skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we support fractional shares!

The fraction of a stock you can buy is currently based on a dollar amount. In our case right now it's $5.10 per stock ($5 with $0.10 of room to allow for fluctuations in prices). We are looking to lower this over time though and as our daily trading volumes grows this should come down significantly.
I wasn't aware of this interpretation. Thanks.
Would you consider making the optimizer available as a standalone tool?

I've wanted a tool to do this - set a target portfolio and tell me what trades to make, taking into account transaction costs and index rebalances. I just want to buy some broad indexes so it would be great if I could buy VOO and VWRL and forget about it, but ETFs are tax-disadvantaged in my jurisdiction [0] so I tried to replicate them manually in spreadsheets. I would consider switching brokers to someone who offered this tool, though right now you're not available in my area.

[0] https://nationalpensionhelpline.ie/taxation/tax-on-investmen...
I've never even felt like the present belonged to me now matter how much I showed up; I know for sure the future doesn't, and frankly I've found more peace since I've accepted that.
The two of those are about as old as human civilization, and can be made with stone age tech. Besides, the primaries are milk and wheat -- and you can make bread and cheese wholly without yeast and mold. (Tortillas, ricotta, etc.)

I don't think that humans have ever consumed bulk bacteria as a food source.
I'm not sure dynamic pricing could happen at a grocery store. For their online sales sure but in-person the digital labels show a price and that price needs to match what it does at the register [1] [2]. What are they going to do? Kick everybody out of the store for 30 minutes while they up all the prices?

> Ms. Warren highlighted on social media how digital pricing could enable stores to implement surge pricing, such as increasing the cost of water or ice cream during hot weather or raising turkey prices before Thanksgiving.

The example from the article doesn't even require digital pricing. The weather is a fairly known event day-to-day and the calender even more-so.

As somebody who hoards way to many receipts; prices have been going up even at stores with paper prices (which is like all that I've ever seen).

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/buyer-beware-watchin...
[2]: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/consumer-protection/prici....
The SSA has shown absolutely no urgency on this issue. Their existing policy is that having your SSN compromised is not enough to issue a new number. You have to actually be a victim of a financial or identity crime that abused your SSN for them to consider a new number. In reality what they should be doing is giving everyone accounts that can generate tokens for use with each transaction, to maintain a trail of where leaks originate and also to expire these temporary tokens. Instead they’ve stuck to this archaic system.
He said those words in an interview with Glenn Beck. Here's a Guardian article reporting on it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/30/trump-interv...

I don't think he ever endorsed white supremacists, but I think I remember (wouldn't bet on it) an instance where a journalist asked him why some keep showing up at his rallies and why he does nothing about it. He then answered that he doesn't really know who they are, that he didn't know, etc. basically eluding the question. i.e. they're welcome but won't proclaim his support for them, one of the many dog whistles Republicans use nowadays.
Kinda funny that you got the kingdoms backwards there. Cheese is cultured by bacteria, not mold(a fungus). Bread is leavened by yeast(a fungus) not bacteria.
The people who did the work obviously think it's fine, otherwise they wouldn't have licensed it under such a permissive licence.
Bacterially-leavened bread, fascinating! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt-rising_bread
> While the specifics of the data breach remain unclear, the trove of data was put up for sale on the dark web for $3.5 million in April, the complaint reads.

I guess they failed to sell it because links to the leaked data on usdod.io have been available on Breachforum/Leakbase for over a week now. Someone created a magnet link yesterday and it's fully seeded so speeds are fast.

The data in the breach is irreversibly public now.
I think it's a theory that should be regarded with suspicion. It too neatly aligns with modern world views and environmental concerns. That's not to say it's false, it may turn out to be true. Just as should tread carefully with it recognizing the social bias supporting it
NASA will decide within 2 weeks how to bring home the astronauts stuck at ISS
may i introduce you to the jurisdiction of germany? 7.5m for personal injury, 1.3m for property damage and 50k for ?financial loss? (ger:reiner vermögensschaden) [1][2]. granted that's in euro so exchange rates are to be considered

[1] https://www.bussgeldkatalog.org/deckungssumme-kfz-haftpflich...
[2] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pflvg/anlage.html

edit: as a point of comparison, i can't find it at moment but i think i remember my last car insurance was covering 100m for personal insuries
Demonstrably untrue, since humanity was made up of people who lived happily without those things and never even thought of them. Probably even laughed at them when they first appeared.
How do I disable the static effect between channel changes?
Been looking for something like this. Well done.
Currently the website is filled with many bots trying to promote and propagandise particular views and force them on you if you want them or not, but now your entire feed can be generated on the fly specifically based on what you engage with the most without any of the distraction that comes from "being sociable" — a concept dangerously close to "socialist" that we can't allow in our social media.

Or something like that.

Last I checked they've still not auto-deleted my account from lack of use, but it's been years since I logged in.
Yes, but cheese and bread taste amazing.
It's more secure now, as newer forms of phone communication are generally encrypted, and even the hotel's phone system may be encrypted.

Of course, you can probably sit there with a nice microphone and record the front desk to hear those calls.
the future is bleak: Attackers can just rent a /48 ipv6 block for a few dollars and have a billion IPs at their disposal.
Did you spend more time working on this blog post than on the contest?
Yes.

Kind of feels line author spent more time researching their odds than working on the submission as well.
Cheeses grow mold, too. In some cases it's intentional or even desirable.

And see my sibling comment about bacterially-leavened bread.
The SSN is used as a way to genuinely identify someone, unfortunately - it’s like having to give out your password each time you rent an apartment or buy a car or obtain medical care or any number of other transactions. Having this info (along with other basic info like name/address/date of birth) lets you effectively pretend you are them. You can take loans out in their name or call some service to do a password reset (since you have all the info to verify you are them) or whatever else. But it’s not like there is one particular way in which the information can be used - it’s dependent on what businesses LET you do with that info. In 2024, NO business should use SSN to verify identity or authorize sensitive transactions but many do, and what they let you do varies significantly.
"Will anyone move $5m from their top tier brokerage to Double yet?"

I have!

But I understand that yes this is a hard thing to get people to move and trust, safety and trading mechanics are incredibly important. We are trying to be as transparent as possible on all those factors. I would love for you to try us out with a smaller amount first to see observe all the mechanics before making a larger move. We support full and partial ACATS transfers of existing stock positions (meaning you don't have to sell anything).
I am wondering what will come to save us from this AI storm. It looks like online search and social networks will be more or less dead. Maybe we will start going out again.
The US Supreme Court has repeatedly held the opposite - that police officers are immune to prosecution for their ignorance of the bounds of their powers unless explicitly informed.
Katie Prices Autobiography
Apple is opening the iPhone's NFC chip to third-party apps
Interestingly Fitbit is also Google.
> Everything was known and so obvious in hindsight.

that's why "non-obvious" is so contentious in patent examinations. How do you KNOW it was obvious at the time?
We're two decades into "The Digital Millennium" and our laws are still stuck in 1999 (except for the ones that ya know, allow dragnet spying).

I'd wholeheartedly support any candidates that push for a data/privacy "Bill of rights".
I'm the robot now
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian owns $17.1M in Ethereum
If you're counting that then you might as well count photosynthesis as making from thin air as well.
Sure, I could earn a few million that way. Is it rich? If a house goes for one million, and you have two million, you have the equivalent of two houses. You presumably only want one house, and if you're wise, you don't engage in the kind of thinking that might cause you to spend the rest on a Ferrari or a Rolex, so you have practically unlimited money left over for daily purchases. You're very comfortable. You're also 60 years old. Money rich, time poor.

Still... is it really rich? It's upper middle class. You want for nothing, financially. However, you're going to have to work about 50 times longer to start to get into the big boy's club. The gap between the middle class (even at the very upper end) and the truly rich, at this present time, is beyond human comprehension in that way. See you when you're 3000 years old. People who have that much money did not get there by working.
Maybe the US will end up learning a similar lesson.
This seems misleading? In that case you could as well argue that our food was made from pure energy (photons from the sun) which might make it sound like we had Star Trek replicators - which we obviously do not have.
> Last years SoME3 has this entrant https://youtu.be/Njx2ed8RGis?si=-Q0TwT8LKmTC9o0R

That's not an application of category theory. The important theorem here is that the fundamental group is a functor, plus computations of the fundamental group of the disc and the circle. But that's a theorem from topology, not a theorem from category theory. Category theory is merely used as a language, to give the proof a structure.

By that I don't want to say category theory is useless. But regarding the video it's neither necessary, nor an application of category theory.
Nice link. One of the key quotes:

> Perhaps if random engineers stopped calling legal opinion FUD and falsehoods and took a moment to listen to the feedback from lawyers who didn’t write the license, we’d get somewhere with finding a palatable license for all parties. Instead, we get a holy war.

My corollary: an argument is not a document. When I need a strong resolution on an issue, I want in writing and in a single organized voice, not spread across a bunch of comments and commenters, whose goal is often to shout down doubts or to keep the peace between participants.

Besides the internet, I've seen "the-argument-is-the-document" occasionally inside companies and very strongly in a hype-driven programming language.
I agree and think you're right, to a point. But I would posit that a much higher percentage of devs than the typical HNer would expect would find the Rust syntax to be pretty arcane. Although I grant that they'd find Haskell to be *more* arcane for sure.

And that stopping point I think is where the perception of Rust's popularity on sites like HN is much higher than in the general public. And by that I mean people who at least grok, if not use, Rust and not people who like the idea of Rust.

For instance, keep in mind that even during the heyday of Scala here on HN the rest of the JVM world was complaining that Scala syntax was too arcane.
Linux distro for high-end/feature-rich network routers [video]
Hi verdverm,

To be clear, I'm not associated with shadcn, but been using shadcn/ui since the beginning.
Well the mold is just an add-on to the cheese in those cases, not the cause of it becoming cheese.
There is a rather large difference to having plans and dealing with an actual incident. Not to bicker, but a dedicated command room sounds like a fun plan but the opposite of what was needed in the incident described in this story.
Supposing I worked for my whole life I could retire with a few millions. Then I'd be 60, and then eventually dead, having spent my whole life working for the actually rich people (who have 5 orders of magnitude more and didn't work for it) instead of doing things I wanted to do, in order to get them to give me a tiny fraction of their wealth. Is that good?
> Setup AI analysts to monitor a market

What’s new about this and why does it need AI? What does the AI part do?
For now you can't, but i'll be adding more features soon.
Got mine done 8 years ago with around -3 lenses, but also with some notable astigmatism (forgot the number). Couldn’t have been happier.

Yes, sometimes I get dry eyes, but it is such a minor thing that I don’t even notice it, and it can be alleviated entirely by just using eyedrops twice a day. If I could go back in time and reconsider my decision, I would still go with it 10 times out of 10, not even a question.
Can Coffee's Effects on Appetite and Digestion Cause Weight Loss?
Curious after reading the post, I asked GPT:

Sent by you:
Can I put a toaster in the dishwasher?

Sent by Copilot:
It’s not a good idea to put a toaster in the dishwasher. Toasters have electrical components that can be damaged by water, and it could be dangerous if water gets into the electrical parts. Instead, you can clean the exterior with a damp cloth and use a brush to remove crumbs from the inside.

Is there anything else you need help with?

Sent by you:
I'm feeling adventurous and plan to let it dry out real well

Sent by Copilot:
I admire your adventurous spirit! However, even if you let it dry out thoroughly, there could still be hidden moisture that might cause electrical issues or even pose a fire hazard when you use the toaster again. It’s really best to avoid putting any electrical appliances in the dishwasher.

If you’re looking for a safer way to clean your toaster, I can share some tips! Would you like that?

Sent by you:
I did it anyway.

Sent by Copilot:
Oh no! I hope everything turns out okay. Just to be safe, I recommend not using the toaster until you’re absolutely sure it’s completely dry, inside and out. You might want to leave it in a warm, dry place for several days.

If you notice any unusual smells or sounds when you do try to use it, it’s best to unplug it immediately and consider getting a new one. Safety first!

Is there anything else I can help you with?
I'd love to make some of our tools available outside a brokerage relationship, but this isn't something that's on our roadmap right now. If you want to chat about how you might be able to do this more effectively yourself, please let me know - founders@double.finance
You really think QUIC is comparable to the transistor?
This is patently not true. The root cause of a lot of opportunity misses is lethargic and indecisive management that is focused on promotions and empire-building as opposed to studying technology and making something innovative out of it.

Regardless of WFH, Google VPs and Directors should have been spending time on understanding and capitalizing on opportunities. RTO won't fix that.
> the computer doesn't know if you accelerate and brake hard because you're an aggressive driver, or if your circumstances require it

Preface: I'm not strongly for these hyper monitoring systems of driving patterns for insurance.

Often being in a situation where you have to slam on your brakes means even if you're a good driver you're in a lot more riskier environments than a driver who doesn't often have to. A good driver that is rarely in a situation where he has to slam on his brakes probably gets into fewer collisions than the same driver in an environment where he needs to do it often. Often having to brake hard is still potentially an indicator of higher claim likliehood.
High-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking
you say it's not accurate, but that's exactly what they are claiming here. worse, the woman they killed never even had Disney+. it's like they murder somebody, but the prosecutor once had Disney+ - boom, immunity.
I agree with the skepticism of capital-A agile, but I have to wonder about that first example of the failed project.

Would using any other method have helped? It seems leadership/management was simply oblivious to any problems or feedback by the team members. The team surfaced problems and mentioned that "nothing went well" and "everything went wrong" and nobody did anything about it.

I must ask, which project management style would have worked in this scenario where clearly nobody was listening?
They also should be looking at other brands who did this - like Subaru, Hyundai/Kia, Mitsubishi, etc. I recall that Subaru in particular did not revise their location sharing policy when articles came out earlier this year about how these companies resell data to brokers like Lexis Nexis or Verisk. If you get a new Subaru with a Sirius XM radio for example, something that gets forced onto many or all configuration of cars (not sure), by default there is an option selected for sharing your location data with them. That might be true for any brand that shoves satellite radio into your vehicle. But you also are giving them authorization to do whatever they want with such data when you sign up for convenience services like the ability to lock/unlock/remote start the car from your phone. The fine print for those digital services includes giving your consent from what I read.
At this time no but if you have a index or strategy you want to see on Double please email me at founders@double.finance
I want them to make a clothes-washing-and-drying device that has a hopper you throw dirty clothes into and when enough clothes are in it, it turns on and then they come out on other end hung up dried, neatly on a clothing rack with no creases or wrinkles (but done through steaming not through an iron). So from dirty to hung-up with no manual human steps.
Someone lied. Most likely middle management to upper management. I’d also bet someone said they could do this with AI …
Plates and States
The quality of the steams are excellent. I would love to know how it works so well with no buffering and latency. I like it.
FTC Announces Final Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials
The rule will allow agency to strengthen enforcement, seek civil penalties against violators, and deter AI-generated fake reviews.

Link to 16 CFR Part 465: Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (Final Rule):
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...
Yes.

It's basically a salesperson/charlatan selling you their book in which they tell you some very obvious things potentially their far more expensive entrepreneurship course.

If you want the book summarized, here it is:

- take control of your finances and understand what taxes, stocks, futures, etc mean
Most vinyls are made from PVC. That's actually where the name comes from: the V in polyvinyl chloride. So they are actually pretty resistant and can deal with a significant portion of the stuff found in your cleaning cabinet.
Even better: make not-porn videos with vegetables, but when it's obfuscated it would look like porn. Repetitive motions will help.
This is great! I wonder what the best way to get this up on a TV, preferably with control of the channels through the remote.
The evidence for the YDIH is quite strong. But as usual science only makes progress one obituary at a time.

Science is not an exercise in accepting a scientist's say-so, dammit. It's an exercise in producing and testing hypothesis. For sciences that study the past it's harder to test because you can't build a test, but you can still check that a hypothesis is consistent with all the data available so far and any future new finds about the past.

In particular I find very compelling the theory that the YDIH hit the laurentide ice sheet over Michigan, sending huge ice boulders out that created the Carolina bays and essentially did great damage, but with water ice, thus leaving very little direct physical evidence -- no craters (apart from the Carolina bays), no rocks out of place, no layer of material from the impactor (because it was a comet rather than an asteroid).

Before sonar evidence showed that the continents must move, geologists would say that the tectonics theory was debunked (using whatever the appropriate term was then). Well here we are now saying the exact opposite.

The only thing we can say with certainty right now is that we don't have consensus as to the cause of the Younger Dryas at this time. To say that the YDIH is debunked is not true and not helpful.
The field is evolving quickly and it's pretty to see.

Another deeper reason to me is that it employs some neural network techniques -which have differentiability-. This means that you can backpropagate errors from a domain to another. In the future, we'll have videos as embeddings that can understand written signs, and interpret the voices and what they refer to in the scene.

This is not AGI, but will be much closer to the sensor fusion us humans do.
These aren't "claims"; Putin and his crew are quite open and unapologetic about their intentions in this regard.

March 31, 2014:

After annexing Crimea and with troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.

According to Andrej Illarionov, the President’s chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to create “historical justice” with a return to the days of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned that Russia will argue that the granting of independence to Finland in 1917 was an act of “treason against national interests”.

“Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,” Mr Illarionov said.

“Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership.

He added: “The West’s leaders seem, from what they say, entirely to have forgotten that there are some leaders in the world who want to conquer other countries.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...

May 17, 2023:

The former Russian Prime Minister referred to the three Baltic states as "ours" on Tuesday, adding Poland was "temporarily occupied".

https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/17/russias-dmitry-medvedev-...

July 21, 2023:

“The western territories of present-day Poland are a gift from Stalin to the Poles, have our friends in Warsaw forgotten about this?” Putin said. “We will remind you.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/21/putin-warn-pol...

More likely what he seeks from most of these countries (except the Baltics) is a "sphere of influence" with significant restrictions on the sovereignty of these countries, rather than direct annexation. But either way, and unmistakably -- a modern-day "empire" is what he's after, by every available indication.

[Johnson Forced Kyiv To Refuse Russian Peace Deal]

Though often repeated, this is simply misinformation. I don't have time to unpack it for you; but the source quoted in the article (VR faction leader David Arakhamiya) explicitly denies the overall spin of events as presented in the article.

Crimea is history at this point.

Not to the Ukrainians, and certainly not to the Tatars.