skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't post flamewar comments like this and particularly don't cross into making personal swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That is sort of the point of his recent films.

The underlying thesis for his works is that the modern era has divorced us from any sort of narrative about why anything is happening. Instead of understanding personal and global events through the lens of political ideology or some cultural/religious understanding, people just observe these things as fragmented, random events.

Most Curtis movies attempt (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) to string together some context about the underlying political and intellectual forces driving these events.

It is cultural analysis, so it should not be understood as a straight reporting of facts. You see more of this type of thinking in literary publications than you do in film, but he has proven that the mode of thought transfers well to the medium.
So where do those friends plan to migrate to?
Jim Cramer reveals dirty tricks short sellers use to manipulate stock prices
This article hinges on the "productivity is subjective" argument, which isn't true in all cases. There are objective measures for certain types of productivity: library downloads, Stackoverflow points, blog views, GitHub stars.

I see developers adding high value features to the Apache Spark codebase that's used by hundreds of thousands of people. The top Apache Spark Stackoverflow question responder has hundreds of thousands of points (their answers are always the best).

Some folks build libraries that get thousands of downloads a day.

There are even popularity gauges that can be used for internal projects. Who is building the code that everyone is using and who is building stuff that gets thrown out.

This article also makes the fallacy of equating productivity with working hours. Working hours + productivity are correlated (top Spark devs seem to work constantly), but I also see people that work really hard and can't get traction for any of their open source / internal projects.

The power law is at play in software. A relatively small number of developers write the code that gets used the most. Yea, that might not be true for a given web app, but it's definitely the case for software overall.
This is a very good point, the question is where to go? I am European, we don't even have Robinhood here, so I had a dead eToro account with 140 EUR on it and Interactive Brokers, which we all thought was synonymous with quality and respect. However, they folded first, along with Degiro, which was the other "well-reputed" option available to us. Everyone started running to XTB, which limited trading on Friday afternoon/night.

In the US there is Webull, which went against their clients initially and then reversed. As an European - where should I go to? Binance/Kraken seems the only reasonable option at this point, however crypto has ties to the real world only on macro-economic scale (although very relevant) and you cannot use your "capital" to influence the world around you in a good way.

P.S. I know that Fidelity and other well-reputed vendors didn't turn coats, but I am not sure it is an option here.
P.P.S. This reminded me of https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tina-there-no-alternati....
IIRC, customers still have to pay the filing fee, but beyond that, the costs are on the company.
Both quad SSDs adapters had a fan on it and the built in M.2 ones had a heatsink, right in front of one large chassis fan & air intake. I didn't measure the SSD temperatures, but the I/O rate didn't drop over time. I was bottlenecked by CPU when doing small I/O tests, I monitored the current MHz from /proc/cpuinfo to make sure that the CPU speeds didn't drop lower than their nominal 3.9 GHz (and they didn't).

Btw, even the DIMMs have dedicated fans and enclosure (one per 4 DIMMs) on the P620.
I always sucked at sports and wasn’t motivated to improve. But neglecting fitness was one of my biggest mistakes. I hope to instill some sports into my kids. Getting them into math and science will be the easy part. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Energy non-conservation in quantum mechanics
This was one of the reasons I used lots of Interfaces back in the day with Java.
The bicameral congress lets small states join and maintain membership in a union safely. It is a net increase in the people's representation and this has only become moreso in the era of popularly elected senators. India, with its historically fraught relations between ethnicities, religions, languages and social ranks, would benefit greatly from such representation.
What's worse is the poor employee forced to do this day in and day out.
Abusive UX, or for some of them, codependent UX.
There are definitely same claims for harm that are stronger than others. Whether any of the 6 (!) class action suits currently pending actually claim that harm is a different matter.

Of the stuff I see on court listener:

* 3 don't have documents available (and I'm not going to bother signing up for PACER just to find out)

* 1 has a claim predicated on "I could have bought or shorted GME" (yeah, not gonna fly)

* 1 has a claim predicated on "the value of GME stock fell, causing me loss" (doesn't mention if the stock was actually sold, so it's purely paper loss, so really not gonna fly)

* 1 has a claim predicated on "I tried to buy, but couldn't" (best chance of succeeding, but I think they're still screwed anyways)
Would anyone have an idea how to find out which program set the timer resolution?
Would be very helpful in investigating battery drain problems.
Any ugly hack is welcome.
I don't use Google voice, and it's only ever been this phone. It started right after an OS upgrade last year, so it seemed much more likely to be OnePlus than TMobile.
Yeah. So, I did click through it; it took forever, and was exceedingly annoying. I found myself wanting to go back a few times, and that just not being worth the effort... since I am not the one giving this presentation--which is already a problem... slides exist to support a speaker, and I am not the speaker! either this should be a video or an article, not some disconnected set of slides (from which I can't imagine I am actually getting the connections between the content)--I have absolutely no use for a "one slide at a time" UI: either all 100+ slides of this should be rendered one after another so I can quickly scroll down through it, or (preferably) this shouldn't be a PDF file so I can decide how I scroll.
Commodore 64 users and their computers – photos from the 80s
> Every Satoshi can be traced back to when it was mined

This is blatantly wrong, do you have a source for that? Transactions can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs; "which satoshi comes from which input" is not a valid question; transactions are about value sums of inputs and outputs.
Can you give me an example of the things you have seen on matrix that should be moderated? Should matrix devs limit the amount of people that can use their open federated network so they can afford to moderate every e2ee group chat around the globe?
In your example I would say his anger is reasonable even while it is being misdirected. I can empathize with that expression of anger even if it is ultimately misguided, counter productive, and ultimately probably feeding and perpetuating the racist stereo type.

While the Japanese person in Japan being racist against this non-Japanese person and seeking him out to beat him up deserves no such empathy. This person would be the more misguided of the two and is the racist initiator.

The two are simply not equivalent. I'm pointing out that people think it's an equivalence relation based upon commutivity of the races, and that is wrong.

Racists say "see they're being racist too" as if they are equivalent. They aren't.
I highly doubt that. I filed a 1 star review and it literally only took like 30 seconds as you don't have to write anything to rate it.
I think this is a needless and draconian proposal.

If the government stops meddling with the constitutional rights of its citizen subjects, restore Right to Information (RTI), remove election fraud and fundraising which is tremendously boosting the currently elected government - they would have bestowed a huge favor to its citizens and the future generations.
Author here: as they say, Linux is free if your time is worthless.

In my case, my time isn’t worthless but I do enjoy configuring my system. The tweaks shown in those blog post took me maybe half a day; I haven’t needed to make any significant changes since.
As a millennial, there was a "golden age" for video streaming that has now passed where Netflix was the biggest game in town and had most of the desirable content. Now that there are 6 or 7 streaming services each with their own exclusives (and regional differences) streaming is becoming much less appealing.
I disagree with this narrative.

10x developers are about efficiency, in that they are able to produces code that has effects that is vastly more impactful than the organization average, and at the same time, these activities are done in equal amount of time as others.

If someone has a long history on a project, by definition, he/she can only achieve 10x because of others were effectively handicaped. That's the point in case from the article: 10x dev in this context should be the one who either built a system is so simple that newcomers easily onboard and contributed as good as anyone can be; or he has done a great job of organize the code base, docs, and organization structure, in such a way that newcomers can quickly get grasp of the parts that they are working on; and can quickly get the information needed when new work assignments coming in.
>If you can prove that RH's actions drove the stock down

That'd at best, prove harm, which is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a successful lawsuit. You'd also need to prove wrongdoing, which is hard because they seemed to have acted so they can fulfill their deposit requirements.
> Robinhood won’t go out of business because of lawsuits, it’ll be an exodus of users.

I would imagine most users care more about money and convenience than principles. I doubt they lose many users in the long run.

If the bubble or market crashes though they will lose a large user base for a long period of time.
I say this with genuine love in my heart, and hoping dearly for you to see this more clearly: you got scammed. Those early short positions[1] are closed out, losses have been taken, GME is going to burble along for a bit as the people who scammed you exit their own positions and then it's going to crash back down to $80 or less. It is no longer a short squeeze, this is a speculative bubble sustained by people like you who were lied to about it being a short squeeze.

[1] Obviously people are taking out new shorts like crazy on this stock given the bubble.
this reform is good. it should stop black money and make market more lucrative
Don't know about that last point. Gas cars have a starter battery and alternators which probably produce enough juice to power cameras, that don't take a lot of power.
UPRO is only 1/3 of your portfolio, so you have the same exposure as SPY i.e: you are not going to make those crazy returns.

The idea is to get cheap borrowing by using a leverage ETF and then buying bonds such that the bond yield > cost of leverage.
Creating Java object models to map the JSON documents into was the problem that I was really fed up of. In my work, we have hundreds of JSON documents to manage and many a time the structure of the JSON document also changes. Managing the JSON object model classes in Java is all boiler plate which adds very limited value in my opinion. To solve this, I wrote unify-jdocs. You can completely eliminate the use of domain specific object model classes and work directly on the JSON document (an intermediate construct similar to what the author is pointing to). You can read more about it here at https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs
I know nothing, so here's a question: instead of framing it like the concrete harm was lack of profit (which is theoretical), could they frame it as the concrete harm being that robinhood turned the situation from potentially profitable to no chance of profit?

Like if I'm fishing, I might not catch a fish that day, but if you collapse the pier I'm fishing from then you've concretely caused particular harm to my chances of catching a fish?
One strategy that 1st year law students are all aware of:

ANY contract that is one sided, where ALL participants are not allowed to participate in negotiating the contract - - and especially without all sides being represented by an attorney - - are known as UNCONSCIONABLE, and prone to be set aside in court. (without good conscious, or predatory).

All these High Tech TOS's meet that standard of UNCONSCIONABLE
Considering that it is VASTLY better for battery runtime than Linux on same hardware, I guess ticklessness ain't all that important.
Title needs an edit.
> It should be emphasized that although COVID-19 may induce testicular damage, a substantial decrease in male reproductive capacity awaits clinical evidence

The title is misleading, the abstract very specifically calls out that we don’t have clinical evidence as of yet that this reduces men’s ability to reproduce

The actual title of the paper which OP deliberately changed away from is:

“Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on male reproduction”
and you have over 25k in it for pattern day trading... but detaila
That would presumably include Chrome and https and enabling use through VPNs?

The above are use daily for extremist content, CP, circumventing numerous national laws in numerous places...

Hard to draw the line.
>This is all very weird, and I don’t understand the rationale, or the implementation. The intentional inconsistency in the Sleep(1) delays is particularly worrisome. Maybe it is a bug, but I doubt it.

Why doesn't someone reverse engineer the implementation?
To get it into the browser check out rtp-to-webrtc[0]

Another big piece missing here is congestion control. It isn’t just about keeping bitrate low, but figuring out what you can use. It is a really interesting topic to measure RTT/Loss to figure out what is available. You don’t get that in ffmpeg or GStreamer yet. The best intro to this is the BBR IETF doc IMO [1]

[0] https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples/rtp-to-w...

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congest...
Thanks for that information. I didn’t know that or about DTCC. Is raising the collateral on transactions like that typical?
> It is a net increase in the people's representation and this has only become moreso in the era of popularly elected senators.

It's a net zero increase in the people's representation. It is a redistribution of representation toward smaller states, which has accelerated as state populations have diverged.
The internet hasn't been decentralized since pretty much it's inception. ICANN very much introduces a single point of failure that could wipe out the internet if it were disrupted.

It could be replaced, but it would take years. In many ways, cert authorities are more decentralized than ICANN.

This isn't to say we shouldn't worry about these single points of failure, rather, I think it's just an exaggeration of QUIC's impacts on decentralization.
So it's not really anything like the indentured servitude in the American colonies then.
The liquidity claim on tv was never supported and was later retracted. David Portnoy also called it out directly as well. Liquidity was not the reason for Robin hoods actions.
If the buyers decide to hold their shares, then yes they could corner the market. I believe the broker could just elect to not pay the price and fail to deliver on the IOU. The SEC keeps a list of FTDs and publishes it twice a month [0].

If the shareholders decide to corner the market, the company could issue more shares or the SEC might step in and say "no you can't do that" to either the broker, the shareholders, or both.

I don't think the SEC looks very highly on people cornering the market, be it hedge funds colluding or individual investors colluding. The SEC is supposed to look for all investors, not just the ones that decided to corner the market in one security.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm
Divorce should be easy. Marriage is not which needs protection and government meddling. Two consenting adults should choose to live together or apart as they feel fit. I would resist any call to make the government a part of our personal lives. Dangerous proposition to say the list with no limit to when we can draw the line.
IIRC >80s make up 1/3 of all COVID deaths, so I imagine once we vaccinate >60s and other vulnerable populations, restrictions can be eased. Unfortunately, the NHS doesn't provide more granular age data - just >80s and <80s.

Hopefully, as time goes on, NHS will report more granular data that can be added to this site.
Everything is securities fraud - Matt Levine
I have 2 Optane 905P M.2 cards and I intend to run some database engine tests, putting their transaction logs (and possibly temporary spill areas for sorts, hashes) on Optane.

When I think about Optane, I think about optimizing for low latency where it's needed and not that much about bandwidth of large ops.
This thread is full of people who have no idea how the exchanges, brokers, clearing firms and clearing houses operate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
Or you know, just don't open any new positions there and transfer your funds back to your account once you have closed the rest like I did. Then you have nothing there, can deactivate your account and just open an account at another place.
Off topic, but it was amazing realize just how much other stuff is up there in the sky just outside our immediate visual perception. Great photos.
No it balances the power between the states. The federal government should not be involved in day to day affairs of the general populace. As it was originally conceived it was a government of enumerated powers.

The house represents the people, the senate the states. In fact, allowing the direct election of senators was one of the worst decisions ever made.
I don’t know Vlad’s background but is it possible he doesn’t understand the exact details?
> The power law is at play in software. A relatively small number of developers write the code that gets used the most.

Yes, but there is another law: if X doesn't write a certain library with basic functionality, then Y will.

So your law translates to: we all use the same libraries for our basic needs. The question is, does it mean anything?
Some cultural artifacts continue to exist because the experiences of past generations are passed down through teaching and stories. But if not restrengthened, they die out. Right now, we are zero or one generation away from large swaths of human population having interacted with the full night sky. What happens in two more generations when 99% of humans are able to see only a handful of starts at any given time? That is when you start losing, but at that point it is already too late.
So then how are these people slaves if they could just not voluntarily choose to illegally enter a systemically racist country where people of color are hunted by cops like dogs and treated as subhuman trash by all white people?
Effectively $0. Outbound costs $75 at Robinhood. If you are moving more than a few hundred dollars, the new broker will reimburse the it.
There are downsides to forcing the OS/FS to always use larger block sizes for IO. You might simply be moving some write amplification out of the SSD and into the filesystem, while losing some performance in the process. Which is why it really depends on your workload, and to some extent on the specific SSD in question. I'm not convinced that ashift=14 is a sensible one size fits all recommendation, even if we're talking only about recent-model consumer-grade NAND SSDs.
>slides exist to support a speaker

In principle I agree with you and, for most of the presentations I give, I make the slides available but they're pretty useless.

That said, a lot of people find information presented in the form of a slide deck more approachable than a multi-thousand word written report.
Interesting then how Romero/Carmack got so much of their start making Apple II shareware games before transitioning to DOS. The hardware really seems to have helped that enable that initial environment for them to grow.
Agreed. Probably highly likely that few others using that broker were involved.
There are a few JS interpreters written in JS, don't know about Lua.
One piece of the "Robinhood Abstraction" that is popping up a lot right now is that the fact that a large majority would have been using margin, but not known it.

Much of the nice and fast experience that Robinhood offers ("Just signed up? You can start trading!", "Initiated a transfer? Start trading now!", "Just sold something? Rebuy something else immediately!") are all powered by the fact that these are all technical using margin.
Kind of a self defeating claim; sorta like saying McDonalds burgers are better than Burger King. Both are pretty pretty bad for you.
I ended up deleting that example because I knew someone was going to quibble about it. More people were buried on Hart Island in 2020 than previous years but more people were buried everywhere in 2020. That doesn't change the fact that Hart Island existed pre-covid and will continue to exist post-covid and that the "mass graves" stories were based on carefully selected out-of-context facts in order to paint covid in a deadlier light.
Covid: The devastating toll of the pandemic response on children
> short interest remains very high

Of course it does, since the stock is ridiculously overvalued. What does the WSB crystal ball have to say about when the squeeze will happen? How would we be able to tell when it has happened?

> sacrificially holding stocks through the short squeeze and subsequent decline

This is a noble goal. It will be interesting to see if it works out, tragedy of the commons and all. If everyone else holds, nobody will mind if I sell my shares, I do so need that Ferrari...
Chances are the shorts got replaced by other shorts. Someone who shorted @20 gets squeezed when it goes up to $100, they're forced to buy, they end up buying from someone else who is shorting @100. That person gets squeezed @300, they're replaced by someone else who sold short @300. That next person isn't going to get squeezed until $600-1000.

Ultimately the big winners are those who bought @10 and sold @300, or those who shorted @300 and cover @10. Everybody in between gets rekt. That's going to include a bunch of retail buyers and a few shorts as well.
It becomes _even more important_ for i18n. When you’ve worked out your maximum character width for each element across all languages you support, every pixel counts. Knowing that applying bold is not going to cause a reflow in one of the languages you’re not currently working with is a huge boon.