skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compression isn't just about sparse-ness, but optimizations one can make based on the dataset.

E.g., Gorilla uses delta-delta-encoding for time-stamps, and a novel XOR-based compression scheme for floats.

For more, here is a primer on Gorilla and other leading time-series algorithms:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algo...
I would view this kind of notification as different than discussing suicide. You presumably just encountered something very shocking, and are likely considering what options are available to you.

There's no real need to mention suicide in the notification, "feeling distressed? Call" would work fine.
>Will their cut be lower than 30%? I see no reason for it to be. Google play is 30% right now

Yes, I'm sure of it. For instance, Microsoft's fees are just 15% because they are less powerful right now. The more stores there are, the less powerful each of them would be and that would create an incentive for all of them, including the incumbants, to cut fees and offer fairer terms.

We might well see new entrants beyond Google and Amazon - people like Microsoft, Stripe, Puddle, Shopify, Valve, Facebook or startups that don't exist yet. Maybe the content side and the payment/billing side of stores would be run by different companies. Who knows.

As soon as you have credible alternative stores with equal visibility, the most profitable customers will leave the incumbants if they don't relent on fees. Small developers will be able to tag along, because everything else would be seen as obviously unfair.

If you claim that the balance of supply and demand has absolutely no bearing on prices and terms, then I will never be able to convince you. But you're going against every single historical example of how markets work.
True, does need to be managed rather than outright banned is the idea though.
Feels like Theranos except the only difference is that Zoom has working software
> Seems like Google could just maintain a list for advertisers then.

Maybe it could. I believe the market of advertising on marginal websites is small, and it's not worth the trouble for Google to try to work on that market: the number of users of these websites is small, and the number of advertisers wanting to advertise on questionable websites is also small.

> I think it's naive to think that they are purely doing this to protect Advertisers' convenience.

It's not just convenience. When advertisers are unhappy, Google loses a lot of money, because ads make the most of Google revenue.

If you have reasons to believe otherwise, please explain.
I totally agree with both those things. But the Rust fan should realise:

1. This opinion gets expressed on every single comment thread about Go, multiple times. Maybe have some respect for other people's right to have a discussion on a subject without derailing it with a tangential opinion about another language.

2. We all know that Rust is the one true programming language for every possible context. However, because we're clearly idiots, we're writing a program in Go. Pointing out how Rust would do it better isn't helping.
I loved it too on a mac. When I switched companies and went to an Ubuntu-based laptop, trying to keep the whole monitor scenario working consistently was frustrating, so I dropped it.
That's actually very common, most online conferencing systems will say they are end-to-end encrypted when they actually aren't/they consider end-to-end to be from your client to the server. This was a big issue when we were selecting a supplier for such a solution and actually wanted to use a cloud solution but none of them had proper end-to-end encryption.
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This stands in stark contrast to IBM who announced halting facial recognition offerings, Google who has prohibited use of facial recognition against non-public figures from the start, and Amazon who just announced a moratorium on facial recognition use by law enforcement. Not a good look for MSFT.
We'll apply, for sure.

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Hey, I’m the author. I think you Mis-interprete what I’m saying - of course understanding timelines and budget will often be a legitimate need of one or some stakeholders, among others. And of course making teams stick to deadlines when that’s not possible is bullshit. But the other extreme - demanding that nothing can ever be estimated and understood well up-front - is equally wrong. In the Limited scope of an iteration, it is well possible to reduce risk and uncertainty at least a good amount through thorough analysis and preparation.
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The "move fast and break things" ethos in the tech industry is a recipe for disaster in certain contexts. I am sure I have designed some poor or confusing interfaces in my day, but it has never been in a context in which poor communication can literally lead to someone killing themselves. That would make it tough to sleep at night.
I wish directory websites made a come back. Like old Yahoo.
30KB is still absolutely massive in terms of raw CSS
I mean, until someone says otherwise, it can be the largest ever[1].

[1] on public record
Other provinces have funds as well, and the federal government just allocated a couple billion to the programs in Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan, as part of the COVID response. My employer's already gotten some extra subcontracting work out of those programs.

Yay for jobs programs, I guess.
It happen when you use spreads. I have personally had this happen and it's jolting at first but is usually back to normal within hours. Here's how it works:

1. You sell a call credit spread. This is where you sell a call at say $100 and collect premium (let's use $2 for this example), then buy a call at $105 to cap your possible losses.

2. The options expire and the price of the stock is $110. I have lost the maximum amount. I sold a call and collected premium of $2, and bought a call at $105, so my total maximum loss was the difference ($3).

3. Robinhood will settle these assignment after hours, and will for whatever reason show the balance as if you hadn't bought the $105 call protection. So my balance may show a massive loss until the reconcile both the short and the long end of the calls.

I have seen my balance go to -200k before when it was way in the positive before the day ended. This happened to be a Friday and it wasn't resolved until the markets opened the following Monday.

Luckily, I realized what was going on, but many novice investors may not.
Which display in particular are you recommending, and what is the latency like?
Yes, I think they would have been screamed about from every Republican supporting media outlet there is. And I think they were targeted because of the underhanded way they went about collecting data, and for violating FB ToS.

But the real reason that I think they were targeted? I think they leaned into it as a submarine PR coverage tactic. "We're so effective that it's a national scandal" was a great marketing tactic in the (hopefully bygone) era when amorality had no consequences.
More directly - they could be told to cap a few wells before they drill a new one. I assume you’d want them to cap more than one.
I don't identify with them. It's an observation.
my old company had some bad stuff come out of tor nodes, hired a company to do some analysis, they found i ran a relay at home (employee vpns to work from home from a tor node, is what they said) and thought it was suspicious. so i was called to security and given the grief. sometimes its not worth running a relay from home...
Threema.
Just curious - what other product that works better do you recommend? Webex, Skype, Hangouts/Meet, Teams all pale in comparison when it comes to quality and ease-of-use.
It's not an application anymore I dont think, it's more of a just sign up to participate, but you have to actually participate to get the benefits sort of thing
This honestly sounds like "FOSS advocate yells at cloud".

Many things the article paints as bad are pretty much "I like vanilla ice cream" level arguments, not actual faults.

eg. log in vs. generate and exchange codes.

"Sharing is so easy, just exchange public keys". Yes, and sharing with a serverside cloud storage solution is as easy as giving someone the link or typing their email into a share dialog, and I don't have to do jack anymore. It's completely onesided to share files is wanted and need be.

Not liking a default share folder is, again, personal preference. Having a dedicated cloud storage folder is nice and clear to most people.

Being able to pick and choose is a legit advantage, though.

> How do you connect two devices, if there’s no registration, accounts, email, etc? Simple!
> Each device has a unique id, generated automatically when you first run the program.
> Share this id with another device, let them share their, and you are good to go.

Totally easier than typing your account info, right?

Also means you have to install an app while with traditional storage services you can just log into a webpage and grab what you need.

> More “features”:
>
> Desktop sync,
> Photos sync,
> Screenshots sync.
>
> These are at least file-like? I don’t understand why they have to be “special features”, though,
> if you already have an app whose primary task is to sync files. It already does that. Why are some files more special than others?
>
> The answer is simple: the only way Dropbox can survive is by building and selling more features. You’ll never have peace of mind with them.

Highly tech-savvy FOSS advocate is oblivious to the existence of non-UNIX operating systems.

Most of these are summarizable as "Dropbox sucks" more than "cloud storage services suck."
this is interesting, thank you! And font-weight: 300 has been an old personal nemesis. That explained at least part of it! Do you know if font dilation is on by default?
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Hi,

I released the new production build of GraphQL Editor. I need to write it here because there are already about 20000 users of GraphQL Editor.
https://graphqleditor.com/

To be truth I made design change because many features weren't accessible by users (I discovered it from analytics). Right now I exposed features into a floating menu in front of the user project which includes:
- Schema versioning
- GraphQL Libraries
- JAMStack Engine (Pretty alpha phase I need to decide if Web Components or React should be used here)
- Mock backend

All features here are free. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!
I'm not OP (and I think his comment sort of misses the point...) but even allowing for its shorter lifespan, methane is about 28 times more potent per kg over 100 years (the standard measure I believe).

People have actually argued that its "worse" in practise: enough CO2 to cause a 4 degree rise in 100 years takes 100 years to fully take effect. The equivalent in methane will means 4 degrees of warming in just 25ish years.
This is false equivalence. The size and number of demons are relevant.
I am not a developer, but rather a somewhat advanced user. I constantly interact with FOSS developers, so I’ll tell you what I think from that point of view:

- I am grateful for all the voluntary effort that create wonderful programs that are a joy to use

- I understand developers have other commitments

- I understand developers have personal lives, and require rest and leisure

- I understand my requests will eventually not be met, or will take a long time to be answered

- I actually prefer that developers take their time to answer me because I care about their well being. Happy developers are also less likely to direct their frustrations at the users

- In conclusion, you should prioritize what you find more joyful and productive. Support is important, but it cannot get in the way of your happiness and mental health

Incidentally, your README reads more like an essay than an introduction. I suggest you make it more to the point, and provide a link for further explanations.
Maybe I'm a germophobe, but isn't it kind of gross that this thing is shipped in no container and then put on your desk?

How long do germs last on an e-ink display?

I know on paper and cardboard and such it's not very long. From what I can remember, they die while still in the mail stream.

If you're concerned, hit it with some Lysol or soap and water.
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This is where I think they might be legally vulnerable, if anywhere. Especially since Jobs initially answers the shocked reaction of 30% by "it's no big deal everybody is going to make web apps anyway."
Buying and selling stocks is not a big deal. Worst case you go to $0. It’s the options.

Many brokers require you to jump through lots of hoops before trading options. And even then limit you to simple contracts first. Maybe rh should do the same,
You get used to it after few days
Yeah, everyone repeats this "the best thing to happen to chess" passage, but, seriously, I don't see how it makes any sense.

I mean, good for who? "Chess"? Chess is a game, it doesn't give a fuck who plays or watches it. It may be argued that chess is rather a field for studies, which, like any science, benefits from more resources spent on studying it, but let's be honest: future GMs are not bored 20 y.o. kids, introduced to chess by watching xQc. So, no, it is not good, nor especially bad for chess.

Is it good for Hikaru? Definitely. It is good for Hikaru, Botez, maybe Naroditsky or whoever else will manage to catch a ride on the hype train. Because they get more money. Alexandra's channel is now worth like 50 times more than 2 months ago, and market for coaching will be probably bigger now. Likewise, it is good for chess.com, which has all these guys on a payroll under contracts that forbid them streaming while playing on any other platform than chess.com

Community... Well, it's hard to define who exactly constitutes a community, but if we are talking about people who were playing chess and watching GMHikaru or BotezLive 2 months ago, it doesn't seem to me they got anything out of it. It was a community of somewhat similarly-minded people, there was at least some space for meaningful conversations in twitch-chat. Absolute majority was actually somewhat into chess (probably like 1100-1800 ELO) and there was a nice homely environment. Now all the trash previously contained within xQc's channel is spilled all over the place, it's just mindless spamming emotes and such. 50% of Hikaru's content is now "reacting to xQc doing stupid shit". 700-ELO player who at least attempts to think before making a move is now "naturally talented player and definitely not a newbie". I mean, honestly, it just isn't enjoyable anymore. It isn't the place these people used to come for.

And people who got introduced to chess because they were Forsen's of xQc's viewers didn't actually get much either, because they don't really care about the subject. If xQc was suddenly an avid crossword-puzzle sover, they would obsess over crossword-puzzles all the same. It doesn't matter.
Oh god... Let this die already, they had their chance -- it's gone. Nobody in their right mind would touch Zoom with an 10" pole.
Site can't be reached :(
My AWS Snow Family visual notes: https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-Snow-Family/
Start paying closer attention. You'll see it all the time from Republican officials and conservative media personalities.
People with lots of ways to make money pursue morally questionable market in ongoing futile attempt to collect all of the money.
I agree that overly-aggressive terminology is widely used, pretty much everywhere. Clickbait articles particularly: “They evicerated/destroyed/devastated them”.
Absolutely... we should burn every IBM, VW, BMW and every other corporation that worked with WWII Germany to the ground!
Discord recently demanded my cell phone number to be able to type messages. I declined, contacted customer service, who offered no other way to authenticate. I will not be using Discord anymore and will recommend to everyone I know to avoid it as well.

There is no need to use my cell phone or any telephone number when you already have a means of communication via email or any other channel.
The best part is her face in the home page's source code.
That is exactly my experience. The answer to "Why didn't you just tell the truth?" usually starts with "I was afraid that ..."

Most of the time the fear was unfounded or at best, a better outcome that what happens when employees lose trust in leadership.
Can someone please build an evil-o-meter? Just send me an email when a company/service changes ownership or TOS.

Thanks in advance.
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I know of no more blatant example of this than the Haitian border. Dominican Republic side: all trees. Haitian side? grassland.
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2.3 Tbps is (peak) ingress, but AWS Shield egress of 2.3 Tbps costs around $53k per hour. I am curious what kind of bill would you get from AWS after this is over? Also interesting to know if the Cloudflare's price tag of $200/mo. will also cover such an attack without nullrouting or severe throttling where site becomes unusable.
For anyone who doesn't understand what happened, he didn't actually over 700k. He got assigned one side of a put spread which took his balance negative and it takes 24h to exercise the other side.

As an analogy, imagine you owe friend A money (one side of the spread) and friend B owes you money (other side of the spread). Friend A calls and says pay me back, so you venmo them money, and then you call friend B and ask them to pay you back. Basically, he was caught in that period where the money to friend A left your account, but the money from friend B hadn't settled yet.

While it's easy to be mad at Robinhood and blame bad UI, I think it's important to note, that every platform I've traded options on has displayed this situation in the exact same way. I've traded on Schwab in the past and currently use Robinhood and Tastyworks for options trading and all three have given me massive margin calls for this exact same situation that iron themselves out 24 hours later. While Robinhood is the platform in question here, this same thing would have happened almost anywhere else, so I have a hard time blaming Robinhood's UI. Additionally, the negative balance actually triggers the exercise of the second side of the spread, and there's nothing that says the second side of the spread needs to be exercised if his balance was still positive. Because of that, it's not possible (or doesn't make sense) to just say something like, "well if one side is exercised, just do the other right away". Maybe the UI could be improved, but unless a user fundamentally understands what is going on, you're more than likely going to run confusing situations.

What I DO blame Robinhood is having pretty much no standard for who they give options trading to. It's been 7 or so years since I had to apply for options trading on Schwab, but the process was fairly in-depth to get anything beyond level 1 options trading (maybe things have changed). When I applied for options trading on Robinhood, it was a few clicks and I had level 3 trading permissions (the highest they allow) with almost no information being verified.

Again, I'm sure Robinhood isn't alone in their lax policies around options account approval, but between the way they've built their platform to feel like a game, their targeting of younger investors, and the fact that /r/wallstreetbets talks about them constantly, they have become THE platform for investors who don't fully know what they are doing and they need to take extra precautions to protect their users from themselves.
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Interesting, anyone else seeing this? It's hosted on Netlify and is just static HTML&JS.
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You know, education is also a weapon, as is financial enablement. Both are cheaper and have better results than arming the likes of the DEA and ICE, both of which have mixed results at best. Heck, even with all the money that they sink in to that, only a small part goes to the education of the people within those organisations, making it a problem stuck in a perpetual state of marginal benefits to keep it running in vicious circles.

There will always be people that do bad things for the sake of doing bad things, but most of the abusive situations stem from a lack of basic physical and mental safety and the capability to resolve one's own problems.
My bad. I didn’t actually read the article!
When I need to concentrate I just turn off my two side ones and focus on the middle one.
I guess what I mean is that arguing that Apple should be forced to do this is entitled.

You can want it all you want. That's not entitled to me. I do not think they will do it, because I do not think it will improve their business model, but as long as you're not arguing that they should be compelled to do it I have no issue.
The prototype they had was on a modified 90's Intrepid.

https://youtu.be/er8ufDV87nQ

https://youtu.be/jHmxJPTWD-M

It had comparable of not superior acceleration to it's original combustion engine.
A sort of. It's a file css which add a way to easily style native HTML elements through custom properties.
E2EE and open source: the two things people assume automatically makes things super-crazy-secure.

The implementation of E2EE must be robust and there must be somebody who is actually checking the source code (plus verifiable builds)
Generally you can start getting credit pretty quickly in the form of secured credit cards. You’re going to pay a pretty high interest rate on things like cars but after a few years, the fact that you can’t file for bankruptcy again for seven years overrides the fact that you filed for bankruptcy.
Are there any useful applications for face recognition that don't have massive potential for abuse? I have thought about this for a while and it seems all cloud based face recognition can (and probably will) be abused. I think we are building a scary future. Just wait until microphone technology is good enough to listen to every public conversation.
Worse still; possibly putting innocent people behind bars for victimless crimes.
also the user directories. domain.com/~user/
Yeah, all the churn costs more time and resources than it saves. I personally just stayed with Dapper, simple and flexible. I think people have a problem with judging tech based on any benefit rather than cost benefit analysis. People also value cuteness and elegance in doing 'common' tasks over conceptual simplicity and a similar degree of ugliness for all operations.
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To be fair, they wouldn't allow a random kid to be that leveraged. This was because he had an options spread. His long options would cover most of the 770k... It just doesn't show immediately.

Not sure if that makes it better or worse
> Ban things labeled "toxic", ban the boo-boos, keep everyone safe with happy feelings in this space only. But admittedly my thoughts are incomplete.

I think your thoughts are incomplete. What they are missing is the knowledge of and empathy for people who are actually harmed by these behaviors.
I was always a big fan of Mumble and their "latency first, even if you sound like a robot" approach. There are a lot of times in raiding that an 0.5s delay means everyone dies.
Ignoring this news for a moment, what's the worst that could happen to my 401k? (Not asking rhetorically). If I invest $1, could I not get that $1 back?

Does this development change the list of possible outcomes or the likelihood of outcomes?