skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They denied that on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434
unfortunately, I'm sure. Really dumb things like the Earth is flat are catching on and one member of my extended social circle is absolutely sure that the Earth is bigger than the Sun. She's a holistic healer but has a psychology degree from a flagship state university.

These are people who don't build facts from bottom up but rather support their version of facts based on intuition and desire. Though we all do this to a degree, some will change if confronted with solid evidence but many simply will forever stick with what they feel is true, including that changing the clocks creates an additional hour of sunlight. Even pointing out that it is not as light when they get up Sunday morning after the clock change as it was at the same time the day before, they don't care because they know in the summer it is bright at that time in the morning. The tilt of the Earth on its axis is as fantasy to them as the flat Earth is to the rest of us.
This article is obviously biased or lacks understanding of the facts. If it is written by a Chinese, its purpose is only to complain about his own condition, but it does not help the current situation. Chinese people's efforts have earned time for the people of the world. If you want to condemn China, may I ask, which country in the G7 did not rely on colonization and became a developed country?
That's a separate issue I think. They obviously do different things.
Islands tend to be pretty close to water/ocean. The moisture in the air has always played havoc with my attempts at imaging from these locations. My bucket list destination is Atacama.
> No that's not the key difference, because you can just call `unwrap()` and forget about it, which is effectively the same footgun as other languages.

Are you sure? Each line of Java or Javascript can be equivalent to multiple `unwrap()` calls. You can't see them because the compiler is generating ([0]) them but they are there and there are many hundreds of thousands (or maybe even millions including dependencies) of them in most Java projects.

Here is an example: company.board.members.size() is equivalent to company.unwrap("NPE).board.unwrap("NPE).members.unwrap("NPE).size() and every single line in Java is like that. You can't opt out. You can't tell your coworkers to stop using "unwrap" during code reviews. The entire language forces you to do this in every single line that involves a reference.

[0] Well, it's actually just trapping the 0 address but it's equivalent.
Assuming you are going to buy a server to run gcc compiled code, that seems fair. After all just about every linux distro uses gcc of clang/llvm to compile their binaries.

Using Intel's compiler or AOCC to compile binaries for normal server use is pretty rare.
Legal is a notoriously sluggish industry, one that's almost infuriatingly incapable of adopting change and technology. Atrium's original pitch was exactly the opposite of what most legal teams are used to interacting with, and I can't think of a single biglaw attorney (sorry for the anecdote) who had faith in the idea or its execution.

The original concept, as a reminder: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/atrium-legal/

Now it's easy to say that this should've been obvious in hindsight. (Should've been obvious to me, anyway; I cold-mailed Justin and Nick years ago looking to build a specific function within Atrium to address concerns I'd heard on background about the service offering; I never did hear anything back about that.) But that said, I can't help but think the original pitch by Atrium was just too bitter a pill for the most conservative industry in the United States to swallow. Shoot, lawyers are bizarrely resistant to moving to e.g. Signal to preserve attorney-client privilege; given this, I have a hard time thinking of many who would trust ML models with understanding case-law.
The SEC did one for Knight Capital.
Over time, I think I am coming to agree with you.

I went to an engineering school. People who designed bridges had a wide, but constrained parameter space, and well-accepted design patterns.

I started out in semiconductor (MCU) systems and sometimes circuit design, and we had a broader (but not yuuuge!) parameter space, but it was growing as transistors got cheaper. Less well-accepted design patterns, because what you do with 50K transistors and 500K transistors and 5M transistors and 50M transistors - to use effectively - you need different patterns - and that changed so fast!

I did software-ish things with my h/w teams, and they would mock me because "software is easy". "You can do anything". And to do a rev, you didn't need to burn a $50K and 6 weeks (or whatever it is now) at the fab for each turn.

The problem with software is that it is SO unconstrained. You truly CAN do anything - except engineer in an unconstrained environment. I guess this realization (and Python blowing up on me in run-time environments) have taught me that: Constraints suck. But they are good. Software could use more of them, because they force discipline at dev time, at compile time, which reduces blow-ups at run-time.
Past coverage (though using the abstract at the time):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7956470

I think this is one of the most important, period-defining papers of the past ten years, and it seems like a shame how few people have read it.
In the case of Atrium, it also sounded like their "pivot to tools" was trying to take many of their existing (ex) employees on the legal side, and convert them into clients of the tools.

While the legal and tools companies were together, I'm sure the lawyers enjoyed the shiny tools. But after the "pivot", with the lawyers seemingly going it alone with some of the former clients, it seems likely to me that Atrium (the tool) just wasn't offering enough of a value proposition to make the tool company profitable.

Venture money needs massive growth. Selling a tool to lawyers will get an amount of money per month proportionate to the number of fee-earners. And from the sounds of things, their tools weren't exactly going to be irreplaceable. Anyone got any direct insight as to if the tools themselves were compelling but the pivot failed, or if the tools didn't deliver?
> This blog post doesn't appear to say anything. It's not an apology, it's not an explanation, it doesn't say what they're going to do in response.

On the advice of any good lawyer.
>like zero dollars going into this problem

There's a lot more than zero dollars going into this... it's just that the end result is universally something that's "good enough for this one use-case for this one company" and that's as far as it gets.
I run clamshell mode on a regular dpi monitor and the laptop is hi dpi. Everything rescales when switching between clamshell mode and laptop mode on Wayland (Sway). I tried to get it to work as well with xorg i3 and xrandr but I couldn’t. I would always need to close everything and restart my workflow when switching between modes.
Blame the load. If only Robinhood were not famous for saying they are hiring only the best...

The best do not go down like that.
Start from the email notification. They have been asking themselves the easy questions.

Just look at the top questions in their email:

* Are the funds in my account safe?
Yes, your funds are safe.

* Was my personal information affected?
No, your personal information was not affected.

* Can I use my Robinhood debit card?
Yes. If you have a debit card, you should have been—and should still be able to—use your card, but you may have had issues receiving notifications, viewing your balance, and seeing transactions in your app.

------------

The real question is: How is Robinhood compensating for the missed trades?

Stop asking yourself the easy questions, RH.
Why is this better than SETI? What's the purpose of finding mersenne primes
> Do you have analytics that give you some idea what fraction of subscribers use different versions of Certbot and other ACME clients?

Those do exist, though I don't personally have access to them. When things are calmer, you might ask bmw or jsha on the Let's Encrypt forum for some more information.

> Was this feature something already planned (albeit presumably not for release today) or was it entirely inspired by this problem?

I wrote (incomplete) code for this feature several years ago -- specifically inspired by the idea that certificates might sometimes be revoked unexpectedly -- but I don't think anyone planned to continue working on it until this problem came around.
As much as it pointed out the serious inequality issues facing South Korea, the movie also highlighted the fact that the poor in South Korea have access to healthcare free at the point of service.

It also depicted young people who, despite their poverty, had enough access to schooling that they could serve as English tutors to the wealthy (yes, I'm aware that SK's education system has other issues related to it being a pressure cooker).

I'm sure that neither of those systems are perfect, but they do underpin the importance of universal healthcare and high quality education.
What a bunch of nonsense. If they cared about fraud, they would have ditched magstripes in the US a long time ago.

Good luck using gait recognition on crowds of thousands of people per hour, many being partially occluded, in a reliable manner. I can't see it comparing to RFID cards anytime soon. Best I can tell, current state of the art is still limited to a single individual, in the centre of the frame, in a perfect profile shot.

This comes off as a puff piece devoid of any critical thinking.
Would you downvote me for saying yes?
Dotcom was a buisness landrush/landgrab

Presumably whoever owned petstore.com would become the market leader in all pet products, because consumers were expected to just type in, literally, "petstore.com" and then shop there

The advent of truly usable search engines, not just internet directories, popped this bubble and SEO became critical, until Google modified their adwords bidding market and changed the way buisness happens again

Anyways, Moviephone.com would be the portal for all movie related stuff, a huge industry. Buying it for $100 million dollars is a lot, but owning 95% of the online movie industry would have been huge. In speculators eyes, it could have become the next Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime video... combined.

You were buying the domain name, and all the speculative things you could do with it, as the one stop shop on the internet for that thing.

The guy who owns the NBA team the Mavericks, he owned Broadcast.com which he sold for ~$1.1 Billion. It was supposed to be the radio/audio book version of moviephone.com
In CO, you get ballots for each party and you get to pick one.
I followed one of the links, tried to register (which IRC does not require) and was declined, "registration disabled".

About the experience I expected, tbh.

I'll stick with IRC. Given up on Mozilla long ago.
> Won't the pointer also be hot in cache in this case?

Depends on the situation; the parent was somewhat vague.

As one example, suppose you've previously created a `struct foo`, but you haven't accessed it in a long time; then fetching any of its fields will probably be a cache miss. But if it contains a pointer, fetching data from that pointer will probably be a second cache miss – which can't even be started until the first one completes, because the CPU doesn't know what the pointer is. If `struct foo` contains the data directly, there's a good chance it all fits in a single cache line (typically 64 bytes). But even if it's split across, say, two cache lines, the CPU knows which cache lines need to be accessed, so it can send off the second request without waiting for the first one to complete.

That said:

- Strings are variable length, so they usually can't be stored in place anyway, although some languages/frameworks have "small string optimization", meaning that sufficiently short strings are stored in the space that would otherwise be used for the pointer and length.

- In general, Swift is hardly a good role model when it comes to performance. :p
Yesterday was the largest upswing in market history and the entirety of RH missed out.
Quill – Asynchronous Low Latency Logging Library (C++14)
Terrible take and wishful thinking; this article will not age well.

You can't write off the Diamond Princess as "well the people on it were old, so their mortality doesn't count." It's the one natural experiment where we do have good, hard numbers. In terms of access to treatment, they're the optimal scenario, and so it's likely that the mortality rate will be around 1% for older people with access to treatment. This is far higher than the flu and a disaster in itself.

But what makes this a mega-disaster is what happens when the medical system is overloaded. That's when you get the scary 2%+ overall mortality. And we are getting closer and closer to the point of no return where community transmission swamps all medical facilities. It is what happened in Wuhan, and it can happen in Western countries.

Beyond that, the author piles on as many optimistic assumptions as possible: every death is accurately counted! Millions of people are asymptomatically infected! The USA will be as effective as Singapore in responding! Cases are peaking and will start to decline! I'd usually refrain from calling something like that idiotic, but since he's more than happy to lodge insults like hysterical and witch hunt, yes, he's saying idiotic things.

The thing is, by approaching the issue with seriousness and diligence, it's possible to avoid that death spiral! China did in all of its other provinces. And, in a better and more applicable way, Singapore has responded with effectiveness and humanity.

But it seems like the main opinions among the ruling class in the US range from "it's just the flu" to "it's a hoax!"
In the US the dates of DST were changed during the Bush administration as a cheap political gimmick to make it look like he was doing something about energy prices. It didn't help much in that regard but caused plenty of chaos in the IT sector where a significant amount of systems were designed to adjust twice a year for DST but weren't designed for the date span of DST to change.
The term "post-modern" has become immensely overloaded so is hard to use clearly. Obviously, the notion that "everything is relative" is even self contradictory but is not what is meant when the term is used seriously.

It is the idea that some values are absolute and can be forced on other that was originally being objected to. Some historical cases are obvious others are still ambiguous. Thus a debate is interesting.

Likewise, inside our society we have crucial rights justified as being "endowed by our creator". We would need to justify these values on something stronger than a particular theology to explain their universality. So again, discussion is worthwhile. I believe raising this point is what caused a ruckus in Iran.

But yes, the term "post-modern" has made it's way into pop culture and is so widely used it is often hard to figure out what the speaker means by it. Better would be specifically referencing "Rorty's ideas" which I am certain you would find coherent and very intriguing. Rorty was most definitely not in Iran to say "theology is as good as democracy".
My local grocery store ( Wegmans) in a larger New York city has at least 60 options of chocolate bars available. A local pharmacy in my tiny rural village with a small selection still has 12-15 unique chocolate bars. This is a different selection than the standard candy aisle.

There is no good mass market American chocolate, but there is readily available access to gourmet chocolates and pseudo gourmet chocolates.

Chuao Chocalates comes to mind as having frequent distribution and can be found in many places, Sees chocolates is fairly easy to find and has been around for a century,it gets mentioned on cooking shows so I think it has some prestige/familiarity to it.

Gertrude Hawk chocolates exists in many eastern us malls (maybe elsewhere), it's made not far from Hershey park. The samplers arent bad, never really gave it a proper try.

I happen to like Godiva chocolates which is owned by Campbell's soup company and also has a factory near Hershey's but that is maybe nostalgia as I often purchased them only around Christmas and rarely even consider buying them now.

Ghirardelli is American and Theos chocolate has some esteem.

By conventional meaning of mass market, I believe only Lindt and Ghirardelli qualify and fit the description of "good"

I recently tried Callier chocolate which I read had quite a prestigious swiss heritage, it blew away any mass market Hershey/Mars "chocolate" bars but it wasnt particularly exceptional compared to similarly priced artisanal chocolates already available in the local grocery store.
Depends on the company. If it’s a marketplace like Uber then you’re burning a lot of operations. If it’s ML or heavy compute then AWS bills.
10-year Treasury yield falls below 1% for the first time after Fed slashes rates
That only applies to the official java builds from Oracle. Distro maintainers can always compile their own openjdk binaries.
> Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green, he is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the poor.

Does the name still stand?
Perhaps, but there’s nothing like a technology arms race to increase innovation.
When I first got my i7 6-core with quad GTX-690s (2 GPUs per card), I naively let Seti@Home run rampant when the computer was idle. Room they were in got up to around 90F when I let it run 100%.

Sad to see they're shutting down.
> I think they have really democratized stock trading

How does "free" = "democratizing"? Stocks have been easily accessible for years to retail investors.

> their presence pushed a lot of big players to adopt the same offering

Misleading, big brokers were already going down this path.
Perhaps they just mean to use it at point-of-sale instances. Instead of entering your PIN, you now have to prance around in front of a camera for 10 seconds.

Deploy countermeasures: administer the silly walk!
That’s correct, the US population density correlates fairly closely with the average annual rainfall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...
"But working from home isn’t the optimal version of working remotely."

... for you. it's pretty perfect for me. i love my home office, i'm never tempted to go flop on the couch, i get to go for walks to visit my beehives during lunch. once a week i spend some morning time working in a coffee shop just to remind myself there are other humans. that's sufficient.
Absolutely, but at the same time, the founder and team with nothing to lose is more likely to pull a rabbit out of that blood-equity-soaked hat.

I'd rather pitch into the latter, which I suppose is sunk cost fallacy manifest.
The other thing about the original vision is that it isn't even remotely clear what the hell they're doing. Are we really talk about having ML models understand caselaw? (In which case, thompson reuters is going to be way ahead anyway always, and they suck, see, e.g., the horror that is the latest version of westlaw.) Or are they talking about building a bunch of efficiency tools?

I feel like the latter model could have worked as a law firm doing the latter. Like, an actual, ordinary, perfectly milquetoast, law firm, hourly billing and all, except with an R&D division that tries to build workflow efficiencies and uses them to compete on hourly rate. Which, come to think of it, isn't that just what Dentons is doing? So maybe it's just American lawyers that are hopelessly hidebound.
How could the average technically savvy user, let's say willing to use Google a bit but not to obtain a biochemistry degree, tell which subprojects are possible bioweapons? Not a rhetorical question.
It can be really brutal.

One of my earlier startups had multiple acquisition offers which would have made all the shareholder employees quite happy, but since the offers wouldn't have moved the wealth needle of the already wealthy founders by an order of magnitude, they turned them all down.

Years later and $100m+ of VC money burned the place went bankrupt and I now have some very expensive toilet paper in a folder somewhere.
Back in November I went to Green Bank. 'Outside the wire' (their fence) there really isn't much other than a few signs. Inside the fence they allow nothing but diesel vehicles, phones had to be shut off or if they couldn't they had a faraday cage for them. They do have a truck that hunts down stray RF signals. They shared w/ us that they have found broken electric tooth brushes (which they replaced for free) among the normal stuff that puts out RF. So while it's not RF 'free' (there's cell signal outside the fence area), it is RF reduced. They know of all the signals in the area and filter them out of the results. Really neat place to visit.
Prometheus is not really a database, because the only operation allowed is query, you can't insert/delete data manually. For many use cases, that's not acceptable.
Overclocked to 450! Way more bang for your buck!
A US Bill from 1974 shares so much DNA with the GDPR, it could be its ancestor
I always wondered if the hybrid model was an experiment at ways around regulatory barriers to lawyers sharing fees/profits, a la a global multinational leasing the very expensive brand, logo, and internal software from tax-haven incorporated HQ... It's not sending away profits, it's just licensing some incredibly valuable IP, honest!

If the legal services arm was able to license the name and technology in a permitted way (like how a law firm can of course get their website and IT done by experts), it would seem to present an experiment at whether such a structure could act as a conduit to channel fees back into an investment vehicle.
Wait, what?? There's an invisible DNS server running inside your VPC? I get what you're saying wrt cached DNS lookups but this seems wild.
Maybe you should read the article. The full headline is:

"Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee After Parent Company’s Bankruptcy "
luuuucky. i only got the k6 :O
This was exactly what atrium was doing except their price point was realistic
High end firms can easily be $800+/hr for attorneys. I believe Wilson Sonsini was $1200/hr for an attorney I was recommended.
I’d be interested to read a deep technical post-mortem like those which have become fairly standard among other big tech companies. Hoping Robinhood does the right thing here.
People lost the opportunity to place orders. Determining the actual cost is of course impossible since you don't know what orders people would have placed.
>complex distributed systems

amazon has been using TLA+ to prove/check correctness of production distributed algorithms and systems for about a decade
Its somewhat unique in the open source category.

As a column store engine that supports (hybrid) SQL, manages its own storage and clustering, and has only one external dependency (Zookeeper), I believe its main competitor is Vertica which can be very expensive. I assume Oracle, IBM, and MS have column stores as well and for a cost.

Greenplum is a Postgres fork, and same scale requires much more hardware. Citus is row based, and therefore will lag in scan time for many OLAP query patterns. Presto, Hive, Spark, all of the "post-hadoop" options may scale larger, but will also lag in scan time, and have significant external dependencies - mainly storage.

Clickhouse is easy to install, configure a cluster, load and query. It does have limitations, but currently all horizontally scaled database platforms do.
I believe it's the beginning of the Great Plains and generally lacks water. It's not dry like a desert, but compared to the temperate forests and rivers of the East, South, and Mid-West, it is. It is intensively farmed now, using pumped aquifer water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer), but it never developed the population density of the East. Geology maps also show this divide, so it is based on the underlying rocks, as well as weather patterns from the Rocky Mountains I suppose.