skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dying on the hill you never intended to climb
The point still stands. Any ERC20 transfer is going to cost a substantial amount of ETH if you want to confirm quickly and even after mined should only be considered confirmed after 10 blocks at least. It is not practical for payments.

Layer-2 does alleviate some of the issues though, and all those talking about Lightning Network should look into Raiden.
Well, it does have installation instructions for Node, so you're already halfway there!
My experience of reddit is you can get a "wildly successful" meme or post, yet rarely that translates into more than a few thousand dollars of cash being spent on anything.

All the "wildly successful" kickstarters and stuff seem to have commercial backers lined up to make the social media buzz effect appear bigger than it is.

I suspect the same happened here.
Estimates for the Number of Visible Galaxy-Spanning Civilizations (2015)
What Actually Happens When You Buy a Stock?
Have you looked at open interest for puts? How do you think that's hedged?
New Market Makers: Young, rich and couldn't care less about Graham/Dodd (2000)
That they have a majority of workers in that category on their side. Since they have a few hundred and Google have tens of thousands of software engineers in USA they are pretty far from becoming a majority union.
> I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your overall point, but when you say “weak” are you still speaking in the physical sense?

Obviously I was not—otherwise I would have been entertaining a direct logical contradiction.

I am speaking in the terms offered by the user klipt earlier in this conversation tree. This is how dangerous rhetoric is formed. To call someone "weak", no matter how much you qualify its meaning, inevitably leads to many other subjective connotations that I do not agree with.

> To not seems to be the type of wordsmithing used to avoid precise use of language.

On the contrary, it's the type of wordsmithing used to avoid intentional misapplication of language.

> I think the BJJ argument can actually be dangerous. Yes, it’s good for anyone to know self defense. But the vast majority of women won’t become skillful enough to overcome the (statistical) innate size/strength disadvantage, particularly any man with training. They can if dedicated enough, but if they don’t it can lead to false confidence.

I think it's borderline offensive to assume that the "vast majority of women" won't become "skillful enough".

I think it's borderline offensive to suggest that building up confidence is a dangerous idea. Even "false confidence" can increase one's actual physical power. And to say that a policy is dangerous because it won't be effective in all encounters is ridiculous.

It seems you misunderstand the purpose of having broad BJJ training. It's not just about increasing skill. It's not just about increasing confidence (which for many women might be itself sufficient to stop an attack). Rather it's about the culture that would arise among MEN in response to a society where women have more confidence—whether objectively justified or not.

> you instead advocated for a double standard...

I did no such thing and I consider it highly offensive for you to imply that I did.
Don't trust visa/mastercard as they've used their muscle to censor views they dislike.
Not sure this analogy answers your question, but it might help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944738
>not acting rationally

Lots of participants understand what they are doing and are achieving their stated goals (causing chaos). There’s nothing internally inconsistent or irrational about the behaviour to the individuals.

Maybe it’s irrational if you transpose your own form of rationality to others.
Literally all of them link scientific papers, if you'd care to read.

And it's not "self-infection" that masking is a protection of. Nobody has claimed that. You wear a mask to protect those around you, and they wear their's to protect you.

Though it figures you are obsessed with the self and have no regard for the other.
Companies host their private code in private repos.

I’m not saying it’s the best thing for GitHub to do, but...

Let’s say 15% of Android top 1000 apps are sitting in private repos on GitHub. With their build tools GitHub make it possible to automatically push builds to this imaginary store, they offer devs 50% discount on whatever cut google take if on the play store.
They blocked buying. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254102/robinhood-gamest...
With proof of work you have economy of scale working in your favor. You'll get different deals on asic, power, server farms, etc. the more you buy.

PoW by design leads to centralization and we can see it happening live with bitcoin mining. At least with proof of stake there's no economy of scale. Everyone can participate fairly easily.
Something this doesn't seem to mention is the organizational size of the software supplier, which I think is an important factor.

If a company provides a free and open source software product and they are composed of a small number of employees, it can be easier for the community to trust, observe and hold that entity accountable for their changes and roadmap.

There's a balance to strike, of course; extremely small teams may be more limited in what they can achieve.

But I think that can be overcome by identifying the bottlenecks and spinning off smaller free and open source software enterprises to fill the gaps, fostering a positive feedback loop. To a certain extent this mirrors the Unix philosophy regarding command-line tools.
I wrote a book explaining most things can be understood by understanding self
> Free calls helped it grow to become the de-facto communication platform in many other countries.

Other countries? Other from what? The non-other country isn't defined in the paragraph leading to this sentence.

Like many people I detest Facebook and don't defend it. But this is sloppy writing and sloppy thinking.
Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by this? I have seen similar comments elsewhere but don't really understand what is being suggested.
%53, so far. The problem with the short interest being %140 is that the notional value of shares to cover that extra %40
is in fact, infinite. It's literally everything those funds can sell, borrow, and get bailed out to cover their position.

My prediction last week was this has system wide implications, and I'm thinking 1. the Fed will intervene, leverage Robinhood's EULA, and buy out everyone's shares at a price that will be profitable but still piss everyone off. 2. the new U.S. administration will use this as leverage for some backburner, discredited radical regulations for things like a financial transaction tax or a tax on assets in custody, but only for retail investors and not their donors, 3. the admin will direct the IRS to prioritize making public examples of new traders who screw up their filings. And that's the optimistic view.

The alternative is contagion that takes down Citadel, and causes a lot of institutions to sell otherwise valuable stocks to cover knock-on effect positions, risking things like indexes and pension solvency.

Imo, this is a macro level liquidity crisis, and there are some other players who might use the moment as well. E.g. China could dump some of its massive U.S. treasury holdings, ostensibly to hedge dollar devaluation risk, but really it's seizing its moment to cause enough chaos to tip the U.S. into actual domestic chaos while it consolidates its position in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Viewed this way, the Treasury and the administration doesn't really have a choice, assuming they can a) use Robinhood's EULA to sell everyone's shares to the Fed, and b) convince the Fed to provide that liquidity vehicle to unwind this execrably stupid trade.

Fanfic? Maybe, but I think the system level risk means the stakes are about opportunities to make moves that upset the global balance of power, and not just a domestic populist issue.
I downloaded Chrome Canary and found a demo page, made this screenshot on Windows 10: https://imgur.com/a/pXoWGR5
Kafka is (IME) pleasant to use for people writing application code. It can handle high message volumes. It has good documentation. Its core abstraction is easy to understand and use.

OTOH, the author is correct that it's more work to set up and maintain than non-distributed software. Don't introduce it unless you have carefully considered alternatives.

I became de facto responsible for running a small Kafka cluster at a small company that could have gotten away with something less shiny. That was not fun. (Especially since the company started with Kafka 0.8 and encountered many changes along the way to modern releases). Eventually the company ponied up for Confluent to take over running Kafka for us as a service. Now I'm back to enjoying the nice Kafka APIs without having to deal with the annoying Kafka servers.

I like the Kafka API/capabilities but dislike running actual Kafka servers. If I were to start a one-man venture that needed event streaming I'd probably try Redpanda [1]. Its developer hangs out here, which is how I first learned of it. It's supposed to implement Kafka service but with no Zookeeper or JVM knowledge needed to run it. I wouldn't even consider running the original Apache Kafka for a solo/small team.

[1] https://vectorized.io/
...or they lied. You're picking one answer and I'm picking a different one, either are just as likely.
Personal experience. I was talking to some absolutely lovely Polish friends of mine one evening, and somehow we were discussing Christmas growing up. Somehow it came up that many of my childhood friends celebrated Hanukah instead, and the response was a puzzled "You like Jews? Really?" After some mentions of typical stereotypes as to why that would be strange, I said that that wasn't my experience and changed the subject.

From talking to other Polish people, my impression is that this is a fairly typical attitude. I think that the reason this doesn't show up as incidents in the news is simply that there are hardly any Jews in Poland because they were virtually completely wiped out in the Holocaust.
They definitely run ads on YouTube, I’ve seen them in the times where uBlock was unavailable.
> The general assumption on WSB is that Melvin Capital is lying

If a company issues a commercial press release that turns out to be a deliberate lie, doesn't that usually result in prison time for someone?

Were there ambiguities in the statement?
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> We don't want to go into specifics

This kind of language is very wishy-washy and leaves everything to the imagination. 9/10 times the issue is terrorism or CP. So which of the two was it? And why aren't you comfortable enough to share that reason with your prospective users?
Not only is that not true, it's against the terms of service of credit card companies for a business to do that.

You might only see them in gas stations, but it is much more likely that those are the local businesses you go to the most, since those are the ones working around the credit card merchant contracts.
Honestly, I've only skimmed the article, but this comment rubbed me the wrong way right off the bat. The article (discussing use of Kafka) doesn't seem to have any direct relation to WeWork's failure.

There is a lot that you can learn especially from businesses that failed.

Just because the company wasn't successful does not mean you should discount everything related to that company, especially when the content and lessons are technical, and the business failed for non-technical reasons (shady business practices and self-dealing).
Isn’t it nice?
> Giving direct access to your database is fast but leads to very strong data coupling.

Or you could just give "direct" access to (a DB role that only has been granted SELECT on) a single schema within your database, entirely consisting of views. Then you've got a stable data-access API that you can iterate your data model behind, with nothing more than your DB itself.

(And you don't need to put much thought into setting it up, if you don't want to; your stable schema-API-layer can just start off as a bunch of views with 1:1 relationships to your real tables, which each just "SELECT * FROM their_underlying_table".)
The real world wants assurances. That's why every country has central banks, notaries, central depositories, etc.

> It's a trade-off. You put the responsibility on the user to keep their keys.

Just like for driving or flying or almost any important occupation, we don't only "put responsibility on the user". We have laws against abuse.
Dec 2020, second half:

SETTLEMENT DATE|CUSIP|SYMBOL|QUANTITY(FAILS)|DESCRIPTION|PRICE

20201215|36467W109|GME|170655|GAMESTOP CORP (HLDG CO) CL A|12.72

Not very rich data. I wonder how much of that comes from market-makers versus hedge funds.
Pegged – a parsing expression grammar (PEG) generator in the D language
When you buy a call from an option trader, you're long the stock, trader is short, so they will buy shares to hedge themselves.
Looking forward to it coming full circle when Twitter fully fleshes out the “Tweetstorm” as a product. Long-form content, high intractability
I always find these posts ironic, because I work at a company where we are often times dealing with the opposite problem; trying to redesign systems that worked fine when we were a small startup but have hit scaling issues now that we are many times the size.

People are always so quick to comment, “don’t worry about scaling... if you are successful, you can redesign at that point.” However, it isn’t always easy to redesign later. Now people are relying on your systems, and you can’t have any down time. All redesigns have to be able to be implemented in a way that can transition from the previous system without breaking anything. As we often say, “we are changing the tires while driving 90mph down the road”.

I wish we had spent more time on thinking about scale when we were smaller. Our new mantra is that everything we make now has to be designed to horizontally scale, even if it is something small right now.
How up-to-date is that short interest data?
I once looked into authen/authorization with Kafka topics and whether one can only be allowed to subscribe to specific ones and came up short with any solution to how to do it with Kafka. From my POV, points: 1 to 4 listed above now have been moved to one single point (Kafka) and its capabilities are a lot limited than those other tools/entrypoints (of data access) mentioned. Have there been new development to Kafka's IAM?
> Overarchitecture is real

Amen. I've been through some interviews where I'm the oldest at the table and they tell me their stack and I try to keep a straight face.

It's hard. Hard to keep a straight face because I'm a genuine honest person with a lot of experience.

"We plan to hire 15 people within 3 months and double year after year".

Well, yeah, with every acronyms AWS could come up with, using them all for no reasons at all (except S-C-A-L-I-N-G), you could build it all rock solid on a mid-size linode and do it with 5 dudes

Expected: world domination, runway blast-off to the moooooon

Actual: as many employees as concurrent users, grind for the next 2 years and run out of money

Reality test: failed.
This analogy might help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944738
> Why not have e.g. generic gamepad support in Chrome

All the browsers have generic gamepad support at this point: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API Unfortunately, it is a bit lowest common denominator.

WebHID is good for long tail devices, or handling more unusual features of specific devices: https://web.dev/hid-examples/
100% agree on redpanda
They sell journalism under the NBC brand. Is this a serious question? If CNBC was issuing paid advertisement like that it would be a much, much bigger story than a spike in a small cap retail stock.
> In the end I don't think there's anything privacy-conscious app developers can do other than eschew external services as much as possible, clearly inform users when external services are used, and push for stronger regulation (from phone / OS manufacturers and the government) about data privacy.

This is the crux of it here. In particular, we seriously need regulations making the things Apple is pushing required by law, not something a company with its own vested interests pushes.

Particularly since as many point out whenever this is discussed, there is a bit of opacity with regards to Apple's own apps.
I am curious now what exactly is that puts people off when hearing from AZ? I remember there was a similar outrage when it turned out that one batch of vaccine used in clinical trials had a half-dose. It was a mistake from a contractor and they were open about it. And yet the reaction on blogosphere was as if they are some kind of frauds.

AZ might not have the best PR but if they are more on geeky side I would expect HN blog to understand them even better. At least to me it seems that they know what they are doing. But I studied pharmacy and I can relate to drug manufacturing in technical details so I might not understand how a lay person sees this.
I don’t disagree with the points made here, and I really appreciate the perspective. However, I do question the magnitude of importance for cheating. It kinda seems like a solved problem, and by solved I mean “good enough to have fun”. Are we really going to reinvent an entire industry to solve a relatively non-existent problem?
I'm sure there's some people who are just successfully aiming to cause chaos. But 3 of my closest friends are in on Gamestop now, and each of them expects they're going to exit at $1000+ and make bank. So in the absence of hard data (which I have no idea how we'd collect) I kinda have to assume that making money is a big motivating factor for people.
No, it’s not. It is not against the terms and conditions of any credit card network in the US for a merchant to offer a cash discount. Terms of service which prohibit that are illegal under 15 USC 1666f [1]. This changed a number of years ago (more than 5 but less than 10, I don’t recall which year, but I was working in the payments space at the time [edit it was the FBCA in 2013]).

For what it’s worth I believe cash discounts have never been against terms of service, specifically what was, were credit card surcharges, minimum transaction sizes and various other forms of discrimination against credit.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1666f
That's the trick, Visa won't do cryptocurrency payment, they will do "fiat currency" payment indexed on cryptocurrencies.

For example, you buy 0.1 BTC using euros, you then pay a merchant asking for 0.1 BTC, which he will withdraw as dollars. Noticed that neither the buyer nor the seller manipulate bitcoin. No address, no transaction on the blockchain. It shows bitcoin on your account but in reality, it was a euro to dollar transaction.

Most likely you will be able to have a bitcoin account too, but again, dollars in, dollars out. If bitcoins raises in value, you get more dollars, if it crashes, you get less, but you never get actual bitcoin.

Edit: And BTW that's the reason why most people are using cryptocurrency for, as an index like gold. Besides criminals, few people use it to make payments.
Americentrism I'm sure.
With respect, you haven't thought this through. Given there is "so much riding on this", why do you think a hedge fund would concoct a nefarious, extremely uncertain scheme to get people to think they closed instead of actually closing?

You agree they're motivated by money, right? They would have lost literally all their money, even with the additional investment, if they were still in when GME soared to $400. They would also be aware of that fact.
Two days to deliver? Ten days to deliver? Selling what you don't own? What century is this?

Since GME, has anybody heard again the old canard "blockchain? What can it do that a database can't?"
It probably depends more on what kind of data you are scraping and what you want to do with it. Scraping and redistributing copywritten data is clearly illegal, but otherwise isn't it a bit like taking photographs of billboards?
> Google understands a few other things most Web companies still don't. The most important is that you should put users before advertisers, even though the advertisers are paying and users aren't. One of my favorite bumper stickers reads "if the people lead, the leaders will follow." Paraphrased for the Web, this becomes "get all the users, and the advertisers will follow." More generally, design your product to please users first, and then think about how to make money from it. If you don't put users first, you leave a gap for competitors who do.

That aged well! Reading these timeless stuff many years after their original writing shows you how the disruptors are starting to become the disruptee.
I think that post is representative of how only the market and time will actually flesh out this story. The GME holding party entrenches further because the graph is bad (Y Axis distortion) and the GME short party says the pressure has been alleviated.
For me forcing them to open up APIs doesn't mean they lose anything. It'd simply separate the frontend from the backend. They could still provide their own clients and people who love the Apple brand and trust them can use them, I wouldn't even object to them shipping as the default experience on their phones. (something windows got punished for heavily when they bundled browsers, but think about how much less serious that was compared to the restrictions on phones)

All it'd do is offer up an alternative of stores or apps to interface with Apple for people who want it. For example have a chat app that seemingly bridges Android services and iMessage.
have you used fiat investment apps lately? if you dont want monolithic hedge funds close trading and sell your assets without your concent and then wipe any negative speech of the fact from the app store, stick to cryptocurrencies
Blame Libre installer then?
Yeah, Matt Levine pointed this out in an article last week... the total buy and sell numbers for ‘retail investors' was actually pretty well matched (meaning retails investors bought and sold roughly the same number of shares)

This is not a just simple “Redditors keep buying shares” story
I have had the same issue, and wishing we thought about that up the road rather than down the road is exactly the feeling when we huddle up for team meetings on optimisation. We could not have any down time for most days of the year.
They could have. If they shorted again on tuesday at >300 they could have made a lot of money by covering the next day when the price dropped due to the buy restrictions. At one point in the aftermarket the stock even hit 500$ and the next day went back down to 190$. That is potwntially a lot of money for the right short positions.
Is the text blurry for you? Something about the mix of blurred text that should be sharp + a pixel-perfect cursor seems to be the culprit for my discomfort.
What happened in Coeur D'Alene?
I don't know if you're right. But that definitely sounds like a good game plan for state to pretend to be on the side of the little guy, and do what they like to do...

Create a bigger, more sinister enemy...and you can have the crowds on your side.
That certainly helped WSJ/FT subscriptions early-on and probably helps NYT/Economist to a lesser degree.
What kind of version did you try to install?

I never had this bullshit on PRO versions, but I'm connected through cable tho.
So their reason seems to involve some usage of the NES Ness pun, but does that pun work in Japanese? Is there an equivalent shortening of Famicom, and does Ness's Japanese name bare any relation?

Pure curiosity, the author can do what they want.
we need to get out of this "app store" paradigm. it has ruined everything
I happen to prefer a Scottish accent over a BBC accent.
First - thanks for building this!

I'm curious - how do you detect a book mention if, the first time it's mentioned, there's no link to Amazon? Do you use spaCy for NER and then use an API to check if the entity is a book name?