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> With regards to treating investing like gambling, there's no real problem with that. There's definitely a market for it, and it's why /r/Wallstreetbets exists.

There are also markets (pretty large ones too) for cocaine and hookers and human trafficking.

There is a difference between treating investment like gambling and teaching and encouraging new investors how to take unnecessary risks.

In fact, if not for the blatant hypocrisy of them doing this under this mission statement “democratizing finance”, I may be ok with how predatory they are.
I’m an autodidact. No teacher can provide the density and velocity of information and knowledge the Internet, science papers and books can provide. I can’t watch a lecture at 2x speed if its live. I can’t cherry pick. I have to be at a certain place at a certain time when I might not be in the right headspace. Then add on top that’s it’s basically a crapshoot whether or not you get along with your teacher or not. I don’t regret going to college but I didn’t gain much academic knowledge there either.
Agree! It's not just unmatched on the web, for many purposes it's unmatched across the board.

I remember reading that the English cartoon Duggee (which also happens to be my favourite children's show by far) is 100% animated in Flash. Get this, it's a professional, prime time, internationally syndicated TV show and they use Flash because it let's the animators be more productive than anything else.
> And I think using `sorted(key=)` is more Pythonic than a generator expression ;)

But it doesn't do the same thing. The original code extracted the xs from the coordinate pairs, sorted; your code sorts the coordinate pairs by their x values, but doesn't extract the xs from them.
Your site is broken on iOS

https://ibb.co/XXsQmPB
Hobbyist stuff still exists. But even back then, you're still talking about a small fraction of internet content.

We don't want just the fruits of everyone's hobbyist weekend warrior free-time. We want it to be profitable to make the stuff we want to consume so that we get better content than hobby/charity content.

Also, most things aren't hobbyist cheap. Even in the era you're looking upon nostalgically, consider message boards. You'd either use a freemium solution like Proboards/Ezboard or you'd pay for hosting which could cost you $100+/mo if your forum was popular.

I have a feeling every time people talk about the old hobbyist internet, they're talking about brochure Angelfire websites they themselves never spent all that much time on. Most people want better content than that just like most people want to watch Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, not hobbyists on Youtube.

Yet these threads always sound like "remember the good ol days before Breaking Bad when it was just hobbyist vlogs on Youtube? ahh, those were the days even though I didn't watch vlogs, they were boring."

Maybe things were different before the AOL era back when there was almost nothing online that we want to do online today, but I'm in my 30s and first got internet in the 90s with AOL and "profit motives" were always the driving force for why there were compelling things to do online, like playing Age of Empires multiplayer through MSN's Internet Gaming Zone platform in 1997.
There are plenty of personal HTML pages out there, probably more than in 1997. But the fact is that commercial entities have created far more streamlined and addictive experiences.
And, like, 100% success or very close to it is fairly standard across the line–if you flip a light switch the light turns on, if you turn a door handle the door opens. When you give someone something complicated and novel and it doesn't even do the thing you say it should do consistently that just tanks confidence in being able to use the thing.
I mean, that's not as clear cut. There would be nothing stopping them from reading the contents of your mail or playing fast and loose with your data even if you were a paying customer. It's not a zero-sum game, as long as there is money to be made you rely on the goodness of their heart to not pursue it.
January 2021 Report to the CCS (Babbage's Analytical Engine)
This is absolutely true as long as they built the IMUs and control loops into the software to do that. My guess is by the time the service is available for moving users that will be the case.
love this, shows how simple fzf is to use as well. just gives us a nice way to pick out a line from git log. Beautiful.
Robinhood doesn’t care at all for their users, after all they and their orders are the product it sells.
You can’t do in-person training properly without docs. It’s not an either or choice.
When I’m playing in VR and no one else is at home, I feel no more vulnerable than if I had my nose buried in a book. I do keep the door locked and the blinds down, though.
The web is still full of content that didn't originate from profit motive - you're looking at some - but it's wrapped up in and presented on for-profit sites.

The friction point is not so much presenting/hosting content as "discovery" - finding interesting new people and new content. And that's much more complicated because it's full of perverse incentives.
I describe my sentiment more precisely. By "these companies" I refer to entities or even individuals who take a very simplistic view toward this issue (Blocking of Signal by Iranian government).

In this simplistic viewpoint, issues in 3rd world countries (even this naming is condescending) are assumed to be evident. In this case an evil government versus oppressed people who can not even communicate with each other freely. So 'we' good people must help these poor people against their oppressive government.

This is in contrast to a much more nuanced view of the issues in the west. End-to-end encryption is a debated issue in the US and EU and legislators have proposed laws to ban it or enforcing other mechanisms to circumvent by law enforcement such as backdoors.

I mentioned the US as an example, because of Signal is operating under US jurisdiction. Moreover, the recent events in the US demonstrated that how a supposedly stable democracy is vulnerable to chaos. In this situation the tech companies decided to limit the communication of people or access to their platform for the greater good (according to them). I am not stating whether this is good or bad. I just want to point out that the issue is complex, nuanced and needs debate in the society. Keep in mind that the US is a superpower surrounded by two oceans and two friendly countries and has no serious external threat.

This is in contrast to Iran which is in a chaotic region and surrounded by the US military bases. It has suffered wars and coup in its recent history. It is currently under harsh economic sanctions with a possible goal of people revolting. The Iranian government has reasons to be paranoid and fearful that Signal can be used to organize violent demonstration. They cannot even demand information regarding criminal cases such as drug trafficking from these tech companies.

In the US the decision of giving access to tools and platforms is out-sourced to companies but in most part of the world governments make these kind of policies (again not necessarily good or bad).

I don't have a solution to these problems and I am not trying to say that we have an equivalence here. What I am expecting is a more nuanced and sophisticated perspective toward the issue.
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> I feel this is because so many try to make GDPR seem too hard and breaking everything (likely people with something to lose).

Or people who wish to extend the reach of GDPR so that others outside of the EU are protected too.

> What you are saying would require that the EU could create laws that were above the Supreme Court in the US for example

This is not true for multiple reasons. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003 specifically "Authorizes fines and/or imprisonment for up to 30 years for U.S. citizens or residents who engage in illicit sexual conduct abroad". The EU could punish US companies that have offices in the EU or income from the EU. Alternatively it could sanction them.
The stockmarket itself is already gamification of fractional ownership of companies. Lots of people that are active on it don't realize that it is just like a casino where the house will always win and they are just there to supply warm bodies and funds. The amount of bullshit that I've heard newly minted 'day traders' spout is second to none. Lambs to the slaughter, and bragging about it all the way to the butchers knife.
Comfort is soul killing. We're heading for comfortable serfdom, where people are locked in a Brave New World style prison without healthy community, opportunity, or growth.

Comfort is something which should accompany a well lived life, at the end of the day, when it's time to rest. Comfort as the de facto circumstance of your life makes people unable to act in the interest of their own wellbeing - they are sabotaged by it.

As an allegory: There are millions of people who are addicted to various drugs, which they desperately wish they could stop using because their lives are being wasted/destroyed. It's the same thing with comfort, there's a level of addiction to it which is extremely difficult to overcome.

Obviously, comfort (addiction) alone isn't the problem, but when you add to it the constant abuses of our society, people fall apart and can't get off the couch. When people are isolated, denigrated, and treated like cattle they get weak. Give a traumatized person a comfy prison cell and they'll never leave it.

Talk of Utopia is dangerous though, whenever people start talking like this some atrocity seems to be just around the corner.
The Oculus Quest can also be used to play PCVR games.
The HP Reverb G2 has exceptional resolution that basically eliminates screen door effect.

I think the bigger challenge is not screen resolution but lenses. The G2 has quite a narrow sweetspot so although the centre of your vision is basically monitor quality and text looks perfect, the quality drops off towards the edges so it doesn't really work for reading where you want to scan left to right with eye movement. It does work well for simulations where moving your head is a more natural way to look around.
I use Ghost [1] for my blog (self hosted), and the drafts folder is perfect for me to jot notes and collect thoughts over time.

My work-flow is like this:

1. It usually starts with a thought on a post-it or notebook
2. Bring that immediately into a draft on ghost blog
3. Start brian-dumping fragments, thoughts, sentences
4. Group fragments together under headings, which get a clever title
5. that forms the bones of the thought. Some thoughts get evicted or pushed into its own separate draft.
6. Back-fill each section with research and supporting materials (links, pictures, code snippets, etc)
7. write a tldr;/summary on top. Conclusion on bottom.
8. share draft with colleagues and mom
9. publish

[1] - https://ghost.org
And just to clarify for the non-Germans: this is a nationwide number which connects you to your local service, much like 112/911 does.

In big cities it generally goes to a call centre staffed by nurses or EMTs, who will do basic triage over the phone and can dispatch an ambulance or on-call family doctor to your home if necessary. Or they may just tell you to take some paracetamol and go to your regular doctor during their opening hours.

In smaller towns it may go to a local doctor/nurse/pharmacist who is rostered to take the calls.
Exactly. They are just there to supply some liquidity and as a final resting place for bad bets.
Robinhood users move markets because they generate “free” publicity literally worth billions, not because of the volume of their transactions.

The excitement generated towards a stock, the momentum they build, is almost invaluable even if just for a few days, no matter your business or the price of your stock. Money can’t buy that.
People think of it as being for games, but high quality applications used it as UI, a lot still do.

Flash was banned to protect the Google, Apple, Microsoft ap ecosystems. Todays mobile CPUs are an order of magnitude way more powerful than those of 10 years ago. The performance issue doesn't apply now.

As for bugs, they can be fixed and they could have been fixed with the passage of time.

The whole agenda of aiming to replace Flash with HTML5 and CSS was a dishonest fraud from the get go.

10 years on now and still nowhere near what was available 10 years ago.
The Jehova's witness theory of investment.
Great questions!
1. we are operational worldwide and our team team has launched insurance products across multiple countries. In the US, we are a licensed broker and work with partners in other countries.
2. yes, there might be additional information to be collected for underwriting purposes. But the good news is that our platform has pre-built integrations with the main datasources for KYC so this process happens behind the scenes for you and we do the heavy-duty work of maintaining these integrations on your behalf.
3. it depends on the insurance product, we can support both. a lot of our customers handle claims in house as they care about controlling the end to end experience when it comes to their users.
4. For sure, https://docs.tint.ai - feedback welcome!
Just a minor quibble about the Kindle since I'm very appreciative that there is a choice of buying one with or without ads.
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Is the World Becoming Better?
I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.
And where do they get this information from.. only a few news sites pick stuff like this up. Do the relevant users have this news site open at the correct hour to catch it? Likely not.

Most news is not actionable for the person reading it, except for popular apps where there are most users. The information needs to get to the right people at the right time to be actionable.
Two hits: 22 metres and 36.5 metres.
How to get more people to write on my community-driven blogging platform?
Can anyone shares tips/strategies on getting more people to create informative content on my blogging platform. Also, feel free to tell what you think of the website content.

Here's the link to the platform for reference:
www.cofounderstown.com
I did received it; it was just a bit late.
So it is just a list of articles that you collected from indiehackers.com? Or am I missing something?
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Why exactly is Google doing this ?
Directly from the HP product page:

"NVIDIA VR Ready Quadro or GeForce Turing based GPU required for foveated rendering. For developers, Unity foveated rendering plug-in and run-time are also required and available from the Unity Store or HP Developer Portal"
He was arrested in Hungary during the siege of Budapest. Everything after that is pure speculation. When he went to meet General Malinovsky he famously said he didn't know if he'd be a guest or a prisoner.

I've never heard any of this about a psychiatric ward before and he was definitely not arrested in Russia on a visit.He was also an OSS asset - and there is a more than decent chance that the Russians knew it. I do not see any way this very special case with this very special man can be used to make a statement about broader issues to do with mental health. I walk by a memorial to him near Deák ter on a regular basis and think of him often.
You should, however, present evidence why you're unproven claims should be respected
Also it's important to remember that different foods affect different individals' insulin responses very differently. Seems to be linked to gut microbiome and potentially genetics. The food that's better for the average adult might be worse for you.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119133230.h...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrendo.2015.209
fzf never struck me as the slightest bit slow. What am I doing wrong? You can configure it with an external previewer that can of cause be arbitrarily slow or bloated but you can hardly fault fzf for that.
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after blocked by military
Ask HN: How to convert high traffic to money?
Hi everybody,

I have a webpage running for 15 years. Currently it hosts only an image and it's very popular in Turkey and it's becoming very popular in EU as well. Each month I am getting millions of hits from unique visitors.

When I have time I build some apps on it which were also successful but I couldn't pay the server/service costs because of high traffic.

Adsense is already blocked, and most of the affiliates or ad-marketing companies haven't even responded because of the low quality content.

How can I convert my high traffic without proper content to legal money?
Reflection's on Robinhood's Growth
Windows 95 BSODed on demonstration in face of Bill Gates. Did not make it any less successful.
Try remark42. Free, open source.
Are you seriously suggesting we should waste our renewables and nuclear to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and then turn that stuff back into hydrocarbon fuels only to turn 80% of it to waste heat?

Seriously, man. There is no future where this is going to happen. We are not going to replace waste primary energy generated by fossil fuels by wasting our low carbon energy. We are going to reduce the amount of waste energy and thus lower the overall demand for primary energy. The energy density of gasoline is worthless if the efficiency is garbage.

A transition from ICEs to EVs works just fine without expanding power generation significantly precisely because we get rid of the inefficiency.
Not to mention the fact that neither comment says which country or region they're based in. I suspect these things can vary a lot by geography, yet both are making very generalized statements.
It's better to be naive than jaded (2020)
Legal free speech does not mean that a private company is obligated to host it.
> The documentation also assumes the reader know what heap and stack are but surprisingly (not) it doesn't bother you.

Not sure if it counts as documentation, but the Rust Book actually has a very good explanation of stack and heap. I know because that's how I learnt about these concepts myself.
I have (had) a Disqus account that I connected to via my google account. I say had because I haven't been able to login in a year or so via firefox. I just get a page that says "There was an error submitting the form. If you're having difficulty, try repeating the action on https://disqus.com" with an annoying meme gift on the background. Luckily the title of the page says "Embed: CSRF verification failed (403)" but I have not been able to find a way to fix it. Oh well, I guess I won't be commenting on any site with disqus anytime soon.

I wish there was some kind of service or plugin (preferably not based on a centralized service) where one could easily leave comments on any site even if the site itself did not support comments.
They did, few hours ago - markets aren't open yet though. So today will be the first day on RH without restrictions since the price drop.
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Yeah, regardless of the results of the event, public trust for financial institutions are plunging down at a rapid rate. Your comment on the morality of the stock markets reminds me Slavoj Zizek's article "Corruption for everybody!": https://spectator.us/topic/corruption-for-everybody-slavoj-z...
That's a smart 5 year old you've got there that knows about stellar evolution ;)
Hosting, curating, and moderating Hacker News is certainly adjacent to YC's business and ostensibly has some profit motive. I appreciate that it's also a dark-pattern-free public service, but it's not a coincidence that one of the best tech news and discussion boards is hosted by one of the premier incubator/accelerator shops.
A sharp contrast with the Indian "Robinhood", Zerodha, which pushes its users to not gamble and instead make measured long-term investments [0]. May be because Zerodha is not VC backed is why they've users-first mentality versus metrics-first?

[0] https://zerodha.com/z-connect/traders-zone/trading-psycholog...
RSU. It’s the kind of stock grants that are regularly handed out by tech companies. They’re not options.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/restricted-stock-unit.a...
My First Blog Post on Setting Up Ghost Blog on Debian
Hey Y'all,
I made my first blog post today. I've been hunting recently for a good blogging platform without a bunch of fluff, and figured here would be a good place to start. Let me know what you think!
Brave got a tap on the shoulder from the government and was told they had to collect all that data in order to release crypto payments to the owners of the websites they'd been collecting micropayments for:

https://preview.redd.it/52bkflf0cld31.jpg?width=462&format=p...

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032158891-Wha...

I disagree with a lot of Brave's approach. However their experience shows that this problem isn't theoretical. One company has already managed to deliver frictionless micropayments, and was told by the government that if they didn't add some friction back in (AML/KYC), executives would be going to prison.

Not cool.

This also led to a real mess with the operators of archive.today, who don't live in the USA and apparently aren't supported by the AML/KYC process being used. So a fairly large amount of money collected in order to support them is stuck and can't be paid out:

https://blog.archive.today/post/626174398020403200/please-pr...
Millions of views to a website with one image? What's the image?
I think you over estimate the liquidity at spot prices. If you tried to buy 120$ billion dollars of stocks in one day you will cause price changes. Now imagine if that was concentrated in the Robinhood top 100?
> Marketing unproven cures for bronchitis

This is as Western as our mainstream thinking (and cockiness) gets. You know, evidence can only come from a lab with a prescribed setup, inspected and certified by my outlandishly smart scientists. And oh until then umm can we -force- everybody to not use it? I’m African and many of the medicines I’ve consumed and been cured with are unproven according whatever criteria you’d use. Sometimes it has been administered by a shaman following family tradition.

It’s a sad state of affairs that somehow we’re certain we have discovered the single method of finding the single point truth and all other methods are wrong. Also considered certainly wrong is the idea that truth isn’t a point value but a spectrum and based on its utility to our short life, we lie peacefully in the spectrum or even out of it.
I think it's fair to also expect a broker that courts high volume customers (which robinhood clearly did) should be capitalized to handle the volume.
Rinse and repeat. Three hundred years later, we're at the original python again. Invented on the USS Enterprise.

"To boldly create programming languages no man has created before."