skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original CNBC article that was never retracted.
I mean, if you ask for immunity out of nowhere, it does make one think about what exactly you want immunity from. One does not have to be manipulative narcissist to figure that one out.
The only thing Robinhood is lying about is their solvency.
People on HN are merely a (rather biased) sample of people in the world. Just as people in general can dislike him for different reasons, people on HN do as well.

I respect him for his work in programming. I dislike him for assuming that success makes him correct in whatever theories he comes up with in physics. Particularly when he has failed to produce any testable predictions.
> Perl.com is a site owned by The Perl Foundation and has been used since 1997 to post news and articles about the Perl programming language.
Well, it's not really like having "Google-lite" built in because all of that information is available on your filesystem. It's more like knowing exactly where your site-packages are and being very skilled with grep or some other search tool.
Paradoxically to the current topic, NUCs want you to bring your own RAM and disk.
Thank you so much for your interest and reply. This can change in future due to demand of books delivery.
The point is that without short selling option MMs couldn't hedge so no one would sell put options.
> I hate that it's based on Chromium though

There aren't really many alternatives. The main one is WebKitGTK, but that comes with its own set of issues (mostly performance/compatibility). You can use qutebrowser with QtWebKit as well, but I wouldn't recommend it - it's based on a 2018 WebKit with many known security issues: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases

I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579

Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64

> and Qutebrowser privacy related settings also seem quite limited compared to Firefox... (and even compared to Chromium.)

Can you be more specific? Pretty much anything that's possible to expose (either via a QtWebEngine API or via Chromium commandline arguments) is exposed. Certain things (like deleting cookies belonging to a tab when it's closed) just aren't possible without implementing them in QtWebEngine first unfortunately.

FWIW there's an overview here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4045
Question: is there a buyer who'd be only will to pay $49/mo and not $99/mo?

I ask because BannerBear has 3 tiers: $49, $99, $399.

It seems like if you're willing to pay $49, you'd also pay $99 ... and as such, why not just eliminate the $49 plan.

https://www.bannerbear.com/pricing/

EDIT: Why the downvotes? It's a genuine question and if you don't think so, please just comment why you don't think so to advance the conversation.
If he admitted how close they were to insolvency Robinhood would be out of business and no one would be getting their trades closed.

Financial firms never warn about liquidity issues to prevent a run on their bank.
There’s something nice about that idea.
> If big studio could launch an AAA game with only 10 devs, they would do it.

They could, if they gave themselves 8 years. Factorio has been in development since 2012.

AAA games ship on a deadline; naturally the work is divided as much as possible among many teams. More devs can in fact mean faster development if you're OK compromising on quality.
I think OpenBSD stopped shipping `sudo` in the base system in favor of `doas`.
If you segfault, you are vulnerable.
I googled "performant" but the search result wasn't performant.

https://www.google.com/search?&q=performant
Micronaut vs. Quarkus – What’s the Difference?
There are some legit uses for this. Using a company email would give you automatic access to some kind of privileged account.
> As I remember it, the advice wasn't "don't wear masks," the advice was "stay home."

There was “stay home” but also “stop buying masks because you are stopping medical, first responder, etc. personnel from getting them and they aren't useful for the general public” during the initial PPE supply shortage and hoarding.

This wasn't a lie, AFAICT, but Aa statement that was completely correct public health statement in the context it was given that was widely interpreted as an individual health statement.
I think this is really thoughtful.

In mindfulness practices, I've heard it mentioned as "noting without judgement". Maybe this is all just a matter of labels :)
> I don't invite armed strangers inside my home as a rule, and making an exception is unnecessary.

If your trust in a police officer is so low that you put them on equal ground as people who carry guns (criminals or police, in my country) then something is very wrong.

You might be paranoid, you might live in a country where the law is corrupt, a combination of that, or something else. For sure, something is very wrong.

I've helped the police with crime cases. Doing so, makes my society a little bit more safe and just. I also got help from police when I needed them. Then again, not living in USA. My secret is sauce is simple: be honest. If being honest gets you into trouble in your country, something's off.
Everyone’s brain is a time series database of experience, with a variety of heuristic shorthand’s built in. Presuming they should all consume and process information the same way is arrogant.

Perhaps take some of your own advice; one comment in this thread has not damaged HN.

Consider; for me OP did not leave as painful an impression as the helicopter parenting and scolding that followed. Trigger the Streisand Effect at your own risk.
They don't, so the absolute best case outcome of "asking a police officer for immunity" is "nothing happens".

The worst case outcome is that police officer testifying to a jury that you agreed to answer questions about a crime once you had immunity.

This is a terrible plan that ends terribly for you. Smart people think they'll be able to logic and reason themselves out of the crosshairs of the criminal justice system. But they're playing a game they don't know how to play and the odds are stacked for the house.
Not a dev: " Twice daily deploys don’t happen if QA goes through a 48 hour test process".

Why does that matter, surely it's pipelined. If you feed in RC packages to a 48h QA twice daily then after 2 days lag you're getting tested code twice daily.

I'm not suggesting that's realistic for large software houses, just that the logic seems wrong?
There are other ways to make such points which don't break the site guidelines. You're ignoring the damage to the community that I'm writing about, which is much more important. Massive, low-information, vicious flamewars are the biggest existential threat to the community.

I don't believe that either the commenter or the upvoters wanted an off-topic flamewar to be pinned at the top of the most popular thread on HN's front page. That would be malice! Outcomes like this happen on the internet, not by deliberate malice, but because a large number of small contributions—usually made without much attention, and without thinking of the overall health of the community—compound into a damaging outcome.
Thank you so much for your interest and reply. I 100% believe that everyone should have access to local libraries.
Also, an up front request for immunity is a massive red flag that says "I'm probably involved in the illegal thing, or some other illegal thing", which is not how you want to introduce yourself to a police officer, especially if you're not a serious suspect at the time. Even if the cop could grant it, why would he?

Obviously different if your lawyer says that requesting immunity might work, probably because you're knee deep in someone else's mess and their experience tells them that prosecution will be far more interested in your testimony against them than stuff you might need to admit to.
Did you run sudo apt-get update first?

I'm running WSL 2 here with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and this is what worked for me, without having to install anything from source.

Without doing anything (vulnerable):

nick:~ $ sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'`
malloc(): corrupted top size
Aborted

Then I ran this to patch it:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install sudo

And now this is the output (I guess not vulnerable anymore):

nick:~ $ sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'`
usage: sudoedit [-AknS] [-r role] [-t type] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

After patching it `dpkg -l | grep sudo` reports 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2. I didn't think to run that before patching it but I'd guess it's going to be different.
IKEA’s webshop is just a bad frontend for their stores. If you’re unlucky you add items to your cart that you would (according to their check out) have to drive 500 km to pick up. Probably a result of the stores themselves being the warehouse.

Most stores ship your order within 2 days. With IKEA your’re probably going to wait a week for them to handle the order and hopefully ship it.
>I would not be surprised if even Professional Web Developers cant do it. Especially if you include deployment.

I'm pretty sure I could do it depending on our definition of basic web app. With something Rails it's not even really that hard. Rails g scaffold [Model] gets you 95% of the way there.
10 years ago, I could get behind the anti-cop bit as things had gone too far police state, but today with dangerous crazed chaos in the streets and the being made to do all the kneeling and feet washing... Anybody who can stand working as a cop deserves a medal.
BCPL (1967), B (1969), PDP-11 (1970), C (1972).
This "wild new phenomenon" is just boring old market manipulation. The only thing new about it is that the perpetrator is a subreddit instead of a licensed broker/dealer or other regulated entity.

The appropriate thing to do is for the SEC to subpoena Reddit and RobinHood, correlate trades with posts to prove intent to manipulate the price (which IS illegal), and charge every individual with market manipulation.

Just like any other individuals guilty of market manipulation (Libor riggers, Navinder Sarao, etc).

Robinhood should probably also be investigated for abetting this, although it's a gray area.
Or perhaps the Soviet Union.
The exploit doesn't require removing the unit. Simply inserting a prepared flash drive is all that is required.
How do we know these customers didn’t sell their own shares?
GM Plans to Sell Only Zero-Emission Models by 2035
There's an http server and a small "sinatra" like web framework.

- https://github.com/ponylang/http_server

- https://github.com/theodus/jennet

Someone might have done SQLite for Pony, but I'm not aware of it. Writing network protocol stuff in Pony is usually pretty easy and the C-FFI is usually pretty easy which generally makes writing database connectivity (for at least happy path basics) fairly easy. (Add lots of caveats here).

If you'd like to talk more in-depth, swing by the Zulip and myself and other folks from the community can help out with answers.

https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/
We don't know what's "vile" for you, and I'm sure you've seen people getting super offended over things that you consider essential discussions. Give us some details?
One core place that shorting is key (which isn't touched on much) is shorting/going long on commodity futures. Very simplified example below:

If I'm an airline (and my business is dependent on the price of oil) and I think the price of oil will go up, I will hold some amount of oil futures at the current price. If the price of oil rises, my company is "hedged" against that rise. This is good for the buyer of the commodity. If the price of oil goes down, I lose on my future, but my business is fine overall.

Correspondingly, if I'm the seller of a commodity (I own an oilfield), I might short oil futures, in case the price goes down. I make less money selling my oil, but I hopefully make some back on the short
The reads like a communist manifesto. Until we live in a post scarcity society it’s unfair to suggest people should be denied profits from their work.
My preferred solution is to buy books. Find the best book on your topic and read a chapter, and you'll learn more than if you had googled 100 questions.

Books are also written by amateurs a lot of the time, especially if the topic is a bit niche. I've had people from publishers reach out to me to write a book about things based on a single blog post in the past.
> Someone shorting a stock has an incentive to see a company fail.

How is that incentive any different than the incentives of someone taking the opposite position:

> Sometimes people will put out rumors or even go on fiance shows talking about how ~poorly~ well run some company is.
I agree.

I would bet they don't have available funds. They framed it as, "We're stopping this to help you." But the reality was more like, "We're stopping this because we can't legally facilitate any more of these trades since we don't have the money to spare."
I'll make a little prediction: the negative press Robinhood is receiving will be out-weighed by the fact that so many people are getting interested in stocks due to this. I think they'll be better off despite this debacle in a month. (Though this doesn't include the possibility that they broke a regulation and lose a court case or that congress is spurned into action and regulates them out of business somehow.)
sales tactics to show that you get a lot of value in that tier per dollar spent.
This is nice.

For those downplaying it, remember, an SBIR application is quite onerous and the reporting requirements and non-negligible. It takes a while to get a response (though this is improving), the approval rate is low 15-20% when I applied), and the funding often is less than this (NSF SBIR is ~250K right now.

Yes, giving up equity is hard. Also personally, it seems like science translation occurs on SO much longer timescales that one year might be short to see significant progress.

I might have considered this when starting my company (www.zerok.com)
Pro: I make more than the mayor of our city and it's not a small city, nor is it a city in a doom loop of decline.

Con: That's after convincing the first remote salary position that I had the right stuff nearly ten years back, and then enduring the neverending stress of making sure I delivered on every front so I could be established as a remote engineer and not be capped by the limited opportunity in this fly-over state / not very technical city.

Pro: There are an insane amount of remote opportunities now.

Con: There's more competition for the positions due to the pandemic normalizing it. Also, you don't want to be the only remote person. When you interview for a position, interview _them_ as to how remote work actually works there. Entrenched remote companies with a culture that's battle hardened for that kind of work environment is a way better opportunity than a place that "does remote now post covid".

Pro: Your money goes farther than your peers in an awfully expensive place.

Con: Cost of living tiers are more of a thing so the gap isn't as big as you might think. What states the company already "does business in" limit their ability to pay you / onboard you easily.

Interview enough to know what you are worth, loyalty has it's benefits but don't get abused, once you have a solid work history of being effective remote engineer / leader -- you're golden.

Never quit learning and make sure you know what keeps you valuable as the years add up. :)
At the core I think a service like this is a good idea, but the amount of political rhetoric in the landing page would make me not want to use this service. Would prefer the service be completely agnostic to the underlying users and not favor a political party or ideology.

That being said, I think this is more a reaction to a business need/market opportunity that exists rather than a true attempt at a platform that is free for all to use.
Allowed? No one was banned from looking for Hot Jupiters. They weren't an expected phenomenon. The instruments to detect them also didn't/barely exist in the 70s and 80s and they're some of the easiest exoplanets to detect.
Yes, but that is by design - the state has retreated or stagnated in this space, preferring to let companies drive research and reap profits. We can't then be surprised that the companies are out-competing the state.

Not to mention that one example I forgot about is exactly the Oxford/AZ vaccine - the vaccine itself was developed by a (private, true) university, not a pharmaceutical company.
Thank you so much for your reply and interest. Yes, we do see batch pickup being ideal for us and driver to be profitable.
They also offer 2.5% on margin which is a pretty decent rate
JavaScript on the latest Android phones are embarrassing compared to iOS
Doesn't Robinhood allow you to buy stocks before the transfer finishes? So you can buy right away rather than waiting 3+ days. They call it Robinhood Instant.
I believe this as well. He did not do himself any favors and let himself be cornered on two interviews.

I respect that he cannot come out and say they have solvency issues, as his accounts would empty fast turning a potential solvency issue into a real one. But he didn't seem to even have a clear idea of, nor a numerical way to explain why they were having settlement issues.

My guess is that they will be spending more money in their clearing department this year.
Sorry, as a noob, why does Robinhood need lots of cash to facilitate trades, and what connection does that have to volatility?
... was already syntax, for variadic parameters. Re-using it for unpacking makes perfect sense IMO.
66GBps is from each of 10 drives doing ~6.6 GBps; don't think the infinity fabric is the limiter here
or safari
The contract clearly says they're to make their "best reasonable effort" to satisfy this contract. Breaking previous contracts would be unreasonable.

To me reading the contract as a non-lawyer, the BRE conditions felt like game, set and match to AZ.

For one thing, the definition of "best reasonable efforts" does seem to be ambiguous, but evidently it's intended to relate to what a business comparable to AZ would be expected to do. It seems unreasonable to expect that a large, multinational business manufacturing essential drugs during a public health crisis would knowingly and deliberately breach an existing contract to supply a fixed number of doses on a fixed schedule to another party, which is what AZ reportedly has with the UK.

On top of that, there is the discrepancy between 5.1 and 5.4. The latter says the UK counts as "within the EU" while talking about manufacturing at sites located within the EU, but it also explicitly says the inclusion of the UK is only for that specific clause. Clause 5.1 is specifically about the initial doses and requires AZ to use its BREs to manufacture the initial doses within the EU with no such including-the-UK qualifier.

So it appears that, contractually, AZ is actively required to make BRE to manufacture the initial doses for the EU not in the UK, and in any case, unless there is something very strange hidden in the censored wording, the obligations relating to delivery are also covered by a BRE qualifier.

Presumably this will all end up being decided in court, probably long after it really matters for anything other than financial compensation, but on a first reading by this layperson, it does look like AZ have the stronger case here.
True, 'produced easily' was an overstatement. Still, I doubt AZ is the only company with the know-how and equipment required to produce such a vaccine (and it's also likely that some of the know-how is itself a protected secret or patent of AZ, which just throws the ball further down the line).
Interview: James Medlock
Occam’s razor: just one coup, not two.
Do you believe that about all the brokerages that halted trading on GME et al? Or did Robinhood call a halt due to insolvency, and coincidentally, other brokerages called a halt for unrelated reasons?
The stock markets purpose isn’t to help companies find money, that Pr spin.

It’s to help investors invest their monies more cheaply and safely. The side effect is that companies get cheaper access to investment funds.

Without short sellers frauds would be even more prevalent, investor costs would be higher and companies would raise less money.

If you have a solvent company brought down by a short seller, you never had a solvent company.

And value != price. True investors like Buffett don’t really mind the casino aspect, because volatility creates opportunities when value diverges far from price.
It is a good thing for everyone if you can talk to the police and not have to worry about that putting you in jeopardy from the police. Since police choose not to offer you that protection, and are legally supported in doing so, it is the police, not the individual refusants, who have brought about this sad state of affairs where the right advice is always not to talk to them.
Which is kind of crazy: It looks like their default margin is 100% of your cash balance.

It would be much more transparent to be opt-in & say "Hey, you deposited $1k. If you want, we're willing to loan you an additional $1k." I think more people might refrain from margin trading if it was presented that way. But it would reduce trading volume, and therefore a major revenue source in the form of trading data they sell to market makers, so of course they don't do that.

As it stand though, to my outsider's eyes it makes their theoretical liabilities twice their collateral. Normally that's probably fine, gains & losses on large volumes of divers stockes will even out. But in unique circumstances (um, right now) the collapse of a single stock (or worse, a highly correlated asset class) puts them on the hook for an amount equal to their customers' losses.
Considering their retail clientele, it's probably fair to assume that many of their customers can't (or won't) cover those loses by depositing more cash... hence the suicide a while back.
You can cache documentation locally: https://devdocs.io/
> array_is_list

This is a stupid solution to a stupid problem. Defaulting to weak typing has enough problems, but changing the behavior of your data structure based on its contents is next-level pain. I used PHP for a few years at a student dev job and I can’t count how many times this conflation wasted my time and introduced various bugs.

If PHP wants to become more respectable as a PL, it has got to break that out into real arrays (a linked list might be acceptable under certain circumstances) and maps.
Fetch vs. Axios: Which Is the Best Library for Making HTTP Requests?
“Coming 2 America” is real and releasing on March 5
"Whether you thought it was a rumor‚or simply forgot it existed—Coming 2 America is real and releasing on March 5. In the original 1988 classic Coming to America, Eddie Murphy plays Prince Akeem, a foreign monarch looking for love in the United States. The celebrated film doesn’t necessarily need a sequel, but we’re excited nonetheless for Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall’s comeback. This time the duo is searching for now-King Akeem’s long lost son in Queens, New York. Murphy and Hall will also reprising their multiple supporting roles as elderly barbers and the Reverend Lovejoy. Coming 2 America will be in theaters and on Prime Video on March 5."
been loving HN for 8 years (n coming!) mostly due to the self-constraints commentators here generally have on the amount of meta-nastiness they (accidentally/intentionally) leak out

and as the population grows am hugely thankful for the moderation too
Thanks! Will add this to TODO list too.