skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 100%. I also grew up poor and having a certain amount of money alleviates a ton of problems and people don’t realize how taxing day to day survival can be in the modern economy with not enough. It is pure survival mode until you reach a threshold.
The rumor that the investor is getting fleeced has been debunked, and on the contrary, the investor is potentially getting better execution and price than otherwise. Schwab, Robinhood et al are registered brokers subject to Regulation NMS and have a duty to seek the best execution reasonably available for customer orders.

Your order is not changed, and no HFT is paying Schwab to be able to execute at worse than the publicly quoted price.

Schwab is heavily regulated as a broker and required to execute your trade at at least the National
Best Bid and Offer (NBBO).

[https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/invest...]
Though I doubt it would work very well in practice, students could be free to enroll in school in another school district with their home district paying a tuition fee to the host district.
It’s entirely possible within a publicly funded framework to have different models and observation of outcomes. Schools just have to be allowed the leeway to experiment without threat of privatization. State universities and community colleges do this across the country. And it’s not as if high-performing countries arrived at their (almost exclusively public) systems without this kind of iteration.
That’s the crux of the issue. Go aims to be useful, not relevant. Obviously some relevance is necessary for utility (a language isn’t useful if there is no community around it), but when you optimize for relevance directly, you end up with solutions in search of problems. Like inheritance.
> There is a place for debt in society. And that is: emergencies.

Emergencies (if defined as unexpected events that have a high enough cost that a person requires debt) are things that people with fewer resources have exponentially more often than people with more resources. Emergencies, especially incompletely serviced, also tend to lead to further emergencies, and very quickly servicing the debt becomes the emergency.
A few problems:

- A comparison of Redis and Postgres for in-memory storage without use of TEMP or UNLOGGED[0] tables?

- SQL for table creation and queries not shown

- Using an ORM on one side and a more direct client on the other

While some data is better than none, the quality of this analysis is in question.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtable.html
As a side note I use Schwab as a checking account and it’s incredible. Zero fees. Reimbursement of ATM fees. Easy overdraft protection from the brokerage account. I love them as a bank.

This is even more reason to love them.

I’ve used Chase, Citi, was a Simple customer for a long time... and Schwab blows all of them out of the water.
There's more variation of height within male and female groups than between groups, but still you can confidently say that on average males are taller; so "far more variation within the group" doesn't say much

> can't blame our lack of cognitive empathy on biology, it's probably pure socialization/education

Any evidence?

A study linked from one of your links says: "Our study demonstrates that, although there are sex/gender differences in the brain, human brains do not belong to one of two distinct categories: male brain/female brain."

So it looks like there are, actually, differences.

Also, it is kind of assumed that we need more cognitive empathy; but why exactly, and how much is too much?
> We've never encountered data loss issues with our read and write heavy Redis services

Curious... how does one confirm this? A lost acknowledged write is a very obscure thing and I don't think I would know if we lost writes.
I have no dog in this hunt, but body builders tend to claim that conversion of testosterone to estrogen and resulting high levels of that are what causes mood issues. Which is why they all take aromatase inhibitors.
”If the warnings don't stop people from doing stupid things, they'll require more warnings or kill the feature”

No, they will happily accept the third option: a product that doesn’t require warnings.

Cars must have seat belts, ABS, airbags, crumple zones, etc. You can’t buy a chainsaw without kickback reduction, heavy presses are specifically designed so that you need two hands to operate them, etc. etc. There are zillions of cases where we deem warnings insufficient.

Why would this feature, that even can injure bystanders, be different? It’s not as if its benefits are so large that they obviously outweigh its risks.
Big +1 for Gitea/Gogs, that thing will run on a toaster. Super low memory footprint and great for small shops.
But the responsibility of “pulling the trigger” makes these engineers sheltered from any guilt. However, engineering the cases for triggering the robots to kill and the resulting bugs can be directly attributed to the team that designs it. Whether they care or not, or ever have a hard time falling asleep at night is a different story..
Good point about Meetup being purchased by WeWork. Doesn't seem that there's much innovation going on there rn...

We've asked our members why they join us and not Meetup or Facebook groups or other things that are out there. We hear two main answers: 1) there is a lot more trust/safety from this being a group just for women of this age, 2) Revel feels like more of a community, whereas on Meetup so much of the organizational burden falls on the group's one host.
You said you're 18, you're young and hopefully don't have kids, so apply in other cities as well.

Yeah it's scary. But if the job is good enough, and the pay is good enough, then you've got to figure out why your bullshit reason for staying where you are outweighs both your mental health and your career prospects.

EDIT: And don't forget remote options.
[beaming smile] "Zat could be eezily done with a compjutah!"

One person writes calculate_attitudes(person)

Another writes calculate_abilities(person)

Another writes calculate_desirability(person, calculated_attitudes, calculated_abilities)

Another writes determine_spatial_location(person)

Another writes parse_list_of_protected_persons(whitelist)

Another writes move_to_safe_vantage_point(drone, picked_target, whitelist)

Another writes aim_cannon(cannon, spatial_location)

Another writes fire_cannon(cannon)

Another writes determine_witnesses(spatial_location, timestamp)

Then you just feed witness_person, witness_attitudes, witness_abilities into calculate_desirability, and loop it forever, killing the least obedient n%. No involved person really did much, or even anything, as far as they are aware.

Especially since you can, as Joseph Weizenbaum -- the one person HN really should know, but really doesn't -- pointed out, design/build/train those algorithms and machines with all sorts of rather benign stuff. E.g. you train for finding missing persons, but then you can also just feed it names and photos of dissidents instead of missing persons. The people "refitting" may know about the people who build them in the first place, but not the other way around.
I did. 11.5 years ago before starting as freelancer and never looking back.
That's a pipe dream in 2019.
Tesla is incentivized to allow users to ignore their warnings, as it gives them a ton of real world data with which to train their algorithms, all the while using case law precedent around “intended use” to shield them from actual liability, even though the abuse is totally foreseeable and easy to prevent.

They’ve been doing this with Autopilot since the beginning: they have the demonstrated ability to restrict Autopilot to highways, which is the only intended use, but they choose not to flip this switch, so that they can use customers (and you, me, and your children) as guinea pigs and collect that sweet, sweet data, which they upload continuously to their servers.
Show HN: Get Related Terms to a Word
No problems with mine so far. No maintainence of any sort so far (12k miles) and the car is unquestionably better (faster, more features, better handling) then when I bought it a year ago.

That’s what the anti-Tesla crowd fails to understand.
By that I mean majors city like Quebec and Montreal. Sure Montreal is expensive but nothing like Toronto.
I appreciate this suggestion!
Using non recyclable plastic in a single use items should be a criminal offence
A Counterintuitive Probability Game
Many people online report positive effects from taking testosterone replacement therapy boosting their T level to the upper end of the natural range.

I'm curious if this is worth doing (for no particular reason), as a sort of steroid use. Apparently it can have slight balding effect but is worth it.

Has anyone here tried it, just for kicks? Could you list the effects on you? I am curious how it would effect the HN demographic (which I'm part of.)
There are entire countries and cultures that survive without meat for centuries. I’d love to know how you decided sourcing those proteins from fish is “not optional”.
Yes, I agree Tesla might have spent money on non essential (more video games), or at least non-trivial return (self driving custom designed chip). But Tesla did acquire Grohmann (automation), which is kind of boring stuff like better factory equipment. On a side note, I have been bullish on automation for a couple years, and it did not pan out, both Fanuc and KUKA had a rough past year... so no revolution on the automation/robot so far.
Yes, thank you, I did. To clarify, the debate was about allowing robots to kill without a human in the loop.

Basically, drop the robots in and let them start killing by whatever algorithm has been programmed into them.
Current technologies are too far behind in speed though. Passengers will trade better wifi, food, space, etc, in exchange for longer travel times but only up to a point. If a New York to LA trip goes from 5 to 25 hours then it's no longer viable. Unfortunately the radius that trains can be competitive barely reaches from LA to SF.
Great customer service, too. Punch in your account number and you get a smart human immediately. No scripts.
> When you exercise the options and get stocks ... even if you have no possibility to sell the stocks

Why exercise the options if you have no ability to sell them? The risk of unexercised options is totally on the employer who granted the options.

For the employee, holding the option itself is likely a lower risk strategy than exercising and holding the illiquid stock.
The article spends surprisingly little time valuing the retirement pension and benefits packages that teachers in a place like NY State receive. That would make this analysis more relevant.
I would change Welcome to
your tribe. to something else. Indigenous people often get offended at stuff like that and I don't really see what benefit there is to using it.

You should describe some use cases explaining why a woman over fifty should want to reach out to others in the same demographic. A couple that come to mind:

If she was a homemaker (or primarily a wife and mom) and now she's building a career late in life, networking with other women can be very valuable and helpful.

If she has had a serious career, that's often more of a burden for women than men because men with careers often have support to do that. Women frequently are doing it in spite of being saddled with other expectations.
Hashmaps are faster, except when you need the data to be available to multiple machines.

A good description of redis is a "shared heap". HashSets, HashMaps, Heaps, Priority Queues, etc. are all great and fast in an application, but once you need to start sharing that data things get complicated quickly. So you designate a single server to implement those data structures and expose them to your application. And what you end up with is basically redis.
It’s hard to verify Summon is in use when only Tesla has access to the data, and they’re very uncooperative when it would make them look bad.

I wouldn’t call it “FSD” except as a joke. Tesla is 15 years away from FSD.
I will second Schwab as an amazing bank. I would also add Fidelity as a great option in this same space. I use them now, only because my employer 401k is there and it keeps everything in one place.
Miro might be a good fit. Has good collaboration tools as well.
According to that metric you spend 1 minute to read this --

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What If You Could Rent an Apartment Without a Security Deposit?
Hey man, I'm so glad to hear the good update. I was really worried about that other post and just wanted to tell you that it's not normal to be bullied at work. I've been on 4 very different companies, and never went to something even close to what you did.

Congrats on the new job! Be sure to enjoy your vacation, you deserve it!
But then who tunes the hyperparameters for the gradient optimizer?
I'm reminded of a science fiction story I read long ago. A group of space explorers discovers an enormous metallic sphere. They open a port in its side and climb down a ladder. They discover that the whole of the interior is a vast machine, far beyond their capacity to understand. The last man out before the port is closed accidentally drops a wrench. They listen to it clatter down beyond earshot.

"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." — Sir Arthur Eddington
In developing countries, phone is the only computing device most people have and is the primary consumption device taking over TV. So a bigger screen will definitely be valued.
In a similar vein, many people don’t realize that you can actually negotiate commissions with your broker. You can even negotiate margin interest rates. The higher the total value of the account the better a deal you can get. Just like cable companies, brokerages have retention incentives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_for_order_flow
This, uh, struck a nerve. Can you explain the link? Or provide some terms for googling?
At a previous job, several us did go to HR with complaints about another coworker over body odor complaints. It was seriously bad enough that you could smell this individual from over 50 feet away. It was nauseating and was hurting the productivity of everyone around them.

This individual was a foreign national working in the US for the first time. My understanding was that HR took the individual aside in a private meeting and explained there were issues about their hygiene and arranged for them to attend some sort of cultural acclamation course that addressed things about cultural and workplace expectations.

We weren't looking for the individual to be disciplined or anything, but we certainly needed to be able to sit in our cubes without our sinuses being assaulted and our eyes watering.
Did you get another raise?
Important to note: they are one of the very few banks who do reimbursement of ATM fees not just in the USA, but worldwide!
OK fair point. I’ll elaborate. I think that a DCF model of anything as speculative with such a wide range of outcomes as this company is an exercise in futility. Yes you can build such a model but it is so dependent on your assumptions that it’s pure GIGO. Having worked a long time in finance, I am confident that any sell side model of this company starts with the valuation as the input and then dcf assumptions are built to arrive at that number.
This looks like more of an issue of corruption rather than free speech.
Why didn’t you just recommend Azure Repos? It’s a great product and fits what you need.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/devops/repos/
Apple creates iOS 13/iPadOS/macOS 10.15 Catalina mess and potential data loss
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21142456

Has been done before
I'm not sure what you're talking about, Meteor never sold any PDFs?
Our Neighbourhood by Australia Post
Interesting, I wonder if theres is a term for people with good cognitive empathy but poor affective empathy because I often feel like I can read someone body language and signals but usually have trouble expressing sympathy to the extent that when I hear someone died I have to monitor closely to try to react appropriately and not say anything weird.
When I first read the title, I thought, hey, a modern day Luddite, interesting.

However, it seems like this is just an act of aggression meant to harm those who use the scooters, not the scooter companies themselves.

Justified or not, that makes it seem so much more petty.
I’m sure Jobs also commented on the merits of juicing, what does that have to do with Dropbox?
Ants use germ-killers, and they're better than ours
They've been working on this for decades already, with the Tweel getting some attention in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel

It'll be a long time still before this actually gets to any kind of production use, unless regulation steps in.
Yes, that's correct. That's the idea. That is the goal. People are working on this right now. Writing basically, exactly those functions.

The survival of humanity has escaped ALL tribal boundaries. The human beings with the most power are the ones contributing the most to our assured destruction.

It's basically inevitable. I am not a religious person, but ... has this happened before? Have we destroyed ourselves before?

On another planet? Millions of years ago, before the dinosaurs? How could revelations have predicted it so well thousands of years ago, hundreds maybe, before there was any evidence all of this would be happening right now.

Lots of religions have these stories about ourselves destroying ourselves and our planet. Indian religions describe it too I know for sure. Battles of the gods in ships with laser like weapons.

It's like we are uncontrollably, knowingly, ... desiring of self-destruction as a species.

Why are we like this and how do we change us?

Maybe I'm insane.
Thanks for that. I'm still waiting for my physical green card; apparently it can take up to 3 months for it to arrive. But SSN takes just a few weeks apparently.

Good tip about Chinatown. I don't live that close, but don't mind going there to open an account.
We must also throw off the shackles of our near-perfect source code revision management system, so we can gloriously adopt the incredibly slow and notoriously unusable industry standard!
Also the Galaxy song is funny and mostly accurate

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/galaxy.php
Ask HN: Any highly recommended reading for Google Analytics?
I'm looking to find a very good book, blog post, article, etc on how to get the most out of Google Analytics. Something that walks you through the step by step setup to maximize that particular feature of Google Analytics. e.g, Monetary Value to Goals, Channels and funnels, or anything else that would help identify important aspects about user behavior.
Seconded, hard. You can't spend that $165K a year when you're staring down the barrel of willful HIPAA violations. Leave the company as soon as humanly possible. Leave and hope that the blowback from the inevitable disclosure--which won't be from your company--is happy enough eating the executive team that remains. And get a personal lawyer who understands HIPAA and explore avenues for whistleblowing; turning over on that company might be important for personal survival.
Thanks, Sean. Will check those out.
Starbucks has something like 15,000 locations in the US, half your latter figure. They could have a million stores and it still wouldn't mean they invented coffee.
I believe reduction would certainly solve the problem. I just don't think it's possible to make happen (I elaborated on this further in the comment below).

Is it possible the reason humans in the past didn't consume as much, was simply because they lacked the technology to allow them to?

If you gave a human from 10,000 B.C. a private jet, while also telling him that jet is bad for the environment, that human would still be flying all over the globe in an instant.

I don't think humans were somehow more morally conscientious in the past. And I'm not sure we should be aiming to head back to those "glory days" of 20 year lifespans and terrible infant mortality rates.
I'm somewhat baffled as to why "work to rule" is considered a sort of strike or protest.

If two parties have already agreed that one will perform a certain amount of work and another will pay a certain amount of money, it is unreasonable for either side to demand more than what the other side agreed to.

A contract becomes meaningless if one side can arbitrarily adjust the terms.
My boss (effectively) prohibits us from displaying negative emotions towards each other, as he pulls us aside to chide us when we do. I think the intention is to encourage more constructive conversations, but his bar for what he considers inappropriate is so low that it ends up stifling disagreements. We have a tough time making decisions because of it. It's also difficult to tell him about other problems I have, because if I show any annoyance, he'll criticize my tone. He, of course, gets visibly angry with people on our team on a weekly basis. It's driving me nuts to have to walk on eggshells all day.
Measuring cosmic ray proton spectrum from 40 GeV to 100 TeV with DAMPE satellite
Is there an episode on the frozen, uncooked, rising type?
Considering this country is literally liberated by the US, it is totally hilarious!
I know a bunch of remote-hiring places and if nothing else I'd be happy to help you figure out what to learn (and, probably, how to approach it) to GTFO. Email is in my profile.
I lost it at "What the fuck is HIPPA".

Who the fuck buys a healthcare company and doesn't know what the fuck HIPPA is?

Great read.
I recently created an account with Schwab after trying and failing to setup one at Fidelity. For some reason that I could never get a clear answer on, every single transfer I scheduled from my regular bank failed. This has never happened with any other institution and Fidelity's support was absolutely no help.

I finally gave up and asked them to close my account and was told a flat "No, that's not possible". I went back and forth with support on this for a while and was consistently told that it's literally impossible to close an account, even at a direct customer request for an account that has never held any funds. Overall it was a very poor experience with a lot of wasted time.

Schwab on the other hand made it quick and painless to setup and fund an account, and so far I have had nothing but good experiences.
It means the order is first sent to a HFT firm. They can either fill or pass the order on. HFT firm pays the broker for this priviledge.

These firms like retail order flow because it’s generally uncorrelated with institutional flow. Also the chance of getting steamrolled by buying before the rest of the orders hit and depress the price is a lot smaller.

For 99% of retail investors free trades in exchange for possibly worse execution is a good deal.
For those wondering the bottom line, it is interesting preliminary research on a small pool and I expect will be quite interesting as it progresses.

"The lab has tested their new technology on 1,488 WiFi-video pairs, drawn from a pool of eight people, and in three different behind-wall areas, and achieved an overall accuracy of 84% in correctly identifying the person behind the wall."