skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conspiracy theory time! I don't really believe either of these with any non-trivial degree of probability, but I figure at worst I'd get downvoted, and maybe I'd get some insightful takes.

There was an opinion expressed after '08 that the crisis was used by "elites" to conveniently get rid of (as in fire, mostly) a bunch of people that were, to them, superfluous. Like, that was long overdue and there was a good excuse to fire and not rehire a lot of people, decimating small towns, etc.

So, here comes COVID. Seems like a convenient excuse to get rid of the pesky "main street" businesses. Hence, the corner store is going out of business, but people still need stuff. Yes, the pie might get smaller, but more importantly it gets redistributed much more towards Amazons and Walmarts of the world (don't get me wrong, personally I am fine with Amazon and don't care about corner stores). Amazons and Walmarts are the ones being traded as stocks. Hence, stocks go up!
That's a great question, and one probably best answered over on pgx's GitHub page.

But! I plan on adding a command to "cargo-pgx" to package up the extension for you into a directory structure (or tarball, maybe).

The idea is that you'd just run:
cargo pgx package

And it would just build a --release library, and create the proper directory structure (based on what pg_config) says for the shared library and the associated .sql.

I actually need this ASAP for supporting ZomboDB proper, so... Coming Soon!
>wouldn't there be a huge supply if their security, overall, was lax?

i don't think normal demand curve applies to stolen bank accounts. the value of a stolen account would be the average amount of money you can expect to get out of it, regardless of how many stolen accounts are available. An increase in supply wouldn't make that any different.
Images and misinformation in political groups: evidence from WhatsApp in India
Yeah I found that odd as well.
No systemd – reasons against systemd + alternatives
You think Fashion E-commerce is big? Well, it's just the beginning
Unlike Jack, Mukesh's father started with Reliance Polyester then expanded the business. Mukesh took it to even greater heights.
I might suggest thinking along the lines that hardware engineers reject many features because of other constraints that impact the processor.

The failure of the larrabee team to bring something competitive to the market a decade ago doesn't necessarily imply it will become competitive just because it was brought "on-chip" instead of as an additional card or a co-processor.

If it worked all that well, it would be a product of its own, able to compete against Nvidia in GPU and GPGPU tasks.
It's a food preservative, though not a particularly commonly used one these days. It's used in so-called pink slime, for instance (which is why that's illegal in the EU).
I created this [1] to help people read more quickly, and it's won awards from Stanford and the United Nations. Try it out, and if it works for you I'm happy to shoot you a free pass (contact info in profile).

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
Yep. The one time I really wanted one, I just paid an intern working for a magazine editor friend of mine a few hundred dollars and that was fine.

IMO, it's not something you can rely on software for although software catches a lot of course. The one time I didn't do it worked out OK. But I had a co-author and we had sufficiently reworked the (somewhat shorter) book enough times over a fairly long period that I decided it had had enough fresh eyes on it to stand on its own.

And of course publishers aren't perfect either. I've found a few typos in my last book which did go through a traditional publisher even though I also proofread it pretty carefully. (One mistake was in front matter which I added fairly late on which makes me suspect there would have been a lot more errors in the book if I didn't check it carefully myself.)
You should look again. CREE is very near all time highs actually (especially if you ignore the 2000 bubble).

CREE is a large but shrinking LED business tied to a small but growing SiC business. At some point the SiC part will overshadow the LED part and CREE will be seen as a growing successful tech company again.
Personally, I don’t. The audits are few and far between, and I haven’t followed it closely, but there were several instances in time where the (gold ETF + physical future commitments + whatever else they counted) required more gold than was known to have been mined and not used in industry.

What this means is that, at moment in time, if the music stopped, someone would be left without gold - though with the distributed nature of everything, it’s hard to say who.

Fake bars are routinely discovered in storage, collateral, etc, see e.g. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/chinas-kingold-shares-tank-o... for the most recent high profile (but by no means unique) example.
This doesn't meaningfully help the people on the ground. Even for a positive change, the worst possible outcome of this is people feeling like they've done their part and then putting less effort into changing things like discriminatory social policies.

And I'm still not seeing which part was "hysterical".
You can keep using old versions under the original terms, but you'd have to ignore newer versions of the software, or use a fork.
Is there interest in a rust interpreter? Would it be too slow to be useful?
So far the only person who was not amused by that test has been the English teacher!

I think that the test is actually better for people who do not recognize any of the non-latin roots. That way, they have to deduce everything from the context, which is indeed possible.
>> A good critical comment teaches us something.

I thought the take-away would be something along the lines of "it is difficult to focus on the content with distracting material jammed in". Like I said, not dismissing this, simply saying it is difficult to take an article seriously when it's got extra fluff like this.
I think in addition to "plastics are bad" another issue we're having now is that "single use is bad". That's also simplistic and I suspect that quite a few of the alternatives being pushed are in fact worse overall.

A single-use item can be made very cheaply, and that includes amount of material, weight, etc. which can be a very efficient use of material and energy overall on the condition (big one) that recycling/disposal is also efficient.

For example, in supermartkets single-use plastic bag were very thin (not much plastic used). They are gone and now if you need a bag they'll give you one (here in the UK) that uses much more plastic/material. It would have been much better to keep those flimsy bags in case you need one, but to charge you enough for them to encourage you to bring your own as much as possible.
It is incredibly dangerous in comparison (as a scuba diver). These courses generally have a requirement of being a very competent diver (hundreds of logged dives, for example) and they just won't pass you if you don't know what you're doing. Cave divers take things very seriously.
Where does the "ah-foo" pronunciation come from? I've never heard this before.
So NAT is happening before the connection comes into your house? Typically double NAT happens because your ISP does not allow that to be disabled on their modem and you have your own router hooked up through lan.
The linked white paper with details:

https://www.cyberdlab.com/content/dam/cyberdlab/insights/it-...
>Maybe people see a future in Tesla and not as much in Volkswagen, and the price reflects the future not the past?

Tesla's valuation is now three times higher than in April, what exactly is supposed to have happened in the last few months that changed investors minds about the long term future? Had they not turned the car industry on its head in April yet?
Wait, but this morning the speculation was $17Bi

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chip-maker-analog-poised-t...

Crazy values nonetheless
I also think this is a great idea - I believe it is a good incentive for financially weaker people to save and even for people with good control over their financials this can be a fun way to "invest" the liquid cash balance, given that it's FDIC insured (obviously, the bigger part of savings should be invested in real estate, financial markets, etc.). Contrary to some comments here, I don't see anything morally wrong with it.

I do have a couple of questions/concerns/comments, which I'm posting here for everyone's benefit:

1) Have you thought about slowly increasing the jackpot as your customer base grows? That would add another fun element to see the jackpot grow every time nobody hits it (could be in very small steps)

2) Is there any way to verify your partnership with Evolve Bank, other than on your own website? That would give me more peace of mind before depositing a larger balance and recommending it.

3) I agree that posting the name of the insurance company would help trust in the lottery system. Live drawings and/or the insurance company publishing the numbers on their website will definitely help, too. Out of curiosity, given that the insurance company doesn't know the picks beforehand, how do they ensure that you don't alter a pick after the fact to hit the jackpot?

4) Privacy: I agree that the default setting should be invisible. Same goes for friends, as the definition of "friend" seems to be anybody who has my phone # in their contacts. I'd like the functionality of adding individual people via an ID and/or QR Code for friendly competitions. Does the invisible setting also allow to stay anonymous in the scenario of winning the jackpot? The T&C's say otherwise but I wonder if it's legally possible for you to disclose customer data without explicit consent (does accepting T&Cs count as explicit consent)?

5) App User Experience: I'd keep the lottery results and winnings of the current week on the main page until Sunday is over and reset on Monday. It was a little weird at first to log in at 9:05PM on Sunday and see everything blank. Also, a fingerprint/password prompt would increase the feeling of security.

Curious to hear your feedback and awaiting tonight's numbers draw!
This sucks for everyone in S&P 500 funds who didn't jump on the Tesla bandwagon because they thought it was overvalued. Now you got none of the upside but you get to hold the bag.
Don't forget, the cars are really great.
Central banks keep printing money forever. Now we are at the point where the real economy and stocks have diverged. Of course central authorities cannot always just buy all bad debt. There is somehow a distortion of risk. Ie buyers of financial papers are not exposed to their risk fully if central banks buy “bad debt”. This financial printing of limitless debt is putting many at debt.

I am worried if there is no caps in debt printing and freedom. You are not free if you are forever a life time in debt.

Somehow I feel there is a symbiosis between politicians winning elections on promises which central banks deliver by creating through new debt.

I am trying to say that we are at global warming and constantly creating more stuff is requiring more energy and we are already using too much of that.

Thus the economy and the environment are diverging. We probably cannot maintain status quo for too long.

Something better more sustainable will come after that.

Zero interest rates are not causing inflation through salaries increasing they flow to more automation and robotics. Automation lower cost of production and are thus deflational.
ASML: The chip-making machine at the center of Chinese dual-use concerns
Another interesting one is to hit the "My Contributions" button on Wikipedia when you're not logged in. This will show you anonymous edits that have come from your IP address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions

There are a lot of weird people who share my IP address editing a lot of weird stuff!
You could say it's similar, but only insofar as WordPress+Timber is also similar (i.e. coding a custom site for end users to easily edit content).

I'm not sure I understand your second question, but I believe lots of those already exist, and it made more sense for my use-case to just build the site directly from primo.
Why is it expensive to manage something that can be automated?
Context, please. Which is the people using these words in source code. The programmers are not, via their keyboards, enslaving anyone.

Just like if I said "words vs. words here. Nobody is raping anyone." in the context of a terrible standup routine. I'm not talking about every action in the whole world.
> Fundamentally, what advantage is Windows going to maintain with a closed source kernel?

Just to hammer this point home some more: There are actually also significant disadvantages to the Kernel being closed source.

As an example: Windows has had an official port of OpenDTrace for a year now. But sadly, the documentation for it is almost nonexistent, and just finding out which functions you might want to instrument (and what context data is available there) is much more painful than on other systems.

OTOH, if you're on OpenSolaris or Linux (where you'll likely use bpftrace instead), documentation on the matter is abundant.
> I do believe it's made a big enough push already to spark the change to clean energy

Are there studies that show this? I don't see or know how any push in cars, electric or not, is necessarily moving us toward cleaner transportation much less clean energy.
Thanks for the response. I contacted Evolve directly as you advised. They responded "Yotta Savings is not a direct Evolve customer. They are linked to our bank through our financial partner, Synapse. You will have to contact Synapse so they can better assist you."

So I'm unable to get confirmation from the FDIC-insured bank that you're using that their FDIC insurance extends to your customers. Sure, I can contact Synapse, but I don't know why I should trust what they say any more than what Yotta says - Synapse isn't FDIC-insured either.

While looking for this, I also found a medium post by Beam (https://blog.meetbeam.com/a-primer-on-fdic-insurance-72fe688...) who explain how their savings accounts are FDIC-insured upto $250,000 for every customer - they would open an account in every user's name at Evolve bank. Perhaps it would help you gain more trust if you did a similar post.
Initial cost will be more than covered from the $1 verification fee. Once growth stagnates that will depend highly on the user base. I could see it being a freemium model with a subscription for additional features (like Tinder Plus/Pro).
Bank of England Debating Digital Currency Creation, Bailey Says
Why wouldn't you plan for that? The only plan you'd need for the total collapse situation is to have a revolver to eat a lead sandwich with.
>Arm's JavaScript instructions

Name two
As a former engineer at Tesla, the valuation does not make sense at all. Their internal infrastructure is a complete mess, and honestly, it's full of security issues, I wouldn't be surprised if things start falling apart.
Think Lazy – Open Letter to Apple Safari Team
> Now you have a network overhead problem if the containers are on different machines, so there's something called a "pod" to make them run on the same machine.

This is not correct. A pod is a collection of processes which share the same life cycle. They are expected to scale simultaneously, shut down simultaneously, and restarted simultaneously.

> This is what the author calls a "sidecar". The author may be tangled in his own jargon.

This assertion is also quite wrong, and appears to sprout from your misconception of what a pod is.

The concept of a sidecar is very old and well established. A sidecar is a process that is designed to run alongside a master application to augment or offload is functionalities.

You can define a pod so that one process is the master application and one or more applications are sidecars. There is no overlap or misconception.

> Cloudflare says a "sidecar" is another container inside a "pod", but one that is for some auxiliary function rather than being one of the main microservices doing the work. Hence the name "sidecar". The link in the article for "sidecar" is to the author's book, so you have to pay to find out for sure.

The concept is decades old, probably older than you and me. No need to depend on Cloudflare or the author's books to check that out.
Unfortunately the problem is simple:

- It's only considered an open source license by the wider FOSS community if it's approved by the OSI.

- The OSI doesn't feel it's their job to enable open source companies to survive, and has refused to vet any licenses that prevent service-wrapping. (SSPL is a solid option, or something like it, it's basically an aggressive copyleft.)

As such, as long as the OSI is viewed as the definitive word on what is and isn't open source, and the OSI refuses to act, the problem will remain. I am confused at the OSI's behavior here, as it leads to only two outcomes: Open source dies as a viable business leading to nobody caring about the OSI, or people move on from entrusting the OSI to rule on open source.

They literally have an extinction-level event on their hands and have decided it just isn't a big deal to them.
I wouldn't call Mukhesh Ambani as Jack Ma. He inherited a lot of wealth and more important, a lot of government connections. He can bend rules for e.g. his non-existent Jio University got the tag "Institution of Eminence"

He gets foreign technology and just jumps in any sector with governments blessing. Be it oil and gas, infra projects or even telecom
Looking into what happened with SolarCity is quite an eye opener. Self dealing, billions of dollars spent on a bankrupt entity, public subsidies demanded, spent, with no return...

Two weeks ago, Musk said they need a east coast gigafactory while Buffalo sits idle.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gamble...
You would also love Xilinx Xcell journal.

https://www.xilinx.com/about/xcell-publications/xcell-journa...
(Assuming you refer to paper gold) It’s a viable investment, just as stocks are. But not a financial-system-crash proof store of value, which is what the GGP meant, I think, when he recommended getting gold.
Yet another good reason to invest in total market funds rather than S&P 500 funds.
Ask HN: How does your future fantasy look like?
For me, I would like to upload my consciousness and be able to slip in and out of various skin suits.

I have a choice to retain memories of other avatars. Or not.

I want multiple lives and many different experiences I can control and recall.

Like reincarnation but where time isn’t linear. Time can also be paused and resumed at will. And I have control over all of my lifetimes.
https://www.tesla.com/powerwall
https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
Luckily for you, you can "Google" that.
> Humans evolved as social creatures and we crave attention from each other

this is not entirely true. Humans evolved to crave attention from their tribe or extended family. Since we don't have tribes anymore we try to please random people who do not care about us. The instinct to be likeable is a correct behavior from evolution point of view, but is bad in a modern society.
I'm dyslexic and I think this is likely less about exaggeration and more about trying to create an experience. In my experience it's not that the letters jump around it's that I can't focus on the words and process them at the same time so I'm constantly jumping from word to word and re-reading. FWIW, visual dyslexia is actually quite a bit less common than auditory.

For example, I have the visual type and can listen to content at 350 to 450 words per min depending on what I'm reading. Many people with auditory dyslexia can speed read visually.

On of the most famous common threads between the two is that learning to read the traditional way takes longer for people with Dyslexia if you have auditory, visual or a combination of the two. It's common for people with Auditory dyslexia to also have speech problems as kiddos.
Thanks! Would love to hear any neat ideas you came across if you're up for it
They should use $30b in stock to acquire Ford. Keep Ford as a separate operating entity. Use Tesla's tech and rapidly turn Ford into a 100% electric manufacturer. Ford would become Tesla's mass consumer arm. Scrap the ridiculous, impractical Cybertruck (which will flop after it initially sells well, the novelty will quickly wear off) and focus on electrifying Ford's very lucrative truck lineup. There is a risk Tesla's stock might crash if they attempted this (it might crash anyway though, given how extreme their valuation is), it'd be critical to convince the market that Ford would remain a separate operating entity. The goal would be to push Tesla's tech directly into a lot more vehicles, gain some further scale benefits here and there (there are some gains to be had from being able to directly leverage Ford's manufacturing scale), and reap vast profit from selling electric versions of Ford's high margin trucks (while getting Ford for a very steep discount vs where Tesla is trading pound for pound).
Yep, an overclocked machine that shrugs-off heavy gaming workloads will often fail instantly when it runs a vector benchmark.
They're expensive until your application require that level of performance.

The idea that prices should depend in any way of costs is ridiculous.
Laptop: Debian Testing, because it's up-to-date enough that I don't feel I'm missing anything, but stable enough to actually get work done (I get breakage maybe a few times a year).

Servers: Debian Stable, because the base system is rock solid, updates/patches are basically guaranteed to never break anything, and if you really really need some specific package to be a new version you can usually get it out of backports.
Too many objects: Reducing memory overhead from Python instances
Fair. With pgx, however, Rust "panic!"s are translated into standard Postgres "ERROR"s, such that instead of crashing, only the current transaction aborts.

So while you're pretty much correct in general, pgx handles it in the way a PG extension author would expect.
Ask HN: How do I look you in the eye while looking at you in video chat?
I know it seems minor, but I think not looking at each other in in the eyes makes video calls far less impactful. I want to look at the video stream of you, but that immediately means that I don't appear to be looking at you. Are there any tools that solve this?
As someone who absolutely want work and thus needs the kids somewhere during the day, the whole "school is just daycare" is crap.

My kids were at home and I worked during covid and the hell they learn more now that they are back in school. And while I still am working from home and they were actually quite cool during day, the learning effects of school are massive and massively appreciated - by both kids and me.

It would be easier and cheaper to have them in non school daycare. We don't do that, because primary reason for schools is not actually daycares.
Can you share how long your compile times are? And what you feel is are "usable" compile times?

I see comments a lot about "this is too slow" but rarely are numbers provided, neither the actual times nor the expected times.

You may have something setup wrong and are seeing unusually long compile times. Or your expectations may not be realistic. Or you're just an outlier whos work triggers some pathological compile issues.

But without data, we can't know what's going on.
Ah, my mistake. Good to know.
So individual heavyweights get to front-run the ETFs and then sell to them at an inflated value? Sounds about right...