skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inflation is real.

Fruit at the grocery store has increased 30% in just the past few months.

Apples used to be $0.99/pound. Now it’s $1.29/pound.

I’ve seen other basic food commodities also increase 50%. This is the fastest rate increase that I’ve seen in quite a while, if ever.

The only saving grace is that I’m not commuting to work. But the savings from gasoline, just went straight into groceries. Hence, practically no savings at all.

I’m not looking forward to when we must go back into the office, and then everything still remains at the higher prices.

I would need to demand a raise or a promotion to match up with the inflation.
The infrastructure can easily be created by not outlawing pay toilets. As a bonus, and unlike what you see with free toilets, those tend to be kept clean.
Binary logs sound like a good thing to me since in most cases I want to just ship them off, and if I don't, a local consumer that can parse is just fine.

Is there something I'm missing?
That would be just one signal for the recommendation engine, given that you only named the playlist without any songs that probably weighed in quite heavily on the recommendations. Did it change after you added songs or kept suggesting metal songs?
> Does everyone truly ride the crash down and back up or will some of them panic and leave the market before it recovers?

This is an orthogonal issue. If you DCA for 12 months and then a crash immediately occurs, you suffer the exact same fate (you are worse off than someone who had 12 months of investment returns prior to the crash). Does this mean you should increase DCA horizon to 24 months? The only way your framing makes sense is if you have prior knowledge that a crash will occur during the DCA period.
Not if your next-door neighbour has one.
The author seems to be really upset about this, but I don't understand why. Nothing they are describing, if you ignore histrionic language like "counterfeiting", seems especially nefarious. Maybe I am misunderstanding. Basically, a short is when A borrows from B a share of corporation C with the promise to return a share of corporation C at a later time, plus some cash interest. A naked short is where instead B gives cash equal to the value of a share of corporation C minus some interest to A, with the promise that at a later time A will deliver a share of corporation C to B. The second activity seems functionally equivalent to the first, and I don't understand why I'm supposed to be outraged by either.
Email is an open protocol and we are still locked into Gmail and others for a whopping 50% of the market. The fact that you can switch away easily (exporting your inbox) is not enough. Few people actually have their own servers + clients as to be able to claim they are fully independent. It's more of a perceived freedom of choice than reality. For most services just having a 3rd party server, free or paid, is enough for your privacy to be compromised.

All apps and internet services will lock you in to some degree. Every app or service is game for targeted ads and selling data for bucks at some point in their revenue lifecycle. It won't make a dent in the model to have FOSS as a substitute. When behind FOSS there's a business, there's money to be made, salaries to pay and shares to be exchanged for growth and profit.
Doesn't Elon just have a degree and a few weeks of a PhD? I wouldn't attribute all his success to one thing.
Valuing Your Startup
The author likely used the term "counterfeit" since they're essentially copying the shares and redistributing them as if they represent the same value as the original, just like counterfeit money.
Start by considering why you want to retire - is there something you want to do that you can't do while working?
If not then you condemn yourself to 10 years of hard work and living in poverty in order to be bored and live in poverty for the next 50 years.
A good job can be a source of joy, achievements, self worth, contacts with people and money. I'm a programmer with a relatively low paying but stress-free job and I plan not to retire for as long as my health permits.
ZFS does not reliably work on macOS. If you think otherwise I encourage you to try: I have.
When nVidia got what it wanted from Linux by dominating compute space using CUDA, they've just left visual part of their drivers to rot.

Moreover, they stay silent in the forums now. They don't listen to customer feedback or at least give any signs of hope or assurance. Their company image became too dominant and arrogant (I think it runs more than skin-deep).

Some of the nVidia's huge market share is coming from the momentum they have. Linux users do not refresh their hardware too frequently generally.

I'm running a GTX680 on my primary Linux box, but it won't be nVidia next time. I'll be returning back to red team and I'd be a happy camper.
Love the idea behind the game engine for Xelmish https://github.com/ChrisPritchard/Xelmish

Its made on top of monogame and should have a battle tested core. But the lack of knowledge/adoption for Xelmish is disappointing.
I assume you're not in a minority regularly persecuted by the police?
O.k : Fauci, Trump, Biden. Fair enough.

But the whole saga has played out exactly the same throughout the West. Look at the UK or the EU in general.

We might not have our Trump's, but we have our Fauci's and they behaved exactly the same.
Japan banned naked shorting (of course Japan did not ban shorting) and seems to be doing fine. US probably can ban naked shorting without much problem too.
It's sad how empowering the US is to... everyone.

At one point I would have thought of this as presumptive hubris, but now with a 100% correlation that would just be naive.
My go to anecdote on this is when I returned to Switzerland after several years in the US and walked by a bakery displaying a sign advertising a "Pain Surprise".

If anybody ever opens an S&M themed bakery, the problem will be accentuated.
Curious when Hey will see its first major downtime and the components that'll be involved.
>Shitty companies failing is a necessary and important mechanism of a functioning economy.

True

>Look at the Soviet Union for an example of what happens when no companies ever go bankrupt.

The Soviet Union was not a free market economy.

>Short activists expose shitty companies and as such, they play an important role in the economy.

In free market economies, shitty companies fail by themselves because their competitors offer better good or services. Short activists don't help make better competitors.

Companies in the Soviet Union needed more competition than short selling.

>Maybe Wirecard's fraud scheme would still be going on if it wasn't for short sellers.

Who knows? Tesla wouldn't exist if short sellers had their way either.
It used to be the everyman's watch though.
Piece of advertisement.

I like mechanical watches and you can get an excellent automatic watch with Swiss parts for 500 USD. Possibly 300 USD from China if you don't mind China made.

A Rolex for USD 7500 is manufactured for around USD 1000

https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/comments/4wlla1/rolex_how_m...

The rest? Profit and Marketing, Marketing, Marketing. The Thread opener is part of the marketing.
https://gab.com/groups

3 of the top 10 gab groups are pushing the Qanon conspiracy theory, one is pushing the “StopTheSteal” extremist movement.
Will I still receive emails sent during this period?
Was supposed to receive an important one.
I'd say the difference is that they're doing it over and over.
The Greeks had a word for it until now, as language is deluged by English terms
I think this is possible because of the exclusivity of the equipment. These scientists have the luxury of being the only ones able to conduct this experiment, and presumably some long run funding to do it. If there were 5 different teams competing, there would be less rigour I suspect, since other metrics (being first, number of papers, the usual academic swill) would come into play.
This. I live in Austria where the average income is high among the developed world and even here, through a poll on reddit, most people said they are not willing to pay for any private/secure messaging platforms on the arguments that "why pay for something I can get for free?" and "I have nothing important in my communications worth datamining" or "I already have a Facebook account so they already have all my private info, what's the point of privacy at this point?".

So even people with good incomes are super stingy when it comes to paying even a couple of bucks for things that they are used to being free and don't care much for online privacy as long as their basic needs are being met.

IMHO, until a massive hack/leak hits one of these free services, people can't be bothered to care.
The second activity is dangerous because A can fail to deliver. I agree there's not much to be outraged by the first activity.
Shitty company will go down in a natural way in a free market economy.

Why do you feel you need to help it to go down?

Why let people make money on someone's fail?

Why let people have incentives to ruin other people lives?
I actually just used SuperDuper! this weekend to clone my (still on Catalina) hard disk and then boot from it. It's just such a peace of mind to try and see your backup working and to know I could just resume work immediately if (when) the hard disk dies. I'd consider this a major part of a sane computing experience.
Don't forget to re-rate Robinhoods app. Mine got deleted.

Sorry if this is off topic, reading this story reminded me to check my review.
What is the worst those scammers have to fear? Having their app banned from the App store? If so, this sounds like a very unethical, but amost risk free business model.
> Yes, because (as they've stated elsewhere) EDNS subnet information leaks information about a requester's IP.

The requester's IP leaks anyway as soon as they actually try to connect.
FYI I, an author of TeaVM, used to work in Kotlin/JS team in JetBrains. Later I came to conclusion that Kotlin is still very Java-ish language, which inherits a lot of design of JVM platform and will always be 2nd class citizen in JS world. In that sense Kotlin/JS is not that different from TeaVM. There were same challenges on designing interop between Kotlin and JS, as with TeaVM and JS. True, in some rare cases having source code makes things easier. True, Kotlin/JS interop is little bit better that TeaVM's. This was not caused by impossibility to make better interop in TeaVM, this was deliberate choice. There's always trade-off between performance and interop quality. My decision was folloing: since it's impossible to make perfect interop and be 1st class citizen, I better make TeaVM perform good its primary job: execute Java.

These thoughts made me quit my job at Kotlin team and join Delightex to work on their product that uses TeaVM heavily: https://edu.cospaces.io/
Thank you!

Gah lots to learn.
How much power did Fauci actually have to implement things? I think he took the wrong stance re. masks during the early stages (following the WHO's lead) but for the rest, it looked more to me like he was threading the needle between supporting Trump's inanity and getting evicted by the same (thus ending any chance he might have had to influence policy).
Great timing /s. I switched to PM on Friday.

I love the combination of features though. I pay for pro so I get catch-all email on custom domains. Really helps to see who sells your info and secure storage and no advertising with good web-mail client are obviously major selling points too.

I wish them luck resolving the situation.
in the second scenario, A would trade a share he doesn’t posses and B could trade the same share, no?
Regarding combining to a single file for loading: not necessary. You can have as many files in your bucket as you like. Just make them JSON Lines (one object per line, not an array). The COPY command will even skip files it has already loaded. (I use this for a couple automations every day.)
My vision is good and I also don't know if the word you quoted was supposed to be in English, French of Irish? The point being, a screen reader has no more or less information than a human reader.

It might be better then to invest effort in improving language inference heuristics, which would help in all applications (pdf documents, text files) than to try to build in support in each underlying protocol.
When I take a loan I may also fail to deliver loan payments. I don't think we should make risk illegal, but we should make sure that banks manage tail risks right.
Are there any other protocols that have similar aims? I love the idea of a "corner" of the web that is reminiscent of the plain markup/pre-JS days, and occasionally use w3m to get a taste of it.
Is there life on Mars? Not if we destroy it with poor space hygiene
Question: According to this, all the actual share certificates are held in a vault at DTC. Do people have a right to "cash out" and demand physical share certificates? If so, it seems like if a large number of people suddenly started demanding share certificates, this could cause problems for DTC and show this problem for what it is. Essentially a "run on the bank".
The core premise of this argument seems to be that if Fauci had taken a hard line, the greater medical community would have stuck with him and done everything he suggested after he was fired and replaced with a sycophant capable of far worse. I don't buy it. Even if the medical community listened (which isn't guaranteed and which I find unlikely), the public at large wouldn't. It was far more beneficial to have someone publicly walking a fine line, not lying but refusing to endorse the Trump administration's lies, than to have a unified government leadership telling us all to go out in crowds to Starbucks to buy hydroxychloroquine lattes.
Where Microsoft Wants to Go Today (1998)
A can fail to deliver in the first activity, too. More generally, when you agree to have someone give you something of value at a later time, you take on some risk that they will fail to do so.
This article is quite biased. There are a few problems with it:

1- The stock market should not kill a healthy company. Sure, it can affect its money raising capabilities (and maybe hiring) but it should not drive it out of business.

2- Naked Short-sellers still have to pay interest and dividend on their sold shares. This would create a certain equilibrium. If you nake-shorted a company at x2 its value, you suddenly doubled its profit; and that's being paid by the short-sellers. Profit (dividend) gives a reason to investor to hold on that stock; which brings us to point

3- Naked short-selling is probably done on very short time frames that doesn't extend between quarterly dividend payments. The company is probably going under anyway.
WhatsApp is an extremely apt and relevant example. None of the other examples has the reach WhatsApp has: literally over 90% of the adult population in some countries — I know the Netherlands is close to this. That's huge!

A minor comment on the second rule for WhatsApp users:

> Everyone’s mobile device must run an operating system supported by said client.

This also implies that everyone must own a (not too old) smartphone running either of those two OSes, with the user having accepted a EULA for the respective app-stores. I feel strongly that the requirement of using a smartphone even when a (not too old) desktop or laptop computer is available and technically capable of performing the same client-side tasks is a significant curbing of a user's software freedom. It may warrant mentioning explicitly.
Just increase capital gains and decrease dividends taxes. If the central bank is flooding the market with money then you want people to make less money off of stock gains and more from actual income. Capital gains can be driven by irrational investors like squeezed short sellers. Short sellers promised to buy even if the current price is stupid.

High capital gains taxes would discourage this type of trading. Long term investments can still make lots of money from dividends.
Isn't this opt-in though? i.e you can choose not to share
I was searching like this tools few days ago. Trying it now.
I believe it's more complicated. Per Wikipedia [0],

> Failing to deliver shares is legal under certain circumstances, and naked short selling is not per se illegal.

There are arguments for why phantom (i.e., counterfeit) shares benefit the market. E.g., providing liquidity. Others contend that this practice is used in the aggressive short selling of companies, which is illegal, and there is insufficient transparency and accountability of this practice.

There's a great story of supposed illegal naked short selling in the Global Links fiasco. [1] In this case, one investor was able to purchase 100% of outstanding shares while trading continued unaffected. This post's website also cover's that story and I don't recall how this mess was ever resolved. Briefly searching through sec.gov that didn't turn up anything relevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling
[1] https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/25/naked-shorts-global-links-...
> when every trader at a firm has their life savings in the company fund, they don't go around slinging YOLO trades

LTCM
Maybe the "the fat cats" can just go away. They sound bad either way.
And in the process you've incurred a devastating amount of micro-allocations. When using Unity with an older version that doesn't have incremental GC this is a serious problem.

Does F# avoid that?
I don't understand. I am sure the nix repository is quite large, as are Debian's and Fedora's ones. But how would nix help you mixing packages from different repositories, which is Bedrock Linux use case?
I mean, that's what you get for not paying for a service. It's a trade-off people knowingly took.
Not true. Nowhere. Ever. Many factors decide your course in life, including your own choices. One does not simply get to decide every choice. Parents may or may not be to 'blame' for any, some, or all of it.

This is true, and not the sales-speak adage 'it's all up to you'.
Email are in general retried for a short while if delivery fails. Earlier the SMTP server was responding:

550 5.5.1 Protocol error

As of now the socket is timing out, so no mail can be delivered at all. Most services will retry this later on if possible, perhaps hours or days into the future so long as the response is not a permanent failure message.
What fraud? There's no fraud involved in shorting.
Well gmail has 99.987% currently but only 99.9% is promised according to SLA.

https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056635?hl=en#...
There are separate compiler backends for Wasm and JS. JS BE does not support WeakReferences (or rather supports them as a class, but does not support weak reference semantics). For Wasm BE I written my own GC, which supports weak references.
PDF actually has support for language tagging, and using it is a recommended part of any guide to accessibility for the visually impaired.

It may be that the language which a quoted foreign-language word is meant to read in was mentioned far back in the text. Human sighted readers will know how to read it, but computers won't yet (and perhaps won't for many years if not decades). However, there are visually impaired people now who need to be guaranteed the same Gemini experience as sighted users.
> Why let people have incentives to ruin other people lives?

We should build safety cushions for people, not companies.

> Why do you feel you need to help it to go down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard_scandal
That's only half of what's happening, and the objection is directed at the other half.

First scenario, B sells the share they have to X.

Second scenario, B sells the share they don't currently have to X.

And there's a third scenario where B has not even ordered a share, but still sells a share they don't have to X.
Are you concerned that B could sell his contractual right to have A deliver a share to someone else, so that when A is obliged to deliver a share that actually gets delivered to a third party? Why is that bad?
A hash of what ? Torrents ? There are often 23.9fps and 25fps versions which are not interchangeable.
If you own stock and it's at a broker, mutual fund, in an ETF, a retirement fund... then you have probably lent out your shares to shorters.
What's your point? In CL it is trivial to determine both at compile and at runtime the package of all symbols involved. Same for generic methods, you can query the runtime which methods it is going to use for some concrete combination of parameters. Much easier than to determine how which overload of a C++ operator does the compiler/linker deem to fit in given context.
That's the benefit. But what's the cost, and is the cost outweighed by the benefit?

Invading someone, particularly if you haven't practised, is expensive, difficult and prone to failure. And if you fail, you've shown impotence in public.

So maybe investing in your own high tech manufacturing is has a better chance of succeeding for the same level of effort, if you see what I mean.
Yeah you can. I find it a little more clunky. Many of the things I prefer are just syntactic sugar. But if I'm honest I really like syntactic sugar.

On top of that I find functional first languages are great for forcing you to learn functional styles that you can later user in languages like C#.

C# is a brilliant language and I wouldn't knock it. I'd use that as a first option at work but on a hobby project I'm going to play with F#.
I've been with Protonmail a long time and never encountered anything like this. They'll get it figured out and prevent it from happening again. Once this is over, I'm confident the other parts of your experience with them will be good.

Protip: if you're on a Mac, the ProtonMail bridge is a nice utility to use ProtonMail with Mail.app.
The average person buying stocks has been told to just buy and hold. Yes, as the market rises over the long term, you'll make some money. It seems pretty obvious that when you hand your money to someone else to play with, they're going to make more ... if they're good at it, a LOT more ... than you. (Also true of long-term mortgages.)

Glad to see people have a chance to play the game and discover some of the angles. A lot of people could learnn to do way better than just 'let it ride'.
Thanks for sharing this. I loved using XNA for many years!
So because Citadel made 100m executing the stocks they were happy to lose 3b+?

Am i missing something or is this what the author is saying?
My initial thought after reading this is if all $GME shares sold by RobinHood actually exist, or if they're counterfeit copies of someone else's shares.

I kind of doubt it considering all the regulation scrutiny recently.
I don't think that is necessarily a dynamic language thing: that seems like your regular ad hoc polymorphism. Pascal allows it, IIIRC. So does C#. Being able to use a function on different kinds of arguments is orthogonal to the typing discussion.

Scheme, for example, is dynamic yet very monomorphic. You have length (working only on lists), string-length, vector-length, bytevector-length etc.
The irony of educating the average Joe about the long term investment mindset when the hedge funds people despise for getting rich while Main St suffers are anything but long term thinkers.

> Hedge funds have idea dinners in private behind closed doors.

I appreciate however the slightly obtuse admission that there's lots of behind the scenes private conversations. Interesting more so in this environment when everyone is a market manipulator depending on who you ask.
Are you thinking of something else than winforms?

I believe winforms and WPF has always been usable but not with the visual designer tooling in visual studio.

UWP has been trickier though to my knowledge.
That certainly is playing a huge part in it. C# is importing more and more F# features so people aren't really inclined to switch.