skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to start by decoupling crypto and bitcoin. I don't know what use Bitcoin is anymore except as a reserve of value. Some of the more interesting crypto projects are even using BTC as a "peg" currency.

The most interesting use case of crypto to me is synthetic assets. That's where the majority of money in the trading world is stored and made.

Think of margin trading, and buying insurance on being margin called, and trading those insurance tokens - all of these are not "real" assets. They're synthetic; they've used a real asset (say, a stock), multiplied that manifold and enabled trade on it, unlocking exponentially higher value to be created.

Trouble is that this entire world is completely closed to you and I. Goldman Sachs can trade it, but you can't. You can't drop into a bank and ask to underwrite the insurance on my trading account being liquidated - only the bank can.

DeFi changes that. Any asset on-chain can be theoretically combined and made tradable. You can get a loan on DeFi platforms like AAVE. Another platform can offer insurance on those loans. And another platform can offer people the chance to bet on the insurance being called. Since everything is on-chain, a single asset can create exponential value. And since it's all decentralized, anyone can participate, not just banks.

DeFi is honestly in its infancy. The biggest platforms are barely a few years old. The idea of synthetic assets has just taken root. New platforms are just starting to explore opportunities for synthetic assets. There are some very interesting new ideas about stable currencies (look at Ampleforth, Basis Cash, Dynamic Set Dollar). There are new insurance platforms coming up where you can add money into an insurance pool and take a cut out of insurance payments.

If it works - and I truly hope it does - I can't imagine anything more exciting. The internet hasn't managed to break down the walls of traditional finance, let alone investment banks and insurance companies. DeFi is the chance to do that.

Explore this space. I used to dismiss it as just memes and scams. But the more I've dug in, the more I've realized how important it is to make money - and the opportunities to make money - free from banks.
The Mutiny of the Mini-Capitalists
Your argument is that Robinhood "chose" to create the impression that people could trade any meme stock they wanted with impunity on their platform, but didn't do the work to ensure that they could. I agree, that's a choice they made.

The comment upthread argues that Robinhood "chose" to retrict trading in meme stocks. That argument appears to be false. Robinhood did not have a choice whether or not to restrict trading; it simply didn't have the money to cover the clearing for those trades.
"Can reduce" seems to express an actual possibility (as in: it does reduce fertility in a % of infected men). If there is uncertainty it reduces fertility at all, I'd rather say "might reduce".
What I'm not seeing is how the actual value contained inside a RefCell would get modified out from underneath your code without going through its checked methods, unless something has a raw pointer directly to its contents
Margin calls typically end poorly for the user because they are highly correlated with the asset being in a negative position.

If you buy a $10 stock on margin, and it raises to $15, you owe Robinhood $10, and that is secured by a $15 stock. This is extremely unlikely to get margin called. Even if it does, you're up.

If you buy a $10 stock on margin, and it drops to $5 (even if just temporarily), you owe Robinhood $10 secured by a $5 stock, which puts them in a riskier position, and may margin-call to cut their losses. You get the $5 from the sale, but still owe Robinhood the initial $10.

I'm sure you can see how this can compound to amplify drops if a large number of people have bought the same thing, all on margin, and it starts dropping for whatever reason.

Edit: Follow-on

This is particularly "bad" if your goal was to "own the stock" (at pretty much any price) just so that someone else can't buy it.
See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972501
Global Inequality
A nice thing about being a big, reputable brokerage is that you have access to big, reputable piles of cash to cover clearing collateral.
> In other words, we do not agree on the definition of representation as you see it as maximizing activity and I see it as maximizing consideration

The only thing it maximizes today is the continuation of hereditary and tribal concentrations of political power. It's a hostage situation, as the secessionists honestly will tell you.
I believe this explanation but I do still have questions.

Why didn't they just restrict buying like they did in Friday instead of halting it completely? By halting it completely they caused a panic which caused lots of people to sell.

Why didn't they halt or restrict buying of any other stocks? Why only the meme stocks? It should have affected their financial responsibilities to the clearinghouse the same ways, no?

Why did they give no warning and explanation for what was about to come? The abruptness of it was obviously going to contribute to the panic.

The standard expiration date for meme stock options was the day after they halted buying. This caused their own customers holding those contracts to lose money. Why did they claim they were doing this "to protect their customers" when it was their customers who got screwed by this?
To be fair, the sentry mode on Teslas is great but if we are going to talk about cost of accidents & Tesla ... it’s mostly a negative story.
I’m an owner and fortunately avoided accidents so far, but the stories of people waiting on parts dealing with rentals for weeks or months are.. extensive. The cost of accidents is reflected in the fairly high insurance costs for Teslas. This may not be terribly different than a German luxury make you could be cross shopping in the price range, but it’s something to bear in mind.
I am using Retina display on which everything looks tiny. I struggled with setting up QT scaling, GTK3.0 scaling, icon sizes, font DPI and resolutions. The problem is there is no single setting which all UI libraries follow and this makes your life hell.

Even worse is when you connect an external monitor which is not HiDPI and now everything is bigger than usual.

Instead scale the whole display and this works perfectly. I have explained it here: https://np.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/4c2o4p/what_... (Except one hiccup, but its way better than tuning inidividual knobs)

I have added the command to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc so it scales automatically when I login:

xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 0.60x0.60
> When I report my income as of December 31st, 2020, I still made enough for the year that I won't receive benefits, despite not having an income. That means that I will be unsupported through 2021 and won't see the money until 2022, correct?

There is no "don't receive benefits" anywhere. Everybody gets $12,000/year every year in both cases. Then separately people who make more than $48,000/year pay more than a total of $12,000/year in taxes or phase outs.
Actually yeah that is kinda interesting. The couple times I've had to do it, always ended up hand-rolling a 'class' with hashmaps in both directions. I wonder why few standard libraries have a both way look up structure.
Both. PowerPoint + Excel can do some pretty good charts. You need to put time & effort into custom themes to really make it work. Using custom themes keeps colors and styles consistent across charts and slides, with smarter defaults so you don’t have to make as many manual changes.

I’ve found it quickly breaks down when you push beyond the canned styles or try to apply them to more complex data (e.g. more than 5 categories). Then you have to move to something like Plotly.

As always, your data graphics are only as good as your data. Make sure you’re working from clean tables to ensure you don’t start making errors.
Labor force participation data (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001) strongly suggests that a lot of people believe we've run out of things for them to do over the last century. (The overall chart https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART is confounded by the simultaneous trend of the womens' rights movement getting women into the workforce https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300002.)
> At the end of the day most people don't want to work [...] We all dislike working to some extent.

Where did you get that from? I really think the opposite is true.
The fee can still be very significant, especially once you engage into complex options strategy (e.g. call spread / put spread / iron condor). That tends to trade in significantly larger quantity (e.g. you can have a 50x call spread), in which the fee is now $100 ($50 for buying a call and $50 for selling another call).
And, while I don't debate the premise of the OP's article, the big redeeming virtue of objective facts is that we can dig into them - exactly like we're doing here.
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Also the wikipedia link you pasted itself has a section on technology, and specifically how it was so much faster (pushed the paper into the ink rather than the ink into the paper).
You can’t read Medium without an app or logging in anymore?!
Seems like it would be less trouble to buy QYLD (nasdaq-100 covered call ETF), or one of the equivalent funds.
My point is not about copyright but about "Intellectual Property"
You are still getting a hidden fee on most transactions due to the sold order flow. Rh itself earns 17 cents per 100 shares and 58 cents for options. The loss for the user is certainly much higher though and as the cost is hidden they likely make more trades.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/13/how...
Was the Moon Landing Faked?
so instead the small states get to gang up and impose their will on the rest with only a fraction of the population?
So he is referring to copyright. Books do the same thing, do you find books abusive as well?

I don’t quite buy the leap that “software companies being exploitative” is at all related to “protecting IP through the use of copyright”. Cory does not link the two successfully in my mind.
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Well most of YC is predatory pricing covered in a veneer of good intentions and tech.
I get it to a degree, but it's a very dangerous line of thinking to write off systems level thinking as conspiracies. Stafford Beer points out, as an analogy in Designing Freedom, that the idea of an all encompassing force that affects everyone on Earth is hard to fathom, and yet gravity is an accepted idea today, where it wasn't at the start. Making connections between wide ranging events, people, and ideas doesn't make a conspiracy.

Adam Curtis' documentaries warn us against systemic effects, and they are warnings that what we're presented with isn't always the truth. It's basically what Chomsky has warned about for most of his career.
There are some big differences between American states, yes. (I myself have been to a few, not Idaho though.)

But there are even bigger differences between Indian states. All American states share a common majority language (English). By contrast, in India, different states speak different languages, even completely unrelated ones (Indo-European vs Dravidian). Yet I've never heard an Indian compare countries to Indian states.

There is also a fair amount of diversity within Australia, even within the same state. Sydney is a buzzing worldly metropolis of over 5 million people, at the capital of the state of New South Wales. 1187 km northwest, but still in New South Wales, is the tiny town of Tibooburra, population 134, which I actually visited once with my parents when I was a teenager in the 1990s. I think the difference between Tibooburra and Sydney is at least as big as the difference between Idaho and New York.
You’re assuming this, right? Like, they haven’t said it, and have said on TV twice that this decision wasn’t related to liquidity.

To be clear, I agree with this assessment, but they’re being anything but clear about it, which as a user, has me even more worried.
> “I'm still waiting for you to point out what exactly I've said that's wrong.”

I don’t know why you’re waiting on that. It’s absolutely not my job to go item by item through the comments and chronicle it for you, that’s on you if you care (or don’t, I don’t care, and I won’t be baited further). I just felt somebody needed to mention that they don’t take what you’re saying as accurate or trustworthy.
I've done a lot with the classic IBM 1403 line printer. The basic idea is that a rotating chain has the characters on it and zips around at 90.3 inches per second. The printer has 132 hammers, one for each column on the page. When the right character lines up with a hammer, the hammer fires, printing the character. This lets the printer output a full line in 80 milliseconds.

The details of the print chain process are much more complex than you'd expect (so feel free to skip this paragraph). The computer has to constantly check to see when a hammer should fire. One important thing is that only one hammer lines up with a character at a time. (It's physically impossible to fire all the hammers at once.) During this time, the computer reads the corresponding character from memory and fires the hammer if it matches. To make this work, the chain/hammer timing has to match the core memory cycle timing. The chain spacing is very slightly different from the hammer spacing, so you end up with a vernier effect where the aligned character position changes much faster than the chain actually moves. I made an animation that might make things clearer: http://righto.com/ibm1401/printchain.html

Another thing that makes the printer fast is it has a hydraulic motor to advance the paper very quickly. Inconveniently, the printer at the Computer History Museum is leaking hydraulic fluid, so we need to mop it up regularly. (That's one advantage of your home printer.)

The print quality of the 1403 line printer was much better than competitors because it used a chain instead of typebars or a drum. In particular, if the timing was a bit off, the chain caused the character to be shifted left or right. Other approaches caused the character to be shifted up or down. A left-right shift is barely noticeable, while an up-down shift makes the text look wavy and awful.

By the way, a laser printer (e.g. Brother) is a good choice for a home printer if you want more speed and don't like the expense of ink.
Different era. "Up until about the late 70s" makes it sound like this was the eternal state of affairs, but it wasn't. It was a few postwar decades.
Advice on Careers,Finance and Business from Harvard Business School Class Of1963
There is also the vicious version: Mandating the wearing of helmets for cyclists increases the number of deaths, because of obesity and cardiac diseases due to raising the barrier to cycling.
> I agree that humans ignore the views that do not support the narrative they decided is true or they deem unlikely. I'm not following how is that relevant.

That is the argument, the hedge funds made a bet and had already decided the outcome, my argument is simply that they ignored the bull thesis because they had already decided the outcome. They also ignored the possibility of getting royally forked up. If main street figured it out, somebody else could have as well, and Michael Burry did.
> web-based

The browser is a resource hog :-(

> electron-based

Essentially a browser under the hood, but separate from your actual browser :-(

> native,

I tried a few of those last year, and had all sorts of trouble, but I guess it's time to give them another shot! Can any of them be made to behave and look like IRC chats? Not screens full of mostly white space?

IIRC however - Element is not a native client.

> terminal

That's good :-)
Is there a way to full screen the slides on iOS Safari! Text is too small for me to read. I tried clicking all the widgets but couldn’t find a way to blow it up. :(
> There is no "don't receive benefits" anywhere. Everybody gets $12,000/year in both cases.

Does a negative income tax not tell that high earners pay money to the state, while low earners receive money from the state? If everyone receives money from the state, even if high earners have to pay it back at tax time, that does not meet the definition of negative income tax as I know it. That is UBI. A more concrete example would be useful.
SELinux is more fine-grained than user-level access: it implements application-level access. Even if you, as a user, can access a file, an application working on your behalf cannot do so; same for launching applications.
Outposts might be priced higher to reduce demand. Allowing them time to iron out the kinks.

It’s a common pattern where you aren’t yet ready to scale up to handle the demand at a lower price point.
> I don’t think you will find a silver bullet. If you switch away from shell and its set of trade-offs you will face another set of trade-offs with the next language.

Sadly that's quite true.

So let me correct my statement: I am looking for "shell scripting on steroids" for when I intuit (or discover after 10 minutes of trying) that normal shell scripting won't cut it. I'll still use it but I want to have an extra tool in my belt for those cases when I need something a bit feature-rich but still quick to iterate on.

For now, looking through the sub-thread and brushing off on old knowledge and searching the net for an hour or so, my 3 top contestants are (in that priority order) -- OCaml, Ruby, the RC shell.
There is also "deldo":

https://youtu.be/D1sXuHnf_lo

(Slight nsfw)
> This is of course despite both an excellent safety record and lack of safer alternatives, asserted by many studies and meta studies from the FDA and the European equivalent.

Leaded gasoline had an extraordinary safety record for decades before suddenly being recognized as dangerous. The story is actually fascinating. But my point is this is actually not as strong of an argument as you might think, especially since glyphosate is a patented chemical effectively sold by one company.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-sc...
LOL.. of course not. This is a poorly run American company that comes close to bankruptcy every 20 years.

Very quick search finds a 2017 WSJ article when they were selling European assets-

“The company has European pension liabilities of $9.8 billion on its balance sheet, of which $6.5 billion is underfunded, Mr. Stevens said during an analyst call Monday. There will be an annual cash requirement of about $300 million to fund the U.K. and German pensions that remain with GM, he said.“

And that’s just the European unit..

“In the U.S., GM’s pension plan at the end of the fourth quarter 2016 had a deficit of $7.2 billion, a decrease of $3.2 billion compared with the previous quarter, according to a company transcript.”
It's even worse than that as your alternatives themselves imply acquiescence.

Starlink is a commercial operation intended to make money for its investors, none of whom asked for permission to do this, they just did it.

These fundamental things are being stolen from us by people with a stronger sense for coin than decency.
> The effectiveness/safety/whatever of antivirus is a completely separate issue.

Struggling to understand how this is a separate issue?
Author here: you’re absolutely right. My previous vertical monitor was a lot shorter; this one has definitely not been great for my neck. I’ll probably switch it back to horizontal at some point.
The selling point is that it becomes possible to have a system that's resistant to keyloggers. If the rest of the system is secure then Wayland doesn't undo that unlike X.
That’s exactly how I read it as well!
It appears as a variant of the 'check your privilege' argument. Everyone who disagrees with UBI, minimum wage increases is privileged and lacking empathy according to this generalization.

While the actual thread appears to be about incentives.

There are many who have worked entry level jobs who would object to UBI or minimum wage price fixing on purely economic terms.

There are also those who are unable to afford the current cost of living or gain employment due to interventions in the market. It wouldn't be difficult to unfairly characterize interventionists as insensitive to the plight of the poor.
As long as we're talking about objective facts, I'll add that "Going to nothing" means going from $25B/y down to $5B/y, which is a huge drop - but also $5B/y.

It's continuing to trend downward, so "going to nothing" is not a clearly false summary, but we might as well be specific

Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/20244/estimated-print-adverti...
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Others that cover these sort of system connections that I can think of are David Graeber and Noam Chomsky.
I think the OP is overly dogmatic and I agree with you that sometimes you just need circular dependencies

That said, I don't see what circular dependencies have to do with reflection, much less a functional style? For a trivial example, Rust lacks reflection but the following (functional-ish) code works just fine:

mod ModA {
use crate::ModB::B;

pub struct A {
ref_to_b: Option<Box<B>>
}

pub fn into_b(a: A) -> Option<Box<B>> { a.ref_to_b }
}

mod ModB {
use crate::ModA::A;

pub struct B {
ref_to_a: Option<Box<A>>
}

pub fn into_a(b: B) -> Option<Box<A>> { b.ref_to_a }
}

Am I missing something?
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Adam’s conclusion:

> I understand why customers want Outposts. Despite the grousing in this post, I’m an AWS fan and have tremendous respect for their rate of innovation. Customers want API-driven infrastructure, the flexibility and speed of development that it provides. Traditional on-premises vendors, most concisely represented by the EMC/Dell/VMware conglomerate, have failed to evolve their way into this experience which is why the hardware and software from the hyperscalers (including Outposts) looks quite different. Customers are faced with a literal dilemma: on one hand they can continue buying the moderately priced, expensive to operate, inefficient to use, legacy gear from Dell/HPE/etc or they can pay exorbitantly for something like AWS Outposts. The former is throwing good money after bad, investing in an ecosystem that has continued to underdeliver; the latter cedes more and more control to AWS and locks them into an unaffordable future.

is a big reason for why I cared about making GKE on-prem / bare metal a thing: I don’t believe (most) customers on-prem want to buy new hardware from a cloud provider. They mostly want to have consistent API-driven infrastructure with their hybrid cloud setup, and don’t want to burn their millions of dollars of equipment to the ground to do so.

I recognize that Oxide’s bet is that customers will prefer to stay on-premises if they can get cheaper / “better” hardware. That’s an interesting thesis! But many folks really want nothing to do with owning and managing infrastructure, they just feel forced to do so (and I agree with Adam here, it’s non trivially about the economics).

Edit to add: I commonly troll people with dell.com list prices, combined with colo provider cost of power, percentage spare, redundant networking. A pile of boxes != Cloud, but that is what companies want to compare to (the crossing point is not same cost, but it’s also not some huge integer multiple if your cost of infrastructure matters to you; for some businesses infrastructure costs do not matter, anymore than their power bill does).
Sure, but you wrap that up if you want. A Bank can contain both maps, if you want, and you hide the methods that would update individual maps, only exposing your wrappers that update everything together.
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She. Hear hear, two men are refusing to share a sexual joke with a woman! Will someone call the police!