skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lending stocks involves two sides, the lender and the borrower.

There are three questions you should ask instead of one:

- Is there any reason for a borrower to borrow stocks other than betting that a stock is going to go down? The answer to that is basically "no". That's the main reason to do it. There are a few weird edge cases which are the exception to this general rule.

- Is there any reason for a lender to loan out stock?
If I run a mutual fund, most of my stock is just sitting in a big dusty pile most of the time, doing nothing. I give the impression to my customers that I'm constantly buying and selling, but really, I just buy and hold most of the time. My main problem as a mutual fund manager is not the market going up or down. All of my peers are in the same market. My main problem is figuring out how to get a tiny edge over the other mutual fund managers, so my fund is on the top of the list at the end of the year. If I lend out my stock, my mutual fund might make a quarter of a percent per year extra. That's usually enough to bring my mutual fund up to the top of the list, relative to my peers. Profit.

- What is the benefit to the market of stock lending? As others have pointed out, the exact language you use to describe this transaction can be interpreted in a negative way. My opinion is that markets that allow this type of bet are much more resilient when the market inevitably turns down. Markets that don't allow stock lending tend to have artificially high prices for a long period of time, and inevitably crash hard. So, I think stock lending is a good thing. It evens out the highs and lows better.
I would assume the EMA has different forms, and wants the data in a different format. Pfizer as a US company presumably has more experience with FDA formats as well, and more FDA experienced people on staff (this is one of the advantages of the revolving door between industry and regulators - there are disadvantages as well).
I'm not sure why the UK got things sooner unless it is because they accepted data sooner there was time to figure out how to submit it while not even knowing if they would submit to the FDA.
I've had great success with the Google smart speaker with "Hey Google, turn off the Living Room TV".

I do have to specify "Living Room TV", even though the speaker and chromecast are configured to be in the same room, it still just turns off a bedroom tv if I'm not specific about which tv.

Also "Hey Google, turn off the Xbox" works, because I linked that at some point.

So not just timers! ;)
This sounds like name calling.
It's probably fair to extrapolate that some tools they rely upon in their business flow aren't available on Linux, which is probably of concern.
The tour was a few years ago now, and sadly, didn’t get to eat there.

I’d love to see one of the SNs at some point, they look like they dwarf the F9.
The comments you have attracted are hilarious. It's not worth even attempting to initiate dialogue with such type of people.

Here is the Chinese high speed rail built in the last decade, it is not propaganda, it's literally something you can buy a ticket for and travel on at 350 km/h right now. I truly worry for Americans incapable of seeing what is happening in the rest of the world.

https://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/4/861.gif
Bingo!

The "rat race" has already adjusted for insufficient means of material improvement and has now entered the "knowledge economy" mode whereby now the signalling revolves around virtue and moralizing.

TikTok has basically captured this entire new mode of engaging signaling, you can't open that app and swipe your feed without hearing someone lecture/preach/opine at you about some perceived collective wrong doing.

TikTok buries the button that allows you to "dislike" content and so curate your feed to better enable this economy of head-nodding and head-turning.

An entire platform that largely consists of people signalling virtues (how to be black; how to be white; how to not be a simp; how to not be one of _those_ people, etc, etc). I mean look at any of the "No Nuance November" content on TikTok

It's funny, IG was just materialist imagery accompanied by platitudes of self-liberation but TikTok realized people desire to stoke their moral indignation as a means of coping with increasing complexity of the world
As I see it, the political side is pushing for a solution for the now, damn the consequences in 5-10 years. This is really just BAU in politics.

I wouldn't be surprised if the leaders of the vaccine firms weren't using their own vaccines on themselves and their families for a couple more years, until they have sufficient data.

I have read enough research papers about the replication crises in many fields to know how much these long term studies are needed to properly assess a risk-benefit analysis for vaccination. I will, personally, stay the fuck away for the next couple years. My life didn't change much anyway, I've been working from home for years now. Less social life, but I can weather that.

As a note, we got COVID with the wife, I was without symptoms while she lost taste for a couple days and was tired for a week. That was all.
Why aren't we stacking layers of transistors in CPUs? Is it because of heat dissipation issues?
You certainly know the concept of externalities, like pollution. If you don't, it's like how fixing your car exhaust brings you very little personal benefits. But if nobody did, smog would make your life miserable.

Kids are just the same - except the other way around!

So personally, when I'm old and retired, I plan to depend on the work your kids (and the kids of other people who also generously considered the "continued survival of the human race") while in the meantime maximizing the benefits that come from the freedom of not having kids.

You may not like this freeloader spirit, and governments generally encourage people to have kids by various means ("working economy, GDP growth and all that are important after all!).

But as it's not illegal to "abstain" from the rat race, I do not care much :)
> Skip the (expletive) ad

OK Google, install Newpipe.apk
Sibling comments cover the details but to put it simply: there are two definitions of the work "Docker":

1. [common, informal] "An OCI container".

2. [pedantic, strictly accurate] "A set of tools for building & interacting with OCI containers".

This article is talking about the latter definition.
One side of the partition has quorum and the other does not.

Processing keeps happening on the partition with quorum.

A practical example I worked on is Google's Photon; multi-region logjoining with Paxos for consistency. When the network caused a region to become unavailable all the logjoining work happened in the other regions. Resources were provisioned for enough excess capacity to run at full speed in the case of a single region failure and the N-region processing allowed the redundancy cost to be as low as 100%/N overhead.
Fascinating read! Thanks for sharing.
Oh absolutely. That BMW was a used 2011 328i with a manual transmission. Great car and if I had kept it like you suggest I would have been smart. But I had to buy some other dumb used cars before I learned my lesson. Now I’m rocking a used ‘08 M3 to drive into the ground. Put 50k miles on it. Looking forward to the next 100k.
One possibility is the almost dirt-simple solution wherein you just have a "make"/"Makefile" (or your favorite other build system) maintain a shadow tree of parallel pre-translated files. You get parallelism via `make -j$(nproc)` or its equivalent.

Every name in the shadow is built from the name in the origin but maybe with ".txt" added (or .txt.gz if you want to keep the compressed with whatever is the fastest decompressor builtin to ripgrep as a library not called as a program). Untranslated names can be just symbolic/hard links back to the origin. Build rules become as flexible as your build system.

This also scales to deployments that have more disk space than memory. Admittedly, in that case, the whole procedure probably becomes disk-IO bound, but maybe not. Maybe some translations cannot even keep up with disk IO - NVMe storage is pretty fast, for example. Or available memory may vary dynamically a lot, sometimes allowing the shadow to be fully in the buffer cache, other times not. It strikes me as less presumptuous to assume you can find disk space vs. having that much memory available. (EDIT2: though I may be confused about how `rga` operates - your doc says "memory cache", though.)

On the pro-side, but for updating the shadows based on origins, the user could even just `rg` from within the shadow and translate filenames "in their head", although stripping an always present string is obviously trivial. Indeed, you won't need `rg --pre` at all and the grep itself could become pluggable. I doubt any of your other `fzf`/etc. integrations would be made more complicated by this design, either.

This all strikes me as simple/nice enough that someone has probably already done it...EDIT1: Oh, I see from thumbs ups and other comments over at [1] and [2] that @phiresky is probably already aware of this design idea, but maybe some HN person knows of an existing solution along these lines.

[1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/978
[2] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/981
I've heard it suggested that Starlink is used by SpaceX to keep their schedule fully booked, which helps them maintain quality standards, training, etc. If so, they could perhaps lose money on Starlink but still come out ahead when you factor in the benefit of having experienced workers for whom building and launching rockets is routine.
Adversarial machine learning and instrumental variables for causal modeling
.NET 5 Breaking Changes: Historic Technologies
They probably asked (conceptually) for a "fapiao", which is a very formal invoice in China but required for reimbursement [0] and is a government-acknowledged piece of paper declaring that a sales transaction really happened. Asking for one there would require the restaurant to log revenue live with the tax bureau. I discovered this by mistakenly asking for one in China, thinking it was just a receipt. I was led to the office of the restaurant, where they printed it onto half an A4 paper with carbon copies, e-verification serial number, and QR code. There are even more fascinating patterns that emerge from the incentives here--business don't like declaring revenue, so these sometimes have scratch-to-win lottery tickets built in, so to encourage everyone to request one (thus preventing tax evasion) [1].

The less formal option is a "shouju" but doesn't work for official business reimbursement.

0: https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2019/08/29/what-is-a-fapia...

1: https://www.globalfromasia.com/fapiao/
Wow, nice catch!

That book is actually where I learned the expression, "Dictated but not read." I'm surprised and amused that other people have the exact same association.

For anyone who's confused, it's from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: https://imgur.com/6wzlXxJ
Well, "nobody has the legal right to..." is restating. And to me, the "legal" is rather obviously implied.
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Docker Inc really do not want infrastructure projects wrapper docker itself. It causes all sorts of headaches for them. They encourage using containerd for infrastructure projects (which is basically the core of original docker extracted out as a sperate project maintained by a large community). Docker is basically an opiononated wrapper around containerd, and they intend to move even more in that direction in the future.

TLDR: Docker Inc almost certainly is happy to see this change happen.
> This statement rubs me the wrong way, in a similar fashion to what you've pointed out.

I agree but more due to the blog author combining interesting topics like complex systems with value judgements asserting that a) the net effects are a major problem that needs to be worried about/addressed more than before, b) it's reached a tipping point, c) it could now get much 'worse' much faster than before and in new, unexpected ways.

It's common these days for authors to try to elevate the relevance or urgency of their topic this way but how we should feel about the 'way the world is' is uninteresting. The world has always been complex and it's always been growing more complex at increasing rates. Such transparent present-day exceptionalism just evokes the "but this time it's going to be different (and much worse)" echoed by every concern troll and prophet of doom for hundreds of years.

In reality, change is constant, net effects at large scale (ie global and decadal) are, on average, generally both positive and negative in roughly similar proportions to broad past trends. While there are certainly significant disruptions and calamities, the long-term, global meta-balance of pos/neg tends to eventually regress to the historical mean. In any given localized context there are always winners and losers and determining whether the net impact is "good" or "bad" is a subjective value judgement which varies based on perspective, context and how one chooses to count.
looks really good. thanks for sharing.
A positive spin on this is that everyday people are so wealthy, savvy, and time-rich that they spontaneously organize and campaign to shut down infrastructure projects they don't like.

When it's keeping the "other" out it's gross, but when they are shutting down pointless vanity projects like a sculpture park no one wants maybe that's democracy as advertised.
Asp.net Core Improvements in .NET 5
Only slight joke.

I did see they are building a temporary recycling center for when they remove the vehicles.

Those are all probably 2019 or 2020 models, so the salvaged parts could be worth some decent money.
I'm sorry, I don't know. But you are probably right that it does require some, perhaps 500?
I get this trying to make reminders to add things to the grocery list with Siri. Siri always intercepts it and says "There is no 'Grocery' list. Would you like to make one?"

But I already have a grocery list and a process for it. I just want a reminder to add something to it.
from the article they are thinking of fining up to 3.x million USD
Agreed. We all need to keep in mind the fact that no matter which party you root for every single one of the political class is corrupt. Politics is non-theistic religion at this point.
The seismic data I downloaded using the FDSN web API. The link is on the page I linked in the "Data Access" section: https://www.fdsn.org/networks/detail/PR/

> FDSN Web Services provide a common data access API for seismic data.

For weather data, I found this page by googling:

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

Generally I think it's better to get it from commercial vendors, because a lot of weather stations/data are only available commercially.
Frankly, people who would take the OP comment as anything but satire deserve whatever mush their brains have turned into.
i wonder if the product manager(s) responsible for rolling this crap out will be held accountable. probably not
Yeah, humans fight and care about money, but they do that with the same intensity about status/prestige. See all the silly fights in academic circles, in open source projects in non-profit organizations. Most people will fight to the bitter end for an ounce of prestige and recognition.
I got an issue with this common trope about fast cars bought only by clueless folks who compensate their messed up childhood or rather small body parts in some way.

Have you guys actually properly driven (ideally on track) proper race-ish car? Porsche has several models which are kind of you can take on normal roads for long drives and drive race track with great success/fun. Basically 911s above 400 hp with rear wheel drive or best caymans. Not many in that category and price levels. Actually typical american muscle car is more in the 'doesn't make sense' category since whole added value is just straight line performance, not overall driving quality. Maybe too european view but definitely common.

They might be minority in terms of sales, but those folks are out there. And they drive new models too.
> I’m nearly always lost with kubernetes. It’s either broken or changing.

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm sure I'm not the smartest engineer/sysadmin in the world, but I'm also not the dumbest and I have never gotten an on-premises Kubernetes installation to work.

The way I manage containers is lxc and shell scripts. I understand it, and it works.
> Even when pointed out that the company can wipe it when they leave

If someone intends to leave, they can first revoke the company's access to their phone.
It is a case of lost in translation. Chinese use "invoice" for "receipt" because they use the same official form for actual invoices, I think, as a way of cracking down on tax avoidance. China has one of the highest sales tax at the retail level, including VAT and various fees; so high in fact the actual rate is a state secret. You can imagine the pressure on retailers, particularly, small shop owners, to avoid paying it. The government therefore introduced a system of official invoices that everybody including all retailers must use, and from carbon copy of invoices tax collectors can calculate sales amount and thereby tax owed.

That is my understanding, anyway. I have been out of the country for so long, it must have changed a lot. Most of it must be electronic now, I imagine. I still remember a shop owner's audible complaints when I asked for an invoice around the time the system was initially introduced.
That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago. Not to say that there aren't a lot of new things I don't know about that are coming up every day but that doesn't impact in any meaningful way my ability to solve real problems with software.

What previously was an issue of "I have no idea how to even approach this problem, not to mention write code that solves it" it is now a question of "I have at least 5 ideas how to solve this problem, I need to analyze which one is best solution for this particular context". It's much less about learning the tools and a lot more about how to correctly apply those tools for the right situation. I feel that this latter part could take my entire life but I can definitely tell I'm getting better at it every year, even if I significantly change the problem domain I work in.

As a matter of fact, every time I change the problem domain now I noticed less and less time necessary to become proficient in the new domain as I am able to pull from the experience I gathered previously. Computer science seems like an "infinite" problem domain but actually what I found in practice is that the more problem domains I move through the more I notice similarities and solving the same problem over and over again (albeit, with some small differences which may matter if you work in a performance or resource constrained environment).
>Only Russia and China went ahead with early vaccination

I don't know about China, but mass vaccination have not started in Russia yet. It will begin only from the next week starting with medical personnel and teachers. Effectively the Russian vaccine has only finished phase 3 trials (based on 40k volunteers) relatively recently.
I think, in general, the line should be between any metrics the employee is aware they're being judged on vs. ones they're not. Don't collect data on how many OneDrive files I've shared if that's not a metric that's part of the value I provide to the company.
An uncontentious example: Documents created by the Third Reich helped prosecute war criminals.
Why do you spell containerd as "ContainerD"?

You wrote dockerd without caps.
I agree with the general point, but let me provide a counter:

Before I moved to San Francisco, I lived in Beijing for 9 years, the last 3 of those in an apartment in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, within 3 mins walk of a Bentley dealership, Lotus dealership, a craft brewery etc.

When we moved in, a school down the street had construction going on, and was surrounded with scaffolding and then some signage or whatever. The sidewalk was completely blocked off, making it difficult for pedestrians to pass.

Over a year later, they finally finished construction and the updated building was revealed. They'd extended the building to take over the sidewalk completely. You'd think that, if this was intended, then they'd build a new sidewalk and narrow the car lanes a bit. But, no, pedestrians have to walk into the road to go around this school.

This construction was both slow and bad. I admit it's not typical: the nearby Holiday Inn went from zero to operational within a few months.
I only said it was legal. Not that it was practical. :)
The entire situation is dumb.
Tyranny, Inc
So are you saying it is worth investing in unprofitable companies (at IPO time) because the market will force the company to improve it's profitability going forward?
> With android work profiles I don't think it's that big a deal.

It's not a big deal... until it is. Like when your boss/coworker gets involved in a work dispute and you get dragged into a deposition.
In rural Arkansas, we have the freedom to do a lot of crazy things like criticise our government. We also have blazing fast & stable FTTH for $50/month, some of the cleanest and tastiest water I've ever put in my mouth (which comes from our well), and our food is of excellent quality because there are many local small farmers who are ethical and stable. There is just enough work in the way of tech businesses a short drive away to make this life style possible.

Maybe a change of scenery is in order for you. I can't imaging living in a hellscape like San Fran. I'm in a veritable paradise as far as I can tell. There are problems, but we are working on them, and we generally have the freedom to do so on our own terms without nanny government holding our hand.
k8s runs containers, docker is just one implementation of containers.
I agree it's harder to accidentally trigger it, but I doubt the reasoning behind it is "Privacy".