skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US dollar has lost 96% of its value since the end of the gold standard in 1973

It is more like 80-85%, not 96%. $1 in 1972 is $6-$6.5 in 2019. A 96% loss of value would mean $1 in 1972 is more like $25 in 2019, which is not the case.

Also to phrase it in context you should probably say "the US dollar has had an average annual inflation rate of 4% per year over the last 5 decades". Also for additional context you should point out that bonds slightly exceeded, and that $1 of stock in 1972 in the US market became ~$104 in 2019.

Context matters a lot here.
> It is not kosher for employees of a company to use their corporate position to push what are private political goals.

What's the difference between employees of a company pushing for political change versus company executives using their position and influence to affect politics?

ie,
https://time.com/5713537/amazon-seattle-city-council/

The answer is there is none. A company is founded by people, and people run the company, either as workers, shareholders, or both. In the end, this is a good sign for us regular people. We want change, and the only way to get it is to get political. Either that, or riots.
> I'm not sure whether it's a case of more people arguably abusing the spirit if not the letter of the policy as part of a modern take everything you can mindset.

That's probably a part of it, a long running joke in the skier community was that "REI is an acronym for Return Every Item."

That plus blatantly notably lower quality Chinese production probably put an end to it.
You mean zoning codes and not building codes? Zoning codes have indeed primarily caused the lack of small buildings. Also a lack of understanding of property values and induced traffic. If I have a 40ft wide lot in a city and I want to build on it (I may not even be able to because of 'minimum width' requirements on lots), but if I do, I might only be able to build a tiny house on it in the very middle of the lot because of 10ft setbacks on either side. What do people do in this case? The lot gets purchased along with the one next to it by some rich people and then they build a massive house on it. The total value of the house may actually be less as a single house than two houses, but the zoning codes have forced it to a less valuable land use that is more spread out.
How about telling their smart speaker to complete a task that might be connected to more sensitive things, like unlocking a door, opening a garage door?
>most of us are afraid of the outrage and call-out culture negatively impacting our careers

What about the people afraid for their personal safety and civil rights? I bet they'd love to ignore "politics".
This only works because the core is denser than the surface.

(hint: imagine the limit case where the earth were a hollow sphere)
There is no requirement that blockchains must be secured by proof of work. Many blockchains use proof of stake. A blockchain is one or more Merkle Trees plus an external ledger saying what the last state of each tree is. The innovative piece is Consensus about this last thing. How it is achieved can vary. Ultimately consensus is achieved by the end users checking the results.
And when cancel culture starts threatening to burn down a building that hosts a free speech conference? (One that includes a black speaker that has deraticalized dozens of racist extremists.) Where does that fall?

edit:

Also, where is the line between journalism, opinion and platform. Laws protecting platforms are not meant to shield editorial opinion. There is already a concept of private space in public service, why are social media sites not considered similar here?

I'm okay with people expressing their opinions.. I'm quite fine with it and happy to see more of it. But there's a difference between that, and masked thugs showing up armed.
That explains how it can be ...does the conversion... 75 megaseconds younger, but the whole of the earth modulo ejected material like spacecraft should be the same number of _years_ old.
Bankruptcy is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. You can get an FHA mortgage 1-2 years (depending on circumstances) after the discharge date. You can get a non-QM (not Fannie/Freddie/FHA backed) loan the next day at a higher interest rate (~200-300 basis points above prime), which you're only going to carry for two years until you can FHA refi. You'll get a secured credit card. You'll pay more for an auto loan. But you'll get credit nevertheless because you can't go BK again for another 7 years. You will pay more for that credit, but you will still get it. Walking away from certain levels of dischargeable debt is entirely reasonable. That is why we have bankruptcy as a financial tool.

Some states are better about protections against creditors than others. Don't live in a state with poor creditor protections (Florida is fantastic, Missouri is terrible).
To add, I’ve actually opened up my 2011 MacBook Pro and physically removed the wire connecting the microphone and video camera from the device.

I use TOR, for everything. Even basic browsing. I’ll take the performance hit any day.

I also disable JS on 90% of sites I visit.

I’ve stayed at an iPhone 6S that I could jailbreak to observe outgoing and incoming network information and block IPs where necessary, and redirect to TOR in the background.

I don’t keep Android devices and let all of my friends know about all the serious security risks involved, and beg them to at least get a refurbished iPhone instead.

I have friends in the psychedelic scene who literally text each other openly about LSD like total idiots when Signal is free.

I have friends who have ended up in prison, not even jail, from this kind of shit.

I talk about psychedelics, I talk about occultism, I talk about revolutionary political ideas, and I talk about private details like my sex life, comfortably, at home, as do many, many of my friends.

Having one of these devices in their home alone could be a ticket to jail or prison for them.

You’re telling me there are advantages for this shit? Because you can turn your lights on without having to grab your phone, or, God forbid, stand up and go flick a light switch, it’s worth it to have corporations listening in to all your shit?

You’ve obviously never had to watch a best friend dragged off by police due to getting nabbed by information grabbed through technology. Good for you! Have a cookie.

Some people are involved in progressing society beyond its pathetic, self destructive status-quo, to move the world forward, and we need privacy to do that.

If you wanna live your little work, wife, and kids life, where you’d never be concerned about a single thing you say while your Echo is around, go for it.

Myself? I actually intend to change the world while I’m on it. So no, I’m not alright with anyone listening in to what I’m doing.
The power output would need to be much higher and I'm not sure it'd work as well through glass, I'm thinking something more like multiple lasers?
Do you think there would be demand for `serveo` but instead of running your project locally, you point to a Dockerfile and the entire container + all of its dependencies are ran remotely (with wildcard subdomain SSL included)?

I was going to test the waters with https://www.dollardeploys.com/ (not functional yet), wasn't sure how to differentiate it between ngrok/serveo.
(When I commented above the author had not yet been added to parent comment. It was just an Amazon link. I suspect that's why it was getting downvotes.)
They also point out they can use this to bypass security and open "smart-locks".. this is slightly more concerning than just buying hand sanitizer.. I wouldn't be caught dead with one of these smart-lock devices, but I have friends who aren't so cautious.
> (3) There's no widespread perception that C++14 or later bring compelling language improvements.

Constexpr if (introduced in C++17). If you're building a library that uses templated types (and therefore static dispatch instead of virtual functions and dynamic dispatch), then using constexpr if dramatically simplifies the implementation of your code.
Title is editorialized, and in a way that adds incorrect information (the supposed $14 price tag). Mods, the title for this should be "Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection
Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems".
The Brokeness of a 9 to 5
> I think they realized it was too demanding and too advanced so they decided to milk the concept ideas for later versions.

there were major resource leaks in the file system and the shell that they just weren't able to fix. meanwhile the company kept piling in new features without having a roadmap for actually shipping the project.
Did you do any analysis on how highly income levels correlate with percent of remote workers? Or was it more of an observation based on the top few and bottom few cities?
I use mine as a glorified internet radio. My grandparents use it as a glorified Clapper(tm) to switch room lights on and off.

If you can find a standalone internet radio that's as convenient as an Amazon Echo, please let me know. It's an underserved market.
Interesting that you choose to invalidate the proponent by means of a false allegation. Do you get called a liar a lot?
Modulating a laser at audio frequencies is pretty trivial.

You can probably inject the signal straight from the headphone output of a smartphone into the right pad in the laser pointer with a decoupling resistor and inline capacitor.

...if you don't care about audio quality and longevity of the laser.

http://www.yak.net/fqa/229.html
I feel it’s misplacing the blame to accuse Apple of creating the housing problems by increasing demand through employing people. Unless you are fundamentally against companies employing people.

It’s not like the politicians have been completely blindsided by the fact that companies hire people and that people want to live near where they work.
Why Diversity Matters More in Programming
What's the end state for TypeScript? Does it one day become feature complete and slow down? One of the frustrating things about trying to find help with TS today as a beginner is the plethora of SO and blog posts talking about much older versions. If you're lucky there'll be some comment "As of 2.6 you can now do ...", but even 2.6 is a lot of versions back - how do I know that's still the best way to do it in 3.7?

I'm for progress, but it makes me a little wary to start my team of no-previous-TS-experience JS devs on a TypeScript project when there's still a new version every few months. Keeping up with Webpack is enough of a hassle...
Bitcoin has some pretty significant drawbacks. The main one being that it is severely limited in the number of on chain transactions that it can do.

And that the proposed "solutions", such as the Lightning Network, to this are nowhere near completed (and have indeed suffered from doomsday "someone can steal all my money" type bugs as of recently)
Has this been updated recently?
I think in general I mean that people are seen as cogs in a machine, rather than individuals to be trained, and there's no safety net from the government, either in terms of real retraining or advanced education or life benefits or anything.

HR gets a million applications, people are evaluated on what boxes can be checked off rather than their skillset, etc.

With regard to the educational system, the problem is that degrees are seen as signals or credentials (to use the language of the article) rather than as a background. That's admittedly a fuzzy distinction, but it really reduces the degree to the degree per se rather than the host of courses and experiences the person during college. So, we talk about "useless degrees" without recognizing that someone might have had equivalent coursework and experience without majoring in something else per se. In the end it doesn't matter.
Here is a more accessible explanation for those (like me) who are unfamiliar with the maths: https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-core-is-2-5-years-young...
Great case to make that you are so incompetent as a broker-dealer that someone was able to extend themselves 250x leverage on the margin you extended. That's how you lose your broker-dealer license, which means your business dies if you're Robinhood (unless they're only going to offer a cash management account, which I guess might be a thing? even Credit Karma and Personal Capital are offering one now). As a broker, risk management is your job.
The authors seem to a little confused by the purpose of voice identification in these systems. They repeatedly call it "Voice Authentication", which is it not.
A powerful and provocative article. I love the quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."

I am a bit of a libertarian when it comes to civil liberties -- I flinch at any circumscription of speech, even when it is noxious. Still, for a very long time I was troubled by my readings of the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany. Weimar was a liberal democracy, albeit a very weak one, and efforts to repress the Nazis on the basis of their ideas were rejected as a infringement of their civil liberties. There is a part of me that is afraid of a patently false but persuasive idea gaining currency in a liberal democracy, when it ought to have been quelled in the cradle somehow. But maybe the lesson to be taken from the rise of Nazism is that it was not merely the ideas promulgated by the Nazis that propelled Hitler to power, but the cunning and brutal employment of paramilitary force -- that it was not just tracts, but truncheons that made Nazi Germany a real force.
it's their own damn fault. Turns out "Move fast and break things" doesn't necessarily apply to all industries.
That right of free petition is... interesting. Is it just not well known? It seems like there's enough crazy and/or bored people out there that they could totally clog up the legislature.
What about the center of a black hole? Is it younger than the surface?
An observation mostly! We definitely plan to add more graphs and charts comparing those two factors directly in the future!!

Stay tuned :)
> it would be very bad PR for people to start thinking that they can lose a lot more than they put into their accounts

I don't know if it would be bad PR... The guy very deliberately leveraged himself because he thought he'd gain social approval from his peers at r/wallstreetbets

It's a great public service announcement for: just put your money into index funds and stop trying to gamble on stock earnings.
I believe Robinhood is violating Finra rules around margin trading though. Do they really want to go to court and claim incompetence on their own part?

Trust is everything in fintech. Now that this story has moved from one obscure subreddit to Bloomberg I don't know how they start to reclaim it if they cannot calculate numbers correctly as a brokerage.

The consensus on /r/wallstreetbets is that Robinhood is a joke, which is pretty much the last thing you want to be thought of as a financial services provider.
Someone on reddit posted this, which makes it seem like Robinhood support is actually ok with the strategy: https://m.imgur.com/a/g4tpH9y

Of course I can’t verify the authenticity, but it doesn’t look good for them. In particular it seems almost financially smart to make incredibly risky plays on huge amounts of margin if you actually have very little in terms of assets, because the downside is you declare bankruptcy (doesn’t matter, you had no money) and the upside is hundreds of thousands of dollars
For big (legacy) code-bases, just upgrading the compiler is a project by itself.

All 3rd party C++ libs need to be upgraded, all internal projects need to upgrade in an orderly fashion.

On top of that, just the change of the compiler will expose some pre-existing bugs.The bugs might have been there, but are not a problem for the business if they currently don't show.

I've seen projects with a core team of half a dozen people, supported by the other SW engineers working for 6 months just to upgrade to a newer version of windows and the compiler. This was mostly due to unwise SW-design decisions accumulated over 15+ years.
C++11 vs C++14/C++17/C++20 is not python2 vs python3. Because of the emphasis on backwards compatibility, you can often just recompile your C++11 project with the new version of the standard and everything should just work. Backwards compatability also means that the newer versions are only as "complex" as the features you choose to use.
I guess quoting the law has pissed someones off enough that they felt the need to go downvote every comment I've made in the past two days...
I don't use a smart assistant, but I think some people use them with smart locks ("unlock the back door").
If passed, no doubt people will have to switch to beyotch and biyatch and other such variants, just as every time a molecule is banned illicit new molecules appear as if out of nowhere, often with more side effects than the original. As with the internet, insults route around damage.
I have owned several smart locks and every single one has required a secret passcode to actually unlock via a smart assistant. Working backwards, the real threat if they didn't do that is just someone shouting through the window.
> A system where people don't arm-twist and harm each other but use civilized discussion and peaceful discourse to patiently bring about desired change is what I support.

But yet some regressive herd action always ends up carrying the current day, only to be lamented twenty years later, when a different but philosophically-similar goal will carry.

You wouldn't say that an individual choosing to not work at a specific company was "impractical" or "toxic", nor would you say that a small business avoiding a certain type of client was either. The real measure is when it becomes coercive.

Your comment is getting traction because red-flavor-thinking has been put in the position of pushing back against powerful corporations censoring individual speech. One of the justifications from the power-cheerleaders is "voluntary association", completely ignoring the power imbalance. And so the overall concept of voluntary association takes collateral damage despite being valid when applied honestly.
There's a bunch of website work that came out with this release too: mainly search and a lot of playground improvements.

https://www.typescriptlang.org
On thing I appreciate is mdspan -- multidimensional projections onto a regular linear vector. I've always had to spin these myself which means they don't fully participate as ordinary containers (who's going to go tho all that work for their own application code).

I'm hoping I can map them into GPU space -- looks like the standard has adequate control for this.
Re (5), I rather feel that the quality of the documentation and communication around modern C++ puts everything else to shame. If you knew java or python in 2009, how are you supposed to quickly catch up with 2019? (Rust also seems to have piled on a lot of additions since 1.0, but I don't use it so I shouldn't speak.) There are books and blogs for everything popular, but it's really a little shocking to me that no other big language has anything that can compare to cppreference.com.

This doesn't change what people other than me might be thinking, of course.
IMHO selling insurance as a form of extended warranty on a physical product is not the same thing. I see what you're saying but I just don't see the average consumer confusing the two brands just because T-Mobile happens to sell insurance for their phones. They also sell cell phones but I don't think of them as a cell phone company, they're simply a carrier.
It's not really about the leverage on its own. As Levine points out in his take on it [1], it's about finding ways to "hack the system". And, in no small part, entertain the merry band of fools at r/walllstreetbets

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-05/playin...
They calculated the 1.5 years assuming a homogenous Earth (equal density throughout), so this is not true. The 2.5 years is calculated using a more realistic density distribution for the Earth.
This is how I feel. A major point that is missed is that Walmart has brought many more products to a small market that otherwise would not have been there.

You can cry that Walmart killed the town square, but when pushes comes to shoves consumers value lower prices and greater variety.
Lobbying will always exist.
Are you advocating ruthless anarcho-capialism?
> If I have to use Chrome, I basically use a scrappy console that I made on the HTML page itself.

Back in the day when I was working on the Sage Notebook, there weren't good javascript consoles. I can't recall if Firefox had one at the time (around 2007, I think), but it was certainly missing from Safari, IE, and Opera. But, it was an interactive notebook -- so I hijacked the "input cell" we were using to concoct what was essentially a console.
Those are purely imaginary exponentials. General complex exponentials also have a real part.
They aren't OK with it - it's a legitimate bug because it violates FINRA rules around margin trading that they have to comply with.
I still remember when Sony patented (trademarked?) a number.
"The problem isn't that an API doesn't exist to automatically debit 10% from the people you own, the problem is an education doesn't get you a job anymore, much less a high paying job."

In classical education if you don't get a high paying job it's your problem not the university's because they've already been paid. The whole idea behind this change is to shift some of that risk of un/underemployment to the university. So if the university isn't able to get you the high paying job they promised that's their problem too(b/c they don't get paid).
I think at that point you're really into Heroku's territory rather than ngrok/serveo. Their free dynos might be hard to compete with, you can push a git commit or docker image or automatically deploy upon repo changes:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/deploying-with-docke...
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In the case of India, it is clear that its government used it to spy & also implant false evidence on dalit activists[0] i.e. low caste people who are still made to human waste on their heads in certain parts of the country.

If any NSO/NSA employee is reading, is this the kind of oppression you want your talents to aid? Pimping your mom, sister or wife to your country's leaders could be a better job.

[0]: https://scroll.in/latest/942218/nagpur-lawyer-notified-by-wh...
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> For those who want to offend, it's easy to substitute a different word.

Words by themselves aren't even the offensive part most of the time, it's the signal of intention that someone wants to offend you, that actually upsets us.

Friends call each other "bad" words all the time. Even online you can say all sorts of things in certain contexts without offending anyone. Meanwhile someone can convey their intent to upset you by just typing a "lol"

But apparently it's easier to just ban words than teaching people to not be dicks.
From the article:

>The problem arises when Robinhood incorrectly adds the value of those calls to the user’s own capital.

This is not precise. Premiums received from short options positions _do_ get added to your "capital" and show up as cash in your account. You will accrue interest, etc. on this cash like any other cash in your account. The premiums should _not_ increase your margin/buying power which is where RH made a mistake.