skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red tapes created by non-doers. They have no skin in the game, so they don't care about effects of their decisions on doers. In my org, they decide that everyone should use certain component. Sure it might be better component but they never actually used it, they just read about it, maybe vendor bought them a few expensive dinners. Now developers have to implement it. They come up with deadlines based on what vendor said. And devs have to reprioritize their projects, meet their deadlines while also working on features that customers or product managers want.

The worst is when two different non-doers come up with conflicting requirements and refuse to revise.
Of course she won't recuse herself. That wouldn't benefit Citadel at all. And they paid her expecting benefits.
Are There Any Real Benefits of Having Pets?
Did that there may be a effective bond among animals and human beings?
one of the more stunning and unifying factors of humanity is witnessing the super lengths a few animal lovers will go to for his or her animal partners.
Non animal lovers won't get it in any respect...
Why don't they let me order a PS5? I know they are out of stock but they will be getting more in. Put me on a list and ship it to me in 6 months or 18 months or whenever they have stock again.
From one of the videos of Sabine Hossenfelder [1]:

> Science does not say, "You shouldn't pee on high-voltage lines", it says, "Urine is an excellent conductor"

and I just love that quote. By constantly going "listen to the scientists" we actually create the impression of proper research and scientific knowledge being just another opinion.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGVIJSW0Y3k
I asked for examples.

The only reason outrage seems justified is that the demographics of those that can charge $300k a speech appears overwhelmingly dominated by government officials.

I'm open to being shown otherwise with explicit links.
I think your cynicism is warranted here, and this crap is a major reason I never wanted HRC for president. If you wondered why stories about trump's foreign emoluments, the Goya ads, etc. never went past some ragefests in left-leaning media... look no further than the politicians on both sides of the aisle drooling over their own future income. Not all on either side, but an overwhelming majority.
I don't equate speaking fees with bribes. Especially in this sector

The type of people who would overlook crimes by others because the company that the criminals worked for once paid them to give a speech & attend a mixer is probably not the type that would work at the SEC for any meaningful length of time. The pay disparity is just too great.

Malicious people work for the SEC just long enough to understand the inner workings and/or collect critical intel that they can leverage into private sector jobs.

If Yellen lacked scruples, she would have gone into the private sector after leaving the Fed. But instead of collection a probably 8-figure paycheck, she opted to continue to work in government. Which indicates to me, that she takes pride in doing her job well.
I have Tiamat's Wrath waiting, maybe I'll pick it up again this weekend.
a) Preordering and preloading games from digital stores isn't a new thing either. Internet connections are improving but are they improving at the rate of how large AAA games are becoming?

(A little anecdote, I recall downloading video games on Steam 10 years ago and it took me on average a few hours. Now in the present, newer games like RDR2 took me days.)

For b), I'm with you. GameStop does have an e-commerce platform, so they're hardly exclusively brick and mortar. Walmart and Target hasn't disappeared because they're suddenly competing with Amazon. But cmon, there are highly upvoted posts in this thread speculating all video games are digital only within 5 years. Do you believe that?
> Perhaps I'm being too conspiratorial or cynical

No need to doubt yourself on this one :D

In a sense I feel like this kind of corruption is a bit like short selling.
You perform a corrupt act in the present with a tacit understanding that, at some point in the future, the beneficiaries of that act will pay you back.

The fact that this is a temporal play makes it seem like its not corrupt, but in fact all it does is put white gloves on the same kind of dirty deeds that happen in poorer countries all the time.
I’d be too scared to return that much. Getting banned from Amazon would be annoying. Unless you aren’t actually returning that much.
I suspect that most of these problems are being actively worked on.

Unfortunately, while it's relatively straightforward to e.g. detect fake reviews in a static dataset, it's a constant arms race when you're doing so in an online adversarial setup. Same goes for counterfeit 3P goods.

Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but not anywhere near the retail side.
Fake reviews are a problem here in Europe, but I haven't heard of counterfeit goods.

What I don't like of Amazon now is how it is flooded with Chinese crap. It looks like Aliexpress.
Love this comment, it is the epitome of Hacker News. It points out all the ways the OP is wrong, while simultaneously confirming the OP's point in the first place: don't be a retail trader because you're not properly equipped.

For myself, as soon as I realized that retail trading doesn't make much sense, I personally haven't bothered learning an exactly specific mental model of why. You almost need to be a professional finance person to even understand the specifics here. For now my model is: "making money in derivatives markets is really complicated and hedge funds invest large sums to counter this risk, so unless you're willing and able to match their investment you're unlikely to see their returns."
If you want to see something just as dirty, dive into the world of book deals for politicians.
I'd concur that The Expanse S01E04 "CQB" is one of my favourite episodes of television.
Django has the sign in stuff built in and stripe can provide the payments quickly, they even provide the payment forms.
I’m living in Europe but a year after the spread of Covid-19 this Atlantic article¹ is still relevant.

I live in a city so I can buy from local, brick-and-mortar retail almost exclusively and I prefer to support specialist stores over general, e.g., buy vegetables from the local fruit-and-veg shop rather than the supermarket. However, I’ve been very frustrated by the fact that pharmacies I’ve gone to don’t have any better a selection of masks than other shops. I’ve also yet to come across any masks that have some sort of quality mark or certified to some standard. I find it crazy that the majority of masks for sale to the public are “fashion masks” which offer no guarantees of effectiveness.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/01/why-arent...
Ask HN: Are there any good non-Google swipe keyboards and maps for Android?
I recently de-googled with LineageOS (so no access to Play Store), which has been AMAZING. Lineage is better than Android 10 and has better theming etc.

However, the two things that I'm missing the most are the swipe keyboard (Google's seemed to actually learn any unique words/acronyms that I'd use) and a good maps/GPS app for directions while driving.

For the latter, I can always fall back to in-vehicle navigation or a regular GPS device.

For the former... it seemed like there were a number of swipe keyboards when that was a hot tech area back in the day, but there don't seem to be any available in F-droid. Am I missing something?

(Of course, local speech recognition would be great as well, but that's traditionally not a strong open source area.)
> That doesn't make any sense. These jobs don't exist in the private sector.

Hmm?
If Yellen wanted to sell out, she would have worked in industry. Janet Yellen had the job of leading the most important bank in the world, yet her salary was that of an third-year at Citdadel. At the end of the day, a couple hundred thousands of dollars for a talk is nothing for Citadel. Companies will often spend more than that for private concerts.
If you are middle class and you don't pay taxes or hide your income, IRS will come down with the full force of the law.
Prosecution for the serfs
Non-prosecution agreements for the Club.

"Its a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin
Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache DataSketches as Top-Level Project
Although there was a tax compliant way to accomplish everything they did, still without paying more to the US, The divorce started all this.

Divorce laws are far too simplistic and rely on the concept of a “unit” with both spouses being equal partners by mere nature of showing up. This seems to be a stretch of the imagination with a reality having diminishing returns. For example, even with a spouse providing some form of unpaid labor, the level of utility in how that helps the other spouse is not unlimited, it would be closer to (O)logn. It should have a specific value that is quantifiable. This does not seem to be part of discussions and in most places seems to be the most egregious thing one could suggest! In any other form of financial partnership, this is easy to quantify or at least there is greater flexibility in setting it up. One example - which I am not suggesting is applicable to marriage - is how vesting agreements really help give the (O)logn compensation path.

I have seen some divorce laws that seem holistic, specifically Monaco’s. Which provides a limitation on alimony as well.

For people that actually own assets outright (not mortgages but the whole asset) There is also fairly easy estate planning possibly even in “community property” states to separate assets from before a marriage. So thats another wealthy privilege.

Fixing all of that would fix what would even be attempted to be listed in a divorce court proceeding.
Yeah a bit of a low estimate there. I'd say it's as least twice as much as that.
>a ruthless focus on the customer.

If by that we mean "token goodwill gestures where it doesn't hurt our bottom line", then yes.
Space Jam's website from originally 1996 is still up: https://www.spacejam.com/
Celebrity commencement speakers, for example https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/02/matthew-mccon...
This site's categories top out at >$200k, but that category includes Aaron Sorkin, Alec Baldwin, 2 Chainz, Brett Farve, Criss Angel, Dara Khosrowshani, Gordon Ramsey, and James Dyson (I got bored of scrolling but there were a lot more too).

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/searchfee.php?fee=6
it isn't for everyone. it especially isn't for people who can't resist peeking at their phones when watching. it requires (and deserves!) attention.
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its the same as asking a prostitute to play a main role in a short porn movie in which you’re the second actor. totally legit and you ahould see the face if you ran into undercover operator on the orher end.
At least for rust, a librs would be hard to create due to the lack of a stable ABI. So even if you did a pure rust libstd (like the now defunct Steed[0]), you'd still need to either manually link that libc (breaking the mitigation), or rebuild your program each time the distro updates either libstd or the rust compiler.

I'm not sure what the situation for Go is. Assuming Go has proper support for dynamic loading and a stable ABI, it would be doable.

[0]: https://github.com/japaric/steed
Although this is clearly a fluff piece for Gov De Santis, as a software dev and someone who grew up in SV and moved to FL in 2009, I still regularly travel back to CA for work and contrast is staggering now. Forget the ridiculous housing costs, the biggest thing that gets me is the homeless tents in metro areas (SD, LA, SF) and literal shanty towns on the sides of the freeway in Burbank and SV.

My parents have since left for FL also and my brother for CO, but my extended family still in CA think the sky is falling here in FL because we have no lockdowns and open restaurants, gyms etc; only to come here for vacation and realize that its simply not the case and life proceeds as normal +masks. My wife works Covid ICU's at multiple hospitals, and while stressed, they are not at all overwhelmed.
At home, does it really matter all that much how fast it is? I would suspect that overnight is fast enough for most. Charging stations could have buffers.
So you are saying there is a clean cut between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Chair from the finance sector? And somehow she is also a "financial professional" at the same time, which is just fine?
> The struggle for agency and control in today's world isn't a light one, and it involves sacrifices.

But whose sacrifices? The blind kid who has shitty screen reader integration? The overworked professor who can't deal with your LMS integration? Why not ask the users whether they would prefer to use the FLOSS applications? You might be surprised when they say no.
Given that blockchain is exclusively a workaround to lacking a trusted third party, approximately what fraction of economic activity would be revolutionized by not having to trust anyone?
> If Yellen wanted to sell out, she would have worked in industry

What do you think Yellen is going to do 4-8 years from now?
China hangs its fallen oligarchs. Here you just buy off politicians and threaten media with lawsuits if they don't tow the line. Literally a reporter walked off set this week, because a guest strayed too far into lawsuit territory. And a voting machine company sued a politician for a Billion Dollars for disparaging its black box results. All in the last month. While I support everyone having their date in court. I think its safe to say that in the last year, millions of people both left and right have woken up to how politicized and crooked the justice system is.
Three Strikes Rule for Blogging
Those speeches weren't while she was a public servant.

This amounts to an argument that people can't go back and forth between the private and public spheres. To be fair, this is something some people believe, and was very visible in the case of Ajit Pai outrage. But if that's what we're saying, let's be clear about it.
Yes, but what about sales tax (close to 10% in Cali), gas tax (68 cents per gallon), property tax (either directly or through rent) etc etc.
A payroll administrator does not like their job and does enjoy solving their employer’s problems. This is so obvious that I feel like you’re trolling. I’m done talking to you.
> To be fair they selected it quite some time ago now.

They've had better fuel options from the very beginning. I guess they didn't have space cycles to additionally solve this issue; hope they'll come back to it.
How to validate market demand for app MVP?
What are the most effective streams of testing market demand for an MVP? I've built my app's MVP and now want to validate it. So far I've built an landing page to capture interest and reached out to organisations to find users to test. What other ways have worked for you?
They do though. I linked to a speaker's bureau above and Bradley Cooper(!?!) gets $200k/speech.
Quantum Computing Leaps Forward with New 'Gooseberry' Chip
evasive != invasive
Looks promising... I'll try it with my team later today.
> i do not approve of the way they treat their minimum-wage workers

Amazon doesn't have minimum-wage workers, at least in the United States [1]. The starting wage at Amazon, $15 USD per hour, is more than twice the U.S. minimum wage.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/business/amazon-minimum-w...
And property tax and gas tax and ....
No, the key word here is comply. Which you do not have in your title.

Its very different to order twitter to remove something vs. ordering them to COMPLY to a court order

I cannot believe nothing is being done about this and inflammatory and misleading titles are accepted on HackerNews.
I'm failing to understand how this excuses the bribe.

It's also possible that she's more valuable to Citadel in her current role. They might not want to remove her from it.
> is pretty unforgiving to any thoughts that don't fit one of a couple of echo chamber themes.

sounds better in ther converse: "it's pretty forgiving of thoughts that do go along the predilect tropes"
That was very surprising. If I buy shares in Lockheed Martin, can I claim "national security" too.

It is a very powerful and opaque defence. Companies use it all the time too to avoid anti-trust action (AT&T did so for decades). Using it in the case of a private equity fund manager seems a stretch..
schatz periodically dumps PR for attention
Well they wrote: "This tends to result in strings in our code that look a little like this."

That's why I think they have these strings in the code.
The Curious Case of Cargo Cults and Corporate Innovation (2018)
You just made me realize that this is implemented in Discord but very poorly. I have difficulty deciding where I should post a meme to get it to the people that will like it. Maybe I'm just on too many Discord servers...
I wonder how many are authentic and not just inspect element
So all of these fall into the category of quasi-advertising / brand building.

I'm not inviting Alec Baldwin for his knowledge / advice.

Are you saying Yellen is not being paid for her knowledge / advice?
Season 5 is really good so far if you ask me.
The speed of a chemical fire, be it from a fuel spill or chemical battery, is limited by chemistry. Even a fully involved burning fuel tank is limited by the availability of oxygen, the math involves wind speeds and circulation of gas over a flame. Short-circuit a normal battery and the math is all about heat and chemical bonds. Short-circuit a capacitor and the math become quantum, involving numbers like the speed of light.
Same as zombies: ethically safe way to kill loads of “other people” in fiction.
For now she accepts a low salary. Other federal Bank employees have left for generous jobs at Citadel like Ben Bernanke
Yes, in some parts it became like Game of Thrones in space, except with protomolecule soldiers instead of the white walkers.
Yellen earned more than $700,000 in speaking fees from Citadel, as recently as last fall. In an ethics agreement she pledged not to involve herself in specific matters involving the firm without first seeking authorization.

Treasury ethics attorneys have given Yellen flexibility to work on any related markets or broad financial services sector issues, with no limits on current or future matters, the Treasury official said. She may need to seek further authorization to deal with specific firms she listed.

In the memo granting Yellen permission to call the meeting of regulators, a Treasury ethics official, Brian Sonfield, said it would be "difficult, if not impossible" for Yellen to recuse herself from matters involving market volatility.

"You are the Secretary of the Treasury, the duties of which require you to be involved in a broad array of matters focused on these sectors," Sonfield wrote.

"Issues relating to these sectors could arise at any time without the opportunity for consultation with the ethics office," and "argue in favor of prior authorization."

source: https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Exclusive%3A+Treasurys...

Do you see the problem? She is so trusted as an expert that people have given her authorisation to involve herself in matters related to firms she just took money from, regardless of the obvious incentives and conflicts of interest. Maybe you don't think those incentives or conflicts are a big deal, in which case I've got a bridge to sell you.
The best allocator for this kind of problem would of course be a compacting GC. First it would be much faster, it would be safer, and easier to use.

For my bigger libraries glibc malloc and free has insane runtimes. Eg a final free could last over 1 minute. If you see this with a GC you would throw it out immediately. But apparently people don't measure and spread false rumors about GC's. Even a very poor and primitive GC as in emacs is not that slow as glibc malloc/free. A good one is miles faster. My GC has an upper limit of 10ms, not minutes.
Its called grift. You and I are not in the club.

https://www.npr.org/2016/08/17/490102648/the-clintons-wrote-...
In what way is that like short selling?
Home charging often doesn't need a faster rate.... because you're at home. Same with office charging. Where the faster rate is usually required is where you are somewhere you DON'T want to spend any significant period of time (like on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, or on a road trip and don't want to stop longer than it would take to use the restroom/grab a snack). Those places are also places that already tend to have tons of specialized infrastructure and are co-located in places to maximize convenience (you know, gas stations, tow trucks).

Gas cars don't have the advantage of being able to charge overnight when you're sleeping, or during the day when you're in meetings or hacking away on something - so in this sense, it's a solid 'pro' for electric vehicles.

It would be pretty easy to setup large scale energy buffers at the equivalent of an electric gas station - from stationary li-ion battery banks, to flywheel energy storage, to supercaps - if spikes were a major issue.

With California (and others) having excess capacity during the day due to Solar, it also allows better arbitrage opportunities, though not clear it would offset the costs.
700k on several events that their employees will get excited for and can brag about to their (fellow finance professional) friends seems reasonable.
Babylon 5 has been fully remastered, by the way, available for purchase or on HBO Max. Just dropped last week, and it’s excellent. The previous DVD remaster was an abomination.

Warner Bros spent 6 years on the new remaster. It was reportedly a labor of love by those involved.
Customers have a reasonable basis to ask for borrow pricing daily because rates and availability change frequently, and the cost of the short is one of the factors influencing the decision whether to trade it or not.

A locate request is basically "hey do you have shares to lend out, or can you find some?"

It makes total sense that FTD would affect shorted stocks, because it generally arises from a short sale and the heavily shorted names are the ones where borrow is tight.
> We also could have invested single digit billions early on to build capacity for all of these different potential vaccines

Are we sure "we" didn't? I don't know the actual numbers behind what was spent ahead of time for the various vaccines, but I believe the manufacturing process was ramped up before the trials completed.
I absolutely love that right answers document. Thank you.
Guys hate to be the one saying this, but $700k for speaking fees at this level is really not that much money and certainly not enough to influence someone who thinks in 4 commas.

If Citadel accounted for 70% of all her speaking fees, that would warrant a closer look - this is a move along carry on for me.
Ask HN: Websites emailing passwords in plain text – anything to do?
per title, i've had two websites this week send forgotten passwords in plain text over email which would imply it's stored as plain text.

is there anything positive one can do here?
Would it be wrong to characterize the WE charity as a "self licking ice cream cone"?
I feel the same. I've fallen behind in terms of the episodes being released and don't feel any particular need to catch up.

I'll watch them eventually, but it's just not exciting enough for me to make it a priority.