skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ditto this. And the motivation for organizing "buy gamestop" isn't altruistic as it seems..

1. buy gamestop stocks

2. call in SJWs to 'fight against the bad guys (hedge funds)' by buying gamestop stocks

- they relay this message to others

3. watch price go up, thanks to campaigns from SJWs

4. sell off when the price is right (feels highest)

5. watch the price go back to normal valuation
- you can't expect this high price to continue forever.

6. watch people who were fooled by SJWs cry over their lifesavings

this is a financial crime, though the victims fell for a temporary 'feel good' moment... so I guess they 'paid' their lesson?

as for Robinhood, blocking 'buy' seems to be a protective measure that backfired too much. Robinhood's branding depends on how it can explain this well...

edit: I agree that it's not a 'financial crime' by law... I just mean it's a detestable and almost 'criminal' campaign.
> Third, the payoff for a billionaire successfully cheating on their taxes is much higher than for a non-billionaire. And finally, even if a billionaire does get caught and pays all their back-taxes with penalties, they will still most likely be a billionaire and be able to sustain a pretty posh lifestyle.

This is the weird part to me. I don't think the marginal payoff is higher for a billionaire, other than in ego or ideological or other less-rational terms.

Someone making 50K who scams an extra 2K out of their taxes has gotten themselves a pretty big boost to their disposable income. While a billionaire already has millions to play with...

I would support higher and harsher penalties for larger absolute amounts of tax fraud, though, because you're depriving your fellow citizens of more if you're keeping larger $$ amounts.
I usually use emmet feature (snippets) of vscode but then I also use other editors like np++, sublime or simple notepad for quick editing and lack the ability of snippets. Using a system wide textexpander makes sense. this is also the reason i dont use any chrome extension for color picking or taking screenshots. always better to use systemwide utilities.
I think it's probably a good place for it to leave off. The books take a 30 year jump after Book 6.
By chance, was that written by gpt3?
> for market rates?

Because she is already working for the state? If I was constantly holding talks for the competition instead of working I would get into a lot of trouble with my boss. I know this is different for politicians and some other government positions, to the point where in some countries a) they get a full living wage for doing literally nothing and b) get a bonus every time they show up(with show up meaning their presence was recorded for an attosecond that day). Its one of the reasons I consider the government of my home country a bad joke.
And nowadays if you’re trying to search something related to the Amazon rainforest Amazon.com stuff comes up first...
What could she say at those speaking engagements that could possibly:

* Fit in a few speeches
* Be worth $700,000
* Not be confidential, go against FTC rules, or raise ethical concerns
* Isn't known to other researchers or experts (that could actually provide a research paper with supporting materials)

Further, is this the market rate for other financial experts, or just ones that have access to power and the ability to influence? Are there any financial experts or academics being compensated $50,000/hour to speak and don't have influence or power over financial organizations?
Exactly. Criss Angel gets that much for an appearance (https://www.celebritytalent.net/sampletalent/11824/criss-ang...)
> It also encourages learning.

How? It enables a teeny tiny minority of users to modify their applications. These users are stupendously dedicated and have access to all sorts of free software in other environments. I have no doubt that somebody who is capable of modifying and recompiling some FSF-Zoom is capable of scratching this itch with other software.
Are you insinuating that Janet Yellen is not getting paid for her knowledge / advice but instead because of her status?
Generally believed by whom? People on the internet?

Is there real evidence of paid speeches being bribery? As others have said about 100k-500k is the going rate for corporate speeches from athletes, actors, etc.
it sets up the scene for a major series of events happening in the background of the main story, but you have to be attentive to catch those glimpses, as it doesn't appear in dialogues much, in passing at best. the background slowly becomes the foreground during the 5th season.
I agree with your points and I am generally pro encrypted messaging. However, I am a bit concerned that FB messenger going encrypted means you will get all the same algorithmic boosts/spread for misinfo tightly coupled with a product that lets you trivially move the discussion behind encryption.

Obviously that can still happen now, e.g., finding other like minded people on FB and connecting on Signal. But that added friction is not insignificant
UK developers ‘among world’s most productive’
Sorry, I don't understand the benefit. Buffer them?

It's clearly harmful to write escape codes in string literals. They are not readable.

The escape code to change any text to red should appear in code exactly once.

This is analogous to HTML inline styles.
Thanks. Send any feedback you have my way :)
> Rationalizations about "getting the job done" or "ease of use" are the same as saying macOS has a better UI than a given GNU/Linux distro, and that's why it's OK Apple sends third party app usage data without you knowing.

This is patently false. It's not a "rationalization" to say "there is no 'free' tool that gets the job done". It is in fact the most important criterion: we need to be able to teach students, in a way that doesn't hurt any more than the situation already is. We need to help schools deal with extremely limited IT budgets without hurting any more than they already are.

If there are free and proprietary tools that get the job done just as well (including ease of use, cost of maintenance, accessibility and others), then it's ok to ask schools to standardize on the free tools. If the free tools are worse at the actual job than the proprietary tools, then it would UNETHICAL for schools to insist on the inferior choice. Of course, if it is the other way around, if the proprietary software is inferior for the purpose, then it is equally unethical to push for that!

However, none of this makes it ok for the proprietary tools to hurt their users' privacy, like the Apple tools were. In fact, it makes it even worse.
It's not just % digital that hurts GS.

1. An increasing amount of video game spend is now add-ons. EA makes as much off FIFA Ultimate Team as they do off FIFA, maybe more. GameStop gets a bite off the first retail sale, and off used sales, but they don't get a bite off all the various aftermarket transactions. All three consoles now have pay-to-play online.
2. An increasing amount of video game spend is now free to play. Fortnite is free to play. Call of Duty Warzone is free to play. Apex Legends is free to play. Valorant is free to play.
3. An increasing amount of video game spend is on subscription plans, obviating the need to buy software. Microsoft has re-aligned their entire company around Xbox Game Pass. EA has EA Play. Ubisoft has their equivalent.

So even if 50% of nominal unit sales for digital + physical software remain physical, that's now far less than 50% of dollar spend. Every console is hooked up online, and with the new generation some models don't even have disc drives.

GS can probably retool itself to do a better job of competing with Amazon and eBay -- and they should! -- but it can't do a better job of competing with all of the secular pressures killing games retail.
You lost your credibility in my eyes with this:

> RMS would probably say "yes" because he doesn't care about people

That's a ridiculously uncharitable thing to say, especially about a person who has spent their life advocating for people's rights. Just because you don't agree with the philosophy, doesn't mean that those who do are uncaring, immoral, or anything like that.
Doesn’t this raise the same problem with the current manufacturing process?

There was limited capacity to manufacture back then, probably less so than there is today. Which vaccine candidate would Pfizer have manufactured? All of them?
Ive had someone tell me its "one idea per web site, max." I disagree, and published all my ideas in once place with a consistent quirky / insane flavor, and thought that was in service of Branding.

What to big brands like General Electric, General Motors, General Mills even mean? How about a small, focused, meaningful brand like Red Bull? KFC? Which are identities you can connect with on a human level and which are remote gods one can only curse in helpless fury?
> all it does is put white gloves on the same kind of dirty deeds that happen in poorer countries all the time.

Really its not different, you just choose to respect this process and choose to dismiss another country’s process as “corrupt bribery”.

What’s happening in poorer countries is often just as roundabout.
Prosecution would be applying the law.
They didn't prosecute.
I agree with you on this, hence phrasing my comment as a reverse "what-aboutism". Handling of liquid fuels has improved quite a bit to where it typically isn't a problem. Whereas at one time you had cars (I'm thinking of a 60's Mustang) where if it got rear-ended gas from a ruptured tank could slosh into the passenger compartment. This isn't much of an issue with modern car designs.

And cars have come along way in the ability to protect the occupants. That same protection measures can be applied to the battery compartment if necessary (steal roll cage, elastic restraint system, air bags). Yes, these things need to be thought about, and yes we do have agencies such as the NTSB and insurance standards that will solve the problem.
So happy to see this here. While sequencing is quite old, mass adoption still has not come. The benefits are clear - faster infectious disease diagnosis, personalized treatment, tracking the spread of infection, identifying food contamination - the use-cases are endless. However before nanopore sequencing came, it was always out of reach of the masses.

We've actually started BugSeq[0] to help labs get into nanopore sequencing - improving these open source tools and also writing our own. Orgs like FDA, USDA, big food co's, CDC, etc are now all adopting nanopore sequencing. Happy to see the industry taking off, this will be a step function improvement for public health in general.

(disclaimer: founder of BugSeq)
0: https://bugseq.com
re B5: yeah! I've been watching it all week.
I think it's totally fine, and probably preferable, for people to go back and forth. Absolutely in favor of it.

I just also think they should recuse themselves from an investigation when those whom they've had significant dealings with are being investigated. $700k for 3 speaking gigs, we're not talking about a CEO she had lunch with one time, there is a significant business relationship there. That relationship might not affect Mrs. Yellen's judgment, but if she doesn't absolutely drop the hammer on Citadel it at least looks like bribery. The very fact that the question is raised is the problem.
> Would we expect her to a) not speak at Citadel if asked or b) request less than market rates for doing so?

Pretty much. I think there should be a significant cool down period (let's say 5 years or so) after leaving a top public service or political position before you can make money from the private sector you were supposed to oversee. As far as I know something like that already applies to people who retire from the military and want to transition to a public civilian position.
What do you say to people who argue that users have more than enough space for large binaries, and if they don't they are not ideal customers (because otherwise they would have the money and desire to upgrade to the bigger size)?
Those are good questions. I would love to see more browsing of independent websites. I think the question is what to do when people don't do that as much anymore, and other forms of marketing communication are too expensive for fledgling businesses.
And what was the planet Solaris if not a somewhat larger version of the protomolecule?
That almost describes discourse about politics and social issues, too.
>What should the going rate be for the former fed chairman?

There should be no going rate for a former fed chairman. It's a position of public trust that should not lead to personal profit.
They’re referring to the temporal nature of the action in which profit is generated, not the populist misunderstanding and demonization of borrowing shares.
Everyone on the Internet is a bot. I'm waiting for you to post "your" YouTube channel and ask for likes.
At least in the cloud space, the conversation is often more like "We would use you, but X and Y features are business-critical and you do not support them."

They're called "table-stakes features."
I'd avoid those sites and ensure passwords are unique (using something like 1Password). If you want, you could also send the maintainers a few links on best practice.
Is Requiring a College Degree Discrimination? Yes, It Is
Charles Koch?

I am struggling to think that there are any examples that you won't dismiss, no matter how applicable.

Dan Schulman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Dr. Helmut Panke. And now I'm bored of scrolling through.
It applies to photons and electrons: when superposition consists of valid solutions of the schrodinger equation, these components evolve independently as if the other components didn't exist. It's possible to measure them in a rotated basis because a single elementary particle doesn't have inner structure. If you want to analyze the structure, you will have difficulty measuring in a rotated basis, this starts with two particles.
I'm not quite sure why, but Java/JVM seems to be uniquely bad with regards to memory usage. Nothing else seems to use quite so much memory. It's expected that C/C++/Rust would be better, but similar languages like C# also seems much better. Even Python/Ruby/JavaScript don't seem as bad.
Partly, the tax prosecutor had a solid case but in Barr's mind there was a chance of failure. And the incestuous relationship of private and federal lawyers didn't help. Barr's former colleagues were sitting the otherside of the meeting table.

Do you think the typical construction contractor or engineer has anything near that? They'd be prosecuted, found guilty, and offered some sort of reduced or delayed sentencing.
Huh this is what I've been saying to friends too
Capacitors are not batteries nor liquid storage. Unlike chemical based energy storage, capacitors can dump all their energy at once. Literally!

Look up the definition of an explosion. I’m super excited about super capacitors - I think they are going to be required in order to make electric cars truly feasible - but the concerns around the safety of them should be dismissed just because they might hold up progress!
I think this highlights an important blind spot some people have when they focus on identity politics. A huge gap between elites and the rest of society is somehow more okay if the elites are more diverse in gender or skin color. I don't feel it's much better but am at risk of being told I don't care about diversity or intentionally changing the subject.
Retire, possibly get a boardship or hot the speaking circuit again. She'll be eighty, she's not going to get an industry position.
This is a bunch of nonsense.

The events that speakers are tied to would have zero attendees without big names attached to them.

I don’t see hackernews decry tech speakers who get paid to speak?

Without the ethics waiver there would be no hearing on Robinhood at all.
My teachers almost universally prefer Canvas Instructure (AGPLv3 free software) to Google Classroom. It gives them far more power and freedom to build courses.

Granted, it has a terrible UX for students. But since it is free software, it gave me freedom to build my own interface by providing an API– unlike Google Classroom– which I used to build a better interface to view my due quizzes. I can then share this software with my fellow students, promoting the values of sharing.
>I still don't get the point of letting people live rent free in your head. In fact, if you are worried about status this is typically what a low status person would do

Like I said, he's obviously worried about that.
Pretty pointless to bribe someone who was a private citizen at that point, and who had no reasonably expectation of ever holding public office again.
> this is a financial crime

How so? I may be ignorant, but isn't that just the way the stock market works. Sad, yes. Crime though?
There’s also the hazard of if they’re not worth paying for their financial services they just might not be worth paying for those services. And thus shouldn’t be in charge of Finance.
It is possible, and in some cases practical, to spend more resources to obtain more information which narrows the range. That's what Applied Information Economics methodology preaches.

Page 5 of author's intro booklet has a flowchart which conveys the idea:
http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
They didn’t have one. Rizvi was encouraging a coup for them to deal with loans of civilian govt
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru... - "The Hurwitz's theorem (composition algebras) states that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions, and octonions are the only (normed) division algebras (over the real numbers)." So what? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedenion - "Every sedenion is a linear combination of the unit sedenions e_0...e_15 , which form a basis of the vector space of sedenions." - clearly we still have operations to work with. Stopping at octonions looks somewhat arbitrary.
It feels like a carefully calculated PR deflection that has a good chance of working.
Under GDPR I'm fairly certain that they've implemented actual deletion. GDPR even requires companies to go so far as to scan old tapes to delete user records on request by a 30-day deadline, iirc.
Do you always need to trust something in the process, for every product? You have a secure trustless mechanism for consensus, and can assess counterparty risk for a given product by auditing the smart contract (e.g. for Compound, borrowers have to deposit collateral).

A simple business case might be interest earned by lending. Could you use traditional banking for this? Can any lay person lend? Is traditional banking accessible to anybody in the entire world with just an Ethereum wallet? This is just the beginning of defi and deposits have gone from ~0 to $30B in a year. Not much, in the grand scheme, but there's clearly demand for the products.

No doubt this market will be regulated in due course, but I think this bell can't be un-rung.
> languages like Haskell exist and isn't that on the whole programming using category theory?

It's not. However claims like that get thrown around a fair amount so the confusion is understandable.

That said, some important Haskell abstractions were designed using category theory. So it can be helpful to know some of the lingo (since it will show up in abstraction names and descriptions).

And if you're looking to design the next breakthrough Haskell abstraction it might be extremely helpful, but that's not 99% of programmers. However, the people who can do that are super cool, eg https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/andrey.mokhov/selective-functors....
Someone has already suggested mastadon, but I think Scuttlebutt is a much better solution for what you want. Totally decentralized, persistent, no need for a hosted server. You can set it up in a few minutes and if you're only using it for your small group there's no need to connect to anyone else.
Invisible Work: In-progress tickets are a black hole
It isn't though, even when it did, ah let's say 15 years ago I could always repair it when it booted into terminal or with a resqueCD. The same can't be said about Windows, that's usually because GNU/Linux had sane filesystem which Windows never had.
Thanks for the link. It's worth keeping in mind that the video was made when the stock was under $5.
the story is the spin. "Google Cloud lost $5.6B" strongly implies "isn't making money". The reality is that they are reinvesting. But "Google invests in Google Cloud" is not a story, so it gets spun.
I don't think citadel did anything shady here, seems like people misunderstanding things to get mad.
If she doesn’t recuse there’s no hearing into robinhood at all.
Yeah, it would be nice to have some other options besides full-on user accounts. One approach could be to have an expiring token where the post can be shared and accessed for a certain number of days before the token/URL is invalid.
On a related note, it's really important to hire a solid PM and keep them on for the life of the product, or at the very least through major releases. I worked on a product where the PM got changed several times and it caused total havoc and pretty much killed the project dead as basically each new PM thought the previous direction was wrong.
Got a real kick out of this quote:

> "The Clintons have always been very careful to walk about two inches inside the line,"
Degrees, etc., are better described as positional goods [0], than as more basic luxury goods, but you are right that that largely leaves them as the preserve of the rich (in places where financing is required). I would highly recommend "The Social Limits to Growth" by Fred Hirsch (linked in that page), on the subject.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good
JumpCrisscross' comment [1] in a previous thread [2] is required reading as to why real time settlement is unlikely and undesirable, but end of day settlement is reasonable and likely where the industry will end up (if regulators and participants encourage the clearinghouse).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26007414

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005457
> Free software encourages sharing, social responsibility, and independence. It also encourages learning.

No, it doesn't. For end-users, free software does the exact same things as proprietary software. Users don't have the time and knowledge and interest to look at the source of their tools, and usually don't even have the time and energy to shop around for others' versions of these tools.
Inroducing Wokeyleaks
I would consider the speaking circuit to be an industry position. A very lucrative one.
Eh... Mass Effect is fairly soft sci-fi and more of classic space opera.

All these things happen in Mass Effect:

Sounds in space, spaceships bunched way too close together, impossibly slow projectiles for space (especially the classic "blob of light/plasma thingy" traveling at what appears to be subsonic speeds), giant 18th-century infantry-style spaceship firing lines, in general heavy reliance on "spaceships as just extensions of naval warfare" trope, all alien communication neatly glossed over with universal translation, nearly universally bipedal humanoid aliens, etc.

None of these are bad things! Mass Effect is simply much more similar in tradition to something like Star Wars or Star Trek than the Expanse.
Let's not forget, government regularly hands out massive amounts of money to private enterprise --

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/fed-hires...

The "speaking" fees are really just bribes, lets me honest about it. It's so corrupt and so obvious and begs the question what are you going to do about it?
How dare you. I'll have you know that here in the land of hamburgers we just play shell games with words and definitions until the dialogue is so confusing and tedious that people just get tired of fighting it.