skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bucket shops described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera... operated by offering incredible leverage and using actual ticker tape quotes, which, at the time, were delayed slightly.

They offered the 'service' of being able to trade large nominal amounts at the last market price, without market impact, but had incredible levels of margin -- 50-1+ or something like that.

This meant that customers often hit margin limits, incurring additional 'commissions' to close out their positions.

Operationally, the bucket shop netted long and short positions, and either actually traded the residual or, occasionally, would use market orders (e.g. aggressive sells) to push the punters into margin calls, which they would then execute. They would then buy low and cover their earlier positions.

Jesse Livermore managed to beat them through astute technical analysis and through the installation of a direct telegraph line from the exchange, thus beating his 'brokers', who promptly kicked him out.
Racial disparities in voting wait times: evidence from smartphone data
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I say let's go. Now, whether you believe it or not, it is a fact that the US government has acquired alien technology and yet continues to keep it hidden by being stuck in a cold war mindset of, "well, we can't let the Chinese or Russians get their hands on this". That is the ultimate expression of narrow thinking, especially when there is a whole universe out there!

Bring on the downvotes but history will vindicate my comment.
20 years is optimistic. Real fully autonomous self-driving cars will arrive 10 years after fusion power becomes commercially viable.
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Are they really trying to claim that Uber is not a transportation company but instead "a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces"?

I guess we do live in a post-truth era.
Any recommendations for books regarding this subject?

It s pretty fascinating.
I still firmly believe Reddit is only usable with RES infinite scroll enabled. It's such a joy not having to click the 10px wide "next page" button.

Infinite scroll works in a lot of ways, and is integral to a content absorbing functionality (if that's what you want).
Lispy language for creating NES / Famicom software
As someone who drives Uber on occasion when I'm a little bored and looking for something to do, I think it's great that I'm not an Uber employee.

I can do 10 hours or I can do 0 hours based on nothing but my own whim. I don't have a problem with people organizing to get a better deal for themselves, but I like the way it works now.

I've worked for companies that misclassify workers, and Uber isn't it as far as I understand.
I may be convinced otherwise, but I don't see it.
Is Day Trading the same as Momentum Trading?
No, AB5 simply requires that they compete fairly with all other transit systems that recognize their employees as employees.

The reality is that all these “gig economy” companies are only able to compete by unfairly claiming that their employees are somehow not their employees.
> Bounces, time spent, and other KPIs for web-traffic engagement have all gone up as a result of using infinite scroll

None of these measure actual value to the user. You could just be sucking up more of the user's time without adding any actual value.
Apple apparently testing AR glasses, but don't expect them anytime soon
It's context that I had, but is easily forgotten, especially with the .ca TLD. There's taxes and student debt to service as well—probably.
No, I'm just shooting down the idea that simply saying the NSA was involved in fighting the cold war doesn't mean they're positive for US Citizens.

I haven't mentioned my qualms about the NSA up to this point, but since you asked: I object to spending $10.8 billion in 2013[1]. I object to the fact that they have so little oversight, the public had to find out what their funding is from a leak[1]. I object to the fact that this spending resulted in only 4 arrests they will tell us about over a period of years[2] which are all fairly questionable[3]. I object to their continued violation of the constitutional right to privacy of almost every American.[4] I object to them undermining encryption standards[5] which weakens the security of people and companies everywhere.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/us/politics/leaked-docume...

[2] https://www.ibtimes.com/four-times-nsa-surveillance-programs...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944055

[4] https://www.eff.org/702-spying

[5] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nsa-nist-encrypti...
Has not yet been passed and won't be passed. It's a PR stunt by the congressman.
Just in case you read this, thanks, Edward Snowden. You left it all on the line to help us. The fact that we're still talking about it 6+ years later shows it's importance.
Perhaps because Go does this properly, where by properly I mean that you can have both stack and heap allocations of scope local variables, depending upon their needed availability for functions within the scope and dissociation , from the scope, of their lifetimes? In particular, the Go compiler performs escape analysis to determine where variables must be allocation, in honor of upward funargs.
This is absurd. You don't know my friends, and you say they are lying?

Daytrading for a single account and managing a multi-billion dollar fund are completely different strategies and need completely different skillsets. You should educate yourself before talking authoritatively on subjects you don't know very much about.
>Bringing drivers access to robust portable benefits like sick leave and injury protection;

What? Those are embarassing offers.

> Our proposal avoids the potential harm of forcing drivers to be employees, whether or not they want to—and the vast majority tell us they don’t want to be

I would love to see the data behind the 'vast majority'
I provided four reasons as to why an average journalists job is difficult, and an entire paragraph as to why this particular journalists job might be difficult.

Also your description of a journalists "core" job is incredibly reductive. It would be like me saying a programmers job is to just "write code". It's accurate to a point, but fails to capture a majority of a programmers responsibilities and how they do it well.
I made it well into this decade before I was made aware of this fact. It's kind of a shock, still. At some point your planet is massive enough that you can't get into orbit with chemical rockets (even, I think, by flying them up like Burt Rutan?).

The implications for the Drake equation are pretty big.

Rockets without any promise of ever being able to break orbit are good for what, war? Would you keep developing them? Would you give up dreams of the stars? Would you look for intelligent life you couldn't ever possibly meet?
What is FIRE? Page doesn't seem to say before using the acronym.
Surface gravity will be around 2g, so even if it has a rocky surface it's not going to be a very comfortable home from home.
That is not the top end. Many senior engineers make north of 200k cash salary at non-FAANG corps in the bay area, and of course FAANG engineers are in that ballpark too.
You probably want to check the portion of target users. Suppose, in India, (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india) Android has biggest market share over 85% which absolutely makes sense to put more investment on it rather than any other.
It's a tactic to undermine an opponent. They want to classify him as a minor part of the machine, hoping to discredit his revelations in the process ("why would you listen to anyone with that little of experience and importance"). It's a reverse appeal to authority.

It coming up again of again when Snowden is discussed is part of either controlled or natural occurring propaganda, a talking point of the regime. The one bringing it into this thread is a new throwaway account, go figure. One way or another, directly or indirectly, you are seeing the "controlling public discussions" part of what intelligence agencies do in action here :)
When we drove species to extinction before, it was accidental, and it's usually viewed as a huge mistake.

I wouldn't want to be one of the people who advocates for it, and then it turns out to be a giant disaster. The potential risk seems huge and could affect generations. Although I it would be pretty easy to hedge against that risk by keeping some mosquitos/eggs alive in a lab, and if the experiment goes wrong, re-populate the mosquitos.

From an economic perspective, how does the cost of all this research compare to mass producing malaria medicine?
Good points all around.
I feel like the ideal of life existing on another planet would improve my quality of life. The additional potential would do wonders for my everyday narrative.
This comment was disingenuous, and you should tell the truth. You say further on the thread that you work at the company you work at because it allows you to work on free software, even though you could work elsewhere. This would prevent you from participating in 99% of software engineering labor market in NYC, and your experience is not in anyway indicative of the market as a whole.
Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism
> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years, absolutely nothing if the battery is replaced; there could be even diminished returns if you buy a new smartphone(unavailability of headphone jack, losing metal body, losing faster biometric authentication).

That's true in the Android world as well. When the GPS in my three-year-old LG Stylo 2 finally crapped out so thoroughly (along with a puffed-up battery, perhaps with a built-in antenna being damaged?) that I couldn't ignore it anymore, I wound up getting a Stylo 5.

As it turns out, it has the same Qualcomm 450 SoC as the three-year-old phone it replaced. It's fast enough for my needs, but no speed demon. The only real upgrades are support for more of T-Mobile's LTE bands, a higher-resolution screen, an aluminum frame, a 3500 mAh battery up from 3000, and Android 9; the camera app is improved, and the Bluetooth stack is more up-to-date. Much to their credit, they had the courage to not remove the headphone jack. There is one major downgrade: the inevitable sealed-case, non-removable battery schtick that I really hate. I hope that fad passes by the time I need to replace this one, but there's too much money at stake for the phone manufacturers not to shaft their customers. I better hope the battery doesn't crap out prematurely.

That being said, I like the Stylo 5; the 2 had excellent battery life even when the battery got puffy, and the 5 is even better (at least in my first week of usage). That relatively-anemic 450 SoC is at least power-efficient.
Wow, that's neat. This might just be my next phone. It's a little more expensive than I'd like, but not bad, really.
Normally you don’t actually add signing bonus to your TC. I have heard of similar offers at FB for returning interns with competing offers.

There are new grads making even more at Jane Street, Two Sigma, and Citadel
What's the defense of a business model that loses bucketloads of money despite not treating their drivers with the dignity they deserve? Both Uber and Lyft are not going to be killed by regulation, they're going to be killed for being shitty businesses.
It is not because of gene manipulations per se but because by design it is proliferating by itself. Contrast that to a vaccine that turns out to be not safe: administering the vaccine would then just be stopped. If these gene-drive mosquitoes, on the other hand, turn out to be a problem, then there is no easy way to stop that. So better get it right the first time and - as much as you do not seem to like that - that requires time for due diligence.
I've heard this is mostly the answer. Which makes me assume that the LLVM is a bad match for rust's backend requirements.
> which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces.

Pretty clever wording by Uber here, I'd say. Although does not make sense to me.
Not really. I live in New Jersey, and just bought a house of comparable size to the one we had in Dallas for about 2x what we sold the Dallas house for. Other cost changes were, on average, flat if restricted to NJ. Doing things in Manhattan is certainly more expensive, but also not a daily occurrence.

As far as taxes are concerned, they're higher, but in both places state and local taxes were a pretty small percentage of our outlay anyway. It's a bit hard to compare because the state income tax and higher property taxes are offset by lower sales tax (with broader exemptions) and less direct-billed government services.
Exactly

From the reference article:

> Travelling from the surface of Earth to Earth orbit is one of the most energy intensive steps of going anywhere else. This first step, about 400 kilometers away from Earth, requires half of the total energy needed to go to the surface of Mars.

Which means that if we use something like a balloon/blimp in the first stage, it would be a lot more energy efficient.

Anyone knows why it's not done that way already?

Also, whatever happened with the plane+rocket Virgin Galactic project?
Great! , do that gravity assist a few more hundred times around the sun and we are there in 500 years.
Yeah, in your case it would make perfect sense to consider you an independent contractor instead of an employee.

I guess the issue arises when we got people working full-time hours but still being classified as an independent contractor.
Yes.
Brazil is a relatively high-friction market, and you'd need to know the actual trading costs.
The studies I've seen in the US are that most 'active' traders lose money, but 10-30% do well. There is an entire industry of day-trading hedge funds, so many people believe this.
Uber's position here seems to be that they are a technology company that connects drivers with things that need to be driven from A to B (people, restaurant orders, etc.). Not sure I buy that but it sounds like they're willing to ask the courts to decide on that if this goes into law.
Many european cities would still exist and the mountains I grew up in front of too.

But granted, all people I know would be dead and some I could find in the history books maybe..
Why is Rust slightly slower than C?
> I find it highly unlikely that a court would find transportation to be outside the scope of Uber's business

TBH considering the language of the bill, it s very plausible to say that driving people around is not "their usual course". The same way that google is not an advertiser, and airbnb is not a hotel chain.
No, they don’t. You can access your account with just SMS. That makes it 1FA.
43% of tory party members wouldn't vote for a Muslim leader. That's endemic institutional racism. Labour party members have no such issue with Jews. The anti semitism accusations are purely about the Israel lobby throwing a fit.
They are lying because you've never made money daytrading? As per my other comment, this is absurd. Being a profitable daytrader is very hard, and it's not probable, but definitely possible.
Given how expensive college is these days you’d almost have to get such a role to pay you a bonus and a high six figure income and stock options to have a chance of paying it all off.
> LSD be used to control somebody rather than to free him.

I think this is accurate. Except freeing someone also removes / alters the person's usual defense mechanisms and their internal understanding of what's acceptable to do and say.

What LSD definitely does is makes the person vulnerable to external influence in ways they typically wouldn't be without the drug. For example, you could very plausibly convince someone to run naked down the street in a big city on LSD (the person taking LSD loses the voice in their head saying "NO! DON'T DO THAT!"), while it would be near impossible to convince someone of doing that while not on LSD. From that perspective, it can be thought of a "mind control" mechanism just not in the literal sense.
Apple iPad 2019 hands-on: A 6th-generation iPad in a 2019 iPad Air’s body
>>Why is it sad at all? What would it do for you?

Some of us refuse to allow this kind of constant cynicism and pessimism that surrounds us to crush our sense of awe and wonder.
Understanding the structure of the book (or realising that it lacks one) helps tremendously.

See Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book for an excellent guide. Most of the techniques it describes are ones I've long used -- it's been an excercise largely in validation, though with a few additional tricks and bits.
> a developer suggests using infinite scrolling

What developer suggests this? Seems like the author can't tell the difference between a developer and a "growth hacker".
Aren't solar sails just for propelling yourself once you're in space? I can't imagine how you could launch off the surface of a planet with a solar sail.
China scraps foreign credit and investment quotas
>There is no such thing as free content on the Internet

[...]

>Everything costs something to make. If a person is putting out content for free, that means they’re not getting paid for their time.

First of all, remember when people posted things on the internet just out of our desire to share things? I certainly support Tony's decision to shut this down - it is his decision to make, and no one should feel FORCED to create content for free.

But second of all, doesn't the second commend contradict the first?
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Uber Says It Is Not Subject to California Gig-Worker Law
That's like saying Yellow Cab is not a taxi company because the drivers are independent contractors who lease their cars from the company, and it doesn't actually drive anyone around.

And yes, Uber does lease cars to its drivers.
When the French invade Fishguard, Wales in 1797 our hero Gruffyd Rhys Llewellyn goes to get help in the only place where help may be forthcoming. The Heavens!

I should make a kickstarter, but I am already in my jammies.
I wonder if we could work around the stronger gravity by using a spaceship as the anchor for a space elevator or skyhook? Both of those technologies are pretty far off, but so is getting humans to another star system.
I feel like it's pretty clear that gig economy jobs don't neatly fit in either of the existing categories of workers: they're not quite employees (you can clearly work or not work whenever you want) or contractors (you clearly have very little negotiating power or information in choosing your work or guaranteeing your wages). Attempts to munge them into one of those categories are just doomed; a new category is needed.

Failing that, if they are to be counted as individual contractors they should be able to negotiate like those: without one-sided deceptive deals.
New game 'Sayonara Wild Hearts' Hits PS4 and Switch the Same Day as Apple Arcade
Are you saying that the "misconception" is that it's actually slightly negative-sum, rather than exactly-zero sum? If so, great, I agree. It doesn't change my point at all; if anything it makes it stronger.

I am not excluding anyone; I'm trying to explain why I think the result here is not particularly enlightening.
Could someone knowledgeable about employment law explain what will change for Uber/Lyft drivers if the companies are forced to reclassify them as employees?

The post talks about "potential harm" and says that how many hours drivers have to work and whether they can work for competitors at the same time "would all change." Is that right?
Generic Objects of Dark Energy... Is this exotic matter with negative energy?
the Pax Era is one of the worst concentrate portable device on the market.
See also the Eudaemonic Pie
Hm, I think it will not be soon. Artificial intelligence already dims a lot, but it does not have self-sufficiency and emotionality. And the ability to express emotions is nothing more than self-awareness.And this is already a little scary, because everyone remembers Skynet and the terminator?)
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Most of my friends pay $1500-$1800 for a bedroom in an apartment. Those paying $2400 all have 1BD or studios.

Check Zillow for prices.

I am currently living in a gigantic 3BD for $5200.
What if the choice isn't between "driving with a guaranteed minimum wage + benefits" and "driving with no protections" but between "driving with no protections" and "doing nothing"? That's the fear here.
i'm guessing they would claim they are an ridsharing platform, with the purpose of allowing drivers and riders to find each other and facilitate the transaction, rather than a taxi service.

the problem with that argument is that they have a lot of control of the driver side of the platform, directly through pricing and indirectly through ratings and access.
> Infinite scrolling in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit doesn't exist to improve the user experience

In the case of reddit, infinite scrolling is one of the most common reasons I hear used to explain why other users opted out of Reddit's new UI.
So all data is stored in the postgres db?

I was looking into the github/outline and saw some references to AWS/S3. That’s the reason I am asking if all data goes to the self-hosting system.
Firewalls Not Architected for IIoT
Or that e-bay is not a fashion store. (I think u re referring to a probably tiny part of uber that leases cars to drivers)
It would be better to teach non-fiction writers about concise writing so we don't have to read 300 pages when they could deliver the same info in 100 pages or less.
Uber's argument is that the core of their business is the technology which allows them to act as a two-sided marketplace and logistics company, connecting and routing physical goods and people.

Connecting riders and drivers is one thing which takes advantage of their technology but their are others. Connecting riders and scooters, connecting couriers to restaurants and hungry people, connecting people who want to go to the Hamptons with helicopters, etc.

Uber will argue that it has nothing to do with the driving part and the driving is just one of the many uses of their technology.

The difficult part of that argument will be that they have so many rules and regulations that they place on drivers and rides that's it's hard to argue they're just providing a hands-off matching & logistics service.
Raytheon: UFO's aren't real, unless our company can make money from them
Indeed! I found Matt Levine's post last Fall [1], particularly useful, as he believed you couldn't be prosecuted for insider trading of commodities (only securities). Then he received a nastygram from the CFTC :).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2018-10-24/it...
My thinking before Snowden was the sheer resources it would take to actually record, catalog and index all that information, let alone into something useful. I thought some people were just a bit too paranoid. Then I learned they did have/spend/use the resources needed for this. It just feels crazy, but true.

Since then, combined with the ability to use AI patterns against video streams and even deep fake capability. My trust in most things is pretty much broken at this point.
A minor quibble, but the url ends in .ch, and the company address is in Switzerland. Why do you say the author is in Germany? (Am I missing something?)
> Are there anh underlying ‘issues’ with lambdas, I wonder?

A lambda object is intrinsically an object with an unnameable type and an overloaded call operator. C doesn't have any mechanisms for parameterizing function bodies over types, or even any mechanism for defining a variable without declaring its type (although one is suggested for C2x). Without such mechanisms, it's impossible to actually use a lambda.