skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually not super bullish on clubhouse. I'm sure they'll find some success but to call it something that will become one of the most important platforms, I don't see it. And perhaps I'll be proven wrong in the next decade on this.

I've recently started using twitter again (after initially using it in 2010/2011) and I feel that there's so much self promotion all the time disguised at knowledge sharing. It also seems like everyone (most people) have a podcast, a newsletter, a youtube channel, etc. I understand that on a surface level people are doing this to increase their 'surface area' but there's just too much and while I'm sure it does a some/a lot of good for the people putting it out there, most of it just seems like noise to me. So that's my reasoning to think that clubhouse won't really become as meaningful as you - it just adds more noise. Sure I can hangout in this room or listen to some folks talk about x/y/z topic, etc. but honestly I feel that after some time people will realize that their time could be better spent.
A great talk by Moxie on this very topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8&
> Unless your job is pointless - you quitting your job to take care of your mother is a net loss for the economy and again makes things less accessible for everyone

Some people prefer to live at home rather than go to a nursing home. What's worthless about giving those people better care that more closely aligns with their preferences?

> is a net loss for the economy

This is such a weird way of thinking about activity that happens outside the market. Should I feel guilty about cooking my own meals because I haven't payed a restaurant worker to do it?

Sometimes people do things outside of the market, and that's OK, they don't have to feel guilty about that. The market exists to help us live our lives, not the other way around. Whether GP watches their parents on their own or hires someone else to do it, the parents are still getting watched, and somebody is still doing that as part of their "job". That's the important part.

You're concerned about prices going up, but what GP is describing would be vastly cheaper than paying for assisted living on the market today. It's making in-home assisted living more available than it currently is on the market. Why would that be a bad thing?
We're not talking about trade execution here. Trade execution is already fast. We're talking about settlement.
Is it possible to change a chicken's sex before it hatches?
You're right, let me explain my perspective.

I have an old laptop running a bunch of different services, three of which are matrix servers. The matrix servers generally run fine with the modest amount of ram provisioned to them (2-4GB IIRC) with the exception of hiccups that occur when a user joins large federated rooms (we're talking several thousand users) and these hiccups only last for a few seconds and until the room has finished syncing to my server. The hiccups manifest as "Unable to connect to server" messages on clients which only delays messages from being transmitted to the server by a few seconds.

From my understanding once a single user has joined these rooms and triggered the server side sync these hiccups will not happen again once another user on my server joins the same rooms as the data is already synced on the server. Furthermore there are relatively few rooms that have the number of users necessary (1000s) to trigger the issue one time join issue.

To remedy this issue and for general network reorganization purposes I intend to migrate non-synapse VMs off of the laptop and onto other hardware and then I would simply delegate the old laptop for the matrix servers and scale the three VMs to give them 1/3 of the available ram whether they need it or not. I mispoke last night when I said 12gb by the way, as the laptop only holds 32gb ram so the available ram could be (32 - (ram for hypervisor) / 3)

To bring it all back to the thing I care most about which is the over all cost, if the laptop cost $300USD and I run 3 servers on it my hardware cost per server is $100 which I consider to be trivial. This is 20 cups of fancy coffee and more importantly many hobbyists already have a spare laptop sitting around or can find one for quite an affordable price.

I hope this clarifies my comment.
> you will need to add the following line to limits.conf and then reboot the machine

Is this normal in AWS? On most systems I worked with it's not true, you just need to start a new session - a reboot is not necessary.
I agree that working more does not necessarily result in being more productive, but is there anything more specific you can add? Sometimes working more does mean being more productive. Sometimes it results in less output per hour, and depending on that haircut, can net at more or less productivity. Sometimes the working more is a prerequisite to learning something that you can leverage later on.

What was your point in mentioning that to OP? It seems like a bit of an aphorism that doesn't add much to the conversation except to dull GP's point.
And only accepted speech is allowed. No longer your own private blog space to say whatever you wanted..
No you're good. I'm a career hedge-fund/market guy and all of my investable assets (outside of my company and my house) are in vanguard trackers. I'd guess most of my friends who are professional investors are the same (except they likely have some investment in their own fund).

That's not to say there aren't better investment options in the world but they aren't accessible to ordinary people (even quite rich ones).
> ...and the profit is merely a necessary condition for achieving it.

Well, yes, exactly. Say you are a person. You have a goal to make {thing}. You achieve that goal by selling {thing}. To aid in this task under the economic system you live within, you create a legal entity, called a company. Your aim is still to achieve your goal. The aim of the company is to help with that.

The profit is a necessary condition, as you say. I'm not sure how you can write that and then disagree. This is a basic fundamental thing, like 1+1 is 2. If profit is the necessary condition to acheive {goal} and a company is the legal vehicle by which you attempt to achieve {goal}, then the aim of the company has to be increase profit, there isn't a choice.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just a thing. There will be other primary and ancillary aims, but the core reason for its existence is for that aim.

> But you only have to look around to see that the vast majority of people who both run companies and who work for them are not in it to maximize profit.

Yes, that's what I said re workers, and sure, it can apply to many smaller business owners. As you go up the ladder in company size from small business I would strongly disagree that the people running the companies are not there to maximise profit: appointments are very often explicitly made for financial reasons.

> The vast majority of companies in a capitalist system are small to medium sized businesses that are constrained in how much money they can ever make.

Right, but the ones who are the original subject are not small to medium sized businesses, and they either are not heavily constrained by this, or actively lobby to remove restrictions that do constrain them.
Show HN: A brainstorming tool written in Elixir with Phoenix Live Views
Various EDEKA, various REWE, real,- , Kaufland, Lidl, Aldi-Nord(does never ask anything!), Penny, Netto, Rossmann, DM, Budni.

Though I changed my shopping to early morning, just before going to sleep, instead of "last minute shopping" before closing, after getting up late. So I'm a new face to most cashiers. Idea is less virus load after a night with no people and aircon having sucked it away. I'd hope. Can't say anything about IKEA or Bauhaus atm. Haven't been there for years. Didn't need to. Bakery? KNÄCKEBROT!

edit: But asking for some points collection scheme seems to be the default here, except for Aldi. And at least about half of the people do it.
I mean, I'm not willing to risk my money on a short (and I wouldn't recommend anyone else to either), but I would be intensely surprised if the stock is not below $50 at the end or February. If the current price is north of $300, and holding costs on a short for a month aren't too bad, there's like $200+ of movement there to capture. Pump and dump is going to dump at some point. The market can stay irrational for a long time etc, but I suspect that's less true when everyone knows it's being irrational.

I'll just leave everything in my three-fund portfolio though, cause boring is the right fit for me.
Not for me personally, but thanks for the suggestion.
Minifiers and obfuscators are one reason newer licenses like MPLv2 don't require minified JavaScript to carry attribution and copyright notices.
Couldn't they just add a requirement that GME can only be purchased with settled funds? That seems like it would solve the issues mentioned above
You can write Perl in any language. Lack of expressive power in the language can also lead to a disaster. Sure, Java maybe doesn't have a fancy typesystem and macros, but then the same kind of clever developers use runtime reflection and bytecode manipulation which tend to end up with just as big disasters if not bigger.
>Sure, lets pipe user feedback directly into GitHub issues. Good luck with that if you have a hundred issues a day.

Average user is less than poorly educated about technology. Their level of competence when raising a bug is simply pathetic, a lot of times. I manage an email server for a family, they write to me "email doesn't work", I check issue and respond "domain should be gmail.com not gmail,com" (notice the comma).

This reminded me how sqlite team was getting emails or calls at night, from some random people because another software was crashing. User went to "about/legal" and found license of SQLite, so obviously they decided to contact SQLite and complain on bad software. https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d/src/os.h#L52-...

Now imagine facebook api breaks backwards compatibility, so you get 1000 of new issues in a day with title "broken", "doesn't work", "shit is crahing so gave 1* fix it now I might review it later".
If someone tells you to buy the Empire State Building and you refuse, do you have a liquidity issue?

They are refusing to do things to prevent liquidity issues. Their customers can send requests that cause them to temporarily take on more debt. There are particular orders that need a lot of money to execute. Block those orders and they don't need to borrow the money.
> NBA champions

Being a sports champion means you must be better than anyone else. The rules are deliberately set up so only one can succeed. This is quite unlike free markets. You don't even have to be better than average to do quite well in the free market.

> dumb

Donald Trump? :-)

> significant health issues

People who's health is so bad they can't work have my sincere sympathies. But this is a pretty small percentage of the population. The overwhelming majority are of sound mind and body.
The populist right has been systemically purged from Twitter. It's not that Twitter is left wing but they ban right wing thought, leading it to be a slanted echo-chamber. Gab is definitely right wing Twitter.

I've seen equally whacky things trending on the left side, e.g. "Russian Ads on Facebook won Trump the election".
Could also be the psychological effect of lock-down, social distancing et cetera. Perhaps this will go away naturally when the pandemic is over and life goes back to normal.
>I think Robinhood didn't do anything wrong (or even incompetent)

Sure they did. The CEO of Robinhood went onto CNBC and lied about why they restricted trading.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/robinhoods-ceo-den...

Also, here is their history of other recent fuckups:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robinhood-sec-fine-65-million/

"Robinhood Financial fined $65 million by SEC for misleading users"

Stop making excuses for liars.
It is primarily state employees (police & teachers) that are exempt from social security if they have a different state funded pension plan. Take a look at table 2 and chart 1 of this report from the social security administration[1] for some examples of rates in different states.

>In 2018, one-quarter of state and local government employees—approximately 6.5 million workers—were not covered by Social Security on their current job

I find this offensive because one of the main functions of SS is to subsidize the retirement of low earners at the expense of higher earners. As a private citizen, I don't get to opt out of this social obligation just because my 401k gets a better return.

Not only that, but as a tax payer, I will be on the hook for bailing out the public employee pension funds when they go belly up.

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v80n3/v80n3p1.html
There's a standard joke among quartet players that Haydn builds string quartets and Mozart destroys them.

New quartets begin playing Haydn because it all fits together so solidly that it guides the quartet into gelling. Mozart quartets regularly just don't have that scaffolding and the quartet had better have their quasi-telepathic communication down first.
How many retail investors make up the army? I’m gonna spitball less than 7m worldwide (the total number of r/wsb subscribers)

Then, I’m going to guess most of them can afford 1 share of GME at $300 and not much more.

Doesn’t sound like a very powerful army when you break it down into reality-based numbers.
Not too sure about the "fact" side of things. But the Internet has created opportunities for all sorts of people to get together faster than ever for all sorts of things.

You don't need >100% short interest for a shorted stock to go to infinity. A single share can do that. If I own all the shares, and you borrowed a single share and sold it back to me... well, good luck. Also these sort of attacks aren't really new. Short squeeze has happened before and various other similar ideas (attacking someone with leveraged positions or otherwise risky positions, including currencies). The interesting bit here is IMO the way these people, at least temporarily, acted together. Also the way the hedge funds couldn't grok that like they surely would if they were under attack from a more standard player.
The share capital of the company isn't fixed... The company could issue more shares, and invest the money raised, turning the business around.

That wasn't a possibility before, but it is now. Given that, I don't think "the range everyone knows it will fall to eventually" is a foregone conclusion.
And in the US, they push you through a system that doesn't matter. You can get great grades and have goals and aspirations, but when skills don't matter, it is pointless to try. All that exists is nepotism and family, the latter which most people rely on.

But most people don't even have that. America should read, "Don't bother trying unless you have family that will help and a dick to suck."
In the last couple of weeks two friends and I have built a simple brainstorming tool, written in Elixir, using Phoenix Live Views.

Features

* Anonymously invite people to your brainstorming - no registration needed. Usernames are optional.

* Easily create and upvote ideas, with live updates from your companions.

* Preview of links to ease URL sharing

* Cluster your ideas with labels

* Export your generated ideas to html or csv (currently comma separated)

You can host it yourself or use a service like gigalixir to spin up an instance quickly.
Anabolic steroid abuse; how dangerous is it? [pdf]
When group health insurance is provided in the US, employers and employees usually split the cost of insurance premiums. Both employers and employees can treat their premium portion as a tax deductible expense.

Additional copays and out of pocket expenses are completely on the employee.
> why not study both

Because time and energy are finite.
None of the companies you listed would gain much over current model. They would rather move to different technologies in case Java is abandoned.

> Companies that are able to maintain Java are X times larger than Oracle

With exception of maybe IBM which anyway is crapping out, none of the other owe their business success to directly to Java based product or services. If Java were to be abandoned they can easily migrate / rewrite their internal tools / products to a different platform even if it takes 5-10 years. It is not like current prod systems will stop working just by announcement.

Also to think further Oracle abandons Java , Amazon and Google would have huge incentive to either charge lot more for Java on cloud or redirect their customers to alternatives.
Please! All european countries have equal opportunity laws. If you are less qualified and do not speak local language, you will have a hard time!

Compared to most european countries, US is very xenophobic. We offer clear path to citizenships, after 5 years you get passport. Not this dreamer BS.
NoiseTorch is the one I use on my Pulseaudio-enabled laptop, https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch. It has a GUI and is very easy to install, seems to work well. Significant cpu usage when active, so I only load it when it's needed, but that's okay for me.
That would be the margin agreement that you agreed to when you opened your account.

https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/RHS%20Margi...
Yes it works, there's a bunch of standards (XEPs) describing how a client/server should handle unreliable connections, push notifications, etc. However, not all servers respect these. If you're setting up your own, it's easy to enable though.

Also a problem is iOS clients. Developing on iOS requires lock-in into the Apple ecosystem and most XMPP folks are free-software people so nobody will bother to buy Apple hardware/software specifically to develop for their closed ecosystem (i.e. unpaid labor for a multi-billion corporation), although i'm sure a lot of folks would be happy to do just that if that was sponsored work (donations, grants).

On Android, Conversations (or its forks Quicksy/Snikket) is the best. ChatSecure on iOS has been buggy for years (every time i tried with someone with an iPhone), but nowadays Siskin appears to be a good iOS client, though i haven't had the hardware/system to try it myself.
No, if you're ex-EU with a working visa and you lose your job, you can lose legal status in the country (unless you get another visa, whether that's another employer or something else)
Good point. OpenAI was a non-profit, but then they changed to be for-profit and were acquired by Microsoft. Same could happen to Signal.
Given higher-ups are either invested to some extent, or otherwise feel their prospects are aligned with the stock price because the investors will have them out if it doesn't do well enough, so I'd say the considerations always involve shareholder value. It might not be the only factor, and sometimes other factors win out, but it is always a factor.
Having Discussions doesn't gamify github, giving value to issue count/stars/... does.
Yes, frameworks are kind of like a smarter programmer starting you off with a code base already, so if you don't really know what you're doing you can't mess it up as much. I've still seen people mess it up, and generally it's when the developers begin to "play" with things they don't understand, like bringing in Aspect J, writing custom annotations, slowly moving logic to configuration files, starting to dynamically load modules in/out.

It's a bit of a struggle because an experienced dev will hate the framework, as they know better, but then as less experienced dev work on the code base it'll degenerate in a way the framework would have survived longer due to availability of documentation and Stackoverflow Q/A.
Linux has not copied the DLL hell problem. If you think that, you don't understand what DLL hell was.

I assume that by deployment of software, you mean "someone other a distro maintainer building and packaging software". That's no harder on Linux than it is on Windows or macOS (*) , it's just that Linux users have the additional option to get software from their distro too.

macOS: you put everything your app needs into ... well, a folder (with some required filenames and organization)

windows: you put everything your app needs into ... a folder (with some required filenames and organization)

linux: you put everything you app needs into ... a folder. Full integration into "the desktop" needs a few additional steps, easily carried out by an install process.

What is missing on Linux is a nice, clean, commonplace way for users to actually carry out the installation process for 3rd party (ISV) software that isn't packaged using the distro packaging system.

(*) other than issues with certain, ahem, toolkits that make it hard or impossible to statically link against them (and note: these are typically cross-platform toolkits, ironically).
An example:

> y = [1] ++ [2] ;; Assume types List[Int], List[Int]

> y[0] ;; This should return Union[Int, None]

> y[0] + 3 ;; This should fail type-checking

You /know/ the list isn't empty. Sure you can argue that /maybe/ we should be using NonEmptyList, but now imagine this code.

> y = [1, 2] ;; NonEmptyList[Int]

> y = (filter (lambda x: x % 2 == 1) y) ;; Has to return List[Int]

> y[0] ;; Union[Int, None]

Again, we hit into type issues.
Who's going to collect and sort all those lithium batteries laying around? And extract it from the batteries. The labor requirement is very heavy and doesn't scale well. Visit a landfill and try to find people who want to work doing that.
Hi, congratulations on the release! I admire your dedication - the amount of work you had to put in this project as a single developer is huge. I'd love to chat, but I can't find any contact info, would you be so nice and just ping me via wojciech.danilo@enso.org? :)
>"You have the brains of Silicon Valley and New York moving to Miami."

Is this true? All I've heard is money is moving there.
I agree. It seems very shortsighted to assume a highly advanced civilization would act in this way. Not only would creating Dyson Spheres be extremely visible (Dark Forest comes to mind), but I doubt that these type of civilizations would be energy constrained. Simple fusion reactor solves most of the energy issues.
The NFL’s Covid-19 Finding That Saved the Season
The submitted title broke the HN guidelines against editorializing titles. Cherry-picking a detail from an article and making that the title is a form of editorializing—the most common form, in fact.

I've replaced it with the first sentence of the abstract, which does a slightly more accurate and neutral job of expressing what the article is about than the primary title does.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s often exaggerated (as you say, bathing was popular in the Roman world, and also in the medieval Islamic world and even in many parts of medieval Europe), but ultimately they did not have sanitation (as in sewers, etc) to the same extent we do, and they had beasts of burden.

That said, I’m not sure to what extent this applies to Ancient Rome (as in Republic to fall of western empire). They _did_ have sewers, with public toilets attached to them, and they probably didn’t have that many horses wandering the street, as the horse collar hadn’t been invented yet. Ancient Rome presumably wasn’t as bad as a large medieval city (which wouldn’t usually have had proper sewers), and things may even have gotten worse later on, because at a certain point bathing really did become a lot less common in much of Europe (due to weird medical beliefs and religious objection to public bathhouses).
A simple game that I created years ago