skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't live in a city. Largely because of that, commute times have often been an issue in the past. That's one of the reasons I decided, years ago, to drop the commute and just work from home.

Now, not only do I have no commute, I have a job that pays significantly more than what I could make in my local area.

There are no cons. This is the way life should be.
Can't you people stop bitching and appreciate good work for once?
Any chances of having juicy revelations like those we had with Apple v.s. Samsung? I loved the early prototypes and Samsung "Apple did this, we did this, fix it to make ours the way Apple is" documents that came out as evidence in the court.
GM plans to declare bankruptcy 2036.
Then don't misappropriate words or apply them in a contextually incorrect way, thinking you know better or have some keen insight into utilization.

Learn about how scientists actually work and meet them--don't twist the jargon around to suit your marketing needs.
ain't no one gonna use that.
Phone lines are privately owned, not publicly. Yes the locality may own the poles, but it may not either. They are leased or granted access to the right of way.

Facebook also owns at least some of its own interconnects.

It is fine with me if you disagree on principle, but to act like anybody can just create the network effect of Facebook and compete is frankly ridiculous.
It might make it through, but in that case it would be better adapted for those the vaccine didn't work on; this could actually make it less infectious for those the vaccine would work on, so it's questionable whether it would be any better or worse overall.
Check out HardForum. Lots of very knowledgable people on there helped me mature my hardware level knowledge. Back when I was building 4 cpu, 64 core opteron systems. Also decent banter.
I've been working 100% remote for 20 years..TBH, if there's down sides, I really stopped noticing years ago. Get yourself setup with decent office equipment when able (second hand office furniture stores can be REAL cheap). A reasonably fast, very reliable internet connection is a must.

As for pluses - it gets easier to find remote jobs all the time, salaries/rates are real good. Can't beat the commute :-)
Apple are a private company and can do whatever they want...
I suspect if they didn’t have liquidity issues, they were just quicker that Robinhood to prevent them. I’m sure they didn’t want to tie up a huge part of their collateral in BME.
Facebook: “Your honor, Apple implemented a prompt to ask people whether they want 3rd parties to track them, using their own data.”

Judge: “Case closed.”
Let Facebook and Apple fight to educate the masses on their bullshit - while hopefully one or more strong competitors start scaling?
Note that it is possible for these accusations to have some merit even if the accuser has engaged in similar things on their own.

There's no need to group every interaction into political dichotomies.
Ask HN: How do you start new projects?
I often find myself wanting to start a new project but I always find the initial setup to be overwhelming. I start asking questions like "What project structure should I use?" or "Is this library the best one for my needs?".

I waste a lot of time on that initial research up to a point I get tired and abandon the project.

So, what process do you follow when starting new projects?
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> Perhaps I should mention I don't live in the USA

As a non-US resident: indeed you're having a much different conversation than everybody here. This advice also makes some sense in other countries, but this article (NY times), the advice ("don't talk to police"), the lecture, the context (eg Miranda) are all pretty US-specific. In my country the defendant is legally allowed to lie and the police is not!
Think about the days before the internet. Was there any technical profession where you'd find offices without lots of books?
Kind of right.

DPC++ has more stuff than just SYSCL, some of it might find its way back to SYSCL standardization, some of it might remain Intel only.

OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.2 with a new name.

Meanwhile people are busy waiting for Vulkan compute to take off, got to love Khronos standards.
It doesn't work on Chrome either.
Could be something like if Citadel goes insolvent and only makes their payments for flow to Robinhood on a delayed schedule, then Robinhood may not get paid for the last quarter or year of income and incur huge losses.
I can't figure out if I hate or love this trick. It does trigger strong confusing emotions.
OpenGL compute shaders are a natural step if you have unified programmable shader cores, and less complicated than adding new pipeline stages for everything (tessellation shaders, geometry shaders, …).

Khronos could have chosen only to add OpenCL integration, but OpenCL C is a very different language to GLSL, the memory model (among other things) is different, and so on. I don't see why video game developers should be forced to use OpenCL when they want to work with the outputs of OpenGL rendering passes, to produce inputs to OpenGL rendering passes, scheduled in OpenGL, to do things that don't fit neatly into vertex or fragment shaders?
Each time the issue of action to force Apple to open the App Store comes up, I usually mention that Facebook will be the first to open a store.

If Facebook prevails, at the very least every developer and every user will have to deal with both Apple’s store and Facebook’s store.

We know that Facebook will permit apps which do tracking without consent.

This situation is objectively worse for both consumers and developers than what we have now.

It’s also worth pointing out that Facebook would be unaffected, or indeed May even benefit if the overall app marketplace contracted due to erosion of user trust.
Facebook is more popular than iOS, and they maintain a developer platform as well. What kinds of distinctions could they draw which force Apple to open up its platform without also having to open up the Facebook SDK? Should courts force Facebook to allow apps that populate newsfeed?
That link was pretty irrelevant to your original question.

The answer is that even cash-settled trades take 2 days to settle, which most traders would consider an unacceptable wait to take delivery of their shares in this day and age. Seeing the shares appear in your account immediately after buying is merely an abstraction provided by brokers, and the brokers need to have their own cash on deposit to secure this.
Their interface is just laughably, inexcusably bad. The stock price charts don't even have labels on the y-axis! No really, check it out! https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2017/10/31/robinhood-now-on-...
Application shall be usable without any network.

It is mainly about creating new tools, some of them currently existing as spreadsheet.

Update/fixing small bugs shall be doable by engineers that have basic coding skills. So the deployment shall be easy.
I think this is going to protect Apple from antitrust lawsuits. Nobody like Facebook in the current government. They certainly won't help Facebook in this case. This is all on top of how absurd and unpopular this lawsuit is to begin with.
> But the hedge funds in question closed out their short positions days ago.

I have asked people about this. They accuse me of buying into corporate media propaganda. Melvin must still be in and be near exploding in their minds.
Unfortunately this article is hard-paywalled (no workarounds) and The Information, which for a while was unlocking these for HN readers, has no longer been doing so.

Since it's hardwalled, it's against HN's rules (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and we need to bury it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Ashish, I've long been a fan of your work and am excited to see you share InpharmD here.

1. What are your thoughts about partnering or selling to pharma / biotech / R&D orgs? Is there a potential value prop?

2. How does this compete with or complement existing clinical informatics and medical librarian capacity at academic medical centers? Or are they not the target market because they already pay salaries for humans to do these tasks? How do above entities relate to what the PharmDs do?
While having people find bugs might be one reason for an alpha release, it's not the only reason, or even necessarily the main reason. You might also want to see if people like a new feature, if the feature is well balanced, if it interacts with other systems well, etc. This is all useful information to gather before releasing a polished version to the general public.

If your alpha release is full of bugs, the type of feedback you'll be getting from users of the alpha is "this thing doesn't work" rather than "this thing is too easy/hard".
Retail traders might be scared off, unfortunately, but retail investors will keep coming.
That really depends on how much management there is for hand holding. I expect a good developer to get a ticket to fix the size of a button and be able to follow up with stakeholders about the size of the button next to it.

It'd be really weird if we sunk so much effort into ticket writing that everything really was just reduced to a task - at that point the ticket author should just go ahead and fix the thing.
The best analysis of this is from Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2020/privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au...

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"Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers, and the company’s ad business is exploding. Needless to say, Amazon doesn’t need to request special permission for IDFAs or to share emails with 3rd parties to finely target its ads: everything is self-contained, and to the extent the company advertises on platforms like Google, it can still keep information about customer interests and conversions to itself. That means that in the long run, independent merchants who wish to actually find their customers will have no choice but to be an Amazon third-party merchant instead of setting up an independent shop on a platform like Shopify.

This decision, to be clear, will not be because Amazon was acting anticompetitively; the biggest driver — which, by the way, will also benefit Facebook’s on-platform commerce efforts — will be Apple, which, in the pursuit of privacy, is systematically destroying the ability of platform-driven small businesses to compete with the Internet giants."

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FB has a point here, but I'm still hoping Apple wins - I'd rather the tracking model not be viable.
They are gems in the rough, but they do exist.

One that instantly comes to my mind is Matt Levine from Bloomberg, who writes on finance. People on HN seem to be holding him in high regard as well, whenever his name comes up.

I wouldn't say it is due to the industry of his choice commonly having quality journalists that have legitimate knowledge of the industry, though. Finance journalism is very densely packed with typical trash journos, just like other industries.

I have an armchair theory that higher barriers to entry in the industry (in terms of the pre-existing knowledge that target readers have) increases the likelihood of a quality journalist like Matt Levine appearing. Gaming journalism requires almost no prerequisite knowledge from readers aside from playing games, so the average quality of "game journalism" is abysmal, and people who read those articles are usually just all kinds of people. Same thing with "pop science", because everyone wants to jump on the next clickbait about some miracle drug or other futuristic sounding stuff. With finance journalism, most average people on the street have zero interest in reading those articles, so the audience self-selects mostly towards those who already have the pre-requisite knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, so the demand in terms of quality of the journalism from the target audience is higher on average. Which would increase the probability of someone like Matt Levine popping up, since those people are much more valued and sought after.

That's just my personal guess though, so I don't encourage anyone here to take the entire previous paragraph as a fact.
The person you are responding to posted that link... incorrectly? There is no context, but it's just not directly applicable.

Yes, if Robinhood is letting people trade on margin, then Robinhood needs to have the cash to support that margin. That is one thing. And they have largely, as far as I know, disabled that already.

The other part is that they are required to have reserves and collateral for trades that are "cash" until they settle, as all brokerages are. I am not an expert here, but my understanding is that this requirement increases as volatility goes up, as as correlation of trades goes up (ie, if all of the volume is in a couple stocks, it's highly correlated, and thus the reserve requirement is higher). This must be, by regulation, Robinhood's money (ie, not customer funds), and Robinhood just didn't have the money to keep opening new positions.

As for the underlying why of the requirement, I don't know. I assume it has something to do with preventing brokerages from accepting increasingly risk trades during high volatility events (which, ya, is what's happening right now). But either way, it's the current rule, and as a brokerage, they have to follow it.
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Besides payments, this is essentially over Apple's privacy demands isn't it?

If so, I sincerely hope that Facebook loses.
Yes I can.

I regularly disconnect for a hacking session, reduces distractions and I find it often helps me come up with simpler solutions then building something up out of what's already there.

Its also nice to spend some time on my boat and still get some work done :)
I'm been into computers since I was in the the first grade, when my Dad bought an Atari 800XL. While I was in middle and high school I did dabble with programming, but didn't do anything serious. I was more interested in systems integration and networking.

It wasn't until I went to college that I really learned to program. I know people like to say college isn't required to be a software engineer, but I learned a lot having to sit through all those lectures.
Yes, but in this case it’s obvious that the only reason they are doing this is because of Apple’s requirement for people to consent to tracking.

There is every reason to believe that this case is being shaped either a shakedown or to shape the market to facebook’s wishes, and not to serve an idealistic public good.

Pretending this is not the case would be willful ignorance that nobody should engage in.
Is GM just a vaporware mill at this point?

Hummer pickup - CG rendered in commercial, no working vehicle exists

Cruise self-driving - numerous timelines posted and abandoned

GM/Nikola - a masterclass in vaporware, only called off after a third-party pulled back the curtain

Cadillac Flying Car - literally just a photoshop render
> Dealing with the SaaSS Problem

> For the simple case, where you are doing your own computing on data in your own hands, the solution is simple: use your own copy of a free software application.

> What if there is no free program available? A proprietary program or SaaSS would take away your freedom, so you shouldn't use those. You can contribute your time or your money to development of a free replacement.

Statements like this are why GNU's and the FSF's arguments often fall apart. If someone wants to do something and free software is not available to help them achieve it, telling them to just not do it is not a good solution. Change requires compromise, and its counterproductive to hold such a firm stance.
The "flash" part of flash mob describes the execution of the mob, not the planning. It could be planned years in advanced and still be a flash mob if their audience didn't expect it.
Some developers already livestream on YouTube as they program up web apps or other software. George Hotz for example used to livestream on YouTube/twitch. You can find many others.
You do realize that their Instant bank deposits feature is a fiction? Until the money clears you are trading with their float - they just paper that over.
> Despite this, the main problem I see with Robinhood is that with it's gamified UI, ease of access, etc... these 99.9 percentile events are mainly what it is designed for. It's encouraging people to pick up the "hot stock" on social media on a whim.

Landline phones and CNBC in the dot com boom and after could do much the same. They had a show where a guy just yelled out symbols all angry with cheesy soundboard effects. Only difference was higher commissions and no buying into fractional shares and stuff.
Warning: this game is seriously addictive. I don't game a lot, but I tried this and lost a weekend. Just say no
Let's not forget, that Facebook also owns its own platform. And Facebook has long tradition of doing basically the hell they want with it including whatever they want with user data, offering products aimed at influencing election results, building products to compete with existing businesses on their platform and then deplatforming competitors, etc.
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if apple does similar tracking themselves, but don't allow third parties, then FB might actually have a case there...
There are worse problems with Robinhood, all of which I'm surprised people aren't bringing up more:

1) They've had outages where 100% of stocks were unavailable for trading.

2) Their business model is to offer their users inferior prices and then collect on the arbitrage (Yes, this is illegal. Yes, they are in trouble with the SEC over it).

3) Robinhood isn't transparent with their users about the risks of trading options and trading on margin. Some of the barriers they've removed for their users to make risky bets were there for regulatory reasons, it's not just a matter of their app being over-gamified.
>> But it's illegal in multiple situations for me to lie to them. Is that an expectation for me to act contrary to human behavior?

I have been having serious issues around this notion that everyone lies 500 times a day - that it normal and super common. I think I'm aware when I lie, and it usually amounts to something more like not sharing my full opinion so not to hurt feelings. But even that isn't common. Do most people really just make up bullshit all day long?
Apple does not have a monopoly any more than Ford or Toyota do.
It matters if you're applying for a job and the people interviewing or the hiring manager think you should.

People like Mike Acton and Jonathan Blow give incredibly condescending speeches about "practice" like you should be able to just make a Win32 API app that calls DirectX (or some other comically absurdly bad API) from memory. Blow in particular loves harping on this and loves saying that web developers are incompetent and wasting their time creating awful products.

How much time do you spend making new apps on long-lived projects? At many companies, the answer is zero. These same companies may think you suck shit at programming if you can't remember command line options you never have to use in day-to-day work.
Weird compiler bug – Same code, different results
> "And though traders may be outraged by the surprise, Robinhood’s terms of service grant it permission to close a trader’s position under a number of circumstances."

The terms of service for EVERY service we use are entirely legal jargon for "we can do whatever the f*k we want to do with any data on our service, and you have no legal recourse." No matter what the company says about "privacy" or any other rights you think you have, buried in there somewhere is a clause that says that no matter what happens, you can't sue. What do you expect when you've abdicated the right to sue the company for something you think is illegal or injurious? It's supposed to be the bastion of last resort, to keep everyone honest. When the safety net of the legal system is gone (e.g., forced arbitration) -- or only used for one side, there's nothing to restrain these humungous companies which are running the world now. We're a long way past needing a legal reset on "terms of service."
First Apple needs to be found to have a monopoly.
Couldn't we replace with a different link? The story is interesting.
Yeah, but you might have to explicitly opt out. It's probably in the fine print of your terms of service.
Funny. I only ever see this page when it's posted to HN. I have actually literally never seen github.com until it was posted as a showcase.
and then used client funds as collateral

Huh?

You realize that's illegal right?
Please don't link to paywall information.
Thanks for the info. It must be a coincidence then. The timing looked like there was a possibility
True.

But why does this sort of thing seem to be the norm? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.A.C._Capital_Advisors
> you never know what law you may've broken.

Yeah. Even innocuous things like having a hole in the wall changes the line of inquiry from whatever crime is being investigated to a domestic violence or child protective services intervention on your account...all because you wanted to help.

It would be in the best interest of law enforcement to grant by default some amount of immunity to witnesses in order to encourage their cooperation.

Nobody should be punished by the justice system for cooperating-- witnesses already risk retribution from whoever they're willing to make a statement against.
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Why is hacker news full to the brim with this exact comment? This is a flawed worldview. Private companies cannot do whatever they want. When they are as big and their reach is as far as Apple's they have a further responsibility to society. What that is exactly can be decided in court, but the limit to their power isn't "whatever they want".
It wasn't the total quantity that was the problem. It was the timing. It's no use having hundreds of millions of doses if they aren't available until Q4.
If there are other co-workers going into the office, you will need to spend extra time communicating. It is easy to miss out on opportunities to add value to the company when you are not in the office with everyone else.
I did not know Jetbrains ships it own JVM. What engine they use?
Well, it can be more like "Your honor, Apple demanded that all their competitors implement a prompt to ask people whether they want tracking, but their own tracking is hidden under "System services" [macOS] or under another separate, by default enabled, switch [iOS].

They also demand that our Messenger discloses list of collected data, while apple's iMessage messenger does not disclose the data collected by Apple corporation as part of their iCloud service suite."

Facebook is a scummy company. But Apple is hiding their own tracking under default opt-in switches and using double standards as well. It's funny that their own apps don't disclose all the data that iCloud collects and uses for basic functionality like messaging.

Having BOTH corporations honestly disclose what they collect would be the biggest win for us.
True, but many don't realize that package private and "friend" classes can share the same source file.
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I love Apple but I hate how they force you to use their App Store without alternatives. Once I buy a phone, I want the right to install whatever I want on it, just like right to repair. I know there are counter arguments like a need for security but there’s probably a better way to implement security when the app is registering with the operating system and should not be done via App Store gatekeeping.

Also, enjoying the insane irony of Facebook bringing this suit.
Indeed. Where is my ability to run my own ad service, payment processor, et cetera through Facebook's servers?
A brokerage being unable to perform its sole function is, by definition, a shitty company.
Yes, this is great for my specific use case.
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