skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how is million people independently trading a thing for $10 once meaningfully different than a single buyer/seller pair trading a thing for $10 a million times?

> Generating fake trades like this? It's injecting bad data into the market. It's poisoning the mechanism of price determination - which, to produce reasonably fair determinations, needs aggregate trades to average great many distinct buyer/seller negotiations. Amplifying a single datum with fake trades ultimately makes the market worse at efficient resource allocation...

I'm not a legal or markets scholar, so please excuse this possibly dumb question.

Why are wash trades specifically harmful, as opposed to book orders that don't self-trade?

Like, I think what Coinbase did not get in trouble for here was having a large order book that they did not intend to trade (spoofing), but they instead got in trouble for trading with themselves at prices they would have traded with any other market participant. (Seemingly, as a fluke of the way they structured their market-making apparatus as two separate bots, instead of a single bot.) Since this was on a public market, the trades inherently happened somewhere between the public bid and ask prices -- right? I don't understand how the self-trades manipulate the price information. The fakeness that comes out of this seems to be purely the metric of trading volume.

If I'm wrong, please let me know! I'd love to learn more. Thanks.
You mean, you would just need to tell the people that they have to do their jobs proper, and the ones that don't like to would leave?

This would be so great!

Or to put it more clearly: There is not space for any "creativity" when doing the job proper means to follow the text-book by word. If those people don't want to "paint by numbers" they should try to make money with art. But there is no space for them in product design.

Form follows function! Point.
Indeed I have read through Farrand's records of the constitutional convention, I've read many of the founders personal writings (both federalists and anti federalists), I've read many works of prominent Enlightenment thinkers, and I've studied much of the history of the oppression and censorship of the Church which helped inspire the ideal of freedom of speech.

Nowhere have I seen anything resembling "freedom of speech != freedom from consequences", except from the Church.

After all, heretics and blasphemers were indeed free to say what they wanted to say (they had larynxes, after all), but they were not free from the consequences of their speech.

Please do tell me what you think freedom of speech is, in your own words, when you are at a keyboard.

In my own words, freedom of speech is an ideal, like the ideal "that all men are created equal". This ideal seeks to liberate human kind from being systematically punished for expressing offensive ideas, because ever so many of the greatest human revelations were profoundly offensive to society at large at their inception.

"I cannot contemplate human affairs, without laughing or crying. I choose to laugh. When People talk of the Freedom of Writing Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist, But it must be hundreds of years after you and I Shall write and Speak no more."

-John Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1817

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6790
OP didn't say "I want to prevent chrome from sending notifications". If he did, then sure, having an option toggle would solve his problem. But that's not what he said.

He said he doesn't want chrome to be able to push notifications to his phone. Having an option to disable that feature means it is has to be possible in the first place.

Maybe I am being overly pedantic, but to me the distinction matters.
> This is a massive exaggeration. There's no way it's true.?

It is indeed only an undocumented family story of the family that is hard to prove. However, such things as that Bobby Fisher at the age of 13 played what is now known as The Game of The Century against the best North American player at the time to victory, or that Capablanca beat the Cuban Chess Champion at the age of 11 are documented facts in history.

These chess prodigies amassed skills in the game at very young ages that most could never achieve in their lifetime.

> I found the results of the world chess championship 2018 U10. [1] The best ones of the 10-year-old kids here are rated slightly higher than 2000 elo.

And none of them will rise to the exceptional levels of Capablanca or Fischer, will they, many of them will be forgotten and never become professional to begin with.

Apart from that, 2000 Elo is already a higher rating than many serious club players will ever achieve. 2000 elo is candidate master level.

> Do you really think it's impossible to reach 1900-2000 fide for an average man who trains the entire life?

The average man? absolutely. Those that train their entire life are already 90% skill in chess.

And that's hardly the issue, even if he could if he trained his entire life, the exceptional professional players in chess that so earn their livelihood achieved 2000 at around 8-9 years old. 2000 is not close to a level that allows one to play chess professionally, for which 2550 is probably needed these days.

Most human beings on the planet lack the talent to ever be a professional chess player, no matter how hard they train, — it is no different from tennis, football, darts, or beauty.
There's also the thing where the 1 in 0.0491 has the exact same significance as the 2 in 0.0982.

IOW, the final significant figure has continuously variable significance (but discretely intervalled numerically) depending on the absolute value of what is it supposed to be significant to.

This is a feature of granularity.

And rounding error has a variable influence on the intervals and how "discreet" or blatant any error may appear.

Then you've got error propagation and pretty soon you're going to need something like Gustafson's UNUM's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)
no, I mean the Prussian unification was a mistake
Completely agree. If you change the category it doesn’t even scroll to the new icons, it just instantly replaces the existing ones making it appear as if those are the only ones existing. It’s only if you actually drag your finger over the icons that you get any indication there’s more.

It’s even worse, tapping a category brings you to the first icons in that category. There’s no way to find the default set (which seems to be somewhere in the middle of “objects” because that’s where the folder icon is).

And there’s a bug too (at least on my 12 Pro). When you scroll past the category border the category button jumps back and forth between the two categories as if it can’t decide which category you’re viewing right now.

The whole icon picker is very non-standard and feels very un-Apple.
Still, they are correct. I can tell you from first-hand experience that this is what happened to many east Germans. Mass unemployment, deserted cities and rural areas, general loss of perspective lead to many social problems, right-wing extremism one of them.

I don't think, that western Germany is solely to blame, though. If you look into the "Klassenfeind" in eastern Germany, that is entrepreneurs, bourgeoise, Christians, even just small-scale craftsman, they all did rather well after a short transition. But they did so in a very difficult environment: The masses of workers, educated to be lead by and taken care of, by the state were now completely on their own. Underqualified faced an especially dire situation: In eastern Germany even the most inept would have some payed position, even though they were completely useless there. It was basically an alternative to unemployment. Now these, say, 5% of the workforce never had been told that they should have some qualification to get some work. They simply expected some simple position to be created for them (I personally met some of these people, btw.). These people never faced a chance on the labor market.
Résumé-Writing Tips to Help You Get Past the A.I. Gatekeepers
Toolbar, not tab bar. You will regularly get mutating actions there, though any mutating actions should either prompt or be undoable.
Most users have very unique styles, or mouse cadence. Same with typing cadence, and there are even services[0] which determine if a user is who they claim to be, based on their unique typing 'DNA'. All a site has to do is embed some JS that measures your mouse-movement style and they can reliably determine if it's 'you' who is on the site, and can more accurately target ADs at you, or even sell your data out the back door for a profit.

[0] https://www.typingdna.com/
Something that was beaten into us as history majors was to be highly skeptical of anyone suggesting that an historical event was "inevitable".

It's easy to look back on the past and think that you see "obvious" trends and patterns but so much of that is influenced by your modern perspective and how selectively history is preserved and told.

Like any humanities or social science, history is not objective. Part of studying and analyzing history necessarily involves studying and analyzing the context and biases of sources, stories, and narratives.
These fees are actually representative of the fees charged to retailers to offer 0% financing options. We don't hide these fees from the tradespeople, so they can decide to up their price to include that fee if they wish, or can choose to swallow the cost to win more work. We put the power in their hand to decide how they want to handle each situation as they see fit
Generally that’s the trajectory computer tech startups take too, except with even less experience. That’s probably a reflection of the difference in the barriers of entry.
The proteins are present but the immune system does not see them as “foreign”. The vaccine primes the immune system to see them as a foreign attacker.
Stellantis pickups hit, Ford cuts production due to global chip shortage
Not gonna lie, it looks delicious but has kind of an H.R. Giger vibe.

The pasta. Not the sea slug. Though all sea slugs looks like they were made during evolution's goth phase.
The demo should be the first thing on the page! It really gets to the point.
With some luck, people have been posting books that they find online in a rather scattershot manner on forums and blogs, usually surname and location. What is digitized may not represent the majority, but I was able to find a match on my grandmother's family poem by searching for her character, her father's, and her grandfather's.
Think that's crazy...? Look at PFOA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
Exactly. Oh, you want to do something right here? Well, we could give you a menu right here of all the things that are relevant to this exact context--which was, you recall, the original "discoverability" advantage that was claimed to make a GUI better than a CLI. But, no, that would mean a hamburger menu, which "they say" is bad.

Instead, superior designers will show very little and explain nothing so the screen can look fabulous. If Apple has taught us anything, it is that fashionable appearance matters most. Users will just have to figure out that they need to leave this app, go open another app, navigate a few screens into it, see if there is an entry for this app, enter it, and scroll around hoping to see something in the master list that looks like it might be relevant to what you needed in the context that other app was in.
Why was the Holy Roman Empire never restablished in the post-Napoleonic era? If I remember the last HRE was still around for many years after the outster of Napoleon.
Tim Weiner's new book The Folly and the Glory, on US/Russian political warfare since 1945, makes a compelling case that it was not inevitable at all. Most of Europe was opposed to the idea, and the only enthusiastic supporters were the US and the Germanies.

Russia was virulently opposed, and according to the book, West Germany paid Russia $2T to remove all of its soldiers from East German territory. The book makes the case that the reunification of Germany is one of the foundations of Russian resentment towards the US, since the Bush I administration gave them categorical assurances that the borders of NATO would not move "an inch Eastward."
as an Italian, according to my personal understanding, "al dente" means the point where pasta is cooked but not yet overcooked (it starts becoming softer).

The meaning of cooked and overcooked depends a lot on personal taste, but generally al dente it's when it's still elastic but not mushy, like if you apply pressure with the border of a fork, it goes back to the original shape when you relieve the pressure and doesn't fall apart.

But that's simply the help visualize it and it's not even applicable to all kinds of pasta, practically we taste the pasta while it's still cooking and decide if it's all dente or not based on our experience.

Usually when pasta cooked the exact amount of time specified on the package it should be "al dente", but you shouldn't trust it and start tasting it a couple of minutes before that point.

Anyway not all pasta makes sense al dente, fresh pasta or stuffed pasta like ravioli or tortellini for example cannot (and shouldn't) be cooked al dente.
Ask HN: FBI Harassment Through Electronics (Help)
I’m having an issue with the FBI harassing me through 2 Windows computers, an Android phone and my Chromecast.

Is there anything I can do to switch off their access?

I’ve tried contacting Microsoft support and this leads to them saying I should reinstall Windows. I think they are using a backdoor that is built into Windows and/or the computer hardware. I’ve tried the Tails OS and they were signaling through there as well. Google has almost non-existent support. I’ve also reported it to the FBI and this didn’t do anything.

What should I do to switch this off?
What is bare metal?
1. Stop thinking about yourself, and putting yourself at the first place of every thought and need.

2. Practice introspection. Observe what trigger your low empathy behaviour. (Meditation will help you with this.)

3. Consider every person you will talk with as a master that can teach you something new. Curiosity and open-mindness will do the rest.
He didn't account for "storability": what happens 1) as the pasta sits in the collander awaiting saucification, and 2) what happens after a few days in the fridge.

Structural integrity is important for this condition, so I think the ruffles may help, but I think the main shape needs more corrugation to hold up under compression.
So the answer is rent and hold your stock?

or is it still bitcoin?
Hopefully not. Let's see if it will split again.
First 10x would be floppy drives to CD drives. In 99, I used to copy games from internet centres using floppy which is 3.5MB using pkzip to multiple floppies and extract it in MSDos on my windows 3.11 computer and later came the CD drives cd writers with 700MB.

Notepad++ with tabs and keeping the tabs session saved.
This is very interesting and helpful, thank you!
For something like a deck building game, if all decks are viable (competitive) then there may as well be no deck building component. In fact a game like that is probably a pretty muddy brown color in terms of card variety. That would adversely affect the business model of selling new cards as well.

Desirable qualities in a game in terms of how it is balanced are way more complex than just every option being viable and leading to an even win rate against a similarly skilled opponent.
The PDP-8 didn't really have undocumented instructions. It's just that the OPR instruction was "execute immediate as microcode word". There were a lot of ways you could flip those bits to get different effects, and people gave some of them their own mnemonics in third party assemblers, but the effects of the bit patterns were fully publicly documented by DEC and distributed with the machines.

Same was true with pretty much all non microcomputers through the 80s.
> I think it’s shameful to be spending resources on frivolous luxury goods when such a huge chunk of society lacks the essentials required for a reasonable standard of living.

In large swathes of the world, the computer you're typing on, the phone you have, and that ice cream you enjoyed the other night would be considered "frivolous luxury goods."

Be careful what you wish for.
YC company posts Demo Day slides as NFT
Indeed. Often not a fan of my workplaces insistence on precise time tracking, but for things like this it avoids discussions.
I'd rather they were preserved. I was never part of the demo scene (wrong continent, wrong age) but I feel amazed by it. I'm also interested in early home computers and early computers in general, and so I wish them to be available in some form I can touch, for example museums.

It's tragic how much stuff related to computers, their history and their software we've lost already.
How are you guarding you endpoints? Most bots just scrape and parse HTML/JS looking for form actions, fields, fetches and XHRs and send straight to the endpoints. No browser engines involved.
Should be re-titled "It's getting harder for artists to compete with TikTok for user attention". That is if you even want to have "harder" in the title since that concept was just mentioned in one sentence in a long article.
Paper simulating initial Covid-19 outbreak estimates only 30% pandemic chance
The paper itself is here https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/03/17/scie...
I always thought that the "fun-shapes" macaroni had better mouth-feel than plain elbows. Apparently that is due to the right-angles and the term-of-art is "Toothsinkability".

Radiatore are currently my reigning favorite, especially for mac and cheese. This looks like it has less overall surface-area-to-volume than radiatore, but is better for holding thicker sauces vs the thin fin gaps in radiatore.
How Sailing Yachts Are Made [video]
Your speculation doesn't hold water. They have been increasing their hiring recently, and their layoffs were largely in areas where community members could power development and in experimental areas. MDN still exists and has good info. Note anyone can contribute straight on GitHub. Servo got picked up by the Linux Foundation after much of Servo already got integrated into Firefox. The Rust Foundation recently started and multiple big names have picked up large Rust contributors. So Mozilla made a smart move laying off those people. People on HN don't want to admit it.
Trading is nowhere near the same as IB
Has anybody already mentioned "reginette" here?

https://pastidea.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/762-TRAFILA-...
This is, unfortunately, the route we're going, and was addressed in the OP:

> Despite the web app working perfectly on Android and across Windows, Linux and macOS without native integration, we now must dedicate time and resources to develop an additional iOS app just so iOS users, which over half of Americans are, aren't left out.

> This is an expensive endeavor time-wise and money-wise, during a pandemic where time is of the essence and resources are stretched thin. It shouldn't be this way, but it is.

The end result is that, right now, some sick patients are punished for their wrong choice of phone or tablet because the native app doesn't exist yet, while others don't have a problem.
came here to say that the thikness of those junctions would make the cooking uneven
If two people bought and sold the same widget for $10 a million times, that would be neither a wash trade, nor much more informative than one person buying and selling a widget for $10, right? But the trading volume metric would look the same as if millions of people were buying and selling.
MLHub – Monetize your ML models
In the first example (Clubhouse), it's a deliberate design decision to show the edge of the cards on the left as an affordance that you can swipe to get back to the main content.

The Google Maps example is probably because most people want to see the list of results when you search for a category of businesses - the map is secondary. If you do want to see more map, you can just pull down on that handle at the top of the list or press the "View Larger Map" button.

Many of the other examples seem somewhat nitpicky, so I don't really think this supports the argument that nobody is designing for small devices.
> This Cistercian numerals are base 10000. Try doing a pen and paper multiplication or division using this system.

Sure, in the same way that Babylonian cuneiform numerals are base 60, which is "they're in base 10, but you combine multiple symbols into the space of one glyph". The Cistercian numerals don't have 10,000 separate symbols. They have 10 symbols, and one glyph includes four positional slots in which a symbol appears. They're exactly equivalent to the Arabic numeral system we use now, and the pencil-and-paper multiplication system we use now transfers directly without problems.
Wildlife seizures are down–and an illicit trade boom may be coming
Is that really that hard? A $100 genetic test will tell you what race(s) you are.
I absolutely believe he's a genius, just not in the way of Einstein or Tesla. He's a genius at assembling people in order to execute a vision, and when I say genius, I don't mean the layperson's definition of "really smart", I really do mean that whatever qualities combine in a person to allow them to convince hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands of people to follow them and help them build their vision, Musk is a genius-level intellect in that capacity.

He's not unlike Steve Jobs. They both possessed enough knowledge and technical acumen to understand what they're being told about disparate subjects, but they may not have the in-depth knowledge that a Jim Keller would. And despite my enormous respect for Keller, he's not an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs. Jim's a craftsman at heart, and that comes through in interviews with him. Musk and Jobs are true visionaries.
I think the point is that all entertainment competes with all other entertainment for attention. And it is a zero-sum game.
> use exploitative tactics to convince people to buy it from me for twenty

The article is about watches, cars, and baseball cards. As entirely optional/luxury goods, there is no "exploitation" involved.

If it was about food, medicine, or other essentials, I might agree with you.
Have to say I really like the layout and styling of the site. Super easy to read and navigate.

Interesting content too.
Let me offer an alternative answer to tubularhells' unhelpful answer:

There isn't really a good, efficient easy way to block YouTube ads with Pi-Hole. It's a constant cat-and-mouse game of finding the appropriate domain regexes and keeping them updated.
Were you working 28 on/28 off (or 14 off/etc)? If so, that would be fairly different to working 80 hours/week, 52 weeks a year.
I also sometimes have to translate mathematical notation to algorithms. As a non-mathematician, math notation seems similar to naming all your variables 'a', 'b', 'c' etc. and then writing a key elsewhere that explains that 'b' stands for 'car deceleration rate'.

This would be insane to do in code, why is it normal in mathematics?

Note: I had this example in my head while writing https://www.traffic-simulation.de/info/IDMsstar.png
Russian formalists