skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quarantining made me realize just how much I spend on food and alcohol. And while don't get me wrong, I love a good meal and a night out with friends, we will definitely be reeling that in a bit even after all restrictions are lifted. And a night in cooking a great meal and opening up a nice bottle of wine (that is much cheaper than anything we could buy at a restaurant) can be very satisfying too.

One thing that is a bit hard to get around is that we live in a city, and some friends are single, and that going "out" to a public place like a bar or restaurant gives them the feeling that they haven't "given up" on meeting someone for the night, but going to someone's house means its orders of magnitude less likely that someone will just pop up. Even amongst married friends, the spontaneity of having someone just happen to be at the same place you are is a big thrill that just isn't going to happen if they are sitting in my living room. I live in a neighborhood where there is a main drag where most bars/restaurants are, so this happens fairly often.

But taking a step back, my discretionary spending has dropped by 95% and my bank account has swelled at a rate that I could have never imagined without much drop in my overall happiness at all and this is likely to lead to changes in spending patterns for years to come.
It's called frontrunning. I would believe it if they'd do it themselves,as there isn't enough time to pass on the trading data to someone else.
In that case, the email is the username, and the problem remains: are josh@gmail.com and jоsh@gmail.com the same user?

To the system, of course they're different - it's just looking at the bytes. Problem comes when a human interacts with the account. Maybe they see the email on the account and manually type it in to another system. Or records are printed as part of a lawsuit and has to be transcribed.

Allowing indistinguishable characters in unique tokens creates confusion at best. Broadly I agree that we should reduce our reliance on unique identifiers, and I don't have a good answer for the right approach, but certainly we can't abandon the concept of a unique identifier altogether: it predates computers and the character encoding mess we made, by a long time.
So robinhood's crime was... making it easier to trade?

"After funding his account with $15,000 in credit card advances, he began spending more time on the app."

"As he repeatedly lost money, Mr. Dobatse took out two $30,000 home equity loans so he could buy and sell more speculative stocks and options, hoping to pay off his debts. "

"with whom he has three children"

Nothing Robinhood (or anything else) has will cure financial stupidity. Furthermore, anyone who -still- uses robinhood after their various crashes is asking for trouble. I've had zero issues with TD Ameritrade.
If your mitigation of Robinhood's culpability would apply just as straightforwardly to an actual casino, that's a damning statement about what Robinhood is.
Nah, we don't think we should have kids while we're holding full time jobs. We own a house and live in a cheap part of the world. As a developer for a foreign company I can support the family more than well enough on a single part time job, maybe not even that will be needed.
> One explanation: Polynesians came to South America, and then took South Americans onto their boats to voyage back out to sea.

Isn't it easier to assume that both groups reached Easter Island independently and reproduced on the island with each other?
sigh, here we go again..
"Well they sell your trade data to HFT firms before a trade is executed "

Is this actually true? If so it blows me away this this is not illegal, or that the press hasn't destroyed them for it.

RobinHood is has one of the most ridiculous branding efforts ever: 'borne of the Occupy Wall Street' movement, the idea was to empower Millennials to 'break the system' ... by 'buying into the system'??? It's like the perfect script written by a NY agency for a bank to re-position the exact same financial products under the banner of a ridiculous 'empowerment branding', like Exxon creating a hipster brand to sell 'clean oil'.

"Robinhood Raises $323M to Democratize Finance For All" [1].

"Trading app tries to fix a 'rigged' financial system" [2] from CNN.

How does a startup get major news agencies to consistently promote their narratives unchallenged, especially when they're so ridiculous? We saw this a lot with WeWork as well.

I can't figure out is how the press, particularly CNN bought into hook-line and sinker especially early on. They've been consistently promoting Robin Hood and their 'empowering message' with fluff stories, not remotely critical of the materiality of the business. Have a look [3]

Recently, they've started to question some things, and perhaps the press will fall out of love with them and it'll be narrative in the other direction.

There is absolutely something amiss here, if anyone with deep relationships in the PR and story placement care to comment, it would be enlightening as I think that's a big part of the underlying story.

Edit: another great example of the press point-blank driving RH's branding, in this case 'intergenerational' [4]. What kind of agency can get this kind of coverage?

[1] https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2019/7/21/robinhood-raises-3...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2018/09/21/robinhood-fou...

[3] https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/investing/robinhood-baiju-b...

[4] https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/robinhood-and-merry-millen...
What are some high quality non-Material, non-Cupertino themes that any Flutter (mobile) developers can recommend?

Material is well done, except I really don't like the actual design. Cupertino looks more like iOS 7 than iOS 14 and lacks something…
While the topic is interesting, I don’t think the analysis presented in the article series (at least in the first two articles) is particularly compelling.

For one, it relies much on hypotheses about internal though processes, which makes it basically unfalsifiable. Then the author is in my view shooting himself in the foot with the bowling analogy, namely by describing how he noted that he didn’t improve anymore and went to ask a colleague for advice.
How would the same not be possible or even likely for the “expert beginner”?

All of this is much more easily and briefly explained by motivation - for many people in technology, technology is simply not a passion! For them it is just a tool and like also the article mentions, there are few reasons in many companies to spend more time on perfecting your craft - in fact, it might be strictly worse than building career-enhancing relationships.
This is especially true as someone not in a technical position is often not able to assess the quality of the output.
The big question is how did Norway handle elderly care. Did they have employees traveling from Oslo and going from home to home, and house to house, often without time enough to even wash their hands?

Because during the worse time, that was the kind of environment being reported around Stockholm. There were not enough people and a universal lack of safety equipment. Many workers also had to rely on the mass transportation system in order to get between homes. Elderly care, both private and state owned, often operate from a single cental point and fan out.
In this example the argument is made that all statements should be treated equally, but the argument is also made that the weight and intentions of statements matters more. I'd argue that's true given that public figures and people in general walk back their statements after being called out. It doesn't mean they don't mean the original statement. So in the search for truth the most honest and supported position is the evidence presented on Trump's racism. Which is sourced.

So I'm not following on how that's a good example of 'bias' unless there's something specific I'm missing.
The app makes it very easy (and promotes) leveraging beyond your means which encourages subcultures like /r/wallstreetbets and influences young professionals to dump irresponsible amounts of money into the app. Robinhood 100% knows about this and benefits from it, you can argue how complicit they are but there is no doubting that they are in fact complicit.
Man this comes up every time. Pretty much everyone does payment for order flow now, and some brokerages cut you in on it, all reflected in the price of the buy/sell. You should look at overall order quality and not just PFOF because places that do PFOF are trading better than national best average and places that do PFOF are doing worse, it’s a variable.
I would recommend anyone considering Arch to skip straight to Void. It's "like Arch", but it addresses a number of pain points - specifically, its binary repositories are much larger, and its package manager won't let you break the system with incomplete upgrades like pacman will (on Arch, anything short of a complete system upgrade every time you install any package is not guaranteed not to lead to breakage, whereas xbps tracks shared libraries).
So first time leaders are out of luck, or have to be stellar. Gotcha.

And women even more so, not because of any inherent differences in anything but the selection process biases.

Women of color even more so, not because of any inherent differences in anything but selection bias.

Just watch the biases and the whole process even out to an actual chance for all the ideas floating around.

Doesn't have anything to do with teams or ROI when you're talking to a first time pitcher.
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You're the one "assuming" on this thread, not me. I did not assume anything at all. If I "assumed" I wouldn't have commented to begin with.
Both, thanks for clarifying!
I would choose a job that changes overtime, either by my own motivation or because different times require different skill sets. I think most jobs, even complex ones like teaching, become repetitive after all. So I would look for the job that offers the greatest diversity in terms of tasks fitting to my skills & interest. Still looking what exactly that it.
Yeah. That's not Robinhood's fault. That's just a gambling addiction.
Another red herring, and also moving the goalposts.

Quit shilling.
I'll point out that the EU Government has poured an incredible amount of money into the problem of "privacy and enhancing trust" and related topics - if you're in the EU, even as an individual developer you can likely get some of that money through NLNet. Unfortunately it's a hard problem and the other side has a lot of money too.
Many white male founders have had the exact same story with VCs.

If they were black or women they might have assumed it was a matter of VCs being racist or sexist. But this is probably wrong.

Because of these three attributes, one is not like the others.

"I’m a Black woman, mom of three, and I don’t have an Ivy League degree."

Because, regardless of their own race or gender, VCs are highly connected members of the Ivy League.

VCs don't like poor people for the same reason most rich people don't for thousands of years. They believe that poor people are losers. And why would an investor want to bet on a loser?
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Yes, here's the magic sauce: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view

It creates Rust bindings to WKWebView on macOS, Windows::Web::UI on Windows, and haven't looked at Linux yet.
Robinhood is "easy" and mobile first. It wins because of UX.

A conversation I had with a person yesterday. Him: My older coworkers asked me if I use all the new apps like Tik-Tok and Robinhood. Me: With everybody being free now, theres no real reason to start with robinhood. Him: "But is it as easy. If not, dont care."

My counterargument was customer service, but was not persuasive. He has no intention of ever picking up a phone or asking for help. He wants a toy to play with, while he and his friends cant be at the casino. The majority of his money is at Vanguard, hes not moving it to robinhood. It's just something to look at everyday for some entertainment value. Its the same mindset where "I made x today (or at the casino)" but ignore the losses or how much they put in. This is the same group of friends that are excited their $75 in dogecoin is up 50% today, or who are playing with options against Draftkings for the thrill of it. Gambling on gambling. Fun. Games. Thrill.

I can't say with a straight face that the Schwab or Fidelity have mobile apps that are as simple to pick up or navigate. They involve more clicks, and buried options. Free gave robinhood publicity and got people to give it a try. UX keeps them around. If Schwab, Fidelity, Merril, Goldman Sachs/Marcus want to compete in this space, they need lite versions of their platforms that are true mobile first apps AND some kind of value add above Robinhood to lure people to try it and convert. Maybe these arent the customers they are looking for, some of them at least.
So VCs pass the buck to Google, and Google passes the buck to universities. And universities presumably pass the buck to K-12 education, and the whole thing circles back to an abstract debate about “fixing the educational system” (which we have been trying to do for decades with zero results). Do you see why people are mad?
about 1 in 10 is a get rich quick scheme, and with no way to downvote it, meanwhile the ones for college courses which is slightly relevant to me can be downvoted. It makes no sense.
I can see that naming those who didn't even respond could be more appropriate. My takeaway is that you feel let down the most by those who have the most talk, hence higher expectations, which, it seems to me is the gist of the article.
Why are those the only two choices? This is definitely how every woman I have dated (including my wife) has seen it - if we ain't raisin' kids in a house we damn well better be burning a fuckton of jet fuel. Not willing to entertain "just work a lot less" as even a joking third path.

I opted for a kid and a mortgage because at least this way maybe one day me "and my son" will build an electromagnetic rail accelerator[1] and remote-controlled gliders and fly them around together.

The serious answer to that question is probably because straight couples mostly have biological children, with the associated biogenic time pressure driving FOMO. Adoption or surrogacy can in theory be put off indefinitely and I imagine a lot of male-male couples wind up doing just that.

[1] Terminology intentionally changed from "rail-gun" to emphasize peaceful applications to my gun-hating wife.
Summary: if you're specifying a bold font style (700) but not supplying a bold version of the font (only 400 and 600), Safari creates a "faux bold" on its own, while other browsers fall back to the next-closest weight (600).

Neither behavior seems more obviously correct, since you're asking for something that doesn't exist.

Moral of the story: whenever you're using webfonts that come in a variety of weights, make sure you're loading font files in the weights you're intending to use! Otherwise behavior may vary.

(And in contrast to multiple comments here, this has nothing to do with macOS using different/darker types of antialiasing than other operating systems. That is not what this article is about.)
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I get lots of scam ads on youtube. I noticed they started this year.

Also some porn-ish ads. Got one while trying to show a lego-related video to my kid on my phone...

Seeing the scam and porn-ish ads is almost good because in the entirety of 2019 all I saw was ads for insurance. There were days where every video had the same Liberty ad...

Seriously, I wish the content creators I follow would start submitting content to another platform.
Ok now I’m re-heartened, it comes up every time but it gets good rebuttals now xD
The hfts HAVE to give you at least as good execution as is available on the market, and if they trade while they are holding your order your order can’t execute at a worse price than their trades (Manning rule).

HFTs like retail orders because they don’t move the market, so you can collect some of the spread without worrying about getting run over by an informed institutional player.
It is the price of democracy. When voting was democratized it allowed people with all different backgrounds and varying level of education to contribute to the political body of a country. Same thing happened with the democratizing of information with the arrival of the internet and search engines. It allowed the flow and availability of information, all kinds of information, including flat earth conspiracy theories, guides on how to perform violent acts ...etc.

One needs to look at the net sum. In my opinion, the net of the democratizing of stock trading, like other forms of democracies was a positive.
Basic therapeutic massage is a skill that will last a life time. Most people (but not all) can pick this up easily and use it to ease sore shoulders, arms, backs and lower back pain (stay away from the neck). It mostly involves prodding around the muscles to find the tense/tight area that needs some direct pressure applied by the thumb. This causes pain at first but after 10 minutes the muscles relax and the original pain is reduced.

The mildly irritating thing about this skill is that once you learn it you can keep your friends and family up and running but, likely, no one will be able to do the same for you.
Sure, but there hasn't been a release recently. It's generally inconsistent, so I stopped looking a year ago.
> As he repeatedly lost money, Mr. Dobatse took out two $30,000 home equity loans so he could buy and sell more speculative stocks and options, hoping to pay off his debts.

One really can't make an armchair diagnosis based off one observation, but this seems like a telltale sign of gambling addiction. The cycle of thinking that to make up for losses you need to dig the hole just a bit deeper to strike oil and float back out.
I have Abby installed locally as well. I don't use it's cloud components. And I can set my own server exposing ABBYY's API's to rollout my own cloud server instead of theirs, if needs be.
I feel heartbroken seeing the responses to you and her. I'm a woman, but not a minority. I alter my writing style and my authorial voice every day to be less femme and more "neutral." And these exchanges confirm what I'd feared.

It breaks my heart that the first reaction by our community isn't to integrate her lived experience, but to question it. It is to question her being and (implicitly) her right to be in these spaces.

Few have asked what they can do to help. Fewer have offered to help. Instead, commentators have noted her track record. Their comments seem to approach her as if she was the sole founder. She's not. They're equal partners. Why is one given a courteous reply and the other shown the door? Is it not a good signal that she was able to find and work with a highly qualified co-founder? And build the seed of a good team? Isn't it a famous industry maxim to invest in teams?

More disappointing are the comments questioning her accomplishments based on her marriage. They're negating her lived experience and drive based on whom she married. And they're saying that perhaps she owes all of her success - including the gyms - to him. In this very forum, she has been reduced to but an extension of him. And that's heartbreaking.

There's a lot of work to be done in the industry. And I hope that this is a moment of personal growth and reflection for most involved.

There will be a day when these replies will be looked as antiquated. I look forward with hope to that day.
And yet they have all the time in the world to spend on an invasive daemon that pulls updates OTA without user consent. Plus all the other bullshit they've tried (Mir, unity, juju or whatever it's called). Thankfully Debian is still true to the game.
Many snaps provide channels so that you an pin your locally installed version to a specific upstream version. That way you have full control over when you upgrade.
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Everybody does it.

"Schwab earned 1.4% of revenue from payment for order flow, TD Ameritrade about 8.4%, and E*TRADE about 6.1%. Interactive Brokers has historically been quite reticent about participating in internalization, because it doesn’t play well with their sophisticated clients; they earn about 1.1% from it."

Scroll down to "payment for order flow"
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...

Schwab sells theirs as a feature/benefit. https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/active_trader/trading_t...
Does anyone understand why such minor upgrades resulted in a major version bump? Is this some sort of stability check point? Or some other versioning convention?
Sounds like target audience for Robinhood.
I just want to recommend https://jrnl.sh/ which is a neat little terminal tool for keeping journals. I am sure most here could built it them-self over the weekend, but why reinvent the wheel. It works great with tags, dates (both displaying journal entries from date or date ranges and making an entry for a date or a time "yesterday"). It also support encryption and has a wide range of export options.

Funnily enough I actually love notebooks, but I cannot for the death of me keep a neat and nice design when keeping notes using a physical notebook, which means that I loose all motivation. However, having a minimalist tool like jrnl helps me to actually write, not just collect blank notebooks.
RobinHood is NOT free:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-free-trading-on-robinhood-i...
I don't dispute at all that theoretical CS is practically useful, I love it myself and think it offers amazing tools for thought. But my hunch is (and I'm emphasizing that I'm speculating here) that only people who like the material end up retaining enough to see the applications. I feel like some of my fellow students, including ones that I felt were smart (but who were application-oriented learners who have trouble focusing if they didn't see applications right away), had to drag themselves through the theoretical material to barely pass and then promptly forget about it. I imagine their perspective is:

1. They have to work through material that does not particularly interest them and is quite hard, but employers insist that they must master this stuff if they want a good position.

2. In their work environment, no one ever asks them to actually use theoretical CS concepts, and they don't spontaneously see applications themselves.

3. Therefore, they feel academia is out of touch and teaching irrelevant material that has no practical application. With my earlier comment I wanted to point out that I don't believe academia is to blame for their suffering.
i use it when i'm watching a youtube or other video that has interesting parts, but also lots of fluff. PiP lets me do other things and mostly ignore the fluff
I have dabbled in photography, most cameras have "white balance", only half joking but maybe "black balance" needs to be a standard because how difficult it can be depending on persons skin tones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_balance
This is exactly my experience. On top of that snap creates visible directories in $HOME, f-up my loop devices and snap applications can't even access /tmp. Never had any problems with flatpak and appimage. I will however use it solely for proprietary software.
Interesting New NLP and AI V2MOM SaaS Solution