skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing a lot of anti-Audible comments here. I'm not particularly pro-Amazon, but I've been an Audible subscriber since 2016, and my take is, if you don't like Audible, go elsewhere! There are so many other options, including Apple.

This isn't even the shittiest thing Audible does! It will delete audiobooks from your library and not even tell you.

Despite all that I'm a loyal audible member. I'm on the 24 credits/yr plan, and that's the best deal for audiobooks I have seen. Audible customer service is awesome, and it is easy to return any book you don't like. I don't love the credit model either, but you're basically choosing between expensive books on apple or cheap + deal w the credits on audible. To take an extreme example, I recently listened to The Path to Power which cost me $9 on audible[1]. It would have been $34.99 on itunes[2].

It seems like HN wants the best of both worlds, i.e. $9 per audiobook and no dealing with credits. But that's just not an option.

[1] https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Path-to-Power-Audiobook/B00GS...

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-path-to-power-the-...
> Not necessarily. It is possible to have verifiability and receipt freeness

I know these methods, but they were not used in OPs suggestion. They fix this issue and introduce others.

> Clearly you need to do more research before making such sweeping claims.

On the contrary, I'm willing to double down on my claim. I'm willing to provide either a breach or a denial of service for any digital or online voting system you care to describe.

Electronic/Online voting is like catnip for programmers. We can consistently overcomplicate things and create these horribly complex constructs because we're sure there must be a solution. After all software is eating the world. Voting is however one of the few situations where the lack of sophistication of pen and paper works in your favor significantly.
Is this step one in re-inventing principle component analysis?
> It’s been shown by many (see Flashboys) that those “benefits” are completely exaggerated and are just an excuse to do HFT. The only real thing HFT benefits the bank accounts of the traders, and the traders will be the first to admit that.

"Flashboys" is pretty discredited as a marketing exercise for IEX.

Vanguard say HFT lowers their costs (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-...). Hardly seems like just "benefitting the bank accounts of the traders".
I found your last paragraph pretty interesting. Had not thought of this. Thank you.
Computing people in general seem to have forgotten the whole reason our field exists is to build tools for other people, the ones who do the "real work". With the possible exception of video games nothing we do with computers is useful or interesting on its own, its only point is to assist other fields. So we can have all the advances in the world but if we cant make them into useful tools, what was the point.
> with online voting it becomes totally possible to track you did the vote

Not necessarily. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355603
> Our psychology would be simulated to a great degree of accuracy

Have you seen just how weird people are? I think the psych simulation is loaded with bugs.
The use of wireless communication in high frequency trading begs the question: how much could a malicious actor profit from momentarily jamming that CyrusOne (or similar) tower?
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HFT firms perform a different kind of front running. If I'm an HFT firm and I see a large buy order on the books at exchange A, I can use my low-latency links to exchanges B, C to execute my own buy orders there before the rest of the market reacts.

It's not illegal, but it is still front-running the rest of the market due to latency arbitrage. Check out Flash Boys by Michael Lewis for more on the topic.
Yes, I think it's the full-featured aspect that made a lot of difference in this case. Though I didn't have any _workspace_ problems in Haiku, it was more like the panel concept in e.g. XFCE is simply more refined.

A really basic difference example though was that the default window move/resize RMB shortcut modifier is simply Alt in my Linux install, as opposed to Ctrl+Alt on Haiku. On a cramped keyboard this combination was fiddly. I also swap caps and CTRL on this keyboard in Linux and I hadn't checked yet if this could be accomplished. There were lots of things to look into.

I appreciate your response, and will probably try out Haiku again in the future. I liked that it was easy to install and test. Also as someone who uses QMMP a lot, I was very pleasantly surprised at the neat Be-style skin that came in its Haiku install. :-)
If you think the plane should be grounded, then being personally happy to fly on it doesn’t make much sense. Other planes are available.
I have heard similar arguments from developers in Sydney. They will give you a car, or guaranteed rental income for x months, rather than dropping the price of the property.
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OK, let's accept that. What's a better phrase that Hanson could use instead, and while still making the same general argument? I agree that "political correctness" is pejorative, but I also think there is some real underlying phenomenon that Hanson is pointing at. What's a less charged term that he can use to better convey his point without creating unnecessary offense?
You have kidneys, a liver, and a lymphatic system that all work wonders against small invaders in small quantities, perfect for the situation described with the "PPM" metric. We all love buying into these "it's xyz killing me!" stories but whats most likely causing you to feel terrible or potentially killing you is your lack of (quality) sleep, excess of stress, poor diet or potentially a combination of all three.

And if I may throw my two cents in, humans were "designed" to live right around somewhere in the 60-70 range. This has been true since we kept track of humans, at least.
$15 Minimum Wage Laws Are Wiping Out Jobs in New York and Illinois
You're right as far as blue cities/states go. But Some other cities (some red ones and some blues that are less liberals) don't stop housing from being built as much. The less rules and regulations and zoning, the more supply is created. Houstan, Dallas for instance are much more affordable.
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> Coming to the bay to live far from SF? What's the point?

1. Most of the BigCos are in the south bay and riding a bus an hour+ gets old after a while.
2. I'm guessing you don't have kids?
Based on 1st 4 comments on this thread, readers might like:

https://wiby.me

https://wiby.me/submit/
> I know these methods, but they were not used in OPs suggestion.

You knew it but didn’t mention it as an obvious neutralizer of your objection, in the context of a discussion about possibility (“you could”)? I doubt that.

> I'm willing to provide either a breach or a denial of service for any digital or online voting system you care to describe.

There are many systems in the literature. What are your credentials in this field? Are you a cryptanalyst?

> Voting is however one of the few situations where the lack of sophistication of pen and paper works in your favor significantly.

This is as myopic as saying “E-commerce and e-banking are some of the few situations where the lack of sophistication of pen and paper works in your favor significantly. The demands of e-commerce and e-banking are incredibly unsuited to digital systems and definitely to any online systems.”
> > How does a flash crash hurt the average investor?

> Maybe it can trigger "stop loss" orders?

The average investor is a person who has a pension invested across a range of funds held with large fund management companies. Anyone mis-using stoplosses is not an 'average' investor.
I like to compare the nominalization of technical debt to taking out bank loans and investing in the open market.

All tech debt, like loans, have some interest rate. Some debt has a great rate, say 3%, and other debt has unmanageable rates, say 18%. Once we attain some stability to begin paying down our debt, it's necessary to pay down the higher interest debt (architecture, libraries, speed, etc.). Once we whittle our way through the high interest bearing debt and we're left with low-rate rate, it may make sense to continue investing new capital into the market (novel product/feature development). The new investment could return 8-10% annually, which garners higher annual net returns (10-3 > 3) than continuing to pay down all debt.

TLDR: Some technical debt affects critical systems and flows and need to be paid down immediately. Some technical debt may be cosmetic or semantical, therefore less critical and can continue to accrue interest.
I have only owned the Logitech K400 before and its touchpad is rubbish. I threw it out because it was so frustrating to use. Lots of accidental taps when just trying to move the mouse pointer and issues like that.

Is the Microsoft All In One any better?
Not good thinking. See my response above.
So if I am understanding this story, some people found a correlation and mistook it for causation. An obvious no-no, albeit a easy trap to fall into. That's assuming what you were looking for was a handle on how you could get more or less of whatever it was you wanted.

But if you just wanted a diagnostic, then the data is telling you that the nitrogen content is (in practice) such a diagnostic. Depending on what you already knew, that might or might not be interesting or useful, but it is hardly nonsense.
> and also only citizens with enough motivation will vote.

Why are physical barriers restricting public engagement a desirable trait in a democracy?
At moderate risk of putting my foot in my mouth, not knowing your specific situation[1]:

It sounds like the modelers did exactly what they were supposed to. Just because N2 isn't directly controlled doesn't mean [N2] isn't a valid factor - even if its only mechanistic action is as a diluent. Its entirely possible an aspect of a reaction is sensitive to absolute reactant partial pressures as opposed to just relative concentration.

Just as often as modellers going nuts, abusing either the chemistry or signal-to-noise, I've also seen chemists argue that multivariate-modelling of some rather simple system is impossible or 'not science', relegating research to inefficient linear trial and error.

[1] For instance, if that is a Fischer-Tropsch reactor you are describing, then yes [N2] would likely go up with higher yield as your reactive gas species coalesce into heavier molecules.
> People in our government believe that the Internet was designed in the US to control the world.

Maybe it wasn't designed with this objective in mind, but it is definitely used this way. And the fact that Google and Facebook are de-facto monopolies doesn't help.

And I'm not from the government. I'm just another little guy that sees tons of that propaganda every day.

For example, I watch mostly videos from conferences on YouTube. Why YT displays rusophobic videos in the recommendations list instead of more videos related to the conference? Even after I clicked hide button on them multiple times?

And all those rusophobic comments under every video about Russia? Who writes them? Sometimes I see exactly the same comment from different nicknames. I even made a screenshots of such instances, only to find out that nobody cares.
> I also swap caps and CTRL on this keyboard in Linux and I hadn't checked yet if this could be accomplished. There were lots of things to look into.

This you can already do; see Keymap preferences: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/keyma... -- you should be able to just drag & drop the keys around to swap them. Or you can edit the keymap file directly to completely customize it.

> the default window move/resize RMB shortcut modifier is simply Alt in my Linux install, as opposed to Ctrl+Alt on Haiku. On a cramped keyboard this combination was fiddly.

We have a ticket somewhere to revamp the hardcoded shortcuts into the "Shortcuts" preferences pane; but nobody's done this yet. Eventually...
You can get a rough idea by looking at the number of firms in these links. Overtime, it has consolidated.

https://www.canarywharfian.co.uk/threads/list-of-proprietary...

Then also the associate firms on this list:

http://fia.org/members
What about pollutants that have only existed for the last 50 years?
> This is not 'front running', this is just other parties reacting to and executing on public market data before you. The term 'front running' is understood to mean something specific, and different.

I guess that depends on what you consider public market data.

> Front running, also known as tailgating, is the prohibited practice of entering into an equity (stock) trade on advance, nonpublic knowledge of a large pending transaction that will influence the price of the underlying security

When an order hits an exchange, the exchange sends a flash order to the owners of the proprietary data feeds before sending the trade information out on the broader public markets, and making it available to all potential investors.

It seems to me that the owners of those feeds have advanced knowledge of non public data.
That's fine. But there aren't a lot of people like you, and only a few places in the US are a good fit for that kind of lifestyle. It really only works in the densest hearts of the biggest cities, like New York and Chicago, and the odd college town or retirement community.

There are reasons why 90+% of US households (and some 97% of households that include a worker) have a car.
While I agree that it's reasonable to make 18650 based packs not officially user serviceable (because of the spot welding thing and because that would open up liability to repairs gone wrong), at least they should be made so the cells can be replaced by someone who has a spotwelder and some electrical knowledge. Basically give the pack housing a nondestructive way to be opened and resealed.

That way even if the manufacturer decides to switch battery pack standards in a few years, someone with the necessary knowledge can still get some 18650 cells and be fine.
"everyone gathering risks spending 15 days in jail"

Another Russian here.

You are misinformed. The law threatens you with 15 days in jail if you injure somebody or damage property. Likewise, the fines are reserved for things like being drunk or inciting violence.

https://zakoved.ru/pravonarusheniya/nesanktsionirovannyj-mit...
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True, but this is the fastest loading page you'll visit today and has zero tracking.
That would be the sane thing to do, but not the post-iPhone thing to do. "Your performance is worse, and you can't use our product when your internet is down, and you don't have decent privacy, and you need to remember a login... but, hey, no need to carry a usb drive!"
Wow... could you move to NI from the Big Island and keep your EU citizenship that way, in case of Brexit?
Seems really straightforward to me. You implied that following the law whilst attempting to change it is always the moral thing to do. I provided a simple counterexample. I’m not equating the degree of immorality.
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Well, JS was changed (backwards incompatibly!) in order to eliminate the problem. So yeah, it was bad, but it was arguably just a bug that got fixed.
As a former leftist, I can assure you that the left does not care one whit about the poor. They're happy to shit on the poor if it make's them look more virtuous.
For one thing, Putin controls the media so they have been propagandized. That's why he is so afraid of the internet.

Beyond that, due to Russia's sad history, the population has pretty low standards and expectations for its leaders.
This isn't a definition of front running that anyone in the industry uses.

As you say, this is just arbitrage on public information. Latency arbitrage has been occurring for the last 200 years at least, it's an inevitable outcome of any system with multiple, geographicly separated markets.

P.S. I read Flash Boys. It's not very good.
I really enjoyed Dark Pools. The asm + FoxPro source code for the Island ECN matcher described in the book has been released on the net and that amused me greatly when I was working on an order matching engine a few years ago.

I love exchange technology, it is the beating heart of capitalism and I enjoyed working as a plumber in the machine.

Josh Levine is an inspiring idealist.
San Francisco is just...dystopian at this point. In-your-face poverty mingling with obscene wealth, human feces and used needles everywhere downtown/SoMa, decrepit 1 bedroom homes that sell for $1m, very few families/kids, and to make things worse stores that would be open til 10pm in any other city don't seem to stay open past 5-6 (at least in the Castro).

Edit: I thought it was weird for me as a single youngish male to "care" that there are kids and families in a city, but you're reminded when you go to basically any other city how much "realer" a city feels when you actually see families (moms, dads, kids, grandparents) walking around and enjoying each other's company and life in general.
In Russia this might happen if you injure somebody or damage property during unpermitted rally.
> Private water companies don't even make sense, as they can only exist as monopolies with the only incentive of squeezing as much profit as possible forever, pushing boundaries on water and service quality to pocket more money, lobbying for weakening of quality standards, etc.

That's not true. Public water can be just as bad as private water, as you can get turf wars and projects motivated to spend money for the sake of spending money in the public sector more easily than in the public sector. A private water company can be more efficient in sharing backoffice tasks (such as billing) or achieving an economy of scale.

What really matters is not the distinction between public and private, but rather the quality and nature of the oversight.
Yes, this exists.
I wonder if it is actually the case that YC believes 150K is the necessary number to operate over the course of the program. As I recall, the chain of events was YC provided 16-20K, then Yuri Milner decided to index over all YC companies by offering an extra 150K on a no-cap/no discount note, then it became a lot easier for YC to just manage the investment themselves, then the money was rolled into the main YC investment so there wouldn’t be this weird two rounds of investment from the same investor, the latter for a TBD amount of equity. Each decision along this step had other motivations, like DST reaching more early stage companies or YC simplifying their investment, which were unrelated to how much money it takes to get through the YC program, a number which has undoubtedly gone up but probably not by 7.5X
Well, you brought up a buzzphrase, a nasty generalization, and an arbitrary jump to the story at hand. There's no information in any of that.
I'm a BSD guy but needed a Linux distro last year for a specific project. OpenSUSE was remarkably good, stable, easy to use and update, and apparently free of the political crap that seems to come with many other distros.

I have recommended it to others who need a stable Linux distro with lots of well-maintained packages. Some of them looked at me like I was crazy. Preconceived notions are hard to overcome sometimes. Oh well.
Enjoy it while it lasts. America's largest shale plays are in decline. More worryingly, shale oil producers have never been profitable. They lose money consistently year after year, to the tune of hundreds of billions pf dollars total since 2010 [1]. The industry is entirely funded by revolving and growing debt. Production is simply not sustainable at current prices, however oil prices that do make production profitable can rapidly damage the economy, further imperiling debt-funded exploration for new reserves, which is urgently needed to prevent the world from running right the fuck out of oil. That's the scary reality of our balls-to-the-wall extractive economy.

1 - https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Wall-Street-Loses...
The spacefiller is what you are looking for I think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefiller
You can still take advantage of the network effect and not be located in California. Reno,NV to SF via southwest is under $100 one way and the actual flight is around 90 mins or less.
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Just out of curiosity, is it actually legal for the FBI to send someone a package, then use that package as pretense to arrest them? I thought there were all sorts of rules against that.
Yes, Puffers: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Puffers
> I have probably read a hundred article over the last 15 years predicting the demise of both, but in reality the exact opposite happens as California and Bay Area economy continue to crush the rest.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention before, but I've read a lot about it lately, especially in the context of New York being the next Silicon Valley. I feel like this was especially true when Amazon was considering it as a location for HQ2, but even now that it's not I keep seeing NYT articles about NYC being #2 in tech (ignoring Seattle, for example) and how it's definitely gonna surpass SV at some point because it's "a so much better place to live", has "so many more creative professionals", etc. This article doesn't say it outright, but it kinda alludes to it making NYC the primary example it compares The Bay against.
Well I clicked because my trombone's slide is bent.
California is almost as big as my own country (France) and yet when people use the word it's a synonym for the bay area. Seems crazy from that perspective.
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signed public ledger ... alongside a trusted third party time stamp, would become enabling technology for a non-repudiation 'happened on this day' service.

Indeed. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-t...
Diversification. Personally speaking being accountable to a few customers has many mental benefits vs catering to the whims of a single boss.
You might also take a look at PICO-8 (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php). It's a "fantasy console" also programmable in Lua. It includes code/sprite/music/sfx editor. So a complete environment to build games. And the best thing is that the cartridges are also PNG files (example: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/cposts/2/29524.p8.png)
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> > This is not 'front running', this is just other parties reacting to and executing on public market data before you. The term 'front running' is understood to mean something specific, and different.

> I guess that depends on what you consider public market data.

Usefully, the regulators define it for us. No consideration needed.

> When an order hits an exchange, the exchange sends a flash order to the owners of the proprietary data feeds before sending the trade information out on the broader public markets, and making it available to all potential investors.

> It seems to me that the owners of those feeds have advanced knowledge of non public data.

Can anyone buy one of these feeds? If so, it's public data.

"Non public" means something very specific (and different) in this context.
Sounds like touch typing is for you. It's even called “blind typing” in some languages.
I wonder if issuing a canary after being NSL'd would count as disclosing...

Make a public post about your new monthly canary and forget to add that you didn't get NSLd...
Running stops was a common pit trader game.
Discussion on this from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056