skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E*Trade, Schwab, and pretty much every other brokerage is playing catchup with RobinHood, which has had free trades on stocks and options from the very beginning. This has caused a steady exodus of users on these commission charging platforms, crossing over to RH. It's especially pronounced with Millenials and Gen-Z / "Post millenials".

You may not always get the best pricing, and also there are no market trades as of this writing on RobinHood, but the RH UI handily beats everyone else in terms of ease of use and simplicity.

The options trading functionality, for instance is very simple. You select options and then it presents you with a list of (screen) options on whether you think stock will go up, down, or sideways. Based on that, they show you low risk, high risk call options, put options or stangles and straddles. You can place a trade with a couple of taps.
If you want to get more specific and sophisticated, you can choose the expiry dates and select your own call / put options.

Compare this to TD Ameritrades UI and Schwab's UI, it looks like some guys from the 90s, stuck in the 90s, are still working on the UI team.

Truly clunky, horrible, confusing and annoying.
No.

There are things intentionally included and things intentionally excluded from the sandbox. App-specific data storage is part of the former, and external storage access is part of the latter (this changed with Android 10, anyhow).

Epic's installer used the external storage
You made so many assumptions about other people. And seemingly are making yourself out to be vastly morally superior to the people you grouped together.
There are people committing suicide, being harassed and not being accepted as they are so using wrong gender is pretty fucked up thing to do especially because it is so easy to do right.
All I'm saying is, when talking about efficiency the electricity source should be considered as well. Besides that efficiency is not the right metric to ask for here. Environmental impact is the important metric. Destroying existing infrastructure, destroying vast ecosystems in Chile to mine Lithium, enslaving Africans to mine Cobalt, use lots of energy to purify silicon for solar cells, building a more distributed power grid, installing charging stations everywhere. All of this has environmental impact. If you can make synthetic fuel with solar power in some desert (Nevada is big enough), you can keep all the old stuff and still be able to save the planet.
> The author raises points in contention, but they largely just seem like nitpicks to me.

It doesn't seem just like nitpicks to me. The core issue the author raises is the noise in the final output. If the quantum computer can only produce significantly noisy data (ie not in accordance with the theoretical distribution) whereas the conventional computer produces noiseless data, then that isn't a clear case of quantum supremacy.
> Closest in the US is bill pay which ends up sending a paper cheque to my landlord and is delayed in the post a couple of times a year.

As I understand, most US bill pay systems will do electronic transfers if the recipient is willing to provide the relevant information, and use checks as a fallback.
This app / clinical study reminds me strongly of an old Flash application "Click the color and... Not the word". So there is some prior art here - although this application has much better packaging.
I disagree. This is an actual in-your-face challenge that trans people face - incorrect pronoun usage, both offline and online. Using the wrong pronoun for someone is akin to using the wrong name. It's ok if it happens accidentally, but being incorrect on purpose is quite insulting - in part because it's so simple to do the right thing. I don't want to work with jerks.

It matters because even if you don't think it's a big deal, it can be death by a thousand papercuts for others. Seeing "he" used as a default pronoun just reminds me that people will assume I'm a man, further entrenching this idea subconsciously that people like me don't belong in tech. When I'm misgendered online, I have an internal conversation of "Do I correct them? Do I want to be perceived as not contributing to the discussion and be punished for that? Will I be seen as a crazy SJW and attacked for it?" That's a mental stress that cisgender men simply don't have to deal with.

Use gender-neutral language by default. It's not hard, and simple mistakes are forgiven. However, if one isn't willing to put the slightest amount of effort to either avoid pronouns or use the singular they, it shows they doesn't actually care about the concerns of people unlike themselves. And that shows a lot about what kind of person they are.
I do think homework helps but it should be once a week (maybe it is) and it should be something assigned on say Monday and due the next Monday so you have the weekend if you need it. You should also have opportunities in school to actually do the homework.. maybe homeroom was supposed to be where this was done? I also had kids in homeroom who had no interest in doing homework so it was more of a social hour. Or a zero period which doesn't necessarily have to be in the morning. Or there should be opportunities to do the homework in class. Homework should be more like work.. project based..
Best of luck to India. I sincerely hope that RISC-V will grant them the ability to produce commodity grade (even if low end) chips that can be utilized with open source software system. The first such use may well be industrial systems where OS and spec are not the major concern.
In a program that has like 20 bits of data, eg. the complexity of a hello world. you shouldn't be worrying about things like performance, safety, etc. Just allow yourself to write stupid ugly code and be done with it.
I completely agree, my gut told me to do what the author says here and I'm so glad I did. I didn't love the job, I got my ass kicked, but I learned and grew so much. The value you get from real mentorship early on in your career is so important for long term growth
X must be fun is baked into most areas of life. It's the closest thing we have to a shared existential story in the west. Live to have fun. It's the default position to a lot of questions. Some education can be mentally taxing but deeply engaging or fun in a way that's difficult to describe.

I agree with you, enjoyment shouldn't be evidence of an education result.
> but it's not like the skill set of manufacturing one really translates to manufacturing the other.

They're not?

While batteries store energy in a chemical reaction and capacitors store it in an electric field; physically their construction is very similar.

Super capacitors, like batteries, have plates and use an electrolyte. They are also packaged similarly.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=industrial+capacitor&t=fpas&iax=im...

I would imagine there is quite a bit of overlap in manufacturing and chemistry.
So, you consider it your choice to decide if people should be described using Male or female pronouns, and believe it would be fascist for someone to say "actually, I'm Male. Please refer to me as he, not she?".

It just feels impolite to me to not refer to people by their gender. Is it that upsetting to give people their name and gender? What right of yours does this infringe?
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On the positive side, I did manage to convince my technical writing professor to allow they/them in my paper after showing recent style guide changes allowing it in formal writing. This was in 2016, though.
There is no button. You can sometimes make it abort by slamming the intensity dial all the way to the left. But yes, in general you have to unplug it, which is horribly inconvenient.
What wasn't clear was that is there a known browser sandboxing vulnerability at this point that can be used to get root or the idea is that if someone has one they could use this one to get root. Can I use Chrome in my Android phone now or cannot?
well, i know i can just download the app to see what it looks like but i can't right now so would be nice to see some screenshots of the app on the website.
As a trans person, it feels impolite (well, insulting) to refer to people as the _wrong_ gender. I don't see it as impolite to avoid gendered language in the case of not knowing one's gender, and only impolite in the case of knowing one's gender if great lengths are taken to avoid gendering.
This reminds me of Scott's post over at Slate Star Codex about Moloch [0]. The issue here isn't so much about _realizing_ the futility in pegging one's happiness to one's profitability. The issue is that for any one person to forgo this standard (s)he would be required to give up the status conferred on being a profit-generating American. This is against his/her interest. Thus, most Americans would rather work harder and be more productive/profitable and maintain their status, than attempt to achieve a more authentic happiness, and risk being perceived as a failure by others. To actually alter this standard would require changing the cultural norms around status and profitability either from the top-down, or from outside entirely.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The reason Tesla bought Maxwell isn't ultracapacitors, but their solventless dry electrode tech for making better and cheaper li-ion batteries. Higher energy density, no cobalt needed, cheaper/faster battery production.

Recommend reading up on it, it's fascinating and quite widely covered online.

It's a win on many fronts for Tesla if they can make it work.
Read Levine's explanation linked earlier in the thread.
Then about 99% of the transactions on their platform are in violation of their own ToS. If someone pays for a joint meal, then you venmo your half, you're paying for a good or service.

I'm guessing they have that in there to try and get around some KYC or due diligence requirements? Or is this another Paypal-style tactic so they can shutdown people's accounts for ToS violations and confiscate their monies? Yes, that's probably it.
That random person probably had the permission level to edit posts.

That’s how SO works.
100% this

Even empathy usually results in admitting a liability inducing stance

You have to just do and let everyone else wonder why

There’s no upside into explaining anything

If it ever reaches discovery and testimony in a court of law, then maybe you’ll get detailed perspectives closer to the truth.

Somewhere along the way users and consumers started imagining this stuff is actually collaborative. Its not.
So where was the Project Zero blog post on the matter?

Because if this wasn't announced on their blog I'm going to have to say that this particular case would not be an apples to apples comparison.

Here was the Project Zero blog post on Apple's exploit, for comparison.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
> How do fascists not realize they are being such?

What an outrageous level of hyperbole. It is not fascism to ask others to not intentionally misgender people.
At that point why bother with a physical board? There are tons of free chess apps that will happily run on a tablet or PC with out all this faffing about.
> Nobody would willingly run outdated, vulnerable software if there was an easy, direct, and supported way to root your phone.

People do that all the time with desktop computers.
> If you're struggling, you're learning.

I think this is close, but reversed. Learning requires a struggle (eg effort), but you can struggle without learning (eg you aren't getting good feedback).
Haha nice one.
There more than one instance of this, including the 2008 financial crisis, but the first one is this:

As the yen appreciated by 60% following the 1985 Plaza Accord, Japanese companies lost competitiveness in final electronics goods

In other words, if your currency appreciates, you’re doomed.
Trump lies. Just like all politicians. Trump is simply better at it than his opponents.
To me, the biggest part of this story is:

1. Over two years ago, this was apparently detected automatically by the syzkaller kernel fuzzer, and automatically reported on its public mailing list. [1]

2. Over a year and a half ago, it was apparently fixed in the upstream kernel. [2]

3. It was apparently never merged back to various "stable" kernels, leading to the recent CVE. [3]

So you might read that and think "Ok, probably a rare mistake"...

...but instead:

4. This is apparently a _super_ common sequence of events, with kernel vulnerabilities getting lost in the shuffle, or otherwise not backported to "stable" kernels for a variety of reasons like the patch no cleanly longer applies.

Dmitry Vyukov (original author of syzkaller fuzzer that found this 2 years ago) gave a very interesting talk on how frequently this happens a couple weeks ago at the Linux Maintainer's Summit, along with some discussion of how to change kernel dev processes to try to dramatically improve things:

slides: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/554/atta...

video: https://youtu.be/a2Nv-KJyqPk?t=5239

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[1] https://twitter.com/dvyukov/status/1180195777680986113

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

[3] https://mobile.twitter.com/grsecurity/status/118005953923380...
No one actually doing any of the things you imagined (if they exist) is dumb enough to talk about it on a third party site.
This really seems like a "respect mah authoritah!" situation followed by "oh crap it's blowing up, apply more power! This will not be re-litigated." Looking from the outside as someone who's mostly ignored SE for the last few years, this feels to me like something personal combined with making an opportunity.

I can't help but feel that the current "Director of Community" at the core of this will be moving to a different non-community position before long. It seems like a poor place to have someone who's managed to drive out a significant percentage of the volunteer moderators for the whole network.

And my preferred pronoun this week is blergl.
She wanted to write in a gender-neutral style. No one should be forced to use gender pronouns. It is true that you should use the right gender pronouns if you use pronouns, but why fire her for asking about using gender-neutral writing styles in a not yet released CoC.

Also: They misgendered her in the "apology".
3 months ago, I wrote a mini-rant in response to this video about how this is the Worst Toaster Ever Made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20177007

I stand by every word I wrote. I'd rather use a propane torch. It'd be quicker and easier and safer.
The cases you describe do not require really hard xml parsing. It's trivial. Composing and sending an xmpp stanza is extremely easy. Parsing is easy too.

Why you might want it? Well, maybe for the same reason any home router has a built in web interface (despite all the overheads of having a kinda webserver on such device) - for user's convenience and interoperability.

And yes, stating that JSON is somehow better than XML for such cases is just... wrong.
I don't understand why you don't have banners, on stories that have had editorial changes, to say what the editorial changes are. For example (not suggestions for text) "story reposted with different timestamps", "title changed from 'X is the best thing eva'", "link changed from 'www.superspammy.co.net'", or whatever.

Is transparency of editorial actions bad somehow?
Sounds fun! Thanks for the share
Of course! Stay tuned for more updates :)
How did you manage to keep your grades excellent without doing your homework?!
According to the article he died from a lethal combination of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. Did you read something in the article that lead you to believe that he would be alive if he was testing?
At the moment the problem of superseding ordinary computers still looks like one of technical/engineering nature.
If achieving this is not possible even in principle it could lead to some new developments.

There are some people considering/working on superdeterminism as a possible interpretation of quantum mechanics (the idea that everything, every outcome of an measurement is predetermined by the universe in such a way for us not to gain the complete information about the quantum system. I would not like to discourage anyone, but in fact this would be a conspiracy theory on a cosmic scale. In some discussion on physics stackexchange it was pointed out by Peter Shor that if it were true we wouldn't be able to achieve quantum supremacy.
This is obviously not a spec, but it's as close as it gets to the API that I would like. And it's got Daniel Bleichenbacher listed as author so it's got my vote. I couldn't find any on disk spec though at all though which is a little odd: https://github.com/google/tink

Very cool project.
My algebra 2 teacher in high school did this. Class started with an assignment. You had to read the book, collaboratively work on the assignments, and then the last portion of the class he lectured, which was mostly answering questions. It worked really well.
Good lectures in the humanities are partly there to tell you why you know what you know and expand on that and reinforce it with a good structure built from knowledge. That doesn't require masochism or a sense of conscious pain to gain a benefit. Using pain as a single measure of learning is missing the mark. But yeah learning will always cost something, even if it's just time.
MongoDB (both the DB and the company) are still very relevant. I am surprised that a (large and economically successful) PostgreSQL-specific company didn't emerge.
I have worked alone almost exclusively, and the few times I have got to work with a more experienced consultant I learned career changing skills. I’m probably at the halfway mark for my career, but seeing how much easier it is to learn when it isn’t me bymyself wiTh whatever book I think will be helpful has definitely made me realize the opportunity cost of being remote and having no senior or more experienced coworkers. Probably having no more experienced coworkers was a big contributor to going remote, I wasn’t going to miss anything at the office except climbing the ladder to managemenT, which actually would have been sweet cause who wants to be slanging code and minding machines at 50, the people problems are so much more interesting and applicable to everyday life
It's a magazine for donors.
If the anti- antivaccine community was less about the fun of bullying and more about lives this is something they could address.

Legislative solutions include making it easier to administrate the vaccine (Doctors try and keep the monopoly on this, requiring appointments and $)

It's also a classic issue of the vaccine for healthy individuals can be seen as more a community benefit so subsidising the cost and/or requiring it in high risk areas like old age homes.

Not running out of vaccines would also help, as happened in Australia this year - https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/flu-vaccine-shortage-amid-...
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Too much effort for something that is only theoretical. Better to start new and see how it goes.
You have to bring it up when you're interviewing, and get in deep. Tell the technical interviewers what you want to get better at and be honest and be prepared to say no to good offers that aren't going to nurture your skill set. Ask about how they do code reviews, what professional development they offer, how often they pair program, do they do tdd or just make it work as fast as possible to appease the business, how the team has helped each other to grow and whatever else feels important to you
Self driving cars and rental instead of ownership is at least 15 to 20 years out.
whose parents filed taxes

Excludes recent immigrants or orphans then, both of which groups could be particularly acute case-studies of upward mobility.

Big picture though, walkability and public transport definitely imply at least the potential for interaction and empathy, and cars the opposite.

The Highway and Automobile culture are symbols of totalitarian cultures which deny people more sustainable and equitable alternatives for mobility and transport. - Vandana Shiva, February 19, 2004.
Uh, what?

In finance and economics, the greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.

By definition... the problem disappears if actors are rational. This is not a contentious matter of argument. It's in the definition.
But they are irrelevant in a successful startup and no one really wins in an unsuccessful startup. At most preferred shares get invested funds back unless the startup took some really bad deal with multiple liquidation preferences. What I would say is that in an unsuccessful startup engineers are likely to make out better in an acquihire than the investors do.
Mobile phones, especially Android ones are very vulnerable as they rarely get updates, or if they get updates at all. And these devices are used for second factor security. And sometimes they are the only thing needed to get access to your entire life.
Not doomed, but your market narrows down. You better produce and sell something really special.

Switzerland is an example of it: its currency, and thus work of its people, is expensive. Their exports are things like high-end mechanical watches, and other low-volume high-precision machines.
Id venture robinhood is getting a little too much credit here.

The order this happened in was Interactive Brokers, Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Etrade. They were obviously all prepared to do it in the event one of them went for it. Interactive Brokers did this more to give themselves a competitive edge over Schwab, TDA, and ETrade. That lasted about a day.
We had both kids in hospital from it, and at different times got it ourselves too. We also had about half of our family and friends down with it at some point in the season, and large numbers of workmates off sick (enough to cause staffing issues).

It was absolutely among the worst flus I can personally remember having, and staff at the hospital were openly saying it was the worst season they can remember having in a long time.
Faxes have one crucial advantage over email. The police need a wiretap authorization to intercept them. Of course if your fax machine is connected to the internet (as most are today), they can get around that by hacking.
The paper covers this:

“The instructors did not see the TOLs [post-class test of learning], which were prepared independently by another author. 9) The author of the TOLs did not have access to the course materials or lecture slides and wrote the tests based only on a list of detailed learning objectives for each topic.”
Or the opposite. Fast fashion increased customer frequency (both by lower cost and lower quality). The retailers used the increased visits to upsell higher margin products. (Notice how H&M, F21, Old Navy have huge accessory sections).

Less maintenance and higher reliability means the fear of maintenance is not as strong of a motivator for a new car, resulting in lower customer frequency.
Probably.

“In early February, the New York City medical examiner’s office found Mr. Kroll’s cause of death was an accidental overdose by fentanyl-laced heroin”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-h...
Did any of you get flu shots?
I've mentored people and gotten decent feedback on that. If that's what you're missing, move around. See if there's someone internally to get what you need, else jump ship for a new employer. Also, mentoring is mutually beneficial. As a mentor I get someone I can trust to do things in a particular way. Value for the mentee was already implied.