skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one should I read first? I read Taleb's critique, who comes off as a raving lunatic in this context, and Gladwell who must have some axe to grind since he doesn't actually address the concrete metrics that Pinker brings up.

Lower childhood mortality, less poverty, longer life expectancy, less violent crime, less disease, more equality, less war. Things are getting better, along almost every metric we can think of. It's not just "different". It's also not just Pinker's work confirming that, OurWorldInData is good on this topic too.

The only sensible argument I've heard to the contrary is that our systemic tail risks have gotten bigger. Which is accurate but doesn't change the fact that things are much better for almost everyone presuming that such risks can be mitigated.
Much science outreach and popular media prioritizes "engagement" and "interest", above understand/know/do.

I recently wondered if one might get more "understand", by authoring content with an added objective of setting up the reader/viewer to "do" bite-sized storytelling - with friends, family, water cooler - thus perhaps both broadening impact, and adding motivation towards understanding.

Fun frame.
This yet again proves that people just want to be shown on the basis of which criteria to judge others and once that happens they accept it as the universal truth and will not easily (more likely ever) change their views.

I've had colleagues in previous jobs that were times better than me and they got jaded by such attitude and left, leaving EVERY single manager "very surprised". But they were also kind of snarky and dismissive about it. Oh, they joy when they finally admitted 6 months later that they made a mistake by letting him quit and then the second negotiations when they wanted him back! He told them "eff you" twice in a row but eventually accepted 6-months contract... at 3x his older salary.

I feel that the under-appreciated engineers must learn to punish the companies with their absence much sooner. But yeah, a lot of programmers are rather introverted and shy and don't understand the leverage they have so sadly what we have as the status quo is pretty normal...
The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.)

Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.
Will they also stop trading when stop losses get swept by hedges and other large traders? So the retail traders can, you know, recalibrate.
I disagree, having a net worth of tens of millions doesn’t make you comparable to an oligarch.

Depending on where you live, if you don’t have 30-70 million in liquid assets, you are middle class (or below).
2% annual wealth tax on wealth over 200M.

70% top marginal tax rate on incoming over $10M in a year.

Then it wouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, but it would be much harder, and would mean you were constantly contributing a significant amount back to society if you're able to maintain that level of wealth.
Haha! Great point! Although, posting on this website odds are you are in the club compared to most of the world :)
Ask HN: What other single topics have saturated the top posts?
19 Robinhood / Reddit posts in the top 100 right now. Political events don’t usually do that here, but this one is special. I can’t remember noticing one topic dominating the conversations like this.
Why do they have some significant differences? For example, the second, $ATUS, isn't even listed on OP's site.
Debt forgiveness also used to be a thing.
How is that not fraud though? They are advertising a manipulated review score. The 1 stars aren't bots, they are people. Would it be legal for e.g. yelp to remove a string of bad reviews stemming from a catering company giving a wedding food poisoning?
This is brigading - people were not reviewing the app (which the app rating is supposed to measure), but retaliating against a (valid) slight from Robinhood. Seen in that light, the recent mass voting is noise.
Great piece of hardware; music synthesis (including oscillators, filters, effects, etc.) really is a killer app for FPGAs.

It's pretty fantastic to be able to add new oscillator types (e.g. FM, physical modeling, supersaw, additive...) or effects to a hardware synth just by downloading a bitfile.

Obviously there have been DSP, software, and FPGA based synths for a while, but KORG seems to have done it right and spawned something of an ecosystem.

The NTS-1 is basically like a cheap 1-voice Prologue (and an inexpensive dev platform for the latter.)
And not just some small group. 157000 members.
So, if prosecution or police receives too many (above average) complaints about something on a single day, they should just trash all of them and go home, is that what you are saying?
Mode, median, and mean are all accurately described as averaging techniques. Mean is the most commonly used average, but they are not synonymous.
Money they also run media, and when things settle down people read NYTimes, listen to NPR, and it slowly eats away at what they've learned until they're right back where they started.

"Well things aren't perfect but they could be far worse, and I'm so happy we have Bill Gates to fighting polio and malaria."
Conversely, I think the beauty is that they _are_ the same as top-level functions, just in a special namespace. This means that you can call "instance methods" directly from a class, i.e. the following are equivalent:

(1) + 2
(1).__add__(2)
int.__add__(1, 2)

This comports with the "explicit is better than implicit" policy in Python. The only "magic" part is when dot-notation is used to call an instance method, which is just syntactic sugar. Another example of this philosophy is that operator overloading is simply reduced to implementing a method with a specific name.

I think a "magic" this keyword can create a lot of nasty edge cases that can be difficult to reason about; the way "this" is used in JavaScript is notoriously complex in ways that it might not be in a statically typed language like C++. What should "this" evaluate to outside of an instance method? What about in a class definition inside an instance method? What if an instance method is called directly instead of on an instance? All of these situations require making their own "rules", whereas in Python the correct answers can be easily reasoned about by starting from first principles.
They should focus on eng foundations.

Frontent is nice and all but I've had double charges, frequent overloaded servers and an account lockout experience.

For a company that charges hefty fees like they do that's unacceptable.

Venting here. Sure, ipo will be great.
It's rumored that the next Apple watch will have an infrared glucometer. It would be great if somewhere down the road was a pressure monitor, to complete the basic health check.
Is it not market manipulation when you can control (a mojority in this case) buyers actions ?
My belief is they wouldn't take action blocking trades without their intermediary influencing.. It makes no difference to them otherwise.

So who is RH's intermediary?

I couldn't find from a brief google search but I am curious how and why this occurred when it looks like such a bad move for RH. Especially with rumours of them wanting to move for an IPO themselves.

1) Something happened here, either they didn't have capacity tech wise, which is a legit concern. - I haven't heard that being the reason yet.

2) Their intermediary blocked their trades, and so they got cucked, can't think of a better expression.

3) Someone told them to slow that squeeze down - This is probably the most UNLIKELY, but the one that everyone wants to jump to.

We might find out why, but really in the end it doesn't matter.. WSB and co has proven, the market is as strong as the confidence people give it.

Lies propogate when money is involved, shorting +20% is considered risk, +100%.. I'm sorry but I personally don't have sympathy. Infact, I appreciate when it's caled out.

I'd rather not bail out any more banks for bad practices that might be legal purely because they haven't had a light shone on them.

I do worry about the losers in this all though, and it's not the people with money. If you're in this deep, rent money deep, get out. It's a good fight, but there is no unsung hero reward on this one. If you have money, pump that to pluto idk.
A throwaway joke in a Simpsons episode does not "predict" a recession to any degree of reasonableness.
Energy Conservation and Non-Conservation in Quantum Mechanics
This sounds the real reason that RH limits the trading of a number of stocks today? If so, why didn't they give this straightforward reason? Instead, they resorted to vague excuses like misinformation and "for your own good".
I'm astounded by the level of expertise that visits HN. What good fortune.
Interesting topic with some clear examples, but then some that completely throw off the track of the article, without clear connections to the examples the article begins with or starts going toward.

> So we can just graph GAD-7 scores and then we…

>…in fact, this doesn’t work. Let’s look at the flu graph above again.

Seems unfinished, in need of reviewing or an editor, and makes steps towards an explanation that remains incomplete.
I e pathize with the sentiment but theres a categorical difference between comparisons. A first world technical professional compared to a third world subsistence farmer is perhaps similar in wealth disparity. I do not agree the difference in influence in similar.
Anti capitalism isn't marxism.
Currently its 8 hours of charging per 30 hours of driving on a 2000 miles trip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskzfQJt2Bc&t=619
Though I would not call them "popular" or "household" clocks, there are still similar clocks being made. For a good quality example, check out Erwin Sattler [0]. I think one of those would fit in at home. Well, it might take new furniture to match it.

[0] <https://www.erwinsattler.com/> I have no financial interest in that.
I'm not saying that these should be the rules.

Only that so long as they be the rules, they should be consistently enforced.
https://www.tzero.com/ is a major one from the former Overstock CEO.
Are you in USA? It's only distributed on the US store.
Can someone explain what this means? Big banks were preparing for this event? Or they were doing their own shenanigans leading up to this, and they happen to coincidentally be profiting from this?
Median is a form of average. Here is the first definition for average from Merriam-Webster:

> a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average
People aren't just going to write things they don't have an interest in.
Suck It, Wall Street
Nobody cares for the forest, they care about outcomes, as do regulators.
Agreed, if you keep demonstrating that might makes right, eventually people will act on in.
RobinHood has aspirations of an IPO. I think it's fair to say they've lost the confidence of their audience up to 90%.

I honestly don't think it was their call. But highlights the demand for a decentralised market... Honestly, the people have spoken.
Maybe this is an attempt to force that change to be faster? It really should be faster today, clearing sped up.

The lag for bank account transactions makes sense to wait to make sure money is there and no fraud. However, once money is in an account at an approved FDIC/SIPC insured (preferably both, Robinhood is only SIPC) brokerage it should be much faster, at least up to the FDIC/SIPC limits. There is really no reason why it shouldn't except to help market makers have the upper hand.

This could be the root of what may need to change or was desired to change with this black swan event.
Because lord knows, nothing would George Carlin's act funnier than... a better grasp of statistics.
> I'm not so glad with AOC's response to Ted Cruz which was literally: "Your help is not wanted on this. If you want to help you can resign." So maybe not that bipartisan.

This is misrepresentation (of a tweet, you could have just quoted the entire thing!):

"I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.

Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed.

In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign."

So to summarize: yes to working with Republicans, no to working with Ted Cruz, the most hated man in the senate.
That requires self-awareness and maturity, however.
Piling onto your post because of recent bad experiences:

Did you know that literally anyone can email Comcast and complain about alleged DMCA violations on your residential internet? Comcast has no mechanism for submitting a counter-notice, and if you get too many such complaints they will ban you for up to 6 months. It's shocking that an ISP can be so bad that they're the impetus for moving all by themselves.

In your case though, if you're interested you might be able to get a lawyer involved? Lying is generally legal, but they might have some civil liability for fraud or something. It probably wouldn't be profitable for you, but if you won it might make you feel better.
If one could get a wearable that monitored blood pressure like a heart rate monitor on watch, that would be quite helpful to see trends and dangerous spikes.
New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview
Unix Programmer's Manual, First Edition (1971)
Robinhood may not be available in your country (It's in the US Play Store). Which is why it isn't showing up.
From what I understand - you don't test for all unknowns as that is humanly impossible. You test for realistic "known" only. This largely prevents regression bugs as new fixes or features are added. When a bug reveals itself and is fixed, it becomes a known case that you can decide to create a test for (if necessary) and prevent its recurrence in the future.

Personally, I feel it improves the code quality and readability for others as the tests also help them better understand the functionality of the code within a project.
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea there was evidence of this being real.
Google makes a lot of money from app developers. Perhaps they decided that the cost to them of angering app users by deleting negative reviews is less bad than the cost of app developers leaving their platform because Google won't protect their reputation (whether the negative ratings were deserved or not). App developers can watch this and rest easy that Google has their back in this (even if they don't on other things).
The MSM has only themselves to blame for their record low levels of trust by Americans. You're right that the term MSM is basically a slur at this point. Great point. Thanks again for helping me make my points.
Try it and find out.
Tried? I always though they succeeded. https://moxreports.com/vw-infinity-squeeze/
Brokerages have a duty to their traders. I imprecisely spoke when I used fiduciary as recent guidance says they have the lower “suitability standard”. With regard to fills they are covered by reg nms and the nbbo. All of that is a much stronger regime than Facebook is under and to my opinion Facebook uses their power much more detrimentally. Reasonable people can disagree on that.

All retail brokers besides vanguard and IB’s paid tier sell order flow. This enables cheap/free trades and low spreads which I view as well worth the execution difference ymmv.

I’d also suggest if your mental model is that citadel is doing risk free front running you don’t understand market dynamics correctly.

In any case it’s cheaper for me to execute my retail trades than any time in history. I’m good with that outcome.
All of this very impressive, community, unpredictable, sentiment driven market has proven is that even the platform those cowboys and girls are trading on are owned.

The claw's in deep.
They did:

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/an-update-on-marke...

But the conspiracy theories are more fun, so nobody really paid attention.
But why do you believe that it was worse 10-20 years ago? How can you tell?
The internet will forget about this all by next week
For a direct listing, does that mean Coinbase could conceivably charge any price they want for a market order given they are the only seller when it is first listed ?
Why not settle at T+0? We have computers now.
It’s honestly terrible, I’ve mentioned this before, there’s absolutely no way I’ll ever use a browser this slow. I abandoned Firefox back in the day for much less.
> A lot of us don't want to run a USENET node or manage our own git server to share code.

Now you're suddenly making me feel alone :(
I'm not sure "we had to stop people from using our app because it was going to put us out of business" engenders much confidence in either the users or the shareholders.
> Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed

They had no choice. They had run out of capital to execute the orders they were getting.

They allowed people to unwind their existing positions, but not to create new ones. Considering trading was still going on elsewhere, not locking people into their current positions would have been worse.
Don’t they already HAVE the money from the customers? These are cash buys, not margin.
One can simultaneously be a genius and a misogynist. To some people, the former is unacceptable so long as the latter exists.

To understand an individual can indeed be both is the doublethink.
I was kinda hoping the Biden administration would get behind this [since it would improve the CDC's statistics undoubtedly].
If a company says they are doing something 'for your own good' you can bet that it is 'for their own good'.

This is based on a lifetime of observations without a single counter example, so it is still anecdata but quite a bit of it.
"To (negative) infinity, and beyond!"
Tissue printing is really a killer app for 3D printing.

"Bioactive material for dental restoration" sounds like a killer app for tissue printing as well.
Some of them might get upset at the maintainers tough, and write something a bit angry, making it less pleasant to be a maintainer

> Really fuck em if they’re gonna stay butt hurt about it.. this should have been cleared up in kindergarten.

Such an attitude from a maintainer can piss people of and make them write angry things to the maintainer, causing him/her to quit.
Yes if you accept and embrace your boss as the owner of your time, then you have placed a yolk on your own back. You may have exercised choice, but there’s also a yolk on your back.

Except your spiritual boss will only accept 100% and not some time sharing agreement, and that you must do so on faith, surrendering everything. Or you go to hell.
Robinhood has a little note during new account setup about how your account will default to being a margin account.

They don't show any of the details on the main screens after that, though.

Normally, it doesn't matter because Robinhood eats the tiny margin cost for the customer. They make up for it by selling the order flow. This only works as long as interest rates are low and, importantly, they can get enough credit to cover it all.

In times of unprecedented volatility and unprecedented risky trading behavior, securing that debt becomes non-trivial. Robinhood's debtors have no desire to be left holding the bag if something blows up.
How current is this data? Is this updated every day?
Why does it take so long to make a movie/software? Because it is an act of invention. Yes the camera/widgets, lights/libraries are all reused. But the way they are reused is unique for each movie/application. And a large number of external constraints/forces impact how the movie/application is made. Yes you can quickly make an amateur movie/app in a few hours. People do it all the time. But that’s not the same as making AAA movies/software.
Why Was Trading Restricted?
GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser
These types of things are funny to me, because I exclusively[1] contribute to other people's projects and don't really have any of my own.

[1]: The maybe-exception being projects I then get commit-bit too.
This video might have some more context in how it relates to musicians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6Ij1Oxe1s
IQ distribution is symmetrical by design (it's a normal distribution), so he's still right.
https://www.123test.com/interpretation-of-an-iq-score/

Also even if that weren't true, "average" isn't necessarily synonymous with "mean". The mean, median, and mode are all types of averages.

Maybe don't be so quick to criticize next time.
Heroku now orchestrates over 100k EC2 instances
100% agree. I mentioned somewhere else that their Press Release was crap. If they'd explained like people reading were adults, (maybe they did and I didn't see it) then people would have been a lot less mad.

It's just context for the conversation I was missing, it doesn't mean they are completely blameless, and I support a class action lawsuit. I just appreciate a fuller context for myself and figured others might as well.
I think you meant to say "A dollar tomorrow can be worth more than a dollar today".
The dark patterns described here are part of a broader pattern for big tech. The firms mentioned, Amazon, Google, etc, have made the strategic decision to debase their products to further monetize them. This is similar to the way in which high-end fashion brands are often tempted to cash in on their brand name by marketing to mass market. Just as with high-end retail, this is journey goes one way. Now these companies have embraced the lowest common denominator version of themselves it will be difficult to reverse these decisions.

The one big tech exception to all this is Facebook which basically zoomed straight towards the lowest common denominator version of itself yes continues to plough ever deeper trenches each year
You could also pay someone else to write it for you. OpenBSD is a free, community based project - you cant really complain it doesnt do what you want if you arent willing to invest any time or money.
If you told Markus Wolf in 1989 that in 2021 most citizens in the world would write each other private and political communicatons via a tracking device that can’t be turned off, and that device has both microphones and cameras, he would raise and eyebrow and ask “How did we win the Cold War?”
Alternatively, did Wisconsin public retirement funds make an enormous investment in AAPL right when it was about to become insolvent and had no other real options for raising money? That is, you can assume anyone investing in that circumstance (like Citadel into Melvin) would demand a huge stake in return.
I doubt it. I'm at Facebook not Google but most of us employees are supporting the WSB side of this.