skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whatever the reason it’s clear they can’t handle whatever volume they are seeing right now. who would continue to use them at this point.

most momentum trades are crowded - this implies any new crowded trade will have to be restricted.
> As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Not fraud though, because "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal"
BUY THE DIP
It's ironic that this page is using a GIF image instead of video. It is suppose to be the forefront of web tech advancement
You’re missing costs in this equation. Without the sale of the credits they would not have been able to post a profit for the quarter. They may have had $31.5B in revenue but the cost of that revenue was greater.

If I sold a $1 can of coke for $0.70. I can report $0.70 of revenue but i still lost $0.30 on the transaction.
Great that means we have at least two years before the stock market takes a correction
I borrow your car (and you even give me the title!), promise to return it to you (but not necessarily the same car, just the same make and model), and then I sell what is truly now my car to someone else. That new owner could then find someone else to lend the car to, transfer the title on a promise that they'll eventually transfer the title back, and then let the new borrower sell it, transfer the title, etc. There's only ever one title and one car, but there are a lot of promises to return the car back later. When you explain it with goods it becomes obvious that a fraud was perpetrated if the buyers don't realize that the car might be owed to someone else. Yay for financialization and long impenetrable terms of service agreements with your broker where you automatically allow your broker to "lend" and re-title your shares so that they can earn interest on the lending.

This is a simplification though, there's actually like a parking garage involved (broker) who says to trade on his exchange that the broker will keep your title safe for you - it's better than a paper certificate to hold in your safe at home because it can't get lost! But this allows the parking attendant to sell your car hoping you wont notice, and hoping that he'll be able to buy another similar car back before you actually ask for yours back. And of course insurance companies, auto dealerships, etc, but you get the idea.

Robinhood's genius is hiding this complexity from their users behind a slick "gambling is fun" style app. TD Schwab ETrade and other "adult" brokerages also don't make it obvious, but at least they make you "read" some documents that explain the details before you get an account.
Did my best to generate a jinx build, with high HP recovery and no lategame armor penetration (and no armor/mr). I also chose no gap-close because of jinx's passive and w. It generated:

kraken -> boots -> rfc -> ie -> last whisper -> vamp scepter -> dominik -> bt

I'm surprised to see this even with high hp recovery - I asked for no armor pen, but it decided to build dominik's anyways, and it doesn't buy a vamp scepter until after 3.5 completed items. If I went this build, about 99% of my games would end before I got ie, everything after that matters a lot less, and so I'm surprised to see it push everything non-"core" (including the armor pen I didn't want) into the end of the build.
That's what I meant by code generation, that maybe NumPy at runtime add/removes/substitutes some code to optimize dynamically, although I don't know if that's a thing in Python/NumPy.
Maybe Dyson spheres as farms? Fusion wouldn't produce food.
> they will eventually realize, those rewards are not worth the cost.

Debit cards in the US have been available and basically free to use for all merchants and purchasers for many decades. Yet, merchants willingly do not give people that buy with a debit card a discount. That seems like proof to me that merchants are betting that they earn more money from the use of credit cards, even after the fees associated with them, so I don’t see why another no or low fee purchase mechanism would change the situation.
Management is actually usually made up of previous management’s social circles.

I suspect that is the only criteria migrants don’t really check, and that is the point.
I dug into the frbservices page and unfortunately many of the links are broken. Is the fed offering an alternative to consumers or banks (both?) I couldn't find anything about what the proposal was
Then you’re saying that you are OK with making the application opaque to all of your end users. You can claim you’re neutral on introspectability, but if you’re not doing the (minimal) work it takes to undo the information loss your net effect has been negative. Just to drive the point home, you can say you are “mildly for or neutral on efficiency” but then if you use Electron, it doesn’t matter what your position is, you’ve just made an bloated piece of software. And there isn’t even an easy fix for Electron…
Is it? I mean it's certainly gaining value, but are people using it to pay for stuff?

In the earlier days of bitcoin there where ATMs near me, and bars that accepted bitcoin.
Antennas and height make a huge difference. I’ve got a hop from my place to a friend that’s a little over 3km non line of sight (terrain/hill between). Can’t do that with the stock rubber ducky antennas, but with a swr meter tuned home made dipole antenna on a 4m pole on my roof it’s rock solid (using 433MHz, not sure if 815/915 would get that far).
It's all depends on one's usage model and not enough samples there to be statistically significant. But yes that's tumbleweeds there.
If you look at the SEC data on FTDs, there have been a huge number of them for GME in the past year https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

So that kind of points towards a possibility of naked shorts, if I understand correctly (although by itself it doesn't prove it's happening).
Is there some information on the "bandwidth"/latency of WebHID devices? Specifically, could it work with a low resolution-ish video feed?

I'm specifically thinking of a very niche type of device, specifically an inexpensive VGA/analog video capture usb "stick" called "EasyCap". This particular name has been re-used by many manufacturers who all sell EasyCaps with different chips in them, which makes finding a working driver a complete nightmare across almost all operating systems.

After much research, it turns out that Linux had native support for the chip in my EasyCap, and I was able to capture video using ffmpeg (under VirtualBox running on macOS). Happy to share notes! (reply here or email me)

Insane list of different drivers for EasyCaps under Windows: https://visser.io/2015/06/easycap-drivers-for-windows-8-1/ ("Below is a link to the Windows 7 drivers that were compatible with my EasyCAP device and further down a list of other EasyCAP drivers you can try.")

Info on existing versions/chips & Linux support: https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Easycap ("It seems that EasyCAP is not a company or brand name, but some chinese manufacturers use this label for at least four completely hardware different clones of equally looking audio and video capture devices. EasyCAP devices and clones are vastly sold in onlineshops at low prices.")
To me it seems strange that that isn't allowed.
> Yes, is obviously currently extremely volatile, but it's not hard to imagine that volatility lessening over time.

I feel like I’ve heard this every year since 2015. I think it’s going to be hard to shake the majority perspective that it’s a speculative asset.
Yeah, this is probably just my lack of context around the subject.

That said, if I get requirements like that I always have a strong feeling the case can be generalized. Laws generally aren’t as specific as that.
This is not an apt analogy at all. You don't recompile your editor to get type errors. The question is type checking vs unit tests. If your text editor can type check as you type, the feedback loop is much tighter than recompiling and rerunning and possibly modifying handwritten unit tests.
Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
Yeah, this has been my experience too. Generally you use the frequency that has been legalised for use in the region you operate it in. I wonder if this automatically switches to the suitable frequency based off coordinates (when using a gps’d board) I’m sure it would be trivial to implement. Ah good ole opensource. This really is a great solution, riding around New Zealand the only solution is a SPOT tracker which charges like a wounded bull so I love that this is disrupting this space (and using clever tech - heck might throw one of these on the moto just to use it for security)
Chrome 89 also fixed a bug on Android that caused unreliable Autofill popup.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=101494... is the bug.
I would be surprised if it was cheaper than something like a Spot or Garmin inReach when you factor in the cost of building out and maintaining such a network.
Next-gen AV does not rely on signatures to detect malware so much as heuristics on steroids. I am especially familiar with SentinelOne. It can detect 0-day ransomeware, for example, as soon as it tries to encrypt files, and stop it in its tracks. Any product that does rely on signatures is useless these days.
My understanding is that the following situation can lead to a short interest of over 100%. Let's imagine a hypothetical world where there exists 1 share of a particular company and it is owned by Person A. Person B then borrows the share from Person A and sells it to Person C (this is the first short). Person C now owns 1 share and Person A doesn't have a share but is contractually obligated to receive 1 share from Person B at a certain point in time in the future. Person D then borrows the share from Person C and sells it to Person E (this is the second short). Even though there only exists 1 share the short interest in this case is 200%.

Now there are obvious reasons as to why this isn't a smart thing to do as recent events with GME show but it's not necessarily illegal (as far as I know). If this is actually not true or it's illegal somebody please correct me.
i think there's a high chance it will be worse ie. some competitor tech crushing bitcoin's value entirely in 10 years
Yes - I went through a phase in 2008 where I purchased some metals. Then I quickly had a realization that the forces at play were far too overwhelming for the measly amount of precious metals I could purchase to ever be meaningful. Sort of like that feeling you get when a big wave crashes right on top of you and pins you to the sand. The difference in power between yourself, no matter how built, strong, and good of a swimmer you might be, and the wave, are just so huge, that there really was never any point in trying to resist it anyways.
So this is how they are going to regulate it now.
They really seem to have have thought of everything, in designing the product ...
Occam's razor, and my familiarity with the industry, both tell me it's not malicious but rather just various shades of incompetence & misaligned incentives that are producing such high amount of "spec churn".

But if it were a strategy, "EEE" or "Embrace Extend Extinguish" is not a good term for it. Maybe call it EEEE. "Extend Extend Extend Extend".
Even pyflakes will catch the most numerous bugs.
> Opium of the masses and the inevitable march of dialectical materialism, amirite?

You have different values, good for you.

Some of us prefer science and progress. You live in your country with your values, please do not export them on us and we will do the same.

The rest of the world is free to opt in China generosity. I am sure one belt one road will help Africa more than all your charities and religious missions combined.
afaik still PoW
A stable coin doesn’t necessarily have to be backed by fiat, DAI is backed by crypto assets and those assets can fluctuate and sometimes need to be increased during volatility.

I think the point of fiat backed stable coins are more for getting around regulations (eg Tether) and a fiat on-ramp for getting into the ecosystem. Certainly if the government seized a large portion of Tethers assets then that could affect other assets, but this actually has already happened with (a small portion, not large) Tether and nothing catastrophic happened.
The article mentions that English is his seventh language!

And there's a charming series of quotes about his journey from being a linguist to a mathematician - "The book was in Russian, and I didn’t know Russian, but a young linguist is not afraid to pick up another language."

...

"Oxford was the only place that would allow you to rush through an undergraduate program in two years. I didn’t know English, but a linguist is not afraid to pick up another language."
Also, if cash were the issue, why limit only “meme stocks” why not limit stock buying across the board to prevent manipulation?
How much gold only exists on paper? Once people realize there is more in paper than in vaults that stability may evaporate. The Germans move their physical gold out of the US for a reason
What about the Koreans who were the most impacted by the LA riots? It's sad that it doesn't even register on your radar yet you want to talk about systemic justice smh
Tangentially related: if you have noticed that the CPU of your Mac is going crazy since the release of Chrome 88, a fix will be out on Tuesday: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115279...
Just needing attribution is not copyleft, you are giving credit to the original author. Share-Alike or using the same license to make source code available like GPL is copyleft.
I think the only way around it (besides owning everything as you said) is to either have more competitors in the mobile phone space, or the few that control the market will have to have their power to pick and choose winners restricted.
Currency supply to the economy and the amount of services a government supplies are orthoganal issues.

I didn't provide a reason, but it's not a tautology. I would accept "bland assertion".
It’s spelled Airbnb, not AirBNB
Going from Apple+Google to Apple+Google+Facebook doesn't seem like a solution to any problem anyone would care about other than Facebook investors.

Nokia n900 is still peak smartphone a decade after it was killed.
One of those groups is not like the other :) Thanks anyway, but IMO medals (even Gold) does not make migrating to the US easier.

As for the paper, why doesn't it compare US citizen performance? The Team Selection Test is pretty competitive, and I guess there are at least 20 US citizens each year who are of similar skill.

I beat 1/6 members of the US team at my IMO showing, but I'm pretty sure every single USA TST participant has a brighter future ahead than most of the general cohort of "IMO medallists", including me.
the difference is gold has an actual physical usecase so it's hard to compare these assets
I had a tech support job where one repeated irritation was end users that had removed and reinserted a USB to Serial device. Windows then randomly assigns COM92, or whatever. Now you have to walk the customer through figuring out what COM port got assigned.
HID is not built for that kind of use.
Not necessarily. Dogecoin has no fixed cap on the amount of Đ in existence. Rather, it expands at a rate of Đ5billion/yr, much to the chagrin of several currency pumpers.

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/1674
>They are (currently) slow, have high transaction fees

This is only true for bitcoin and ethereum.
It’s not fraud in the same way going to prison isn’t kidnapping.
Like the way those defclass and defmethod macros totally destroy programming at large.
Stellar Lumens don't require proof of work - that was one of the key design decisions.

There's a finite volume of the things now, so presumably (fiat equivalent) value per Lumen will slowly increase.

Either way, 'they don't cause climate change'.

[1] https://www.stellar.org/lumens?locale=en
This is a confusing example, because in a REPL steps of compilation and evaluation are interleaved.

Indeed, can you write a program for CLISP that works like this:

- takes one command line argument (a file name)

- reads in the given file, interprets it as Common Lisp code, expecting it to deliver a definition for the add2 macro

- then runs

(let ((a 1)) (dotimes (i 4) (add2 a)))
How does the common sense definition of "naked short" differ from the technical one?
What you're perfectly fine with is slimmer browsers. Crippled browsers, as in the ones in Apple's world, are browsers where the supported specs and features are selectively chosen for political / competitive reasons. It's absolutely not healthy.
His broker can recall the lent stock, so they'd recall it and have it sent to whoever bought it on their/his behalf.

I worked on a computer system to handle all this for a while. It was front office so as well as buy/sell transactions we had to process lend/return and borrow/return actions to actually understand the company position.

Within each of those are lend request messages with approval/declines etc.
The acquisition never should have been allowed. Everybody must reject Zuckerberg's attempts to own the world
I'm currently reading the book - Jan Swafford is masterful. See https://g.co/kgs/2Jv69s for the book itself.

I was waiting for this to come out since his book on Beethoven was, and I mean this, a riveting page-turner, I devoured it: https://g.co/kgs/KfQ34W. If you are a pianist you'll love it. So far, the Mozart is equally good. Can't wait to finish it. Must put down phone and return..
An unfortunate fallout... it's giving Donald Jr. something to distract his followers with: https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr
Someone reading that might be wanting to ask the same hoping to hear salacious "hookers and blow" Wolf of Wall Street legendary stories, but usually the reality is pretty mundane. Corruption is endemic to highly successful niche adaptations, but their yields rarely give rise to outlandish behavior. We see that a lot in breathless news stories, but that's just what sells ads.

Most corruption happens in a matter-of-fact, business-as-usual, we're-all-in-this-together atmosphere. And the proceeds don't usually lead to blowout lifestyle extravaganzas, as most participants are clever enough to realize that draws unwanted scrutiny. That is what makes corruption so insidious and difficult to root out. The rot spreads slowly, and inspection is commonly asymmetrically more difficult and costly to mount than undertaking the corruption act itself.

The most reliable way of rooting out corruption I've seen is an organizational culture that nurtures trust between leadership and organizational members, equitable gains sharing (so members feel they have skin in the game), and fiercely protecting whistleblowers (where the vast majority of human organizations utterly fail). Personally, Dunbar's Number appears to be some kind of (hopefully) local optimum but I'm curious how Geoffrey West's findings of scaling square with corruption incidence and scale.
Is there a good way to get the invitation text?
An interesting thing you might do in an overinflationary state, however, is buy a large portion of something like the USDC, the USD Coin, which maps to exactly US$1 all the time. While you are tied to another country's fiat whims, you still have the value add of crypto mentioned above: provenance and distance from the hyperinflated currency of your home state.
Yeah. Things get a little fuzzy this close to the hardware.

The “open source” project is a (platform.io) project that runs on the ESP32 (or a few other similar enough) microcontroller. It controls the LoRa (totally closed) firmware on the LoRa components (and GPS as well).

Even your Gnuradio setup has similar black box firmware underneath that it relies on (unless you’ve got to extraordinary lengths to ensure the machine it’s running in has no propitiatory firmware for things like disk/ssd controllers, USB controllers, battery management systems, etc. )
The Raspberry Pi as an "addon", is a hit. Great idea!
And I actually really wonder if other people see such things, because I really don't. Not saying they don't exist, but they don't seem to get pushed into my "timelines". What you could find if you were looking for it I don't know.

I've seen Goatse, though - maybe it's just that everything else pales in comparison.
sharp eye
https://www.whistle.com/pages/gift

That page is pretty clear on mobile, a bit under $100 a year for the subscription.
I think this is one of those things where people overestimated how much things would change in the short-term, but will grossly underestimate how much they will change in the longterm.

5 years is a pretty short window in the grand scheme of things when talking about the adoption of technologies.
Indeed, I was rounding, and poorly at that. Thanks for the correction!
I got downvoted for expressing this opinion before but the only real issues are implementation related.

#1: The technology isn't mature enough and has some "mistargetting" that adds or deletes where it shouldn't.

#2: It is a reckless disregard for human life to not do generational animal trials before humans. If we cannot say make mice redfurred or immune to a mouse disease without major side effects like vastly increased cancer risk doing so in humans is unconscionable.*

*Medical ethics has a bit of weirdness in that if someone is certainly doomed otherwise it is more permissible to try something crazy.

If we could accessibly edit DNA mistakes with no more risk or difficulty than say preventing blood type mismatch related miscarriage then it having a few people with "bad traits carried onto offspring" wouldn't be a big deal.

It is often en vogue to complain about it cementing a class divide but under that logic education is unethical because it priveledges those who can afford it over those who cannot.
Tesla's Plan to Disrupt Airlines: Busted [video]
A z80 with 28mhz and 10MB of RAM could work as a Gopher/IRC client perfectly.

EDIT: I saw it wrong, 1MB, still good enough.
But wait! There's more!

98.css https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

XP.css https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/

7.css https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

Each iteration excoriating layers of usability, pragmatism and clarity heading towards absolute cluster fuck of UX/UI we have today!
Thanks! HID in general? WebHID? Is it a bandwidth/data limitation? Something enforced by Chrome?
Optical Computing
The oldest book on my shelf is 150 years old. What's the shelf life for the eBook?
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This looks really nice. I love it. But to be honest, nothing about it feels "NES" to me.
Deflationary policy makes it more usable as a currency. It means that you don't have to spend the money instantly, but you can save it for later.