skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all the well known so called discount brokerages sell order flow

The order flow selling is sensationalised. Everyone does it.

But Robinhood’s order flow being so much more valuable than competitors’ is interesting. And the difference cannot be explained solely by small order size. The market is betting Robinhood trades are profitable to trade against. Given how the UX encourages over-trading and complex trading, I’m inclined to agree.
Yeah! I specifically was using the YC definition of "founder" here (VC backed, etc), since that’s what the article is about. Indie hacking is a completely different ballgame!

I've started a few other companies in parallel (for example, https://startupescape.com/) that collectively earn similar to my company salary, and take a few minutes a week to run. You have a limit on how big you can get and how much of a difference you can make, but if you're cool with that then it's definitely possible! In my mind, the only downside is that you're working alone rather than with a team – and it's really fun to have people to share the journey with!
Hosts such as Leaseweb, nForce or Worldstream have 100TB+ plans you can purchase. If you're willing to spend quite a bit, they also offer truly unmetered plans. I've personally used all three of them, but never used more than 100TB a month.
Learnings from 2008:

- banning short selling during a market sell off irreparably harms the options market, exacerbating market dysfunction.

- the tail wags the dog. although equities/asset prices should dictate options prices as an afterthought, options activity often can dictate equities/asset prices.

- options market should not be ignored in policy decisions and should be made more efficient to ensure better price discovery in both options and their underlying assets.

- options market hours should be extended

- big data challenges across broker dealer firms hamper the immediate rollout of all possibilities regarding improving options contracts, the solution being incremental rollout of series and smaller quotes
> frequent and unpredictable mutation

This isn't actually one of the qualities of SARS-CoV-2. Like other coronaviruses, it possesses a proofreading mechanism for its RNA code which drastically lowers its mutation rate compared to something like influenza.
Opening a restaurant is riskier than investing in stocks and way more work.

Investing in individual stocks (what you call "gambling") is more risky than investing in S&P 500 but that's the trade off. More risk leads to more reward (or more loss).

If you invest in AAPL (or AMZN or GOOG or FB or NFLX) at the right time, you will 10x your money in under 10 years.

Is investing in any of those companies "gambling"?

And sure, you can also loose money, but "data from the BLS shows that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open" so you can also loose money opening a business and yet we're not name calling people who open restaurants "gamblers".
Here's a rule of thumb that has served me well: If you're not paying someone to manage your portfolio, you're paying too much.

But: it has only served me well because the person I pay is trustworthy beyond reproach, and has earned that trust from my family over decades.

This is, unfortunately, not a scalable solution.
Cheddar, also. Which is the reason cheeses from anywhere can be called a cheddar as long as it is made the right way.
Transfer roller, of course. Note how print quality degrades as you get towards the bottom of a toner cartridge on a cheap printer, the consistent pattern of print artifacts.

>changed by changing the drum

Sure, it depends on the threat model. If you're producing many documents some time apart, replacing drums and cartridges could be a purchase signal in of itself. If you're doing something very risky, like publishing nuclear weapon plans, ISIS recruitment flyers, or Clinton foundation invoices, then leaking just a few bits of identifying information could be life-ending. Cf https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity
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> The problem with options is that your liability with them can get bigger than your equity

Only if you sell them. A bought option’s maximum downside is the premium.

Does Robinhood let users sell options?
I think Ruby on Rails should be more asynchronous. Doing a http request or a sql query blocks everything until it finishes. The solution is to spawn many instances, but it uses a lot of memory and a slow http service may block all rails instances very quickly.
"You'll spend more time writing emails than writing code. You end up bogged down in organizational issues, not dreaming up cool new features. Rather than having one boss, you now have dozens... investors, customers, employees, etc."

why not hire a COO that takes care of it? Don't do jobs that you are not happy with for long. For some short time that is acceptable, but not for long.

I don't count my customers as by bosses. And as long as you don't give yourself the trouble, they are not your bosses. However it is important to focus on them, try to think about them and know what they need before they even know it.
People keep saying this and all I can say is, have you used Robinhood AND a "real" brokrage platform?

Crashes during periods of high volatility at a much higher rate than competitors, puts detailed views of stock market behind a paywall, actively advertises options with asinine strike/expiries for people who don't get options, no full support for spreads are on their mobile app, their general poor handling of multi leg options strategies resulted in the suicide of person wrongly shown to owe millions in their account, terrible for tracking P/L, terrible fills on orders, the asinine fake chat bot system and lacking support in general

Robinhood as a trading platform is deeply flawed, you say your commissions would outweigh your investments, but a) now zero fee trades is not a differentiator, and b) you're paying commissions on every RH trade with subpar fills, both on time taken to fill and prices, those add up over time, and are why RH could even afford commission free trades in the first place
Your article is really, really good. Thanks for writing that.

I was actually looking at the seeedstudio AI development platform products last weekend and trying to work out what was actually usable and you've made that simple.

Any other tips for someone who knows their way around neural networks and python but not microcontrollers?
I'm certain you've got experience to back up this view of them, but you should consider that it's not a failure of OKRs, but of management setting OKRs, that what your teams OKRs weren't aligned with other teams. I've had similar experiences, but I've also had explicitly cross-team OKRs and OKRS that were broadly set on "Respond to needs of customer teams X, Y, and Z" that were among the most successful that I or others on my team picked up.

Collaboration should be a goal. A management structure that doesn't explicitly make it one is at fault, and they would have failed regardless of the organizational methodology they chose.
Uncontroversial content gets taken down all the time because, as Googlers who show up in those threads like to say, moderation is not webscale.
Did not know that!

Interesting!

Upvoted!
From the people I've talked to it seems to be mostly a lack of understanding. They often self-describe as people who don't know anything about personal finance beyond earning a paycheck and paying bills. They see trading stocks as a step forward.

The concept of diversified risk is not something they are familiar with at all, so they don't see the issue. Many feel comfortable trading consumer company stocks because pop culture and consumer technology are things they have opinions on. And for many it seems like the key to success in trading is finding some insight to bet on, like "everyone loves Netflix, Comcast is doomed," or finding nascent categories like bitcoin or weed. The lack awareness of the complexity of market success makes it harder to grasp why indexes are a more reliable investment strategy.
Nothing and everything. I had several very clear life changing decisions - choosing to move to Germany, choosing to stay here permanently. Those were conscious choices which I made and they drastically changed the course of my life in a very exacting way. So a recap of my 20s was: finished my degree, moved to Germany, my girlfriend moved with me from France, got a job here, bought a house, and bunch of small stuff but those are the big ones. I always think about what would have been/could have been had I not made the choices I did. But I am happy with where I'm at, feels right.
I've deposited loose coins at a couple of Wells Fargo branches in San Francisco, they had counting machines behind the counter.
And if you are paying to read it, someone else is still paying to have you read it.
lol maybe just I'm old , my method these days is: In each of my "many" current+unfinished projects. I usually have a "design.txt" or "design.plan" (when I feel very hackerman) which I just edit with my fav text editor, usually geany. This covers 85% of my note-taking requirements.
Why don't Americans use half dollars?

I think everywhere else I've travelled, someone (or a machine) giving change will optimize it to the fewest coins. £3.85 would be £2, £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p.

The only exception is something like a food stall that's set all their prices to multiples of €1 (I've seen this several times in Germany), they might keep plenty of €1 and €2 coins for change. If someone pays with smaller coins, they have no use for them and will give them as change.
Delivering enough power is the easy part. As a kid I bought a bunch of unregulated soldering irons that cooked their own tip.
What are modern books contaminated with?
That’s usually taken care of with the method of killing. Regardless, in your house is preferable to inside your skin.
Were other problems less about exploration? If not, I'd argue lasertag might be more important.

In various benchmarks the geometric mean is usually used to compare total score across different tasks to account for severe issues with specific tasks.

If your network is the same as IMPALA, why do you show its results with different hyperparameters? Were some of them necessary for the optimization (e.g. reduced batch size)?
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> For those who aren't aware) The problem with options is that your liability with them can get bigger than your equity. You buy 10 shares of Newthing.js for $1000 ($100/share), the maximum you're losing is $1000

> You shortsell NTJS because they use JS instead of Ruby with a strike price of $90 but guess what NTJS rose to $200 per share and now you're down $110 per option you put (minus the call option sell price).

Regarding your edit about the trading example, you are conflating so many things to make your point. People that know how to control risk don't have this problem, or use those terms.

Your risk issue is shortselling an options contract. Not shortselling a stock, which would be the actual opposite of your buying example. The options equivalent of both your buying example, and the corrected opposite, would lower your risk substantially more than purchashing/shortselling in the shares market, instead of increasing your liability.

Let me know if you wish to have that explained. It is distressing for me to see misinformation forming a mob against a benign market, which may result in even worse regulations for managing risk.
Maybe "boss" wasn't the right word – I should have said "Rather than having one boss, you now have dozens of people you're accountable to... investors, customers, employees, etc."

And sure, hiring can make issues go away (I've definitely done it!), but I think you're missing my point – no matter who you hire below you, if you're the CEO, the buck still stops with you. You're the one ultimately responsible.
Thanks. This is the most useful concept I heard so far.
https://waitbutwhy.com/archive
Just installed Ubuntu on a zfs with native zfs encryption. Working real nice
This is NOT the same. With infrastructure based companies you are seeing a lure to get into an hourly priced game that the house ALWAYS wins. You start with 10, because there are many others that are paying 10K. IaaS is a different game.
If you're not chasing unsustainable growth and are willing to pay any long term price for it, you're not doing capitalism correctly
> The financial institutions are not hoarding the money the Fed prints and gives to them. They are using it to make mortgage and commercial real estate loans, because that is what they are allowed to use it for under current policies.

Again I think there’s a misunderstanding of monetary operations that lead to these conclusions. Banks absolutely do just sit on these reserves [1]. Banks do not lend reserves, nor do they need reserves or deposits in order to make new loans. Bank lending is constrained by the demand from creditworthy borrowers, and regulatory requirements. This [2] is a useful primer on modern lending mechanics

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTRESNS

[2]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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That’s funny, my trust profile is exactly the opposite — I’ll use Amazon in a heartbeat for kitty litter, but if I’m ordering a camera lens/PC part/nicer clothing, I’m ordering from the manufacturer/a specialty site.

I think for me, the more everyday a purchase is, the less I care about if the purchase goes wrong in some small way?

I do see where you’re coming from, though - I’ve many times gone through the process of:

“I wonder if amazon has any <niche item>?”

...

“Oh, Amazon has literally dozens of different <niche item>s, cool”
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America is very different from Japan, and Americans respond to different social signals when choosing who to follow. This obviously a terrible idea for society in general, but you gotta promote to the market you're in :/
This is interesting but I’d have to assume that the actual cost Vimeo is charging is not an important factor here. The developer time spent setting this up would quickly exceed the annual fee for Vimeo in just an afternoon. That excludes the ongoing maintenance and inevitable edge cases you would encounter over time. Still fun, but I don’t think Vimeo’s price justifies this effort alone.
Have you been to Germany? Good luck with getting any cards accepted. And I think you misuse credit for debit - in UK many online retailers only accept debit cards and until the lockdown many mom and pops still really seemed to hate getting out that card machine.
I'm sure these irons are a thousand times better than those I bought as a kid.
There are several other studies that are indicating that spread isn't as high among children as adults. See https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/children-over-age-...

The article is arguing a point, but it also links to a lot of the other papers I've seen.

Note that "not as transmissible" doesn't mean "not transmissible". It's entirely possible for the disease to be harder to transmit in kids but still be enough to sustain community spread. I think we don't know yet.

That's not a full-throated endorsement of reopening schools, but it should inform a risk/reward based approach to what institutions should close or open and when.
Kissinger blames the entire slide into the Great War on blunder after blunder[1].

I was surprised to learn from Zweig's first-hand account how much Orwell's MiniTru was based on western behaviour during the Great War.

https://ia801609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1...

p.182 "German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore."

[1] Among which: having remembered the iron fist but having dropped the velvet glove:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_the_Pilot#/media/File...

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So why is it called binary if it’s not binary?
Of course there are multiple possible forms to the same function, and even the workers segment is subject to silly whims of fashion. However, a set of basic practical and durable work pants generally looks the same now as they did 20 years ago, and will probably look about the same 20 years from now.

If you buy from the fashion-adjacent brands, some of which have also introduced streetwear collections, of course they will reflect some trends. If you buy from brands that purely make work clothes, practicality still comes first, because if they don't last, they just lost a repeat customer. The main drivers in that segment are durability and comfort, not looks.

Generally I just try to avoid clothes with obviously tacked-on flair and garish design elements. That means I mostly buy straight forward work pants and shirts, polos/t-shirts with no logos (or minimal logos for polos, they're hard to find without the traditional little logo on them), and boots/shoes in subdued or clean classic designs. I like the Norwegian M77 military boots because they're affordable, comfortable and super durable, and because they don't scream "look at me I'm so tacticool!", unlike a lot of newer designs. They've been made unchanged since 1977, and they obviously got it right.

Is it fashion or anti-fashion? I don't know, I just don't want to be a walking billboard for silly trends.

I've had this discussion a number of times, and I guess it really bugs people that not everyone cares obsessively about fashion and outward appearance as they do.

Just stop buying trends. Buy sustainable and long-lasting. Repair when things break. Keep the same things for as long as possible instead of buying something new all the time. Frequent thrift shops.
This made me sad to read. Not everyone should found a company. Frankly, in school, the people who annoyed me most were the ones who vowed to be an “entrepreneur.” Always sounded pretentious. But, as someone who has garnered wealth and happiness from creating something from scratch, I do hope we continue to celebrate, if not idolize, that. And, I hope, we remember the humble beginnings of Yahoo, eBay, Google, Dropbox, Facebook, AirBnB, Cloudflare, etc. Not everyone needs to be a founder to be successful. But I hope everyone will continue to believe they can be one. Not for themselves, but for what they can build for the world.
I used to have a video-projector with a wide lens in a similar sized apartment. Great for movies and slow paced video-games.
First of all,you can use HTML video element and host the video yourself. (This works in non-js browsers too. You can enhance it by video js scripts though for js enabled browsers.).

I think that peertube will be another good option. You can self host it and there are also many available public instances of it. This is particularly useful if your userbase is very large because it uses Bittorrent(webtorrent) p2p to reduce load on servers and it increases availability of content if viewerbase is huge.
James Hoffman
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
It's not inherently bad to make it easy to trade, but they specifically target (among others) people who don't understand the risks they're taking. If you're a hardline believer in individual responsibility, there's nothing wrong with that. But by the same logic you could put cigarette vending machines on every corner.
That's a 33% profit. Anyhow, considering inflation, he still lost money.
Aircraft carriers are too damn expensive. We should probably build more of them to spread the R&D part.
What the hell is happening in Portland?
There are still plenty of options in Europe, it is a matter of being picky.

As for image quality it is miles ahead of crufty CRT displays, Sony Triniton or the like.
In which country is downloading a copyright film a crime, punishable by fines or prison sentences?
I think I am one of the few people who enjoys all sorts of coffee.

I have had Espresso in many citys in Italy, all the hip Third Wave coffees, but I can still enjoy a Nespresso, a drip machine, Mokka, Turkish coffee, DeLonghi or Jura type coffee or Aeropress. I even find Starbucks has its own taste.

They all taste different. I just don‘t get the people who insist coffee can not be bitter and Starbucks roast is the devil.

The sneering I get from people who think there is exactly two ways one should enjoy coffee, as super tricked out Espresso, or as mild tea. Seriously.

Yes I have had „good“ coffee. Lots of it. I even had a lot of bad „good“ coffee.

I sometimes have serious nostalgia for good bad coffee and no one will take it away from me!
Can’t you use self checkout?

Also who the hell uses cash.
Doesn't that leave an eventually incriminating paper trail?
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The demand for developers from React Native has grown to the level that the industry is now in contrast to native and React Native design modes. Consistent updates that advance the framework also increase demand. The desire will only go so far.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the use of the word "enslavement". Anti-specism is an opinion, a framework of thought that I find wrong, and that I believe is going in the wrong direction. I do consider myself superior to animals, and would be ready to sacrifice a large number of animals to save one human life.

While slavery is wrong, the semantic parallel you're building between slavery and scientific research on animals devalues the horror of being owned, lived by actual human beings.

There needs to be more debate and measure in the way we present animal pain and animal exploitation, which I believe are both acceptable. I wouldn't hit my dog! But I understand that we need to put down dogs in animal shelters without calling it a mass murder.

When you say "livestock enslavement is problematic" you're stating an opinion as if it were a fact.

However, I completely agree with you with the fact that we should limit this type of surveillance-focused research, which could end up in net negative happiness in the world.
The incentives on the web are skewed, and I believe the same is true for print. Nobody will be happy to pay the same price for a 50 page book as they would for a 200 page book, even if the information is the same, so if you have a 50 page book, you have every reason in the world to add fluff and stretch it to 200 pages.

For many articles on the web I believe it's an issue because of Google. Google does punish short pieces, so if you want to write about how to do X with Y, you need to start of with a history of Y, lay out a couple of use cases of X and then explain why doing X with Y is difficult, to finally explain how to do it.
If a company isn't growing by at least the equivalent of inflation then it's shrinking, and that can't happen for very long before it can't cover its costs.

Even when inflation is close to zero, interest on debt means that a company that isn't growing won't be able to service it's creditors forever, and it'll fail.

There are plenty of reasons why 'growth at all costs' is a stupid goal, but there does have to be some growth for a business to survive.
Are binary searches that much better than hashmaps if a malicious attacker gets to interact with the system?