skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying for order flow doesn't fleece customers. Those customers are guaranteed to trade at the best price by NBBO.

So why would people pay for order flow? The people who do this are liquidity providers. What they want to do is sit there and buy a stock for $10 and sell it for $10.01 all day long. If they are buying and selling to you or me that is a great deal.

But what happens when BIG HEDGE FUND buys a shit ton of stock for $10. BIG HEDGE FUND probable knows the price is wrong at which the liquidity provider will sell a bunch of stock for 10.01 but then instead of being able to buy it for $10, all of a sudden has to buy it for higher. This is how liquidity providers can lose some of their profits.

So they pay brockerages like Robinhood that don't have big hedge funds as customers, not to fleece those customers but just to sell liquidity to them without worrying about getting picked off.
How would "speed camera apps" encourage illegal behavior? The state patrol in my state is happy for people to know where cops are places on the road, where speed cameras are used ... this knowledge makes people slow down and makes the road safer.
Obligatory "Cows with guns" comment
If Apple created a way to launch proper AR experiences basically from a link without having to download a full app - a bit like a snapchat lens, I think they’d clean up in AR.

WebAR is OK but too limited. Just give me some javascript control of not just the objects but how people interact with them and I’ll make you something awesome.

I think there’s a huge missed opportunity here for Apple, for developers, for users.
The big difference is that iOS/Android are sandboxed, whereas Windows gave every app access to anything. Even if you do manage to install malware on your device, the potential for damage is much more limited.
No, it has not been proven. All of the evidence (like his impossible winning statistics) lean toward cheating, but there's no smoking gun at this time.
But strong machine > all?

IE. Chess / Go / Dota 2
If true, there would be genetic evidence of this. I've never heard of such a thing. It sounds ridiculous.

Do you have a source?
(I work for Azure, so I don't really have a dog in this fight.)

Google's cloud seems pretty capable, they're just going through teething. They got to live migration extremely fast, and they seem to have nailed BigQuery and Spanner (albeit not the pricing model.) They will get more reliable.

Internally though, Google was (and maybe still is) a decade ahead. With Borg they deployed their entire infrastructure as containers, running at insanely high utilization via Heracles, and built homogeneous and highly-scalable networking. They invented synchronous georeplication with Spanner. From all accounts, it's a paradise.

It just turned out they were too greedy with keeping their innovations to themselves, too egotistical to believe the rest of the world would catch up, and it was too difficult to productize their infra.

For instance, their containers can only rely on API filters for security, so they couldn't bring Borg to the masses, other than cutting it down dramatically to make Kubernetes and requiring it to run on VMs. It looks like Spanner is also priced by the core, which implies it also can't be safely/compliantly commingled with their internal instances.

Still, for a company playing catch-up and needing to completely change their mindset (remember that initially they didn't even offer VMs), they're doing darn well. Especially now that they've pivoted to GKE/big data/ML and targeting multi-cloud or niche clients rather than enterprises.

Google deserves fame for its infra, it just didn't have good business sense when it came to cloud.
> This is true in theory but it this a risk in practice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

TLDR: yes. Especially for companies and political dissidents (because countries, including the US, have used their secret and not-so-secret services to go after these. China vs Dalai Lama seems to be a rather well-known example, as is the theft of Airbus secrets by the NSA (not that the EU didn't do the same to Boeing). And if you can't trust the NSA with those keys, who exactly do you suggest we trust ?)

> You sue for damages under section 1983.

Ok, well let's keep in mind that this police officer was not convicted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown

So unless you've got better cause for complaint than 12 bullets in your back and more than one witness, why even bother trying ?

I don't get where people get the idea that cops are somehow above ridiculous abuse of the system. When it comes to direct abuse of surveillance:

https://jezebel.com/cop-previously-charged-with-stalking-sho...

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/prosecutors-cop-us...

Note the duration of time these police officers were allowed to proceed, even after complaints were filed. Years.

The problem with any system that consists of people, is that people can be total immoral and criminal. Including, of course, Law enforcement, even judges. That means that we should make such systems safe even if groups of people within them conspire to commit crimes. Failure to do so can result in incredible damage to people. For a very recent example:

https://www.thelocal.it/20190628/italian-police-uncover-gang...

TLDR: the major, police, social workers, youth services and psychiatrists conspired to kidnap children and sell them to brothels, sex shop owners, and whoever else paid them ... out of hundreds of children stolen in this way, 2 have been returned after these people got caught.

Of course it was subsequently revealed that there are multiple dozen municipalities where such conspiracies existed. The state immediately intervened to stop all investigations except the one that had already made the paper "la Republica".

There is not a single European country where members of youth services haven't been caught doing the same, from Romania, to Sweden, to France, to the Netherlands.
One way or another, prior development had to provide adequate parking. Conversely, cars cause a lot of problems - pollution, gridlock, greenhouse gas emissions. And I can understand a developer who is committed to changing the world we live in by not allowing parking on their new development. That's awesome!

So, the suggestion is not confrontational. It's going with the dream that the developer is suggesting. We'll never get there if the people who believe in the dream don't commit to it. People have to get around somehow. And if they aren't allowed motor vehicles, then they will push their politicians to invest in public transit.

I think what you're intuitively feeling is that developers don't actually have that vision. Instead, they want to freeload on parking that was provided by others and make life worse for everyone. A few weeks ago, there was an article in HN that suggested Los Angeles could solve their homeless problem by converting every parking spot into housing, which might be true. The idea seemed to be taken seriously with lots of comments supporting it. Yet, that would truly be confrontational and unbelievably disruptive. And kinda dumb since anyone with a map can see that Los Angeles is bordered by hundreds of square miles of open land to the north and west. Plus there's Griffith park, the stadiums, unused warehouses and on and on. So, one has to wonder - was the story truly written by someone who cares about the homeless? Or, was it a developer wanting to increase their profit margin?

If the vision is to get to something like this wonderful "nooks and Crannies" story, then the challenge is getting from the current situation to that vision. I'd love to see that vision come true. Unfortunately, I can't see is a humane way of changing many (most?) existing neighborhoods.

But, what could work would be to change zoning in large undeveloped areas to allow for much higher density housing, walkability, and to link them together via public transit.
A great lesson to learn as early as possible. Your boss may be good in a very niche space but a horrible, demented human being and functional alcoholic. Get away from him/her as quickly as possible. You will lose years of productive growth trying to "solve" them for the good of the business and relationship.
No one is arguing for disrespect of anyone so there's not much else to say about your argument, other than you might try showing more respect to those you disagree with in future.
Mountains in the rain shadow of other mountains? Or under an ice cap?
One of the drivers for the regulation is simply that the government is concerned about getting their piece of the pie. The regulatory fight will be interesting to watch, but I'm more interested in how Libra is going to affect the field of cryptocurrencies as a whole.
>The interesting questions surrounding UBI are macroeconomic in nature. How does it change the economy? We know that consumers need money in order for the economy to function. The question is whether basic income is an efficient way to provide it to them.

I was curious about this so I did some digging. Alaska effectively has a UBI, or at least a program that is quite close to it. When the program came what's interesting is how it reduced poverty. However, two decades later, inflation has caught up and now Alaska's poverty rate is 15th lowest in the nation at 11.1%. In comparison, right before their oil UBI took place their poverty rate was 10%. The program is still helping reduce poverty when compared to other states, two decades later, but not as much as I'd like to see.

I suspect if it was a country wide UBI, instead of an entire state, inflation would catch up at a quicker rate than we're seeing in Alaska, but it would still be at least a decade before it would balance. Likewise, I suspect that inflation will never come completely to the level of no UBI, but I don't have data to back that suspicion up.

>Is it even possible to give everyone free money?

If we absorbed the social security tax, merging everything into one large UBI program. Lets say we want to balance near min wage workers so they get as much as they give, but support people who are in poverty as one hypothetical UBI. In the US the poverty rate is 17.3%, so given people who work near min wage pay about as much taxes as they get from the UBI (which would help reduce inflation, and because we pay 6.2% of our income in social security up to 128k: 0.062*1.173 is 7.27%.

We'd pay almost exactly a 1% tax bump to pay for a UBI, plus the money the UBI gives (eg, if we got $400 a month we'd have $400 more in taxes + the 1%), to gives out the same amount as social security does. However, realistically the UBI would have to give a bit more than social security currently does, or the elderly might not like it, for psychological reasons, and a 1% tax raise on near minimum wage works isn't a good idea, so lets do some more math.

Lets say 50% of the country is paycheck to paycheck (some studies say it is as high as 78%, so ymmv on this stat). If it's a 1% tax bump across the working country, and 50% we don't want to be taxed higher than they already are, then it's a 2% middle class and upper class tax raise. Then given an increase for the reasons above, if it's a 1.5% tax this becomes a 3% tax bump for half of the country to pay for it. Then, of course, there is making tax brackets out of that as well.

So long story short, is it possible? Yes, yes it is.

Is it a good idea? I'll leave that up to you.
> his abilities magically go away on the days that his friend on the technology team is absent

Who is his friend?
Some practical provisos if you are actually taking lithium:

https://pro.psychcentral.com/what-to-remember-about-lithium/

https://www.drugs.com/lithium.html

https://www.livestrong.com/article/553214-correct-liquid-int...
And for example, solving 1-1 Starcraft problems wouldn't be a problem that people have never considered. And can't be put to practical use. So you wouldn't do it? I'm genuinely curious, what makes a difference and motivates to engage into research, rather than playing challenging games.
I assume all this heat will bring on an actual law enforcement investigation? I mean, that has to be some serious fraud if he's actually cheating?
Ask HN: What are your coolest software apps ever?
I need inspiration!

What software inspires you?

I'm talking about exciting, bizarre, inspirational; not necessarily successful. My tastes lean towards dev, or end-user facing tech, especially when it's focused on knowledge or analytics. All of mine have made me say "Wow", or at least "Whoa". Here they are, in no particular order:

1.Smalltalk 80, the combined language and environment
2.APL (plus KDB)
3.the Wolfram Language
4.Palantir (fascinates me in a Darth Vader sort of way. Not that I really know what's there. I've never actually used it since they'll never let me use it, or even read much about it.)
5.D3
6.Quantrix, and especially its predecessors: Javelin, Improv, and even VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3.
7.R, in all it's crazy, crazy glory
8.AutoCAD, especially when it had LiSP as its programming language, and because of how it came about (see:https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html). Also Sketchpad (http://images.designworldonline.com.s3.amazonaws.com/CADhistory/Sketchpad_A_Man-Machine_Graphical_Communication_System_Jan63.pdf)
9. Google Earth
As an anecdotal point, I’ve been using always-on WireGuard (using a setup that’s essentially a fork of Algo) on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook for months, via the native clients for each. I routinely hop between countries, SIM cards, WiFi networks, etc. I hit issues with Apple’s built-in captive portal detection (which has to kick in so it gives me the captive portal outside of the always-on VPN), but the WireGuard tunnel itself has been pretty much solid.
I'm having trouble finding the links as the recent humanzee hype currently dominates everything. ... Wait, here is the main page where this is discussed in detail with references: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html

However, it is critical to understand that with hybrids there may be little if any genetic evidence remaining or it may be simply too scrambled to understand. Hybrids from a genetic point of view are complicated and do not necessarily leave a well defined record in their genetics.
> big pharma pushes hard for newer and more costly meds.

Lithium is not perfect. It causes permanent kidney damage and is a pretty bad teratogen. Also overdose is pretty bad, which is never ideal for a mood medication.

There is actual value in investigating new medications for bipolar beyond big pharma profits.
I just got this from googling, it seems less crack pot-y than I imagined: https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html
Sure Crypto backed by a particular company might not happen, but I don’t see BTC and similar P2P blockchain currencies going anywhere. It’s about as easy to stop as digital piracy, which is to say in other words physically impossible to regulate.
Sorry I've just watched a random show with Mike Apostle on yt and I have to say - by this small sample - bullshit.
Assuming he cheats, I don't see how. He played dominating hands with very classic conservative playstyle, not unnecessarily asking for value. He made risky pre flop all ins. He bluffed loosing hands. All sort of stuff that happens in an average poker game. Not sure why I even watched him playing considering the awful article.
How are markets that aren’t open not free?
Manufactured outrage.

When you see an apparently sudden influx of mostly negative OR mostly positive news about something, suspect that it's paid for.

See cases like https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+paid+students+for+re...
They seem to heavily overlap. I ride a motorcycle and move through traffic quickly. Is it skill? Or that I can judge the flow of traffic, that I do not ride next to any vehicle (or in their blind spot), that I slow down for intersections, especially blind ones or if I do not have a car with me to discourage a left on green.

I just don't see much difference. I consider good judgment to be inherently baked into driving.

Someone exercising poor judgment is not a skilled driver.
The regulations implementing such a law will see to it that the tax kicks in for anyone earning over $100,000, with billionaires just being at the top of the scale. In other words, it won't start at $100 million.
That's how tax regs in the US always go.
Did some fundamental part of the Calculus I curriculum happen to change in the past 2 years? What about that course material makes it go 'Out of date too quickly', and requires a new edition?

The homework problems? Who the hell gives grades for homework problems? The only person you're cheating by copying the solution is yourself, because you aren't going to learn the material well enough to pass a test on it.
Spy novels are a hell of a drug.
What browser are you using? Works fine in Mac Safari.
Uploading all your contacts and photos to malicious attackers is not “much more limited” damage; we keep a lot more important data on our devices now than we used to.
Not disagreeing with you, but the arbitrage generally lasts only for a few ms, which makes the article's comment incorrect:

"Visit a trading floor today and you will hear the hum of servers"

In my experience, the machines doing the actual trades are as close as possible to the exchange, generally inside. What's in the trading floor are the client and ML programs that issue the strategies. That said, I've been away from the industry for a few years and it might have changed.
There's a great book called "Lesser Beasts" that dives in to the cultural history of pigs (mostly in Western societies).
Good point. I was responding to the tone of the OP, but it's not at all kind or constructive.

They should be praised for their contributions, not torn down. That would be a dick move.

Forgive me, I have the flu and I'm grumpy today.
> 1. I wish they were incorporated more into male identity because then maybe the male suicide rate would be lower.

Behaviour, not identity.

> I've made an effort to make it a part of my masculinity and so have my friends.

Behaviour, not masculinity. Masculinity is "qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men". I wish men would seek help when they're depressed but I'd rather that was a human trait than try and make it masculine through some Orwellian misnomer.

> 2. I suggest you abandon your quest to read "toxic masculinity" as some evil conspiracy to vilify masculinity.

I'm not on a quest, I dislike conspiracy theories, you didn't produce an example of non-toxic masculinity, and I do wish you'd learn how to stop daemonising those who disagree with you.
Good thing you can still buy and use other phones that will run any malware you wish. It’s not a question of freedom.
Libra can be a good idea, but probably not from Facebook.

What Facebook lacks among Big Techs the most, is public trust.

In an era where anything from Big Techs are meticulously scrutinized, something that seems to aim to bypass government regulation is probably the last thing people want.
sounds like you've never had to deal with unemployment/being out of the job market
Linking artificial and human neural representations of language
I think you're right on the money (no pun intended). The technology is there. If government doesn't get in the way (which they will), market forces would dictate that a company (Facebook or other) would use this technology (Blockchain) to make these sort of transactions more efficient and cost-effective for everyone willing to adopt them.
If your bank provides an API, sure.
Isn't using the term towards someone always considered harassment? When would it not be harassment?
> But they clearly are multiplying massively.

In which case, as I explained, there is probably a comparatively easy solution involving reinforcing the naturally preexisting factors which usually limit the population growth. In any case, there is no reasonable way in which the situation of wild boars in America and Sweden could be described as “the same”. They are fundamentally wildly different.
Citation?

"McDonald’s hamburger patties in the U.S. are made with 100% USDA-inspected beef. They are cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else; no preservatives, no fillers."

From: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-100-beef/
Can you point out those magic plays with yt links (on the full vis)?
Works in Edge. All one of us is happy.
This is not a smart position to hold. This administration hates big tech (perhaps fairly, lets not debate politics) and Warren isn't much friendlier.
Further to that point, Airbnb and Uber are primarily dealing with issues related to local laws, for example in New York City or San Francisco.

New York City shutting down Airbnb doesn't shut them down in the thousands of other cities they're active in. If Boise Idaho restricts Uber, that doesn't suddenly restrict them in Chicago.

The US Government has an entirely different kind of power and when it comes to protecting the global reserve currency, the one guarantee is that they will use it.
A workplace is not a social peer group, it is a financial transaction wherein services are provided for compensation.

The compensation and terms should be known up front, not after crossing some invisible line. When I pay to go to a buffet, it’s not “all you can eat until we get annoyed and shame you”.

Services in, payment out. It’s a transaction and changing the terms passive-aggressively after the deal is struck is shady at best.
Ask HN: What new technology / software are you waiting for?
The reduction in land could be even higher if the energy for the fermentation is produced by non-biological means. That is, instead of feeding the bacteria plant-derived compounds, feed them CO2, water and electrical energy. Photovoltaics are an order of magnitude more efficient than photosynthesis, can operate in places and times plants cannot grow (deserts, below freezing conditions), and require negligible amounts of water.
IWG is bigger than WeWork in terms of square footage, locations and revenue
I was strictly commenting on the co-working space. If you rent a dedicated office, there's enough sound proofing where indeed noise shouldn't be a problem.
I think the problem is the unpredictability. At home if I'm not alone I'm constantly waiting for "the other shoe to drop," so to speak so I can't get into the zone. With a place like the library there is a predictable time period of guaranteed peace and quiet.
The author provided no evidence and it passed the Debian project auditing process, among several other distribution audits. I specifically mentioned Debian because their standards for privacy and open-source purism are just sightly below Richard Stallman level. Believe me, someone would have complained about it by now.
Please Make Money
This argument makes no sense. People throw away quads because they sense something or get scared. By a small fraction cards aren't the winning factor in poker.
How is this better then running the standard calibre in daemon mode. I sync my library to a vps and do this:

/usr/bin/calibre-server --daemonize --enable-auth --url-prefix=/calibre --port 8000 --enable-local-write --log /home/user/calibre_log /home/user/user_library
Using VC backing to predatorily price your product (like the free rent in this article) is basically dumping, isn't it? I don't know how long we'll tolerate that kind of behaviour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
Feel free to beta test that new "food". Ill stick with real animals thanks.
<vulnerabilities affecting Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from vendors Pulse secure, Palo Alto and Fortinet>
Sure but you could plug that into google as well you know.
Here is the first hit: https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...

Edit: oddly enough, that hit wasn't the one where I read about it last week... But any page with sources works I suppose.