skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re probably not aware of what is actually going on with your bank account. You can, and likely do enter into all kinds of transactions where money in the account being required is an illusion. You can write checks all day long against an empty account. You can use a debit card against an account with say $1000 in it, and then transfer the money out before the charge hits in many cases. Debit and credit card transactions have up to 30 days to post to handle things like network outages and billing work with vendors. We’re slowly getting to faster clearing transactions, but there is a lot of work (much of it social and business process) that needs to happen before it actually works that way most of the time. Folks like RH and retail shops swallow the risk involved in this (and do have problems from time to time) because individual transactions are small and they make up for it with increased revenue by streamlining the process.

Clearing houses are intermediaries that make sure both sides of the transaction are protected from brokers intentionally or unintentionally doing the equivalent of this, but with billions of dollars at stake.

A type of escrow service, essentially.

There is little benefit to making this go super fast, and plenty of potential scary side effects.

The clearinghouse in this case wasn’t short cash - it was asking Robinhood to pay in it’s portion of the common insurance fund ALL brokers pay into in proportion to the risky things they are doing.

Robinhood didn’t have the cash, so they negotiated doing less risky things instead.
> Think of the type variable as a template. The value of this kind of variable does not change.

This new logic can be applied to every other constant.

> When reading code with generics it does not even make sense to compare the names across two different functions unless they are methods in a class.

Agreed. But I don't think anyone was discussing that.
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Can someone ELI5 what problems are best solved by apache arrow?
It seems accurate information on short interest, etc, is very important for investors. Why can’t this be updated as often as possible (e.g at least daily) for the public?
The phones, yeah... Everyone can see what you're doing, how is that a good thing? I guess privacy has taken a nosedive in the future :D
Try and hold a birthday party on this so-called "commons".
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The argument wasn't strong in any way, in my opinion. The article itself limited the discussion by taking a demeanor that is effectively an attack on all college graduates because of anecdotal evidence misapplied as representative. There was no discussion as to what alternatives are to a college degree that employers might find attractive. The writing highlighted the insecurity and hypocrisy of the author. Mostly, the article was a waste of time to read.
I was digging around the Unix history repo and found a BSD program cat3a [0] written by Bill Joy in 1977 to "cat to an adm3a quickly". It blanks the screen and prints a file directly to the tty at 80 columns wide. Of course that's the terminal that he also wrote vi on - it has arrows on the hjkl keys.

[0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-S...
> Influenza typically has a mortality of around 0.8%

The Wikipedia article has a graph, which I assume you're referring to with this figure, which shows the mortality rate of 0.8% only applies to those ages 65+. The blended rate for a typical flu season, given in a table below, is <0.1%.
What you're describing is a very reasonable research topic with some supporting evidence.

What I'm saying is that nobody has delivered on any of the huge claims about the genome which genomicists made for the last 20 years, specifically in terms of actionable human health.

it's time to start calling the bluff.
For 3D printing, see this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26018507

I really like the idea of a "Teen Dance Club". There is honestly no place for young people to hang out. We used to go to the skating rink or walk around the local shopping mall, but the rinks are almost all gone and malls have made being a teenager illegal.
Hi Eskil from Australia :-) I remember you posted that on the page from 40 days ago also hehe. I have too many ideas myself already, so that one wasn't so useful to me, but was interesting. However, I really liked Drama in games[0] and I seriously loved How I Program C[1]. It's been a big influence. Thank you!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jb6Ecj7t8U

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM
This is the type of content we're here for! Thanks.
The other industries you mention have gone through similar changes though haven't they? Not long ago, "idiot", "imbecile" and "moron" were all terms with strict definitions in the field of medicine. Languages, terms that are strictly defined, even terms that are particular to a science or industry, evolve over time.
Huh? https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/steve-cohen-...
I’m not in sales but I remember my firm having sales pipeline meetings 20 years ago where sales people would talk about stuff that happened. It was all manual and anecdotal. So the sales pipeline was only in someone’s head or maybe a spreadsheet they hacked out once a quarter or whatever.

I think the difference today that the author referenced is that with Salesforce stuff like number of leads, contacts, conversion, revenue and profit per conversion, etc is all captured and reportable in sort of real-time. There’s still lots of gut inputs like how the meeting went or having people estimate probability of closure, etc. But now it’s more systematic.

I don’t know if it’s more successful, but it seems like I get more sales calls and repeat contact attempts.
Agree, especially handy with the support for email newsletters!
I loved Homebrew, but it really seems to have gone to shit the last couple years. Are they spreading themselves too thin?
The "he doesn't need money" argument cuts against there being any tangible upside to quid pro quo too...

Nobody who charges six figure fees for speaking engagements needs the money to put food on the table. Getting paid silly money for a night of patronising some organization you wouldn't otherwise care less about is an ego thing, and plenty of stupidly rich people enjoy their egos being stroked by speaking fees without having any other favours to offer. I mean, some stupidly rich people still enjoy making obviously corrupt manoeuvres too, but that's not necessary to explain why ex-POTUSes and Hollywood stars start being interested in being private party entertainment when the sixth zero is added to the bill.

And literally nobody would say "that's fine, he probably just thinks its fun to hang out with hedge fund managers" if the guy who repealed Glass Steagall insisted he was donating his time and reputation to helping hedge funds impress their LPs. Especially not if foreign telephone manufacturers wanting him to do a keynote speech were still willing to offer massive sums of money.
This is the (approximately) same graph for covid19 patients. If influenza was a "new" disease to the immune system of western people, it quite probably would be way more deadly. Original american natives would probably agree.
Germany has big supermarket groups. One of them is Metro. But they aren't all related to Metro. Much like in the U.K.
I'm all for finding alternatives to RStudio's dominance in the R space. No doubt they do some excellent things, but I also have a vague uneasiness at the cultishness surrounding some of their products. It sometimes feels like if you're not using the 'tidyverse', you're viewed as doing it wrong.

Anyway, this feeling set me off on an exploration of alternative tools and packages. Instead of rmarkdown I'm now exploring the pander[1] package, which seems to do most of what I'm looking for, perhaps only a little limited in output formats.

Edit: The Pandoc.brew examples might be most interesting from a direct alternative to rmarkdown for document creation context.[2]

[1] http://rapporter.github.io/pander/

[2] http://rapporter.github.io/pander/#examples
Armin from Sentry here: obviously biased but the term I like the most to describe BSL as used by Sentry is: eventually Open Source.

The BSL upgrades automatically to Apache 2, so the only thing that it does is establishing a time window where there are some restrictions on the code.

A theoretical version is one where you just only release code with a large delay under the Apache 2 license and keep the rest closed source. That's also still technically open source but I would argue that's not a particular good version.
"multihreaded programs" seems like a pretty big use case, and it seems to occur in just about every major multithreaded C program using glibc malloc.

I would agree with you if it didn't seem like other allocators are solving this without any tradeoffs.
Would this, or something else, be a good solution for producing XML-based output, similar to an HTML templating language?
"So long, thanks for all the fish"?
How to measure Product market fit? braimsdailyinsights
This is nice, but what I would really like to see is a tracker for heavy volume trading. If some hedge fund suddenly purchases 1% of a pharmaceutical company, I want an alert on so I can act on it quickly.

Does anyone know of a tool that does this?
Sad waste of resources.
Being able to middle-click something into a new tab is crucial for me. I always try that first, and if it doesn't work, I'm really annoyed.
Firefox used to support RSS, but they removed it in late 2018.
Until macOS is licensed to be installed on non Apple hardware that product will never truly exist.
Blue Origin launching a streaming service would be so 2021.
This was one of the pain points that made me move back to Linux on my devices, and I'm glad I did it. Homebrew is infuriating when you're used to real package managers.
47% of all podcasts were created in 2020
It actually does in Exodus 5:6-8

>6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’
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Congrats on the launch! I work at Oso [1], also an NYC-based security startup but with half as many consonants and co-founding Sams. cue spiderman meme

[1]: https://www.osohq.com/
if the internet is to be decentralized this it should all be block chain but i digress not going to happen.
I find this a little sad.

When I was at university I would find all sorts of crazy passions/hobbies/interests - building a projection TV from parts, improving my mobile phone signal/look/battery life, figuring out how to get logos and ringtones into my phone for free. The first two turned into hobby businesses that made me drinking money for years and even rent some months, the logos/ringtines got me my first web job.

Years later I was determined to do something interesting with video, and ended up starting an interactive video company with a friend, that to a degree still runs today.

I turned my passion back to mobile phones (as I loved playing with them figuring out what made them fun, and how sites could b great or terrible on mobile) and got a great PO gig as a mobile PO before showing how what we built could run the whole desktop site far better faster and cheaper, and becoming CPO of the company.

Maybe I've been stupidly lucky (I can believe it) but I've always had an interest in the paying work that I do, and usually am able to link it to a passion of mine - either because that is what I set out to do, or because I am well able to find that in the role and the people I work with.

I'm really sorry if you don't have that passion, and/or have only worked with people who are the same. Try doing what you love or at least enjoy - you might like it!

--

Edit - and on the payroll comment, I connected with the owner of SimpleTax years ago, and he totally had that passion. As a small business owner he was sick of doing his taxes and set out to make it easy for himself, the tool he made worked well so he dogfooded a basic site in Portugal, and then brought it to the UK where the tax system was similar and the market was bigger. When we met he was so passionate about what he was doing, why he was doing it and what it gave to his customers.
On Safe: Smart contracts ensure only the right people have read and write access to the data with no way to cheat. The records are also safe in case of hardware failures so there's no way the data can be lost in an accident.

Scalable: There are a few aspects of scalability. The one you are referring to and what most people think of is number of transactions which is indeed limited right now but for most data is good enough, especially with L2s like Optimism and zero knowledge rollups. The other aspect is social scalability. If you want a system of records to be available to more people then the organization running it is the ceiling for how widespread adoption will be. A birth records system for Peru will never be used by Brazil, the US, or anyone else. For a system to scale larger than a single country then it needs to be credibly neutral where no person or organization controls it and everyone can trust that the system is fair. That's the kind of scalability that smart contracts offer. Worldwide systems that scale to anyone who needs to use them.
> NOTHING has intrinsic value. [...] All built on sand.

That's... just not true? Many things have non-arbitrary value. You need dollars to pay taxes. You need real estate to sleep and work. You can make pretty things that last a long time from gold.
Do you mean influenza typically has a mortality of around 0.8% for those 65 and older? It has a mortality of < 0.1% for everyone from the same Wikipedia article.

And CFR, case fatality rate, won't include vaccinated people who didn't get sick so your final calculation doesn't make sense.
Apple can easily use some of their 30% cut of the scam app profits for validation: Apple certainly makes enough from “successful” scammy paid applications to cover costs as in the article example where Apple is also raking in $10’s of thousands from these fraudulent apps. Obviously free apps need a different mechanism.
Great that you are exploring new concepts.

I think you could highlight categories better on the homepage.

Don't add user votes to the dialogues. We know what happens to politics category after you do that.

But, add some user interactions like following a dialogue to receive updates about it. And also following a contributor to receive update about his/her dialogues.
> I do want to question the effect on the society, and the personal responsibility of everyone involved.

What does this mean?

There are many factors at play here. Aside from mortality, you also have to look at the R0. Covid 19 has a significantly higher R0 than seasonal flu (estimated 1.5 vs 2.5+).

In addition, many people have some immune resistance to seasonal flu, but there was no existing resistance to Covid 19.

You only have to look at the health situation in Italy, Portugal, UK and elsewhere to see the difference between the two. Or look at the excess death graphs.
Nicholas Taleb - Antifragile

Might also be one of his other books like Black Swan (I haven‘t read them all), but I think Antifragile mentions using options to mitigate risk in a portfolio.
Ran into this myself. Starting using `pyenv` instead. Never looked back. Allows you to maintain multiple versions of python outside brew's control and the system's.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

What's nice is you can find analog programs for a lot of different languages and platforms including

Node: https://github.com/ekalinin/nodeenv
Ruby: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
Terraform: https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv
Do I misread the concluding paragraphs?

"The skill required to bring a child in trouble safely through a vaginal delivery, however unevenly distributed, has been nurtured over centuries. In the medical mainstream, it will soon be lost."

"In a sense, there is a tyranny to the score. Against the score for a newborn child, the mother’s pain and blood loss and length of recovery seem to count for little. We have no score for how the mother does, beyond asking whether she lived or not—no measure to prod us to improve results for her, too. Yet this imbalance, at least, can surely be righted."
I believe I have noticed this as well with Ruby as well. All Gems work great, then, after a brew operation, I need to reinstall/rebuild against an updated Ruby. It's certainly frustrating and can bite you, especially since it is unexpected.
As a 90s Indian cricket fan, this was exactly my thought :-)
I like how people who don't learn out of school think nobody else can
So the more blockers a manager removes, the better the look to their manager.

It’s turtles all the way up.

I actually think that one’s compensation is correlated to how ambiguous the job duties are and how hard it is to measure success, given employment.

Stuff that’s easy to measure gets commoditized. Stuff that’s hard to measure, but still important is hard to staff, creates risk and is easy to mitigate with money.
Where my conda crew at?
If the market is so efficient, why did it take three years?
It doesn't matter, the German government hardly ever finishes their big projects. They just want to look good on paper and spend some tax payer money.
It's not quite that bad. Lots of motherboards connect the primary x16 to two slots, which can either be used as x16+empty or x8+x8. And x8 is quite a lot at 4.0 speeds.
hear, hear. I've been flagging and downvoting till I'm just disgusted. the HN community overall appears to be as credulous and naive as any other. If we don't take out the trash this place is going to stink.
This is sort of a special case. It's a matter of republishing
using the original file metadata and file contents, using the same domain but under a different path.

(Meaning the the current maintainers could fix this by doing a single "ln -s" command, ehrm. @ acc.umu.se.)
How did you find those options and decide they were a "good deal"? I'm curious about the details around how you implemented your strategy.
As much as I hate Amazon for those issues, I wouldn’t want to leave my prime membership. It’s almost essential to me now.
"A friendly face on a mail archive would be a great project management tool."

This is an excellent observation -- perhaps a bit weak as "project management" is commonly understood nowadays, but archiving and shared access to discussions like this is one of the purest _empowerment_ tools going.[1]

At the risk of sounding existential, it's worth reflecting on how the conceptually-simplest things are used in the most effective ways, in this case both for reaching a wide audience, and maintaining a snapshot of a conversation. [2]

[1] of course, nowadays we have WhatsApp,Telegram,Signal and others for that sort of thing :-)

[2] the conception of Google Wave (latterly Apache Wave) was a real glimpse of a possible new direction for this kind of communication.
I disagree. The lesson here is 1) figure out the memestocks before they become memes, 2) buy low and depending on memefication potential sell high.

At some point I was > 1200% with GME, but, I got greedy. I could have made bank in nearly every swing but hindsight is 20/20.

The goal is to outpace the market even with small amounts while investing most of the portfolio at safer stocks/long term plays. Ended up my GME saga at > 300%.
This would largely have saved RSS for me. I'd argue there was a glorious era in late 2000s where you could almost replace your browser with a good feed reader and get vast majority of news/info this way. It was just so nice to have a single UI surface for all news stories rather than poking through many different websites.

I understand my using the sites that way contributes nothing really to their bottom line, I never saw any ads, but that of course was half the appeal. The early days of "web2.0" people often just naively dumped everything in the RSS feed.
How do you test for the content of their character?
same for everything. 5950? where would you even get one?

wait - seems you can get one, just pay 2x list price.
The problem with ratings is that you are relying on altruism.

People doing the real ratings are not getting any direct benefit from the work to rate.

However, people doing fake ratings are getting direct monetary benefits.

Which of these two groups do you think will create more ratings?

For a consumer, I think the only thing that ultimately works is something like consumer reports which people pay money for and which do not accept any money or gifts or free samples from the makers of the stuff getting reviewed.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good point, I'm going to change the UI from a table to 'cards' so that it's easy to open many in different tabs. Thanks for the feedback
Works perfectly now, thank you :)
It's very "faster horse" syndrome. If people wanted to see the actual applicability of decentralized systems, they'd look into what's happening the early stages of the Ethereum platform building, specifically decentralized finance. But it's easier to just say "blockchain is a bad MySQL" and get 100 upvotes.
Ask HN: Have you ever used hreflang?
Returns are often negotiated on a per-supplier basis, though there are usually industry norms. Amazon for instance takes a few percent discount from suppliers to compensate it for returns and exchanges. Beset Buy usually returns unused merchandise, and sells open box items (often taking a loss).
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To be fair, 100G twinax is only 5m. Both Ethernet and Thunderbolt need fiber to go 100m.
Use Homebrew to install pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv. Then use those to install pythons and collections of packages. You'll have stable development environments.
I don't think you need the Qubit with the rapid prep.
Beautiful Racket is a really nice book.

I wish there was a long tutorial on DSLs + static analysis, preferably abstract interpretation.

Develop a DSL that is a bit beyond a toy example, and show how to carry out static analysis. All in one place.

I think this would help a lot towards making the goal of Racket, language-oriented design, more popular.
>The more absurd thing is criticism of Yellen on this part is being defended - by the White House press secretary no less as a woman's right to use her skills to make money. Yes, women should absolutely be able to rise to their talent and ambition

Everyone in the other comments is just assuming this as true, I don't see the sexism argument anywhere in what the press secretary said.

Anyone got a source?
Agreed! Thank you Arrow community for such a great project. It's a long road but it opens up tremendous potential for efficient data systems that talk to one another. The future looks bright with so many vendors backing Arrow independently and Wes McKinney founding Ursa Labs and now Ursa Computing. https://ursalabs.org/blog/ursa-computing/
I know this is frustrating, and I expect it affects more than just Python developers, but I think the author sums it up pretty well here:

> Homebrew’s Python is not for you. It exists to serve Homebrew, or more accurately, Homebrew’s other formulae. The primary purpose of Homebrew’s Python formula is to enable other Python-dependent Homebrew packages to work.

If you want to develop Python (likely Ruby/ PHP/ whatever), you are best keeping your dev environment separate from the interpreters installed for the purpose of running apps managed by Home-brew (or apt/ rpm/ etc).