skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It’s not really Robinhood doing nefarious stuff,” said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Larry Tabb. “It’s the DTCC saying ‘This stuff is just too risky. We don’t trust that these guys have the cash to be able to withstand settling these things two days from now, because in two days, who knows what the price could be, it could be zero.’”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/for-robin...
This pandemic was the perfect time to change or try new methods of teaching. Instead we had in metro area the teachers unions all running FUD campaigns even while some areas did have face to face teaching; with masks and social distancing to teachers because students won't do SD each other.

So anecdotal for my area, yours may be different.

1) Body bags demonstrations on administrator buildings and in case the lawn of a few board members

2) One county where the union stated that it was optional for members to take untested and possibly dangerous vaccines

3) Two demanding extra money for virtual teaching because the contract did not specify, another wanting to ban it in the future contract

4) More than one local union has demanded no more vouchers and ending even magnet/charter type schools before returning to class.

5) Nearly all of those not doing any in person have demanded no testing be permitted with some wanting a three year moratorium

All this with some local counties doing just fine with no one dropping dead. Yes there were two deaths in a neighboring county but tracking it back to school is near impossible but heavily suggested as proof.

Two neighbors in different districts basically tell the same story, you are required to be on the FB group and do what you are told. Which mostly is agree with the FUD, do not talk to administrators without permission and follow the script.

Just like the police unions which have effectively isolated the police members from real oversight by the public so have the teachers unions done the same but those at risk are our children. Public sector unions are dangerous as they answer to no one. They pretty much walk the local politicians around on strings like puppets and whoa to any in office or campaigning person who dares talk "reform".

We had the perfect opportunity to right education. In the US the DOE has been around since Carter and spent hundreds of billions of dollars for no improvement. Teachers Unions stamp out school choice whenever they can. Basically their number one job is to prevent people from having a choice to get their children educated and they have the power of government and control over politicians to force it.
This is spot on accurate,

Yet my next thought was in the "forest vs trees" direction which as far as I can tell as someone with homemade popcorn watching both this thread, and the "meme stock" story (saw that phrase last night),

I will suggest that as in the case of the peers' ignorance of specific legal definitions,

it's the thought or thrust that is usually being grappled with, and the dimension of argument is usually not e.g. about the specific crimes some person might be guilty of or not, but rather the fact of their wrongdoing. Where "wrong" is not a legal concept full stop.

So too in the case of the GME thing, if not this thread; I suspect that there is a lot of implicit meta-argumentation going on,

and that some of what I see in this thread appears to be missing (or more likely, dis-missing) that, to engage in "tree" level quibbling.

(All said, I do agree words and their meaning matter; and that when we want to use them informally, because specificity in some domain is not germane to our argument, we would do well to be explicit about that...)
If you think about it from the perspective of the authors of large-scale databases, linear access is still a lot cheaper than random access in a datacenter filesystem.
This is neat, in a look-what-i-can-do sort of way. And I do appreciate the write-up. However.... (and there's always a but) does this page convert better? And if it doesn't, will they have the guts to rollback?

I don't know anything about the politics behind github and the employees. I'm sure they're all wonderful people. This is just a projection from my company. Even if the new flashy design performed 20% worse, it wouldn't be gotten rid of. They would say something like "well, 20% isn't that bad. it just needs time to bed in" or something like that. Fast-forward a year, and we still have the crappy performing good-looking page!
Let's not be disingenuous, friend
No, I'm not confusing anything. What I'm talking about is exactly WebForms. Please don't distort my words.

WebForms was good, as long as you didn't try to use it in way it wasn't intended, like doing direct DOM manipulation on top of the UpdatePanel, trying to access private state, refusing to use components or not using separation of concerns. Those are the same things that would also make React apps shitty, but the reason React works is because in React we just don't do it.

WebForms was good, but it needed the same amount of good engineering that a modern React app needs to be good, period. Unfortunately lots of programmers using it back in the day didn't have this knowledge because of lack of good documentation and good practices.
Note that the comment I replied to introduced the idea of treating wallstreetbets as a single hedge fund.

> if WallStreetBets was incorporated into a hedge fund and took a huge long position is that market manipulation?

So your main point of contention with me for bringing up unrelated information was already brought up.
It needs to be negative.

The same way I'd never call my opponents "pro-life supporters", I'd call them "anti-abortionists".

You need to control the narrative.
It's not about staying in your lane, it's about being more aware of your ignorance. What you notice, over and over, is the people talking the loudest about most things have very little real idea about whatever they're talking about. The truth is almost always more boring than the most attention-grabbing theory, this bias found all over for the non-expert with the big opinion needs to stop.

People with the stock industry conspiracy theories are doing the exact same thing as voter fraud people. That is, people with almost no information are forming theories about a secret cabal of the powerful keeping them down.

The reality which is becoming obvious is that trades were at several brokerages were halted because of capital requirements for brokerage firms. The capital requirements for some of these meme stocks changed, the stocks were very broadly held at these brokerages, and they simply didn't have the capital on hand where it needed to be to cover the requirements. That's (1) a lot more boring, and (2) a lot more complicated than a conspiracy about market fixing, so it doesn't get attention outside of people who actually know.
They probably don’t understand. If they do understand, they don’t seem to care.

There are a lot of people under the age of forty who don’t feel like they are benefiting from our current system. When the Boomers hit age 35, they owned approx. 21 percent of the nation’s wealth. Gen X plummeted down to 9 percent. Millennials are on track to own about 3-4 percent. This is according to the Fed.

They make less, own less, don’t see themselves or their interests represented at the highest levels of our government, and are fed up.

So, yes, the young would suffer more than the wealthy, the elderly, and the connected in an economic collapse, but they don’t seem to care.
This is why I've been looking at how worker-owned cooperatives can be formed and work. The entry moats for tech businesses is low enough, and tech worker wealth is high enough that it really should be possible - or even common. One difficult part is that for the structure not to decay in the same way you're describing, you need truly shared ownership coupled with democratic decision making and that might be slower and less cleanly decisive than a typical hierarchy.
If this is the way you feel why stop at school board elections? Why not restrict voting for the legislature, governor, or president? We live in a democracy, that means the "uneducated" have the same ability to vote as the "educated" on the issues. If you have a problem with that you can run for office yourself.
How does one purchase crypto with fiat?
Can't think of a worse indictment of a government than only rich people get to send their kids to school.
Angular File Uploads
I feel like we've moved from religious purity tests from the far right to secular purity tests from the far left. I'm definitely a proponent of horseshoe theory.
I was wondering where the metrics in this graphic are coming from? Great collection of tips, btw.

https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/106009495-af8...
Is it my imagination, or did this SEC statement not actually, you know, actually say anything, except "we're the SEC, and we're going to do the thing that it's our job to do"?
your scenario means everyone is disallowed from shorting. Equal measure to market condition. You see it being different from disallowing just retail buying?

Oh and that already exists when there are no shares to borrow. (in theory as they can naked short)
... but still not particularly high.
perceived :D
Ctrl + L then "*" will search in bookmarks for firefox.

Ctrl + L will focus the url bar, and then you can use several modifiers to search different things. E.G: ? will run a search engine query, even if you type something that looks like a domain name after it, such as a file anme.
> "I think it probably works THIS way based on how I imagined up the entire industry in my head"

That's how every opinion anyone's ever had works. Everyone has a mental model, which they use to understand the world. If you have a problem with the specifics, address them. Otherwise, you are simply appealing to authority.
The problem with school board elections is emphatically not that too many people vote with low information; it is instead that they are decided by small cadres of reliable voters which make up <10% of the electorate.
Michael Bluejay is one small piece of the quirky charm of Austin. It has been somewhat sad watching Austin's charm get diluted and steamrolled over the past decade.
Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I'm in agreement, but I've gotta admit I've missed out on a lot of money not following the dumb money lately. It's hard not to be frustrated when you see people making bank on this stuff.
I know there was some grumbling recently about some folks on HN drubbing MBAs. But when I think of someone putting profit and servicing the shareholders over servicing the customers that's what I mean when I say MBA disease. IMHO redirecting the company's resources to favor sales vs service in order to fuel growth and pay shareholders will eventually result in a loss of customers, perhaps irreparably damaging the business as a result.
It can be rational to hate those who actively seek to harm you. Emotion isn't necessarily irrational, so long as the reasons for emotion are well-founded.
Haha, of course you're The Type of Guy who worships Wolfram.

You know he's a total crank right.
Wall street bets is not an organization, and does not really even have a defined membership, and I've never heard of a court case with a class as a defendant. But I suppose that would be a really amusing circus show. Class of shorters vs class of buyers.
You are both constructing a strawman and appealing to authority. Are you going for fallacy Bingo?
Protecting investors is literally the first part of the SEC's three part purpose statement.

The SEC came into existence because retail investors lost huge amounts of money in the 20's in speculative bubbles. The same thing is going to happen here so the SEC is literally doing what it was set up to do.
You'd be shocked at how much data Spotify tracks about you. https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1025024813889478656 It's quite insane, really.
Couldn't the Notepad devs visit the One Note ones and tell them about Ctrl-H? :-))
Xiaomi's remote wireless charging powers up your phone from across the room
Except it is; because the mining network for Dogecoin is much smaller than that for Bitcoin it is much less secure.
That's a lovely theory which somehow manages to ignore the industrial-scale, inhuman abuses excused every day.

On what planet? I'll admit, I don't do a ton of criminal work, but, I've spent more than my fair share of time sitting through criminal dockets observing cops and criminals and I just don't see it. My good friend won the last significant police brutality case in my metro of 2M people and that was 5 years ago.

Here's another tell. Watch daytime TV for an hour and you'll see attorneys advertising re: Insurance companies, J&J Talc, Monsanto, Me Too, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, Monsanto, Mesh manufacturers, Asbestos claims, Elmiron claims, ad infinitum. But, you won't see any police brutality commercials, and it's not because us ambulance chasers are afraid of the police. It's because the cases are so few and far between that it doesn't make sense to waste resources seeking them out.
Poaching is one of those things where if there's continued high demand from SE Asia -- and in particular China -- there's going to be poaching issues.

It's just the drug war. You must reduce the demand.
The fence manufacturers and installers would like to remind that all your neighbors are peeking in your windows.
It is a good example of it, eg anything American doctors would’ve told you about wearing face masks was wrong until it wasn’t (and the CDC director is still telling people not to wear N95s), they still give terrible diet advice like telling diabetics to eat more carbs, and so on. Doctors are quite bad at making reasonable decisions when they don’t have an RCT in front of them.
It's been that for a while. Lots of people on social media have been framing it as another Occupy Wall Street, except this time they've figured out how to make the elites hurt. There's plenty of people who don't care how much they lose when it bursts, because Wall Street is set up to lose more.
MIT was way ahead of the game numbering their buildings. UC Berkeley has been un-naming buildings lately, and not just in some spasm of wokeness but because a lot of these guys really did bad things when you think it over.
I also build live programs, I just have a simple system that reloads its state from before a crash upon statup - that ends up working fine 99% of the time and I can get back to just before the faulty interaction without loosing time.
I said: "This feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors"

In other words, Apple is creating an enemy for themselves, an enemy of Apple. When in fact the two companies are not enemies in the business sense of having competing products, and indeed Apple profits directly from the In App Purchases in the Facebook app — IAP which do exist, contrary to several other false claims in these comments — and profits indirectly by having Facebook in their App Store. Facebook too has profited and become more popular by being on iPhone and the App Store.

But now Apple's App Store is under serious scrutiny, not to mention lawsuits, so Apple is looking to justify its lockdown, and "privacy" fits the bill there, despite the fact that Facebook has always been "creepy", since the beginning of the App Store and before.

The purpose of an "Orwellian" enemy is to justify the heavy-handed control of the rulers and to distract the populace from that situation. "Good thing we have Apple's strict App Store rules to protect us from evildoers like Facebook!"
Probably the more straight forward answer is to get rid of elected school boards. We vote for our local/state government. They should be responsible for education policy. Let it stop there.
I think on recent kernels, using the hipri option doesn't get you interrupt-free polled IO unless you've configured the nvme driver to allocate some queues specifically for polled IO. Since these Samsung drives support 128 queues and you're only using a 16C/32T processor, you have more than enough for each drive to have one poll queue and one regular IO queue allocated to each (virtual) CPU core.
Seems great for blogs and marketing sites, especially if you've got a CDN in front.
What It Takes to Build a Dual-Use Startup
When you discover something like this on a nationally syndicated talk show, it is probably too late for you to get in on the action.
The sentence following the one you quote says:

"However, during a severe pandemic when use of face masks might be greater, pandemic transmission in households could be reduced."

Later: "Although our study suggests that community use of face masks is unlikely to be an effective control policy for seasonal respiratory diseases, adherent mask users had a significant reduction in the risk for clinical infection. [...] Adherence with treatments and preventive measures is well known to vary depending on perception of risk and would be expected to increase during an influenza pandemic. [...] Therefore, although we found that distributing masks during seasonal winter influenza outbreaks is an ineffective control measure characterized by low adherence, results indicate the potential efficacy of masks in contexts where a larger adherence may be expected, such as during a severe influenza pandemic or other emerging infection."
Until people start crying about PS-1 through PS-10 being in more affluent neighbourhoods and somehow going to PS-73 means you're being oppressed by colonial powers.

I'm all for number naming btw. They should do PS-${RANDOM} or assign them by random to district.
Good work, looks like it's built primarily for prototyping so you don't need to spin up a separate mongodb.

Any migration tools for when you need to switch the production
I thought the whole point of it was for technically minded, and other curious folk, to mess around with it - learn the ins and outs of crypto and have some fun, away from the nonsense of speculation and having to pony up silly amounts of actual money to play.

Looks like I was naive...
amd64 arch linux, so latest version of clang++ and gdb/lldb. Project built against c++20. Here's what I'm getting from gdb:

https://twitter.com/jcelerie/status/1348259387127824387/phot...

(lldb does not give me an error message, just segfault)
GM Pledges to Eliminate Gas-Powered Vehicles by 2035
New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari, and Firefox
Did it look flat? If so you had tapeworm. Look it up on google
My bad, typo- meant 6mg here

For anyone curious , we actually did this question:

https://www.inpharmd.com/is-there-any-data-to-support-higher...
Yeah, someone else pointed out the async case. I think I just haven't done a ton of async programming so it didn't register on my radar as a major example of this, but I can see how it intrinsically couples value-creation and value-mutation together.

The crux is that you can't deterministically know how the operation will go until you try it, and you therefore have to return some information about the operation itself which can't just be derived in a pure way from the state of things before or after the operation.
But when was the last time you went on a site like Reddit just to be greeted with a "Our CDN is overloaded" page or similar?
Coinbase and Kraken are experiencing issues
I took a stab at it, seems everything is indexed by capabilities which makes sense.

There is "Equivalence of ephemeral capabilities" for ephemeral indexing outside of iso and turn.

There is "Compatible capabilities with ephemeral modifiers" which shows ephemeral indexing does not matter for compatibility.

This is extended to types with "Compatible types" then "define the aliasing operator +, to give us the minimum compatible capability when a new alias to an object has been made" with "Aliasing" presenting the cases. There is "Unaliasing" and that's where I'm checking out.

Is there a general theory behind these kind of indexed judgement rules with case splitting?
Study: AI reducing bird fatalities in wind farms
The author misses a point here: taxes.

If someone holds their stock past a year, when they sell it they are taxed at the long term capital gains rate of 15-20%

So cash only take home @ $250k would = $165k
Cash + RSU @ $250k ($160K base) would = $182.1K ($105.6 + $76.5)

From the company perspective it is a positive as it locks in employees as their RSU's don't typically vest until after year 2 and there is always the carrot in front of employees to wait for their next vesting which happens every 6 months thereafter.
iPhone XR is still very good and about half the price of the 12. Has the new design, bigger screen, smaller bezels, FaceTime. I don’t know about this privacy setting, but Apple is good about supporting older phones with new iOS releases, and the changes from XR -> 12 are much less than 8-> XR.
My frustration is that, here in Canada at least, there is still an outdated way of talking about the virus as if it's a surface / hand sanitation issue, and much of the public policy (especially around school openings, etc.) still seems to be ignorant of the absolutely essential role that shared air has in transmission. Public authorities have failed to really drive home the reality of the virus, and instead we get sanitation theatre, a pantomime of virus control, and parents clambering to get schools reopened (while the numbers plummet since they've been closed after Christmas)

Example, a local wine shop in my small town where you are not allowed to touch the bottles, but I see the staff inside with their masks off when there's no customers in the store.

Frankly, I think people really just don't _want_ to believe it's aerosol transmitted. Because the consequences for public policy would be so drastic; no malls, no factories, no schools, etc. should really be open if you admit it.
The EU published what it thought was a redacted version of AstraZeneca contract
I still think about "no country for old men".

And the busses of people in mexico.
Strong disagree. Good ideas are rare, and nobody knows how to come up with them reliably. (For example, in the world of cinema, see how the writers of the subsequent Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and the people around them, had no idea what made the first one good.)

An idea without execution is still valuable, but execution without an idea is worthless.
Might be intentional to make the interaction with the globe to stand out?

You can scroll from other parts of the page.
Part of me just wishes we could ignore the controversy because this is never going to stop. The standards are "impossible" because these activists are intolerant and aggressive, not because they are morally just.
The comment above you is lamenting not even looking up what the stuff means before commenting. That has nothing to do with insider vs outsider.
Maybe you wouldn't like working with me, then. Not an issue. Problem solved.

I'm old, anyway, and I've already learned that's an automatic showstopper. No one wants to work with us older folks. It was pretty jarring, encountering that, as I had always worked on large, distributed, heterogenous, teams, my whole career, and was used to some basic respect. That seems to be something that isn't really practiced, these days. It's all about competing with each other.

I had to figure out how to do the kind of work that I need to do, alone. The only viable way, is to work with such a level of quality, that I can close the door on modules as I progress, and leave code of such quality, that I can go back and work on it fairly easily, as needed. It's actually done at a ferocious pace. I'm having to take a break, for a bit, as I'm leaving the rest of the team behind, and they need time to catch up. It's tax time, anyway, and I have a couple of businesses I need to get tied up.

Maybe that's not what you want, but it is what some other folks want. It is certainly what I want. I simply won't do bad quality work. It hurts, and I'm a wuss. I don't like pain.
Number 2 is obviously false, a HN commenter would never have enough self-awareness to feel dumb.
30% of “Solarwinds hack” victims didn’t use Solarwinds