skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually are a few plugin managers for Vim. I think i used Vundle once upon a time, but honestly don't recall.

My biggest pet peeve with vim and emacs is that (a) discovery sucks as with most all text mode tools, and (b) emacs in particular is slow and difficult to configure to get some mainstream languages working. Doom was the closest I ever got to being happy with my setup, but the tooltips and autocomplete were still objectively inferior even to vscode (for typescript and react, at least).

Lisps are a different story, but not by much. I'm actually fairly happy with using vscode to write common lisp, though I don't do much of it these days.
There is an interesting documentary film, "City 40" (2016), about the people who live in Ozersk, the town near the location of the Kyshtym disaster. The documentary features archival and hidden camera footage (because the area is heavily guarded and mostly closed to foreign journalists), as well as interviews with a number of local residents, including Nadezhda Kutepova.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_40_(film)
I have to wait many seconds for the "entertainment system" computer in my car to boot in order to simply hear the radio. And when I tune to a different station, it's a touchscreen with UP and DN buttons that I have to tap on to tune ±0.2 MHz, and it takes takes maybe 750ms to lock on to the station. Think about how absurd this is! Compared to my first car made in the early 80s where the radio started as soon as you turned the key, and you had an analog dial that panned through the spectrum instantly with the sound continuously playing.
I don't know all the particulars of IQ distribution but I do know that it's controversial to say that it accurately measures intelligence. Carlin was talking in vernacular and so I think it's safe to assume he was not necessarily talking about IQ tests.

Even though IQ is designed to be normally distributed do you really think it actually is a normal distribution? It's a lofty goal and I'm sure it gets as close as one can but does this perfectly match up with reality? I have my doubts, hence my claim that there's a decent chance Carlin's comment is wrong.

Yes, median and mode are averages but few people mean those when they say "average". I doubt Carlin was statistically sophisticated enough to use average instead of median. Had he meant the median I think it reasonable to assume he would have said median. Do you commonly say "average" when talking about the mode or median? I doubt it.

Maybe don't be so quick to criticize next time.

Perhaps we could both benefit from this sage advice.
CB just did a private offering through Nasdaq private market formerly Second Market. Couldn’t figure out how to participate in that.
Thats a fair point. I’m mostly just pushing back on the idea that Carlin is a member of the club merely because he was famous and had a few tens of millions.
It is fairly rare for stocks to be so heavily shorted.

It doesn't necessarily take a bunch of people to make the price move up, but it does take a lot of money, enough to capture most of the floating shares of stock. And in particular these folks banded together to use call options to amplify their money (and risk) as they purchased stock to drive the price up.

The only thing new is that rather than a few dozen wealthy people coordinating behind closed doors to use a ton of money to cause the short squeeze, it was a ton of small time investors coordinating in public, plus a bunch of others hopping on board when they saw what was going on.
Sir, how dare you discuss taxing money I haven't earned yet and will likely never earn in my lifetime.
>If we continue growing the economy at 2-3% YoY we will be extracting all energy from the Milky Way in 1000 years and applying it to the economy. Not probable!

gdp growth =/= energy consumption growth

Also 1.03^1000 = 6.810^12, but wolframalpha says the number of stars in the milky way is 310^11. Considering that we're nowhere close to capturing even 1% of the energy output of energy that reaches the earth, let alone all the energy that the sun emits, your estimate of 1000 years is probably off by a few orders of magnitude. Finally, if we're actually capturing all the energy of the milky way, presumably we'd be a space faring civilization and can therefore colonize other galaxies, making that a non-issue.
FYI It's spelled "Joe Arpaio" - Actually not the same name as the product here..
It applies to any margin position. This can just mean trading with unsettled funds. E.g. you buy a stock, sell it, then use the proceeds to buy another stock (or the same one) before two days have elapsed.
This speaks to me: I’m a singer—not a soloist or anything; I like singing in a choir. I can relate a bit to how sad it is when you want to sing but you can’t because of sickness or something.

What gets me is that I have a similar issue with my hands: I have been recovering from some RSI that leaves me unable to type. I’ve got a Kinesis and I go to physical therapy when I can, but this is rough! Take care of yourself!
The tokenisation of everything will happen; much like securitisation. You already have WBTC (wrapped Bitcoin).
So it's nihilism all the way down. I suppose then that shutting this trade down to protect the hedge fund is morally equivocal to letting them lose their shirts.
The comment I replied to was "Good free markets should be free. No government bailouts no problem." Not "no bailouts for hedge funds doing shorts." See the distinction?
I don't think it's linear. Similarly to how discovery of knowledge isn't linear looking at the past 100, 200, 300 years.
That's my point - with high ("normal") interest rates, your horizon becomes shorter, what happens in 30+ years doesn't really matter, and the fundamental value of a share should become visible more quickly, so the uncertainty now is lower. With rates near zero, what happens in 50 years still matters, so who knows what the share should be worth today?
And further, these were large sophisticated investors that should have known when to get out and take their losses (as Melvin eventually did). For us small time folks we can do a limit short so that our risk exposure is limited.
Could you in theory buy your own debt?
> If we continue growing the economy at 2-3% YoY we will be extracting all energy from the Milky Way in 1000 years

That argument is built on the fact that we don't find efficiencies. A lot of economic growth is simply much more efficient use of resources, ie less resources and much greater return. A couple of decades ago you needed a lot of expensive copper to connect a city with phone and slow internet access. Now all you need is cheap thin plastic for gigabit+ speeds.

A computer 70 years ago was an enormous contraption made of of literally tons of expensive metal components, while a raspberry pi zero has a tiny bit of copper, resin and silicon. The latter is vastly more powerful and cheaper.

Sure, growth can't last forever, but we have a long way to go.
Came here to say that. UX should, by and large, be staffed with deep experience in User Psychology, with some tech and design experience to know how to apply that knowledge. Instead it's mostly discount designers who occasionally conduct a user interview.
Meshes are actually extremely fast for querying distance to a surface. Even in scenes with lots of geometry, using an acceleration structure like a BVH can be extremely fast. You can even do ray tracing in real time on a GPU now (at least for direct lighting, certainly not for global illumination).

By contrast, SDFs require you to do lots of expensive lookups as you slowly march along a ray until you happen to bump into a surface.
Gowalla is BACK And it’s going spatial AR
Yes, he's making a joke. It's funny and a pithy remark. The point is made. I find it an interesting point because when mocking other peoples' intelligence one ought to make certain they are correct. Sort of how when one criticizes another person's grammar they should make sure they didn't make a grammar mistake too.
That’s more than $1B at current price. Plus all the options which is probably more retail vs institutional. Options are definitely worth more than retail equity holdings.
There’s also this list where they correct for “synthetic longs” and show that some of these have dramatically lower short int %: https://mobile.twitter.com/S3Partners/status/135485118653339...

I won’t pretend to fully understand this but the analyst answered a lot of FAQs on this data on his Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ihors3

What differs in this data: “S3 data is shares shorted, our competition's data is broker stock borrows. Problem is, stock borrows do not equal shares shorted. Stock borrow includes financing trades, broker to broker transactions but does not include all internal rehypothication used to cover short sales”
Disconnect between UX department and engineering department can cause this too.

Business object can grow out of nothing.

UX designers might feel creative and introduce some unintended features, dynamic colors, even complex structure data. If the design is not validated regularly, these non essential items get worked on by the engineers not knowing that these are not in anybody's interest other than the UX designer.

This is not solely UX designer's fault. This is also the team workflow's fault to not accommodate time for validating design.

At the other spectrum, from engineering side it can be from the underlying mechanism, such as request of huge data should be made stateful because one http call can't handle it, multiple points of hardware failures in a seemingly single operation, etc.

These can sometimes change the game and UX design need to be changed so that user information.

If these are not well communicated, the initial UX design may not suffice to honestly picture the actual underlying process of the product, causing the users to miss one or two options they should have, e.g. missing retry button where user is supposed to be able to retry an action.

Again there should be a period where UX design is validated again and again in the middle of development. A department or a role in the development team that takes care of the big picture of UX design (information architect and interaction design), the big picture of system architecture, and the big picture of project management (to determine which developer works when) might be ideal for it.
For those who own a computer, here is the link to non-mobile Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
I feel like I’ll never get tired of saying: paid social networks should be normalized.

Imagine for a second that social networks started charging their users, and how this would shift the incentives.

Suddenly, now that paid networks don’t have to worry about showing ads in their GUIs, they can finally offer fully functional APIs. Third-party clients bridging different networks together in a single polished app for user’s convenience become a viable possibility.

Suddenly, the field is more competitive. Not having to compete against incumbents riding on investor/ad money and past network effects anymore, new social networks can survive by differentiating themselves—by price, uptime, speed, privacy and security controls, customer care, data interoperability, different standards of moderation, and so on.

Suddenly, troll armies and mass misinformation campaigns become less viable: payments leave traces, and social networks no longer benefit from inflated active user counts.

Apple might be well-positioned to start this trend, though I have qualms about them doing it. Based on their approach to other products, it seems unlikely they would offer a complete and well-documented API to empower third-party clients.
> It’s a fair guess that you haven’t heard a peep about Dark Pools on the evening news. The fact that you haven’t is a perfect commentary on why mainstream media is failing the American people when it comes to exposing Wall Street’s serial looting of the little guy.

This is some fluff piece trying to make out typical Wallstreet plays into more than they are. This isn't a special event which is newsworthy, but there's nothing left about Trump so the news outlets are latching on to anything that has a catchy narrative.

The big money is being very efficient about profiting from a number of coinciding events, which again, has been baked into our economy forever. You need money to make money. This is what you get from the kind of (bench) legislation and corrupt political parties...but I repeat myself.
Yeah because just that CEO suggesting this isn't itself market manipulation.
Its amazing now how common that apartments are huge prices, $1mil is common but design and construction is so bad.
No but they do kick you out for card counting.
There have been IoT connected blood pressure monitors, scales, and smart watches with SpO2 monitoring available in the US for years. Check out the products from Withings, Garmin, Apple, etc. What exactly are we missing?
Check out the double-rotor helicopter that could be the US Armys next Black Hawk
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

John Steinbeck
Read that way, this may be really needed to correct that sort of behavior within options. Just maybe short interest above 100% is a problem to avoid in itself.
I agree with your conclusion that it’s more likely lack of competence.

I appreciate the article ending with the impossible NY website for COVID-19 vaccine registration. The situation is the same in Maryland, except that one must register for three so as to be on a waiting list with the county health department and the private pharmacy and the local hospital (as there is no telling which might get supply first). Not to mention the larger problem: the target group is people age 75 and up! No one seems to have thought that maybe an optional system of registration by phone, or through a call center representative authorized by the caller to register them on their behalf, is plausible. Somehow, three bad websites is considered fine. And one can’t blame this on ‘government’- the private pharmacies are as bad.

So is it incompetence, laziness, or sheer lack of concern whether the most vulnerable elderly get vaccinated? Incompetence might be the most comforting interpretation.
A bit OOT but how do you transfer Yomichan to anki cards? Do you do it manually?
https://www.finra.org/filing-reporting/regulatory-filing-sys...
Do you believe intelligence is truly a normal distribution? It's commonly modeled as such but is it actually truly a normal distribution? A normal distribution is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. It's a great model but...is actually correct?
Google Taiwan turns 15 with a new engineering hub
Also, remember that mosquitoes spend most of their life underwater, feeding the water ecosystem. They only fly for a short while, to get a tiny little bit of blood, mate, lay eggs.
Interest rates have yet to respond because they are being held down actively by central banks. Those are not market forces.
Have you ever used "average" when you meant median? Carlin is speaking in the vernacular. I've never heard anyone use "average" when they meant median.
>And who judges who is the asshole objectively?

If Obama, or any other President, had acted the way Trump did on Twitter, I'd have no issue with them being banned, either.

>No, I'd say that having an account to social platforms above some population reach level shouldn't be a "privilege" but a right

And who judges what is a "social platform" objectively? Because you've just granted the government the right to use its monopoly on force to remove fundamental rights like freedom of speech and association from the people running any website which meets some arbitrary "population reach" threshold.

To me, that's a lot scarier than platforms fact-checking statements or banning racists and people calling for violence or spreading misinformation.

>(that is, subject to due process/law, not up to the whims of the company).

Companies aren't anarchist collectives, they are subject to due process and the law. You just disagree with companies having the right to choose with whom they do business, and with Twitter and other big social media platforms being able to moderate content and ban people. But they're still doing so within the framework of a state and its laws.
Wow, that's aggressive.

All journalists, nearly all politicians, and lots of other people as well communicate largely on social networks owned by these giant amoral artificial creations. What does "public space" even mean anymore? Should we stand on the stroad median with the panhandlers? Would anyone even read our signs?

It is possible for citizens to impose conditions on the existence of the corporations their elected government creates.
As Closi mentions in the sibling comment, the customers are the ones paying the money.

What you've described is exactly what I'm talking about - the UX is optimized for whoever is paying. Your example is a perfect showing of this. A creator's experience is secondary for Patreon - a patron's experience comes first (hell, it's even in their name). Patreon improved the UX of funding creatives.
Lilium to build out infra for flying taxis with 10 vertiports across Florida
As a formalized quantifiable theory, sure. But it's intuitive. If you think someone has less of a chance of making good on their promises whether because of their actions or some external calamity you will ask for more from them.

I wouldn't be surprised to find such relationships chiseled in ancient tablets. Trust, risk and reward among groups is a topic that animal behaviorists study. I'm certainly not in that field but I believe they claim it's a common evolutionary trait and have done experiments with children and primates to show primates lacking this intuition wherein 2-year old humans don't.

There was a lecture about this I saw recently. I'll have to dig it up

edit: here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2020/11/202011191630/cooperatio... links at the bottom
Following paragraph, same article:

Melvin is that it was also shorting GameStop, meaning it was borrowing shares of GameStop, selling them on the market and using those proceeds to make other investments. Problem is, Melvin eventually has to return those GameStop shares. So now Melvin has to buy GameStop at their new, inflated price, only to give those shares back to the original owner

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35339535/game-stop-st...

TLDR is getting onerous
And then there is C++.

The C++ language allows temporary objects to be generated and/or optimized away.

Those objects can have constructors and destructors with side effects, and those side effects appear or go away together with the object to which they are attached.

If your program depends on whether a temporary object does something or not, you are officially screwed.
> instead, most of the internet thinks they are colluding with institutional short sellers at hedge funds in order to save them and screw over retail investors

Communications were undeniably terrible. That said, I imagine they have a limited number of people on staff with deep clearing knowledge, and those people were preoccupied. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
Your comment reminds me of someone who put olive oil in their car's engine because "it's all oil", and the manual saying it's crucial that it's the right kind of oil is an "overstatement".
Have you seen one of those?
Yea. I have 48 cores on my workstation at work, dozens of gigabeans of RAM and an ultra-mega-terra-gigabit ethernet connection, and still I sit there watching spinners as websites composed primarily of text and images struggle to load.

It's like we're regressing year after year.
The clearing house doesn't know who is trading on margin and who isn't. They don't have visibility into the brokerage's interactions with their clients. They can't "only allow trading for non-margin accounts".
Forced selling doesn't just happen arbitrarily, but precisely because the price is low. Long positions using borrowed or unsettled funds are similar to shorts in that they can be squeezed, just in the other direction.
This is funny because a bell curve is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. The bell curve is a model of the population at large but I have my doubts that it's a perfect model and that it perfectly matches up with reality. I think the commenter may be the lower half!
and NET?
I'm still wondering when we are going to get neighborhood-wide and then chained mesh wifi networks that bypass ISPs

I know that exists in pieces and small projects but it's not like more than a few dozen people in any town even can fathom what that is or why it's a good idea.

Google and Apple would never do this but imagine if every smartphone came not only with built in mesh-wifi ability but was on by default so it all acted as a repeater, you could probably communicate across entire states and countries given enough seconds like store-and-forward and ham radio-like solutions.
There was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well, it’s also a bit of a reach to tie it to COVID too.
Yes, computing in general but what has SV done lately? I could likely do without most of it. A web browser and HTML for info is enough. The excess complexities keeps me gainfully employed so that's something.
The functionality of the App and the policies and choices of the business are intrinsically tied. In this case their choice directly affected the functionality of the App: I was unable to buy or even view certain stocks. In my opinion that is, without a doubt, App functionality that should be subject to user review and rating.

It's one thing for the company to make choices that people disagree with but don't affect the actual functionality of the App. This could be environmental policies, partnering with a controversial government, using tax loopholes, etc. People going on brigades to review bomb an App for these types of issues are what should be protected against. Mass shifts in public opinion due to actual changes in how the App behaves should not be protected against.
They need neutrality by end of day per reg. Bid ask spread is wide precisely because it’s super volatile.
How many iPhones can a dollar buy 20 years ago?
> Anything over that can just be taxed.

Except the politicians will take that extra tax money and use it to bail out banks and wall street and spend it on shit that no one needs and impose policies that no one cares about and continue the corruption cycle, only now with a lot more money than they had before. We should trust the government a lot less, not more, with our hard earned dollars.

Greed is part of the human nature, and people in the government are no exception.
> The notification, seen by Reuters, said without detail that the group violated policies on “adult sexual exploitation.”

That's some bullshit right there. Spin the wheel, come up with a random charge, and ban the entire community with zero recourse and no way to appeal.
right, they were buying puts, not writing them, like you said they were...
So true. I think the UX of websites is still better that before, but now there is also reverse-UX / anti-UX (difficult cancelling of subscription, leading to purchase).

I don't think it's bad per se, just not very moral.
The mega corps are driving the wedge between the blue collar working class and the white collar working class. Should the two groups ever unite they would tear the mega corps back into a pile of tiny toothless startups, and that’s against all moneyed interests.
Again, Melvin publicly disclosed it is out and if they lie about materially relevant facts it is fraud.
His joke is funny and the point is made. I find it funny that the joke about peoples' intelligence may contain a mistake. Hence my comment.
It's a failed dream. We don't see more building designed like that in Montreal, just more skyscraper so we can be more like Toronto or New York.
Agreed, weather cannot be the only reason. What drives the population decline in Chicago despite the low CoL?