skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no advantage at all. Any other brokerage is better than they are.

I think Robinhood's valuation is probably nosediving off a cliff right now.
stevehawk's reasons are not far off.

I'd add that my wife really loves the scope of practice - she does literally everything from delivering babies (w/an occasional C-section) to gerontology, from addiction medicine to ER. This just doesn't happen elsewhere.

And we like the space. The road we live on ends in a wilderness area, the hiking and X-C skiing and so on is amazing. And both us and our 6 year old love having sheep and alpacas and a dozen chickens and a greenhouse. Hobby farming like this just doesn't work in Seattle.

We miss live shows and restaurants and all the city stuff, but for now at least we like this more.
When I say climate, you say emergency!

Climate
What's the proportion of HN readers (and writers) that live in the US ? I assume it's a lot, probably more than 50%, correct me if I'm wrong.

The US's impact on the climate is huge, an order of magnitude higher than any European country and more than twice per capita.

Maybe that makes it a Taboo subject even more than elsewhere ?
> Neutrality is the name given to people and institutions that support the status quo

Strongly disagree. If google censors information relating to Tiananmen Square, that supports the status quo without being neutral. If they don't filter that information out they undermine the status quo while remaining neutral. I could at least understand the position that no censorship can be construed as being politically opposed to censorship, but I don't really think that's the case in all cases; it is simpler to make a tool for finding knowledge in the general case than it is to make a tool that additionally filters that knowledge on ideological grounds.
Soros shills in full force.

"If you build a house in a brush canyon and then someone lights the brush on fire, it's YOUR fault for building house there."

Ummmm... ok
Believing cached webpages and the visibility of URLs on search results is somehow comprable to the effects of oil pollution has got to be right at the peak of HN absurdity.
One way is to reduce your climate impact to 2 tons / year and spread the word.
> And Bitcoin lost over 90% of its value in just under 2 years.

When do you mean? Right now Bitcoin is US$9400, which is almost exactly half of its all-time high value of US$19891 (in 2017). There are several times it has lost more than half of its value, but I don't remember a time when it has lost 90% of its value.

The reason the dollar inflates and never deflates is that it's designed to inflate. On purpose. The underlying Keynesian monetary theory is a radical experiment in stimulating economic activity by maintaining the proper level of unemployment — when unemployment is "too low", central banks raise interest rates (in effect, printing less money), while dropping them when unemployment is "too high". Of course, deliberate inflation of coins by governments has a much longer history than Keynesian monetary theory or fiat currencies — not only did Song China experience it when it introduced paper "representative money", but it's also a well-attested phenomenon in Roman commodity money and later coinages (there known as "debasement", in a technical sense different from its metaphorical use in literary English to describe degradation.) But Keynesian monetary theory, which might be correct, provides a theoretical justification for believing that inflation is good under some circumstances and bad under others, and since 1973 we are all, for better or worse, participating in a radical large-scale experiment to test this hypothesis.

Bitcoin is, in significant part, a dissident response from a group of eccentric intellectuals looking for a way to opt out of that radical experiment. Consequently it is designed to make inflation (of Bitcoin) infeasibly difficult — the existing Bitcoin supply increases asymptotically toward a fixed quantity, known in advance. So, although Bitcoin's value will fluctuate, sometimes wildly, it doesn't have the secular inflation trend designed into the dollar's governance mechanism.
You're describing Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

For me, the clearest way out of the paradox of tolerance is the dictum that "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suic...). The price of admission to the sphere of tolerance established by the Constitution is (or ought to be, anyway) the willingness to extend the same tolerance to others. If your goal is to overthrow the Constitutional order and replace it with a dictatorship, a theocracy, an ethno-state, etc. etc. etc., you forfeit the right to shield yourself behind the document you're trying to tear up.
> If I were Microsoft, I would remove the "Control Panel" as a program the user can open

They did and people got upset. It's a "who moved my cheese" backward compatibility problem for people. People get upset if they can't find that thing they always used and worked just fine.

For a brief while Windows 10 the legacy Control Panel was entirely removed from Search, and there were so many complaints so they backed off and it's searchable again. That's about the only way to find it; at this point in Windows 10 it's not in the Start Menu, it's not File Explorer Quick Access. People have to intentionally find the Control Panel.

People still talk about the COM GUID to the legacy Control Panel as if it were some secret cheat code to Windows, making shortcuts to the Control Panel because it looks familiar and powerful and/or they don't want to relearn anything new, don't want to get used to the all the cheese that moved around in the modern Settings app.
Always interesting to see what CLI library is used. Looks like another feather in the cap of https://github.com/spf13/cobra.
I would love to hear why they chose cobra over something like https://github.com/urfave/cli
My ski jackets which are goretex easily last 10+ years. Membranes are things that usually fail. I had a raincoat membrane fail while I was in Thailand during the monsoon season. It was a cheap rain coat at a 1/3 the price of a goretex equivalent. REI wouldn’t take back the raincoat even though it was only 4 years old so I replaced it with goretex active coat which is still going strong though I burned a couple holes in it that I had to plug with wax. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a waterproof membrane to last the life of garment. Most of my camping gear is 20 years old and still works fine.
> Objective standards would work again their baises

The thing is, what are "objective standards"? Even inside individual societies vastly different Overton windows exist.

As such it's impossible to have an "objective standard" for what accepted opinions are and whatnot, this even applies to the classification of content that seems pretty straight forward, like pictures.

The infamous picture of Phan Thi Kim Phuc aka Napalm Girl is by most people considered of historic importance and an icon for social movements that would be of utmost importance nowadays, the peace movement. Yet by "objective standards" of Facebook moderators [0], it's also child pornography/nudity [1] and as such was deleted.

The only reason this was even noticed was that a reporter tried to post it, and then followed up on it getting deleted. There is no telling how many people before him tried to post it but were denied, with no access to media to make it known or no drive to follow up on it, people just accept it and move on.

That's why there is also no telling how many other potential "Napalm Girls", have been censored out of awareness in this way, hidden from the public view like they never even happened.

Trying to apply this whole mess to the written word, to political opinions, that's even more problematic. It's also not exactly something new, Germany has been trying to do that for decades, literally censoring and banning movies, music, books, video games, controlling speech to such absurd degrees that even certain number combinations on license plates are banned because they are considered "Nazi-Code".

Did it work? Not really [2], it only made people more careful about where and how to voice their opinions, it also gave them a massive persecution complex which is pretty hard to deny things being as they are, and so the problem still keeps on festering while everybody pretends it doesn't exist because we've made it illegal to do the "wrong think".

[0] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-torch-wielding-neo-nazis-march...
Wait for enough confirmations where the payment becomes unlikely to reverse, which of course takes time and that's the more practical blocker for regular shops to accept Bitcoin.
Certain things outpace inflation, yes. Certain things are drastically cheaper. That's why we use an inflation measure that's sort of an aggregate, not pinned to one or two commodities. You don't spend 100% of your money on oil and gold.

Oil now is 3x more expensive even after a more average inflation of ~4% compared to the bottom of 1973 (though in the mid 90s it wasn't so bad).
Energy as a whole though, is not 3x more expensive. Petrol is only about a third of energy consumption. Consumer electricity prices for instance are relatively constant from the 70s through now. Slight increase in the 80s, slight decrease in the 00s, but within say <5% of prices.

I'm not making assertions about the change to bond markets (which I agree are historically fascinating, and will continue to be so in the future too).
That's not been my observation. A quick check of hn.algolia shows that Climate Change posts do get a decent number of upvotes/comments[0].

Sure, it's not as many upvotes/comments as compared to when you search "Apple" or "Microsoft" - but I feel like climate change + other important issues (like privacy) are pretty well upvoted/commented on.

Could there/should there be even _more_ traction? Probably. But IMO it's unfair to say:

> Articles about Climate Change seem to get very few comments on Hacker News

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
Why bacalhau will always taste like home to the Portuguese
It's all a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey big BIG ball of string.
If you work for Google, the most effective thing you can do to fight evil IMHO is to stop working for Google.

Stop helping Google create ever more refined digital portfolios on every internet user. Google does not intend for their digital portfolios to fall into the hands of the US Government, but if the US Government ever becomes significantly undemocratic, Google cannot stop that from happening -- and Google's management knows that or would know it if they would spend 5 consecutive minutes being genuinely curious about it.

Stop helping Google turn the web into an ever more refined machine for extracting money from web users while continuing to make the web less well-suited for important purposes it was originally well-suited for: namely the publication of textual and simple graphical information not motivated by profit. (The money flows from users of the web to organizations that use Google to advertise, then to Google.)
It's everything. Literally everything. It's what I believe is going to hold up Chinese manufacturing, regardless of how much better it is now compared to the 90's or early 2000's.

As another example - Jorgenson Pony clamps were made in Chicago until they closed down (like 15 years ago). They're the gold standard for woodworking clamps. Solid as a rock. The company announced they were re-making clamps. In China. At the world's largest clamp making plant.

They're garbage now. Materials are cheaper. The QC is nowhere near as good as they used to be. The price is more, even adjusted for inflation, than what they were when they were Chicago made - because people are buying the trusted brand name and getting burned for it.

It's just sad. I can't imagine that I would ever trust something like climbing gear to outsourcing. No thanks.
Depends on what his motivations are, is it to make money? In out is only relevant to what your betting on.
The technique of using light to transmit sound has been around for over half a century.. although it's more commonly used as a microphone rather than a speaker.

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

A microphone is just a reverse speaker. For example, if you plug your earbuds into an audio input port, you can use them as a microphone.

This is all relatively basic, just not obvious to most people.
The physical hardware for the computers of 70's probes had more parts and complexity. Voyager used magnetic tape recorders, for example. Newer tech has allowed for simpler computer hardware, but does shift problems into the realm of software and file system management.

Both Spirit (Mars) and New Horizons (Pluto) had down days as issues with file system management puzzled the IT staff.

The New Horizons case was a crazy mad-scramble, as the probe was scheduled to pass by Pluto in a few days whether the probe was working or not. There was no re-do. Dozens of choice careers were in the balance.

Probe chips are still not very powerful by today's standards because they are designed to work in the harsh conditions of space. Thus, they are more comparable to a 1980's PC, and may mostly stay that way, being smaller components don't handle radiation well.

I read somewhere it's estimated that even surface-reaching cosmic radiation fouls up the typical desktop PC roughly once a year. Most just grumble at Microsoft and reboot.
PLP Podcast S2 Ep1: Guest- Eoghan McCabe of Intercom
(I also posted this on /r/wallstreetbets)

CLEARLY, Robinhood knows about the infinite leverage bug, they have the capital, resources and engineers to fix it in a day if they want.

Why are they not doing it? Are they stupid or what? Let's think about it for a second.

There are two possible outcomes here:

Let's say you do some leverage, and then use that leverage to lose 100k+, they can eat the loss briefly, and then they use collection agents to collect YOUR money. Robinhood will recoup the 100k$

You use the same leverage to gain 100k+, then, when you go to cash out to your bank, their audit team blocks the payment, saying that you "Violated the Terms of Service", by using a bug to make that amount of money. Thus, robinhood pockets 100k$. You can't sue them to get that money back, because you violated their TOS.

If I was Robinhood CEO, that's what I would do, a 100% legal, safe way to get rich quickly.

Prove me wrong.
Case study of Stripe's $35B valuation in just 8 years [video]
Do they not? I certainly haven't had any problems with them, but I switched to them from Sprint, so my tolerance for sucktitude is a lot higher than average.
In some niches it is important.

Say you are writing a high speed trading program. At some point you get to the "if(wouldMakeMoneyOnTrade())...". However for every time this passes and you trade there are 1000 where it fails and you don't. However time is critical because your competitors are using similar algorithms and so you need to beat them - thus you put in a likely and ensure that the CPU jumps to the trade code the fastest possible. Your competitors that use Java pay a CPU branch prediction penalty here because the hotspot optimizer has noticed that the if almost always fails and optimized for the false case. Thus you can make money by beating your competitor to the trade. (Note, this doesn't mean you can't use Java for your code, but if you do you need to manage that risk somehow)
In short, Apple Corps sued Apple Computer three times over obviously frivolous issues, extracted three settlements, and then when Apple actually did get into the business of selling music, sued them again...and lost.

I'm not convinced that their behavior was either justified or effective.
This is correct and accepted view today. Floating currencies are a good thing because they adjust the economy automatically. Central banks should only "lean" against radical sudden movements but allow gradual straightening or weakening.

Trying to keep currency artificially strong with weak economy is insanity.

The economy of UK did better after Soros broke the Bank of England.
this was futures options positions. when the platform came up the next day (mind you, no one was answering the phone the times i called, i bet others got killed), I had money in my account so i didn't get what i completely deserved.

I was trying to get some hedges in as soon as ES opened limit down again and i did manage to get a few off. ToS data was nearly instantly frozen so I was using another feed to gauge my orders. I digress with thinkorswim is not good for heavy intraday (and the market data is pretty bad anyway).

after this event, i changed brokerages and focused 100% on day trading and make a living, so it wasnt all bad i guess!

I can only image robinhood has no risk desk, or automated system that do not work correctly for non-trivial option legs
Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad
https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-...

Lessons Learned

- Venture Capital structures were set up for a world in which successful companies exited in 6-8 years and didn’t raise too much capital

- Venture capital growth funds are now giving startups the cash they would have received at an IPO

-- “Growth Capital” moved the need for an IPO out another five years

-- This allows VCs to capture the increase in market cap in the company

--It may have removed the incentive for non-founders to want to work in a startup versus a large company

--As stock options with four-year vesting are no longer a good deal

- Investors and Founders have changed the model to their advantage, but no one has changed the model for early employees

--VCs need to consider a new stock incentive model – RSA’s for the first key hires and then RSU’s – Restricted Stock Units for everyone else

- Large companies now have an opportunity to attract some of the talent that previously went elsewhere
> Are you implying that the Googlers involved are doing this to advance themselves?

I'm stating the obvious fact that former Googlers have made themselves notable by engaging in public activism while at the company. Both conservative and liberal. If one dreams of becoming an activist and one happens to work at Google there are footsteps to follow in.

Insofar as personal advancement goes. While there are exceptions, it should be fair to expect that what one does at work may be somehow related to personal advancement. This can be advancement in terms of getting promotions, growing skills, or establishing a reputation.

Wholly selfless people aren't the norm in corporate work environments. That's fine. You can be a good person and not wholly selfless.
> self-sustaining cascade of space-time

I am in awe of these words and fail to understand them in equal parts.
> they'll produce even more oil than they otherwise would have.

The production of oil is not the problem. They produce oil because we, as a society, have placed tremendous value on it. Once we no longer need oil they'll stop producing it.
I think the tech boom/talent shortage has a lot to do with it. It seems fairly unprecedented that a smart person with no education can take a ~1 year course, then reliably expect to be making a significantly above average salary immediately, and a six figure salary within a few years.
> Putting stronger restrictions on lobbying and reforming campaign finance law would be a much better step to fix regulatory capture than widespread dumping of regulations

To me that's a naive view of how fundamental the problem is. Consenting adults who stand to gain a lot at the expense of a third party will always find a way to help each other out.

Just my personal feeling, of course. I have no proof to offer.

Besides, I think the main mechanism for Regulatory Capture is influencing the regulator directly, not the legislators. At least in the US, the law behind the regulation mostly just says that the new TLA agency is to issue rules that it deems are in the interest of some lofty vague goals.
Publishing at scale anonymously: isn't that exactly what pamphleteers have been known for ever since the time of Martin Luther?
Clearly America is doing little about it. Is the rest of the world doing any better? I'm asking this seriously. What notable changes have any other countries or populations made to combat climate change? It feels like (and I would LOVE to be wrong about this) other massive polluters know it is a problem, but STILL don't really change anything.
I’ve been on the receiving end of one of these. I used to run the snowboarding blog bckcntry.com and was given an ultimatum by backcountry.com, either take down the blog entirely, or advertise solely for backcountry.com and receive affiliate commissions. I chose the latter.
Would you care to explain your position rather than expressing shock that someone disagrees with you?
You're talking about two completely different categories of problem.

Companies polluting waterways is an externality. Many customers prefer the company that doesn't spend money abating pollution, because it allows them to have lower prices. To address that you need some kind of rule against polluting, or a property right by the people downstream to not have toxins dumped in their river.

The problems with tech companies are rooted in a lack of effective competition. If there was a company that provided the exact same services as Google or Apple except that it respected your privacy better or had lower prices or didn't leverage their platforms into monopolizing ancillary markets, customers would choose that in the market. The people being negatively impacted by their behavior are their own users, which means that all you have to do is make a better alternative available and that alternative would win out in the market. Which means that in this context, any rules that impede new competitors are counterproductive, as are the existing rules that caused the lack of effective competition to begin with.
Let's please remember you have asked for it.

I have lived through :

- The end of the cold war, we were all going to die a horrible death, all at once.

- Acid rain, all forests would die and consequently we would die too or have a terrible planet

- The hole in the ozone layer, we would all get skin cancer ( I can't remember if we would die )

- Tchernobyl with elevated radiation stretching into Europe. Could not eat apricot-jam and damn I love apricot-jam

Furthermore, I have studied Computer Science, which was basically 50% math. I have worked with people developing physical models, advanced computing and simulations are freaking hard.

In my time, the hockey-stick would be an indication there is something wrong with the model ( instability ). "Nature does not behave this way"

The earth is getting greener and yields are up, partly because of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

It is completely unclear if "climate change" is either good or bad.

The sea level has been rising for thousands and thousand of years : about 6-8k years ago, I would be able to walk to the UK ( from NL ).