skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The absolute amount is tiny but it surprises me that they haven't spent that amount in every major city. Surely there is at least one city out there that has promise and SoftBank would be the one with the first dibs.
> In America, they are doing well

This is taken as further evidence of American racism!
You have to solve this problem at a higher level. Why are black passengers more likely to live in poor and far away places?

Obviously it will take time to resolve that. Generations at the least. But we have to do something in the mean time, or we'll be perpetuating the negative effects of social bias. We should change the short term economics using taxes and regulation as much as possible, while clearly telling people why we're doing that.
"It's amazing to me there isn't a system that we can automatically pull from, of trusted channels..."

I like it, but who gets to decide which sources are trusted?
"Don't trust, verify" is crypto's slogan.

"Trust, but verify" is Reagan's slogan.
There are many solutions to the same problem.
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A rolling release distro suffers from that problem vastly less than a rolling release since you will usually have current versions of most tools if your distro has enough people to maintain it. See gentoo, funtoo, arch, manjaro, void.

Making it easy to produce alternative package repos goes a long way towards having people actually make them. See overlays in gentoo/funtoo and ppas in ubuntu and ubuntu based distros like mint. This is especially important in ubuntu which is not rolling and can be different degrees of out of date especially if you use the long term support versions.

Making it easy to produce a package goes a long way towards it being easy to make one even if its only used by yourself. Arch/Manjaro Funtoo/Gentoo packages are both very easy.

Gentoo/Funtoo use flags make it easy to build an alternative version of a package eliminating the need to build it because the distro maintainer didn't enable the feature you need.

Arch's AUR makes it easy to add a package that can also be produced from source and updated like any other package via aur helper. Can also have alternative builds of the same package.

Of many distros I have used over time I would say that on Arch and Funtoo I didn't have to build anything manually but I did rely on the AUR and overlays + made a package for funtoo which was very very easy.

On mint and ubuntu I ended up with about a million ppas + building some things.

On net I'd say that rolling release + a system where users can trivially create their own packages on something like the AUR is the most versatile while still being accessible. Funtoo was even more flexible but substantially more complicated.

However for various reasons I'm using Void now and have only 2 manually build things. Gargoyle because its not in the repo and I hadn't figured out how to make a package and mpv with a sndio partch.
Now it's perfect. So now, Sergey will let people pwn your 3D printer over a browser?

Even IE6 was not such a security model garbage. Even ActiveX was trying to sandbox itself from access to the hardware.
The trouble is that, if it works, why wouldn't you try it again? You're not only a single data point, you are also a snapshot in time. Two months ago, you didn't have much. And, unless you truly decide to stop doing what you're doing, you are likely to have about the same two months from now.
Hi all,

I'm preparing release 250 of the TXR Language, the bulk of which is a Lisp dialect called TXR Lisp.

Release 250 adds compiler optimizations, like jump threading, some dead code elimination, and a few peephole reductions.

This work is finally possible because I had put it on hold due to not wanting to write such code without a pattern matcher, which we now have.

I'm fixing two bugs that were reported by a user, which will be nice in such a landmark release (250 releases, wow!).

The new structural pattern matching sub-language in TXR Lisp (new since 247 or 248) will be improved. Bugs are fixed. The way the @(or ...) pattern operator works has been rewritten, so certain corner test cases now pass. It generates better code.

There are will be some new features in the matcher too. The @[fun ...] flavor of the
predicate operator now lets you capture not only the variable, as usual, but using an extra argument, the value of the predicate (which could be an extended Boolean with an interesting value).

For instance, is "abc" in the hash table htab? If so capture it as x, and also capture the value as y:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 249.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
Upgrade to TXR Pro for a one-time fee of learning Lisp!
1> (let ((htab #H(() ("abc" "foo") ("xyz" "bar"))))
(when-match @[htab x y] "abc" (list x y)))
("abc" "foo")

Here, htab is just being used as a function; any function will work that can take the argument "abc"; if it returns non-nil, then the predicate has rung true, the pattern has matched, and x takes "abc", and y the returned value.

By the way, to see quips like "Upgrade to TXR Pro for a one-time fee of learning Lisp!" you must add this to your ~/.txr_profile:

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Recent events have a lot of people confusing high short interest with naked shorting.

A stock can have short interest greater than 100% without any naked shorting.

How is this possible? The textbook definition of a "short sale" is that someone borrows stock and then, literally, sells it short. The buyer of the stock is free and clear to do whatever they want with the stock, including re-lend it for another short sale. Wikipedia has a good primer on how this works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)

This has created a lot of confusion on WallstreetBets, where many participants have come to believe that Gamestop's short interest of 113% means that there are 13% more shares shorted than long positions to cover. It's not true, though, because the long interest is always greater than the short interest.
Note that there are a lot of conspiracy theories going around on WSB, populist leftist Twitter, and populist right wing Twitter. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kr98ym/gme_...

With GME there isn’t evidence of naked shorting. There are legitimate ways for shorts to be greater than the float. See https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/6850771-bachhandel/554975... for an explanation
The competition is already pretty much extinguished.
and, by now, Mozilla, but only because Google allow them to exist

Why does Mozilla need permission from Google to exist? That sounds very very wrong.
Rehypothecation.

Although, I think you'd be hard pressed to define the gray area of (possibly infinite) fractional share ownership and naked short selling.
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My advice to you would be to have an exit plan. For example, set aside 20% of your assets in a savings account, maybe even some type of account where it's not that easy to cash out, to limit the temptation of dipping into it. Then, as your assets grow (if they do), at various thresholds, you set aside preset amounts of money. This way, if you "lose it all" one day, you don't get to "walk instead of taking the metro", you get to afford a down payment for a smaller apartment instead of a bigger one.
Well I guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 and grateful to have discovered him through the article.
https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...
It's puzzling that people find it surprising that the situation caused speculation and "conspiracy theories."

It's frustrating that the phrase "conspiracy theory" is used as a way to dismiss skepticism. I hear more and more hand-wringing that conspiracy theories needs to somehow be addressed.

And it's annoying that given how complex the situation is, and how little transparency in the market there is, we think that one narrative by authorities should be taken at face value.

If you truly dislike conspiratorial thinking, then it seems the best possible reaction is to reply calmly explaining to the conspiratorialists what happened and buttressing counter-claims of the skepticism where it exists.
Does this make it okay to lie to the people utilizing your services?
Core NFC has been available since iOS 11 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc). You don't have full access to implement for example contactless EMV payments, but you can read and write data to NFC tags.
I wonder if it is more likely to happen with put options that are rolled over. I don't believe that options are match with number of shares.

Block chain type code can prevent the excess being issued.
I mostly agree with you but Mexico is one of the very few countries that has done worse than the US. By one ranking they are second to last in the world, only ahead of Brazil (it sounds like the US was ranked fifth worst with Colombia and Iran also doing worse).

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/index-of-covid-...

And it sounds like that is based on official statistics, which the Mexican government has admitted is way off.

It isn't completely irrelevent that the US shares a border with another country that has done horribly badly at managing the pandemic.
How can you legitimately short a company for more than 100% of all shares in the market? The short has to be covered by a real share.
TOS feudalism no thank you.
Yeah, I guess it could be snappier if everything were computed in the browser. But doing the processing on the back end lets me use any technology I want. Some of the transformations are actually fairly involved.
Because if Google stops paying them, they will go out of business.
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I'm more interested in Firefox vs Chrome. I simply want to be able to use the web without using Google.

By raising the bar on shiny but non-essential features, they make it harder for an open source browser to play. The new features may be fun options today but sooner or later those features will become standard, and website X won't work without Chrome.

From TFA:

> There is a long tail of human interface devices (HIDs) that are too new, too old, or too uncommon to be accessible by systems' device drivers

I can easily imagine a banking website one day requiring custom USB drivers for security. Similar things happened with ActiveX and IE in the MS EEE days.
Do you not want to be the person presenting or are you being prevented from doing so for whatever reason. (And if the reason is something like presentation skills, do you care enough to do something about it?)
But what a great way to beat the coffee addiction!
Cal Newport has a book that discusses this this called So Good They Can't Ignore You, which I found really interesting. His thesis is basically that the people who are most satisfied with their work are those who stuck with something until they got really good at it, regardless of whether it was the topic they were "most passionate" about (passion can be fickle, IMO).
TOS feudalism dictated by Microsoft, euh no thank you.
Multicultural London English
As far as backup is concerned, a well-supported (by Borg, restic, and others) way of excluding directories is by putting a file that conforms to the CACHEDIR.TAG standard.

https://bford.info/cachedir/
I don't think it's a bad thing that things that people don't agree with are presented to them.

As for the rest, I never argued for valuing sharing, and while those might generate likes they won't generate long comments unless they are at least slightly constructive.
What would be a better model for how the stock market works?
From a social level, there is a huge difference between a bank run and a short squeeze. One affects regular savings, the other wipes out only those that opted into a high risk short position.
Dynamic documents fundamentally can't achieve the usefulness of modern web applications though.

The fact of the matter is that web still seems to be the last bastion of freedom where you have a decent chance of publishing your software without begging for approval from a Californian. It's also inherently portable and doesn't care which brand of laptop or phone did you buy.

Which is why the rent seekers are trying so hard to dismantle it instead of empowering it.
Is 70% of Bitcoin mining still in China?
OH wow. I stand Corrected. Thank You.

I wish Safari implement something like WebNFC soon. I just dont like QR Code.
Why can't you use my money as collateral on the securities I told you to buy for me? Is this a "funds transfers used to be very slow" thing between the broker and the clearinghouse?
It needs their money.
His broker lent the stock back out. This is one more way brokers make a living: charging rent for shares lent to shorts.
I borrow a share and I sell it and the buyer lends it to someone and they sell it. Now two borrowers owe two lenders the same share of stock. It's real straightforward when you think about it. Also has nothing to do with "naked shorting" which is when you sell the share before you are able to borrow it.
What's the general view on the warranty on the solar panel or roof or powerwalls sold by Tesla? Is Tesla still around well capitalized in 25 years to honor the warranty?
There were some compounding factors for this situation, in particular a reverse split.

"Global Links was caught off guard by the events that transpired in February 2005 when it implemented a one-for-350 reverse split of its stock, the result of which would reduce its float from 350 million shares to 1.1 million. ... Some have said it is all a simple matter of broker error. Accounts showing 350,000 old shares of Global Links should have been adjusted by the broker to show 350 [sic, should be 1000?] of the new shares, but some have said that didn't happen"

https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/25/naked-shorts-global-links-...
Except NFC readers are missing in a good portion of Android phones sold to countries where most of people live.

Just through that alone, QR codes will be a default choice over NFC.

NFC feel to be on the way becoming a US version of FeliCa.
Whatever network(s) or leadership within the system you subscribe to.
The logical fix would be don't allow people to buy on proceeds that haven't settled yet. Other brokerages do this regardless of the security. But instead they specifically limited buying only certain securities that their hedge fund affiliates happened to have shorts in, thereby eliminating buy volume entirely and causing the stock price to go down. It's too coincidental to ignore when there was clearly a more precedented alternative.
ChromeOS is the end goal of Google, beware of the basket where you are putting your eggs on.
This seems like GPT-3 generated content or something. Or maybe just some notes written in a vaguely prose-like manner. No real content either way.
I wasn't familiar with Polkadot, but this documentation page seems to be a good introduction to how its "Nominated Proof-of-Stake" system works:

https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/learn-staking
This is basically a crosspost from reddit.

/wallstreetbets are, in their own insane way, doing research into the most extreme tactics that short sellers have employed in the past.. expecting the entire arsenal to be employed tomorrow when trading begins.
How do tech consultants approach their work?

I am definitely biased by my past experiences with tech consultants. I’m trying to sort out if it’s a service provider issue or if it’s a customer side issue.

From my limited perspective, it seems management consultants are focused on 80/20 solution approaches. While it seems technical consultants are focused on delivering MVPs that don’t seem to map well to the business space.
Aren't 65% of all bitcoin miners in China? Couldn't the CCP sabotage the network at any time? Say, a month before the launch of their digital currency?

https://cbeci.org/mining_map
I wish there could be a clear distinction between applications (like gmail) and web pages (like nyt).
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That has definitely been my problem in the past. I'm having trouble with it again as we're having to homeschool, so I'm spending more evenings working than I would normally. I barely get any real downtime and my sleep is disturbed. It sucks. The only way I'm managing is by being disceplined with myself about making some time when I get to switch off from work. My days are very regimented right now, but it's working. Having a clear divide between work and not-work really helps. At the small-scale, I've taken to using a pomodoro timer during my working hours, I have a jigsaw that I work on in the rest periods.

Something I've found as I've got older is that I simply can't manage without good sleep the way I seemed to be able to when I was younger. My younger team member is in his mid 30s and we were talking about this last week. He'd been pulling all-nighters (he's working around homeschool too), and it had been affecting his work, stuff was getting done but it wasn't great, and he was useless the next day. He's been operating the same way he used to do in his 20s when he was doing a PhD and didn't have kids. I think I've finally convinced him that the price you pay later is almost never worth it, but it's taken him a while to admit he just can't maintain that level of effort.

Getting older sucks in a lot of ways, a lot of them are quite subtle and happen slowly. I think the ability to run at maximum effort for extended periods of time is one of the things that you lose to some extent. That isn't to say that younger people don't get burnt out, but I think we recover quicker when we are younger, a bit like how we physically heal faster.
i agree that you should be able to do whatever you want with you device. if you want to download malware or try to manage it all yourself, then you should be able to do that. i think that out of the box, by default, having things managed by a package manager makes sense, especially for normies. this app store monopoly doesn't exist on android. you can very easily install fdroid or any other app store whenever you want. this issue does exist on ios though. if you would want to argue that alternative app stores or package managers should be front and center out of the box, I'd be more than fine with that as well.
> I'd guess most of my friends who are professional investors are the same

I'm curious about this. Hedge fund guys make enough to be accredited investors, but they mostly don't invest in them? Are the minimums too high? Are the yields not that great? I know the 2010's weren't great years for hedge funds. I also halfway wonder if the real product hedge funds sell is complex strategies to pension fund manages who think it's hard to explain their job if they're just buying index funds.
Disrupted schooling, learning loss will have effects long after pandemic
Sometimes the type system is forcing you to think in terms of what it is that you are passing around. In this case, getEmails() isn't expecting a group of students or a group of faculty, but rather a group of people that can be emailed. You can introduce an interface of that type and have it inherited by both Student and Faculty and use that in the method for clarity and type-safety without over-relying on union types: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?ssl=1&ssc=1&pln=38&pc=30...
Sometimes you’re caught between a rock and a hard place. That doesn’t absolve you of the direct consequences of the actions you take. Perhaps a better question to ask is how did they allow themselves to end up in this position where they have absolutely no choice but to make a poor decision in the first place? Were there no adults at the wheel leading up to this? Is this not a sign of an entirely broken system?
I not Impressed by anything SoftBank does what with their poor investment choices leading to ARM Holdings potentially being sold off unwisely to Nvidia.

And really 100 million is a drop in the bucket these days! And while folks have taken to investing in new and interesting manners lately I'd love to see Reddit get some interest around taking Arm Holdings Public Via an IPO rather than an Acquisition. And Keep that market unhindered and open access to anyone interested in creating ARM based Processors.
Important paper here because almost all the next gen blockchains will be using POS. Ethereum is trying to switch mid-flight (yikes) but others like Cardano have incorporated it foundationally.

If you're a no-coiner or Bitcoin maximalist, none of this really matters. But if you accept the premise that the future of financial infrastructure is moving towards decentralized, blockchain based systems, then a secure, scalable, performant, and energy efficient approach like this is pretty darn awesome.
craig wright is NOT satoshi nakamoto
If the author doesn't care about poor people not getting food and dying from climate change, at least think about the billionaires who bought private islands whose value can lose hundreds of millions of dollars if the climate change continues. They will be the reason CO2 emissions will be taken seriously.
Click-bait. Tesla revenue for 2020 was $31.5 billion. The credits were $1.6 billion. Significant, but only 5% of the total. Plus these credits come from selling cars.
Why would anybody cancel it? For the N word? It's a period piece about racists, satire but nevertheless.
I think it's also for call centers... which employee a lot of people... think head phones, even specialized hardware buttons to answer phone calls, place calls on hold etc... and being able to distribute the software part all via the web... WebRTC and WebHID - will be very happy together...
To the extent Google can lock you up for life for being inconvenient for their business model, I suppose it could have been innocuous content.

Oh, wait. We’re still a decade away from that particular dystopia, so I’ll guess kiddie porn or actual planning of terrorist attacks.
Why risk a short squeeze if it is easy money?
I like the basic idea, but at least if educating is to be understood as imparting trade knowledge and/or skills I seriously doubt if that particular deficit is what keeping most of those people off the straight and narrow.
I expect that ongoing events are actually more historically significant than this one.
If you own all the shares then you can control the company via voting control. That’d generally allow you to prevent the issuance of new shares and you could hand pick the board as their terms expire. It’s not immediate, but you’d eventually be in control of everything.
Just the 60s?
There are concerns (or concern trolls) about an attacker buying old keys for almost nothing, trashing the chain, then profiting by shorting. And there are concerns that the honest majority can't figure out how to switch to the honest fork.
Shoot, I've got about a pound of the stuff in a box collecting dust. If it flashes up to $1000 an ounce, is there any realistic way to offload it for even half that price?
While I understand the sentiment of your analogy, I think a big part that’s missing in your analogy is that the water bottle company loses a ton of money (if not bankrupt) if everyone keeps their water taps on and they gain a ton of money if they turn it off which changes the story completely. If I am the water company, and it’s in the water bottle interests, what stops the water company from simple saying “oh we have sewage issues” while the water bottle company rakes in the dough.

What I don’t get is why Robinhood didn’t outright explain this at first. It seems like it’s a good excuse and they announced it right after the media suggested this was the possibility.
I agree with you on that.
Yes to “LoRa”, but not necessarily on the 900MHz band. I have a few all using boards with 433MHz LoRa radios, most of the hardware supported is available in 433/815/915MHz variants. (In fact, I’m fairly sure most of the chipsets are capable of all those frequencies, and the only real difference if you buy the 433MHz version is the antenna they include.)
I just love the positive tone of this article. There is so much hope and positivism. I find it energizing.