skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 49% has two confounding factors, 1: it includes a significant portion of hiv positive individuals, the efficacy was 60% if you exclude them. 2: N is not large enough to give you reasonable confidence in either of those numbers the ci was between 19%-80%, which is almost useless, not quite, since it seems like there is evidence that it is at least a little less effective, but by how much is still anyone’s guess at this point.
Do lifestyle businesses really have the negative connotation that I’ve been told they have? I’ve heard about this stigma of a lifestyle business numerous times, but everyone Ive ever actually talked to has said they sound lovely: you maintain a lot of control over your life and business, at the expense of perhaps more (unnecessary) money.

I had thought for a long time that lifestyle businesses which weren’t optimizing to grow would be looked down upon, but I’ve never seen that. I think maybe there is some bias because of course we will hear more about the Ubers and Doordashes of the world, rather than the Basecamps of the world.
I'm sure there are some hedge funds that are killing it right now.
Shitty server code isn't an excuse for shitty frontend code though.

Moreover you are confounding apps with the web. A calculator should probably never use the network...

Pretty much every web browser can and has to open and send network packets - as long as they are small and there is not a lot of state, you are fine. You can support almost any device from 20, 30 years ago.

'Modern' JS dogpiles huge swathes of mostly unused, uncompiled code, resulting in huge network transfer costs, extreme overusage of CPU and RAM, and encourages a lot of e-waste because it mainly only works well with the latest devices...

It's arguable that this is such a bad engineering design, just to save some network packets, I wouldn't be surprised if the carbon footprint of a JS developer was at least similar to that of burning coal...
Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design
I'm not the biggest fan of this analogy. I find it reductionist to the point it loses it's meaning.
Actually the whole human body is constantly growing, not just cancers. I'm am growing new skin cells as we speak, approximately every x3 weeks I shed old skin cells so need new ones. The problem with cancerous cells is that the body stops recycling them and so then they grow unchecked. Modern companies are more like skin cells, they need to grow new capabilities and shed old ones as the environment changes. If they don't then they will die, the same way I will die if my body stops growing new cells to replace the old one.
Saying a company purpose is merely growth is nonsense, different companies have different purposes, mostly they want to survive which involves both growth and decay.
The "manipulative" here refers to the UI actively or passively lying to you, and slightly nudging you towards doing something you do not want.

Ads, or the way ads are presented can be manipulative too - e.g. articles which pose as informative, but in fact are written just to push a certain product. But if the ads are presented overtly, they are not manipulative in the sense that is discussed here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni...
It’s kind of great that we really as consumers get state of the art security on our devices especially on iOS, that’s constantly improving. Having a non-fragmented ecosystem can enable this.

Yes, Apple had embarrassing bugs on macOS but it’s been a steady march to democratize the best practices and put them behind elegant UX, like touch and Face ID with Secure Enclaves and secure boot.
They didn't sell people's shares technically speaking. If you bought shares on margins or options they closed out, and you didn't have excess finances, your positions because they felt you were a risk to yourself.
Still really messed up and them doing it when the price was at it's lowest feels illegal, sadly they can bend you over a table all they want because of their t.o.s.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet." - Agent Smith, The Matrix
Shouldn't the fact that you're paid to do it for a living give you _more_ time to spend on it?
This has been explained to me several times since last week. What nobody mentions is why is it done this way? It just feels unnecessarily obscure. What am I missing?
This x100. A few months ago Monzo froze my account without warning or any reason. Thankfully they de-froze it after an hour, but I've spent months since then in a kafkaesque nightmare trying to get an explanation for their actions. "It was a mistake" ... "the law says we cannot tell you why" ... "if it was a mistake why does a law protect you from having to explain?" ... "the law says we don't have to answer that" ... "which law?" ... "the law says we can't tell you which law".

Absolutely demented. Apart from that they refused to send me a machine-readable copy of their response to a DPA request for my records and the support team behind their app literally ghosted me when I kept politely pointing out the inconsistencies in their arguments.

Bonus: when I complained they used someone else's name when responding to it. When I complained again they sent me their response to _a totally different person's complaint about a totally different thing_.

Eventually I went back to First Direct (which is owned by HSBC). Avoid Monzo like the plague.
Automating small things, like music and lighting color is fun, but not very helpful (except for learning about automation).

Automating the truly useful stuff (interfacing with other people, anything related to money) can make a huge mess when something goes wrong.
Yeah and at Accenture there would be one person in the whole company that knows anything about the internals. Oh, and they left the firm 3 months ago.
Ask HN: Do you do all day interviews for 'free' or do you invoice the company?
Yes, this is why I always say that capital gains taxes should be increased and dividends taxes decreased.

It discourages hoarding. You can make capital gains off of so many different reasons that have nothing to do with the performance of the stock. It's insane.

Meanwhile dividends are entirely dependent on the income of a company. You can't cheat dividends because it's the company that has to pay them, not other investors that can drive irrational behavior.
> It reminds me of a pet peeve of mine, the term “on the spectrum” for autistic people.

That's a pet peeve of mine too, but for a different reason – there is more than one spectrum in the DSM-5. There is a whole big section entitled "Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Other Psychotic Disorders". The concept of "obsessive compulsive spectrum" was also considered for inclusion in DSM-5, but ultimately didn't make it, but if you look at the work group list inside the front matter, one of the work groups was called "Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders". And there are other spectrums discussed in the literature of psychology and psychiatry, such as the "bipolar spectrum", although that isn't mentioned in the DSM-5. People who say "the spectrum" instead of "the autism spectrum" appear to be ignorant of those other spectrums.
now Iran or North Korea, could build a rocket engine test mission control software and use it against the united states.

technology flowing to enemies of the united states every month from universities to these types of stupid moves.

North korea could use this to build a effective Nuclear mission control system.
I really enjoy Wingspan (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266192/wingspan)

It's not that hard and it's beautiful.
Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
Does it work with the new Edge?

I remember they removed the epub reader when Edge chromium was released.
>> I don't think anyone at Wall Street is touching this stock right now.

Hmmm. Why wouldn't the hedge funds that are not short GME jump all over this? That is probably why it has gone so high. The quant programs detect the momentum and ride it up. The funds can trade so fast that they will exit before any of the RH traders.
It's not clear to me that anyone is irresponsible here. Let's say that everyone on reddit got together and decided to turn every single appliance in the house onto full at exactly 5am. The electricity grid wouldn't be able to spin up capacity fast enough and would have to shed load, causing black outs everywhere. Do we say the energy company is irresponsible for not having enough capacity on hand at all times to handle an immediate spike to 100% usage? No, that would be ridiculous and insanely expensive. In the same way there are reams of regulations around the minimum requirements and the risks associated with these events.

It's not even clear that continuing to allow low margin on these high volatility stsocks would've been good for consumers. The price would've got driven up further, the shorts would go bankrupt, the companies that loaned the shorts the stocks would recover pennies on the dollar, likely forcing them to sell off their position in GME to cover the losses driving the price through the floor, at which point all those RH traders who don't have quick accecss to the market would be left holding worthless stock, wiping out both their initial investment and probably getting margin called.
Look here: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=sto...

USD 0.0035 / share, min $0.35 / trade.
Get GitHub Default Branch from the Command Line
There are literally dozens of news stories about the wrong person being arrested for a crime they could not have committed. It's literally why cities have been banning the practice in the original news story.
> All that data will then be nicely aggregated for a bad actor.

If I were to host my own backend for personal data on server/platform XYZ and there is a 0-day for platform XYZ, the bad actor need actively search out my server and get my data from my server. But a nicely structured datadump is not particularly valuable if it's just one person. So you need to hunt down all other instances of XYZ and aggregate all data to get something someone would like to pay for. But this aggregation is stale and when xyz is patched and months have passed you just have gigs of data that has gone bad, and just like rotten fruit that wont sell for much. So i would say, in practicality, given enough decentralization, and a lot of competing platforms, the hypothetical bad actor in this scenario is much worse off than the non-hypothetical bad actors we have running around and fucking with our data right now. FAANG et al.
There is a more likely alternative than paying "nearly any price", which is that the funds in question go bankrupt and default on any obligations remaining. At that point, anyone who hasn't sold yet will be left holding (call options on) stock worth maybe a tenth of its current price.
How a management decision led to the Challenger Disaster
In the modern world, most people live in a state of learned helplessness, because they have been told that the societal systems around them are very complex and they don't have a hope of comprehending them.

An event like this, while not being a be-all-and-end-all, can give commoners a taste of blood -- that maybe they are just as smart as those elites, that maybe they can use the systems for their own benefit too, that maybe they don't HAVE to live under the boot.

It's the hope that matters, because there are always more opportunities.
Paywalled. But the claim sounds a bit dubious. A cancer is not the same as a company, and the growth of a cancer is not the same as a growth of a company.

Living things increases entropy faster than dead things[1][2], and companies or organized economic activity increase entropy faster than non organized economic activity, and better (more profitable) companies do this better than less profitable ones, and bigger ones do this faster than smaller companies.

On average, the amount something costs is highly correlated to the how much it increased the entropy of the universe, where something that was more expensive than something else usually resulted in a higher increase in entropy.

This does not make companies that grow cancer any more than it makes life that evolves to increase entropy faster is cancer, it just in line with the universe's tendency to transition to states of higher entropy and to select for processes that increase entropy faster, like life on earth, which is much better at increasing entropy now than 4 billion years ago.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbJ9leUNDE&list=PLoaVOjvkzQ...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
The point wasn't that they couldn't be HIPAA compliant but that they don't have to be.
This was happening with people's "instant deposit" which is actually margins. The problem is that it only initiates and covers an actual cash deposit, making people think it's a cash buy.

The reason it looks like a normal order is because it Robinhood makes it look like one, as it becomes a cash purchase once the funds and purchase settle
No it's like you leasing your house. Selling the house to a third party. One party (your buyer) owns the house. The original owner also owns the same house, since he only leased it to you.

But houses are non- distinguishable. You don't need to give him back exactly that house, just an identical one.
Police are here to deal with a few deviants here and there who act up. They aren't really meant to be a tool to break up mass political action.
A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI
I believe that's from the spare head unit that they bought second-hand so it could be taken apart.
How come I continue to see posts talking about the short float for GME being in excess of 100%?

disclosure: I have no investment in GME, but am hoping to see some hedge funds suffer
Spotify Wants to Recommend Songs Based on Users' Emotions
No. Shorting is selling a stock you borrowed. Multiple borrows does not make a short.
I mean, if you invoice the company they won't pay it, so why does it matter?

An all-day interview is okay in my books, it's like an open house in a way.
FYI, just disable JS to disable the paywall.

For Chrome, open dev tools, ctrl/cmd+shift+p, "disable javascript".
One large mark against building this feature is that machine translation is still largely worthless. I barely see the point.

Aligning paragraphs in a translated copy would be more useful from a language learning perspective, though generally something beginners overvalue.

Side by side UI also limits you to larger displays unless you will settle for tiny text.
Ugh.

This person is kinda suggesting that companies should have some noble higher purpose.

Companies are entities for making money for investors and employees and maybe having fun doing it.

The irony is this person is suggesting companies should be “changing the world” a la Silicon Valley TV show. The author probably had no idea.
The big problem with too much economic activity is that there is too much economic activity in the wrong places. After WW1 that meant lots of basic needs could not be met because the economic focus was on war reparations. I don't think we are going to lack those basic needs this time around.
Why the Gamestop stunt might backfire badly
Having been on the internet a long time I can confidently say that WSB's "culture" is just old internet culture based on the descriptions in these threads. Metahumor and offensive words are nothing new. This confusing humor is alongside others like 4chan. When normal people see that kind of humor and culture they are immediately offended because it doesn't really match anything in reality. Normal people don't go around using those words that way unless they're 13. While it's possible an influx of new users drives up the number of people joining, thus creating a squeeze on the number of people learning to adapt to that culture and thusly carrying that humor too far, this is nothing out of the ordinary in the world other than that Facebook now deems those words hate speech (assuming what people are commenting on is what they got banned for.)

There are likely people on this forum who would reject that culture because of their ideals. Those words fit right into a category called "ableism" whether you use them for humor or not. You're not fighting some hedge companies paid troll machines or whatever else you can dream up. What's happening to WSBs is more tantamount to what happened to the internet and many small forums back in the late 2000s when Facebook and Twitter signed on millions of people who had never used the internet before. What you're fighting is people who want the internet to reflect reality.
No, this is not how it works.

All the shares in the auction are sold at the same price. If the market clears at 60, a person entering the bids I described would buy 300 shares at 60.
140% of stock /issuance/, not outstanding. Shorting stock creates new stock. Once all shorts are closed, the 100% of issuance is still outstanding and someone's holding it. Not everyone can get out!
The whole point is that some Real Cash Money would help the signal-to-noise ration.

Aside: how long until the GameStop "Downfall" parody?
I suspect you don't understand how large many of these funds are. This nonsense is not going to bankrupt these folks. Non-shorted hedge funds are going to use this event to extract more dollars from individual investors. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the funds that were initially short have already reversed their positions and are now riding this momentum to the bank. They have much more information and much more trading speed.
A Browser Extension to highlight your favorite music on r/ListenToThis
The first time that I saw iPads used en masse was in media circles, especially people speaking at conferences and running presentations from an iPad. Also, in one-to-one meetings, or as you drifted around the exhibition stands etc, you could share visuals easily.

Creatively, of course, we have the output of David Hockney:

https://www.hockney.com/index.php/works/digital/ipad
> Robinhood played with people phschology

I disagree. They've offer a way to trade like other platforms. Other platforms did the same thing and blocked trading.

The question you need to be asking is why did they ALL block trading?

They're competitors to each other, so why did they make the same decision? Remember that these firms make money on every trade done. They want to take your trades. BUT they have to manage risk. They lose money if the client can't pay. They're there to facilitate but they are taking risk themselves if they provide leverage. They, like banks providing mortgages have to have limits set. If would be unprofessional and irrational to do otherwise. These firms are there to make money in a highly competitive environment. They are professionally run to ensure that they stay in business.

The comments here are of the theme 'RH has screwed us to make money'. No, what they've most likely done is made a decision to take no more risk to ensure that they remain in business. EVERYONE is speculating though. If that's the case these arguments that the clients are somehow being screwed over is really unfair and shows a lack of understanding. Clients need to understand the risks of what they're doing, and need to understand the risks associated with executing via one broker. It's a professional environment and drive by retail unfortunately are mostly unaware of the true risks.

Examples:
1. Traders have multiple brokers to trade via because there are technical issues

2. If something is too good to be true, it probably is.

3. If you're betting against some professionals, you need to ask what they know that you don't. Why are they comfortable taking on the risk. The professionals will try very hard not to be emotional and have more info that a retail customer will.

4. The retail investor need to understand the business model of the brokers. Why are they in business and what are their limits?

I see the real problem here is that it is easy to put a trade on. It is difficult to know how to risk manage it and understand the risks. This squeeze has identified a limit in the market that wasn't considered.
Yes – until you bring the stock market and investors into the picture. Oftentimes, companies will have a legal obligation to their stockholders to (attempt to) maximise profit…
The analogy is apt.

You’re not growing, if you were your energy consumption would raise in proportion. Your adult body is in a dynamic steady state.
Wait a minute, I've read that they and other brokers did not halt trade, they stopped or limited purchasing but not selling. Not only that, some of their customers apparently were informed about this beforehand (as alleged by insiders on Twitter).

People argue that this is criminal market manipulation.
But the universe is growing.
OMG THE UNIVERSE IS A CANCER!
I think you missed my point.

Low stock price wont make a company bankrupt, agree.

But if in the process of doing so, you stole value from your own 19yr old stockholders.... then its pretty certain you just painted a bulleye on you. And... They are also your targer demographic customer base. Woops! Lets see how quickly your revenues dip to $0 after that.

If you have $0 revenue you dont have a business. Period.
The reason a Bank is strictly defined is that TW does not guarantee any cash that you have stored with them.

With a bank you have up to £85,000 insured and guaranteed e.g. if the bank fails
What an idiotic statement.
Can you explain why didn't the data about shorts change then? Are you saying someone else went and shorted it over 130% when Melvin stepped back?
Wingspan is a beautiful and fun game, but the instructions are incomprehensible. I don't have concrete examples, but I needed to read the entire book twice to have enough context for info at the beginning to make any sense. In a lot of ways, this is because of the thing that makes the game great (deeply interlocked systems) also makes it hard to find a point to insert the read pointer for the explanation.
It probably is over 100%. That’s unusually high but 100% short interest is not some sort of special number. Shorting works by borrowing a share and selling it to someone else. There’s no reason the same share could not be borrowed multiple times, as the shares are all fungible.
When it comes to distributed/local technologies, does a ban really accomplish anything? I'm dubious that facial recognition technology will disappear because some random governments passed laws against it. Especially because it's nearly impossible to punish when police can just use parallel construction. "We received an anonymous tip and followed it up."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

The solution instead might be the same with deepfakes: fill everything with junk data.