skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Commodore 64 Clone with a Working Retro Keyboard Will Finally Arrive This Year
I suspect you won't get a good response posting this on HN.
> you should be monomanically focused on the interest spread between cash balances in brokerage accounts and high-interest bank accounts or money market funds. That is the cost that does not call itself a cost.

If you're keeping a large cash balance sitting uninvested in your brokerage account, sorry but that's on you.
Yes, but teens apparently don't think regular cigarettes are (as) cool.
I think it's more practical to ask why anyone enjoys anything. The value of going to a concert might be clear to you, and he value was clear to myself at a younger age. But these days, most of the time I find most concerts kind of boring, as I have a hard time focusing on the music in front of me because I start dreaming about something else.

Personally, I think getting a shout out from a celebrity would be pretty cool.
You're putting a bit too much faith on Google algorithm, then again maybe the whole world is.
I was fully aware that my criticisms were unlikely to be taken seriously. Otherwise, why would the site have changed from what it was before?

> > … single and multi-thread implementations of some programs…

> There still are — look at "busy" and "cpu load" instead of elapsed "secs".

I do want to clarify this point. I'm aware of the "cpu load" section of the results. That is not at all the same thing. I don't think this was necessarily even intentional before, but the fact that both systems existed, meant that contributors could explicitly optimize for either single-threaded or multi-threaded.

A single-threaded algorithm will likely smoke a locking multi-threaded algorithm when run on a single-core. It will also probably look completely different.
> Money and power drives leaders mad. It's not delusional if you can retaliate against people who don't tow the party line. Just look at the US destroying whole countries for not uploading "freedom and democracy" mythology... well that's different you say... but is it, really?

What do you mean by, "Uploading the 'freedom and democracy' mythology?"
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https://opensky-network.org/
Wow - first time I see some decent writing on the stock broker business, HFT, internalization. Good article...

What I would add to the article:

> Roboadvisors are a bad business below scale.

I would say that roboadvisors are just a bad business. Theyve been around for a decade+ and we haven't really seen any large robos created from the concept. I think this is because ETFs effectively capture or can capture what Robos do. And we will continue trending towards that. In that way, you can encapsulate the benefits of Robo (div reinvestment, tax gains, target date strategies) within an ETF without having to move your money out of your current brokerage account.

Also note that roboadvisors cant just do "robo". Today they are branching off into a dozen different services - so they look more and more like the traditional platforms.

> And then there’s Robinhood, which is a discount brokerage whose marketing and product decisions probably do not assist their users in achieving successful outcomes.

Yes - Robinhood is a gambling platform. Shameful IMHO but creates a field day for the owners and for internalizers/HFT folks.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're handling this the way they handle most domestic censorship; not so much the iron hand coming down, but more a wheedling pressure: "why would you stir up so much trouble, don't you know you're just causing bad blood, think about how this might influence future relations, you're not stupid, I know you'll do the right thing."

It's rare that they reveal the bare face of authoritarian violence. Only when they're relatively confident no one will see it except their victims.
> There are just people you let get away with crap and ones you don't.

It's really a comment-by-comment thing rather than a people thing. If you're seeing cases where we're failing to moderate a post that cries out for it, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We'd appreciate links, because we can't come close to seeing everything here. Or of course you can flag the comment (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). In egregious cases, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is best because then we're guaranteed to see it sooner.

> His goal was to antagonize me while flying under the radar

Really, are you sure? Can you point to the comment that demonstrates this? Because either I missed something obvious or you're reading perhaps a bit too much into what was posted. Intent is notoriously difficult to read accurately in these posts, as I'm sure you know.
HN tangent: This is a great example of where the oft touted wildcards on a personal domain fall short: if you’re on that list, you’re outed. Even without your name on it; only you use that domain.

This is where Outlook with their *@outlook.com and apple’s new system really do shine.

Commiserations to those affected :(
Think about whether your retirement has to be planned out, or if you can afford uncertainty. The latter allows you to plan to either get by in a small place and live with pretty much just the bare necessities, or, if lucky, end up not having to work anymore at 40 with a nice house payed in cash. Just decouple enough from localized risk. E.g., if you were in a smaller country with it's own currency, maybe try to avoid anything formally denominated in that currency, as it's not hedged against inflation and small countries tend to go to printing cash if they're broke. Only optimize for a good trade-off between risk-exposure and re-shuffling costs (in this case, brokerage commissions). The wider the spread, the less any localized event hits you. If you're spread on the world, GDP-weighted, you loose less than 30% if the complete north american region would collapse. International connections/dependencies between suppliers in industry affect this negatively, however.

Be careful about US and GB being rather overweight due to historic accumulation of financial institutions, which only really have an imaginary value not tied to any tangible assets. Thus market-cap weighting gives them a far bigger share of your assets than benefits you in hedging localized economic risk.
Was reading about it quite recently and tbh was a little bit surprised, especially knowing that behind the scenes is one massive JAVA superjob with millions of lines of code...It must take some effort to maintain the whole thing..
Sure but... it's sort of crazy that juul has been allowed to get a whole new generation of folks hooked on tobacco. There's been a myth spread around that e-cigs exist solely as a more healthy alternative to traditional cigs - they are more healthy but those candy flavours have resulted in my office now having more smokers in it than ever before... and they're all under 23.
Traffic tickets don't require harm to be actually done either. It's potentially the same kind of thing, at least for the dashcam case.
Is the Ugly Fruit problem a myth? The crop scientist Sarah Taber argues it is a myth: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/26/18240399/food-waste-...

I'm too far removed from the situation to make an educated call but I am inclined to believe her.
Also, they use SF for Dreamforce planning end to end. I've seen it, it's pretty freaking amazing. I was convinced they were going to release a "Conference Cloud" product after I saw what they had done for organizing Dreamforce.
There were other toy retailers, though. Kay-bee Toys comes to mind. Toys in general were hammered by the rise of discount retailers like Wal-Mart and Online
Are there thermal advantages to the design or is it just for looks?
They want to ban a safer alternative to cigarettes for people addicted to nicotine?

Are they trying to make the health consequences of their existing drug abuse problems even worse?
If you want to go down another rabbit hole, read about Morgellons
Banks have decade old hardware and take forever to upgrade software and protocols. You expect them to design a sophisticated attack and run it for however long. On top of that, it would be really easy to find out which bank was doing it and that has huge legal and customer based ramifications. Definitely not worth it.
So they have one of the following:

1. Certification of renters insurance with the renters information, which if fake is fraud.

2. A waiver of some kind covering damage to the item, probably out of pocket I-accept-all-risk type signed by the renter, which if fake is fraud.

3. Full deposit of the rented gear to payout to the owner if lost/stolen/damaged, which if declined may be fraud or at least grounds to stop the transaction and protect the owner.

Meaning there is either enough info to find the renter at least for a civil suite or there is fraud. Who is liable for fraud here? Legally I'm not sure but based on the reply and posturing from KitSplit I'd say they are. Based on this info I'm not going to use or advocate their platform.

It looks like the renter went for the deposit option but the transaction was declined. Kitsplit should have stopped the transaction there, minimum. One can't claim to be 99.99% perfect then do nothing in response to the .01% where clients lose thousands from theft on a a technicality.
My understanding is that using a ball end mill to "drill out" a hemisphere while perpendicular to your surface will create very high forces that are bad for the tool. I'd imagine you could offset the tool axis and then achieve the same effect, but using a smaller tool might end up being easier.

Please note that I am far from even a beginner machinist.
If it's any comfort that is still better than the support I got for the Ponte Vecchio. I did all my own work, including soldering a crack in the boiler because that was the only possibility. One vendor would not sell me parts because they claimed to be the only "authorized" vendor and I had purchased it elsewhere. The other sold me a series of parts over years and years, but discontinued that a couple years ago which is what prompted me to get the Breville. I gave the Lusso to my son and found another parts source, so it lingers on. I'd say it was down waiting on parts at least two weeks of every year I had it.
Which ones and for how long?
Must be they didn't get enough tax revenue or kickbacks. Only explanation for that deal.
Check out Idris and the book Type Driven Development. It has an emacs mode that does that for you. I’m not sure about other languages. It was a very nice experience though I just went through it for the learning experience and haven’t tried to apply it to any problems since then.
All prohibition is asinine but this has to take the cake.

Even if there is no way to prevent more kids from getting addicted to vaping (and that's a big if), having less kids and many less adults smoking cigarettes is such a huge win for public health.

--

Anecdotally I went from 2 packs a day to chain vaping for a few years, health improved enough to start being much more active, finally weaned down nicotine, quitting vaping was hard but not near as yard as other cigarette quits, have been nicotine free for almost a year (not even a puff) and now I avg about 10+ miles a week running and 50+ miles a week biking and am in the best shape of my life at almost-40.
Does anyone have a link to the text of the actual legislation? The article paints this as a general ban on sale/distribution/manufacture, but elsewhere narrows it to "on city property", so I'm curious about what the legislation actually says.

Regardless, it's asinine that San Francisco would ban e-cigarettes and not actual cigarettes. It's also pointless; nothing stopping people from heading to Oakland or Daly City (or further) for their vape pens/juice.
There's a number of people who make this claim, some of them leaning towards more credible [0], some hysterical [1].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-...

[1]: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
Radio Shack started making serious money on mobile a long time ago. I worked there in 1996 and made great commissions on cell phones.
Was it a requirement for 'Software Verification & Validation' to use a different language?
> What more can he do that would be considered "setting an example?"

Eli can take his money and send it as a gift directly to the US government.

> He devotes himself full-time to philanthropy.

Giving money to private charity is very different from giving money to the government.
But shouldn't the fine then be using the dashcam law and not GDPR?
Exaggeration is charitable, it's probably an outright lie.
Teenagers with acne often take antibiotics for many years. I had one friend with severe acne who took antibiotics well into adulthood.

Those teenagers, who take antibiotics, with a microscope at home can do this simple experiment: prick your finger with a needle and put a drop of blood on steriled glass, then put that under a microscope. Do you see bacteria? Yes, of course you do. Even if you take antibiotics for 20 years, your body will still be seething with bacteria. There is no way to get rid of the bacteria on your body. That isn’t what antibiotics do. Antibiotics work with your immune system to bring bacterial load back to a reasonable level. If antibiotics killed all bacteria then people with compromised immune systems could be kept safe from bacteria with antibiotics. But there isn’t a doctor in the world who thinks that’s possible.
Have a look at https://medium.com/@_unwriter/the-metanet-starts-84f255a6578...

This is awesome.
While you can get along fine just playing around, if you are still at it after a couple of years learning music theory is very worth while. Its also something that someone with engineering skills should be able to pick up.
Convinced part of the problem with political offices is that elected politicians have no incentive to actually consider second order or third order effects of any piece of legislation they pass. Everything is optimized for first order effects only e.g. optics because that is what they think "shows" they did something.
I think this is somewhat justified, smoking rates were decreasing nationally until e-cigs came into fashion, of course some conventional smokers switched which lowered the health detriments of smoking - but many more of the e-cig users are new smokers.

I'd prefer a full ban but this is at least staunching what was a regression for public health. E-cigarettes, since their introduction, haven't improved public health - they've worsened it.
A New Trump Order May Make More Health Care Prices Public
> And the worst part is, the new regulations [for online speech] haven’t ended harassment, extremism or disinformation. Hardly a day goes by without some post full of outright Naziism, flat-eartherism and climate trutherism going viral. There are whole armies of Nazis and conspiracy theorists who do nothing but test the filters, day and night, using custom software to find the adversarial examples that slip past the filters’ machine-learning classifiers.
Almost every OS allows putting shortcuts to websites in the "launcher".
I was referring to the original -- which was still released after Doom came out.
which publically available cameras are there? which city makes traffic cameras publically available?

edit: https://webcams.nyctmc.org/multiview2.php

holy crap
There is a standard of quality one can expect that is defined by malpractice law.
Sorry, that's total BS. Complain all you want about "campaign contributions", but the politicians absolutely are elected by voters on Election Day. The only thing contributors can do is try to change opinions by funding campaigns which goes to advertising. The final choice is made by the voters, and they are the ones ultimately to blame for the results.
a lot of people think it will mirror how the internet was. Lots of hype, people threw money at it while not really understanding it but when the profits didn't roll in, the winter came. People forget how tech was desolate, and it wasn't just 2001. probably from 2001 to somewhere in 2005? Anyhow, those who figured out how to make use of the internet well were incredibly successful. Once the winter was over tech has been among the hottest industries for a long time.

AI might end up the same, enter a winter. people will talk about how silly endevours into AI where, but a few companies will really figure it out and a huge explosion will occur and people will wonder how anyone did anything without AI. something like that

for those who forgot what that winter was like:
1999
2:10: your not a pure internet company... (insinuating thats bad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GltlJO56S1g&t=316s

.com bubble burst somewhere March, 2001

2002
2:22: netflix represents one of the few success stories of an otherwise desolute tech sector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLAwGhyV5k

2004
who in their right mind brings a company to market in the doldrums of august in a down tech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxOoeCHc47Q
The Free-Pascal text-mode IDE (FPIDE) also uses that look, even on Linux. But there is no C/C++ version that I know about. TUI-style editors (with GUI-like menus, widgets, overlapped frames etc.) in general seem to be unpopular on Unix/Linux, the only ones I can find (besides the one mentioned above which is part of Free-Pascal) are essentially unmantained.

Of course the quickest way to get a working TUI-mode editor that is stably maintained is probably to add support to Emacs, which already has text-mode working with things like a global menu, widgets, multiple "frames" etc. many of which were directly lifted from the "GUI" version.
I do a lot of SF community implementations in the range of 10-20k users. My projects are typically 4-6 weeks with a team of maybe 5 on average. Granted, we're a small company with very very good talent. There's no way an Accenture or PWC could do what we do in the same timeframe.
You could wear a wet suit, taped with some gaffer tape, thick balaclava, etc. It might not stop leaches but will reduce the chance of ticks and most other bites.

But you would also sweat a lot and generally be quite uncomfortable. Tradeoffs...

Though I am nearly there when I go for walks in mosquito country. Big hat, with netting all around, socks half way up my legs, trousers stuck well inside them...

I do really hate ticks. Ruins summers for me.
Pot and tobacco is legal. Juul HQ is there.
They are doing their best to destroy SF from within.
When the cost of prevention is higher than the cost of treatment, you know the system is truly messed up.

IMO health insurance should be paying for everything preventative. It's in their financial interest to stop fretting about what kind of lab you are, encourage early diagnosis and reduce long-term medical costs.
I'm really curious how they worded the questions.
Who's going to control the data that Libra generates?
What they thought me for first aid was: remove the tick with a proper tool, wrap it in some scotch tape and put it in something storable (back then a photo roll plastic thingey) and give it to the person affected and send them to a doctor or emergency service. That was over 20 years ago. Apperantly the "save the tick" advice is not as wide spread as I believed it to be as you were the first to mention it (my reading).
Which is why i have been purchasing my modular instead of building it.. so far.

Secondhand market is great for Eurorack
Sounds like Salesforce just wants to extract the maximum in BS licensing possible from each client...
Heh. Well, I realize this is anecdotal, but I'd probably still be smoking a pack a day if I hadn't tried out e-cigs as a cessation tool. It really makes it easy. Smoke and Vape free for around 4 years now.
It was for work at the time, they had iPhone apps in their portfolio
Some software I used to work on, had this sort of issue. Customers would call up and say "how do I change the machine's IP address" and Support would reply "you can't, you have to reinstall".

What was really going on: there were a whole bunch of config files, into several of which the installer embedded whatever was the machine IP at install time. Support didn't know exactly how many files there were. Engineering was asked to document them all but for whatever reason were dragging their feet on doing it. My attitude was – why can't we just do a search&replace? Response I got – we can't trust customers/Support to do that without making a mess of it.

Eventually, engineering wrote and shipped a "change machine IP tool" which knew about exactly which config files contained the machine IP. Finally, we had a supported procedure for changing the IP address of the server.
This question comes up a lot with synths and especially hardware and Eurorack gear.

For me not being focused on finishing anything is what got me back into playing music (and eventually performing live sets).

Previously there was so much pressure to produce end results I couldn't even get started and lost all joy in the process. At some point I got some hardware to just play with and never really looked up how to save anything (was a Drumbrute, Meeblip and I borrowed a Beatstep). Was making odd acid tracks and silly sketches on my kitchen table every night that I'd lose as soon as I turned it all off. It was oddly freeing, and really fun.

A year later I was playing out gigs ranging from 20 mins to 3 hours. And one could even argue that I've still not finished any songs despite hours of recordings and performance as it's mostly improvisational.

Now I'm happily back in the noodling around and having fun stage again and loving it (though about to switch gears again).

Anyway - just figured I'd weigh in as there's often a lot of pressure to finish or record things when just playing around or building weird synths is in and of itself a really really fun (if expensive) hobby and maybe someone needs to hear that. :)

(also perfectly fine if your focus is on complete songs, of course)
I think they send an employee of the company. I don't remember the story but I read someone that was suing one of the big fast food chains and they just kept sending a store manager
And if they weren't opaque, gaming them would be even easier.
The concept also exists as "theft by conversion". For example if you rent a car and refuse to return it.
"At the same time, the City will gift free e-cigarette devices to prevent people from sharing devices and transmit diseases to each other"
> trade within your IRA

This is just bad advice. You will most likely still pay brokerage fees and commissions which will eat away at your active trading.

Your IRA is supposed to be for retirement. Buy a broad-based passively managed, low-cost index fund. Reinvest divs. Make automatic purchases with automatic deposits. Close your eyes - and you will do phenomenally better than active trading.
The reason I'd rent such equipment would be that I couldn't afford to own it. I would not handle it uninsured, of course, but I'd likely not pay to insure it against it getting stolen from me. That risk I'd eat and compensate with suitable security measures.
Anybody interested in a "Computer-Aided Small Business" kind of a thing?
I am happy that's worked out for you - and e-cigs are definitely less dangerous than conventional cigarettes, but the adoption rate of smoking among younger folks has spiked since flavoured e-cigs were introduced.

I really want vapes to be available as an alternative to conventional smoking but the companies pushing them now are addicting a lot of new users, if the market participants were more responsible these devices could have been all positive.
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