leaders" - the banks are funding themselves at basically 0% and then earning the spread on whatever they invest in....
Maybe that’s where I screwed up by never writing anything related to work. Haha.

Most would laugh at my generic site, but the content was good and the numbers didn’t lie.
The corporation as an entity may not care that an executive got thrown in prison, but the guy who replaced him will think twice before making the same decisions his predecessor did.
God forgot to put out the burning bush, lol
> So it seems like they should ignore pubdate as it could be gamed, and just measure the real "last updated" date based on content changes.

It's hard to imagine a mechanistic measure of the 'real' last-updated date that couldn't also be gamed. (If I'm being really cynical, it's hard to imagine anything that couldn't be gamed; so I guess I mean 'easily gamed', for some value of 'easily'.)
Lenovo's flagship ThinkPads brick themselves upon a single common BiOS switch
But they're claiming each card design is in "limited" supply with ~650K each. Something doesn't make sense there. If they can't process 45K signups why have 3M cards up for grabs?
Ah yes, another "TITANIC MYSTERY FINALLY SOLVED" article. And right on schedule too!

If you Google "Titanic coal fire", the results page will be full of articles positing this exact theory. This is neither new, nor correct. Anyone who has studied this event at any length will know it was a death by a thousand paper cuts. Trying to assign ultimate responsibility to a coal fire using a 106-year-old photo showing a black smudge is laughable and shows a fundamental lack of understanding.

The fire in question wasn’t some blazing inferno that many undoubtedly imagine, but rather it was more of a smoldering affair. This fire was in one of many rooms that was built for the express purpose of containing this coal. A fuel source that is known to self-ignite. To say that the fire effected the ship is like saying burning a casserole in your oven will burn down your house. Possible? Technically. Likely? Absolutely not.

Something this article failed to mention was that the fire was put out the day before the Titanic sank. Coal fires were common on large steel ships like the Titanic. The engineers and stokers were prepared for, and ultimately handled the fire. It was part of their job, not some apocalyptic emergency.

As I said above, the Titanic was a death by a thousand paper cuts. Unfortunately, it was a necessary death to give us the marine safety regulations we have today. If any number of things had been just slightly different on the Titanic, it would be a footnote in history and we would be talking about a different ship that would have inexplicably had everything go wrong, including but not limited to an irrelevant coal fire.
Labor will give up on seeking housing long before the Fed stops propping up traditional asset prices.
Now Massive Plumes of Chaff Are Lighting Up Radar Over Maine and Florida Too
There seems to be a difference in scale here. According to the Washington Post, Amazon is getting 2.4 _billion_ in subsidies from Virginia, New York and Tennessee:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/amazon-hq...

That is substantially different than a property tax abatement.
> Their whole business is to encourage folks that should not be day trading to day trade

See also E-Trade's "Don't get mad, get E-Trade" commercials[0], which are clearly intended to give people the impression that stock trading will make them Super-Yacht rich.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVKU2qFM7q2HuTv5RCU0...
> no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis"

That's because it was falsely framed as "ride sharing" to begin with, when it was obviously a taxi service.

It should also go without saying that millions in VC cash can prettify anything and buy enough positive PR and lobbying to give the service an air of legitimacy.
Robinhood definitely had down time yesterday, but I'd like to make a note that /r/Robinhood overreacts to things like crazy.
I'm pretty sure 95% of the people in there are under 20 and daytrading options with less than $5000.

I'm bringing this up because, while some people did lose money yesterday because of Robinhood's downtime, there we also a lot of people claiming to have lost money, but were blatantly lying.

I'm not trying to let RH off the hook, but /r/robinhood makes it sound like RH was robbing them at gun point.
Then fell back down. Call me when it's orbital.
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Had no idea that Medium got rid of the ability to canonical links to stories. Very interesting...

Funny you mentioned HackerNoon and Upscribe, because I just did an interview with the founder of Upscribe in my HackerNoon founder interview series.

He is a solo founder who has bootstrapped Upscribe to $4k MRR as a side project: https://hackernoon.com/founder-interviews-josh-anderton-of-u...
Nevada has no income tax. This is actually why this observation is interesting to me. I thought tax changes were causing the slowdown in my area in Northern CA as well, and figured NV would be getting a bit of a boost, but I guess not.. so maybe it is a real slowdown after all.
The JS syntax seems to become weirder and weirder to me lol. ::, |> and now #
I'm curious, is JS your primary language? Getters and setters have been around since ~2010 (other languages also make heavy use of them, like Obj-C). I suspect that you only see this as "invisible" because you first learned a language that didn't have getters/setters (and if you started with modern JS, or Obj-C the fact that properties aren't "dumb" would just be a given). Thoughts?
The Avogadro constant and the epoxy putty
That’s really grim.

The bias can also happen earlier than that too. My (white) father managed a big warehouse with a Samoan man. They had the same pay, same company car and similar route home. Every few weeks the Samoan man was pulled over and had his ID checked and was questioned about the late model car he was driving. My father wasn’t ever pulled over.
I'm hopeful that things will change for the better, but I'm curious how often congressional investigations ever amount to action, especially within the last decade.
The scientific case for eating bread
Gotta love articles that consist of short-sentenced, one-sentence paragraphs.
Why would Ajit Pai be put in jail for stuffed public comments? Do you think he personally ordered them? I doubt that. Personally ordering the stuffing operations is far more likely to have been done by executives of the affected companies. (And it's even more likely that nobody personally ordered stuffing operations. "It sure would be a tragedy if some misfortune came to $NAME" isn't just a movie cliche.)
"consider"
Nevada doesn't have a state income tax.
An Australian law to expose vice annoys the tech world
Articles like this feel awfully fuzzy when it comes to how they suggest VG is in some kind of "race" with actual orbital companies. I'm just not seeing the path from A to B for VG's current efforts there, and without that I'm also not seeing what their future is at all?

>The company said the space ship's motor burned for 60 seconds, travelling at 2.9 times the speed of sound as it gained height.

So they managed to briefly beat the Concorde (top speed a bit of Mach 2) and are still well under half the speed of the X-15? I mean, good for them I guess but it seems pretty ridiculous to put VG in even vaguely the same game as anybody doing actual orbital work (not just SpaceX or BO but smaller outfits even). Mach 2.9 isn't even 1 km/s, and LEO average orbital is more like 7.8 km/s (and required delta-v for that will likely be at least a good extra 1.5 km/s over that accounting for drag/grav). Yes "space" may start at 100 km as the atmosphere drops sufficiently, but I think what most people think about when it comes to "going to space" and doing something useful involves orbit, even for tourism purposes (orbital space hotels say). The challenges of every bit of it, from delta-v to heating to in-orbit survival is all on an entirely different plane.

Meanwhile with the BFR it looks quite possibly that SpaceX may well drop below $500/kg to LEO, possibly by a lot. They claim to be aiming for $10m a flight which would be more like sub-$100/kg, but I take that as more a long term aspirational goal approaching the costs of fuel a minimal maintenance then anything in the immediately realizable future. But even a conservative guess of more like $40m would still mean being able to get people into real orbit for less money then VG's up-and-down. BO is pursuing similar cost economics, and both are fighting through the very hard R&D work in actually getting scalable long term cost reductions like methalox working right now.

Can anyone explain what if anything about VG's current R&D would actually carry over to a real spacecraft, or what they use case for it would be if it can't reach that? For merely going very high and very fast on Earth low boom supersonic R&D seems more promising, and for actual space, well this isn't it. What am I missing here?
For me 90-95% of going to space would be to look at earth and the universe, so I would never be in the market for a suborbital joy ride, or this. I recognize that for some this weightlessness might be a large part of the experience.
Bootstrapping a side project to $4k MRR
What a lovely story
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> Why is everyones reaction to put {executive} in jail?

Because the current set of disincentives to act in this way are not adequate, and we further recognize that this is not a new problem.

> but what is the rational behind putting people in jail?

I think the hope is that these people will see the oversized punishment and avoid taking jobs in government service that seem to be taken exclusively to benefit their own agendas rather than to perform any public service.

> what makes this any better?

It actually stands a chance of modifying the behavior of the target group. It's a disincentive that they almost certainly don't want to face, as opposed to drug addicts who see it as a temporary inconvenience to their _addiction_. Are you suggesting that these executives are suffering from an addiction issue?

> so why is that the biggest reaction to stuff like this?

Because we've been watching this happen over and over again for years and we're sick of it being an issue. It's an over-reaction to be sure, but it's well justified given our history of failures here.
More evidence that we need control over the BiOSes running on machines we own.
To big to fail doesn’t really protect them if they lose their costumers. A bank with tons of customers that’s bleeding cash due to a market crash is salvageable(and remember the investment in bailing them out payed off), a bank that’s bleeding cash because it doesn’t have any customers is not salvageable and no longer “big”, so it will fail.
I wouldn't mind switching to them, but they don't integrate with financial tracking systems like Mint. I find the ability to get a birds eye view of my finances too valuable. Sticking with Ally and their 2% for now. Do wish they integrate with Mint or Personal Capital.
It may not be possible to know or accurately estimate the scope of it.
You are totally right.

45% tax bracket at $70K?

That's cute.

In my country (Portugal, which is also in the Eu), it kicks right in the 40.5k€ for 45%.

And we have a VAT of 23%.

https://www.economias.pt/escaloes-de-irs/
You see, I don't care about Xs Ys of this thing, neither should you, or neither should anyone. I need a laundry list of things that I can eat on a vegan diet and when I look at this list I see either things that are not good for me to eat (high sugar food) or things that are too expensive (avacado, walnut) and when I eliminate these two categories I'm only left with tofu, broccoli and brussel sprouts. I can't see how eating tofu, broccoli and brussel sprouts every day is supposed to be "easy". People like variety.

I have no problem with veganism (ethics, sustainability) except the diet is too restricted to be healthy.
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Nevada has zero income tax. Only property and sales tax. The property tax is very low too.
I'm happy there is one more company, but, can anyone explain what's their mission apart from "sending dummies to space" ? Is there any potential practical value from that?
Oh! Wow, sorry, I didn't even know that existed (run `git gui` to view). Thanks!

And you're right: it's completely functional for doing partial commits, but I agree definitely not as pretty.
Or a popping, followed by an entire-house-shaking moment of terror. This one wasn't actually that bad from a shaking standpoint, but still caught me off guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDKoiwUk1M
I think they would fail less frequently if they were willing to subdivide the ground-level spaces a bit more. I notice a lot of the ground floors are built with a very small number of entrances, so they cannot easily be divided up for small-scale tenants.

From the builder's perspective, I'm sure it must be cheaper to build a smaller number of larger units, and from a landlord's perspective, it is probably better to have a smaller number of larger tenants; but from the neighborhood's perspective, it would be nice if there were more little hole-in-the-wall spaces for niche businesses.
Having the garage underground sounds great. Are you paying?
"Dude, have you tried ifood? After you ingest it your daily workout becomes 3% more effective."

"Sounds interesting. Is it FDA approved?"

"Well, no, it's FCC approved. You see, legacy foods are ripe for disruption because regulatory has capture created an artificial barrier to new marketplace entrants. With ifood we're able to end run that barrier by..."

"Goodbye."
They integrate with personal capital now, still waiting on Mint!
Variations of this tactic (disrupt the leader before they create a useful coalition) used to be called COINTELPRO[1]. The methods used changed as technology changed, but the core tactic is still used in many places. GCHQ even has an entire department dedicated to this type of disruption: JTRIG[2].

> then it has truly horrific consequences for social organization and the peaceful transition of power (democracy).

Snowden tried to tell everybody that. I recommend reading the actual documents in [2]; they paint a very clear picture about the tactics being used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Intended_effects

[2] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
Getters/setters are useful.

E.g. maybe you had a class 'Box' with a field 'area'. Later you added fields 'width' and 'height'. What are you going to do? Change 'area' to 'getArea()' and break the API? Write extra code to ensure that you update area every time you change width or height? Or write a getter that returns width*height?

I'd say getter is the cleanest option in many cases.
"A tablet with beer allocations – a good 5,000 years old – pinned up in a glass case like a butterfly for all to see. What can be interesting in that beyond the fact, obvious enough when you think about it, that hard-working individuals throughout history have always wanted their glass of beer?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/TnAQ0B8bQkSJ...

Irving Finkel, mentioned in the article and quite a character (check out Youtube videos with him; the latest BM Curator's Corner has him teaching someone cuneiform and then suggesting they leave their clay tablets on the floor of the Ashurbanipal exhibit to see who panics).
TLDR: is that humans have a "storied" history of using pictures to communicate. So much so that even space probes have been sent with diagrams of our solar system in lieu of text.

The site has nice interactivity with the map and the associated historic image from the some point in time.

For me the whole post was worth it just to find this little gem of a book tucked away at the end `Ost Trifft West` by Yang Liu [1]. It is a visual representation of cultural differences which I found both wonderfully light hearted and highly informative.

[1]: ISBN-13: 978-3874397339
Gyokuro (and Matcha) tea spend some of their life growing in the shade, which increases the concentration of L-theanine.

I've had good results with Gyokuro cold-brew (created overnight in the fridge).
>"Maintaining spontaneity is the criterai?"

No but not allowing for any possibility of it is absurd.

>"It's not exactly spontaneous when an organized group of hecklers decides to attend an event with the specific purpose to disrupt it and interrupt or prevent the speaker's message from getting across"

Oh no not hecklers! How have we survived up until now? Yes we should definitely optimize for avoiding that at the expense of of normalcy i.e not having to be vetted to attend a public event. How serious of a problem to society is heckling really? I have never heard of "an organized group of hecklers" before. Pre-screening against potential hecklers sounds like ham-fisted to solution to a societal problem so small it doesn't even register.

So please take me down this slipper slope. What's the criteria for "heckling"? Is protest heckling? Is verbally voicing disagreement heckling? Is someone deemed a heckler entered into a database and prevented from attending other public events?
Here is my understanding. Let a<b<c be small numbers. Some investor thinks a stock is worth
x+c. They put in a limit buy order at x. Some HFT firm sees this and thinks well if they want it at x, I want it at x, and puts in their own order at x (+a fees to robin hood). Millenial comes and wants to sell their stock.

Normally the investor would get the stock since they placed their order first. But since the HFT firm is paying for the order they get it instead. If things go well the HFT firm can sell to the investor at x+b, if things go poorly they cut their losses and sell at x.

The investor that didn't get the order and has to buy it from the HFT firm at x+b is the loser.

The money that funds this dance comes from the millennial who sold a stock worth x+c at x, but that would have happened regardless.
You should never break interface.
You should expand interface.

If you do that.. then..

You never edit docs.
You only add to docs.
> The new municipal entity still has to compete in the market for customers, and so any complaint from the incumbent about the government pushing them out of business is horse shit.

Do you not see any difference between vigorous competition among profit-seeking companies, where mis-steps can cause loss of profits, loss of jobs, and ultimately bankruptcy and competition between a company with risk on the line versus a municipality that doesn't have to take on any of those same risks?
>let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world?

By that time someone will make "the train had sailed" comment. I.e. claim that nothing can be done, because consumers had spoken and the technology is already being deployed en mass.
I guess testing with relevant weight? They said 2 pilots plus a dummy passenger. If the plan is to take a single person up at a time, then this would allow them to test their assumptions about fuel burn and engine performance with the same configuration.
Might be less efficient, but some older diesel engines have a track record of being much more reliable.
I don't fully disagree with you, but I think it depends on the domain.

You're right that it's annoying the way Google will show me results of a blog post recently published by someone who just "discovered" something that's been known for decades, and what Google shows me is a poor summary of more in-depth original work done elsewhere.

But at the same time, I hate the way when I search for solutions to an issue involving computers, I'll Google shows me nothing but results that are 10 years old, and no longer work because the operating system has changed.
Can't read TFA b/c paywall.

A low maximum speed is not what's responsible for the MTA's deteriorating service levels. The problems are mainly signal issues and train malfunctions[0]. To a lesser extent, track fires. This begets the question -- what good is a marginal top speed increase, if so many trains arent reaching their top speed anyways? At least 30% of the time during my rush-hour MTA commute, my train is crawling through the tunnel, well under its current maximum speed. Think tortoise and hare.

Also -- higher max speed might mean harder stops.
[0] https://ny.curbed.com/2018/9/17/17869218/nyc-subway-signal-p...
Lot of misinformation in the marketing. This is not a checking nor savings account. Checking and savings accounts are FDIC insured which gurantees $1 in / $1 out. This is a brokerage account, and if the way robinhood invests the cash goes down, so does your “checking” account. The company could choose to cover the losses but insurance will not if robinhood fails.
Not that cheaper units ever have a nice view, but I can only imagine the misery of living with a parking garage view (with attendant parking garage sounds).
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> But why do FCC comments even matter?

They don't, and everyone knows it. But this involved a charged political issue, so people act upset.
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Alternatively: If you get free money for parking your cash there, why risk that money by trading?

3% guaranteed earnings is a very good deal without any downside, while the risks involved with trading that money are substantial.
I went to a lunch with Douglas Crockford in London and was lucky enough to be seated next to him. Got to ask lots of questions about what he thought of new JS and he was unequivocal: All the new class shit is a hack by people determined to turn JS into C#. I agree with him. I don't get why people are wasting their time on private class members when features like pattern matching and the pipeline operator are making their way to the surface. Classes are the worst thing to happen to JS.