skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other situations, the initial data entry depends on a trusted authority rather than a trusted other party. For example, real estate ownership deeds depend on qualified legals who write them correctly: you need to trust them to do their job, without mistakes, collusions, etc. at which point there's little practical difference between buyers and sellers trusting them to keep a public, official record with paper and electronic documents in their archives and trusting them to enter your transfer into a public blockchain system.
They can be like tagging. In what context do I know Jack?

I met him through church and at work. Maybe we have some other mutual interests.

How do I know Joe?

Coincidentally also through church and work, but we're both programmers (Jack is an engineer with different technical interests), we play soccer together, we enjoy seeing movies in the theater, and we participate in team trivia at restaurants and bars together.

By tagging people (or placing them into circles in the G+ sense), I can select which group to communicate something to based on selecting a tag or set of tags. "Hey soccer peeps, I'm going to take my ball and some cones down to the field at Central Elementary this Saturday if you want to come out and practice with me." directed @soccer_peeps.

Maybe throw a few groups together that aren't fully overlapping in general: @soccer_peeps @trivia_teamsters "Party at my place this Saturday, here's a link to RSVP and sign up to bring something."

I'm not forced to put everyone into a distinct category or circle, but can use loose taggings effectively.
The real question is why their blockchain team wasn’t already the same size as their perpetual motion machine team.
I was asked to modify an application to do just this for similar reasons. The issue was that the server was in UTC and someone had noticed that the copyright date was a year in the future on one of our web apps[0], which resulted in a help desk call on a holiday.

It was unhelpful that the individual noticing the problem worked in legal. We weren't told "last modification of the work" but we were told we could not display a date in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if "last modification of the work" is the correct approach.

[0] Someone didn't have a date for New Years' Eve, I guess.
Doubtful, everything is going web app these days. Web Assembly will help bridge the performance gap between native apps and webapps, which is really the last pain point.
While I do think the low global interest rates, national debts, general housing prizes, and, real valuable estate being hogged by hedge funds makes things significantly different from the 2000, I don’t think middle class stock options have. Sure you have fewer options because of the things I mention, meaning the only place to keep minor wealth is in stock, but the danger isn’t different.

Diversify and put most of your money into boring industries like water and energy companies that aren’t stuck on a single type of fuel, and you’ll be alright.

People who shoot for the moon are playing the lottery and most of them are going to lose. It’s always been like that, and I don’t think that’s different now.

I’m much more worried about the inequality we’ve created. I’m a boring investor, and the worst stock I have from 2000 is Vestas, and it’s up around 900% since then. This isn’t take me to the moon money like the gamblers who get it right earn, but it’s 900% more than all the people who live pay check to pay check.
is this you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941867
The current president often has a deep dislike of the former president and entities perceived as close to him, and can quite happily make decisions unfavourable to your company safe in the knowledge that the speaking circuit won't be short of other people willing to pay him.
You can’t fix stupid, but you don’t have to lead it on either.
I could see the braking being an improvement. But I just don't see it justifying the decrease in range.
Yelp set the standard for incompetent, useless rating systems. Somehow it's even worse when they can verify purchases, use time, etc.
Actually thinking about it, they have massive opportunity.

They are on the brink of maker movement event.

Potential end of covid (or at least restrictions), people will look for places to meet and chill together.

Its not going to be easy, but they have an angle here i think.
So glad someone is throwing down the gauntlet on this topic. She's gone deep on it with the data as well.

An undergrad provides very little that is distinguishing these days and the distribution of "goodness," it imbues is long-tailed. However, where she sees this obvious discrimination as stupid, I see disruption and arbitrage opportunity. Very excited by these observations.
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> That anger makes people lash out to try to change the status quo, which in this case caused Redditors to buy GME in spite of its ridiculously high valuation

Is it anger motivating people to buy?

I get mixing anger in with the greed and hysteria. Were I to play blackjack with the house being, I don't know, the Sackler family, I'd certainly get a high out of it and I'd certainly bet more. But I wouldn't be at the table because of the anger. The anger would just amplify the other motivations.
We're in a really bad place as a society if folks can't provide a publishing platform without being accused of "enabling hate".
Probably for same reasons as why slot machines with minimalist aesthetics don’t exist
It's your lack of perspective and imagination that makes you think payroll admins do not like their jobs. It is far from obvious that this is true.
> Maybe people worried about protecting their wealth should just hire out those roles instead of getting married. I wonder why they don't. :)

A lot of people do. What point were you trying to make by assuming its not happening a lot?
Same here. I used to love talking shit on WSB. Unfortunately that can’t happen anymore since the culture has changed completely.
Long time members know just how awesome that community was, and I think it’ll never be the same.
Thanks for the feedback.

Faker is a lot of fun - you should try it out!

Videos - makes sense. We will get one done soon.

Teams - for now, we are focused on Slack itself but as soon as we are ready to build for the next platform, Teams it would be.
This video from 1999 clearly shows how customer obsessed he was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxwjzVW7z5o
People have been saying that(HFs having made more money out of this than they lost/will recover in a short time) for a while now, but I doubt that a lot of the cult-like newbie flood on WSB/other investment or crypto subreddits that has been getting "we rekd the billionairs" drilled into their head for the past 3 weeks in every crevice of the internet will acknowledge this.

You can still see people "just pumping their life savings" into GME on there. I sincerely hope that they know what they're doing.
The market clearly decided that investing a trillion dollars in speculative capacity was not valuable. Absent Federal intervention (in the US at least), where would the money come from? Had the Trump Administration utilized the Defense Production Act to nationalize the necessary resources, then perhaps we would have had the necessary capacity by now, but it decided to go with "Warp Speed" instead.
Nice catch, this person really has a beef with the Racket community [0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941867
Gasoline is only flammable in a narrow range of air/fuel ratios. Too much air and there isn't enough fuel to sustain combustion, too much fuel and there isn't enough air. There are plenty of people who have demonstrated dropping a match into a gas can and the match goes out with only a slight poof of a flame. Full gas can can sometimes survive the building they are in burning down (if the can is sealed - doesn't melt - there is never enough air inside to light the fuel)

That isn't to say gasoline isn't dangerous. However it isn't quite as dangerous as you seem to think.
If they were given the job because of their position in the government, why does it matter if the job is as a professor, author, talking head, or executive? It's all "profiting from the position."

The debate seems to be over the price. $700k / yr from lecturing to hedge funds is bad but $150k / yr to do the same at Harvard is good?
The issue is what to do when you can't reverse the transaction because the other end (goods, stocks, etc.) is already gone.
Never heard of those ratings but asking for any kind of recommendation in /r/scifi guarantees you a recommendation for The Expanse. Years of this practice were bound to produce results outside the sub.
Does anybody even buy “apps” any more? Google and Apple have such terrible stores, I think the last “app” I actually bought was like five years ago. Plus they all seem to stop working with regularity. The phone and tablet scene is trash and it’s mostly the fault of Google and Apple.
of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but I don't see any reasonable view of that being the truth. Season 4 is a little like that but 5 is firmly the best of all the rest of the seasons and it has a ton of Hard SciFi in it.
I would be interested in seeing an audit of their emergency-raise and the reasons for it.
Simultaneously shouting 'just build your own platform' and 'there is no censorship' is a neat trick.
There are limits based on the size of the binary that apple will allow on the app store. In addition, here's a really interesting story about how uber had to fight to downsize the app cause they realized that staying under the cellular data limit made people able to download the app when they were on the go: https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845
Unfortunately I cannot use nor recommend AWS after their recent deplatforming of Parler. And that added to the already questionable business practices at Amazon and bad treatment of workers etc.
13Fs (reports that show what certain funds are holding) are filed quarterly. While you can see who owned GME as of 12/31/2020 the flows of the past few weeks is not public knowledge yet.
What about holding the charge from regenerative braking?
Nothing about Elons valid and, in my opinion, morally correct statements disparaging short sellers was creepy.
The Legal Rights of Extraterrestrials (1977)
IBM has lost almost all of its CPLEX (optimization) team (2020)
Last time I looked into Nanopore the cost wasn't that much better where you'd even consider this experiment.

On the other hand, when doing a genome assembly, the Nanopore reads are good for a draft sequence and then the Illumina reads can be used to polish the sequence.
In my testing I couldn't tell the difference between Java and Clojure performance solving the same problem. Probably because Clojure is lazy in many cases (or the implementer can choose a lazy implementation) where Java has to be eager all the time.
I provided two specific examples, where if we had a case study like that, I would be convinced. What I want to see is two people handling the same object but not breathing the same air. Could be a delivered package, a delivered food container, or any object brought from an index case to an infected person by a third uninfected person.

This is precisely what people were worried about with everyone washing their groceries back in March/April, and I don't believe there is a single case that's been shown to have resulted from something like this.
This is exactly the problem. Every thread has 1000s of comments and it's very hard to find the good ones since 90%, including many of the most upvoted ones, are garbage. Cannot blame them given the 7M members who joined the sub in 2 weeks. For now I stick to r/stocks.
Sudo_pair – 2FA for individual `sudo` commands
I thought the goal was to punish the HFs that were shorting GME, which was pretty much achieved. I don’t think anyone(reasonable) was expecting the rest of the financial market to sit back and watch and miss the opportunity to join the party.
I also still use RSS:

http://www.mattowen.co.uk/files/rss.jpg

My home-grown 'reader' - Importantly, it only shows what's currently in each feed - there's no history, which removes the stress of 1,000 of unread articles piling up.
Even if posts/comments critical of GME make it through, they will get downvoted to oblivion.
WSB has become just another giant echo chamber.
To give the author the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they said it was illegal discrimination. For example, not hiring someone because of their race in 1963 was not illegal, but it was definitely discrimination.
>> Not saying that you’re wrong, just saying that the computational folk tend to discount the challenges and skills required in the wet lab.

It's time to bring in the industrial automation folks. They probably won't invent a fancy new algorithm to reduce the time to splice the pieces together, but they'll fine tune and automate your reader to the 9's.
Maybe my side project rss-proxy [0] might be interesting for you. It automatically transforms static HTML markup to RSS, so ideally you would not need to write a parser manually.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
Pedantic trolling noted; I’ll engage just to hone my thoughts.

Every production rocket is fully expendable. Launch, expect discard of 100%* of launch system. Starship is designed for 100% reusable, with same-day fly/land/refuel/repeat. That’s obviously a huge difference.

* - exceptions:

Space Shuttle discarded most of the launch system, acting as glider to return crew/cargo and some engines. Reuse turnaround was months, with extensive repairs expected. Boosters required prolonged recovery and refurbishing, with high likelihood of loss.

Falcon 9 is only one remotely viable for same day return to pad and reuse of first stage. Second stage is discarded.

SN# is a fast-reuse second stage. Landing involves leveraging the terminal velocity physics of a brick (not gentle glide of Shuttle), followed by effectively flipping a 16-story building ~90° in free fall with powered deceleration to 0m/s in less than 2km vertical.

Nothing in the industry resembles the fast launch/fall/relight/reorientate/decelerate/land/refuel/repeat sequence, of SN#. There is no established industry specifications addressing such operation. And as the history of rocketry shows, establishing such specifications practically involves lots of crashes. [cue How Not To Land A Booster]
The submitted title was "Yellen Accepted $700K Speaking Fees from Citadel; Will Not Recuse from Hearing". That broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Cherry-picking a detail and making that the title instead is the primary form of editorializing, so please don't do that. Titles are by far the biggest influence on threads. On HN, submitting an article doesn't confer any special right to frame the content for everyone else.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Are the protagonists mainly women? I have a hard time relating to shows without male protagonists.
5 is much better IMO, I didn't love 4 but 5 really feels like it took season 3 and stepped it up a notch.
First they take your guns. Then they take your memes.
many hedge funds live off volatility, it's hard to imagine a system like this where they wouldn't on average do well.

That same volatility is brutal to small investors, again on average - lack of information and high latency isn't your friend here.
Just because a fund’s normal MO is to buy and hold doesn’t mean they’re asleep at the wheel and won’t react if their value hypothesis is (more than) realized overnight.

(Ontario Teacher’s Pension Fund sold almost 25M shares, for example https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/reddit-fe...)
> Logistically, this is the stupidest way to bribe someone. There is a clear paper trail and everyone knows about it.

In other words, it's perfectly legal bribery, and thus the smartest way to bribe someone. Just like political campaign contributions.

Why risk illegal bribery when you can go the safe route, where everyone knows, but nobody goes to jail?
You are getting it backwards.

Do you know always who is on the other side of a purchase that you do online? I can bet you don't, yet you still do business because you trust the intermediary (credit card provider, Amazon, whoever) to ensure that both parties are getting what they want.

Blockchain and "trustless" systems are there for people who want to make business but do not have these intermediaries, or when the intermediaries themselves are not trustworthy (corrupt governments, inefficient companies, etc).
I wouldn't be surprised if hedge funds overall made a profit and retail investors overall made a loss in the GME fiasco. More likely than not, even.

My pet conspiracy theory is that WSB is just a cat's paw for another hedge fund that saw an opportunity to make money and wanted to try out a new approach.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that. Obviously not the entire body of his work. :)
Measuring intermittent sources by raw price per watt hour is misleading. How much does solar cost at night? Or wind energy on windless days? A lot more because it needs to be stored and retrieved.

Shaving 10-20% off fossil fuels with intermittent sources is easy. Actually decarbonizing the energy sector with intermittent sources is much more difficult, since demand and supply do not match up.

Contrast Germany and France. The champions of intermittent sources and nuclear energy respectively, and take a look at the CO2 per KWh: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
Isn't this more from the entire ecosystem of web hosting? In terms of basic hosting needs AWS doesn't do much uniquely that allows for tiny teams to do their job.
> I feel like at one point, this kind of customer service was the norm

When?
They’re still selling Delphi, for what it’s worth
The key difference being off camera.
> Perhaps a more effective solution would be for Apple to aggressively legally pursue bad actors like the group that churns out these apps. Make them hurt financially as an example to the next people who might entertain similar ideas.

Maybe a year or so ago Amazon started to aggressively pursue legal action against a few people who were abusing their return process. People who were clearly and egregiously stealing millions of dollars from Amazon via fraudulent returns. I haven’t seen any follow-up reporting but I would love to know the numbers behind the cost/benefit. It doesn’t seem to have had any impact on customer experience and I have to imagine there were others similarly abusing the process who have since stopped. I suspect the approach has largely paid off.
Apple’s App Store grossed more than $64 billion in 2020, according to an analysis by CNBC:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/apples-app-store-had-gross-s...
> This has really nothing to do with Apple, and largely how our 5 star rating turned out.

Apple's goal is to provide a great experience.

Searching for a thing and having to wade through a bunch of crapware or install some scammy garbage is not a good experience, let alone a great one.

So even though it's not necessarily Apple's "Fault", it is in their best interest to fix it.

It's also good developer relations, something they need to focus on a bit more. This is one of the places where Apple can really be focused to demonstrate the value developers are getting for that developer commission.
I just realised .. this site is probably older:

http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/

but in the mid-2000s, when I discovered it was dying, I restored it here by finding images on archive.org:

http://l8r.net/geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/

Not necessarily as per topic, but it was quite amusing at the time. Still a little funny now, at least to me.
Here is what I see in my access logs:

[30/Jan/2021:12:58:03 +0000] "GET /blog/rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 22757 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 91 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"
[31/Jan/2021:12:58:04 +0000] "GET /blog/rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 22757 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 91 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"
[01/Feb/2021:12:58:13 +0000] "GET /blog/rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 22757 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 91 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"
[02/Feb/2021:12:58:19 +0000] "GET /blog/rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 22757 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 91 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"
[03/Feb/2021:12:58:30 +0000] "GET /blog/rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 22757 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 91 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"
There are plenty of "Average people" that entered near the top, and since not everyone can sell simultaneously, that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down.

I think the point being made here is that the whole narrative of "average people beating wall street" is pretty naive and quite bullshit. All in on, maybe a few handful of people got 10x or even 100x their money, but most of the gains were most likely made by hedge funds and with the exception of one or two hedge funds who were squeezed, the majority of losses will probably be by average people.
> You have people complaining and asking for recusal. It's negative publicity and a hindrance to corrupt acts.

A lot better than prison though.
Is heap management that far from the algorithmic headaches of Garbage Collection? Compiled languages typically are "arena allocators" by default and probably don't hit these similar heap management/paring/centralizing/compaction problems until they do a ton of dynamic datastructure allocations and manipulations.

... and they get to punt to the OS too.

I'd certainly believe this isn't a "solved" problem.
I mostly want to point out that, when discussing ancient history, objective data are only one facet contributing to the interpretation of past events. Most people prefer simple, straightforward answers or interpretations (i.e., the "correct" answer), but the world and greater universe is filled with complexities and subtleties that should not necessarily be overlooked when seeking understanding.
Okay, do what's your play, here? You sit 2021 out, the s&p froths up to 5.5k over the next 18 months, and then crashes down to 3.7k? And you perfectly time buying the dip? (Unlikely.)

You'll still lose money, compared to just buying and holding.
Firstly, it wasn't produced in large quantities in February. They have to do trials against the mass produced article, not lab samples.

Secondly, it would be extremely unethical to overlap phase 2 & 3 trials, when there are effective NPIs.

The lessons of unethical medical science, like Tuskegee and experimentation on armed forces personnel, must not be ignored. And yet that is precisely what your ref Eyal[1] is proposing, because practically none of the safeguards can be achieved.

Efficacy trials require a much larger participant group, given the still low infection rates. I don't see how one can justify giving a candidate to 100k people before safety screening, especially when the downside risk is significant risk of death if they ever catch COVID.
Right, but, it actually is the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan. It's not simply the name, it actually is the pension fund for Ontario's teachers.