skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a clear, formal contract

They got "terms & conditions". This is the contract. Formalising another contract would require legal fees. Is every user willing to pay a lawyer $200 to use FB? (and another $200 for Pinterest, $200 for Twitter, etc.) Is every user willing to pay AGAIN another $200 on the next "T&C Update"? If you think $200 is too much, come up with anothe number, and then multiply it by every free service you/someone uses (Twitter, free-Dropbox, free-Gmail, free-GoogleDocs, free-HN, free-Reddit, free-Viber, free-....).

FB, Twitter, Pinterest usage comes "as-is". We/you are the products. Since when does a super market have a contract with a potato? (I don't mean to insult, but really..).

Unless they (FB, or any service provider - paid or free) clearly discriminates against someone (e.g. "you are man/woman/black/asian/etc. and we don't like people like you here") and then they kick out FB every man/woman/black/asian/etc. person, feel free to sue them (more legal fees.. I see a pattern here) :)

But if it's not a discrimination issue, then please tell me ONE person that hasn't dropped an f-bomb "f... you/this/him/her/them/.." or some other profanity on a FB post, a FB comment, on FB-messenger message. In that spirit everyone is eligible to receive a red card, and it's down to FB to kick someone out anytime they want or anytime they get provoked. E.g. HenryBemis is trashing us on HN.. HenryBemis wrote "f... this <name_of_politician>", thus HenryBemis violated the policy about swearing, threatening violence, sexual content, yada-yada-yada.

A couple of days ago we saw a post on someone sending a "accidentally, partial nude photo" over messenger to a friend of his, and this got him expelled from FB. I clearly understand the capabilities of FB vs mine. I think more people should see these facts coldly.
Maybe I'm underestimating both how active users are at reviewing apps and how many people use Robinhood, but I doubt there are over 100k people who updated their reviews because of yesterday. Personally I'd be shocked if the app had 100k reviews total last week.

edit unless they offered basically real money to review the app, I haven't used it.
Have you used Reddit on a phone without using the app? It constantly berates you to use the app, even when you've clearly stated your preference for using the site before.

There's also the problem that the new UI is clearly more buggy than the old one, and requires manually refreshing to fix glitches far too often, but that's more of a technical problem and not a UX issue.
Relying on FB for your communications? I guess that's what you risk happening every day. You are at the mercy of FB. They can eradicate your communication channel at a whim. Let this be a lesson and do not organize any community you value via FB.
Answering my own question, there is a Dutch article outlining and explaining several of these initiatives in various countries and sectors:
https://rog.pleio.nl/file/download/8f483e75-ae39-47df-a30d-e...
It's not a binary solution set. People locked in a jail cell are not working either.
Try Starling - I am an HSBC customer currently, but am migrating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50812616

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...
Ask HN: Is there a country that did not print money over the last decade?
If it exists, I would like to see how their currency held up.
It is not an API, it is an IoT device sold as being the ultimate achievement in IoT security.

Microsoft does see a value, the WinDev unit not so much.

"Porting the Clipboard sample to C++/WinRT from C#—a case study"

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-a...

> Unmatched Native Performance
>
>WinUI is powered by a highly optimized C++ core that delivers blistering performance, long battery life, and responsive interactivity that professional developers demand. Its lower system utilization allows it to run on a wider range of hardware, ensuring your sophisticated workloads run with ease.

https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

It is like the left hand undoes what the righ one is trying to do regarding security improvements.
I won't call this particularly malicious .. but even Chrome is in this game - it asks to "hold cmd-Q" on macOS to quit chrome .. whereas every other app close when you type cmd-Q. My respect scales are tilting way away from Google and Microsoft is looking pretty good relatively.
I believe you can also increase your leverage.

https://learn.robinhood.com/articles/4UWpxUy5G0KNDSbcMRs6WE/...
Guns existed before machine guns, you do have to consider the consequences of a bifurcation (loose speak)
Personium: Personium (JP) is an open source 'Personal Data
Store Server' and is intended as a basis for organizations to build an operator with it. OpenID connect (section 4.4.3) is applied here. Among other things, financial data,
energy consumption and social data are processed in Personium applications of Personium. Typical users of
Personium are banks, energy companies and advertisers.
Personium itself does not provide services directly to the
end user. Personium is, among other things, the basis of a few of Japan's "databases," a new IT-sector standardized role for companies.

Translated from:
https://rog.pleio.nl/file/download/8f483e75-ae39-47df-a30d-e...

These Japanese developers work on the open source project:
https://github.com/orgs/personium/people
The stock market, or Astrology for men.
what if I have an AST 6-pack plus?
Well, there are spammers. It is alright to delete fake reviews by bots. But reviews from real people should stay. Even if they have stupid opinions and complain that the app does not work on their old mobile and give 1 star, when the app tells explicitely to have Android x+ or a fast mobile phone.

And in events like this, even more.
Facebook has done it. Reddit is probably very close. In the future, we might rely on other channels of communication. At which point if a situation like this happens again, the ISPs will intervene instead. Disgusting on so many levels (Robinhood, Platforms (Facebook, Google, Discord)).
Exactly my thoughts. It'll work well in well people, and mild outliers, but it's probably [harmful] junk for anybody with any serious conditions.

I guess it might have value if you calibrate it against a good measurement in both arms and then only compare it to historical measurements with the same device. That's to say, it can show you change, which isn't unimportant.
I read somewhere that u/deepfuckingvalue is this guy[0], but can't confirm it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U&ab_channel=Roari...
Very very gradually,

Check the praise for C and C++ over here,

https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/de...

Or how XNA was killed in name of DirectXTK.

Meanwhile the MonoGame, Unity, WaveEngine, and for IoT, Meadow (what Sphere should have been) efforts are all driven by third parties.

Joe Duffy mentions on his RustConf talk that even with Midori proving it was capable to handle production loads (it even powered parts of Bing for a while), it was a no go for Windows team.

Apparently the culture change in WindowsDev will take a couple of generations.
From my perspective, financial stability is when, if you lose a job in an economic downturn, you don't automatically lose your house. You have enough savings for 1-10 years (yes, that's a big range).

But yeah, it's a fair point. For some people, it's not living hand-to-mouth. For others, it's being able to have a mortgage rather than rent. [insert-my-definition]. For others, it's being able to live without working indefinitely. For others, it's being able to launch businesses from a personal bank account. I was vague.

In my area: The rent / mortgage eats the lion's share of your runway. If you're paying rent / mortgage, your savings don't go very far. If you've paid off your home, it's easy to stash enough away to live like a graduate student for a few years. If you own your home, you can also always scrunch together, and rent out a room.

The generational flip side is:

- Your kids inherit your house and your savings some day. That should be enough to cover much debt, or if you have many kids, at least down payments.

- Your kids can move in with you anytime, if they're laid off, launching a startup, going through a tough time, or just want to save some money. It's a safety net.
Can confirm. I cook a salt-free cuisine for my relative [1] who has kidney disease and must aggressively control their blood pressure and I can go entire months without eating anything with any salt at all. There was a bit of an adjustment to be had in the first few months, from what I recall, but I was surprised to what degree my taste buds adjusted after a while. Nowadays, I can't enjoy normally salted food because it registers as very salty. I have particular trouble with cheeses, even cheese like feta or camembert that only have about 1.5 - 2% salt.

Speaking of cheese and bread, most of the internet will say it's impossible, but I've found some evidence online (reddit threads and blog posts and the like) of people who actually make both bread and cheese without salt at all (because of hypertension) and they seemed to be doing fine. This was about half a year ago so I can't find the sources again, but in any case salt-free cheese and bread making is possible. I've made a few loaves of bread without salt myself and they're OK, though they taste a lot better when they're made wth sourdough (which is a pain to maintain) rather than dried yeast, because the sourdough adds taste and the dried yeast only air!

What's the problem with butter? I can find both salt-free and salt-full in most countries in the EU that I've visited.

_______

[1] well... I cook for the entire household :)
I look at reviews from different star ratings and then compare the wording of the review. Usually you can skim out the fakes and morons.
The supply of volunteer trolls is near unlimited, especially on subreddits with edgy cultures, an influx of newbies who don't understand it and a lot more attention than usual. Why would they bother paying?
Remote has been an option for many people in tech, even before the covid situation. Most people regularly took work from home days or had regularly scheduled work from home days, at least once or twice a week. Some people spent months in remote situations, working from second homes during ski season or vacation spots.

But, there was a belief amongst all management that they had to have a central place for everyone to gather and do business.

Now, Covid forced the remote issue on many companies. Many companies are crunching numbers on remote work productivity and leasing expensive square footage in expensive cities.

Some decided remote is costing too much in productivity and requiring people to come into the office. Others are finding out that productivity drop is much smaller than expected and office space cost savings are fully justified in going full remote.

This will take at least couple of years to fully shake out and see what the remote situation looks like in the future. One interesting side effect of companies going fully remote is that office space costs will likely drop and change the calculations again, convincing many companies to gradually bring people back to central office.
Wallstreetbets is now listed on coinmarketcap
There were definitely at least 100,000 reviews submitted yesterday, based on my observation. However, there are huge numbers of people involved with this story - millions on the wsb subreddit alone. Bear in mind that most people don't submit reviews, but being angry at something is much more likely to cause someone to do so.
Windows 10 – Set the Default Browser per command line or script
It's a quote (hence the ''). If you read the article you'll see it comes from https://thewalrus.ca/for-everyone-a-garden/, which (as others have said) says it 'failed' to be housing for everyone.
Work have just given me a new HP Elitebook with a trackpoint, so they're not completely unknown on other makes. Not saying that machine's any good, mind - I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
This is crowd sourcing to create a coordinated attack like DDOS-ing, but how did we get here? Over-shorting. How did we get there? Hedge fund data sharing dinners? So this seems more like a swing back in the other direction. I presume when the dust settles the SEC will claw back these "illegal" gains from the individual investors. Too bad trades aren't settled via blockchain.
Read the threads. It’s very clear that people understand that. Some of these people bought fractional shares just to participate in potentially bankrupting a hedge fund.
Yes, well that's exactly what happens in socialist countries like Venezuela. It's not some theoretical formula for maintaining power that has never been tried before. Rigging and corruption is the rule not the exception, in human history.

We don't have the federal courts, not in the least. It's just fraud. The FBI would rather investigate Twitter shitposters than touch this. They'd rather get jobs at CNN as consultants to pitch their own actual conspiracy theory about Trump being a Russian stooge for three years despite having had exculpatory evidence the entire time. I don't know how Americans are so naive when it comes to the depravity of our system.
You can't tap into something which doesn't exist. I suggest you read about chaos theory, statistics, probability, quantum mechanics etc. Something which is random is by definition unpredictable, so, no, you can't predict whatever through randomness. Even if you picked a pattern from a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) and somehow you successfully predicted something using that pattern it wouldn't mean anything insightful or deep, it'd mean you were very VERY lucky.

In sum, we as beings were shaped by the forces of evolution and that made us biased on all sorts of dimensions (visual, cognition, etc). Our perception of reality is completely different from that of another creature, for example. Humans are not "perfect." (Whatever that means.)

There's also a fine line between what seems to be correlated patterns and schizophrenia. Pareidolia phenomenon among others also come to mind.

Please read about those subjects - I assure you there's a lot of interesting stuff about them and there's equally a lot of gaps about it as well - but that doesn't mean that "occult" or "magick" or whatever is real. It just means not enough resources were spent trying to understand these phenomena. Because most of the time these things do not return something useful to people at large and science is - in principle - meant to benefit humans in general.
WPS has two modes: the button and a PIN.

The PIN was implemented first because it’s the most convenient and doesn’t need hardware and it turned out to be a security disaster.

So now its reputation is shot and for both PIN and the button there had to be a way to turn off WPS (with the ‘secure’ default option being WPS off)
At the c-base hackerspace in Berlin we integrated OpenMCT with our MQTT/MsgFlo setup to visualize all kinds of stats. Here's a post on how to do it:

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/nasa-openmct-iot-dashboard/
Moonstruck Sleep: Synchronization of Human Sleep with the Moon Cycle [pdf]
Let me expand, a lot of people were are quite honestly expecting that the aggressive money printing leads to hyperinflation, many many hedge funds invested expecting that or the effects of that or the effects of the plandemic.
However neither mmt nor austriacs could have predicted what has happened with the market as a whole. However instead of h holding spending the money what most people have been doing is inflating the market, now when you hold money inflation is apparently a very worrying thing, however when you are on an "opposite" side relation ( you actually do not owe but I am entitled instead) then things go fucking postal. Bitcoin reaching a new historic high and GameStop are just a symptom. This is beyond pump and dump. The modern investor quite particularly the modern retail investor holds for longer and does not have investments as a meaningful part of its assets. Disregard anyone that tells you that this is the last time we see anything like this. It is likely that this becomes the new norm
Attached some videos that explain it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNUVEfoNmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjLGu7X4a6U&t=157s
And at the end of the story there’s still an unlimited amount of devices that possess the key. So what is the gain?
Either way, there is a limit to how much unsophistication the market can tolerate and remain healthy.
Taking those risks has trade offs most people aren't prepared to make.

The online P2P lending boom here in the UK from financial crisis onward gave people this opportunity.

The end result, 10+ years in, has been subdued returns (relative to e.g. stocks) and crippling illiquidity, as you are exposed to all those late payments, defaults, and have no access to a functional secondary market.

Honestly you're lucky if you can get most people to even use a separate savings account. I know many people who keep 100% of their savings in their current (checking) account.
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Well, because the actual contents of the sqlite database are obfuscated, too.
Yeah it does, but from the dynamics side I mentioned. How would you find enough data to train such a model?

AlphaGo and the StarCraft thing were trained on ridiculously huge datasets IIUC.
Wasn't Dogecoin one of the first if not the first cyptocurrency that skyrocked to the moon just for the lolz and became ultimate meme coin. This news is deja vu from 2013/2014.
I don’t know how many users they have either, but re: whether it 100k reviews total last week.

Normally I think you could expect only a few percent of your users to leave reviews.

If you then piss off your whole user base collectively with actions that are unfair to them, then it is not a valid argument to say that because there are more reviews that the reviews cannot be real.

I am not saying that all of these 100k reviews are real. But I am saying that how many or few reviews they had before does not count because until you do something really bad or something extremely good 90-99% of users are not going to leave a review.
The Other Big Short
They know they have more to lose by pissing off the community.
Given your work I assume you've also looked at alternatives over the years. Can you say something about OpenMCT in comparison to others?
Shorting and Indian capital markets
Basically no stocks are worth their price today, if there was a condition that you weren't able to sell the stocks after buying nobody would pay the current prices on stocks. The only reason they are valuable is because you can sell them later to the next loser.

Take Walmart for example, it would take 70 years for you to get back your money from the stock from its dividends which are extremely stable. Do you think that is worth it? No, you pay for the stock since you know someone else will also pay for the stock when you sell, not because you want to get those sweet dividends.
Running a Gasoline Engine on Firewood – Woodgas Biofuel
Right but it actually is just horrible code with zero separation of concerns. Having a client class is a great example of good OO. The library you're using having a Session object is basically essential in python. Any other paradigm would be a mess. Things storing state about themselves in a totally unambiguous way is brilliant. Most complaints about OO just focus on bad usecases. Calling that is not a no true scottsman.

If you saw someone only driving in reverse, complaining about car UX, would you not state the obvious?
Who is the true customer with "sponsored ads" while you are shopping.

It's literally getting in the way when I'm trying to buy something!
We walked away from a $1.5M seed round and shut down our company
Is it just me or is the involvement of VCs here really strange? If Robinhood was anything like a traditional broker (or bank/broker combination) Venture Capital firms would not have been anywhere on the list of places to get emergency money.

Although I'm glad that RH has driven the price of trading down for everyone, this is one more reason why most people should keep their money with a more boring financial institution.

Reminds me of when RH launched a "checking" account and claimed it had deposit insurance and then in about one day regulators said "absolutely no it does not":
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2019/01/02/the-robin...
That's the point though. You do need money for a startup and rich kid's parents give it to them.
Why does it matter whether the user is using it for long-term or YOLO-ing meme stonks.

Is American Airlines a meme stock? They were halted too? Think there were any admirable long term investors wanting to buy it today? I dont know, but what I do know is that they wouldnt have the choice if they were using Robinhood.

I think the main point people are upset about is that it just feels gross when the rug can and as we saw today WILL be pulled out from under you at the discretion of a few people within their brokerage.
Also, don't card companies pay net30/60? So even if customers were able to pay their orders, Robinhood only receives the money in 30 days but has to pay to the clearinghouse in two days. That would wreck RH in a volatile period like this.
I.B. Chairman Admits to Market Manipulation on Live T.V
That's very possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kk0g0f/gme_...
In France, a lot of banks are cooperative banks. While not everything is perfect, their attitude is way different than banks under different status. My bank was never involved in some money laundering scandal, investment scandal or other, and their customer service was always very good. They also tend to have a more "local" focus. For example, one of their saving account is used to finance local entrepreneur.

If you can find a cooperative bank, I would definitely advised that you try them.
> The price of bread stays at a dollar; has the currency been debased? I honestly don't know.

i say no it hasn't. Imagine a third person, who mows lawn for $1 an hour. He has not improved his lawn mowing during this time period which the baker has made improvements to bread making. So the work of mowing the lawn for $1 should stay the same regardless of what the bakers did - and therefore, the lawn mower being able to buy bread for $1 is not unreasonable.
Always depends what you're looking for.

I personally use IBKR because their margin interest rates are less than 1%, they have excellent fills and order routing, access to an overwhelming amount of products (equities, equity options, index options, futures, futures options, foreign markets, bonds, etc.) and features. Their portfolio margin feature lets you trade with a margin maintenance rate as low as 15%.

If you don't want them to sell your order flow (and offer you the industry's best margin rates by far) IBKR Pro is your thing.

A lot of people like Think or Swim, Schwab, Fidelity. If you compare, you'll see what I mean about fees though!
It takes days to get approved with another broker and transfer money there. As we saw, the damage was already done.
Most retail investors only use Robinhood, why have 2 different brokers?
Not OP, but presumably advances in machine learning which will make it simpler to identify patterns and gleam useful, actionable information from the vast troves of data being collected.

Today, it is my impression that much data is only used to reconstruct events after the fact, rather than gaining a priori knowledge to prevent an incident in the first place.

(And, to make it clear - I am not suggesting 'progress' as outlined above is desirable...)