skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a google product manager? I ask because, wow, this response is condescending.

I know the original chart tool was in Flash... I used it and described the features it had. Why after 10 years is the new version less useful than before?

Yahoo finance stayed separate and has been better for it. It doesn't make sense for stocks to be integrated into search - I completely disagree.

I never said anything about Google Finance being the only tool I used. It was a perfect place to start and once I found an interesting security I would move over into something more serious.

Does that make sense?
I personally have Caprover running on a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet where I can create DBs on the fly for small projects. I normally switch to a better hosted platform for bigger projects. Heroku is also good but the free plan is 10,000 rows and the next plan is $9/m.
'uncertainty distress makes good outcomes less pleasurable and bad outcom (cont)
Not sure Clojure can do all the recursion stuff (TCO), which would be good to have in a language, when working through SICP exercises. I would not recommend it for SICP. Better start with a Scheme, to have the least amount of friction.
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What's the carbon footprint of BTC like these days? Has any progress been made on mitigating this fundamental design issue?
> hmmm, I thought the matrix class was deprecated? At least it says so in the official numpy documentation:

Huh, you're right. Bummer, I hadn't noticed that yet. I agree that an ergonomic matrix class is sorely missing in the Python ecosystem. It shouldn't even be that hard to implement, since all the plumbing is already there.
>forcibly kicked out founder Brendan Eich because you disliked his unrelated politics

>belittles everyone who doesn't share your narrow ideology

Wake up to the present. People who actively try to ban same-sex marriage are just as bad as segregation was back in the day.

Calling this "narrow ideology" is preposterous.

There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and they should be given the same rights as everyone else. It's NOT a debate. So if someone is actively trying to campaign against equality then they are flat out wrong and deserve the backlash.
USDT is another "cryptocurrency". I put that in quotes as they can print it at their leisure. They claim to be backed by USD but have never been audited. The market cap grows by billions a month.

BTC and USDT is a common trading pair on crypto exchanges.

As a result, those behind USDT can print it and buy BTC to manipulate the price.

Don't get me started on exchanges allowing you to trade with yourself. This field is tainted with shady practices.
Doesn't even show significant figures beyond a cent. For stocks below a dollar that matters a lot, it just rounds to the nearest cent, it seems.
Yes, there are Slimv and Vlime, two very good plugins to provide a SLIME-like environment for Vim. In fact they both rely on Swank TCP server just like SLIME does in Emacs. Slimv, Vlime, and SLIME are all Swank clients that run in the editor, connect to Swank TCP server, send Lisp expressions to Swank for evaluation, receive the results, and display the results in the editor.

I have written about it in detail here: https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/

Here is a previous discussion about it on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735148
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What's the current thoughts on Tether, and how its speculated potential collapse will affect the rest of the ecosystem?

Also, what's the latest on scaling? The last time I looked into it, Lightening was a thing, but I don't follow it closely.
The Washington Post says "about $30":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/15/covid-home-...
Bigger issue, as learnt from capitalIQ, is restatements. They are SO common. Not as in mistakes that were made but also on reclassification of business lines, discontinued operations, etc etc. So just parsing is not sufficient, there’s a probably hair pulling historical alignment exercise underneath as well.
The ‘Delusionally Optimistic’ Mind-Set Behind a Rise in New Businesses
I used to love this product. They explicitly told users to go away a couple years ago. These updates still pale to the old functionality and I am not putting my data back into Google Finance because at some point they will get tired of supporting it and tell me to go away again.
Love Tig, it's an instant go-to everyday for Getting Things Done™
I don't think Symbols are technically unique between exchanges, since some exchanges are very old, although I would have trouble coming up with an example where the major US exchanges have conflicts. Given that the Google Finance has a search bar prominently on the page. I would expect/hope that the top result would be used in the event of a conflict. It's very probably in the event of a conflict that one of the potential companies is very common while the rest are niche listings on foreign exchanges anyway.
They're generally unique within a country but not between countries. Eg "Intrepid Mines trades in Canada on the TSX as IAU whereas in the US, IAU is the iShares gold trust ETF" [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-2-publicly-traded-companies-have-t...
Great!

It might sound lame, but:

- in early 2000s I couldn't live without JavaScript & animated gifs ;),

- in late 2000s I couldn't live without jQuery,

- in early 2010s I couldn't live without React,

- in late 2010s I can't live without Next.js.

It's an amazing platform and it's been an amazing experience. Everything "just works", and not having to fiddle with webpack or any other build tools is a blessing.

I'm amazed by Next.js, the only thing what worries me a little is we have JS and on top of it sits React and on top of React we have Next.js...

Anyway I think I've rediscovered React because of Next.js, I was tired of React at some point and they just saved me from a burnout I suppose.

Keep up the good work!

I think eventually FB might want to buy them out and merge React with Next.js. I don't want to sound embittered but I've had multiple "why wasn't this working like that by default in React?!" moments.
The problem is NOT that data is used for targeted advertising.

The problem IS that I don't trust who owns and shares that data and what else it could be used it for.

--

In a theoretically perfect trustworthy world, would I relax my security settings if I knew that my information would only be used to show me advertisements for audio equipment and scotch? Totally.

But no, I do not and will never trust Facebook or basically any other corporation to not abuse my data.
Israeli spy firm suspected of accessing global telecoms
This reads like a copy pasta...
I never thought to look, those seems indeed contradictory

> ONCE AGAIN: SKIMFEED IS 100% NON-COMMERCIAL. NO ADS, NO DATA SELLING, NO AFFILIATE LINKS, NO DONATIONS, NOTHING. HAVE A GREAT DAY!

> DoubleClick DART Cookie
> .:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on skimfeed.com.

I should turn off my adblocker and see if there's ads..
Ahhh, those sweet free Google Search advertising bucks for giving preferential treatment in the default search settings. FB obviously doesn't pay Apple enough to look the other way on "privacy" on this one.
Congrats Guillermo and the whole team at Vercel!

Initially I was a bit skeptical about Next.js, but nowadays I really like this all-in-one experience. There are still some rough edges, but it's understandable given the scope of this project. I'd love to see more focus on TypeScript, integration with something like esbuild or Snowpack or maybe even a Deno version (there's already Aleph.js). What may not be obvious at first glance is their dedication to solve those little, often difficult problems on the web. I like their next/image component. I was surprised to see AMP support. Their approach for blending frontend with backend is not only interesting, but practical. The future will be interesting for sure.

Contrary to other commenters, I find Next.js docs pretty good. You can see there was a lot of effort put into writing their tutorial. Rough edges are mostly related to everything that supplements the framework, i.e. 3rd party libraries. I think eventually they will be expanding to cover these various scenarios.

Also, I'm working on a 12-week video course about React.js / Next.js. When I noticed this announcement on HN, I figured it could be a good way to promote it. ;) It's not yet ready (early WIP). I plan to finalize details next week. So if you're looking for a React.js/Next.js jump-start, check it out at https://reactnextaz.com
11.1 was released - and at least for this issue, which has been filed with Radar since early betas, nothing has changed.
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442377
That was in the age of desktop browsers.

Nowadays most browsing is mobile, and all mobile devices come with a high quality browser component which is effectively part of the operating system already, used pervasively by applications on the device as a component rather than a standalone browser.

Installing a browser, any browser, is already a niche thing to do for the majority of internet users today.
How hard?

People are buying and selling tons of BTC with USDT and if it ends up being a fractional reserve and has been printing billions with nothing backing it up, how much of the BTC price might've come out of thin air?
What would happen if Firefox took away a significant number of users away from Chrome? Wouldn't Google just stop paying for search placement, removing Mozilla's main source of income?

I get that Chrome isn't Google's direct source of income, ads are. But, it seems like controlling the web in order to facilitate serving advertisements (e.g. AMP, Extension Manifest v3) is part of its strategy. If Mozilla made a more successful browser, and Mozilla hewed to its stated values, it would just become a threat to Chrome, rather than a harmless surface area for serving ads, and a small opportunity to earn a little good will.

From that perspective, it made perfect sense to me that Mozilla has tried to diversify its revenue. The fact that it hasn't been successful at doing that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea.
Maybe if there was some sort of service that bundled all these together for one monthly fee.
Nothing wrong with "We're Building a Better Internet", but they should up their game a bit by actively participating in privacy and projects to decentralize the web (again). For example, I have once envisioned a so-called 'privacy box': A physical box one put's in their own house and provides user friendly decentralized functions by installing extra software (ie using containers) for the local residents. Think filestore (like NC), mail, pihole, contacts, calender, pw vault (like bitwarden_rs), etc, etc. Mozilla could activily participate in the software and get a cut from the selling of those boxes or the sw subscriptions on top, which is probably even better.
I disagree.

I've had so many issues with the Firefox Developer edition I stopped using it and have switched to Opera for my browsing needs.

Way more reliable, doesn't constantly hang and time out, and isn't a total resource hog like Firefox has become.
I would use Thunderbird in a heartbeat at my current job if it could seamlessly connect to Exchange.
It wasn't a "transition". They straight up killed features that would never work on 2, that worked on 1. For example, websockets. Turns out you can't do those in their ephemeral lambda model.
Looks like spooks were reading HN a few years back when we were discussing lack of auth in SS#7.
You have to break through a wall so you can approach the checkout counter from the wrong direction. But once you do it the cashier will give you $30 in "change" without you ever having paid!

Only problem is when you leave you end up back in the entrance to the store, until you die.
Hi, Signal employee here. The latest builds of all of our clients support upgrading. You just need to make sure everyone in the group is on the latest clients, including their linked desktops. In the future, we'll add the ability to force a migration for scenarios where some group members are inactive.
Bitcoin is a pure computer-science phenomenon. Regardless of whether you personally feel this is a good or bad investment, I think the magnitude of this success over such a short time frame, the impact on the world, and the interest it and the wider crypto ecosystem receives from the non-tech world, is absolutely stunning. HN should accept that Bitcoin is an achievement of massive proportions.
Best deal!! Thanks Packt
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Just as an FYI, Brave has done some sketchy stuff in the past, including inserting affiliate links / ads into content.
Yes, but not with Bitcoin. Etherium is currently moving from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/
Agreed. The same thing happened with BPA — banned in toys and bottles after decades of harm to be replaced by at least 40 other chemicals that haven’t proven to be unsafe — yet.
Congrats to these folks! Absolutely killing it and great product.

Hopefully it doesn't get harder and harder to use Next.js on anything but Vercel.
If GDPR is a concern, it has to be opt-in, so it wouldn't be compliant in any case.
Don't torrent at home. If you're going to share Linux ISOs (because that's all p2p is good for) pay for a dedicated seedbox. You don't have to worry about cutting into your own bandwidth but for downloading once. It's more expensive, but it's cheaper than Netflix.
Well, it's not that it would influence their choices, it's that Americans are by far the biggest polluters and consumers on the planet - any reduction by them has the highest impact purely because of how off the scale they are. It's like when rich people say "oh when we gave some benefits to a poor person, they just used it on cigarettes. That means we shouldn't give anything to them at all ever". Like.....there's a very clear problem there.
No reason to be frustrated. Things are almost never right or wrong, particularly in complex science.

In this case, based on another comment above about "emergency procedure" having multitude of meanings, you're most likely wrong in that the paper has a rebuttal to the top post. The hypothesis then, is that the actual urgency of surgeries is not controlled precisely enough to state that they cannot affect the measurement.
Do you plan to learn as a LISP dialect as a purely academic exercise or to build something with it?

If you want build it as a tool, I’d recommend Clojure.

I’ll be happy to teach if you’re interested

https://twitter.com/akakopos/status/1331613484623093765
One of the reasons I've been on iOS for a few years now. As things stand, Apple is probably the least untrustworthy tech giant out there. I still don't trust them, but I'd rather go with Apple than Google at the moment.
I think 'stateless' is better jargon that conveys what the servers can/can't do when rolling out a service using them.
Based on his HN linked Twitter and his LinkedIn from googling his name, that does not appear to be the case at all. Not sure why someone would lob an accusation like that.
There can’t be progress as long as it uses proof-of-work, and it would take a fork to change that so it almost certainly won’t happen.

Any improvements to the efficiency of proof of work will be countered by a difficulty adjustment, by design.
I wonder where the money comes from that funds this price.

I'm very afraid that people who should know better, like pension funds, start buying this crap, in search for any return.

This game of musical chairs will come down eventually.
In that case, owning your own domain is golden. I just don't see "spin up your own mail server" as a short term solution.
I didn't say it's not worth playing. The story bits are absolutely fantastic.
For me, why I like Arch is its package system and how easy it is to have the most recent libraries and tools for gaming.

I also like Ubuntu and I've used NixOS in the past. What I don't miss from Ubuntu are the PPA's, AUR is much much much nicer. If you plan to do any gaming in Linux, Arch is in the end much more convenient due to AUR.

And, I'm biased a bit because my installation is always quite minimal. I only have i3 and my tools for programming, and whatever is needed to run proton games.
>who will have to weight between the interests of the fish industry and the interests of the tires industry.

This bothers me. It's not about the 'fish industry' it's about weighting the interests of the tire industry against the life in the Puget sound ecosystem.

https://wildsalmoncenter.org/why-protect-salmon/

>Few animals have been as central to the Pacific human experience as salmon. Their annual migrations are a miracle of nature. They feed us and their presence tells us that our rivers are still healthy. From grizzly bears to orca whales, at least 137 different species depend on the marine-rich nutrients that wild salmon provide

>Salmon and freshwater ecosystems are inextricably linked by feedbacks between salmon runs, food webs, and riparian forests. Salmon runs function as enormous pumps that push vast amounts of marine nutrients from the ocean to the headwaters of otherwise low productivity rivers. For example, sockeye salmon runs in southwest Alaska contribute up to 170 tons of phosphorous per year to Lake Illiamna. These nutrients are incorporated into food webs in rivers and surrounding landscapes by a host of over 50 species of mammals, birds, and fish that forage on salmon eggs, juveniles, and adults in freshwater. Predators, such as brown bears, disperse these marine nutrients into surrounding forests, enhancing the growth of stream-side trees that shade and protect stream banks from excessive erosion
The real test is if this is still true by mid-Jan. The 2017-18 peak had a similar trajectory--Oct to Dec spike then fell by Jan--suggesting some weird tax related activity. I'm curious to see if things play out the same way.
I have a setup where I use a tiling wm on a laptop, and a non tiling WM on a desktop. So the screen space issue gets addressed when I have a smaller sceeen.
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"Tests like this 15 min one are called "antigen" tests and are still accurate/helpful, but are known to produce more false negatives and false positives compared to molecular."

On a large scale, the wrong results from such tests don't matter if you test people often enough (say, every day). If you get a wrong result one day, it'll probably be corrected in the next day or two with more tests.

If there was a massive government initiative to manufacture such tests and subsidize them so that everyone got them every day this pandemic could be effectively halted in very short order, even without a vaccine.

Almost 6 months ago, the This Week in Virology podcast went in to great detail about this plan, starting at about 6'20" in to episode 640:

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/

There was also at least one NYT article about it, and it was discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878954

Unsurprisingly the government did not do this, and we had six more months of deaths instead.
SFTP is completely different protocol. Notably, SFTP is not even a "file transfer" protocol (ie. GET/PUT), but full blown remote filesystem (which even has two distinct rename operations, one with unix and one with windows semantics).
And in countries with public healthcare private hospitals exist too.

The existence of toll roads in a country where 99.9% of roads are free to use has no impact on your ability to get anywhere, just like the existence of private hospitals doesn't change the fact that every citizen can receive free care from public hospitals in countries with public healthcare.
Argyle – Startup with the goal of aggregating employment records
Well, if they make most of their profit on financing, a cash purchase would be lower. That has also been my experience. I think you accidentally made a mistake in the wording of your post.
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> I purchased a lifetime subscription (limited promo offer) with mxroute.com.

At the risk of stating the obvious, note that 'lifetime' refers to the lifetime of the company, not the customer. Which underscores the risk of buying lifetime subscriptions.

And as much as I like the idea of avoiding recurring costs (I have a 'lifetime' Plex pass), it seems to me that these can't be sustainable for the company on the long term.
Hasn't Ethereum been moving to proof-of-stake for years now? It seems like something that is never going to actually happen, but is always held as redeeming.
I agree, although as clunky as it is, I enjoyed the combat in W3 more than 2077.
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Google Finance seems like a slam dunk for Google's mission of organizing the worlds information and making it universally accessible and useful. Investing is literally gathering this info and making it useful with trading. I am very surprised they don't make a core product for this out of finance. Maybe with the growth of retail investing and the new class of "Robinhood" traders they will start to prioritize this.
Congratulations, your website is an accomplice in violating human rights
Why on Earth is this flagged? Honestly the flagging is out of control. We can't have a discussion about the ethics of working for Company X with feedback from people who actually work there?
They didn't keep the SQL server, they got rid of it and migrated to having everything stored in static files in Git.
BTC works perfectly fine without carbon output, its depends on energy creation though (just like any other form of money). The Paris agreement was a big step moving humanity towards sustainable energy. US made progress in voting for a politician who promised to join the Paris agreement again. We'll see whether it will really happen.
Anecdotally, I use a Caldigit - but I get frequent AMD GPU driver kernel panics when I plug my laptops in, I see it on two separate 16" machines (work and personal). I suspect that it's the monitors at fault. Less common but no less annoying is when the machine doesn't pick up one of the two panels, forcing me to replug the laptop or panels in the dock (invariably increasing the likelihood of a panic...)
So what you can do, though, is not link them in and your scripts can use their Homebrew directory to get ahold of the GNU binaries. It is still a script change you have to make, but it's one you can make at a top level and then your bash wranglers are very unlikely to break them.

(Though I use those as daily-driver packages on Macs and have actually never had something break? GNU tools tend to support BSD options.)
>In 10 - 15 years the web should be better than it is today.

Is the web better now than it was in 2005-2010? I don't think it is and I don't see the trend arbitrarily reversing. Tons of regular people (and even tech-savvy folks who should know better) voluntarily use, love, and advocate for using a browser (and email service!) made by the modern equivalent of DoubleClick.