skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The only parties options trading isn't "literally gambling" for are the ones selling the options like market makers (Citadel). They know people like to gamble and they're happy to take the other side of the trade because it's free money when they hedge properly (sounds like a casino, doesn't it?).

Anyone can sell options, not just institutions. And it's still gambling, just with better odds. You can still lose all of your money on the selling side. Naked options even come with the risk of losing more than all of your money. The whole thing is just one big casino with everyone betting against each other to see who's right.
Crop yield is how much food you harvest per unit of land. It's the definition of productivity for farming. The amount of arable soil is the chief constraint on production.
It's funny how only when it comes to investments does the government care to "protect" people from their own free will. I present a sample list of fraudulent activities either not discouraged by the government or actively promoted:

* State lotto

* Psychic hotlines

* Supplements/vitamins of dubious value

* Regular stocks with wildly ridiculous P/E ratios

* Various forms of "insurance"

Which is to say, it's never been about protecting people from fraud and it's always been about limiting who's allowed to participate in the capital class activities.
The ICNARC reports give more information. It's only for ICU.

https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

Page 29 has a chart for spread of age. Most people (88%) live without any assistance in day to day activity.
> If you don't want to bother supporting platforms where byte is not 8-bit (a reasonable choice I would say), use `int8_t`/`uint8_t` instead. Those types won't exist on platforms that don't have 8-bit bytes.

You'll have the issue that, as one of the commenters explained above, `char` is its own thing, independent and separate from `signed char` and `unsigned char` to say nothing of `int8_t` and `uint8_t`. This means that while you can use your own thing for your own functions you can not do so if your values have to interact with libc functions (or most of the ecosystem at large).

If you only want to support platforms using 8-bit chars, you should check CHAR_BIT. That is actually reliable and correct.
tmux actually tries to be clever here and guess if you're a vim user or not: if your $EDITOR contains the string "vi", you get vi-style keybindings by default. If it doesn't, you get emacs.

But unfortunately it doesn't look at $VISUAL, so... yeah, you usually have to set it explicitly.
He's not actually serving data over the cellular network, but even if he did, how much traffic does being on the front page of HN generate ? His blog is very light, this page is only 22.2kB. Assuming 100k pageviews from HN, that would be 2.2GB. Well within most mobile plans.
This is my nightmare scenario, where we literally cannot produce enough food for everyone.

That's why I'm hopeful that artificial methods of food synthesis (e.g. startups like Solar Foods or Air Protein, or NASA's CO2->glucose prize) will be successful and allow us to begin to decouple food production from weather or soil fertility problems.
I think this is due to the kind of corporate take over of Open source, without judging if this is a bad thing or not. The whole Github/MIT licence scene simply did not exist back in the days, it was either closed source or GPL. It's no surprise the hate is building now that non-GPL open source is part of the marketing strategy of software companies like Google or Facebook.
It's not just penny stocks, it's also value stocks in the past 5 months. A lot has changed in the stock market, it actually makes more sense now than in the past decade.
I've had no trouble reading a guide to tmux's keyboard shortcuts and then using them.
Have you tried transitioning the bees from FTE to contract workers? Bring your own pollinator, if you will...
Having a sense of humour is dangerous when you need the approval of others because most sense of humour differ from the ones others have.
The illegal drug market is a great example of bad chases out good.

Organized criminals who are willing to be violent displace outlaw entrepreneurs who are peaceful.
I was about to submit this very link after reading this HN submission:

This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (Apr 1, 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26669749

So darkhttp is a terribly simple HTTPS server that only supports GET and OPTION but is more than enough to serve static content.
Have you asked for help? I would really appreciate an honest answer. I'm putting out this question because your post reads like you never did, and I can totally see having a bad time when someone voluntarily shuts himself out of the community and thus never gets to see frustrations addressed. I don't want my fellow hackers to suffer bad feelings when it's completely and easily avoidable.

• Support for database drivers exists, most notably the DBI mailing list where all the driver authors participate. This is mentioned prominently in the documentation.

• Perl predates Google, so it is tragically wrong to put the blame on Perl. Blame Google for not searching correctly for a long time. This is fixed since 2019. Other search engines did not make mistakes of the same kind.
I personally do not see Google as the first and final means. It's not asking too much using other means of looking up information when Google falls short, e.g. the offline documentation shipping with language, or bookmarking some specialised Web sites and using their search.

• Explicit references are a consequence of Perl's early life (< v5) catering to programmers familiar with shell, and then adding the feature in a backward-compatible manner. When it came to adding the feature, it was the choice between explicit references with the benefit of keeping code running, or implicit references and invalidating existing code with the benefit of terser syntax (i.e. the dereferencing arrow -> would mostly disappear). The trade-off was made in favour of backward-compatibility, and this direction was the case ever since. Hope this explains it well enough, keep in mind that you have the advantage of judging the decision in hindsight.

• Debuggers not existing is just plain wrong.
Free software is less about providing what users want ("free beer") than in not getting in their way by artificially restricting them in their dealing with the software ("freedom"). It's the difference between positive rights (to someone's labor, which is also known as servitude), and negative rights (freedom to use the software as you wish).

End users who don't feel empowered by freedom aren't entitled to free labor. They should realize that at least they have the option to control the software they use by hiring someone to fix/alter it or learning enough to do it themselves, which is impossible for proprietary software.
I'm worried that this will just breed deeper resentment among a socially fractured lower class that would be stronger were it more unified. I'm white though, I know what my thoughts on these issues are worth.
Well, you and me are different persons and we don't have to agree on everything. In this case, it seems that we don't agree on anything. But it's still OK, if it works for you ;)
>If you believe in crypto

If you believe in crypto, why would you invest in a centralized exchange? Seems antithetical to the principles of cryptocurrencies.
If your trading strategy has a positive expected value, "gambling" ceases to be a useful descriptor for it.

As I said elsewhere, calling everything gambling just because it isn't literally guaranteed is reductive and unproductive.
Regarding the first two, it's not just a matter of an existing relationship, but also consent. As to the latter, this was the effect, and likely will continue to be, until companies decide to implement changes in response to this ruling. Especially larger corporations have been capturing consent and even relying on third-parties to manually dial numbers, because this was the prevailing interpretation until the Supreme Court reintroduced common sense.
This strategy is referred to as theta gang in /r/WSB nomenclature, but I would argue this is different because it's meta-gaming other people who are foolish enough to buy those wild out of the money options.

This is my preferred strategy as well.
There is a ton of selection bias here, these are already generally speaking very unhealthy people.
True, but it all depends on where you live.

One of the best things about remote work is that it allows you to live in places that are not super expensive. You could easily get double the space for less money in real dollars in many places around the US.
You can just stop using Spring. There's plenty of good web libraries out there. Javalin, Spark, Micronaut, Quarkus, heck I'd probably even take JEE over Spring nowadays.
This is brilliant; between this and "free as in piano" it's a good day for reflection on code.
Does it? I hardly see any news about Microsoft in 'tech' press anymore.
Inline images are very useful for diagrams, sharing screenshots and more. I can do without the stupid company logo underneath every email, but I'd much rather have to put up with those than be unable to use them. The resources need to be small enough to embed inside the email, though, and external resources should be made aa difficult as possible (always hidden by default, per rfc, with at least two clicks before they're displayed).

My perfect world email markdown will probably be different from yours. For productivity, anything more than slightly stylised text is just unnecessary, but in practice, most email isn't used for productivity anymore. Instant messaging has replaced email as a means of conversation in all workspaces I know.
Better link since submitted one appears down https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd
> they own a skyscraper in one of the most expensive cities in the world. How could they not be the establishment?

I agree that the Times represents the institutional / political elites views surprisingly accurately. (Most societies don't have such a public lens into their elites' preferences.)

Your signaling mechanism, however, is poor. Lots of organizations own landmark properties in New York City. Most of them are property management companies. (Brookfield, I believe, owns about 40% of the New York Times building.) New York property types are...let's just say they've cultivated a reputation for eccentricity. Far from establishment, albeit powerful in their own right.
The thing about global pollution, it's global. The actors you are pushing to progress don't have to stick around, they can just pick up and move. If you clean up your house, you didn't really clean up the problem, you just moved it somewhere else, making the problem worse.
Were booming. Retail flows are already down 20% from Feb’s peak and penny stock volumes are down what, 50% from their peak in the same month?
Oh they are:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries
Maybe something like Observable (the product not the pattern) + TypeScript?

I’ve been thinking recently that TypeScript, when considered by itself (ie, just the type system), is quickly becoming a kind of flexible type database around a very loose language.

You can force TypeScript to figure things like:

type One = 1;
type Two = 2;
type addOneAndTwo = One + Two;

But its very brittle and difficult to accomplish, especially if you wish to couple this back to the runtime values.

If these ever become language features, I can see this powering the thing you’re describing: a capability that gives you flexible loose JavaScript for the non-programmers that can also be iteratively tightened, possibly with a reactive view fronting all of it.
It would be enough if they wouldn't actively encourage scammers. Seems like everyone knows at this point that Paypal and ebay's "buyer protections" actively work against the seller. I myself was out $1300 after selling a Macbook Pro, after which the buyer put in a claim for a refund, saying that his account was hacked. Paypal was made whole, the scammer got the laptop, I as the seller was left out to dry.

Since then I haven't used Paypal again. And I never will, either.
open source developers who believe in open source have been, and we collectively owe them a lot. However, there's a lot of pretend open source out there that's just trend-chasing - either corporations that are trying to exploit the community by "open sourcing" but not documenting or supporting their products, or by developers looking to make a reputation for themselves but who don't really have anything valuable to provide. Linux? Yes. Spring? Not so much.
Microtasking in XDSD
so if your daemon is ever started by hand or is used on a system without systemd it won't work correctly? that doesn't sound great.
No one has ever claimed that python is energy conservative.

There is a general understanding that you are trading machine efficiency for developer efficiency.

There were attempts at making it more efficient (see ironpython, which is dead now).

If you drop a serious bottleneck of code into C you are going to see massive improvements provided you don't need to marshal between python/c a lot (aka, if you can dump a ton of data, do a ton of work in C, then dump it back to python, you'll be sitting pretty).
Maybe because I'm a new user, I don't know.
> State lotto

Heavily regulated.

> Psychic hotlines

Have large numbers of people historically lost fortunes to these?

> Supplements/vitamins of dubious value

Fair.

> Regular stocks with wildly ridiculous P/E ratios

Literally the thing you're criticizing.

> Various forms of "insurance"

Heavily regulated.
ICOs were regulated - they were covered by the same regulations that applied to stock sales. The only real way to avoid the consequences of that was for US Government not to be able to track down the people involved in creating and promoting them. Naturally, this didn't encourage the creation of honest and non-scammy ICOs.
Day 444: stuck in OAuth hell
I want a job where I can spend days of valuable time on unauthorised, unproductive projects just because I want some fun, and not get punished for it.
>The best way to get into Crypto from a traditional brokerage account is GBTC

So this is basically 100% speculation, because you can't even use the crypto you "purchase"? You're just hoping for prices to go up. How does that make sense for a purported currency? If people aren't using it, what is the value?
One of the biggest scams I can see currently - hide the terms behind financial instruments, but take a 20 to 25% fee for making an investment!!

When the usual fees are 1.5% plus a performance fee

I really don’t understand why the SEC allows them to continue without proper disclosures on what they really are....
Yes, those poor, poor Waggener Edstrom PR people. It's about time someone like you took a stand for them - they surely can't fend for themselves.
Well, these guys are working on getting humanity through smaller but similar events through feeding people despite years without any crop growth.

https://allfed.info/

We've actually got a fairly decent handle on asteroid protection right now with the cataloging work that's been done in the last couple of decades. Comet impacts, supervolcanos, and possibly a nuclear winter are really the biggest threats of this sort
For a while before the pandemic, lots of my poker buddies got into crypto. Most of them didn't even know what a blockchain was, but they had a portfolio of 20 crapcoins and hundreds of trades a month. Now, like your coworker, they're on Robinhood. Gamblers gotta gamble.
> ICOs were regulated - they were covered by the same regulations that applied to stock sales

Theoretically, yes. But enforcement was practically nonexistent.
Yeah, lol. Love reading all these myths about the finance industry regurgitated on HN. Most options traders I know don't have a PhD. Of the subset that do, it's usually more multidisciplinary than just stats because there's a lot more to derivatives pricing than just probability theory. Masters degrees are really common though.

Reading HN, you'd think every quant trading firm had the exact same culture and hiring practices as RenTech.
I used to do that in my 20s ?got a history in /.) . Now in my early 40s I still could do it but I just dont care... theres so many times I can get joy compiling the kernel, tinkering with ALSA/Pulseaudio, winmodems, xfree86 , bluetooth and countless rough edges. The last I did was compile a kernel in mint with custom scheduler to fix some bug to play CS:GO. In this day an age... why do I need to do that? It's not Linux fault, but its Linux problem.
> The amusing thing about this question is that if you actually have an answer, it reveals more about your biases than it does about the situation and potential solution(s). Various people will chime in about the latest thing that annoys them...whether it is inattentive pedestrians, jaywalkers, pedestrians wearing black at night, drunk drivers, speeders, or people driving cars that are too big and dangerous. But all of them are wrong because there is no discernible root cause.

Causality is usually complex and often complicated. Let's consider another case:

An attentive person without any sensory impairment crossed at a crosswalk in broad daylight and was killed by a sober bicyclist going ten miles an hour[1]. What was the root cause?

All of the same objections apply. If you want an ultimate root cause you need to turn to theology, in which case as a Christian I can say that all death is ultimately caused by sin. While I personally find that to be a philosophically sound position, it isn't especially useful for answering the pragmatic question of how to reduce preventable evils like (some?) pedestrian deaths. My personal bias in this case is to take a pragmatic approach. That means identifying factors that can be changed with a high rate of compliance at a cost that is less than that of the evil being prevented.

Mature safety systems take this into account. As an example, take basic firearms safety[2]: 1) Treat all guns as if they are loaded. 2) Never point a gun at anything you don't want to destroy. 3) Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot. 4) Be sure of your target and what's behind it. In order to negligently discharge a firearm and cause harm, all four of these rules must be disregarded. In this case, even though any number of events from mechanical failure to muscle spasm could have caused the discharge, if someone causes unintentional harm I can say the local root cause was failing to observe the safety rules and hold said person morally responsible[3]. Many other examples of safety systems should come to mind, including relevant to the pedestrian safety scenarios.

[1] One way that this could plausibly happen is that the pedestrian is knocked over and hits his head. Falling and hitting one's head is a surprisingly common way to die.

[2] There are variants, but they all aim to achieve safety in much the same way.

[3] This holds regardless of one's position on civilian ownership of firearms, because police and military personnel are also human and need to follow a safety system.
Well, Argentina doesn't really care about these "problems"; it's a large expanse of dirt and rocks, and what people do on top of that dirt and those rocks only affects it minimally. They are born, live, suffer, and die, but Argentina endures.

Some of the people do have these problems, but they aren't the ones who have power.

Rich people in Argentina already have most of their money in offshore bank accounts, so these "problems" aren't problems for them†; they may even benefit from them; for example, because they can buy bigger houses and pay their servants less, and things like the rigged currency system give a lot of tools to the ruling party to reward their supporters with. When the official exchange rate is 30% below the real rate, for example, an import license is virtually a license to print money.

So, I think that providing workarounds to the people who need them, cryptocurrencies probably not only ameliorate the most immediate and pressing concerns of poor parts of the population like Venezuelan immigrants, but probably also adjust the power balance in a more liberal and democratic direction. This will improve the chance of those concerns being ameliorated by public policy over the next decades as well. But it's hard to tell what will really happen. The potential disaster scenario is that, by making most taxation impossible, cryptocurrencies destroy the modern welfare state without providing anything to replace it. So the public hospitals close, the enormous police force starts to support itself by extracting tribute, and the infrastructure decays. Pretty similar to what's happened in the US over the last 50 years, in fact, only more so.

However, at this point I think the modern welfare state is already doing a good enough job of destroying itself without any significant help from cryptocurrencies—as evidence, I can point to Maduro, Macri, Bolsonaro, Trump, and Brexit, and metonymically to the social changes they betoken. So at this point I'm more worried about cushioning the collapse than preventing it.

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† That isn't the way I see it, because I've seen how rich people in more egalitarian societies have better lives than rich people in Argentina, but it's by and large how powerful people in Argentina see it, and that's what counts when we're trying to predict the political effects of events.
It's amazing and embarrassing how far I had to scroll through the comments to realise this was an April Fools. Tbf it's 4:43 on the 2nd of April where I am now, but still
Yes I guess my point is just that Democracy Now or a similar org doesn’t own a skyscraper.
The probability of this post being [flagged] is asymptotically approaching 1.

As stated elsewhere, this is by definition institutional racism.
Seems quite a lot of us have had the same idea.

I keep thinking the Meshtastic network is heading in that direction, maybe Disaster.Radio might have some features, and generally there seem to be a ton of projects that contain some but not all of the pieces you'd want.

I'm down to build the hardware, I just haven't a clue on the software side of things.
It's a stretch to call it unneeded, being able to communicate over the cellular network is pretty much the definition of what a mobile phone is, if you remove that it stops being a phone. In that sense running the phone with any system is optional too since you can always use it to weigh down some papers on your desk ...
That's not a factual claim, it's a subjective statement. "Some penny stock transactions are fraudulent" is a factual claim, though not a very interesting one. "The SEC estimates that X% of penny stock transactions are fraudulent" is a stronger factual claim.
I use crypto as money _frequently_ - so it did and is panning out. You may as well be trying to convince me the sky isn't blue while I'm looking up.
And yet the reality is that there is no shortage of free pianos listed on my local Craigslist that no one has picked up yet.
You should check the discussion because the submitter already admitted that the title was clickbaity.
The problem I have with this is if #1 ever fails, and lets be honest, it will eventually, then #2 means you'll get mold and its game over.

Heat transfer mechanisms, in order of amount of heat moved typically follow: conduction, convection, and radiation and should be addressed in that order while not ignoring moisture content. Mitigation strategies should default to passive measures. Or at least that's my plan if I ever get around to building a house.
My first thought was a little different: this is just a rather empty and snarky expression of Sturgeon's Law, as applied to Free and Open Source software.

Yes, Free and Open Source software can sometimes be difficult to build and set up. This differs from closed-source software only in that closed-source software denies you the ability to build the software yourself. There are still plenty of ways for closed-source software to be difficult to set up.

I don't think anyone is claiming that Firefox, for instance, is difficult to set up.