skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Articles like this remind me of this house, which was built in Iowa City, IA by a Physics professor (he was my professor for several classes). At the time this house was being built, ISU had an "active solar" research facility, i.e., using all kinds of mechanical means to turn solar energy into heat for homes. Once this house was built, ISU shut down the "active solar" research because, as this house showed, passive solar was just so, so much cheaper and efficient: https://lhodges.public.iastate.edu/house.htm
What's the perfection then? What's the ultimate ethic company would be like?
Summary: Robinhood's margin system is completely broken and allows for practically infinite leverage. One guy leveraged up to 1'279'550 USD on a 4'000 USD deposit.

Current "leaderboard":

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drt5tr/guh_...

And an outbreak of memes on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/dr4iem/cont...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drxcpw/this...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drsxau/the_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/dr3eki/say_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/dpwa5v/in_l...

People wondering what is Robinhood even doing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drmr6y/how_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drn8gf/this...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/dr6gus/robi...
I was under the impression that Firefox already shipped with an ad blocker by default?
What's the deepest core sample; 10 km? I assume isotope dating is no where near accurate enough to see the difference.
And the subsidized medical system is already subsidizing your bike. Call it an environmental subsidy for your bike if you wish.

(I don't actually know how healthcare works in Germany, not being German, but I assume it's like other first world countries in that it's subsidized by taxpayers).
I think this is how the social media influencer market works.
Modern Web Algorithms in Comic Sans
These are pretty low standards for "real changes."

You should not work at the company you are engaging in activism against. That isn't out of respect for the corporation in question, but rather for one's self. That's why the people who were truly against Google's unethical plans actually left the company. They didn't just sign some form online. They practiced what they preached. "Google shouldn't be helping the CIA murder people, and I shouldn't be working at Google."

How can one be their very best self if they are receiving relatively enormous paychecks working at a company with which they apparently fundamentally disagree on policies surrounding human rights?

How can one perform optimally at their place of employment when they are forced to cognitively take in the dissonance on a daily basis caused by the way their values clash with their employer's goals?

A "real union"? They don't need that, Google employees are making absurdly huge incomes at ridiculous starting salaries which are in no way representative of what multiple of productivity they offer the firm. They have decided their priorities supported working at an amorphous blob behemoth that cooked all their meals for them, walked their dog for them, and babysat their kids for them.

What this less-than-1%-minority in Google's employee needs to do is stop having their cake and eating it, too.
> It's immoral to discriminate on the basis of fear, prejudice, and rumor.

Except for the fact that state-sponsored hacking and IP theft is a real thing. Your comment reads as naive and extremely uninformed. I would invite you to read the Huawei "Tappy" indictment [1] to understand the lengths that certain nations go to steal from US companies. Here we have a company that is literally offering cash bonuses to their employees for stealing IP.

> the systems should be tight enough to make sure absolutely no-one has access to customer data without consent

If you read the indictment, you'll realize that these rogue employees don't care about audit logging or any punishment that follows as a result of getting caught. In many cases, all they have to do is fly back to their country and they'll be rewarded and regarded as heroes for their loyalty to their country.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1124996/downl...
Funnily enough, in old versions of Firefox (before they deprecated the old plugin system), password managers like Lastpass were able to alter the http-auth pop-up so as to add their functionality to it.

At the time I thought that was cool, and was sad when it went away with the new plugin architecture, but looking back it does indicate quite how bad the situation was with that old plugin format.
For this attack nobody needs to break into your home. It can be executed from a distance (100m) and through "clear glass windows."
It's scheduled for a hearing on the 22nd of this month, so any of you in Massachusetts who happen to be represented by him should feel free to use the rights granted to you under the First Amendment to let him (his office) know what his constituents think:

Electronic Mail: Daniel.Hunt@mahouse.gov

Actual Mail:

24 Beacon St.

Room 166

Boston, MA, 02133

Phone: (617) 722-2692

However, do realize that Massachusetts has the right to free petition, which means that legislators are obligated to put forth proposed legislation from their constituents, and that is what this falls under, apparently.

Per The Washington Post:

In Massachusetts, unlike other states, citizens have what’s known as a “right of free petition” allowing them to file proposed bills directly through their legislators. That’s exactly what happened in this case, Hunt said: A woman in his district came to him this year requesting legislation, and he, in turn, filed it on her behalf. He didn’t think he’d get such a harsh reaction, he said.

“It’s funny and ironic that the constitutional provision that allows this constituent a conduit to free speech and proposing her idea has been so viscerally pushed back on by people saying this is stifling free speech,” Hunt told The Washington Post. “It’s important whether you agree or disagree with the legislation being proposed that you honor the duty to represent your constituents and have their voices heard.”
Locking down this network of services is a massive security improvement and they've used some very neat ways of achieving it. Overall, I really appreciate them writing this up.

However, 1500 services? That really feels like they're separating things at too granular a level. Does every one of those things really need to sit behind a network call? Couldn't some of that re-use be via code libraries? I wonder what the service to developer ratio is?
"For life" is such a misleading statement I'm surprised companies get away with using it without running into legal trouble. It most definitely does not mean that your jacket is guaranteed to last as long as you're alive. They are not talking about your life, they are talking about "useful life of a product", which can mean pretty much anything.
Female 2020 candidates attacked online more than men, analysis shows
> Why not create a parallel power structure representing employees?

There already exists a parallel power structure that represents all employees, suppliers, and customers. Its the structure of government.
The point is to increase the marginal cost of fossil fuels to harm their competitiveness against renewable energy. Denying them access to cost-saving technology is one way to do that.
How do you do code generation?
You are right, I totally should have specified that this was a personal anecdote and it's specific to my experience and not a generalization:

I learned SQL within MySQL 5.4-5.6, strict mode was never enabled by default (on any install of mysql i've ever done for 5.4-5.6), so hopefully one can see how that sets someone up who is learning on the fly for long term failure (you are literally free of many constraints that exist in every other db engine).

I didn't learn how to write strict SQL from the ISO guide, I learned based on what mysql would "let me do" in order to produce the desired result. So indeed that is where I went wrong.
Also onscreen on the IBM PC: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Codepage...
The problem is it's too broad a claim. Trademarking a color is limited to (1) a specific competitive space, and (2) when it is a distinctive identifier of your brand (e.g., DeWalt's yellow and black scheme in the power tools business).

T-Mobile is in the telecom business, and Lemonade is in the residential insurance business. T-Mobile should not be trying to take-down a company that is not in their competitive space for using the same color on their website.

I am not a lawyer, but I have dealt with this at work. This is not legal advice.
>The problem isn't that an API doesn't exist to automatically debit 10% from the people you own

Something's just really wrong about that statement. It saddens me. Didn't we fight a war to put an end to stuff like this?

Also, a president is not going to wave a magic wand and fix this system. If you want to support that candidate, by all means do so, it's one of the habits of healthy hearts and minds in a democracy. Just realize going in what's actually possible and what's political marketing. Fixing this is going to take a lot more work on everyone's part than simply casting a vote.

Finally, the wealthy should pay more. No argument from me on that one. Having said that, there is a game theoretical optimum on how much you should tax each person in a society. We don't want to get carried away with taxing anyone for political reasons. Liberals do that with anything that will disproportionately stick it to bankers, and conservatives have done that with anything that will disproportionately stick it to blacks. (The recent Reductio Ad Absurdum of conservatives demanding that college athletes pay taxes on scholarships is an example I'm guessing you might appreciate of how political targeting can get just a bit ridiculous.)
I'd clarify that regular outlet is _usually_ 15A. 12A is what car will be drawing as this is continuous load (should be 80%, code requirements). Quite often breaker behind that 120V outlet is 20A one.
Period tracker app spied on me and told advertisers it thought I was pregnant
> The only way to close the window is to force-close the entire browser using either the Windows task manager or the Force Close function in macOS.

I primarily use Firefox, but am deeply disappointed in how such issues are handled (or rather, not handled). How many users on the planet would even know what a "Task Manager" is on Windows or how to "Force Close" an application on macOS? If/when the users learn from their more technically knowledgeable friends/family that this is a Firefox issue, most of them would just decide to switch to that popular browser that's been advertised on the most popular search engine and many other sites by the same company. That doesn't help Firefox much or people (like me) who evangelize Firefox to others.
Certainly some of the LDS church's evangelistic reach is enabled by business acumen. Their holdings are worth billions on the stock market.

From 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120713021925/http://www.busine...

From 2018: https://kutv.com/news/local/mormonleaks-says-new-documents-l...
Can someone explain the mechanism that causes light to translate to electrical signals in the microphone? Is the heat generated moving the diaphragm? Is the microphone photosensitive?
Male Chinese ‘Relatives’ Assigned to Uyghur Homes Co-Sleep with Female ‘Hosts’
Well, of course, LL Bean isn't going to say "And, besides, our stuff is a lot crappier than it used to be." Some people have been doing this sort of thing forever. Though I find it perfectly believable that it's become more common--admittedly an assumption at least somewhat rooted in generational stereotypes.
The basic elements of colour that most people perceive is pretty limited. But within just "pink" there are lots of different shades that have different properties and need careful thought. I think there is something here more than just the basic elements. But it is not always obvious or objectively measurable.
Yeah. And in the mountainous areas there's usually a good retailer nearby the local REI flagship. Seattle has like 3 or 4 that I can think of off the top of my head.

I will say that when I went to the local REI here the lady I worked with actually spent about an hour with me fitting a pair of backpacking boots and explaining how and why some of the boots would fail when I wore them. I learned more about my feet from her than from any of the other places I went.

You can get that kind of experience at a lot of the boutique alpine or backpacking stores though.
Only reason (as a college student) don’t like ISAs is because they take up to something as ridiculous as 10 million over a 10 year period (if you do happen to make that much). I think ISAs may find a place for a greater majority of America though.
Of course /r/WallStreetBets did this.
> She went on to say the network was afraid that running the story would prevent interviews with Kate Middleton and and Prince William.

Ah yeah, what every commercial network is afraid of, being cut off from those viewer-(and ad money)-attracting interviews with the rich, famous and influential.

When Glenn Greenwald sounded saner* he wrote a lot about the access-hungry "journalists", apparently then-VP Biden even had a summer party once, and they all wanted to be invited there. They all wanted to feel they were part of the ruling elite, instead of challenging them...

* Maybe he still is sane and I'm just being misled by the media?
That's why i switched from ngrok to localtunnel (global npm package) https://www.npmjs.com/package/localtunnel

You can just run lt -p 8080 --subdomain whateveryouwant
;)
that's nice! :) I have found that quite often Stripe's UI would just through errors when trying to open some customers, failed payments or subscriptions. Couldn't really pinpoint why it happens, tried different browsers, disabling extensions and so on.

Hopefully CLI wil work :)
Most of Dick's outdoor equipment is hot garbage.
Slightly tangentially O2 (Telefonica) my mobile provider also sold my car insurance (though underwritten by Ageas), they weren't even a consideration until they popped up with a good deal on a comparison site.
HTML/CSS drawing inspired by Flemish baroque oil portraits
The gains of investment can offset the losses from inflation, yeah, but I'd also be drawing down. The problem is that I might live longer than 25 years and I might not be able to work by that point.

I checked my math again with https://www.firecalc.com/

I would need about $50k/yr in expenses at present (adjusted for inflation in the future). If I'm planning for 50 years out, that means I need a portfolio of about $1.6M to have a high probability of being able to make it 50 years.

So not quite $3M, and maybe I could cut more expenses, but I think at least $1.5M in liquid assets is what I need. If by some miracle I can get a $1M payday when my current employer sells, then maybe I've got a chance at being done in the next few years.

If I could get my spending down to $30k/yr, which might be possible, then I could get away with $1M, but I'll still have to put in another 5 years or so to hit that $1M number.

Keep in my mind for US people, we have to buy our own health insurance, and if something medical goes wrong and you can't work, you can easily go bankrupt that way. There's such little safety net that I'd like to have more than I think I'll need.
these people should just trade futures - you can buy a treasury bond future at effectively ~70x leverage without trying to defraud your broker...
I can remember when console.log would break certain versions of IE... I believe even in IE8, console.log would only work if you had the developer JS console opened up, unless you polyfilled it.

Thank god I don't have to support IE anymore, what a mess it was.
You interpreted "employees of a company to use their corporate position to push what are private political goals" as "companies not push[ing] for political goals" in order to sarcastically respond.

There is a difference between a company and it's individual employees, and rephrasing the statement such that "employees of a company" is replaced with "a company" in order to mock a user is rude and also not substantive.
This is a free equivalent to ngrok and it only uses SSH - https://serveo.net/ - and it accepts custom subdomains. I spin it up for each project like this with $DOMAIN and $PORT being defined/fixed for each project and the connection kept open permanently using autossh:

ssh -R $DOMAIN:80:localhost:$PORT serveo.net

There are API endpoints for creating, listing and deleting webhooks in Stripe now too - my test suites and dev instances purge any existing webhooks and create a new one each run.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/webhook_endpoints/create
yay cancel culture
The PIV/OpenSC way work absolutely perfectly for me. Even on Windows.
I think you'll find that colourblind people don't typically see the world in grey scale.
Why are birds and seals starving in a Bering Sea full of fish?
Never for most of rural areas. By the time most towns in say Iowa were getting setup the industrial revolution was underway: the town wasn't making anything, the blacksmith was taking mass produced horseshoes and fitting them to the horse. What the town did produce (example: brooms...) wasn't for the town it was for the whole country.

The newspaper was produced for the town. Everything else was either services that can't be mass produced or the town was doing their own mass production for export.
Yes, but it's targeting the aforementioned software regardless of device. (Not that the HN title isn't terrible, I agree with thsowers on using the title from the actual paper.)
Aren't complex exponentials signal rotations? If you multiply a sinusoidal signal by e^(-iwt), you are essentially shifting its phase modulus, no?
Office Chair Is Hurting You
On the other hand, there aren't really any changes in 14 and 17 that break compatibility with code written in 11, at least that I'm aware of.

In the examples I've seen it seems to mostly come down to compiler, toolchain and 3rd party binary availability for the new versions, like with any major language version.

If for example you are using stock gcc from Ubuntu 16.04 for your builds, you can't use C++17.
Not too ridiculous.

With Trademark law, companies have to protect their trademarks, or risk losing their trademark.

Pretty standard in the US.
>AIPAC would pull all their campaign funding from the Repubs or Dems (whichever party's lackey did it) and they'd never get elected again.

This is a pretty interesting comment because AIPAC does not even contribute directly to any candidates but it is the center of MANY conspiracy theories. I'm not going to downplay the lobbying but let us actually look at the numbers, first individuals:

>Though AIPAC as an organization cannot contribute to campaigns, individuals who work for the organization have. In the 2018 election cycle, individuals affiliated with the organization donated just $21,350 to 14 different candidates, nine of whom were Democrats. No one associated with AIPAC gave any contributions to McCarthy.

Not that much and I doubt it would break any campaign if they stopped. But let's see how much the organization actually donated:

>AIPAC is a significant player in terms of lobbying, accounting for the vast majority of lobbying spending by pro-Israel groups, spending more than $3.5 million in 2018. The organization was staunchly opposed to the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2015, lobbied extensively against it and supported the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement.

Ok, 3.5 million dollars is a lot of money but let us compare them to ...let's say Google who spent over 21 million that year or any of the top 20 or so it is small potatoes.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...

It is interesting how people seem to think them so powerful when they don't actually spend that much in comparison and that while of course they are successful a lot of politics align with very strong American groups (Evangelicals who are very strong Trump supporters want the embassy in Jerusalem, Neocons and other remains hate Iran etc.)
I really want to move to MA. I hate noisy neighbors.
Yes setting up all that stuff was one of the most painful things about local development working with Stripe webhooks. This is a good solution.
I Sold 4,000 Devices in 30 Days at My HW Startup
Is there a demo that can be shared?
If it was open source (or had some way for users to keep improving it) and had 4k video with a 10bit codec, I would be all over it. Now it looks abandoned by dxo
Why did they need to focus the laser through a telephoto lens? I thought the whole point of lasers was that they were already focused into a beam that is moving in nearly exactly one direction?
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
Competitors driving each other towards near-zero profits is how capitalism is supposed to work.

The problem is that there is no willingness to enforce laws against predatory pricing, so no one can even break even on this type of transportation.
>> Please forgive my tone, but it doesn't take a genius to recognize that you shouldn't have sensitive conversations around a microphone.

Then, forgive my tone, but it doesn’t take a genius to understand that you don’t want one constantly monitoring you in your home. Where you have private conversations. This is my point.

These devices are physical spyware - they’re as useful and terrible as Bonzi Buddy but people pay for it.
You should have seen what they cost three decades ago.
> Capitalism is a prerequisite for lobbying. Regulations are not.

In order for lobbying to be effective, there must be a large and powerful government which can be lobbied to. The reason the farm lobby spends millions of dollars is because they get billions in subsidies in return. It would be more accurate to say that big government is a prerequisite for lobby, since a small government that merely enforces property rights wouldn't be worth lobbying to.

> This is bank propaganda. It's been debunked countless times

It's an empirical fact that Fannie and Freddie, which are government sponsored entities that buy the largest share of mortgages, lowered their standards significantly leading up to the crash in order to make artificially cheap loans more accessible to people who would otherwise be considered too risky to lend to.

> The bad loans were made by people who knew exactly what they were doing.

Lenders originated subprime loans because the government guaranteed to buy them via Fannie and Freddie. If Fannie and Freddie hadn't existed, these bad loans would have never been made in the first place.
> 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.

I think that's the rationale they gave, and I believe them. My brother has pushed what I consider the moral limits of generous return policies a couple of times, and given what I've seen at REI scratch and dent sales, I think other people are as well.
This is cool but a bit worrisome...remember the days when it was too expensive to log all audio transmissions on any platform/communication device, so you thought you had some level of privacy? Projects like prism might be able to do more than simply log metadata.
For reasonable ideas about what constitutes the trademarks, which a color and all nearby shades alone is not.

To me, T-mobile's mark is the color and the logo. But pink alone does not scream "T-mobile" to me.