skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90% of everything is crap. 90% of the 'consistent' games are also more crap.

Idie developers came up win Pandemic, Dominion, Settlers of Catan etc. Novel game mechanics that changed the board game world.
This 'don't test it, just do it' idea really shows how paniced and irrational people are. The reasons to not rush out a population wide vax campaign are significant.

For example: the otherwise promising and effective candidate from QUT accidentally causes you to test positive for HIV on the common/cheap/simple assays, which would make effective HIV testing vastly more expensive in the population and cause a huge anti-vax movement. I think we are happy that this side effect is constrained the the small trials group.

Maybe this needs to be explained in computer terms: would you be upset if Apple rushed out a security patch and that caused every iphone to reboot randomly during odd numbered months, and was unpatchable?
Well at the very least, you have to assume full-time salaried employees have some sort of equity compensation. So this is basically an awesome lottery outcome for them. Hopefully they give the hourly employees some sort of nice reward for sticking around too.

I don't see big opportunities to restructure the business - if the executive team could build a better business, they wouldn't be in this shape to begin with.
Effective privacy protection means that app developers need strong incentives to follow strict rules. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach of enforcing strict rules is a choice available to me as a consumer.
As you said, it is an engineering (manufacturing) and supply / logistics (distribution) issue. None of which are even remotely discussed, not politially, not in the media, no where.

The Guardian, a few days ago:

"Analysis: technical problem at Belgium plant failed to produce enough vaccine but EU demanding fulfilment of contract"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/why-has-astraz...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Praises President Joe Biden's Work to Protect DACA
February 1, 2021: GameStop starts preorder of KFC Gaming Consoles.
Robinhood is their own clearing broker. They send some market orders through people like Citadel Securities because it improves the price, but not all of them.

(Note, RH was fined by the SEC for possibly not improving the price as much as they could. But they were not giving you a bad price, it was still better than the NBBO price!)
and of course WSB is not a cabal, just a message board
> You should be able to learn at least one language deeply enough that, given sufficient time, you could do just about anything without libraries or external dependencies, and therefore without needing additional documentation. Aspiring to and eventually developing that level of language mastery is, IMO, one of the core signs of maturity for a Software Engineer.

I don't understand why so much emphasis is put on being able to do this without consulting the docs. Sure, it's nice to be able to pound out the most basic valid HTML page without googling it, but that's hardly a web app. If you need a backend component, I suspect the ecosystems where you can make anything practical using only built-in functions (no libs) are in the minority. You'd end up doing ridiculous stuff like using the filesystem as a database, plain javascript on the client side, node's builtin http in the backend. People with years of expertise may be able to do this, but it's just a side effect of having been steeped in the tech stacks for so long. I don't agree that being able to do this is something worth aspiring to. Rather, people should aspire to moving efficiently within their ecosystems and conserving mental space by knowing where to find things quickly.
Stardock Groupy is a commercial supported utility that does the same thing, IIRC released during the long period when Microsoft was teasing Windows 10 Sets.

https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

I think Microsoft must have abandoned sets when they moved to Edgium; their engineers were somehow under the impression that Sets was 100% dependent on Edge, and I think they must have been planning the feature as a cudgel against other browsers. IDK, I wish the Windows PMs were like 40% less user hostile and didn’t treat us like children to be manipulated.

Tldr, Groupy is pretty cool and at least appears to fit in with the windows 10 desktop better than the open source utility, for a price.
I couldn't, some undoubtedly could, but that's not the point. What a wonderfully posed question with much broader implications, especially relevant to Australians ATM vis a vis the government's attempted tussle with the big people. I hope this discussion spreads. This is a thank you message. Cheers.
I’ve worked remotely for 15 years, variously in a bustling major city with a startup scene and currently do so in a small seaside town a few minutes from the beach.

Quality of life depends where in life you are. City is better for meeting people, seaside town for raising children. Remote work is generally good for work-life balance, nobody cares if I stay at home with a sick child or finish early for a school play, but I probably travelled a lot more than I otherwise would have.

I thought (and was told) remote work would be a career limiter, but I have still ended up where I want to be (ML research).

What I miss most is being around many like-minded colleagues. What I enjoy most is being able to close the door to my office and work uninterrupted for as long as I choose.

I think I’m more productive because I can’t just “show up”; if I’m not making a difference I might as well have spent the day at the beach.
Uh no, as defined by Reg T, brokers are free to let cash accounts immediately buy with unsettled funds. It's only a violation if you sell a security before the funds used to purchase it settle.

Margin accounts have a different legal definition and regulations.

Robin Hood is actually pretty unique in that its cash accounts are always restricted to settled funds; instead they decided to optimize for margin accounts that don't allow for increased leverage. Which is not something other brokers optimize for that I've seen.
Is that what PHP should strive to be - the "most easy to read language available"? What does that even mean, just that there isn't any shorthand?

No one is forced to use the new syntax, it's just different tools in the tool belt.
Looks like some of this book's content is available online at: staffeng.com/guides
> This sort of event would be less likely if America's wealth disparity weren't so grotesquely skewed.

Maybe, but I'm pretty well off (at least compared to the rest of the country) and I still feel the same way. It's primal if you ask me.
I have this unsupported idea that after I get a win I won't be as hard on myself for past errors. Like the 3 BTC I had to sell when it was at $3k.
Excellent questions and thank you for the kind words :-)

1. We tested this with Pfizer last year and found there was an opportunity to supplement existing med info teams that do the same thing.

But it’s tough to do two markets well at once, so we decided to focus on health systems for now.

We also find that in hospitals, everyone thinks they’re asking b unique questions, but they aren’t. We can be much cheaper vs their pharmacists and still make money. Pharma companies already have standard responses so it’s a totally different value prop.

2. We don’t really compete with clinical folks at hospitals, most will readily off load this to us, so they can spend more time on patient care. There are some that like to own this, and I totally get why, but we eventually win them over. As for medical librarians, they’re great for article requests but for complex clinical questions we think a clinical pharmacist is the right type of researcher.
Getting Started with ECP5 FPGAs on the Colorlight I5 FPGA Development Board
The Conundrum of “Conundrum”
Name each link using an arbitrary emoji?

(I'm not even sure I'm joking)
Did you actually read the article? ^_^"

Nevertheless, it's seems that the more knowledge diversity a team has, the MORE novelty and LESS usefulness. It's all about communication, sharing ideas, interpretation of knowledge (mental models), and self-regulation.
This is false, albeit depending on how broadly you define “personal information”. Regardless, the effect of the law has been clear.
GameStop fun turns serious for Reddit's WallStreetBets
>if Apple was wielding this to harm users that'd be one thing

walled gardens harm users by definition because they reduce competition. Forcing an open API would immediately create the opportunity for people to offer competing clients for any Apple (or Facebook etc) service, drive down costs, produce new ways to interact with the services of large companies and so on, it would immediately unlock the ability of countless of independent creators to produce new products.

In fact if you were to open up Facebook, Apple's apis and so on and turned them into open protocols you would not even necessarily need invasive privacy regulation, people could just build a privacy respecting Facebook client that lets people interact with the service in a way they want, getting an algorithm free news feed if they want, stripping out baggage they don't need. It would solve a large majority of the exact issues that we have with large tech companies.

Apple does hold a monopoly over all Apple users, which gives them market power the same way a monopolistic company in a larger market exercises power. It's actually straight up depressing for someone to say "well I benefit from the walled garden". It's no different than someone saying "I like the oligarch because he treats me nicely"
The Multitude of Books
I hear that. Thanks for reply. Very different from my experience, but glad to understand.

> My therapist loves me... I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

Yay for therapy :) Just had my first session today
> who win 40-45% of the popular vote but somehow get landslide majorities

In a system with four major parties, 43% is an absolutely huge popular landslide. How can you describe it as anything else? Ten percentage points above their nearest rival? How much more of a majority do you think it could possibly be?
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
He's been quiet for a while, but flared up recently again. Yeah you're right.
In the past three days, they've taken a $2.5B emergency credit line from JP Morgan and $1B in emergency funding from their investors. This all happened before these trade restrictions.

At the scale we're talking about here, it gets to a point very quickly where nothing can save them except government intervention. Robinhood may not be at that point yet (and I very much doubt the government would step in to help them), but its also the case that their eligibility for huge loans like they need is hurt because the measures they need to take to remain solvent (locking down trades) is also hurting their future revenue (users are concerned and may pull out). That's why liquidity events are so scary; everything just stops, and when you stop a market it sometimes can't ever get going again.
> It is also margin trading if you buy and sell before settlement

Not always, see situation #3 https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_ca...

You need margin to engage in day-trading, but you can sell a settled stock & immediately use the funds to buy something else just fine as long as you then hold onto that purchase for 2 days.
One can just as easily say “Apple doesn’t care about the users, they’re just trying to make money selling phones and getting a bigger cut of transactions that happen on the phone”. These sorts of statements are somewhat true, but ultimately not relevant to law or public policy. In reality you’d find that companies are composed of individuals with a diverse range of motivations.

If you find yourself unable to contemplate that the thousands of people at company X as something other than a unified blob of evil, it might be a useful exercise to seek other perspectives and practice some empathy. It’ll make the world easier to understand.
Posters made millions as Wall Street lost billions on GameStop's wild stock ride
My go-to file explorer power tool on Windows is Q-dir [1]. It supports tabbing among other useful features.

[1] http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir
Launch HN: Cowrie.app – Pay Salaried Employees Daily
Hi HN.

We are Peet and Adrienne, co-founders of Cowrie.app - https://cowrie.app. We are building a modern payroll system that allows employers to pay their employees at the end of every day.

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Why can't salaried employees get paid daily?

That's the question we pondered at the beginning of our journey.

Many of us have been in a position where we faced a short-term cash crunch. Furthermore, everyday systems don't align nicely with bi-weekly or monthly pay schedules. Bills and credit cards are often times due mid-month. Emergencies happen. And sometimes employees need disposable income immediately - to buy GME shares for instance. By waiting until the the next payday, employees are essentially loaning money to their employers. It sucks for them to get charged late fees, overdraft fees or God forbid they result to payday loans on money they have already earned that simply hasn't cleared.

The reason employees don't get paid daily in the USA is simply historical. Back in the day when humans crunched numbers with calculators, it was labor intensive to calculate withholdings, various taxes, benefits and send out checks. To save on these costs, employers simply reduced the number of times these calculations occurred. But nowadays, we have more than enough technology to make these calculations daily.

At cowrie, we are building a modernized payroll system that performs direct deposits at the end of every day.

We love this community and we’d welcome your ideas/ experiences/ feedback on what we’re building!
That's not something you can know for certain. It's possible that hedge funds closed their early shorts, but now, the mind-boggling valuation has inspired a wave of new shorts.
> I doubt these self-styled “retards” will ever end up as depraved and corrupt as the people they’re disrupting.

But they sure would like to be. I've seen WSB. The entire system is selecting for sociopoaths.
It's actually rational.

They're flooded and can't handle the scenario - but they definitely can't stop people from selling because that would be locking them into positions.

I don't like RH as a company, but if they are facing difficulties, this is a reasonable thing to do.

People are giving RH heat for this most recent policy but frankly that's not remotely the reason they should be upset. I for one, basically believe RH on it. The reason 'RH' is 'shady' is for their normal business practices.

Frankly, the notion of 'free option trading for unsophisticated investors' sounds like the biggest hustle ever. Surely there are a lot of folk using it who really know what's what, but mostly not.
It's largely artificial and controlled by the Fed; it can't really be disrupted since you can't replace the Fed (PayPal and Zelle haven't replaced ACH), but they have shaved off a day in recent years and plan to add actual realtime settlement in the next few years. In the meantime, the computers still work business hours and take off weekends for some reason.

> Force the banks to honor the requests in order they are received (not in the order they choose that is most lucrative to the bank).

Didn't this already happen?
If you've got to that point of modifying the storage format then you might as well just use an integer (microseconds success the epoch) and be done with it. That seems cleaner than using a string (or two strings) anyway.
Yeah, I can accept the argument that usually startup time doesn't matter. But since I finally got fed up with shell scripting, I want to find a proper viable long-term alternative. I know that for most of my scripts I won't care neither for startup time nor for strong typing (just an example, I know that OCaml and thus F# have it) won't be necessary. But I just want to have a powerful tool in my hands for those few outlier cases where you'll get pissed off at slow startup.

But I can still agree with you!

> For historical context, around 1994, I ditched shell with heavy awk and add use in favour of Perl to avoid the heavy overhead of multiple processes being spawned by the shell scripts.

I feel a novice now. :D

To be fair, there weren't things I wasn't able to achieve with zsh scripts and `parallel` and the usual suspects (sed, awk et. al.) but when I measure how much time -- and sometimes sanity -- I lose until I make something rather trivial work, the analysis isn't in favour of my current workflow. 500 "quick and dirty" scripts each wasting you 3h as opposed to 5-10 minutes amounts to a LOT of wasted work time.

To be fair, I was not inclined to use F#. OCaml always impressed me with its amazingly fast compiler. But you have a very solid point that with F# you can use the entire .NET ecosystem...

> So you have to know both what you need but also which alternatives you are benchmarking it against.

I don't know exactly what I need, for the better or the worse. I just want to do one big switch (away from sh/bash/zsh scripting) and not have to redo it anytime soon, is all.

Most tasks are I/O bound anyway so normal shell scripting and `parallel` can take you VERY far. But I've been bitten by weak typing and surprisingly parsed values so I am looking for something stricter. Runtime speed is hardly relevant to anything because again, I/O bound is the norm (_especially_ when you work with the network; most network-bound tasks that people put in their scripts nowadays could easily be handled by a Pentium III from back in the day, I feel).
I agree! My opinion is that options market is similar to the derivative market we got into with bundling mortgages up.

Its effectively putting a layer on top of something and the confusion gives those involves in the abstraction ability to make money on top of the real economy.
Including similar language in their agreement would probably have made the EU's already terrible case even worse anyway, since it would almost certainly have only covered AstraZeneca's non-UK European facilities, and the whole problem seems to be that those can't produce nearly enough vaccine to cover EU demand. Note that the current clause about the initial supply of doses only covers manufacturing them within the EU; the part about the EU including the UK explicitly does not apply to that clause. (Indeed, the only mention of UK manufacturing seems to be exempting it from a clause banning the use of non-EU manufacturing sites.)
well...we have United States Congress making million while their salary doesn't support such...so...who know.
Right now everything is speculation, nobody knows anything during the rally as the shares don't point to who owns what and who is shorting. So if anyone says the squeeze hasn't happened yet, it just their opinion.

For all we know the hedgefunds got out of their short positions and retail is pumping the stock higher. Or conversely hedgefunds are still short and waiting for the rally to fizzle until it collapses and then they reap huge gains.

Or it could explode higher like this week(the big squeeze), the point is nobody knows with any certainty what will happen. I never thought tesla in a million years would be a $800B company but I and many like me have been proven wrong. its whats great about investing, there are always surprises all the time.
I have a margin account but E*Trade let me day trade for years without one. There were rules like you couldn't buy and sell the same stock in the same day but you also got hundreds of violations before they suspended this ability. So if you are more of a day-swing trader and not doing high volume it worked well enough for me.
You beat me to it. They’ve got a bunch of cool utilities. In the windows 7 days I was a huge fan of logon studio.

Microsoft could learn a lot from what they’re doing, as for the most part I still prefer not using 3rd-party utilities to mess with things.
Hush, nub
Building Applications with APIs
What makes WSB legal vs emails about imminent pump on an unspectacular stock?

What stops somebody from purchasing aged reddit accounts and then pumping up, upvoting their own threads?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned BeOS / Haiku who's windows titlebars Tab automatically across all programs.

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/1X/abb...
Informed consent is very important in medicine for good reasons.
Cool!

If you want tabs in Windows Explorer, I've been using QTTabBar for years and it's pretty good.
I get a lot more work done. Fewer interruptions. And it's enabled me to hire a person I would not have normally thought to hire because he lives in another city. The pandemic forced me to realize how easy it is to remote work in a tech field.
Tesla’s new Model S will automatically shift between park, reverse, and drive
That other fruits are rotten does not weaken the assertion that this particular fruit is rotten. I don't think anyone is claiming that every fault that Robinhood has is unique.
So in my metaphor, that would be like perhaps a gardener assembling irrigation, or someone in a mechanical trade fixing the gasket. There's still a ton of specific knowledge to the job in question.

Of course, it shouldn't be that Google specifically is necessary - just some literature or reference source (i.e. consulting with someone).
I think this is almost expected behavior. Anybody who spends enough time in the trenches of any industry will come out jaded and bitter. In my limited time working on the tech side of some Wall St giants, 99% of the grunts are normal people with their noses in very narrow tasks. Tasks that seem too mundane to have any implications for the outside world. I even heard a top marketing exec at Goldman talk about how to shed their image as a "vampire squid". None of them set out to be evil, they just set out to earn profits. Same everybody else.
Banks (overdraft)
> When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose!
If RightForge truly supports diversity of thought (we'll see) it will be a welcome improvemrnt over the usual suspects.
This sounds a lot like a kidnapper threatening to kill the victim if the vic won't go with the kidnapper, and also threatening any bystanders who might think of interfering.

Nobody likes a bully, China. Grow up.
I couldn't either. No doubt many could. But that's not the point. What a wonderfully posed question with such broad relevance, especially for Australians ATM vis a vis the government's current attempted tussle with the omniscient platform. Please let this discussion grow. This is just a thank you message. Cheers!
I mean, using a maven archetype, I sure can get a Hello, World going in about 30s.