skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concern expressed by the cakeshop was primarily about making a custom wedding cake for a gay wedding, not the message. Put differently, they wouldn't have made a custom cake for this particular wedding, knowing it was a gay wedding, even if there were no message requested. The ruling was not on free speech grounds.

Anyway, the cakeshop scenario is a bit different in another way: it can be argued to involve expressive activity on the part of the employees who create the custom cake, since it's far more artistic than mechanical, and since they do literally write any requested message with decoration. By contrast, Discord's actions against the customer are simply a choice of which speech by others they choose to allow to flow through the platform they control, plus a statement of their own speech which they choose to put out about their action.

(For what it's worth, they've chosen to partially reverse their ban since we started out discussion, if I understand right.)

If you want to ensure there is a content neutral platform, maybe the best way (at least under US free speech concepts) is to advocate for a government-owned/run Internet group communication platform, just like we have in offline life when you go to the nearby park or plaza to protest, or when you send mail to everyone in your local community through USPS.

Everyone agrees that, in the US, the government can't constitutionally censor that on the basis of content or viewpoint, with a few exceptions such as forbidding child pornography. I'm guessing that platform wouldn't keep getting funding from the politicians if it got too much offensive content, but if it wasn't shut down entirely, they couldn't be selective about which speech to permit.
> only 49% effective against the South African variant

The South African data is a much smaller study without much statistical power and with an extremely wide 95% confidence interval. I’d take that figure with a grain of salt. Kudos to Novavax for including it nonetheless.
And right after saying they don't have any liquidity problems said, "We're #1 on the app" while retail investors were losing millions because of expiring options/stocks. Absolutely tone-deaf.

Not denying that all securities have risks, but that was a bad response imo.
The CEO smirked on the CNBC interview. Maybe he knew the $1B raise was in the bank.
> There is nothing wrong, illegal, or immoral about trying to "manipulate" the stock market unless you are committing fraud or have insider information.

Market manipulation is a crime under Section 9(a)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. There is a big difference between buying or selling because you think a stock is over or under valued, and trying to manipulate a stock price to extract money from people not in on the manipulation.
http://www.blockpad.net might fit your use case
Stanford is private.

The "requirement" claim is rubbish regardless.
In effect, it was. The stock was out there, but RH didn't have the cash in the right account to move it so you could buy it. If Amazon doesn't let me buy black socks for one day, it doesn't mean there are no black socks anywhere in the world.
As always; the story is ongoing and the people taking firm positions about what has happened would be well advised to wait until after it has, in fact, happened. Few if any of the people commenting on this know who got rich out of this yet or what was driving it. Theories - not evidence - are in evidence.

Finance is a slow game. Mistakes are built into over month, years or even decades. The only thing that happens quickly is crossing the point of no return. Pretending that a point of no return is when the mistake happened and requires an immediate view or response is bad framing.
Sorry, I should've said "in the USA".

Our banking system here sucks ass.

What you say about certified checks is, in theory, possible here. In practice the sales drones who handle these transactions have never heard of this and will treat you like you're trying to scam them out of a car somehow.

Also the title is never physically at the location where the car is sold from; the processing of titles for dealers has been outsourced to a handful of large companies who effectively act as warehouses for the physical title documents. Even if the sales drone wanted to go along and had enough clout to make it happen, it would still take an overnight-shipping delay to get the title to the buyer.
Too much spent time getting needled on Twitter. People think their brains are immune to trolling.
> Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Robinhood agreed to a cease-and-desist order prohibiting it from violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the recordkeeping provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, censuring it, and requiring it to pay a $65 million civil penalty.

A) SEC should remove the option of "without admitting or denying" this time

B) The CEO is choosing to speak in double speak because anything he says will violate the antifraud provisions after already being slapped for violating the antifraud provisions. (isn't the point of a law for the punishment to be a little more than agreeing not the violate the law? circular civil suit that should have been referred to the DOJ)

C) Refer current actions to the DOJ and this prior settlement that was violated.
That is just called something being true in many cases.
Really? They have legalized prostitution there as well as legal drugs. The whole area seems the least "polite fiction" that I've ever seen.
A clip from one of those interviews:

https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1354994000294522881

In the entire interview there's no real answer to any question.
It also correlates well with countries that habitually wear masks and avoid close personal contact when feeling unwell, which fits the data better as it removes the UK outlier.
They blocked regular buys though. If you have money in your RH account, this is a big problem.
So I can like buy an options contract on arbitrary Hungarian deaths?
Almost all new legitimate uses of a GUI those days look like a workaround. Why is Edge and Chrome and Word and... stealing my windows titlebar ?
Why can i not access the favorites menu with one click as it used to be ? Why do i need a big label which uses 30 % of the screen and does nothing ? Why everything looks like a label ?
No, that's not what I said. "Cheap laughs and the thrill of anger" is a superset. More succinctly, "bread and circus." There's nothing new about it.
So much for the conspiracy theory about Robinhood changing policies to favor institutional traders over retail investors. Speculation is healthy but I am surprised to see so many educated people fall for social media fear mongering to the point that they decided to drive down Robinhood’s app reviews. Many of my friends who ate up all the outrage are the same people who laughed at QAnon conspiracy theorists, but here they are drinking the same koolaid.
This makes me wonder when the term cartoon got relegated to "a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one"?

Any etymologists?
The original article from December:

> In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.

> The phones were compromised using an exploit chain that we call KISMET, which appears to involve an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. In July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at least iOS 13.5.1 and could hack Apple’s then-latest iPhone 11.
> If you’re struggling to picture what clear writing looks like, buy a copy of the Financial Times or The Economist. Pay attention to the way articles their are written, to the word choices and sentence structures.

Try the Financial Times or the Economist for strong, clear writing. In particular, pay attention to their word choice and sentence structure.
Hope evrebody leaves Rh after this action
I wonder how many stimulus checks were invested into these stocks / tokens.
there is no good part of silicon valley. the capital incentive makes poison on its environment. People who do good work have to sacrifice an income, this means that there is no financial incentive to do good work.
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Never mind the fact that per Matt Levine, chances are that hedge funds are opening new short positions. If you're well capitalized you can make a killing when the price eventually crashes back down to the right price, which we all know it will.
"To continue operating, it drew on a line of credit from six banks amounting to between $500 million and $600 million to meet higher margin, or lending, requirements from its central clearing facility for stock trades, known as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation."

Non-zero chance had they not haulted trading on those symbols they would've been insolvent by close of trading today, depending on the size of their credit line.

I watched the CEO on CNN tonight, and while I found him pretty difficult to watch, this is a very difficult position to be in. If you admit on TV that your company is experiencing liquidity issues -- even if temporary in nature such as with clearing custodianship requirements -- you run the risk of triggering a greater panic through customer withdrawals/redemptions.

This could turn into a run on the brokerage pretty quickly, and probably already has in some measure, especially after a day of massively lost customer trust. He certainly didn't help it by going on TV and lying about their liquidity issues. They probably would've been better off by issuing a statement and keeping him off TV.
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/1/emerging-viral-mut...

“ Recombination in RNA viruses involves the exchange of genetic information between two nonsegmented RNA genomes, as distinct from the reassortment of RNA seen in viruses containing segmented genomes. ... The second virus family to be shown to undergo RNA recombination is coronavirus (Lai et al. 1985).”

they can and do and you are naive for saying they do not
Not going to defend RH, but I have some insight with regards to corporate communications.

A company in panic fire extuingisher mode has to put out some type of announcement. RH did. Twice in one day. I can believe the first one was a canned response, and the second one looks like a more thoughtful letter.

But have you ever thought how much internal wrangling, or how many draft revisions even such a short piece has to go through? The company has to be very careful in what they say in their comms - plus even more cautious with their phrasing and wording used. These types of comms will be read by arms chair lawyers and real lawyers alike. The latter will look for opportunities.

The former will read it like they were the devil's advocate themselves.

Corporate comms teams have to put in a lot of effort, and go through numerous rapid iterations, to make sure their published material is factually accurate and anodyne. In a crisis situation, even more than usual.
I assume hedge funds know when a short squeeze looks viable, so they know how to do it and turn a profit. If they didn't do this, that means they didn't think it could turn a net profit, so there's a decently chance people late to the party will lose a lot.
Xiaomi says its ‘Air Charge’ technology works over several meters
Nobody actually knows the future so everyone else is driving not by observing the road ahead, but by looking to the side and trying to catch some glimps from the corner of their eye.
Advance apologies for coming across strong, but for an article advocating clarity, it is utterly devoid of an examples of how to actually achieve it. If your title starts with "How to..." you should SHOW, not TELL, and the article was a whole lot of telling. And the one example that was accidentally there - the image at the top - did not clarify if it was a good one or not (see discussion here, for example).

Others have found issue with the grammar and sentence structure of the article, I found it totally opaque.

Show me an example of a mental model (or the absence of one). Pull an excerpt from the Times or the economist and contrast it with another publication that is not clear. Wouldnt this help us "understand, know and" eventually "do"?

And given that the advice is to think about your audiences and communicate with purpose, please do ask yourself: What is the purpose of this article? If it's to tell us to strive for clarity, please show us how, don't just tell us to do so.
> Remember, the "legitimacy" of a financial strategy isn't determined by its objective decency, but rather by the power of the people who deploy it.
Not an expert on QEMU, but apart from being a very useful tool, it also seems very complex.

Perhaps not Linux-complex, but certainly close. So it's somewhat impressive that it has come so far when the Developer docs states:
QEMU does not have a high level design description document - only the source code tells the full story.

But it can run Windows 10 on Mac :)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/success-virtualize-wind...
They’re not out of the woods yet:

> However, it is worth noting that while the high level control flow logic is written in Swift, some of the parsing steps still involve the existing ObjectiveC or C implementations. For example, XML is being parsed by libxml, and the NSKeyedArchiver payloads by the ObjectiveC implementation of NSKeyedUnarchiver.
Can the hedge funds afford to take the losses?
Why? For a brokerage it's an existential concern. And they can't publicly admit it's a problem either, because that would likely trigger the brokerage equivalent of a bank run. (Of course, odds are they're already grappling with that as well.)
and didn’t you(where you means virtually everyone) already say a hundred “this can’t happen” before? when are you going to stop saying that something can’t happen and start talking about what to do when it does, or is everyone but me lost in an ego trip
The base station looks to be quite large, almost as big as a small fridge. The video stops before it pans all the way down, so it's hard to tell just how large it is.
Even if it turns out to be a bit slower, it is the pursuit of speed at the expense of bounds checking that has brought us here, although other ill fated OSes proved that it didn't had to be that way.
Whenever we dislike or mistrust someone, people tend to overattribute that someone's failings or inconvenient actions to malice.
It won't, but the media will blame it on the alt-right. "White privileged mcdonalds workers oppress poor minority new york billionaires with their greedy market manipulation! "
The flashing green arrow in your dash and the clicking sound can tell you whether your signal is on or not.
It sounds like it’s to take tourists, of which there are many, from one destination to another. Florida also has a lot of wealthier, older, retired people that may use the service (my hunch). Florida is also very flat, which I imagine helps keep costs low.
> In the entire interview there's no real answer to any question.

You know, I've been on many job interviews this past year, and when that happens, I immediately know not to go further with that person (and if it persists, the company).
Not Advantage, but my Kinesys Freestyle Edge has great firmware and customize app (Swing) that works flawlessly. The firmware is better in some features than QMK, but worse in some features. (I want LT key on QMK for Kinesis)
This is nowhere near the same koolaid.
This is it. I think the viral short form fast news hot takes format of Twitter (and its related cousins like Reddit) brings out the worst in people. It’s built to amplify the loud fringes who will engage in the worst ways at the drop of a hat. It ends up depressing all the users and turning them into reactionaries who can only tolerate an echo chamber of confirmation bias.
An interesting resolution to this would be if GameStop would allow the short sellers to close their positions by selling them newly minted shares.

AMC did this, both through direct stock sales and through convertible debt. The latter seems easier, because all the work is done ahead of time and when the stock reaches a certain level everything just goes "poof" automatically.

https://deadline.com/2021/01/amc-entertainment-silver-lake-s...
Nope it was a joint infusion:

"[Melvin] was rescued with a $2.75 billion cash infusion from two other hedge fund titans, Steve Cohen and Ken Griffin. Cohen was Plotkin's former boss at SAC Capital Management. SAC shuttered after the firm pled guilty to insider trading and paid $1.3 billion in fines. Cohen was not personally charged. Griffin runs Citadel LLC ...

In exchange, Citadel and Point72, the successor firm to SAC, own an undisclosed stake in Melvin Capital Management."
>Speculation is healthy

I've never seen somebody say speculation is healthy but rather the opposite. Care to elaborate?
> It's a young field and we need UX advocates with a seat at the table actually defending the users. It's not easy and it will take some time, but as the knowledge of UX is increasing across decision-makers and people building products, we will get to a better place.

With all due respect: you are new here. The level of UX is at Windows 1.0 or Xt widgets. I hate to say that but windows 3.1 looks like a revolution compared with Windows 10, OSX (current) or Material "design".
There was a time when things worked. Now the dark ages of UX have come i it will be a long time until the new industrial revolution will come.

> It's a bit early to start losing faith, we haven't even properly started yet.

This is true for Win 10 and Google's brain dead interface. Some not so long time ago things were much, much better.
The worst thing is that there is budget allocated for such things.
Thanks for the insights! I come from a mostly rendering background, so my understanding is definitely biased from always thinking of SDFs in the context of surface rendering or reconstruction :-)
This is effectively what blockchain is for.
I mean the fraud here is fairly eh. They gave a smaller price improvement (but still beat nbbo) relative to other discount brokerages. The lie was that they delivered same great price as other discount brokerages. However, most of their clients were small and still net-saved money by not paying the flat fee. The practice ended in 2018.
Plotnine uses other packages in the scientific Python ecosystem. That is probably where the abbreviations that irk you come from. In some cases those "abbreviations" have roots 20 years deep!
> it's really woefully under-featured compared to just about any other broker e-trading software out there.

Alternatively phased:

It is easy to use even for people who are new to investing.
It's a good thing that the people still employed by large media corporations rather than eking out a living on substack haven't fallen prey to this deadly malaise.
That's what got me confused too, the entire article makes zero sense if it was on Jan 7. Good catch though, I would have never noticed that.
... after other media has already reported it and a family member publicly confirmed it, there's not much "doxxing" left to do? (And at least some reporting on "who is this key figure in the recent events" seems appropriate)
QAnon is not even remotely in the same league as this. Fuck outta here with that.
I find this really interesting because to me, that sounds like the motivating statement behind a very liberal government.

That is, driven by this statement, prostitution and cannabis would have been legalized in the US long ago - after all, why make something illegal if you can instead tax it?

(This is my understanding of how Switzerland, where cash is king, does it).
Here is a visual explanation https://youtu.be/Of_79NZKeag
You suggest the author is conflating something - but you never explain what it is exactly. You just spill some general theory.

You also write "The problem the author complains about is an inevitable artifact cause by discretization of underlying continuous variables into discrete categories" - but this is mistaken. There are underlying variables that in any practical interpretation are discrete - you can have flu or not - there is no spectrum. And the problem the author complains about is that we don't know which underlying variables are like having flu and which are like height.
Dear Hollywood,

Please make a movie out of this.
Agreed, it is still a first step.

rantmode=on

While I complain about how constrained NDK happens to be, I imagine that is exactly Google's goal, to force everyone to write as little C and C++ code as possible.

Microsoft seems to be the worst case in this regard, despite the whole security talk, WinDev is pretty much doubling down on C and C++.

I find ironic that Azure Sphere sells security, yet only supports C on their SDK.

rantmode=off

My experience with security advocacy, is that only works with seeing is believing.

So the initial Swift rewrite might also be to prove a point to the team, while libxml and NSKeyedArchiver will eventually come down the roadmap.
Recognizing the rhetorical device, I still would have liked to see more linkages between the early part of the article and the later sections that address the title topic, especially in the form of charts intelligible to a layperson.
His first answer was reasonably polished and okay. Then it all goes to shit. I guess he didn’t expect the third degree?
It's the same for the recent Dell laptops, unfortunately [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940172
If you believe this you are legitimately the dumbest guy on this website.
Loved this article, well done!
Show HN: We created a tree-based task manager with dynamic prioritisation
I had a neutral to negative view toward this product before today.

In part due to the product’s UX having to change after a customer killed themselves and cited the app in their suicide note. [1]

I noticed that before but bad stuff happens, I had not heard of further issues and it was likely a series of contributing factors.

That said, this bind broke the entire concept of the branding of the product. I’d never install this thing now.

If they have broken the brand and lost trust of users, no amount of short or medium term liquidity will save the company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578794

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
It might be useful to note that this is running through virtualization, not TCG :)
PBKDF2 is no longer recommended as a hashing algorithm, as it is easy to brute-force it on a GPU. Argon2id is the newest recommended algorithm (watch out for the other variants of Argon2 which are have trade-offs between GPU resistance and side-channel resistance).

If your language of choice does not have a decent, audited implementation of Argon2id, you can go with bcrypt or scrypt, which would be an improvement over PBKDF2, and usually widely available in most languages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/30785/password-ha...
If you crank sufficiently, you achieve unserious status and critics no longer engage on detailed rebuttals. And then your fans can say, see, they just say he's unserious without providing a point by point explanation, so he must be right.
I've read this a couple times and I'm not sure what it means.

The large media corporation NYT just reported out that RH had to draw down a $600B line of credit and take a $1B round of equity funding in large part because of capital requirements from clearinghouses. Taibbi's substack, on the other hand, seems to believe that jet planes will never fly again because of COVID.
A somewhat detailed explanation with pictures of the injuries of each body found [0]. The info that Dubinina's tongue seems to had been _removed_ while still allegedly alive seems a bit odd to me.

The site was created by web designer and mountain hiker Teodora Hadjiyska [1].

0 - https://dyatlovpass.com/death

1 - https://dyatlovpass.com/about