skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is not the Pony c-ffi, while allowing theoretically the same unsafety, more uncontrolled than rust's "unsafe"? As in the latter case, as I have understood it, you get all the normal rust type checking, except for some pointer ownership exceptions. I have not explored either of the languages too the extent that I needed to use either.
> And even when cops do finally cross the line, they just move towns or states and get a new job

And even though our collective awareness about this issue is increasing, this just happened yesterday:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961692068/officer-who-quit-wi...
One more to add for consideration: sharetheboard.com

I prefer to write on a real whiteboard. I like the freedom it provides and the natural, physical feedback. Share the board allows me to use a real board, digitize contents in real time and make them legible to remote colleagues. Still in beta but already useful.
You are totally misinformed. To bet against people who took too much risk is exactly what the market should do. Not immoral and its not manipulation at all. The problem isn't the betting of either side the problem is that one side de-facto can not loose (the current situation is an exception and it needs to be seen how much they actually lost in the end). They either get bailouts or get almost "unlimited free" loans to keep going until the tides turn and profits cover previous loses. This is actually manipulation. No matter who bets and on what, a fair free market would liquidate the losers, end of the story. The problem is that the losers in this case aren't actually legally allowed to lose that money because they gamble with other peoples money. Nonetheless they should be liquidated and the rightful owner should sue them and what not but ultimately they have to take the lose. To give your money to someone so they make more is in itself a bet that comes with a risk. Just because someone lost your money in a possible illegal way doesn't mean you have the right to get it back. If I give you 100 bucks and you steal it instead of multiplying it you are a criminal but I still have to bear the lose. Hedge fund and other financial institutions should not be treated differently.
So you can almost have quiet zones and sound zones in same open space.
Is there a way for a regular person to see the current DTCC collateral requirements for a particular stock?
I think it would be helpful if folk highlighted when they don't know an area and are not experts. I think this is a better way to do it because it is clear that the person is trying to learn rather than spouting nonsense. Also, it takes a lot of effort to correct people, and when emotions are high this is a painful process. The RH post was a great example of this.

I've commented on some of the RH posts and got downvoted because people didn't like the facts (and I think maybe took it personally too). I've worked in Finance long enough professionally to know that I don't understand this fully and few people do. I do know enough to know when the comments are nonsense though.

I think that some of these issues comes down to respect and also arrogance. Imagine going into a new field and after 30 seconds deciding that you know everything (the Dunning–Kruger effect?)! Have a little bit of respect for those in the field and listen. Feel free to comment/ask, but don't spout 'facts' without checking and I think we'd all move forward faster.
There are numerous accounts on the internet of medical tourists trekking to Southeast Asia or Mexico to acquire helminths or similar parasitical organisms reputed to calm down the body's immune response. Specifically, sufferers of Crohn's Disease have reported relief from symptoms after taking in (via a cut in the skin, or walking barefoot in feces, or drinking contaminated water) a few helminths.[1]

Too many helminths seems to have deleterious effects, however, so there seems to be a balance that must be struck.

There is evidence that these worms affect the microbial mixture in the gut.[2]

Generally speaking, modern humans live in sterile conditions whereas we have ferocious immune systems which evolved to handle filthy conditions. The theory is, given too little work to do, some people's immune systems start to attack the self.

Anecdotally, I have an incredibly healthy daughter; we never hesitated to expose her to as many strangers as possible. "Would you like to hold our baby?" She also got mother's milk for several years (advantage of being an only child). Almost never gets sick and when she does, it's for less than 24 hours. Hopefully it stays that way :)

1. https://www.healthline.com/health/crohns-disease/hook-worms#...

2. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/parasitic-worms-may-...
I think of the face of the guy in Star Trek 4 ... "Transparent JPEG?" "That's the ticket laddie!"
I've posted links before, and I'll try to find them when I'm not on my phone. But you're right.

It was an open question, but the general opinion before 2020 was that masks would not be particularly useful. Sketchy results started appearing in March with better days in April and May. Several experts said, "we were wrong."

Medical grade masks are very useful. Others are less so. But they primarily prevent you from giving the virus to others.
And even the Baron Harkonnen himself didn't think that was a good way to govern. His plan was to let that run for a while, then have his favorite younger nephew take over, dial it back, and gain the people's support because he would be less bad by comparison.
What schools are open, are open at vastly reduced (zoom) hours. California isn't a highly-ranked education state, but its about to fall much further.
Symplectic Geometry in R2 – Cheat Sheet
This may help:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/01/28/yes-a-stock-can-ha...
> IMO, the AAA titles would be better if less time was spent on a bleeding edge physics system, and more time spent on other aspects.

They would be better games but wouldn't sell as well. Video game sales are driven heavily by screenshots, trailers, and "Let's Play" videos. Graphics and physics look good in those media, actual personal fun experiences less so.

There's probably some higher level business principle here that products end up designed to optimize for the property that most heavily constrains sales instead of the properties that maximize customer satisfaction.

See also: Hollywood movies, book covers, synthesizer presets, house flippers, car interior widgets, etc.
Lawmakers Take Aim at Insidious Digital ‘Dark Patterns’
Yeah, lying is probably on the lower end of bad things HSBC has done...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-usa-idUSKBN1E50YA
I reads words in combinations I never expected to read in my life. Amazing! Super Cyberpunk!
Or launch a cubesat on top of a Falcon Heavy with a Vulcan Centaur kick stage and a Jupiter gravity assist.
... or submarine candidates from some social movement that you would not want anywhere near your child's school.
As a nitpicking person, I really like to read a post that does not confuse GB/s for GiB/s :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
How do you guys manage IP address access to production / dev databases?
The IP address of each individual in our organisation keeps on changing and it is really frustrating to go to DO / AWS security groups and keep on giving them access to database (removing the old IP and adding the new one). How do you guys manage this?
That is the single most frustrating part of the pandemic for me:

* There was preliminary evidence from the experts it might work.

* At some point Trump got wind of this and mentioned it.

* The media, in an effort to portray Trump as wrong, went on a crazy cherry-picking campaign to show HCQ as completely ineffective. "HCQ does not work" was the prevailing sentiment for almost the entire past year because of this, even though evidence was still coming out it does work under certain circumstances.

* Now that Trump is out of office, our understanding of HCQ is shifting back to exactly what that preliminary evidence said that Trump repeated.
That would explain it. Do you recommend any docs/links I should read about allocating queues for polled IO?
GP said after "5/10" years. AM4 was only launched in 2016, and is already "showing cracks" in support, where old motherboards will, in practice, not support new CPUs without juggling firmware.

Obviously I can't predict the future, but I feel like AMD will release a new socket within a generation or two, which fits within the "5/10 year" mark.
> they had to stop allowing customers to increase their positions

I can't get my head around the logic. They allowed people to sell; you can't sell unless there's a buyer. But RH+ blocked people from buying.

Does a clearing house care whether a transaction is a buy or sell?
Precisely, this is Rust that compiles to a C FFI that plugs into CPython.
i can't understand any of this, can someone provide an ELI5 or tl;dr?
The Well – State of the World 2021
Nicely done!

I like the small codebase with no dependencies - I imagine it's easy to start using. Also appreciate the extensive query interface and documentation.

It reminds me of NeDB in Node.js world, which has proven its worth to me on several occasions when I needed a simple JSON-based database for a small(ish) audience, with mostly read operations (which are served from memory). They're running for literally years with no issue at all.

https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
It's tough to get the curve right.

I actually haven't completed all that many of the packs I play, e.g. I finished Age of Engineering (even meticulously upgrading all my storage to infinity though I knew I'd probably never use it) but I didn't technically finish Agrarian Skies (I had a few of those stretch goal quests left) or Project Ozone 2 (got bored during the last of my singularities) or even Compact Claustrophobia (I've run it twice, I escape, and then I tend to lose interest before getting to the Moon)

I recently finished Star Factory and I realised that on the one hand it was nice to be able to look at it and say yup, I have ticked every box, almost anything you could want my setup now produces in unlimited quantities -- but on the other hand of course because it's so small it also felt cramped. I had to use very obviously bad solutions because the better options just weren't available in the pack.

One problem I had in Factorio was that it seemed like it was just doing one thing over and over, with different dress up - whereas I like how Minecraft packs teach me both new things I need to do, and entirely new ways to solve problems. Writing a Predicate that automatically processes my Astral Sorcery crystals goes from an idea that I'm obviously not the first to have, to something I can do almost by reflex... and then a pack says too bad, no Integrated Dynamics so figure out a different way.

The other problem I had is that I like to ignore our universe's rules, I like infinitely renewable everything, sure that's unrealistic but it's a video game. My Minecraft wins are generally powered by something ludicrous, like a single inexplicably efficient solar panel beaming energy from a world of eternal daylight, or a closed box which is somehow producing and burning unlimited amounts of Ethylene made from nothing. Factorio clearly doesn't want such shenanigans.
But that’s irrelevant for a case on possible corruption.
Vector databases, from the major cloud providers
Why haven't the major cloud providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) already provided managed vector databases in their offerings? Faiss at Facebook is for example a very nice project. Is the market not big enough, or are there broader conceptual problems in AI that would make or break their utility? It seems fairly clear that learned rich vector representations are here to stay for the long term. Their interpretation, robustness and appropriate 'composability'(like transfer learning analogous to table joins) is very much in the realm of research, but this also means in the longer term a very rich set of logical as well as security control primitives (only Alice and Bob are allowed to see the footage of the police car making the donut stop).
This is beautiful stupidity. Can't wait for the Black Mirror episode. The twist ending could be that he falls in love with his hacker and leaves his wife.
CNBC reported Melvin Capital closed the shorts, and then it turned out they didn’t.

This is very likely criminal market manipulation, but I’d be surprised if it ends up with more than a slap on the wrist to anyone.

And ... at the time I wrote that, si/float was still more than 100%, so - no, they most definitely not. (Am on phone now, will check later)
Just to be clear, the secular side is the one with the child prophet, right?
Yup. This is pretty clearly a case of getting it to run on an FPGA and using a commercial FPGA to ASIC service instead of spending a lot of time in synthesis and validation.

Mask costs can be cheaper this way, too, because some layers can be invariant between different parts.
Actually now I realize that the title and the intro paragraph are contradicting each other...
Same reason for me. I installed signal because I already have multiple others for video/chat/messaging apps and everyone is scattered across each of them. One more app? So what?

People in the media, twotter, etc act as if there is only one and that everyone is only on that one and its an all or nothing deal. Apparently you must only use one chat or video call app.

Here's the list I an hooked into because of the "network effect" so far in no particular order. Irc, signal, imessage, slack, facebook, telegram, discord, sms, houseparty, snapchat, zoom, jabber(xmpp). I haven't even listed the games I also play and their own chat, eg xbox.

I also run a chat server for projects and that is totally custom. Because it was a rainy weekend so thats what I built. Webrtc / websocket are interesting to play with.

I've yet to install wechat. Thats probably still awhile off.

Addendum: these aren't all on the one device either. That's another assumption people in media often make.
This whole idea is convoluted.

We're talking about adding a permission the user can select.

This is increasing the amount of control users have over their device. Yet you want to use this bizarre Machiavellian scheme to try and make it look like some sinister Apple Plot.

Guess what. Adding a dialog that warns me people are trying to spy on me isn't bad. Ever.
Are you saying that the RSU portion of the compensation is only taxed at the rate of long term capital gains? If so, that's not the case. RSUs are taxed as ordinary income at the time they vest.

You won't realize a gain or loss until you sell them. Whether that's long term or short term depends on how long you hold after vesting.

You are very correct about the RSU carrot, though.
The irony is specifically why I posted it. FDA approval is treated as a "gold standard" yet we have lots of evidence that it isn't. Companies lie, make non-intentional mistakes not caught by the FDA, there's all sorts of issues with it. The FDA review process is more like an editor checking spelling than actual rigorous analysis.

I don't think your media analogy is accurate. It would be like the government censoring media companies, but having a poor biased criteria which then changes later, but is also subject to lies, etc. I don't think its a good analogy.

I think drug companies should be rated on their data openness, with enough information to reproduce results. I think approval processes should be replaced with levels of confidence certifications. For example:

Gold is independent labs find similar results to internal labs (verified)
Silver is only internal labs produced results, not reproduced elsewhere
etc.
You said the following:

> it had much better benchmarks than interpreted languages at the time

That seems an odd statement for someone not confusing WebForms with the tech stack.

You can build applications in asp.net framework without the use of WebForms (and you could do so before MVC existed). THAT tech stack was pretty reasonable. It was WebForms specifically that was the problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dontputyourdickinthat/

It's incredible that anyone would think such a devices was a good idea :D
As long as we're doing mod recommendations, I can also recommend the Space Exploration total conversion, which expands the game far past your first rocket launch. If you're looking for a really complex factory and are so inclined, it's compatible with Krastorio 2 (but it also works standalone).
Why maintaining a decision and risk log crucial during product development
As much as that term can apply to buying stocks, it does.

Whether buying stocks should be considered investment or gambling - is an entirely different distinction.
Yes, I think that was the main reason.

It was kind if pointless, though, the biggest file I saw in my time there was around 10MB. How much bigger would that have been with padding? Even an overhead of 100% probably would not have had much of a performance impact and saving a few megabytes of disk space or RAM was not a very strong argument at the time any more (roughly 2007 - 2009)

On the other hand, this was a natural outgrowth of the other programmers' tendency to keep it simple and avoid bloat, which all in all I appreciated very much.
Yeah, I think what a lot of people going on TV failed to really express is that there was so much unknown about this new virus, that this is the best information we have to go on RIGHT NOW. And then when that changed, they didn't make it explicit enough that they were changing their advice based on NEW DATA. Partially this is just the soundbite driven media, where even if it was explained, that often doesn't make the 10 second clip replayed.

My company had a zoom conference with a very well respected British doctor, he won something more or less equivalent to a nobel prize in mediciine, and he told my company, on May 4th, that masks are not necessary. This was already a bit head scratching, but what I feel he probably meant, but certainly did not explicitly say- is that its not a priority for an individual to wear a mask when there are shortages for front line workers.

But mix a changing message with an inbred resistance to being told what to do and the inconvenience of a mask, and this comes out the end for many as "They don't know what they are talking about these "experts!", I don't need to listen to them, they can't get their story straight!" and here we are...
So they get the margin call partway down, they pay in to keep the stock because they have told all their friends they are long that mess, and out of pride continue to ride it down.
Observation:

When a startup seeking a C round does it, it's
-disruption
- moving fast and breaking things
- seizing market advantage by nimbly circumventing slow-moving or antiquated regulation.

When a nihilistic stan does it, it's
- <various pejoratives>
- <motivated by ignorance or abuse or amorality of various types>

Argumentation over terminology, expertise, etc., is secondary,

to the ways in which this is about power, which informs every aspect of how, why, who, and what. Including the language used and appeals made by those who have it, traditionally have it, and defend it, against those who do not.

Many of the details being argued over are interesting mostly because argument over such details is another tool of the powerful.
Because she’s been there for quite some time now and achieved very little legislatively.

The extreme grandstanding for her Twitter followers got her boxed out by her own party. She’s now just the lady with the socialist hot take for the evening news without any real means to change anything.
But I bet the beer would not taste as good.
An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf]
The key difference is that Robinhood isn't a bank. Bank runs are bad because banks are assumed to be massively liquid---in the average case, if you walk in and provide the proper ID, they can hand you the cash you're asking for. If they can't, one of their primary value propositions is at risk and people start demanding their money out because the bank isn't able to provide the services of a bank.

This is not (and is not expected to be) true of stock brokerage. Nobody generally has an expectation of moment-to-moment liquidity (or even closure of deals), even in a stock with significant availability. However, a brokerage deciding independently "You're not allowed to buy this one stock" is unusual, and can cause people to start backing towards the exits.
> An idea without execution is still valuable, but execution without an idea is worthless.

FIFA?

(Not trying to be snarky, but genuinely motioning to something I believe to be execution without novel ideas.)
If a physicists tells me something about how the solar system works, they don't have much reason to lie to me.

If RobinHood tells me how clearing houses work, they have a huge reason to lie to me.

Given what we say in cases like Enron, Bear Stearns, I am shocked and dismayed at the eagerness of Hacker News contributors to so readily accept whatever Robinhood tells them as 100% gospel.

Where were all these experts on clearing houses a week ago, warning of this exact risk? Because plenty of people had opinions on Gamestop, that maybe the SEC would halt trading altogether etc, but not a single person mentioned this clearing house liquidity issues until it happened. And I still really can't get a good explanation for why if I had 10k in my non-margin account that cleared over a year ago I can't use that to buy a stock(or withdraw for that matter, though hopefully that's temporary). OR, if people were allowed to sell stock, who were they selling to?? Clearly SOMEONE was allowed to buy! A lot of misdirection around things like margin accounts.

Robinhood didn't give any real explanation until many hours later. But they're apparently just "poor communicators." Amazing how a billion dollar company filled with conflicts of interest making a totally unprecedented restriction that actively helps their hedge fund investor simply can't possibly be committing any sort of fraud.

Because nobody's ever committed fraud before, a Robinhood press release must be treated as the "facts". This is insanity . Robinhood are not the "experts" in this case, their version of truth is probably the least reliable of all parties.
You can easily get a decent off-road Honda or Yamaha for 3k. If you shopped around you could easily get 15 at wholesale for $30k. And if you were donating them to a good cause, could probably find a reseller looking for some good PR and get 20.
Yes, I think Factorio's engine is more complex and difficult to implement well than a typical AAA game with rich graphics and "realistic" physics.

In Factorio, you have a very large number of active objects with very dense, complex, time-critical and deterministic interactions. In most other games, you have relatively few active entities. The game gives you the illusion of a rich living world, but a lot of the graphical bits floating around can't actually be interacted with. The physics system is a complex bit of math but is fairly isolated from the rest of the engine and has relatively few entities to process. If it gets things "wrong" in minor ways, the player is unlikely to tell.

Also, many AAA game physics and graphics engines work the same enough that engines can even be reused. There's a relatively small amount of bespoke system design. It's just following the same well-tread paths. Factorio's gameplay has enough novelty that the engine has to solve challenging somewhat unique problems.

Source: Senior software engineer at EA for eight years and wrote a best-selling book on software architecture for games.
>Do people not take Walmart seriously?

Depends on what you mean by "people". For a lot of average consumers/customers, Walmart _isn't_ taken seriously. They're not aware (and don't care) about the incredible supply/logistics magic that Walmart orchestrates behind the scenes. They'll pay a premium to buy stuff elsewhere to avoid the inferior goods connotations associated with Walmart.