skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be non-starter if I was, say, a landscaper and often received cash payments from clients.

I've had no trouble personally going basically cash-free. If someone gives me cash for some reason, I just buy the next grocery run with it to use it up.
> Department of Homeland Security documents released in April prove a "systematic effort" by the agency "to surveil and disrupt peaceful demonstrations" linked to Occupy Wall Street, according to the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF).

> Similarly, FBI documents confirmed "a strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector" designed to produce intelligence on behalf of "the corporate security community." A PCJF spokesperson remarked that the documents show "federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/j...
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Less time spent waiting: yes.

Like reading from disk: no.

The max amount of out-of-order instructions is typically around 300 these days?

Reading from disk takes millions of cycles.

It’s about avoid waits when reading from L1 and L2 cache and DRAM.
The thing about DMCA anticircumvention exemptions is that they don't last: they have to be constantly renewed, and the one you mention has in fact lapsed.

Plus, they only get you out of the "anticircumvention" provisions, not regular old copyright law or the more familiar DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure. In other words an exemption may allow you to legally remove or break DRM or other copy protection, but it doesn't give you any rights to make copies or display works.

As best I can tell, they seem to be operating on a "see what we can get away with" model, which appears to be working out pretty well for them.
"I'm not interested in strength ... I'm soley interested in ... back strengthening." :)

Nothing builds strength, especially back strength, like lifting heavy things. If you have any space at home, a squat rack (if needed to save space, free standing on each side) and a bar with some weight. Just do something like 5x5 stronglifts app and some stretching. An hour (total, for warming up, stretching, and lifting) three times a week and your world could change for the better. Mine did. You could even do this watching nor listening to some entertainment. I had back pain. Hurt to downhill on a mountain bike. Sleeping got worse. Sitting got worse. Then I started lifting and stretching (was stretching for the cycling already, but needed some new stretches for the lifting). As long as I stretch my glutes/hip and pick up heavy things, I have no back issues. The stretching is key to keep the new muscle loose.
When travelling on corporate terms I have to check the "room price" as selection criteria. Extra wifi is a different cost, which is expensed differently. Thus by charging it independently they can make more money (as long as people book WiFi, on domestic (EU) travel I simply use my mobile data, less hassle to setup, all ports open, already paid)

An observation on the side: My travel policy covers a number of "paid movies" depending on the nights travelling. With proper internet that business of hotels finishes and travellers get their pr0n — oh I mean action movies — for free without it appearing on the hotel bill.
Similarly, it may be that running studies like this is really difficult and that massively reduced sample sizes are something we must accept for practical reasons... but that doesn’t mean it permits us to ignore statistical ramifications
How is astrology falsifiable?
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Maybe they still sell, but I know of nobody who is enthusiastic about them. People used to love them.
But this process of testing and refining theories is the application of the scientific method to claims of astrology isn't any different to the way it's done in physics, nor does it rule out a possible hypothesis being put forward which is successful. Practitioners of astrology put forward at least some falsifiable hypotheses (or at least, we can interpret them as hypotheses) just as physicists do.

If the criterion for science is simply whether or not the hypotheses can be falsified, this very much includes astrology and can exclude (as I mentioned in the case of Nature) legitimate science. By saying that astrology is far from scientific simply opens the question again: what counts as science?

We both agree that astrology isn't science, or it shouldn't be considered science, but my point is simply that the criterion of falsifiability is not sufficient to delineate science from non-science. Maybe we should say that the majority of claims made in the field should be (i) falsifiable (ii) shown to be correct, but that still leaves several cases open.
Why do you think anyone haven't built a good one yet?
I interviewed my coworkers (a.o. our Technology Manager) about Flutter 1.0
While that's a possible money source for sure, Robinhood currently makes their profit on their brokerage accounts mostly by earning interest on deposited cash.

Banks make boatloads of money without needing to sell data, but rather selling loans. Not even needing to loan money, offering 3% interest, with how high treasury notes are these days, is _really_ easy for banks to do. The problem is that generally banks also have really high overhead, something Robinhood doesn't.
Correlation/causation? Seems safe to me to assume that insufficient housing supply causes both.
The time isn't an issue - you can set up standing orders yourself with most UK online banking sites. If they require a direct debit that's another matter.
TLDR Waiters' pay has not yet risen enough, and meal prices increased accordingly, for them to continue to live in SF. Establishments are reducing staffing instead. SF micro economic disfunction continues.

"Analysts are also calling a lack of employees one of the biggest problems in the restaurant industry today." (My note: No lack of employees, just lack of employees willing to work for current pay offered.)

EDIT: "The demand for highly skilled help is especially acute in Washington, where a boom in restaurants run by creative chefs is outstripping the region's labor force," The Times wrote.

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18136392/dc-initiative-77-rep...

"A judge just blocked another effort to raise wages for restaurant workers in DC"

There is no employee shortage, ever. Just a shortage of businesses owners who are willing to pay market rate for labor.
Wow, looks horrible. Much better to make that a communal garden and have the garage underground.
Is it possible, that Robinhood is using high interest rate checking accounts not to make any money directly from them, but to encourage people to keep all their spare money one-click away from its investment products? In that case, checking accounts become just a business cost to Robinhood.
It's standard to talk in annualized interest rates to make simple comparisons between accounts. A daily interest rate of 0.008 % will compound up to just over 3 % of effective annual rate.
IANAL, but I doubt FDIC vs SIPC matters for an average consumer. If either fails it would almost certainly cause a major run on banks and/or a systemic money transfers failure. Thus it is much cheaper for the gov't to print more money than suffer such consequences.

And if the gov't really wanted to weasel out of FDIC there are plenty of loopholes. For example, I think FDIC can take a long time (up to 10 years?) to pay and is not adjusted for inflation, so inflate, wait and pay pre-inflate amounts is an option (stupid, but technically possible).
> does anyone else think the XP design is timeless? Maybe it's because I grew up with it

I think it's because you grew up with it. For me, the original Macintosh icons seem timeless. Really it's just nostalgia.

Windows XP repels me, as does any other version of Windows, even Windows 10, though it is nearer my taste. This is because no Windows version was ever my computer as a child, when the nostalgia pixie dust is trapped in your heart. Instead I was a Mac user in the 80s and 90s, then switched to Linux. I had to use Windows many times, but it was always forced upon me, which does not help engender warm feelings. Furthermore Windows always seemed to me slow, flaky, clunky, bloated, and corrupt in all senses of the word.

If I were to try to dissociate these feelings from the style of the icons, I still think they are not timeless. In fact it's quite the opposite, they look chintzy and faddish. Their colors are too garish, and there is too much detail. I like icons that are efficient, conveying information with a lightweight visual footprint, like the Reinhardt icons, https://store.kde.org/p/1120613/
Oddly enough I suspect the result will be lobbying for stricter financial privacy regulations. Almost half of Robinhood's revenue is from selling data.[1] Big banks won't be able to compete on that front and most of the big players don't participate/make enough money on order flow sales that they'd miss it if it were prohibited. So the banks will do what they do best: lobby congress & regulators to legislate & regulate their competition away. Though in this case, I would argue that's in the best interest of the consumer.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood...
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How do you differentiate between a patent troll and a company just trying to protect its IP? You do make a good point though.

I'm not suggesting the legislation would be a good idea, certainly not in the modern day. It just occurred to me that this would be an indicator of fraud, and from what I know about the history of publicly traded companies and the class of people who were investing in companies etc, I'm surprised this wasn't a law.

The article states that traders thought there was a glut because the onions were shipped out and back in again, in the 1950s. It would have been even easier 50-100 years earlier.
>they've stayed within 1% of their target price

I'm not sure which charts you are following, but as recently as yesterday they were 5% off target: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/#charts
Has anyone trolled Amazon yet with video loops of bad things happening? i.e. webm's from 4chan and such. I'm sure it would violate their ToS. Would it break any laws?

I could imagine selling a service that multiplexes video cameras and only sends Amazon devices live video when there is really motion and not just when they say there is motion. Meaning, put the security control back on the home owner.
Why does this distinction matter if that coverage amount for cash is the same for both FDIC and SIPC?
Little thing, this OUT OF ORDER cpu was created IN ORDER to...
I'm by no means an expert in this, but here's my rough understanding. Banks don't really touch the money in your consumer savings account. It's just used to expand their reserve. As a result, your money can only grow at the Fed fund rate. This is the interest rate of what a bank would get from lending money overnight and is targeted at 2-2.25% right now. The highest interest rate a bank can support without operating at a loss is about 2%, which is what most online-only banks like Marcus and Ally offer.

Basically, Robinhood is subsidizing this 3% interest rate with investor dollars. Of course, there having a higher reserve lets banks lend out more money, but I'm not sure that's worth paying a 1% premium over.
It’s like they discovered rocket jumping.
Uh no, saying a pseudoscience site is "based in fact" is not acceptable, champ.
I wonder if the punishment for murder ought to decrease as world population increases.
Most banks in Europe do similar promos, but promo rates are 10x-100x lower, and normal rates rarely exceed 0.1% on saving accounts. Promo rates do typically last 3-6 Months and only for new customers.
Three floors is popular in (western) Europe too for apartments because it's the highest where an elevator is not mandatory (but they're usually not made out of wood here... except if e.g. it's a chalet in the mountains)
>all you need

Not at all that simple. As already mentioned in the thread, they had limited fuel. Boiling 100s if not 1000s of gallons of water takes more fuel they already don't have.

SWAG: they probably weren't just using distilled water. There was likely some pH additive or other chemical treatment that water uses for a multitude of factors (scaling, corrosion, erosion, foaming, etc etc) that gets lost if you just vent water overboard - lost physically as volatile chemicals are vented or lost logically as new water must be treated.

Also, the boiling process itself is much more complicated than a pot and a fire. To achieve any reasonable amount of efficiency at all requires a multistage process with heat reclamation. If you plan on transiting salt water, the boiling process produces a thick, salty effluent that can be difficult to pump and is strongly corrosive. The weight, complexity, training, parts inventory, etc are all large costs. These are all hard sells for relatively short voyages.
is this actually true though? Most older long-lasting buildings seem to either be build for industrial/economic use or are goverment/public project kind of works.

Also, most normal housing was of dubious quality all throughout history, there is a reason many european cities decided to level vast parts of their working class housing districts after ww2. Mainly because it was far easier to start over (thanks to ww2 damage) and because most of these housing where simply to cheap to be worth restoring.
Is it? I'd expect anyone educated enough to actively trade with robinhood is not using a debit card for ordinary spending.
How is the inter apartment noise containment?
As does Fidelity
“Proper” computer science as studied and understood in academia is really a branch of mathematics, not science.
Crypto futures gambling with a near guarantee you’ll lose your money?
With some rounding and averages, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates

1910 -> 1.7 billons

1987 -> 5.0 billons (2.9x)

2002 -> 6.2 billons (3.6X)

2006 -> 6.5 billons (3.8X)

So the 1987 case is still worse after adjusting for the global population.
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Astrology makes definite claims, and the claims have shown to be false. Check out Shawn Carlson's 1985 piece "A Double Blind Test of Astrology" in Nature.
So which of the facts from the sources do you disagree with? You do not get to say "this site is pseudoscience" and then ignore claims that it got a specific thing more or less right if people provide sources, or downvote people for doing so.

So, what's your evidence that the claim "China set to introduce low glyphosate residue limits in food imports" is not based in fact?
Or they use said money to buy bonds and/or start offering mortgages...etc.
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I feel likr thats implied
Cheap gas.
Those probability distributions are typically represented as complex vectors and quantum gates as unitary matrix operations on those vectors.

Here's a quantum computer simulator [1] I wrote years ago that allows you to construct quantum circuits using the most common quantum gates found in literature. This is all done by the application of complex matrices. On the right there is the probability distribution that taking a measurement would result in.

[1] https://github.com/qcsimulator/qcsimulator.github.io

Edit: It's worth noting that we can study quantum computing without a quantum computer, just as we can study computing without a classical computer.

Edit 2: Here's Grover's Algorithm in my simulator where you can see that the probability of measuring the correct "hidden" oracle value is 96% after only three applications of the diffusion operator: https://qcsimulator.github.io/?example=Grover%27s%20Algorith...
I am currently having this debate as well. One angle to consider: Medium presents a path for your writers to grow their own personal brand - instead of writing on medium as a company account they can write as their personal account.

The popup mentioned in the article is a huge detractor from Medium, so I'm still waffling.
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x*sin(y)
> Had this happened in 1919, I think it would have been forgotten already, as it would seem pale compared to WW1. In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event.

Also because of this I think it became sort of a shared generational experience. A single, big, widely reported and discussed tragic event, that made people able to recall "what were you doing when you learned about the Titanic" for years to come. Similar to 9/11 for my generation.
Which credit union offers 4% on all money with them? I know of a few CUs that will offer much higher interest on the first X dollars. Ex: inspiruscu.org
The colors of Juno images are so different from the Voyager ones... I wonder what would human eyes see (before the radiation cooks them)
This is how I would have hypothetically done it with WeakMaps: https://gist.github.com/thomasfoster96/c4a20053c747196f027fc...
FYI, the quote is about the Oil Tanker that collided with the ferry.
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That's interesting, I've always brewed teas (even Chinese green teas) on the order of minutes, not seconds.

Perhaps I use low quality leaves or too few leaves, because if I steeped my tea for 20 seconds, I'd get vaguely tea-flavoured water, not tea.
I'll guess it avarages out to roughly 3-4 hours on weekdays and 10-20 over a weekend. I also love longform journalism, which can eat up a few hours per week.

I do little in general haha :/ My own reclusiveness combined with a relatively severe mental illness have kept me inside my apartment around 23/7 for years. I'm self-employed and try to hit 10-20 hours/week of work. Aside from that, my free time is endless and basically consists of reading, Netflix, and browsing the web with my two cats!
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SIPC covers 500k in (non-exempt) assets with a max of 250k of those assets as cash.
Likewise, homeowners can also add photos of “suspicious” people into the system and then the doorbell’s facial recognition program will scan anyone passing their home.

This has to be the worst part of it, if you've ever been part of a suburban neighborhood that uses NextDoor as a community tool you'll know that Ring doorbell videos of "others" crank the pearl-clutching paranoia of bored homeowners up to 11. The comment sections will go from "Did you get a license plate?" to "Hurry, add his face to the database before he comes back to rob and murder us all!"
> or you risk never shipping by never shipping critical functionality that is hard to chunk,

#ifdef is a thing and it solves this problem.:)

For more modern teams, branches also work!
> Im not sure that would even count towards deposited every month, they might want to see a direct debit that is actually a salary. I'm not sure.

For what it's worth, here in Australia they have similar offers. At one bank, I said I wasn't interested because of the regular 'salary' deposit requirement, and that bank offered to set me up with two accounts and a regular automated transfer between them to meet the minimum monthly deposit requirement. Though honestly, the fact they offered to do that concerned me even more.
This reminds me of the plattenbau used in east germany. Where they had huge concrete buildings (although with a communal garden).
Thanks for the warning. I'll stick to Sierra as long as I can.

It sucks, though, that these crappy updates make us reluctant to keep our system up to date. It shouldn't be like this. New versions should be better, not worse. And it should be possible to roll back a bad upgrade.
Tile is also a long-lasting option that's cheaper than slate. The issues are not purely material costs though but supply, specialized labour, environmental factors, etc.
Sure, but the city is taking on risk that the business, sports team or factory is still around generating revenue for that entire time and after.

Factories are often purpose built for whatever they will build. Retooling can be very expensive. Why would Foxconn for instance pay to retool their factory from LCD production to OLED or whatever new technology emerges in 10 years when they can just get another government to build them a new factory somewhere else?
I entirely share your "ew, gross, no" re: mixins generally. That their being added to React in the first place is part of this history is definitely interesting.

Thing is, I don't even consider Hooks not OO. They're just a really limited in-JS partial re-implementation with bizarre syntax. React tracks your "this" for you so it can dispatch the calls correctly. Your constructor gets mushed around in your render function for some reason. But it's attaching properties and methods to an instance. It's going to require care and discipline to use it correctly, given its quirks, so just direct that same discipline toward composition-over-inheritance instead, is my thought, which you can do without yet another way to write things. The fix is quit hitting yourself, in short, but if you don't I guess we'll hand you another way to hit yourself, but differently? This is just one more layer of complication that everyone's now got to understand (or, more likely, not, but use anyway) to even read other people's React codebases.
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> Distance is a monotonic increasing function of time, so the inverse function exists.

Not to be pedantic, but I think they mean a "strictly increasing" function, as f(x)=1 for x∈ℝ does not have an inverse.
Yet spreadsheet cells may also be formulas, which are akin to method calls / message passing / function application. The value of a cell with a formula is the memoized result of its latest function call execution. I don't see an essential difference with a notebook cell, other than the layout - grid vs linear. (Although I might be missing something; I don't have broad experience with Jupyter's computation model).

Plus, spreadsheets may also be distributed.
Maybe:

> SIPC insurance provides protection for your cash balance and securities holdings if Robinhood fails financially, but does not cover investment losses due to declines in the value of securities themselves.

Emphasis mine.

If you put $250,000 into an FDIC-protected checking account, that account holds cash and FDIC protects the full amount of that cash.

If you put $250,000 in an SIPC-protected brokerage account, that account holds both cash and securities, and SIPC does not protect you from a decline in the market value of those securities. So imagine the stock market drops and you go to your "checking account" and that has dropped too! To me, the concept of such a "checking account" violates my basic assumptions of how I think about my cash holdings vs. my security holdings.

I don't know how that percentage of cash/securities breaks down at Robinhood, but it's not going to be 100% cash and 0% securities. There is a reason big banks don't offer checking accounts with 3% interest rates. When the return is higher, the risk must have gone up too, somehow.

It also seems like there could be weird tax implications if your "checking account" has to liquidate securities to cover a big check you wrote.
It's a huge cost to the whole community, if by the "whole community" you mean the entire US.

Let's say that Apple pays municipal tax of $X-$Y to Austin because of incentive $Y instead of $X to Denver (for example)

Then Denver loses $X while Austin gains $X-$Y and Apple gains $Y. Sure, the Denver loss is only theoretical but Apple has to build somewhere so American municipal taxpayers lose as a group. A "race to the bottom" has real costs.

The municipal governments are behaving rationally; it's the federal government who represents all municipalities as a collective; they're the ones who should be passing a law banning this type of behavior.