skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ford was being honest. The degree to which anyone at the time had a car it was a sign of luxury or great expense. Ford made it cheap.

What the people wanted was to go from A to B faster. How they did was "via a horse". Logically "faster horse" is their solution (of which I'm certain there were varying qualities of horses, some of which you wouldn't want to trust your life with).

What Ford did was focus on a problem "transportation is slow" (and horses make a lot of manure).

The Model T

>prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance

This was 5 years after the first car (Model A) in 1903. Which was 7 years after the prototype in 1896.

From: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas

1. Add support for Apple Silicon (run on my computer)

2. Update the Spotify app icon for macOS Big Sur (fit the theme of computer/life)

3. Please bring back the Hide this Song Option and I dont like this song/ artist (listening to this puts me in a mood I don't like, don't play it)

- This is arguably the same thing as "detect emotional state": "wrong mood do not want". Ignoring that data signal suggests misaligned incentives/goals. While I'm certain many songs share common emotions between people, the degree to which we react to an individual song or genre varies. I'm not sure how they'd hope to accurately tune an emotional scale while also refusing to block songs/artists.

4. Emotes and user reactions
- again: gather the data surrounding how a song makes you feel. The ability to gather and train on this data should be crucial, without it how could they capture users emotions? (I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just clear to me this is aligned with the patent)

5. Globe Learning
- a suggestion to visualize music globally by artist home country/state/city

I wouldn't consider "inquisitive" or "learning" an emotion, but perhaps it's a higher order grouper "what state is the listener in".
There's an emotional component to the process of learning and ignoring "confused", "curious" exploration of something foreign could lead to an better overall "fulfilled emotional state"

To rephrase your last sentence: People (including companies) may not realize the value of a new feature because it has been neither _implemented_ nor _measured_.
> You might say "the U.S. is so big!!" but I would just say we should largely be living closer together in medium density mixed-use environments (not skyscrapers, and certainly not suburbs). That doesn't mean you can't have a car or a yard, or a garage, but you should probably be walking to work or riding a bike - or at least some of your family members should be.

Those are a lot of shoulds about how other people should live their life.
Won't IV collapse from the ludicrous 800% killing any gains? Better to sell cash secured put to gain the premium then sell the underlying maybe?
> I have to admit that not being able to boot from an external drive really caught my attention.

You can boot from an external Thunderbolt drive, it's USB drives that people have been having trouble with.

>In researching the process, various Mac users have found success with non-Thunderbolt 3 drives, but under oddly specific circumstances without any real rhyme or reason for them working. Save yourself the time and just use a Thunderbolt 3 drive from the outset.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/03/how-to-boot-an-ap...
Ha, yes, I do mean the 3950x.
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
> The AMD machine discharges in a day even when hibernating

That isn't a CPU-related issue right? The CPU would be completely powered down when hibernating
Starting an AI startup first month recap [video]
Show HN: MityURL – URL Shortener Built with React Native and Firebase
Luddites were opposed to advances in the textile industry that were taking their jobs. They were an early, imperfect attempt at forming a labor union.

Making textiles was a job that require a lot of investment (apprenticeship) in learning the necessary skills. Automated looms put a lot of skilled labor out of work, while concentrating wealth into the people that owned the automated looms, which only required much cheaper unskilled labor.

Luddites were not opposed to technology! They were opposed to businesses using new technologies to destroy their livelihood. If they had been included in sharing the benefits of the new technologies, the Luddite movement wouldn't exist.

> This does not strike me as a technology that made life worse in the long run.

The luddites would have agreed. From [1]:

>> As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

> Especially for women who were freed from The responsibilities of manufacturing clothing for their families and could later pursue careers.

WTF? Luddites were highly skilled artisans that were being forced to abandon their careers.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
Did Signal give solid reasoning for disallowing accounts and usage without an attached cell phone number? (I assume the question comes up frequently, but I don't know the answer)
Not at all, it’s because the states are doing what they can inspire of no federal strategy.
Spamcop anti-spam service suffers an outage after its domain expired
uh, given they were arranging things that where attendance was graded on FB she didn't have a choice. There was no convenience factor, it was literally the way things were communicated to students.
Novel antiviral drug significantly more potent against SARS-CoV-2
Follow up from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610809, I've been recording a daily vlog after quitting my job to try to do a one year startup. Someone suggested I do weekly recaps, couldn't get to it but here is a monthly recap.

If anyone wants to sign up for a limited alpha in about 4-8 weeks, you can register here: hal9.com
I do not agree that Occum's razor is much help here.

AFAIK this is completely unprecedented. A crowd of whomever and bankers with clients money at stake, disagreeing so absolutely about fundamental values. A mass action making the third corner of a very strange triangle.

The explanation you offer (it's sensible, except it is not one hedge fund) is no more or less complex than a conspiracy. What ever is going on there are a lot of moving parts.

I am not making predictions!
Great piece. Font-weight needs to be cranked, though.
>But at the end of the day, it is a conflict of interest for brokers to artificially affect stock values.

The problem is that restricting sells unnecessarily can also be construed as artificially affecting stock values, even though it might produce less net change overall. An extreme example would be if the sell/buy functionality were handled by different servers, and only the "buy" servers caught fire. Do you shut down the "sell" server as well to preserve market balance, even though they're working fine and there's no risk to them? In that case the legal system definitely prefers doing nothing (or less) than more. See law stackexchange's take on the trolley problem, which I believe is similar. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/1639/what-is-the-leg...
no doubt. was once involved at a place that had a GWT codebase and I was a react dev, right there then I decided to quit my job. surprised why the industry continues to regress backwards and not embrace html and the web as they should be.
Build Your Own Cryptocurrency (PoS) in Just a Few Minutes
redpanda is not just a performance (latency) gain. The main thing people pay us money for is not performance, it is operational simplicity - no zk, no jvm, nothing to tune (https://vectorized.io/docs/autotune) . one binary you can `scp` around a few servers is really quite easy to work with.

A different example of a system that can start small is Joe Hellertein's research (https://dsf.berkeley.edu/jmh/papers/anna_ieee18.pdf)

the point is that operational simplicity, often trumps performance for most ppl. In fact, that's what the parent argument suggests redpanda for, the parent comment was not about performance.
No studies exist of infection to others for the obvious reason (too hard to track accurately). If you had read any of the literature you would know this.
"We were hours away from going bankrupt, that's why we lied publicly"

I'm pretty sure that that is not going to go well for them in front of a judge.
I'm from Nepal. We're next doors to Myanmar. We have democracy, social policies (even universal healthcare, which is comically bad anyway but we do have that), freedom of speech, free press, yadda yadda but Myanmar is still richer than us. The disagreements of democratically elected leaders has been the main cause of political instability for us for more than a decade now.
MGM to Make Movie About Wall Street Chaos over GameStop Stock
> I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice.

Okay as soon as I read this I knew I shouldn't be expecting much, but...

> My understanding of your belief is that you think Melvin would not lie due to there being a large risk associated with lying.

This really isn't just lying a little bit, and isn't just a large risk. If you're running a fund like this, purposely making materially false statements like this would be akin to jumping out of a plane without a parachute and somehow hoping for the best, while 5M angry redditors are purposely trying to make sure you crash into the hardest thing possible. This position of "well maybe he's lying, you can't definitively prove he's not!" position is so bonkers that it's closer to a conspiracy theory than an actual opinion.

> One might also assume that Melvin would not be dumb enough to short over 100% of GME stock.

This has been discussed in depth elsewhere. You're understanding of this concept is fundamentally flawed. Frankly, even if it wasn't, you're suggesting that a single firm shorted more than 100%? Or that both Melvin Capital and Citron both shorted more than 100%, and that somehow added up (with your misunderstanding) to 140%?
You know how much that costs? I specifically mentioned ROI.

If you did the research into that one, it also only has 4.4gigs of ram. It will also slow down (aka: zombie mode) starting early November 2021 once the DAG gets large enough.

https://minerstat.com/dag-size-calculator

It takes about an hour of running it, just to start mining because the DAG generation takes so long.

By the way, Linzhi only sells to large customers because they've taken so long to produce this thing (years now) that they don't have enough money to front the production run.

They are also a super sketchy company. You should have seen the stuff they pulled during the ProgPoW debate.

Disclosure: I'm a very very large GPU miner and I'm deeply involved in this business.
What's the recommended way to drop into blocking code? For example, if you already have a worker thread pool executing some blocking code.

I am guessing it will automatically look for static occurrences of park(), wait(), etc anything that goes into a blocked state and yields to the next handler on the event queue?

Even with the coroutine support, it doesn't seem smart enough to make something like "while (true) { ... }" auto-yield to other functions or handlers on the event queue. To be fair, it's not like javascript does this for you either.
It may be worth reading up on when this happened before: https://moxreports.com/vw-infinity-squeeze/
There is also no evidence they singlehandedly shorted over 100% of GME stock. All of these claims and rumors unravel when you demand evidence. They might make sense if you assume their circular dependencies, but it's a house of cards.
Does it matter? As long as there is enough mining that isn't controlled by a single entity (mining in China isn't a single entity), then the network is secure.
You have to hand it to the scientists working to make the experiment as unbiased as possible.
>Everyone from Ted Cruz to AOC to Aaron Rodgers sided with Main Street against Wall Street.

Apart from the media, of course. For example, Newsweek is calling GME investors "far-right extremists"[1] while The Washington Post is comparing the situation to the Capitol riots[2].

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/far-right-extremists-use-gamestop-c...

[2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/30/good-guys...
Scary? Hardly. Most of the time Spotify's recommended music is just other songs by my favorite artists that I've already listened to 100x, on their platform. If they can't predict what I will like outside of the artists/genres I already listen to, I doubt they can make any predictions based on infinitely more noisy data points.

They can't even differentiate artists with the same fucking name.
This is getting a bit pedantic. The reason people are specifying that RH accounts are margin accounts by default is because it’s relevant to the financial situation. Functionally, they are margin accounts even if the end user isn’t entirely aware of it.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Most hedge funds did significantly better than the S&P in 2008. They were down, but nowhere to the same degree.
That's what the clearinghouse is for. They are the counterparty for both sides. So the seller's counterparty is the clearinghouse, not the buyer, and the buyer's counterparty is also the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse requires broker margin accounts so that they can close out a trade when there's a failure. And the amount of collateral depends on risk.

(This is also why GME trading was halted by some brokers--assymetrical trades and increased volatility meant there was greater risk for trades in those stocks for those brokers, so the clearinghouse demanded more collateral from the broker. Broker doesn't have that collateral right away, they can't make the trade.)
On balance it's probably more important to create (a) stable public APIs backed by tests and (b) an automated deployment process than to get the internal implementation right from the start.

These two things help any system at any stage. They also make it easier to handle migration if that's necessary.
Pay toilets were common in the US up until the 70s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets...
So the brokerage is always required to sit on the buyer’s money just in case they can’t readily get the securities or the collateral from the clearinghouse, and the buyer can’t even put up extra money to make sure the transaction can go through. Weird, but good find.
The History of Euler’s Number
Question: what do you think of this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25984635
I have very fond memories of my Speccy 48k. When I was a kid, together with the Amstrads, it was the most popular home micro. I wonder what part of the HN crowd has ever used one.
You hit the nail on the head.

TSMC, Samsung and GlobalFoundries are the centralization points of all of mining because they produce the chips.

Good thing they like money and they are global corporations.
In the decade before Covid hit, the net number of new restaurants and bars in New York (City) alone increased by more than 7,000, to 23,650

During which decade the population of New York city increased by 2%, while the number of restaurants increased 30%. So a shakeout was due.

The author is correct, though, that with Grubhub, Yelp, and Groupon all extracting money from the restaurant industry, it's become much tougher.
What is your point?
One wrote something 5-years ago, when Ouroborus was not even invented at all, does it mean is it still hold?

Or do you want to believe that's still true because it would be very inconvenient to your biases (we all have our own biases) otherwise?

Sorry, I really did not want to be rude, just tried to find out whether you're trying to seek for the truth or just want to be right.
Yes they have a relationship, it's known that Point72 has been an investor. That doesn't imply ownership or even majority stake. It's very common for funds to invest in other funds, just like it's common for large tech companies to have business development and VC arms.
There is no temporary lapse in Integrity.
Yup, exactly. I don't know how they made it so flaky, but it's flaky every single time. (To some extent, I think it's bootloader-related issues; not a hardware or protocol problem, but a quirk of the bootloaders floating around.)

Once you get Micropython or Circuit Python loaded, it is pretty great. I think if I were teaching someone programming for the first time, that's the platform I'd use. (But every time I try, they say they want to learn React, try doing so for a week, and then give up on programming for good. You've gotta crawl before you can walk!)
I understood you were joking. And, as with any forum of smart, nerdy people, there is an inevitable percentage who will point out how some part of your joke does not fit with observable facts.
Not OP, but thanks for this high-effort post. It helps a lot more than just the OP, even when it's specific to him.
https://www.mcmaster.com/

Or even

https://www.grainger.com/category/fasteners/screws/machine-s...

Specialty stores? I wouldn't want to do this at scale with Amazon.
I also bought one around August to October, but recall that they wouldn't even stop taking pre-orders until early January 2021, which just happened. You should've seen that they're not scheduled to arrive until ~August 2021.
If you're willing to take the risk + accept the low expected monetary value, I'd say (3) will definitely let you learn most about starting a startup and finding cofounders. To that end, IMO ideally find a startup with <5-10 people so that you can get in early and learn from the ground up.
I find it interesting/satisfying that clock tick is one big bold configuration parameter that can be tweaked to basically change the interpretation of the results.
Visualized: A Global Risk Assessment of 2021 and Beyond
By and large restaurants are terrible at providing healthy, nutritious, sustaining food. If the pandemic helps promote more cooking at home and more nutritious eating, the failure of restaurants may have a silver lining.
I feel sad for the people of Myanmar. I feel sad for Aung San Suu Kyi and all freedom fighters who have sacrificed their whole life and family to better Myanmar.

My personal experience is Myanmar is a wonderful country full of a wonderful people, and vibrant culture, despite living in the shadow of ethnic violence and a brutal military regime.

It’s hard to say how this will play out. For many here it’s a mystery why military did this, as they already had power over state business, 25% military appointed legislature, control of courts, etc. and the benefit of hiding behind fake democracy to get foreign investment. So people are confused as to what their motive is, as they already had the best of both worlds.
> only feasible end game is if WSB makes Gamestop the most valuable company in the world and criples the global financial system. Is it possible? Sure, lots of things are possible... I wouldn't bet on them

Another good reason to assume this wouldn't happen: the existing system will not let it.

You may argue that that is "changing the rules" or "cheating" or "being on the institutions side!", and you're right, but I would assume that the government forces all GME positions to be liquidated and halts all trading, no matter no many retail and/or institutional traders get upset by it, before allowing the collapse of the global financial system (again).

No matter what game you're playing, there are always "superior" rules, that are not written down. No matter what game you're playing, one of the over-arching rules is "no crippling the global financial system".
There's a legal mandated Chinese firewall between the organizations. They have entirely different employees and reporting structures. If the two were coordinating, it would have to be a conspiracy involving dozens of people in different roles across the groups.

Moreover, even if you assume that they didn't care about breaking the law and going to jail, it'd be stupid. Citadel Securities makes $6 billion a year.[1] Citadel's position in Gamestop represented a less than 1% loss to its hedge funds. At $35 billion AUM and 20% incentive fees, the impact of the Gamestop shorts on Citadel Investment's net income would be about $70 million.

You're telling me that Citadel management decided to risk jail time and a $6 billion/year franchise to save $70 million?

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/citadel-s...
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-31/the-citad...
The Post article is an op-ed, not something written by the editorial board. I’d prefer that newspapers feel free to publish a wide range of views without readers ascribing those views to the paper (I.e., the newsroom or editorial board).
MindMed is already rolling with FDA patents in this space. Literally this industry is going to explode this year.

Hahaha Pun Intended?
Here's an analogy:

* data breaches are very easily hidden: literally anyone can walk out with a usb drive loaded with information, or download the data off an unsecured/unlogged server without a trace

* it's hard to prove: I mean, companies aren't exactly offering their logs up for public inspection

* the system is built for allowing shadiness: not sure how to quantify this one but there's definitely a problem of attribution when it comes to who did it, especially when there's multiple data brokers involved.

You read hearsay saying that company X has suffered a data breach. The company denies this. Do you give them the benefit of the doubt, or do you assume they're guilty?
One year is a pretty small window to compare the performance of two investors or portfolios. If they are performing better than them for over 5 years, maybe that’s something to write home about.
Have been in your situation more than once. The itch to leave and do your own thing is extremely appealing. The grass is always greener on the other side. The following are some of the traps that I have encountered.

Having a good job and high income means your lifestyle becomes ever more expensive. It is very hard to cut back sufficiently to survive a year or two with no income. Can be done, though. Need to ruthlessly cut back on all expenses. Most likely downsizing your housing and transportation expectations.

The default state for startups is failure. So you need to ask yourself whether you can accept taking that risk. The current state of the economy means that its very hard to predict the conditions even a couple of months down the track.

With strong FAANG background and conmensurate skillset, you might want to consider working for a startup that has reached B (or even C) round funding. Although you might miss out on the early stage excitement, the future may be a bit more dependable.

I have found the productively working on a side-project for a long period leads to faster burn-out and/or lesser effectiveness in your current job which in turn can lead to adverse HR/management treatment.
Facebook Insider Leaks: Zuckerberg/FB Execs Admit Facebook Has “Too Much Power”
Yeah, silver is kinda big. A surprising target vs anything else.
I use open subtitles with vlc, you just search by hash and if you have a match it usually is synced