skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of when I and a whole flight's worth of people were waiting hours in line at the airline's service desk to rebook flights after a missed connection. One guy waltzes up and steps right into the front of the line. People object to him pushing in, but the guy stays where he is and says "sorry, I'm business class!".

The airline employees let him do it, and just repeat to us: "Sorry, he's business class!" He gets served first, saving literally hours compared to joining the back of the line.

At least they were honest.
That's true, when used, it is generally for dramatic effect.

Another response mentioned words like "kill, maim, torture, force, destroy", which also may be used for dramatic effect. I imagine that one criticism of such word choices might be that they lead to sensationalism or hyperbole.

However, the use of sexual violence in analogy is unique in comparison to those examples, precisely because sexual abuse is a trauma that has been experienced by so many, unlike being killed or tortured.

While I mentioned rates of general sexual abuse in my previous comment, rates for forced penetration are particularly relevant, about 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 70 for men [1]. The gender disparity in such rates is important, since it helps explain why different genders have different attitudes regarding this issue.

For example, some studies show that women find sexual violence related humor to be significantly less enjoyable than men, perhaps unsurprisingly. Meanwhile, others show that men's enjoyment of such humor is positively correlated with self reported likelihood of forcing sex [2].

Given this gender imbalance, it's not surprising then that the acceptability of such language would be significantly affected by the demographics of the audience. In male dominated environments it would be less likely that many would raise objections, and thereby more likely that the group would ultimately accept such language (in fact, the parent comment to your "Why" question has now been flagged and hidden while the original analogy remains). However, as the audience increases in size and diversity, it will be more likely that there will be objections to such language.

This is a long way of saying that sexual violence is not treated lightly in most public discourse, while clarifying that by "public" I mean an audience with demographics reflecting the general population, particularly a balanced distribution of genders.

The analogy above may be accepted here or on a forum like r/wallstreetbets, but it would likely be seen as less appropriate on a public earnings call.
You're confusing what I'm saying. I'm not talking about grading on effort, I'm talking about grading on achievement. Nobody was talking about how much effort went into the app. While I would guess it might've been a lot, I have no clue and I don't care. The question was, do you grade them on what they achieved, or on what someone else achieved on something else that they had no influence over, but which they clearly had no choice but to depend on... regardless of how much effort did or didn't go into their work.
There is no hope for average Joe
A100 convnet and language model multi-GPU performance
Exactly! Today I saw a clip at the top of Reddit of a CNBC clip that was clearly manipulated to generate outrage, but only one person out of thousands even mentioned it in the comments
Runtime Contracts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
> This example may not seem like much: cancellation processes are often a hassle, even in Internet companies. (As far back as 2006, AOL made national news for insolently refusing a customer's cancellation request.)

> When Vincent Ferrari, 30, of the Bronx, called AOL to cancel his membership last month, it took him a total of 21 minutes

Wait… that's … that's it? I just cancelled my Comcast account. The call is here in my history: 28m 35s. That only counts the time on the call, mind you; you still have to return their hardware. Including that, it took me well over an hour (driving, waiting in line at the UPS store, driving home), particularly since it had to go to a UPS store. If we count the time that I also spent going to a Comcast store, trying to return their equipment there, which the store and phone representatives later informed me that I "can't" do, because they don't accept "business" class equipment there despite their website directly contradicting that[1], then it took well over two hours to cancel.

We've come so far.

[1]: https://business.comcast.com/help-and-support/repairs-instal...

(There was a separate call to disconnect service, that was 10m 37s. We moved, and thought we might have Comcast on the other end, so we did that part separately. When we shopped for an ISP on the other end, nobody picked up the phone for Comcast, so we went with their (only) competitor in our area. So, whether you want to count that against the time it took to cancel, IDK.)
Equality Saturation for Tensor Graph Superoptimization
I used from 2016 till 2019. While I love the features, it is too damn slow and makes browsing the Internet feel tedious.
There are downsides to this too though. I wanted a second opinion on an EEG, and after some hassle getting the original office to mail a disk (the only way they can transfer it), the new doctor said they can't view it because they use different software at their hospital for EEGs. These are two well ranked US hospitals, and EEG is a fairly common procedure.

Perhaps this is not an inherent downside to the data security, but it's a reality with the current medical system and regulation does play a part in how we got here. And there is no financial incentive for hospitals to fix these sort of issues, in fact there is a disincentive (I'm doing another EEG now...). So I just don't see how it gets fixed without some outside disruption.

It may not be a popular opinion on HN but I'm much more concerned with having access to my own medical information than how secure it is.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210129042958/https://rhsfinanc...
Not near me! Pass+ members charge at $0.12/min for vehicles under 90kWh.

This is in Texas, by the way.
The bankers got a good deal smarter after that.
dangerous. now the hitmen will be after him.
I think my description was pretty close to this, just a bit off in the terminology.
Why? Nightski doesn't say whether they actually used the app.
This isn’t always true though. If I buy an equity for 10$ and sell it to you for 11$ who then sells it for 13$ none of us have lost money. Only panic sells and crashes are zero sum in the way you are imagining.
Don't quite understand the bricked buying part. Can you explain?
>Are there applications you have in mind where the distance to the nearest surface is actually useful, regardless of the surface representation?

Distance fields are a subset of implicit functions (see wikipedia). The use of level curves (which can be interpreted as "distance" for SDFs) is broad. You can dynamically and trivially thicken or shrink objects by adding or subtracting to the distance. Functions defined on the level curves output of an SDF can be used to map a volume to another implicit function (see nTopology). With implicit functions, the non-zero level sets are really just as important, but most focus on the zero level set in rendering.

>There's a subtle difference here because you actually need the closest point (not just the distance) so that you can look up a boundary condition.

Vector to Closest Point (VCP) is subtle but different in important ways. It is unsigned, and cannot indicate whether a position is inside or outside the object. Implicit modeling is not generally concerned with parameterizing the surface, since we can use volumetric, 3D procedural textures.
Replace UX with programming and it is the same exact story: “Losing faith in Programming”. You go in hoping that you are creating code that helps your user and end up optimizing for ARR.
I believe this is actually an easy way that a true short squeeze can actually happen.

A bunch of shares are shorted, and the company announces a vote on something, which causes people to recall shares that they've loaned out (because they want the voting rights).
Is that any different than any digital service with its 99.99% uptime? Robinhood will do everything it says it does except for the once in 30 years black swan meme event where 50% of their users try to invest their life savings at once
Wow. I'm guessing ITOS isn't OSS?
> Do-ocracy.

I love this word.

I'm apparently behind the times, though: It's on Urban Dictionary and I love their example

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do-ocracy

> “Jeez, why does Mary get to decide what everyone eats and when they work? Who put her in charge?” Older and wiser heads will say, “This is a do-ocracy. If you think you can do Mary’s job, and you want to, then get up there and do it. She’ll probably be relieved. If not, don’t be a jerk and make a big stink about it, or else she’ll stop working so hard and we won’t have anything to eat!”

... which is apparently taken from:

https://communitywiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy

... which is another wiki I'll have to dive into.
Sure: I guess what I find novel is that rather than a Softbank, a self-organizing process of retail investors would drive the process.

For AMC debt: wow, that's pretty insane. Lots more cash, much less debt. They should encourage employees to become premium reddit members as a thank-you
So let’s say you are a RH lawyer. Answer this question: What happens when the mob losses their shirt on your loaned margin?

This is not rocket science. But go ahead and make a conspiracy theory out of it.
Free speech is not a technological issue. It cannot be solved with technology. You need men and women with principles to ensure our rights. Unfortunately we seem to have a lack of those today. Without them, we will continue making protocols and platforms and laws and regulations, and keep circling the drain.

Each one of us must realize the absolute importance of free speech, and must speak out even in favor of protecting the free speech of people we despise.

Realize that the entire point of free speech is to protect unpopular/despised speech. There are no conditions on free speech, by definition. The answer to the question "Is this considered free speech?" is always a resounding "YES", regardless of context, or who is speaking, or who may be trying to censor it.
> Too low of inflation is bad because it means less investment in the physical economy

But why did this apparently only become the case after 2008? Positive real returns without gambling were acceptable before that, and we still got a gigantic speculative bubble, so why does it suddenly become reasonable to encourage bubbles even more? Was it just a coordination problem? An initial panic reaction to slash to zero, and then no central bank being willing to go first and unwind it?

As you say, the other major part of this problem is the inability or unwillingness to steer money toward productive investment rather than speculation. Here in the UK it's housing that's the killer; my suspicion is that governments have become addicted to the jam-today enabled by the money created for mortgage loans, which will then have to be paid off on some other poor sucker's watch.
The Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader that you can buy right now.

Best for reading, great battery life, with 300 ppi it has a screen that is very clear and easy to read on. The battery can last up to 8 weeks if you read for 30 minutes a day.
PDCA Cycle Explained: 4 Steps for Continuous Learning and Improvement
This article takes a deep look at the PDCA/PDSA Cycle:

- What it means
- How the model forms
- How to implement
- Why it works

Tell me what you think or any experience you'd like to share regarding the use of PDCA Cycle:)
Which registrars do you recommend that have 2FA?
>"I like remote working, and I've done it on and off for more than 2 decades. It suits me."

Exactly the same here for exactly 20 years. I make my own products and make products for other companies as consultant.

No real problems when I need to hire subcontractor though. Being an old fart I know many very experienced people who would never pass an opportunity to make some dosh.
I'm assuming you're trying to corner a point of "You cannot cite a specific law because it doesn't exist" without outright saying it.

It seems plain that, at best, Robinhood has violated its fiduciary, and at worst manipulated the market. This is one of those things I've come to understand as being illegal in the same way that I know insider trading is illegal. No, I cannot cite which law makes insider trading illegal.

Maybe you're right and there is no law. I personally don't have the time or experience to go digging through legal text to treat HN like an official courthouse. We will know by the results of the lawsuits, or by a video from the Legal Eagle on YouTube.
Exactly what I was looking for, but I didn't know what terms to Google - many thanks!
There's a practically unlimited supply of cars. If people start buying more manufacturers will produce more.
Robinhood CEO said the firm had no liquidity problem

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3655987-robinhood-ceo-said-the...
If you want to side with current customers, another easy fix is to disallow new customers (if they cannot allow auto-margin for new customers.) How hard a change would it be to disable new account creation...at worst commenting out /customer/new on the route file for a day until they can fix the actual problem?
Please supply the long list of unicorn firms who have had to deal with meme liquidity crises.
Did I read this right and see that the exponential back off by launchd would basically cause a DOS for the recipient?
He would say that, wouldn’t he....
Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
Banks don't just get free money from the government.

They have to go almost bankrupt first.
A lawyer is the best idea -- they deal with these things every day. Once upon a time, I received advice from trusted non-lawyers and ended up in a very bad situation. Since then, I have passed most contracts by lawyers first.
I mostly agree with you, but as somebody who is not on the autism spectrum 99% of the time, I still have had moments where I'm incredibly socially awkward, as most folks have had. Add this kind of temporal factor, and the spectrum spreads to cover us all, though there are still useful questions to ask: Is this person awkward enough so much of the time that he/she wouldn't make a good <x>. (Teacher/therapist/salesman/politician). The complexity re-emerges, we all have a spectrum of personality characteristics that includes autistic characteristics.
The actual scientific paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8/

Still no explanation about the "numerous unexplained observations. While hypothermia was determined to be the main cause of death, four hikers had severe thorax or skull injuries, two were found with missing eyes and one without tongue; some were almost naked and barefoot, traces of radioactivity were found on some of their clothes, and signs of glowing orange spheres floating in the sky were reported that night"
As your speed increases you make smaller adjustments to turn because your traction limited. The kind of hand over hand steering people are concerned about is simply irrelevant at highway speeds let alone F1 speeds. It’s the same reason they need to slow down to corner.

Anyway, big rigs have loose steering because they need precision at highway speeds. The point is to minimize accident risks due to physics rather than any purely mechanical limitation.
My take...

Stubs just return preprogrammed data.

Mocks do the above, but can provide their own assertions about call order or number of times called.
Muon g-2, behind this year’s most anticipated result in particle physics
I still dont believe it is Facebook's fault. At least in my experience I am increasingly believe it has nothing to do with Facebook itself.

Misinformation spread are part of the wider problem on the Internet, with or without Facebook. And increasingly Instant messenger is the norm and channel. You can self made misinformation and see how fast it is channeled / forwarded back to you. One reason why WhatsApp now has a threshold for forwarding message.

That is one thing.

There is the other thing about Tim Cook's Apple. Right now their strategy is in the name of privacy, all business conducted on Apple devices are Apple's customers where Apple is the middle man. All while they are branching out onto every single sector for services revenue. It reeks of Hypocrisy.
The problem is that Wall Street has access to, if not free, practically frictionless trading in comparison to retail investors. If you add more friction to retail investors but not Wall Street it just compounds the problem.
>It's why have they all decided to act right now

They might have decided in many cases to act now, but with this specific case it seems to have been 11 days ago:

>Facebook suspended his group on Jan. 7
Eh, correlating two time-series trends is almost a gimmick.

If you saw that the per-capita cheese consumption of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets was twice or ten times that of the baseline population, that could still be a coincidence, because hey, that's always a possibility, but it would be a much more suggestive correlation than just observing that any two monotonic time series correlate.
e.g. A custom tailored interest-rate swap[1] to hedge very specific circumstances between two parties. Or if you like cool names, maybe a gigantic Bermudan swaption[2]. Or maybe two traders want to take opposite ends of bizarre 10 leg option with unlisted strike prices...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_swap#Extended_de...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaption
That's the risk of trading on margin - you're not using your money, so the broker has every right to close the position to mitigate their risk.
A financial institution didn't foresee a black swan financial event? Color me shocked.

If I'm reading the Twitter thread right, what killed Robinhood was the component of ">30% of your flow is in one stock", which is something that I could absolutely see never having happened to Robinhood until now.
Many stocks grow into it over time: AMZN
Mental health doesn't exist for you to call people names.

These posts are apparently fine, but god forbid if people say "retarded" without any meaning to it.
Wouldn't the tent have been damaged had the avalanche actually caused such severe bodily injuries? From what I remember, the tent only had a knife cut in it, done from the inside.
> Is it because we want to make the (IT) world a better place with more free and cool products and attract more people, or is it because we like our own well-curated niche and we don't want to let anybody in?

Both? OpenBSD's niche is being so secure it (almost) hurts. Curating that is worthwhile in a Research OS sense: How many knobs can we tweak on a POSIX system to increase security while explicitly and loudly not caring about much of anything else? Keeping everyone who doesn't share that vision out is part of the plan.

They can be the security pioneers, and the rest of us can see where they get scalped so we don't repeat their errors.
Theoretically, yes. In practice their UI simply may not have that option and you don’t just build something like that reliably on such short notice.
playing neanderthal or gaia project solo in tabletop simulator.. 20 fps is the bare minimum I can imagine myself playing it with
> It ascribes a characterisation to homeless people that there is simply no evidence for

Except for the evidence there is.
https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/homelessness/

Homelessness causes suffering, which is usually self-treated with substance abuse/use, depending on how you want to play with numbers. Fair enough? That's normal human behavior.
Don’t forget a “code of conduct” and “diversity and inclusion”.
Subsidized, I strongly disagree.

This would mean solidifying social networks’ status as public good. Obvious question “are they?” aside, mandating them to be free (not making money from advertisers or the user) and operate on equal subsidy from the government will have a chilling effect on competition and innovation—why enter a space where there’s really not much to win by being great; where battles are fought in optics and politics rather than in technical superiority?

Sure, social networks won’t work for advertisers anymore, but neither they will for the user—they’ll strive to appease the government, since that’s where the money comes from. Inflating user counts and letting troll bot armies run amok will continue coming in handy: dear government, so many people like our network that our servers can’t cope anymore. (And no, social networks won’t even want to try to optimize—they’ll want to use as much compute as possible, securing contracts for their friends in hardware hosting, possibly getting kickbacks in some shape or form from them in return.) Opening API and data interoperation will thus remain against their interests; you might say the government will mandate that, but companies will just deliver poorly working half-solutions doing only as much as necessary to continue getting the subsidy.

Scrutinized, on the other hand, sure. A cafe or a restaurant makes money, but is of course still required to pass some controls in order to operate.

I think letting the market do its thing and voting with our money will just work once we are the true customers and not the product. Trouble is, big social networks actually prefer status quo where they’re treated as a sort of public-good-adjacent in the eyes of the government and the public. It is much safer to be too large to fail than going paid and having actual competition.
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>Everyone's brokerage account holdings could be transferred to GameStop holders

What are you talking about? How does this happen?
What do you mean by “order” in the sentence “... the order of state vs. behavior validation ...”?

State validation means checking a stub dependency of the SUT to make sure it’s in the right state. Behavior validation means you check a mock dependency to make sure the right functions were called the right number of times, and in the right order.

A stub is just a thing you can substitute for the dependency that knows how to tell the test it’s state, and a mock is a substitute for the dependency that knows how to tell it’s behavior, like which functions are called and how many times.

In terms of them being the same thing, they are both types of Test Doubles, so they both fall into a higher level category of “a substitute for a dependency of the system under test (SUT)”. The difference is how they’re used.
People taking off their clothes is common with severe hypothermia. Lacerations and blunt trauma is common for avalanche victims. The soft/detachable parts (eyes, tongue) can be still eaten by scavengers while frozen.

So the only unusual part would be the radioactivity, strange lights, and what triggered the avalanche. Which could all be explained by some classified military test.
I was thinking of my X240.
There are multiple ways to access the Robinhood service. The service itself may be great (e.g. via website), but the app terrible (crashes, bad UI, slow, etc).
The fact that the group was previously suspended by Facebook for being a "dangerous organization" makes this removal even more suspect. It was suspended for two different reasons.
I said it may be the explanation. RH may also have been helping manipulate the stock lower for very powerful and connected market players and I think it's ridiculous for anyone to insist on dismissing that possibility just because it involves some conspiracy. Claiming "liquidity issues" and drawing on their credit line may even just be a cover for that.

But to answer your question, both Lehman Brothers and MF Global claimed not to have any liquidity problems right up until the second they filed for bankruptcy.