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So to break Amazon monopoly, the users must be tracked all day long, have complete profile of every living person and these people should not be asked first?

Why not break Amazon through regulatory power instead of total population tracking?

I also don't buy the small local business argument. If a local bakery wants to reach me, they can put a sign or do a promotion like giving a free cookie with the coffee on my way to work. It will also benefit the local community instead of a soulless corporation in SV.

When there's no Facebook, there's no FB for all of these bakeries. I don't die out of hunger because I failed to see targeted ad, instead I look at the maps or walk around and find the shops or ask a friend for a recommendation. The bakeries can excel in quality, have amazing prices etc. to reach me, like the old days.

An optimised version of FB's business is one where all the 3 bakeries in my neighbourhood give all their margin to FB in attempt to sell me cookies. Even better for FB if they optimize their cookies for lowest possible quality, just enough that the ads can drive me to buy one.
If bots can hype up conspiracies to target political opponents then why not try it with something in finance?

Basically, astroturf these campaigns to target specific companies in the market. You only need a small dedicated core then the herd follows. As we have seen time and again with social media manipulation.
Launch HN: Scena360.com – Immersive gathering platform
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Hey HN!

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Having completed several remote internships and study terms online, we realized how much 2D calls suck, as do most users that we have spoken to. We personally felt anxious keeping our webcams turned on and staring at blank screens, joining "virtual work parties" and "virtual conferences" without being able to casually talk to people. On top of that, we got fed up with malicious video conferencing software.

Imagine that you're in a workshop: Seeing the speaker give a presentation at the front of the room, while you're having a side-discussion with the person next to you about an issue. Turning to the mentor walking by to ask a question. Walking over to another group to strike a chat with them. Talking to a person with their video turned on or a customizable avatar (similar to Bitmoji, Memojis) instead of a blank, muted rectangle. Knowing that your talks are protected with end-to-end encryption. These experiences are made possible with Scena 360.

On top of the above, we plan on expanding the room capacity to handle much more than *10 people/room*, potentially hundreds of people per room.

Scena 360 is built using A-Frame, ReactJS & WebRTC. We'd be happy to answer any questions about our tech or product (example: how we keep conversations private).

We would love to hear your feedback. What do you dislike about 2D video conferencing?
An exclusivity agreement for, as I understand it, a production line that the UK basically paid to set up in exchange for that exclusivity. Which seems like a pretty normal commercial arrangement.
People hate the gatekeeping but then complain when they get bitten by something they didn't understand. There's only so much you can boil this stuff down and if they don't want gatekeeping then they need to accept personal responsibility when it turns out that they didn't know as much as they thought they did.
At a minimum, when there is a switch between threads the floating point state of the old thread needs to be saved and the floating point state of the incoming thread loaded. This includes such things as rounding mode.

If the thread package was not setting up the "saved" state for a new thread before switching to it then that state could be not what was desired. The best thing to do would probably be to copy the current FP state of the parent at the moment the thread is created.

On a long series of calculations changing the rounding mode could well be enough to cause the difference in results the poster saw.

I would tend to the opinion that redoing the calculation with different rounding modes is in fact a not bad way to figure out how reliable the results are in the first place.

(the rounding mode is not the only thing affected by not saving and restoring the FP state correctly)
it's hilarious. people using ruby and python and wondering why they cant build web apps without copy pasting stuff off of stack overflow.
A dedicated ticket to go fix a button. That's a symptom of a pretty dysfunctional org.

If my requirements are that precise I'll farm that to offshored contractors.
Well, it's definitely a reward. But as I mentioned in my last reply, it's rewarding the wrong behavior if our goal is efficient price discovery.
They very likely aren't.
They just appear to be to the retail crowd.
In the old days, we had books and offline documentation (CHM, local HTML, man pages, etc.) to supplement our memory.

Things are more complex, but a lot of documentation is also now online instead of printed or distributed on floppies.
> But then I learned that the Oxford trials PCR-tested every participant regularly, while the Pfizer and Moderna trials only tested participants that were showing symptoms.

That seems substantial, weird and important. Source?
Facebook makes a bunch of profit right now from selling app install ads.

They would instantly start selling those apps themselves.

They would also instantly start selling apps that collect user data without consent.

Tell me again how that would be a flop?
Linux has a pdfgrep command which works pretty well (unless the PDF has images of text).
`Arc<Mutex<T>>` is not a shared mutable state. You cannot have two mutable reference at the same time. To mutate stuff inside the mutex, you got to hold the mutex, which guarantees that there are only one mutable reference at any given moment.

`RefCell` is one "escape hatches".
I was being contrarian hoping that someone posted the gold that was the person you replied to. The irony in that comment is incredible!
In 1993, the Windows Taskbar actually began life as tabs across the top of the screen:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-st...
Taiwan's strength is human capital, not natural resources. We should begin offering relocation and a path to citizenship to Taiwanese. If China really wants another island, let them have it. Without the human capital, it isn't worth much.

In any case, Americans should start making peace with some aspects of Chinese expansionism. We aren't going to start WW3 in the South China Sea over Taiwan, and if we did, there is a good chance we would lose.

Bring the best Taiwanese to the US and if China thinks they can get them back, then yes, its turn-the-launch-key time as that represents a threat to domestic soveriegnty.
Definitely a fun one.

A recurring theme when these things happen is people being incensed as they peek at the way things work. We scream "obvious market manipulation" and then learn how normative this is.

This story has been exceptionally good to follow because the mechanisms, as well as one half of the trades are all relatively simple and public. This isn't a scheme with super-complicated instruments and acronyms making their first appearances in the news. It's a simple strategy. Simple stocks. Simple shorts. Simple companies.

These /wsb nutters just found stocks that was aggressively and irresponsibly shorted. I've heard 140% of the total shares in existence. In theory (because who knows how tf it actually works irl), they now need to buy shares in order to sell them at the contracted price. There are only so many shares for sale, and the buyers have no choice. The /wsb nutters (and now also everyone who hates hedge funds) are holding to spite them.

Meanwhile, brokerage CEOs are hinting (and more) at market integrity-level issues yesterday. Solvency of clearing houses and other infrastructure stuff that we only hear about during a scandal.

This kind of makes sense, there are theoretical market conditions where prices go to infinity... which is the ultimate stretch goal for wsb right now.
It is entirely appropriate to consider Apple's conduct as anti-competitive and/or acting as part of a cartel, without asserting that the appropriate remedy is an injunction allowing Facebook to utilize user's unique device ID's to the benefit of Facebook's ads systems for ad targeting.

In other words, this particular case may help elucidate Apple's dominance/influence on the market, but that does not necessarily mean that the privacy changes in and of themselves are the foundational antitrust issue.
Next week: "Nine Investors Instantly Lose $16B on GameStop Stock 'Collapse'"
As a EU citizen, I agree with your assessment completely.

The EU bungled this and it would not be fair if we were to bully our way out of it.

It's sad to see this being a zero sum game, and no way you cut it people are going to suffer (already are) somewhere.

I was expecting a bit more decency on our side. Shattered superiority complex after Brits mismanaged Brexit, maybe?

Our lack of coordination and flailing in this regard is equally impressive.
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I read Matos. There is nothing indicating it was for fun. She was resisting arrest and they stunned (not Tased) her first in the leg and then arm and then neck in order to complete the arrest. They made sure not to zap her belly. She was fine, baby was fine.

As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned to not waste time worrying about assholes who engineer their own misfortune.

My point is that this seems like a case where the cops should have been (and maybe were) disciplined within the employment context, i.e. more training, suspension, etc. But I see little benefit to society to be gained by letting these guys be personally sued.
I think court needs to decide whether what is WSB doing is* illegal or legal.
A bit like the forex shops at airports that sell you the pound for $1.47, and buy it for $1.27, but charge "no commission"...
Most retail investors are just like WSB members, clueless newbs who know nothing about how the market works and it doesn’t take many to try the dumbest Hail Marys possible.

Occams razor tells you it’s not market manipulation because Robinhood wouldn’t last long enough for the law to do anything.

Do you really not understand how margin collateral requirements work, how close to bankruptcy this trade has pushed Robinhood, and how dangerous that is even for “winning” GME traders?
A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well.

The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor discoverability, since it's a modifier to the window drag action that has no corresponding buttons or "landing zones" like what you get if you try to tear tabs out of a Firefox window.
The actual squeeze hasn't started yet.
where are the crimes?
Isn't this essentially saying:

1. Make Apple build a strong permissions API that covers the filesystem, sensors, GPS, isolation, privacy, tracking protection etc.

2. Force Apple to provide this for free to all developers (allowing them to charge for access to list on the App Store)

?
>I think that shitstorm is preferable to allowing brokers to manipulate asset prices to protect themselves.

I don't think that "biting off the nose to spite the face" is the approach I would prefer when it comes to my money. And, I think, a lot of people would agree with me this.

Also, the whole "protect themselves" line sounds like pure outrage without thinking about the actual consequences. If your brokerage doesn't "protect itself" and implodes, what do you think is gonna happen to the value of your assets sitting in that brokerage (as well as the assets of everyone else in that brokerage)?
I am an old fart so when Twitter came around the UI was just confusing enough for me and at the same time I cared just a bit less than needed to overcome the activation energy that I still never figured out how to use it. Any time I read about the anxiety of being on Twitter I am fascinated anew at how isolated that community is and how little it all matters in the grand scheme of things.
Interestingly, there are documented bits in registers for marking whether you're running on an FPGA or as an ASIC.
It seems to be in fact instant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service
the 6-8 days to cover is based on historical volume is my understanding. If volume spikes 10x in a day they cover much faster. Besides, this assumes 100% covering, why would they do that vs. just incrementally?
Well established legal principles - ones old enough to be in Latin. "Nullum crimen sine lege" or "no punishment without law". Despite prevalent feelings of how it should be there needs to be an actual law broken to say they can't do that. Being a jerk isn't a crime.

Anything isn't literally correct - if Apple decided and openly "we don't serve Jews" they would rightfully get in big legal trouble from several fronts from Civil Rights to shareholder lawsuits angry about the needless illegal mess they just made. But if there is no law it really is against them.

Responsibility to society is a dangerously vague term and not backed by force of law for reason. Laws may fall under that as a label such as legally defined minimum of taxes but so do any number of potentially mutually exclusive opinions.

I have yet to see a coherent proposal for defining a remotely popular new law to restrict undesired behaviors - let alone one that would be constitutional as well.
1. As gateway to YC, Hacker News is somewhat driven by new users. However, new users are a reason HN is not as repetitive and narrow as it might be. New users are not mired in "insider" culture. Sure there are lots of low quality content generated by new users. But the good ones tend to stick around.

2. In my experience quality takes a hit around US presidential election seasons. I think this cycle was better than 2016 in terms of discourse.

The solution to a perceived lack of quality is to submit the class of articles you want to see and to write comments of the type you want to read and to avoid participating in threads that you consider low quality. Good luck.
Yes. I know someone who runs a blog that shows ads. Since Google adwords/sense and modern targeted ads became a thing their revenue from the business has basically doubled if not more.
At that point, though, isn't it just semantics?

If you have a chain, and throw out the beginning fraction, is that any more burnin than starting with X_b, which you probably had to find using some period of... burnin?

This is really all about time series heterogeneity which is a topic unto itself. Eventually the chain reaches some stationary distribution but in the meantime there will be some shift in the distribution potentially. Seems like you could model the chain to do some test of where the distribution shifts, if at all.

I imagine this is in the literature. Giving it a brief look I can't find anything but I haven't looked hard enough.
Ask HN: Writing in Notion – Offline Alternatives?
As a tech lead/architect of 20 years in the startup industry I'd say %70+ of my time is spent communicating concepts to engineers and to the business. My primary tools for this have always been diagrams and wikis, and with the arrival of Notion I've found myself rolling in the clover so to speak of communication goodness.

I also do a fair bit of personal writing, and traditionally I have used VIM (with prose add-ons like Pencil, Goyo etc.) to accomplish this however six months ago I switched the book I am working on across to Notion.

The experience has been largely a good one; I can easily create links to notes, maintain pages of background information and research on the various topics in my book as well as use it as a link-dump from my phone. I frequently bullet-point outline ahead of myself and bold/italic things that need re-work, all features that I never could do (well) in VIM/Markdown.

However, I miss my ability to go off-grid with my laptop and write, I miss my ability to check-in my commits to a personal git repository, I miss the ownership I had knowing that my data was in my own hands. HN, what can you recommend as a good WYSIWYG personal notion/wiki replacement?
I never thought that there is a benefit to working at a shop that is using an obscure, poorly documenyed in-house language. Since most of it is in conventions and institutionalized knowledge, the "core" of it that we actually use/type on a day-to-day basis is so small that it fits into everybody's mind, and it's getting constantly refreshed as well. No temptation to google anything, there wouldn't be answers anyway. And our in-house stackoverflow clone died from not being used years ago.

Wow this sounds terrible. But it's actually an awesome place to work at!
They could certainly have won by being clear on each screen.

They specifically positioned as the “everyman trading platform”, and so even from the drawing board they knew that the majority of app users would be people with little or no experience.

All they had to do to win was to say “Hey, I know this balance looks bad, but it’s actually not the final number and here’s why”, and similarly: to be explicit about why they automatically make margin accounts, and then to again mention that when people purchase stocks.
In the pre-web days I had a shelf full of O’Reilly books. Everyone did. But O’Reilly has gone down hill, and the popular tools have good on-line doc that is much fresher than a book can ever be.

Technical books have become a dumpster fire. Some publishers (I’m looking at you Packt) are so bad their books are not worth the space they take in a dumpster. Total waste of trees.
As far as I know Robinhood only lets you trade on margin if you have a pending transfer of money in. They also have a very low limit on that of $1000.
He conveniently left out the fact that Lehman was the only bank that wasn’t helpful during the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, not that it changes anything. Basically the other banks and the NY Fed decided to send a fuck you for not cooperating ten years prior.
Sorry just to fully understand, "credit lines" is the issue here, yes?
Depends.

Are you asking if I can make a web app from memory? Probably not.

I have ebooks, I have my Dash app which downloads documentation.

So while, I could technically do it without Googling, I can't do it without documentation. If I can't Google then I'd have to look at documentation and my ebooks.

Why?

Well, I work with a lot of languages and frameworks. I can't commit all these technologies to memory.

Few could.
Maybe if it was "Some white men", but to make a blanket, generic statement like that about a single group defined by sex and race seems pretty clearly to be hate speech to me.

Just imagine another description prefixed by another color and another sex and think how that would go down.
There are different rules, but there are rules and regulations there as well
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This is just not how it works.

Apple’s rules relies on both controlling the API and the App Store rules, to prevent tracking and other kinds of misuse.

Facebook’s store simply wouldn’t have rules against fingerprinting etc, and of course the Facebook store app itself could issue and manage tracking identifiers.
I played the Diablo games addictively for a while in the early-mid 2000s. Later when I got to doing some adulting I ended up in Las Vegas trying out some slot machines when it hit me what was happening any time a named boss died. The games lost all the magic after that.
OK so as a none techie why is it not genuinely instant? Why can't my cash be exchanged for the stock in real time (where real time is defined as within a minute or two say).
You wouldn't be able to transfer the money out until it settles.
I'm not sure that answers the question.

It's not impossible that Facebook and Google capture all of the value--or more--that their clients generate by running ads: Bob's Burgers runs $500/mo worth of ads, only generates $400 in (new) profit from them, but is afraid to stop because Paul's Pizza is also running ads and they might lose even more marketshare.
Why would next week in particular be a bloodbath for the shorts? I think you're falling victim to a sliding timeline here - when I asked people up until late Wednesday, they consistently said that today was the bloodbath day.
Realistically? Nobody is going to let DTCC go under, ever. But they don't want to be the one begging for a government bailout either.
Loss porn is a thing. WSB loves losing money.
Honestly this is a terrible look for Fintech. There's no conspiracy here. The legacy brokers who are way more tied to "Wall Street" have handled this a lot a better. These problems are being caused by incompetence at Robinhood. Someone needs to be held accountable.
Sure. The way to unwind the loans is for the people who loaned them to give them back, and then the people who bought them to sell them back. So shortSeller2 gives back his loaned shares to Buyer. But Buyer sells them back to shortSeller1 - and he doesn't have to sell them back for the same price he bought them, and he doesn't have to sell them to the same person. So he actually sells them to whoever will pay him the most. ShortSeller1 is paying $1/day to borrow the shares, and he sold them for $20. It's 5 days after the sale, and today Buyer1 is asking for $40. ShortSeller1 promised to return the shares after 7 days. What can he do to not lose money?
It is worth noting that publishers have been trying to adjust to the new economic realities, but this means they have to slash quality typesetting and even basic editing and proofreading. The result is that many books today are frustratingly sloppy compared to a few years ago, even from publishing houses that were once august and revered.
Really helps discredit this notion of retail vs hedge fund. Most people who frequently make “DD” posts to r/wsb have ties to the financial industry and Wall Street. They either work there or have worked there. And yet they are critical of the Man? This is like ex-Facebook employees having a found-Jesus moment.
> Is the UK heavily gerrymandered?

No it isn’t gerrymandered. And if it is very slightly accidentally gerrymandered in some places, that works against the Conservatives - Labour MPs often have smaller constituencies.

So no that’s not relevant or part of what is being talked about here.

The reality is that 43% popular vote for a single party in a system with four major parties, 10 percentage points more than their nearest rival, is nothing but an enormous popular vote landslide. The Conservatives are popular amongst broad sections of society, incomes, ethnicities, regions. All other parties serve limited niches so are fundamentally constrained.

Why don’t they form a coalition? Well I’m not sure they really have deeply shared values to do that. Many struggle to share values internally!
It's a neat question, I wish I had a good answer.
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It is also margin trading if you buy and sell before settlement. Buying a stock, selling it a day later, and using the funds to buy something else requires a margin account.

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/t...
I don't think I even have a starting point to make that comparison
I would favor “anti-user”, “user-exploitative”, or just “deceptive”.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with something that’s “pro-business”, and in fact I see “user-centric” or “user-driven” as being good business. “Pro-business” is bad when it comes at the cost of the user/customer/employee/etc.