skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to use iOS to claim that macos is more popular than windows, then I may as well use Android to claim Linux as the most popular consumer OS
You can still own a car and advocate for renewable energy, better public transit, better cycling infrastructure, etc. You are right that most people in the US are forced or at least highly encouraged to own a car. It is not hypocritical to advocate for car free living while still owning one, since it is the only option in many places.
The person that got $1M has very limited upside though because they sold deep in the money call options on the same stock that they own, Ford ($F). This is known as a covered call e.g. as the price moves up your stock is worth more but the premiums on the call options you sold increase as well, limiting your profit.

On the other hand, if the stock tanks you will still lose, though the premiums from your options you wrote will cushion your downside.

The Youtube guy owned naked puts, which is far riskier than covered calls.
This isn't Federal congress, but I think you're basically right that through indirect mechanism (supremacy clause? I'm not a lawyer), the 1st amendment applies to states.
A common way to extend a language is to standardize what people are doing in practice. It seems niche, but you have to remember what C++'s niche is. Linux kernel etc use hints like this extensively
Depends on how much it was used. But I was part of the effort to convert to C++17 for our (substantial) C++ code base of ~30 years and it was not painful at all.
Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did–despite being better educated
Ah, laws and elections. "Dear Mr. Koch, as you know my re-election is coming soon,...".
CRISPR is a bit of a catch-all term, and "could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases" is not informative.
How do you handle other language - including JavaScript - updates for your team?
Let's say RobinHood went out of business tomorrow. What would happen to all the stocks held by their customers?
It depends on which particular data series you use for deflation. There are definitely things for which US$1 in 1972 is more like US$25 in 2019, such as gold and energy. To take one example among many, oil cost US$3 per barrel at the beginning of 1973, and despite the fracking boom in the US, it costs US$63 today, 21× as much. And, as you yourself point out, you need over US$100 today to buy shares of stock that cost US$1 in 1972. (And there are other things which are cheap in 2019 that were unavailable at any price in 1972, and vice versa; and there are borderline cases like videotape recorders and microcontrollers, on one hand; and 1963 Buicks, ivory, old-growth redwood lumber, and quaaludes, on the other.)

I agree that "an average annual inflation rate of 7.1%" (or, using your US$6 number, 3.9%) sounds much milder than "lost 96% of its value since 1973" (or 83%). Where I differ is on whether the milder presentation or the more dramatic presentation is more informative. I think that, except to financial traders, "3.9%" or even "7.1%" is a misleadingly insignificant number.

Consider that throughout the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, there were families that lived on the interest income from government bonds, both in the US and in England. Even throughout the 20th century, people would buy "savings bonds" as presents for children or as a means to save up for college or retirement; the bonds would reach maturity decades in the future, providing a healthy reward for the prudent and patriotic purchase. Since the end of Bretton Woods, that 3.9% or 7.1% has made nonsense of such ideas. Despite what you might think, this hasn't eliminated plutocracy or increased social mobility — rather the opposite has happened in the post-Bretton-Woods years, in fact. I think it's hard to obtain the historical perspective necessary to appreciate the importance of this radical experiment. But it is, I assure you, a worthwhile effort. I recommend it.

Perhaps inflationary monetary policy is a necessary instrument for avoiding financial panics; it's a plausible idea. But the evidence against it — particularly the 1970s stagflation in the US — suggests that, though plausible, it isn't such a clearly open-and-shut conclusion that we should deny everyone access to alternative, non-inflationary currencies. Moreover, in most scenarios, attempting to institute such a policy would only deny such access to everyone but the well-connected and influential.
> The Earth's orbit has shifted throughout the lifetime of the solar system.

I'm by no means qualified to state this as fact but also I imagine that as we travel through space and hit random stuff in space (meteors, particles from stars, comet trails etc) we ever so slightly change our speed outside of the gravitational influences of other bodies, it would probably be incredibly small fractions of a second over centuries but it's something.

I wonder how much of an effect something like an extinction event asteroid on the speed of the earth both around the sun and on its rotation on its axis.
That would make sense if T-Mobile actually provided good service.
Won't be that sad. They should make sure they can't be so easily exploited by the hilarious and insane dummies in WSBs.
America's First Banned Book
Great post. I really appreciate engineering blogs written in this storytime format. I don't have time to dive into the implementation of Calico or <insert one of the 1,261 kubernetes projects here>, but I learn a lot from reading the process a team goes through in figuring out and iterating on a solution.

https://landscape.cncf.io/
The "Soros broke the bank" framing I tend to see in discussions of this is really quite odd, as if it were some sort of illegal Oceans 11 style heist.

He didn't break the bank. The bank broke itself.

> What kept the pound from plummeting in value was the British government’s guarantee that it would keep the value propped up, and the market believed that it would. As long as everyone believed that England would stay indefinitely committed to buying pounds for around 2.95 Deutschemarks, the status quo was maintained.

If you build a house on rotten stilts, and some neighborhood kid comes and kicks one of them, it's not the kid's fault when the house collapses.
The Holloway Syllabus on Company Culture
AMP makes some trade offs, and not everyone is happy with those trade offs, but pretending that it exists due to some nefarious ulterior motives rather than making UX of the web better makes talking about it impossible.

If you don't like AMP, at least start by admitting that the problem AMP solves exists.
As a founder of a tech company based in China, you benefit from China blocking US (and the western world's) companies; You should be saddened by this. Can you please write a letter to Chairman Xi telling him he is wrong?
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This is such a fucking ridiculous argument (IMO)... "Shut up about the planet, how about this dumb tech!?".
If you're "using RISC", that means that you're producing something that involves a processor. If you're just making software you just need to have it compile with common compilers and have the relevant libraries available on your target platform (ok, I'm over-simplifying), so you don't "use processoer X over Y".

When you do use hardware, you're interested in things like power budget and price for comparable performance. RISC-V is now reaching competitiveness in some cases, and companies/people will now start choosing to use it on the merits. If, there is, there's an OS available and a bunch of supporting tools and libraries.
Yeah, and the first-party SANE command line frontend (scanimage) is the only one that works reliably for me. I was just thinking of looking in to why none of the third-party frontends are reliable, I think I'll at least post an issue about that on the GitLab. XSane may work better than the GNOME and KDE SANE frontends.
Thank you so much for the added context. What do you see the potential of this research to be, will the title be actualized if they can get it right?
> 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.

Anti-vaxxers come to mind from some points of view, although on the face of it it's not as odious as something like actual Nazis.

Anti-vaxxers are terrible though... they pile on social media to drown out opposing points of view. There is a local representative here in Oregon who was involved with a bill that said you had to have vaccinations to send your kids to public schools, and any time she posts anything online, dozens of those people come out of the woodwork to shriek at her and post their garbage science.
This isn't the slippery slope or conspiracy theory you're making it out to be. Search some of the top-level comments for "free petition."
I am not affiliated with Libra in any way, but I cannot agree with this article. Let me respond point by point.

Libra’s byzantine tolerance on a permissioned network is an incoherent design.

The criticism here is that byzantine tolerance is not needed, when every participant is a regulated multinational company. But it certainly isn't a bad thing to have byzantine tolerance. Maybe a set of the regulated multinational companies will have backdoors put in place by a malicious entity - that has certainly happened before.

The downside of byzantine tolerance is the computational overhead. Yes, there is going to be a cost in throughput. But it just doesn't make sense for Libra to optimize for transactions-per-second at this point. If they run into scaling problems, then they can optimize. Right now they are quite far away from having scaling problems.

Libra has no transaction privacy.

It's the same privacy level as Bitcoin. Transactions are public, endpoint identities are trackable but don't have real identities attached. You can say it isn't a good set of tradeoffs for a cryptocurrency to be pseudo-anonymous. But it doesn't make the system "architecturally unsound".

Libra HotStuff BFT is not capable of achieving the throughput necessary for a payment rail.

Again, it doesn't make sense to criticize Libra at this point for not being able to achieve tens of thousands of transactions per second. If they start running into scaling problems, they can work on all sorts of extensions and improvements then.

Libra’s Move language is not sound.

The criticisms here really boil down to "Move needs more work". It isn't fundamentally unsound, it just needs more work.

The claims seem to reduce to nothing more than handwaving and marketing rather than actual proof. This is an alarming position for a language engineering project which expects the public to trust it to handle billions of dollars.

Okay, well don't go putting a billion dollars in a Move smart contract tomorrow. Programming languages, and especially programming language documentation, can be improved a lot over time.

...

There's more in the article, but really, it reads like a rant, where the author is so biased by their hatred of Facebook that they think every little thing that Libra does is wrong.

IMO, the core mistake behind Libra is assuming that regulators would be okay with it, because it isn't very different from other permissioned cryptocurrencies, like Stellar. Instead, regulators have been quite opposed to it because Facebook is behind it, even when technologically it isn't very unique. It is certainly not "architecturally unsound".
How so? And is it different in a way that invalidate Mill's points?
Show HN: Moneyflow – Personal Finance Application
I've always managed my budgets and tracked my expenses manually with spreadsheets in the past,
in the last couple of years, I've started to use web/mobile apps, more common ones like Mint, Spendee, YNAB, etc.
But I've always faced some limitation or essential problem so I started my own.

Moneyflow - https://moneyflow.acloudhub.info

Moneyflow, this app has Unified user experience, share wallets (and budgets!), Unlimited cloud storage,
Multi-Currency, unlimited categories creation and transaction hashtags.

The use of the app for one wallet and one budget is free (only requires email verification), I hope this will help another with the same passion for personal
finance.
That's an interesting saying, thanks for sharing. Just today morning I was listening to an audiobook that mentioned something similar _ "physician, heal thyself so you may heal thy patient...".
Even on the employment side I'm not sure that local small businesses are better. I (unsuccessfully) ran my own small retail business for a few years. I could barely afford to pay minimum wage. Never mind offering any sort of pay bumps over time or medical benefits. I didn't blame my teen workers for moving on to employment with big chain stores as soon as they could. The pay and benefits from chains might be "terrible" from the perspective of someone with a good salaried job, but they're better than what a really small retailer can offer.

Being employed by a small business owner you know face to face probably has some social benefits over being indirectly employed and controlled by some fabulously wealthy out-of-state people you've never met. I'm not sure it's good for the material prosperity of the employees.

I think that stories about "big chain retailers devastating small towns" often confuse weakened community feeling with economic unfairness. Sam the local grocer was not economically great for his employees or customers. He never had the economies of scale to offer high wages or low prices. But Sam was part of the community in a way that the Walmart board and CEO can't be.
Education is only one factor. An economic boom based on the exploitation of wartime technology for consumer benefit fueled the boomers wealth growth.
Show HN: A fast and reliable IP geolocation API
What about internal microphones?
To summarize:

1. A long pre-qualification form that turns away potential customers whose desires don’t match the product capabilities.

2. A high-touch onboarding process involving a half-hour conversation with a human. (This sounds like the “concierge” technique for finding product-market fit to me)

3. Fanatical customers who leave “sent with superhuman” badge on their emails.

I’ve never heard of Superhuman before now. Is it really such an impressive example of growth?
Pink lemonade is a thing. It's just lemonade with food dye, but it's a common thing to do for some reason.
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Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Touches Down After Test of Safety System
Agreed. I've been a member for a while now and REI's standard prices are pretty average if not a little high, but they have enough really good sales during the year (plus the member discounts) to make up for anything you'd consider high price. Not to mention the garage sales can be a gold mine.
The First Amendment was written at a time when the constraints of the available technology created "natural" boundaries as to what kind of speech could spread in a society. The very fact that publishing an opinion anonymously (edit: I should say without peer-review of any sort), at scale, was nearly impossible, prevented the development of many sordid, dark, and "evil" thoughts from reaching the point of public discourse. I would argue that this sort of "natural limit" on certain kinds of speech is a biologically evolved defence mechanism against some of the darkest capabilities of human minds - if we didn't have it, some of our darkest tendencies would go unchecked affecting the overall healthiness and survivability of the population. We are a social species, and our physiological wellbeing is deeply tied to social acceptance.

The unique problem of the internet is that it allows bad ideas to infect, fester, and mutate in the minds of others at a speed never seen before, without the natural safeguards that we've always had: peer-review and social acceptance. That leads to a spill-over of bad ideas into the public discourse which, in turn, resets society's definition for what kind of ideas are acceptable. A few rapid cycles of this, and we got our Post Truth World - it's not that truth doesn't exist anymore, but rather the speed at which the public discourse could verify, analyze, and accept ideas is simply not fast enough to keep up with the pace of new ideas that can reach the public discourse. In short, the immune system is overwhelmed, both at the individual and societal level, and we have a raging pandemic.

Yes, I am not an American, and I am arguing that the uniquely American religion of defending the "right" to "free speech" is misplaced in the era of the internet. This is one of the reasons I get a fall-of-Rome feeling in America.
>And yesterday it was showing results out to Q2-2020 (?).

This could be due to an individual company's financial calendar. For example, Proctor & Gamble (PG) released their 2020Q1 results 2 weeks ago.
Funny how instead of admitting that social media is trash and doesn't facilitate meaningful communication, thus making it impossible to distinguish between humans and low-level bots, Silicon Valley types keep pretending the problem lies everyone except with their systems. The AI it too good, the people are too stupid, etc.
Subverting true crime and the ethics of storytelling
I feel that the biggest problem with social media isn't a matter of liberty but one of control. Individual consumers don't have enough control over what they see. For example, if I'd like not to see anything political whatsoever on my Facebook that right is often not respected. And it should be respected. It is my account. If someone says something I don't like or don't want to be affiliated with I should take steps to remove myself from that. If they come to me after doing this it's Facebook's fault.
> The fundamental problem is the near monopoly powers enjoyed by a select few social media and tech companies.

That seems to be Stratechery's point as well:

> Facebook’s decision about ads wish the company would wield its power in their favor; my question is whether such power should even exist in the first place. Facebook can close Munroe’s door on anyone, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
> if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true, certainly not as broadly as stated.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
I don't encounter these barriers in commercial settings. The biggest barrier is compiler support if you target environments with different compiler toolchains. Each new version of C++ brings features and bug fixes that make code simpler. It actually reduces complexity from the perspective of the developer. The forcing function for upgrading C++ versions in my teams is always that it would greatly simplify some immediate problem or allow us to remove a gross (but necessary) hack due to the limitations of prior versions. At least with the LLVM toolchain, upgrades have been nearly issue-free so there is little to recommend not doing it. C++17 is a big upgrade over C++11 functionally. Developers that do not see compelling improvements probably weren't using most of the functionality of C++11 anyway.

While the number of features and quirks in standard C++ grows with each version, the subset that a developer needs to remember to write correct idiomatic code is shrinking with each new version as capabilities become more general and the expression of those capabilities simpler. There is a new, simpler, and vastly more capable language evolving out of the old one and you can increasingly live almost entirely within this new language as a developer. I hated classic C++ but I actually really like this new C++, and it allows me to write far less code for the same or better result.

There are still many things that C++ can express simply and efficiently that Rust, Julia, etc cannot. If you work on software that can take advantage of that expressiveness (e.g. databases in my case), the cost of changing languages is quite large.
It was scheduled last month. This is the 11th month of the calendar year.

We've heard no results from that public hearing on Oct 22, but it would appear nothing will happen until an executive session which will make recommendations based on this public hearing.

We can consider it a good thing that regular people can submit bills, even if ones like this are likely to be rejected by the committee as unconstitutional.
GP is obviously referring to the combined fed + state rate in context.
Show HN: AutoSetup – Generate mocks automatically for class under test
Vladimir Putin Calls for 'Reliable' Russian Version of Wikipedia
executives can be held accountable, nobody is going to go after employees. Nobody would call FB engineers to the congress.
This looks really neat.

Do you have plans to support some sort of markup language instead of requiring properties to be added to models one at a time, similar to the DBML used by https://dbdiagram.io ?
U2F/FIDO2 supports user verification (UV) in addition to user presence (UP). So you should be able to do the same, but I haven't tested if the current implementation supports it.
FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Transaction with Conditions
I wonder if this passes, will people substitute "Hunt" for the banned word in honor of the sponsor of this legislation.

For example: That person is a real Hunt.
You need a font that supports those and superscript-x is a modifier, rather than a subscript, but:

aⁱ U+0271 Superscript Latin Small Letter I
aˣ U+02e3 Modifier Letter Small X
aⁿ U+207f Superscript Latin Small Letter N
aᵢ U+1d62 Latin Subscript Latin Small Letter I
aₓ U+2093 Latin Subscript Latin Small Letter X
aₙ U+2099 Latin Subscript Latin Small Letter N

I use DejaVu Sans Mono that is free and has some coverage, though it's missing the most inopportune ones.

But you're right that there are many missing, either from the sub- and supescript ranges or from modifiers (or both).

Edit: there's a page on wikipedia with a very complete list of unicode sub- and super-scripts _and other characters that can be used as such_:

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

But, again, you need the right fonts.
I am familiar with regulatory capture. I am not familiar with any well-respected economist who has argued that regulatory capture is a forgone conclusion of regulation. But either way, regulatory capture is not a symptom of bad regulation. It is a symptom of a corrupted political system. 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.

I also want to point out that regulatory capture is completely counter to the example that nemo44x mentioned above in which they stated that regulation forced banks to make loans they wouldn't have ordinarily made. The idea that the banks didn't want to make those loans and only did it to meet regulatory standards is incompatible with the belief that the regulation was co-oped for the benefit of the banks.
Writing an OS isn't that hard. After all, Lion's Commentary on Unix is only 250 pages.

But if you actually want the OS to be useful and have modern features, then you're looking at hundreds or thousands of person years rather than a couple months. Plus all the time you'd need after convincing the world to port their software to your new OS.
Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up
Right, you can't legislate intent to make someone feel bad.

Any given word can be replaced by a paragraph with near infinite variations of content but the same hurt. See /r/roastme for light examples.

If you need protection from ideas, you need to grow up instead.