skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting and I have no doubt the applications are gigantic across a whole suite of industries.
I do however have a question about your final statement around creating a commoditised market for high-res imagery. How do you see this evolving over time on what is essentially privatised satellite infrastructure?

You note the parallel with GPS - but this is a 'free spinoff' developed by and for the US govt (and still bankrolled by the US taxpayer) rather than something owned and run by private enterprise. GPS was never developed explicitly with profit in mind. In GPS, the end user also 'owns' their gps traces, in that they can choose to share them with 3rd parties freely. Additionally, there is no value discrimination in gps - all traces are treated the same by the infrastructure owners regardless of how valuable they are (no one is charged more if they use the gps on their phone to enable lots of apps vs someone who only uses it for a single thing). Imagery data on the other hand is much more likely to have different value depending on what is being imaged (there is more value in an image of a busy port than there is of a random patch of empty ocean).

My feeling is that the high res imagery market right now feels more like the market for satellite automatic identification system (AIS) data used in maritime. AIS data is expensive because it is gate-kept by a relatively small number of satellite companies who charge a premium for access and carefully guard how that data is used by onward parties - completely unlike GPS.

As in AIS, because a small number of imagery companies will not only own the infrastructure, but also the images produced by that infrastructure, I'm not sure how it can be commoditised in the same way GPS has been - unless you plan to charge a low flat fee for essentially all images regardless of what they depict and what they are used for?
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With a $3.4b warchest this entirely undermines their (plainly untrue) narrative about restricting the stock due to capital requirements.
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The difference is that this will show up for every app that uses FB's audience network to show and make money from ads, so many mobile games will have this show after install.
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The Counterfeiting of Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac A. Counterfeiting Stocks Through Electronic Delivery
Naked short selling is cute terminology developed by Wall Street to confuse the fact that this is simply a method of counterfeiting shares of U.S. publicly traded companies. At a speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. on November 16, 2007, former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt stated, ―Phantom shares created by naked shorting are analogous to counterfeit money.

A well known fact for SEC from decades.
Opt in or get universally deplatformed and lose access to the banking system. Private companies btw.
Facebook is a dying sexapp platform and they are hoping to.... save face. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHH
Scratching your own itch is def a path, but not the path all of us take.

Like I doubt anyone has ever had their own itch for “garbage truck fleet management software “, but I’m sure there is money in it. Or I suppose people have parents / family in the garbage truck industry, so you can “scratch a relatives itch”.

Personally my SaaS has nothing to do with myself nor anyone I know, but it’s an opportunity of weak software I found. I assume this is also a path people go down...
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Calls from the US Senate for Reforms on Wall Street
It's fairly abstract, but I like it as described. Specifically:

1. As proposed it's working mostly at the OS level. That means it should largely work with all the languages and tools people are already used to. Lots of concepts like this expect everything to be recreated from scratch.

2. It doesn't fall into the devops approach of formally specifying a container and then building it. That makes sense in prod environments, but here it looks like you are encouraged to just do what you want to do and the system can track the results.

3. I guess file I/O is an okay abstraction? The example of writing to /people/robin/inbox makes me expect that it will be easy to add new filesystems (since a generalized messaging systems seems like overreach), so I imagine creating interesting little components exposed to the filesystem. That's friendlier than APIs. Also filesystems enforce a regular metadata system (paths) and encourage read/write APIs, both of which are great features for exploration.

I don't really get the DOM references. Trees are a pain in the ass. I prefer thinking of file paths as somewhat opaque strings instead of hierarchy.

Using namespacing for anything useful is also questionable to me, because it's so hard to know where the namespace is defined, where it is consumed, how you might override that, and what overriding a namespace actually means – if it means changing code then changing a namespace reference changes the referencing namespace, and it all starts exploding.

The really interesting question here is how REAL I/O works. Like, how do these sandboxes talk to the world? A sandbox on its own is kind of boring. How does it talk to a real screen, a real mouse, to the network, to a browser, to a database? And can we make these things easier and more playful? Glitch.com is cool, but if you want to use any of these more persistent or external services it still feels like becoming a sysadmin.
You're not the consumer here. You're not paying for anything.
Yes. If you read what the ultimate intent of the /r/wallstreetbets crowd is, they're not just trying to exercise the same right to make money off of the financial system that billionaires have.

A year ago, the person that started this detected a situation where GME was a company that didn't have long term prospects, wasn't losing money, but was still shorted to 140% of it's value. It's not supposed to be possible to go over 100% any more since 2008, by the way.

Because of the shorting, he deduced that hedge funds and other influential people in the financial system were planning to encourage GME to go bankrupt, thus getting their short shares forgiven, because a bankrupt company is written off as a loss by the actual share owner.

So the hedge funds' plan was to short shares at some price as much as they could get away with, then make the shares worthless by encouraging bankruptcy. Since the shares would then be written off, they would pocket all the money they took from selling the shares they borrowed to short. Nice racket.

What WSB did is make the price go in the opposite direction, which is important for a lot of reasons, but one huge one is that the risk of shorting is proportional to the reward. If the price of a shorted stock goes up, then the borrower (person doing the short) still has to return it to the owner. No matter how high the price goes.

So they realized if they drive the price WAY up, then the people who were doing the 140% shorts on a company they planned to drive out of business would get screwed by their own system.

Some of the folks on WSB are making money and lots of it, but many of them just want to see the whole unfair system burn. By exploiting this weakness, they're trying to force the government to reform the whole finance industry.
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The solution of course is not to prevent cheating, but to make it irrelevant. We need to find new ways to assess the student performance, such that cheating will be unnecessary or impractical, i.e., not worth it. There are ways for small classes (project based assessment), but these do not scale up easily.
Not really. You. nor the bank, can't lend more money that you have, but you can promise more than you have.

That automatically implies something more complicated than lending. At the very least, money was borrowed (on a promise) from a third party in order to provide the money they loaned.

You and I can do the same, I can promise you whatever I like. And if I manage to convince you, or a third party, that my promise is good, I can even borrow money from them. And loan out that money, despite not owing it; Unless there is something fraudulent in doing that wrt my agreements with the borrower - but the bank has the same, nationally regulated, restrictions too.
Not sure how others feel but given their recent actions I'd love to see a petition for a name change.
FYI, eTrade is still allowing these trades. I sold a put on AMC just now.
I'll take exception and note that many metrics are displayed on the infotainment system, to say nothing of GPS and phone calls. I know that laws are intended to mitigate this, but the basic issue is that Android has frustrating UI issues that will likely contribute to an unsafe motor vehicle environment. Distractions exist.
Android nearly gets me killed on a daily basis as-is, without making my car into a glorified smart phone.
If a bank is created and you deposit $1, the bank has $1.

They can lend only $0.9 because they need to keep $0.1 as reserve (for example).

From there different things could happen:

a) if the borrower takes the $0.9 and takes it elsewhere the bank cannot lend a single additional cent until they get more deposits.

The fractional reserve means they could only lend a fraction of the dollar.

Maybe the money will be deposited in another bank who will then lend to someone else, but for the original bank who got $1 it stops there.

b) if that money remains in the bank as a new deposit, they have now $1.9 in deposits.

They can lend a fraction of the additional $0.90, and make an additional loan of $0.81 (keeping $0.19 in reserves in total).

If the second loan also ends in the bank as a deposit they will have $2.71 in deposits, they can make a new loan etc. but the multiplier is limited.

For shares there is no limit at all.

If Alice has a share she can lend it to Bob who sells it to Carol. Carol can lend it to Daniel who sells it to Elaine. Elaine can lend it to Felix who sells it to Gloria. Gloria can lend it to Hector who sells it to Ingrid. They can go on for as long as they want and all the ladies will be long one share.
Does that actually work though? I've been buying things on Amazon for over a decade. For a while I got my groceries through them, I watch a lot of stuff on Prime Video. You would think they, of all people, know what I like. I can't think of more than a couple times where anything suggested to me was actually something I wanted.

Even when I used FB, the ads were so off target from things I am interested in as to be laughable. Like, THIS is the best you can do with teams of engineers making > $200k/year throwing AI at everything? I'm not convinced that all of this tracking crap is just a way for them to market their ad business - "Look we gather all this data about people, your ads will definitely be seen by people who we know for a fact will be interested in them because of coding and algorithms and machine learning and blah blah blah."
This was need as developers were struggling to use packages with different Python versions in the same project.
I'm impressed (in a bad way) at the subtle emotional manipulation in the combination of "support businesses" and the header image they chose for this design.
Do I understand this (https://solidproject.org/developers/tutorials/getting-starte...) correctly: you can only write Solid applications with frontend Javascript?
I think most people prefer ads to paying for something. The ads are only a means to what they care about.
“Tap to "unlock", and you're now 1 step away from confirming a $416/year subscription.”

I would think that “1 step” involves accepting a dialog that shows you this will cost $8 a week.

If so, that doesn’t put Apple off the hook (it certainly is a major change from early App Store, when they removed the “I am Rich” app, which was totally honest in what functionality it provided (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich)), but does move some blame to the user.

As I said, it doesn’t put Apple off the hook. Even if they think selling such apps is a good idea, I think that, for subscriptions, Apple should mention price per year, too (I guess they don’t, but am not willing to try with such an app). That might prevent many users who scan the dialog, see “$8”, find that reasonable for buying a feature, and click “subscribe” from clicking on that button.
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> It's a fraud because they can do it but I can't do it.

That's not what fraud means.

"In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right."

The reason some things are illegal and others aren't is because for the system to function, certain powers and responsibilities are delegated to certain entities. You can't own nuclear warheads, you can't kidnap people, and you can't print money. The act of doing those things isn't illegal. What makes that act illegal is the context. If those who were delegated that power are doing it, it's not crime, it's your responsibility. If you decide to build a reactor in your back yard, that's crime.

Just because someone else can do something you can't doesn't mean it's fraud.
Unfortunately, unless you have someone to vouch for you, it kind of can be a popularity contest. This is from a corporate point of view, where lower managers have to appeal up the chain to fight for promotions for their people. It’s much easier for the higher ups to grant promotions to the people they’ve heard of.
I also thought we were talking about 100,000%'s here. The figure diagram is confusing to say the least.
Yep, and it's not some new-fangled form of finance, it is the entire history of finance. There is a hierarchy of money, and it has always been so.

I highly recommend this Coursera course to shed light on this: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking

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Pure anecdote, but I've never seen a project become less native.

Meanwhile state of the art JITs (for .NET, JVM, Swift, and other traditionally managed runtimes) are increasingly blurring what it means for a language to be native and what the benefits for "native" even are.

So I don't think it's useful to think in terms of niches, because niches are constantly disappearing within our ecosystems. We're reaching a point where the implementation of a language is mostly a solved problem (throw it on top of some JIT for a bigger language) and the only meaningful innovation is in the semantics and syntax of a language for expressing intent and providing soundness.

If we're skating to where the puck is going here, I wouldn't say it makes sense to ignore native compilation for functional languages because that's a well served niche, but because AOT compilation itself is becoming niche.
I have seen other people say that you must have a margin account to trade options, so maybe TDA has restricted all margin accounts.

Perhaps this is specific to Robinhood though.
I’m reluctant to be ‘that guy’, but it really seems like this space is ripe for disruption by a blockchain solution. Surely a stock can be modelled almost directly as a scarce digital asset token traded anywhere or exchanged directly if desired. Voting rights could be implemented with a smart contract.
Bedrock Linux is a system to integrate things from different distros. The desire to use it while avoiding integration with a "base system" seems mutually exclusive to me. I think one of us is failing to model the other properly.

Can you elaborate on:

- Why your existing bubblewrap/flatpak-spawn/bash-wrapper works only okay, and why Bedrock might be a possible improvement? From where I'm sitting the limitation with the system you've described is that it does not integrate well with the rest of the system; however, you explicitly don't want it to.

- Why you don't want to use Bedrock Linux as your distro? On the one hand, this might just be a matter of definition; if you define Bedrock as something other than a distro, would it then meet your needs? It certainly isn't a distro in the traditional sense; Bedrock's documentation refers to it as a "meta distribution" for this reason [0]. On the other hand, if it's due to some concrete failing on Bedrock's part - it certainly isn't perfect - it's not clear to me how using as an alternative packaging system independent of your distro would alleviate that failing.

[0] https://bedrocklinux.org/faq.html#what-is-meta
Ah, I misread the articles then, thanks for correction.
I just got a vehicle that supports it, but when my Pixel 3 tries to connect, the AA UI shows briefly for a second, then fails, every time. Any tips? I've tried over USB and wireless, same result.
I don't think anything that we said was a fireable offense (or HR would need to fire the whole group). We might get an official reprimand for some of the dissing, though.
But how did you attain that wealth? Wealth is unspent income. You could have two individuals who earn $1000. But if one saves $1 and the other saves $100, then the latter is 100x wealthier. But is he really have 100x the lifestyle? No, one spent $999 and the other $900. They are approximately equal.

Considering that most people don't save anything (even in wealthy countries) it's not difficult to have 10x the average wealth.
Or multiple markets with actual human curation that can compete for quality.
Unless you want to.
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