skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scott Galloway is very right. It is incredibly difficult to out-earn the market consistently, and virtually all day traders lose money. (like 95% or so)

it really is glorified gambling and the app is designed to treat money as if it is a sort of gaming currency. In payments there's evidence that digital currency or credit/debit cards compared to cash increase the propensity to spend. I think it's very likely that the 'cute' user interfaces of these apps increase the propensity to invest.

There should be significant more regulation here to make sure that young people don't ruin their entire financial futures or even take their lives, like the 20 year old mentioned in the article. There are no social welfare gains by this kind of gambling on the stock market (in fact there may be externalities, like the volatily Scott mentions).
Sorry. I doubt with their army of lobbyists and influence this will work. They will simply get the rules interpreted in their favor. Historically there is only one example I know of where corporations changed their bad behavior. First the tobacco companies only admitted that smoking caused cancer and changed their marketing after the 46 states attorneys generals sued and won $200 billion plus payments into perpetuity to recoup the medical costs of treating tobacco patients. Only the threat of a lawsuit that will bankrupt them will get them to change their ways.
Sid explicitly says he expects we (Quora) avoided the pitfalls of hybrid companies in this comment: https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Remote-First-at-Quora/comment/...
Doesn’t even matter if this is intended, it is the outcome. 2020 really is the year of peak stupidity - I hope 2021 is an improvement.
Robinhood is not the first. The whole concept of day trading already "gamified online trading into an addiction", and that started in 1975 and had its peak popularity in the 80s. The author is really just complaining that this gamification is now in app format.
Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
Please don't do flamewars and tedious tit-for-tats on HN. If a comment is egregious, flag it; otherwise, it's best to just let go, even if it means leaving something wrong on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Day trading has been a problem ever since it was invented, 45 years ago.
Well beauty of bitcoin is that you can be your own payment processor:
https://btcpayserver.org/

There are other alternatives available as well.

Main problem is taxes and legality though, right now it is better to sell your software with fiat money and convert it to bitcoin through personal investment, at least this way your company won’t be under legal risk due to accepting BTC.
Please stop doing flamewars on HN. Crossing into personal attack like that is particularly not ok and will get you banned here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Popper disagreed rather famously.
Yes - Samsung is a gigantic fab.
At least Firefox still lets you put back a dedicated search box
Replicated on iOS 12.3.1 iPhone SE
This must be a pretty localized experience since so many professionals I see use Nikon, Canon, and Sony in sport, wedding, and product shoots. I would even say the opposite-the only judgement I had for camera brand was from a Nikon pro when I was renting a Sony because he knew I already owned Nikon-he tried to make sure I wasn’t considering a switch.
Thanks for sharing those links, now I am addicted :-)

This from the second quiz bothers me:

>>On the witness stand, the defendants said they had been duped by Mr. Wildstein, a self-confessed liar and political trickster, into believing that the closings were part of a legitimate traffic study.

"self-confessed liar" is a phrase present even in dictionaries - as example usage, no less. I have not seen many instances where it is substituted with "confessed liar".
Personal attacks are not ok. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Thanks to sousveillance, we've caught far too many cops on video, shooting unarmed people in the back as they're running away. I call that summary execution. Do you agree?

Another pattern we see a lot of is cops escalating situations, and then when the accused (rather understandably) matches that escalation, then the officer kills and claims self defense. I'd actually describe that as premeditated murder, because the danger is a predictable result of the cop's own actions.

In the very rare instance of an emplaced shooter, where less lethal means cannot be used and the area cannot be evacuated, then yeah, it makes sense to shoot back defensively.

Way too much of police training is focused on killing people. Training, as is done in much of the world, should focus on de-escalation.

More cops die in traffic than at the hands of criminals. It's an astonishingly safe job, considering the focus placed on "remorseless killing".
He wrote Liberal Crime Squad [0] which is GPL.

If LCS is any indication, the code in DF will be a horrible mess.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/
Typically the recommendation is to write your own python plugin/filter/test if you find yourself writing a lot of python in yaml, that way the yaml stays sane and readable, and just has some light Jinja.
Miners can choose which transactions go into their blocks. If enough of them agree to a certain action, chances are one of them will be the successful miner of the block.
The issue is saying "we don't use <these two things>" isn't suspiciously specific. What people actually want, which is "we don't use <these 87 things>" is.
You might want to read this study on that topic:

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf
It's a perfectly valid comment to people who want to get rid of "hate speech" but say nothing about the popularity of gangsta rap within this same crowd.

I never understood this.
No. The only thing needing regulation for these companies is their marketing messaging, and packaging messaging.
Absurd article.
I first traded stocks during the dot com bubble. People have barely caught even the smallest amount of speculative frenzy the past 20 years since.

I don't think we will ever match the level of addiction people had when online trading was a new thing.
In case anyone wants to try out the game, these are two great tutorials for very recent releases:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtQyRNNEMRA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeQJOC1H38

Head over to the Bay12 Games forums (https://bay12games.com/dwarves/) and find one of the noob packs for your platform (there are versions for macOS, Windows, and Linux). Download and install it. It'll take a few hours to create the world, so let it run over night or plan to watch DF tutorials while it runs.
I think not. The difference between cellphone and APS-C cameras is in both quality and category. A dedicated camera has an ergonomic shape, a viewfinder, interchangeable lenses, hardware dials, switches and buttons. The people who don't care about those things have already switched to smartphones, while the people who enjoy photography as a hobby and the professionals will never want to give them up. The sensor of an APS-C camera is 20x as large as a cellphone's, so you're already well into the region of diminishing returns. Is a full frame sensor that is 30x as large really that much more compelling? Especially when you consider the downsides that come with supporting a larger sensor (larger camera body, larger and more expensive lenses, etc.) Maybe it is now, but advances in sensor technology continue to make APS-C good enough for more and more purposes.
And here's a video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0xTe8fTeUgpQX6ymGcR8zputg

Note this is on the iOS 14 beta
Reminder that quora was part of a huge data breach, yet they still, to this day, employ dark patterns that force you to make an account.
Ask HN: When Do You Relax?
I've tried googling the answer to this, and what surprises me is that there's no tips to relaxation. If I followed the tips written out there, I would wake up at 4 AM, meditate, go for a run and a swim, get your best work done, prepare for day job, do work, have lunch without looking at your phone, do more work, go home, hit the gym, play with kids, go to bed early to wake at 4 AM.

Where does that leave relaxation, besides sleep? It makes it very tempting to sneak time off other schedules, like work, family time, or late nights to relax. In reality, that's an unhealthy habit, and you just end up with not getting work done and/or not enough sleep and exercise.

If you could intentionally block off a few hours of your day or week to entertainment, when would it be and what would you enjoy most?
> This is definitely wrong

I'm sorry, but I disagree. You are misreading the link I gave.

> the link you provided yourself states that the total Hilbert space is a tensor product

No, it doesn't. What it says is that "n-particle states" are vectors in a symmetrized (assuming the particles are bosons) tensor product of n single-particle Hilbert spaces. Then the full Hilbert space is the (Hilbert space completion of the) direct sum of all the n-particle state Hilbert spaces, for n from zero (the n = 0 Hilbert space is just the vacuum state) to infinity.

The subtlety here is actually the proper definition of the "single particle" Hilbert space. This Hilbert space is in fact the space of all possible "modes", or more precisely the single particle Hilbert space has a basis consisting of all possible "modes", where each "mode" is a plane wave with a different momentum 3-vector (and polarization, if we include polarization, but we can ignore that complication for now). So each "single particle state" is either a single "mode", or a linear combination of multiple "modes" (which is how we can form things like wave packets).

The "n particle states" are then states containing n particles, each of which can be in any one of the single-particle states, either a single "mode" or a linear combination of them (and each particle does not have to be in the same single-particle state as any other). The full Hilbert space is then, as above, the space of all possible n-particle states, for n from zero to infinity.

It should be evident from the above that the full Hilbert space has a subspace for each single "mode", consisting of all states that only contain particles in that "mode" alone. This subspace will, as I said before, consist of the vacuum state, plus all states that can be obtained by applying the creation operator for the chosen "mode" to the vacuum state an arbitrary number of times.

> substitute "square-integrable over the finite size of the oscillator"

Doesn't help; a plane wave can't exist in a region of finite size, so with your restriction plane wave states don't exist at all.
Are you asking me if I think Facebook should have to host that content? Naw, seems like a better fit for tiktok.
You realize in the 1920s many hotels had a bucket shop in the lobby that you could place a bet on stocks?

Pretending this is something new is really laughable when things were 100X crazier literally a 100 years ago.
> Most websites and other services are uniquely identifiable by their IP(-range).

You are very correct about that:

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf

Basically Encrypted Client Hello (the new name for eSNI) and DoH/DoT are only useful for websites hosted on global CDN providers like Akamai, Cloudflare and so on.
First Day of Hacker News
My buddy has the inside scoop on this new company called “Pets.com”. I’m gonna go all in because everything is vertical right now
Twitter is awful for conveying longer text. Here's an unroll of it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html

The key text is: @threadreaderapp unroll

If you reply to a Tweet thread with that, it'll unroll it and create a link like that.
Haha, it's like PayPal is actively trying to make itself completely obsolete, especially when you couple it with this news: https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-venmo-to-roll-out-crypto-buy...
Was there commission-free trading in the 70's and 80's? And how did you access it? These platforms are about access. No commission and you can trade 24/7 from your phone. I imagine day trading in the 80's was considerably move involved and expensive.
I have a Nikon dSLR that seizes up electrically if left with 70-300 VR attached for weeks. Fixes itself if left with a fresh battery and an 18-55.

I wonder how often that will happen with other brands like Alpha.
This was written by team.video who is in a hyper competitive space. Every hour spent on Aviary is an hour not spent on differentiating customer features. Why? There are a ton of open source CM tools that give you same functionality and do it better. This is a problem you should have solved after you were a) profitable b) at scale and c) probably not even then.
It’s definitely better this year, but I don’t want my currency to fluctuate 10%.
what's a "relax"? :(
I found this study interesting:

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf

So essentially ESNI/DoH are only useful for websites on global CDN providers? Why would Mozilla be interested in enhancing those companies profits?
People are going to assume that you're bringing this up as a trope of culture war and race war, and I'm doubtful that they would be particularly wrong to assume that. That makes it flamebait, which is against the site guidelines. Please don't post like that to HN.
How many Americans were staying in these types of hotels? The new thing is that stock trading is not universally accessible, even to those with very limited means.
“Higher quality than Yahoo answers” is an extremely low bar.
Quora is not user friendly. Asking me to login every time to read some answers to marginally interesting questions is not a value proposition to me.
Sure. Sign up for https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/faqs-cash-managemen... and Fidelity will give you a routing and bank account number. As long as you choose Fidelity FDIC-Insured Sweep as your sweep (uninvested cash) account, it’ll be there until you decide what to do with it.
I moved to TeamCity from Jenkins a few years ago.

At first, I thought TeamCity's UI was batshit crazy. In retrospect, I think it was just that it's not organized at all like Jenkins is, and I needed to re-adjust my mental model for how the build server should work. Or something like that. All I know is that, at some point along the way, I came to use TeamCity to automate more things, while still spending less time futzing with it than I did with Jenkins.

That said, I feel like TeamCity is also distressingly full of partially implemented features and flaky UX. It's just that its warts tend to accumulate on the periphery, rather than directly between me and the thing I'm trying to get accomplished before I can go home.
>>fulsome

Agree. I was tripped by that too. Here is an example from Merriam-Webster[1]:

"the passengers were fulsome in praise of the plane's crew"

The usage here seems to be in a similar context.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fulsome
Don't audio applications tend to use a ton of floating point? I thought that was one of the few areas where x86 still has a significant advantage.
Best Buy rather than Apple store.

Of course the most obvious explanation of all is that someone set up a domain redirect for the sole purpose of getting a front page on HN and Reddit. This domain seems to be very poorly ranked, yet here everyone is plugging it into their browsers and telling Google and everyone else how very important it is.
Less than 10% of my network on WhatsApp.
CDDA is gradually evolving into more of a Dwarf Fortress than a Roguelike as time goes on.
I dunno I guess I've been around a lot of people who fall in the middle, that's a place that Apple doesn't cater to. By the middle I mean, small studios (one or a few people). Their high-end stuff certainly caters to higher-end professional markets.

What's more the way they've handled their software (Logic, transition to FC X) doesn't seem like professional users are foremost on their mind.
Has Apple mentioned something about Thunderbolt 3 or USB 4 on this new Macs?
So far it seems this has not yet affected housing sales much more than the typical seasonal: https://www.movoto.com/san-francisco-ca/market-trends/

Look at the 5 year chart. it basically shows inventories are still roughly the same place they were at this time the last 5 years.
Cracking the Code Review
Apple uses this to promote first party services like Apple Music, Apple News, and App Store. All of these generate revenue for Apple.

If they land on Google, then Google would be promoting YouTube Music, Google News, etc, which is lost revenue for Apple.
Yeah, some preliminary research on Insured Sweep after your first comment suggests this may be a good way to go. Much appreciated.

Any quick thoughts on parking it in a TIPS ETF?
Day trading was considerably more expensive a few years ago. It's free/cheap now due to Robinhood.

You cannot trade 24/7, there is no access to futures via Robinhood. Definitely turns people into degenerate gamblers though.
> Who taught you that you were entitled to more?

First of all, please watch your tone and words. You do not feed me, neither do you give me pocket money. I won't tolerate this holier-than-thou attitude from anyone apart from those who directly pay me money for survival or feed me.

> Are you a patron

Yes, I (along with millions) bought his books before it was turned into a series, thus making him famous. He'd have been yet another failed author if we hadn't bought his books before he was famous.

> supporting his way of living

Yeah, millions of people like me bought his book when he wasn't famous, that's the reason he got famous. So we are supporting his way of living. He'd have been yet another failed author if we hadn't bought his books before he was famous.

If we hadn't bought his books, he wouldn't have become famous. His books would have flopped and he wouldn't have gotten the HBO contract.

Do you see the irony of your message?

I am not 'entitled' to his work. I don't abuse him online. Neither do I send him hate mail saying 'GIVE ME THE BOOK'.

But I am disappointed that he is not following the unwritten contract of not starting work on a new work without finishing the promised work.

You are being quite rude just like Neil. You think that an author can announced 2 books are pending and not work on it for 11yrs and readers should just suck it.

This isn't a one off book like what Archer/Deaver writes. IN that case, I would not expect them to write another book. But this was said to be an epic fantasy with 10 books.

Of course readers will expect.

But the issue isn't that he is writing slow. As a writer, I more than understand that. The issue is, he is writing prequels upon prequels while it seems as if he has abandoned the original books. he is on record saying 'just like LoTR was not JRRM's main work. GoT isn't mine'

If he had said so 11yrs ago, I wouldn't have wasted money buying all his books. as would a million others. then he wouldn't have become famous and we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.

That being said, I do not like the online hate against him for not finishing the book. I am just privately sad that he is not following his unwritten contract. Of course he doesn't owe anything to me personally. But he does owe to the readers who made him famous.
Nuclear war with Russia would have ended the human race already?
But that’s exactly how I would say it: “millions of dollars was at stake.” To me, what you propose seems like a mistake someone just learning English would make.

Give it a specific sum: you wouldn’t say “two million dollars were at stake,” you would say “two million dollars was at stake”. I admit it’s pretty weird, but you also say “two million dollars is a lot of money,” not “two million dollars are a lot of money.”
These were not special hotels, this was a feature like getting free breakfast today. This is how crazy the 1920s thirst for stock speculation was.

Not just betting on stocks but betting on stocks with huge leverage too. You want to bet on a $100 stock then go down to the hotel lobby and put up $10.
> There is no social contract for concluding a series.

I never said there is a social contract. I said that he is breaching the trust in readers. The trust that made him rich and famous in the first place.

There is. People bought his first 5 books because he had promised he'd release the 6th and 7th book by 2019 and 2020. If they knew he'd never release them, they'd have not bought it.

He is rich and famous because we readers bought his books way before he was famous.

if millions wouldn't have bought his books, he'd not have been famous and you wouldn't come here to defend him.

We readers, collectively are owed a book, not personally. And the main issue which you ignore is that he is writing prequels upon prequels. That is the main problem I have.
Hey, Adam from MeetButter (the OP) here!

I don't believe you can slap together something in 3 weeks and call it a day.

We did it to gather market sentiment and feedback for an idea, any signals or signs to show that we were in the right direction.

Your MVP is the start of a conversation with your users / target market. Reiteration and pivoting your initial MVP based on user feedback will slowly inch you towards product-market fit. That is the long, hard slog.

In regards to building low-hanging fruits (hackathon timeframe ideas), some low-hanging fruits have deeper roots. You might find deeper problems that give you better insights on how to build something that people really want.
Extend Spinnaker with Armory (YC W17) to Make Software Delivery Tooling Valuable
In the 18th century, new thinking about what it meant to be male and female
I spend zero minutes a year on FB. I still recognize that it harms those who do use it.
I'm a bit confused - agent vs. agentless isn't obviously correlated to continuous vs. on human action to me. Write a cronjob / systemd timer / scheduled task / Jenkins job / Travis cronjob / GitHub Actions scheduled event / CloudWatch + Lambda / whatever you like to run your Ansible playbook, from one machine/container/whatever, on your entire fleet. (It's certainly no harder than writing a cronjob or whatever to run your config management on every machine - if you can schedule tasks on all your machines, you can certainly schedule them on one.)

That gets you the standard advantages of agentless setups, including not requiring the runtime of your config management tool to be everywhere, being able to reprovision ephemeral + immutable cloud resources, and being able to centrally report errors, without any more risk of configuration drift or bitrot.
In Rimworld, the most entertaining mode is the one where you start with only one wounded colonist with no gear and no food.

You have to build a shelter, craft some rudimentary weapons, hunt, and then survive your first raid.
If facebook gives in to moderation based on silicon valley politics they're done for.
Nice, thanks! Now that you remind me I’m sure I’ve seen that move before, but forgot about it and have been frustrated when editing urls every day since. I think this is the worst thing about using an iPhone for me and probably a lot of other users. Here is the full incantation to get it to work:

1. Touch the address bar and the keyboard will appear.

2. Long press on the spacebar (other parts of the keyboard won’t do it) until a cursor appears in the address bar.

3. Without lifting your finger after the long press, start dragging your finger left and right. The cursor will move.

Maybe writing that out will help me remember. If only there was some affordance in the ui indicating this common use is supported.
I go with ExpressJS and Knex so I can setup a backend RESTful API within few minutes.

For big project, I use loopback.
> if he's talking about how you can decompose states into superpositions of coherent states of the whole field.

Yes, that's what I was talking about.