skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have no idea how necessary their actions were

It was financially unavoidable for Robinhood because they didn't have the _extra_ billions$ in collateral deposited at the clearinghouse to back up their customers' trades (e.g. GME). Various stories about it having to raise extra billions in an emergency: https://www.google.com/search?q=robinhood+emergency+raise+bi...

But retail traders (not the professional traders like George Soros) don't understand that the "Robinhood smartphone app" is a leaky abstraction over final trade settlement at traditional clearing houses. The real-world aspect that "leaked out" was that Robinhood didn't have enough billions in cash. So the ramifications to the UI/UX (the stuff the smartphone user sees) is that you can't transact GME. All that "trade settlement accounting" is too much complexity for non-professionals to understand so the easier narrative to believe is that Robinhood was part of a conspiracy theory to screw the little guy. Yes, being underfunded made them look bad.

**EDIT to add extra link explaining why Robinhood has to post their own collateral to buy stocks on behalf of their customers: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/136272/why-would-c...
Everyone I know that didn't grow up playing sports also doesn't watch them.
https://officedepot.company.com/payroll

Not sure the pricing structure, but I remember office depot having an advertisement, it was probably like "As Low as $6" per pay period.
Ths site says $70 a month but that's probably the minimum for the whole company. Then per check fees.
OK. So can't there be multiple competing implementations? Proprietary but some like those university projects, Foss ?
The sum and the whole of the law shall be do whatever everyone else does unless you have a damn good reason, imo.
Having infinite money helps but it isn't an unassailable moat. There have been plenty of cases over the years where the best fab doesn't always win.
Only for iTunes ones, not Apple Music.
I’ve been working on building this since January. We should have the first version up in a few weeks. Here’s the landing page: https://www.haystack.finance
It's not even a pyramid, it's a triangle.
Yes, if you very carefully set up the data to avoid one entire class of data then you don't have any examples of that class.

When you say `mask-wearing is only brought in when Covid is bad;` that is a hypothesis that can be tested. If that is true then data rolled up at the country level would not be sufficient to determine whether masks are effective, this is a confounding effect.

That is a lack of ability to find correlation in the data. The correlation is still there, your data is just biased in a way that cancels it out or has entire classes of scenarios missing.

My point is that umbrellas ARE correlated with staying dry in the rain, otherwise we shouldn't bother with them as they don't work. The data collected in your example is just extremely biased. The data in this study could be biased, and I call that out. However, at a logical level, you MUST have correlation if there is causation, that is very very nearly a tautology. What does it mean to cause something if the outcome is independent?
That's the correct reading but I'm not sure just how much leeway "including but not limited to" tends to get. Does that, in practice, mean "things like the following" or does it mean "literally anything"?
This is good advice. However bear in mind that the moment a term sheet arrives, the old 409A is invalid. So if the company is fundraising, make sure you get your options allocated immediately (even if that requires the board to have to sign off outside of their regular meeting cycle). Otherwise, once the term sheet arrives, you will get your options at the new strike price and there's not much the company or you can do about it.
If you brought the hammer home and it didn't work as you expected it to, you can take it back. Just like you can with this camera, you can decline the EULA and send the product back.
"Here we are now, entertain us." -Kurt Cobain

Thoughts around the importance of friction, slowing down, setting limits, and practicing doing one thing at a time have been percolating awhile now. Re-listening to Nirvana, their contemporaries, and the roots of Grunge has been at least engaging, possibly helping refine my values and subsequent actions. HN is the long tail of my social-media involvement, for example; I'm not quite ready to stop shouting into the void, and I find so many of your comments thought-provoking and educational that I'll probably stick with it awhile.

That said, my long-term preference is learning through stories, mostly books, but also talks with neighbors, friends, and family. Reading several books concurrently over a week, and practicing active recall along the way, feels better than reading summaries; with the latter I might access more information but it won't stick as well because I don't have as much context or time to sync with it.
tldr:

> The problem is that it's currently much more expensive to produce than regular jet fuel, even with today's elevated oil prices.
My first programming job was working with Data General Business Basic which was marketed as a 4GL but probably doesn't fit the definition these days. It took high level code and generated really ugly pure BASIC from it.
Tiny RISC Virtual Machine Is Built for Speed
True, I'm not sure what the source is but they all seem to have stimulant properties in my experience.
Find books set in your hometown
Wait until they learn about termites!
Is the read() call running a task in the background? In that case, that's equivalent to launching two threads. For n queues, you'd need n tasks, and they'd hang in the background in case they never get a result and take up memory.
Or maybe it's not a lie and believers are genuinely happier and less depressed.
"usage" and "content" are part of a list following "information about", so they are collecting information about content, not content itself.

What exactly that means in practice, we are all just guessing unless you go and ask them to clarify. Probably things like what settings you used for your videos so they can analyze which features are most popular/worth improving.

At least in the EU, if this EULA was not clearly accessible/communicated on the store page before purchase, it would just be invalid, and you'd have a case that the product doesn't work. They're banking on people having more important things to do and just clicking accept to use their product...
There isn’t much of a lobby on the radical left that can compete with the Murdoch empire. Yeah, you can pick some communist newspaper with strange views, but nothing close to Fox in the US or the Mail or the Daily Express in the UK.
Here's two reasons which come to my mind:

* Operationally, there's no turn-key, hosted solution. Getting it set up locally for testing and CI is not trivial. You have to really want to use it. This criticism 100% applies to Anna too.

* FoundationDB provides serializable transactions (yay!), but it doesn't provide the tools to make this work well in the face of contention. FoundationDB uses fully optimistic concurrency control. Consider you have a workload where, say, you want users to do something as simple as increasing a counter. In FoundationDB, you're going to have a bad time if there are lots of concurrent writes. You might instead need to reorganize the problem into having the increments each just write a row and then in the background, read the older rows and turn them into an increment in a single-threaded way. In Anna, you can define your counter data structure inside the system. That's cool. More generally though, Anna pushes the problem of consistency further into the database, which, while cool, is also not super convenient. It does scale. Other databases use pessimistic locking to deal with contention. That is going to be lower throughput because the work will need to serialize. It'll still be higher throughput and lower latency than a fully-optimistic approach.
There literally is no control group anymore though, that isn't disputed. Once you make the vaccine available to the group that is not supposed to be vaccinated, you no longer have a control group. It doesn't matter if 20% of them got the vaccine or 100% of them did, at that point you can't get controlled data.
It's basically a crypto service that converts your dollars to stable coin and then lends it out using some decentralized finance standards. It is not FDIC insured. In my opinion, it seems a bit misleading for them to compare their rates to a bank account's rate, although they do acknowledge elsewhere that they are not a bank.

Maybe there is some nuance to this, or I don't understand the benefits, but I would stay away from it unless you fully understand it.
>But going out, groceries, etc. those are the complicated ones.

Which is why I don't actually track those day-to-day. I'm using revolut and it gives me a pretty decent estimate of spent per category per month, give or take 15%.

Then I use a slightly modified google sheets budgeting template (it's right there) and just put all the numbers there. Quite convenient and you can see all the data + add custom formulas if you want to.
Lunchmoney.app has a collaboration feature, but the description isn't clear enough to see if it's what you're looking for.
Seems like that’s a general trend. Netflix, Amazon Google all loosing goodwill from customers
> "... We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”

Since when did we ever "speak the same language or recognize the same truth". We've always been cut off from one another. Racially, regionally, econonically, etc. The civil war being the obvious one. America is a country of many nations. America, the empire, is an empire of many countries.

> It’s a metaphor for what is happening not only between red and blue, but within the left and within the right, as well as within universities, companies, professional associations, museums, and even families…

This is just silliness from the media. This snapshot that the media portrays doesn't really exist in the real world. People just live their lives. Go outside and see for yourself. And even if it did, it doesn't matter. The red/blue, left/right, etc doesn't matter.

Things fall apart when the elites are divided. And the two dominant forces in american life (political, media, economic, cultural, geopolitical, etc ) are imperialism and zionism. I don't see any division amongst the elites on that. Left/right, red/blue, up/down, flat earther/round earther, etc. So I don't think anything is falling apart as there are no signs of fracture.
MIMD does include today's bog-standard multicore systems.
I think they ran out of low hanging fruit pretty fast. Tiger was great, and once they added multiple desktops that was all they really had to do with OSX and it was complete, lightweight, performant. Too bad the more recent stuff has been just taking away things (32 bit, eventually x86 compatibility if thats the trend), or making it annoying (having your OS yell at you every time you open something not from the mac app store is patronizing).
Note that a lot of the ARM legacy has been dropped from ARMv8.
Except robinhood suffers major security breaches (eg Nov 21) and then that information stolen on you can be used to hack your account. Sure the investment game is the same, but step 1 is to not get hacked.
> robinhood didn't lock trading - or at the very least, they were far from the only brokerage to do so and had very little choice in the matter.

So why did you start out saying they didn't lock trading...to then say they did lock trading? Do some people will only read the first fifteen words of your post? Like are you aiming to fill the air with positive-sounding sounds that make Robinhood sound good? You think we don't think?

Sometimes contradiction is good and helps with nuance and is meaningful. Here it's just gross, like I don't even have to quote two separate parts of what you said. But since I am entitled to quoting you twice to argue with you, but need no other piece of evidence, I'll just quote that same passage again.

> robinhood didn't lock trading - or at the very least, they were far from the only brokerage to do so and had very little choice in the matter.
> > We may be looking too deep into this but it seems like many developers think when string concatenation occurs it’s enough to declare the first string as an f-string and the other strings are turned into f-strings by osmosis. It doesn’t. We’re not suggesting this is the case for all developers that accidentally did this error, but interesting nonetheless.

I highly doubt that people believed that f-strings worked this way. Far more likely is that, for example, the expression started as one line, then got split onto two, or some such similar scenario.
EULA is normal, no worries there.

But if you are worried about someone stealing your footage, why would you even allow this camera to access Internet? I do sensitive amateur porn, and it stays strictly offline with air gaps. It is not that hard, just a bit unconvinient.
Talk of "balances between rights" always ends up in restrictions on liberty. Communitarianism sounds possibly workable until you start to realize that those making the laws you mention (if you're lucky to get them instead of vague guidelines, and then Katie bar the door) and those adjudicating the laws will only decide on the side of whatever benefits them and their cronies. That's taking away freedom of speech, that's taking away all sorts of rights. Liberty is too precious to leave it to politicians and bureaucrats.
Some in the modern medical establishment appear to have taken his cue and ran with it, to similarly horrifying outcomes, e.g. https://4w.pub/tiktok-gender-doctor-per-breast-removal-on-13...
Possibly. History may remember our response to Covid as the last great and destructive folly of a dying civilisation.
Maybe one day;)
Popcorn Time 0.4.7 – XSS to RCE
Meanwhile 100 million oil barrels are extracted (each producing 0.5/0.7 ton of CO2 equivalent), 23 millions of tons of coal, and 365 thousand million of cubic feet of natural gas are consumed. All those numbers each day, and without counting leaks.

And we are talking of fossil fuels, carbon that wasn't in the ecosystem for maybe many millions of years, compared with the relatively short lived and recycled methane that emits living things. There is a big elephant in the room that nobody dare to talk about.
> Is there any recourse here?

Freeze your credit reports at the 3 bureaus. And start checking your credit report on a regular basis at: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/
Tech salaries are a direct result of basic supply/demand. The available supply of workers and the demand for a job are, to a certain extent, independent from how "vital and stressful" the job is.

The only bubble that might pop is an America first hiring mindset which constricts the supply. If this were to change I would expect tech salaries in America to go lower. Then again, this is not that hard to do, most large tech companies already have major offshore dev teams. There are clearly reasons why companies don't move more of their spend offshore.
Automated checking of potential bugs in f-strings is hard. There are lots of false positives. You can see some discussion around this kind of rule in pylint [0]. At the end of the day, the choice to run automated linting tools on a repo is up to the maintainers. Autogenerating PRs like this is incredibly noisy and comes off to me as a blatant advertisement for their "code review doctor" product.

[0] https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5039
Interesting. Had no idea about the requires requires clause in C++ either.
That’s not really a feasible solution in Python because that change would break a load of existing code.
In reactions they conveniently left out "false positives we still hadn't weeded out". On top of that it can be annoying to have bots making trivial PRs in their own format when you've got a well defined process for it. Lastly it was basically spamming an ad link for the service at the end of the PR comment - even if the other issues didn't come up it's not always well received to do that.

Looking at 1 bot it doesn't sound bad, when you have everyones bot doing this kind of stuff it can quickly become more of a nuisance than a help.
Yeah, the spec is free with a permissive license, and individual implementations are expanding to fill the full gamut of free to proprietary.
While I understand you can't post money you don't have, that doesn't absolve them of responsibility in their user's minds (nor should it).
Exactly, I think of enamel as well.
It refers to the previous section of the same sentence, these things are given as examples of "technical, diagnostic, usage and related information". It'd be up to a court to decide whether something not part of the examples could be reasonably called that.
Yeah, but how are those uneducated investors supposed to learn? Robinhood lowered the barrier to entry to actually allow the normal person to invest/trade. Without it, I would know far less about the financial system then I do now. For me, Robinhood really did live up what it aims to do (democratize finance for all).
They had enough money to cover users' trades in securities other than GME, though, right? If I sell GME to buy AMZN, does that have different collateral implications to selling GME to buy GME an hour later? If I send them a bank transfer for $10k, they should have that money as soon as it clears right?

There are many other ways they could have handled it beyond halting buying (and buying only) in an individual stock. The most obvious being just stop letting customers trade with unsettled funds.
>I bought a hammer the other day and could start using it without signing away any of my rights.

The "smart hammers" are coming. And how about Peloton style group hammering.
Sure, it's absolutely great to learn from other languages. I guess what rubs me the wrong way is every point is explicitly or implicitly the Golang way of doing things. There's no real representation from other languages. That combined with being a relatively short list makes the whole article underwhelming.

Article> It's the fruit of my experience working with C, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Rust and my frustrations with the latter.

I don't really see the influences from anything other than Go here.

Don't get me wrong, I love both Go and Rust, for very different reasons.
Learning from the Pandemic Monetary Policy Experiment [pdf]
Nomad/2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software

Never used anything more productive than this - mid 1980s, IBM 4381 VM/CMS.
Heck even with Xbox, I would point to GamePass as just further evidence of this. Microsoft wants you to purchase and use software/games for a Microsoft platform, not Microsoft hardware (the hardware is just there to facilitate the platform).
I don't think the neocons will survive. It really feels like a last ditch effort to me. I'd say upwards of 90% of Republicans have turned on neoconservativism and the remaining 10% are more likely to vote Democrat where neocons are only welcomed as cheerleaders.

I think regardless of if he gets elected again, even if he only even serves one term, 50 years from now Trump's name is going to be plastered in more history books than any modern President before him (and possibly after). He truly did radically alter the party to an amount that will define different eras in political history.
Swiss railways are 51% state-owned, methinks.
The Democrats are trying to get rid of government violence via getting rid of police. How is that authoritarian?
Check out https://projectionlab.com/
Is Maslow's hierarchy of needs relevant in the corporate world?
I had read a set of clearer papers on this, but I didn't keep a link to them (of course there are many economic views this is just mine). However a couple of large scale effects may indirectly capture it. First there are fewer and fewer new business starts, meaning surviving firms are getting larger and older, and second the overall gross productivity has been dropping.

Maybe it's just correlation and not causation. I'll post again if i can find the more direct paper on the anticorrelation between very large corporations and productivity.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/declining-business-dynami...

https://qz.com/633080/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-producti...
Most automated translators indeed offer multiple translations. The UI may decide to offer a default choice and to offer a way to explore the alternatives.

TFA is about building a chain of 10 "default translations". Picking "the right translation" manually on each step would defeat the purpose of the demo.
Some negative reactions:

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/5285

https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/issues/7981

https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/4340

I do think those concerns are legitimate. (I also think more tooling is a good thing!)
Noted. Thanks for sharing!
As a technical lead (one level above senior software developer in my current company), I make €96k in Germany. I had an interview with Klarna, and they offered me €85k (they actually started with 75 and went up to 85), and the interviewer nearly laughed at me when I asked for €110k.

Different continent, different problems? :)
https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-terra/pull/7982

That guy was not happy. I do agree that it's basically advertising and that's annoying.
Again, what part of the world are you on?

Even in Berlin, with all the talks about it becoming a top destination for tech people, I'm yet to hear any 6-figures offer. Even the blockchain companies that were flush with cash were paying 90-95k€ to their top people, maybe a 10-20% performance bonus. Mind you, we are talking about Germany where the tax is ~42% of your income at this bracket if you are single.

When I was freelancing, pay was higher, but my best year hit around 130k€ net income, and that only because I deferred a lot of it and got an accountant that advised me to put as much as possible into a private pension fund to have a bigger tax deduction. If I wanted to have that cash in hand, I would've ended up with maybe 80k€?

Yes, cost of living is lower (though rapidly rising, and it is not a post-pandemic thing) and there is plenty of social welfare benefits. Especially after having kids, I wouldn't go to the US for a $200k/year job. But to think that this kind of compensation is par for the course shows a huge disconnect from the reality in the rest of world.
The only dairy alternative that has comparable protein quality (DIAAS) is soy, and AFAIK there aren't many studies of soy milk given to toddlers/small kids.
I don't know that I'd lay the blame at retail traders not being sophisticated enough to understand this. I'd lay the blame with the company that had such poor risk controls that they allowed this to happen in the first place.
I wonder if Redpanda thinks about or offers some alternative protocol that would be better defined in terms of transaction guarantees. At this point it looks like Kafka’s protocol was a nice try but it needs a major refactoring.
Remember eeePC? They were so ahead of the curve.
It is legal. But under warranty law, they also have to deliver you a product that works or refund your money.
Yes, but that's a different topic.
And isn't this just an exploratory project rather than an engineering effort or scientific research?

But even then, I got panels on my roof last year. A nearby tree that was trimmed when we installed them and now the shade partially covers panels in the morning. If we had gimbles perhaps they'd be more efficient. Maybe not, and maybe we should trim the tree, but the point is that perhaps there is a use case that hasn't been thought of yet. Say, dropping cells on mars in a relatively unknown environment.
Other leading economic nations have increasing obesity alongside increasing life expectancy.
DefaultZero = Object?.mymethod() ?? 0;

Optional-null + null-coalescing is strictly more flexible than obj-c’s behavior, while more sanely defined, with very minimal syntax