skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did something wrong, like giving everyone a margin account without asking, when they didn't have enough capital to do so. It is in their business model that this would happen. They were just quite cavalier about it!
An invasion of mainland Europe was tough. Not only logistically but also geopolitical, as hard is might be to believe there could be a large push back from an unilateral British invasion of Europe.

Also the UK had great access to men and resources, definitely better on the latter than Germany. But did it have industrial capacity necessary is the question. Most of the manufacturing was concentrated in mainland UK, by design as that's how the empire made its wealth. The UK had to purchase a lot of both naval and land assets from the US.
TeaVM, especially when used with its Flavour toolkit, fully embraces HTML and CSS. Flavour templates are HTML5 with a small number of extra elements to allow dynamism and interactivity. Templates can be styled with CSS and worked on by designers and developers alike.

A good way to think about it is a new single-page app framework for the web that lets you code in a popular, safe, statically-typed language with great IDEs and tools.
From what I gather, the phone number is only used for identification of a user account. Can't exactly remember where I came across this information (probably an ama from their team on reddit) but Signal have recently said they are looking for ways to make the above not a requirement for its users.

I don't see this sim lockdown being a problem unless you want to create a new account or for some reason your account has been logged out requiring 2FA. In my understanding, telegram also asks for SMS for 2FA on re-login. Though the 2FA code will be simultaneously sent to any other device you've logged the account in.
So in the work the PhD is built upon, you focus entirely on what you can do, ignoring the enemy side. It might not be correct but it's a strategy you can take. You can still sort of address it by saying you need to have the ability to deal with X.

Pick-ban phase optimization already exists at least for Dota 2.
It’s difficult to get burner SMS numbers and also to activate a SIM from abroad.

Some eBay traders will sell activated SIMs but you are essentially trusting a third party.
Using phone numbers as identifiers for encrypted messages is the core feature of Signal. It was marketed from day one as a drop in SMS replacement. Initially it even used SMS as the transport for encrypted messages. It was literally called "TextSecure". This is why I have always found the attacks on it using phone numbers to be amusing.
It was an interesting article, until it stumbled into it's climax (sorry Spoiler alert):

> "Eich created Brave to fundamentally change the economics of the internet."

Ehh.... Nope.

I think Google is struggling a lot more than people let on, but Brave isn't going to be the straw that breaks the Google's back.

Fundamentally, Google has lost its vision and everything since... ~2015 or so (maybe sooner) has just been about turning the dial up on Google's profits even as their platforms get less appealing. Such a disappointment after being such an awesome company early on.

But Brave? Seems unlikely.
It shouldn't be easier to generate better returns if you are better informed? How should people generate superior returns then?

If information could not generate returns the market would not exist. The purpose of all markets is to aggregate information in price and provide compensation to those who contribute such information.
Ask HN: Has there been significant traffic surge to Reddit because of GameStop?
GameStop and WallStreetBets has been covered by almost every major news media and a lot of influencers. Reddit is part of the news. Is there any way to know/guess how much more traffic reddit got because of this coverage?
The hedge funds involved here aren't structurally important. They're not going to get a bailout.
> If I can ever get one that is, between scarcity, demand, bots, scalpers

My advice, assuming you're on HN with a technical background, is to create your own bot for monitoring product availability on your store of choice. It's a pretty small investment of time, and it frees you up from the time spent watching a Discord or refreshing store pages manually. Set it up to poll at a reasonable frequency, set up some form of push notification, and find that it's not that hard to get ahead of the horde who are all relying on someone else to do the dirty work for them.

Signed,

Someone who got a launch day 3090 from the Nvidia store
You're right. Bing result: [1] "Nikki Co Ltd" on left, history of the Nikkei index on the right. I knew the Nikkei index had gone down for a long time, but not that far.

[1] https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZSBR&pc=MOZI&q=nikki+inde...
What's funny is you don't even need to take the ethical viewpoint that wealth and inequality are bad to worry. Even if you're a total sociopath, the growth in asset values relative to CPI and wages should make you worried about how the system is working, and whether or not there is a bomb ticking somewhere just out of earshot.

If you think things are working as intended right now, you haven't been paying attention.
This is pretty much it. Let’s say at 50 you’re comfortable living off of 4% of your assets, which should have a reasonably high chance of providing income throughout your retirement without depleting your principal. This 4% is assuming 7% market returns before 3% inflation.

How much are you willing to live off as income? If you need $40,000/yr (before taxes) you’ll require $1m in savings. $60,000 requires $1.5m. Tax-advantaged savings like a Roth IRA improve things here a bit but we can ignore it for a general ballpark idea.

Let’s say you’re frugal and only need $40,000. You’ll have to save up $1,000,000 in invested assets over a decade. Given expected 4% inflation-adjusted returns, this works out to around $85,000 in savings each year (adjusted upward 3% each year for inflation).

In order to afford those savings, after tax and $40,000 in annual expenses, I’d guesstimate you’ll likely need somewhere in the ballpark of $150,000/yr of income. Again, adjusted upward 3% every year for inflation.

By the same math, if you want to live off $80,000 a year, you’ll probably need to earn $350,000 or more annually over that decade. The number more than doubles because of the increased taxes at those kinds of incomes.
> This is yet another area where we need legislation to address this in the US.

Agreed.

I'm tolerating it on this phone since they announced pretty long term support, but it's far from what the situation should be.
Fair enough, I forgot about that one.
As film professional who routinely does the same, she will catch at most 56 films. That's the current record by argentinian critics in a long 14 days festival. If she's really good, and the movies are good.

If there are a couple of bad movies a day, you will not be able to watch 5 a day. The advantage to watch it offline, as in a press screening booth, is that you can skip the bad ones immediately. Then you can skim over most entries, typically a big festival has over 200 entries. 60 is a very small one, but a higher possibility of more good movies. Still in 10 days, that would be 6 a day, unheard of.

Most critics catch 15-20 films a festival, 2 a day. Better critics do 4 a day. Max 5, maybe on 1-2 good days.
With online festivals, as Sundance right now, the numbers go up by a factor of 5. Sundance beats all numbers right now, because you are not limited by movie seats. Currently there are 10.000 ratings in the third day already. The previous festival record was 6.000 for 14 days. People are watching like crazy from their LA and NY homes. Normally 30.000 folks from LA invade this small mountain village for two weeks.

And for Sundance or Cannes you don't need to win a lottery of 1 over 20.000. You just go there, and watch the movies. In Cannes even for free. At Sundance for 20 bucks if you are a fan only.
submitting a github.com/google link does not make someone a Google employee. I believe submitter misuses "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
195 gigapixel 360-degree panorama of Shanghai
[Am author] I took care not to ever describe the characteristics of users when describing domestication; "user domestication" refers to treatment of users, not characteristics of users themselves. Domestication is an act or process before it is a characteristic.

Part of the point of the article was to argue that users shouldn't be treated as livestock by companies; they should be served by vendors rather than be in service of vendors. I wanted people to think it's bad to treat normal users as lesser beings to be exploited.

In other words: you're right. My article agrees with you.

If you think the message wasn't communicated clearly enough, I'm open to suggestions on how I could clarify this.
Matt Levine talks about something along these lines happening here: https://dealbreaker.com/2012/06/phil-falcones-alleged-piggis...

The TLDR (also written by him):
Falcone owned some bonds of a company called MAAX Holdings Inc. “After hearing rumors that a Wall Street financial services firm was shorting the MAAX bonds and also encouraging its customers to do the same, Falcone decided to seek revenge.” So he bought all the MAAX bonds. Then he bought more: Short sellers would borrow MAAX bonds (presumably from him), and then sell them to him, so that he ended up with “22 million more bonds than MAAX had ever issued.” Then he stopped lending them out, forcing the short sellers to buy bonds to cover their shorts. But there were no bonds to be bought, since he owned them all (and more). At some point an executive from the “Wall Street firm” called up Falcone to talk about the situation, and even in the SEC’s dry language you can tell that it was one of the greatest conversations in all of Wall Street history:

> At some point, the conversation turned to the trading in the MAAX bonds. The senior officer asked Falcone how the Wall Street firm might satisfy its obligation to Harbinger. Falcone stated that the Wall Street firm should just keep bidding for the bonds. Falcone acknowledged that the Wall Street firm would suffer some losses doing so, but told the senior officer and the others that sometimes you are just on the wrong side of a trade.

> In the course of this discussion, Falcone stated that he knew that the short position in the MAAX zips had created a “long” position in excess of the issue size. When the senior officer asked how he could possibly know this, Falcone stated that he was working the position himself and that he (i.e., Harbinger) had acquired approximately 190 million bonds. The senior officer and the other the Wall Street firm personnel were stunned.
BTW they generally become less deadly because the less deadly spread faster because they don't kill the host, but this virus has a rather long incubation period, so you can have both. Easy spread and higher death rate.
The founders don't seem to have much interest anymore, and Pichai is no Bezos, Nadella, or Cook. More of a Ballmer.

Google 2021 is Microsoft 2001. It's like they switched places.

If Google had a leadership change and a new vision, maybe it'd be an exciting company again.
Yup. Allocate budget. Hire few $10/hr offsore guys to craft some frontend in a few months. Transfer money.
Deliver kickbaks. Shutdown project.
Rinse and repeat.
Yes. All NLD leaders, ASSK, her lawyer, physician, President, lawmakers, chief ministers of Yangon, Mon state, Karen state, mandalay, and more all detained. Some activists, some journalists, and some filmmakers too arrested in middle of the night. Anyone critical of regime.

Military has also taken over ASSK FB page and is posting false information.
When I was in high school, cmd.exe was blocked on the school computers for obvious reasons. However, a classmate of mine figured out that you could create a .bat file that did nothing but pipe input and output to and from the shell, and then you could save it and double-click it to get a functioning terminal.
You may want to look at Dendrite which is an alternative implementation that is being developed. It's implemented in Go, and is supposedly a lot lighter on system resources.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/dendrite
Jim Cramer ran a hedge fund from 1987-2001.
> We actually know of consensus protocols that require synchrony including between participants and clients that go up to 99% fault tolerance for both liveness and safety; in fact Lamport himself described one in his original paper (remember that it's "written messages" and not "oral messages" in his vocab that's the relevant category; these days public key cryptography is cheap and uncontroversial so there's no need to care about the "oral" case)

The "written messages" protocol does not tell the whole story. If you go back and re-read Lamport '82 [1], the assumptions that make the SM(m) algorithm ("written messages") work at all also make it a practically useless result. In particular, assumption A4(b) (top of page 391) requires that anyone can authenticate any general's messages at all times. How the generals are supposed to learn each other's public keys _without_ an instance of SM(m) is not addressed, but presumably they would need to fall back to OM(m) ("oral messages") to do so. So if you take a BFT system as a whole, where you can't assume the existence of a magical fool-proof way for generals to learn each other's keys a priori, my original claim stands.

> The original definition of consensus did not have a notion of passive clients needing to learn the result, so the "active participants synchronous, passive clients asynchronous" model common in blockchain land was not really analyzed well back then.

Prior literature doesn't consider "passive clients" because they're not protocol participants in the first place. Clients do not participate in deciding agreement; otherwise they wouldn't be called clients.

Last I checked this is very much still the case in blockchain-land. Your wallet (client) does not do anything to help miners/stakers determine the best chain tip or the next block, for example.

So, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here?

> It turns out that with a synchronous network, the passive client requirement is what brings safety and liveness down from 99% to 50%. And it also happens that the 50% fault tolerance protocols are less fragile in the case that the synchrony assumption breaks temporarily.

Unless you're assuming the existence of the magic fool-proof public-key distribution mechanism required for SM(m) to work, you're not going to get liveness unless you're either (a) assuming nodes do not exhibit arbitrary failure modes, or (b) requiring at least 2/3+e nodes are honest.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf

EDIT: wrong date for Lamport
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If America just got its bank transfer system into at least the twentieth century there would be no problem. Cryptocurrency is totally irrelevant here; it would be like killing flies with multi-megaton mayonnaise missiles.
We've banned this account for using HN repeatedly for flamewar and ignoring repeated requests to stop. That's an abuse of the site and not cool at all.

No, we don't support genocide. We're just trying to have an internet forum not destroy itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The "truth" and "reality" categories are particularly destructive landmines, as without a shared understanding of the world there can be no communication, therefore violent conflict is inevitable. It feels like these mental weapons are being deliberately deployed across the population, and the old ways of reconciling differences don't work any more.

During the Trump presidency it felt like the population of the US was split in two different realities, and that the worldview of someone from the other side was completely alien. It works similarly in smaller scales as well, with things such as conspiracy theories.
The shock of the GameStop mania was that it didn't happen sooner
There are CPUs with hardware GC support, then tagged memory is coming back into fashion as means to tame C derived languages, and most Assembly languages are actually processed by tiny runtimes (microcode), as the pure hardware based gates is long gone in most high performance CPUs.

So between a CPU and VM depends pretty much on how one looks at it.
Being overpriced and out of reach for many people is one of the main point of a Rolex.
That's the very problem, in this case, it _did_ benefit the institution -- the hedge funds. By restricting buys, retail was unable to drive the demand and put shorts into margin calls (we discuss the ethics of this until the cows come home). In this very case, an unknowable amount of money should have been transferred from hedge funds to retail investors but didn't because buyers were unable to buy.
It's literally in the definition of "butler".

Butler:

1 : a manservant having charge of the wines and liquors. 2 : the chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
We've banned this account for flamewar. That's not ok regardless of which side you're flaming for.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986226.
> Google 2021 is Microsoft 2001.

So much so. Except Google's influence does not seem to be growing. I'm not sure it's fair to say it's peaked. GOOG and FB are the 2 FAANG stocks I won't own. GOOG because people don't seem to love their product any more and they don't seem to have the leverage FB has. FB because the company is run by a complete douchebag. Both have a lot of regulatory risk. Though if I'm honest, Amazon and Apple do too.
It is like overlay of many chroots / containers with some logic to preset unified view of all installed apps and to transparently switch between them.

So for example typing “mplayer” runs it in Ubuntu container, and typing “vlc” runs it in Arch container. And each container has is own libraries.

Pretty cool, but requires many rules about shared / unshared dirs. Like, home is shared but fontcache isn’t... Their release page has a long list of compatible subsystems.
Shorting?
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> This underlines the fact that Lisp projects can very easily end in spectacular disasters.

This is not specific to Lisp, it happens to all dynamically typed languages.

And this is why "holding invariants in my head" doesn't scale. Your objects have a type. Why not put it in the code and ask the compiler to verify it, so that future developers on that code (including yourself) will have an easier time reading it and evolving it?
Throw away your preconceived notions -- TeaVM beat React at its own game.

* Faster startup

* Better Lighthouse score

* Less code

See for yourself:
https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/comparing-jvm-alternatives...
The mayor of Miami has been pushing hard for the city to be seen as a destination for technology companies. Either we have different definitions of "going unnoticed" or "massive change".
GitHub is a brand for developers. It would make no sense for Microsoft to start using it for anything as consumer-facing as an app store. It might, perhaps, be worth doing for a dev-focussed store, but I'm not sure of the value of that. A more realistic option would be to seamlessly integrate GitHub releases with a Microsoft app store.
https://empirics.asia/this-is-how-google-will-collapse/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985107, which is where this link was first posted.
crypto.
The current situation feels, to me, like it can be summed up as:

If you have to keep telling me how great it (Miami) is, it's probably not that great and you're (media, investors, etc) incentivized to convince me it is.
> 6 months later I still don't have my ZX Spectrum Next

Was there anything in the way the Kickstarter was presented that made you believe you'd have one by January? January, when they were scheduled to begin production?

The approximate delivery date on the kickstarter was listed then as July 2021. (I'm a little unclear whether the revised date of August 2021 applies to everyone or just to those who bought from SpecNext.com after the crowdfunding campaign ended, but... who cares?)

> I'm also pretty fed up that, at least at times, critical comments about the project have been deleted from YouTube channels supportive of it (none of my comments that have been deleted have been any more strongly worded than this one).

The problem isn't that what you're saying is "strongly worded," the problem is that it's dishonest.
Don't use UserBenchmark, they are worse than useless. You're better off guessing the numbers.
'how Google will fail' site that fails when too many people try read it?
I’m with you. This is a really strange situation. Unless these chips are really hard to manufacture for some reason or there’s some kind of component shortage, mobile manufacturers pump out billions of devices annually (meaning so does the supply chain pumping out the CPU/GPU SoCs). Maybe a node issue, but lasting multiple node sizes? If it’s crypto and persisted so long, then wouldn’t they have ramped up their pipelines? Is it that sales aren’t as good as they need them to be and artificial scarcity let’s them drive MSRP higher so that their revenues are a bit boosted? Maybe the flagships are way too complicated and expensive to manufacture with sales too few so that it basically amounts to nothing more than an expensive PR campaign? Maybe the real focus is primarily on cloud/mobile offerings? I really don’t know the details of the GPU business model so perhaps someone more knowledgeable can provide some insight. I’m really curious.
> The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

Not sure if this is a genuine error or the author is making some sort of point.
The possibility of getting wealthy this way is only available because there is a stable society to skim off of, and that is in turn the result of the collective work of millions. Trading does not create wealth but shifts it around, so why shouldn't it be taxed?
I made an iOS/Swift audio app. designed specifically for this purpose 2/3 years ago. I got discouraged as I didn’t have the time/resources to work on it further/make more content for it/other products came out like Microsoft Soundscape etc that I thought were basically similar in some ways... Essentially it was spatial audio coupled with common game engine audio functionality and location/orientation tracking... I’d be very happy if anyone out there could find a use for it/was interested. I thought about uploading it to GitHub/sim., but being an audio designer/musician primarily I was a bit hesitant about the quality of my efforts... did work though when tested at the time...
During the 2008 crisis, there was a lot of criticism of HFTs. Their primary defense was that they provide liquidity, which is valuable.

Does HFT help with this issue at all?
> Your winter is close to my summer.

Sucks to live where you do. :-^
It's (a).

The optimal strategy can't possibly be (b), because it would have the bizarre implication that two investors who have exactly the same preferences and who currently have the same amount of wealth would want to allocate their investments differently depending on how far in the past they started investing.

Edit: I'm quite sleepy right now, but I think the way the mathematics works out is that the risk arising from an asset is a convex function of the amount allocated to it. So by Jensen's inequality it's less risky to invest 50/50 in cash and stocks for two years than to invest for one year in cash and one year in stocks, for the same reward.
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