skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creator economy is just an outgrowth of celebrity culture. I think in that regard it’s pretty interesting in that it does have something of a middle class. Or at least micro celebrities making a middle class living in their niche. But it all follows a power law distribution and there isn’t much I can see that will improve that. It’s always going to be the preserve of the few.

The real middle class in the creator economy is with all the people supplying these celebrities. Working on building tools, platforms, content like games and providing services and so on.
I owned a Nokia N9. To this day it had the best user interface of any smartphone I ever owned.

The design was also great.
Or maybe they have a bad reaction to a different ingredient common in Chinese restaurant food, and simply mis-identified it as an MSG allergy? And why exclude Asians who believe they have an MSG allergy? They should have an equal opportunity to be told they are racist, even if against their own ethnicity...

Why do so many people allow political correctness make them insane? Is it racist against Italians any time someone says eating pizza made them feel sick? Chinese food is just as Americanized as pizza, anyhow.
It's not clear how this sort of ideas stack up against modern critiques of computational approaches.

Eg., this sort of analysis has been applied to CPUs where it renders incoherent/obviously false results.
Ah, but that isn't a programming problem (or at least, usually not primarily a programming problem). It's a product and marketing problem.
The major compositors don't seem to be having issues managing their own implementations so I don't see the issue. wlroots seems like the ideal tool for building your own DE/WM
East African Federation
Yes, we know Microsoft "invented" the iPhone 15 years before Apple did... but here we're talking about real things. No vaporware. It's a joke to say Microsoft invented the smartphone as we know it today. Otherwise, we may as well say that Microsoft invented the most advanced file system in the world before nobody else (and for many years to come), WinFs... despite it does exist only in some engineers' minds.
The studies I've seen that show an MSG reaction allow respondents to taste the MSG. In studies in which respondents cannot taste the MSG (by putting it in a capsule), there's no effect demonstrated.
My wife and her family immigrated to the US from China -- they all believe that MSG is bad, too.
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...and by market she really meant wholly foreign owned corporations in the form of NTL and Telewest. Personally I blame Norman Tebbit for screwing the pooch on that one.

Still it's not like the current bunch of "classics" graduates have any more forsight, sadly.
I do buy new laptops, but then I keep them for years and years.

In the case of my Lenovo T410 that I bought in 2010, I finally up(?)graded it after 10 years in 2020 to a Lenovo P53.
maybe mkvtoolnix.
100% This.

Another company did this. It was AT&T or Verizon. There was actual uproar over it and they eventually reversed the decision. However, you can’t always count on an uproar to always have any impact.
Really, really, really looking for the eventual analysis of how the attackers were able to compromise SolarWinds' build server. And to that point, while SolarWinds' bending over backward to characterize it as "an incredibly complex and sophisticated attack" is predictable, it's also ludicrous without saying how the initial intrusion occurred. That is, everything I've read has explained how the actual payload that was delivered to the victims' networks was sophisticated and complex, but it's possible the original build server vulnerability was braindead simple. We just don't know until that is revealed.
This looks great! I’ve been looking for a solution to broadcast about 20 IP cams on the web (behind auth). Could this or it’s backbone be used to do that?
Please tell me if I’m correct:
1. Sell futures contract At $15 (bearish position)
2. Buy futures at TSA when it’s negative - an equal amount to the ones u sold- to cover the futures you initially sold

So basically they sold the contract earlier in the day for a higher price and then and covered their position at a much lower price.

Assuming I’m correct:
My question is, doesn’t this require margin? If so, how much? What was their initial cash position?
That is really a bad example, but in general this is true for long German words. Often there's a similar combination of words in English, the only difference being that in German everything concatenates to one word and in English there are spaces between the words which describe the same concept.
I never knew - but it's fascinating to see a second attempt at a peacetime agglomeration of countries (after the EU).

I hope (compared to previous ten thousand years of agglomerations of countries by conquest) that the peaceful version is a new trend :-)
I suspect it's because a lot of investors don't know what they're doing and are further removed from the details.

The good ones (of which there are few) have hands on experience as founders or a deep understanding of the industry and personal technical experience. Employees don't have to be naive, they're on the ground with an understanding of the technology and are likely to see first hand what works and what doesn't.

Obviously not everyone will succeed, but there's no reason employees can't do a better job than investors (and many do).
Write a toy compiler for a basic like language, you'll learn about what your languages are actually doing.
Bitcoin isn't digital cash. It thought it was but it isn't and will never be. Bitcoin is digital gold. You don't pay for stuff in gold; you leave in in the vault and maybe cash out a bar once in a while. Spending an hour and $50 to cash out ~$20K is no big deal.
All about right, I would add that almost all of the major brokers support (now Symantec owned) securID like E-Trade and it can be a hardware token or app.. But it is usually poorly integrated and impossible to support (i.e. you can't register a backup token) so if you asked to enable it they will probably disable it with basically no check.
> mouse/keyboard inputs show on display in <5ms

That's not possible, at least if you measure the full time from
actuating the key to the screen showing the updated content. The
record holder in that regard is still the Apple II with 30ms[0].

But I agree, modern software should react much faster. It's kind
of weird how on one hand we have hardware that can run VR with
120Hz and extremely low input latency, and at the same time some
programs that only need to display and change a couple bytes in
a text file need 4 seconds to even start.

[0]: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
This is a fascinating article on that:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/bp-oil-sp...
Unless one of the arbitrary executables was arbitrarily executed in the intranet, opening further doors.
Author here. I agree! That was one of the projects from the original project list that I posted a year ago (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html).

In fact, this summer I wrote a 3-part tutorial series on implementing a BASIC compiler: Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html)
That was JANet [1], the fastest network in the world at the time, and it grew out of the packet switching research in the 60’s [2]. A few years later they upgraded to gigabit links and called <drum roll please> Super-Janet :)

You could send email to either form address, and there was an internet/JANet gateway that figured it out. Everyone decided it was easier to use one naming standard though, so we went with what we have today.

[1] https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet/history

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg24532640-100-how-we-ne...
I’m old enough to remember when people called that “being fired”
Good to know. She is extremely observant, so I'm glad to see this confirmation.
Especially because this hasn’t been the first time the commenter has done this. ‘fortran77, you’ve been around here a while. You should know better than to engage in pedantic nationalistic battles.
A hard line against zero rating is an idealist stance that prevents a pragmatic increase of knowledge sharing. https://xkcd.com/548/
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All internet companies should require security insurance, and insurance companies should be a required vector for submitting security vulnerabilities.
I don’t know if Elop was bad but insisting on Windows Phone was a terrible choice.

I know some people think it was awesome but the rest of us could see it was not a good phone OS.

It had terrible UI choices an so was far too late to the market.

Had Nokia stayed away from Microsoft, they could have saved them self by going for Android.

Nokia married the wrong technology stack and paid dearly for it.
I suppose I'm sharing my personal experience that anecdotes of this nature are fairly useless compared to the available peer-reviewed large studies we have on the matter.
> It sucks that people keep using gross salary instead of net because it really makes a difference.

Gross is better because what every individual takes home after taxes varies (if you are single, married, have kids, church taxes?, solidarity taxes, etc.).

> In Germany, you would take home £52,911 / €58,117 / $71,102.

Based on what tax group? You see, it's not that simple. Those numbers could be true for people who are single and are living in the east of Germany... but they could be false if they are married and living in the west while paying church taxes.
The point is that's in a dictionary and thus is not a random combination of words.
Most synology NASs run similar software, so you can buy an ARM one to do something similar.
I think your mistake is to think being racist is bad. We are all racist. It's part of being human, we form groups, it's how we invent vaccines and go to the moon.

I see MSG as Japanese, since the purified process was invented there. I have no idea if Koreans in general consider it a Japanese invention?

Equally it could be the power of Hollywood. It changes culture.

But it's not "being misinformed". It's well know MSG is ok. MSG can also replace fat and sugar for taste, I'd consider this a worse public health issue than the anti-vaccine movement (outside of pandemics) for instance.
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Doctors know full well that exercise, diet, etc can drastically improve health. Do you really think they are willfully ignorant? They also know their patients that they told a hundred times to start exercising, etc. Now these patients have serious, life threatening conditions. You seem to deny reality and suggest that they finally convince their patients to get their act together when they're 65 years old and set in their ways. How's that working so far?
If you're watching on non-mobile device, why not just use ublock origin extension? I haven't seen a youtube ad in ages.
> all people are different and that's ok

I'm happy to see at least one person on HN can agree with this.

After re-reading your and my comments I concluded that my real issue is lack of the settings in CP2077. I do respect opinion of people who want to use TAA and DLSS, I’m just upset that I can not pick something I like, can’t decide what to sacrifice and what to prioritize.

Your article is quite interesting and I’m grateful for it. Please keep writing things like this.
The NRLB may yet.
Ask HN: Are the high quality alternatives to Zoom?
Is anybody building or built high quality alternatives (full HD, full sound, etc.) for video conferencing? Zoom, without bandwidth adjusting limitations/etc. from running 'broadly usable' service?
CEO of MicroStrategy have purchased over $1.3 billion in BTC
The people running the companies provide something that requires some capital investment and moderate technical sophistication. Meanwhile most people, and actually most sexual life forms in this planet, can perform sex. Unless sex workers unionize supply/demand economics will crush them. I don't see the need to involve male/female dominance in companies to find an explanation, but it seems fashionable nowadays.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript

> So it seems like Howard didn't write the fake prank letter that caused decades of chaos. His prank was that he said he had written the letter. He was claiming credit for chaos he didn't create. It was complicated to even think about.
Complications around sex purely for pleasure might have a lot to with STDs and may be some historical cultural baggage than bonding and intimacy issues.
Beethoven major income is teaching and music score sheet, unlike Hayden in concert. He failed very much in the concert music. Still remember the concert where no 5 the fate symphony was doomed.

His sonata was never played (or may be once) in the first 100 years in public. It was meant to be read and played to the score.

If not mistaken his last act is to rewrite his quartet to 4 hand as this is very popular music at home. There is no mp3 and we do not have 4 person at home unlike Schubert.

But the difference is circulation is still a bit limited. Hence some can still survive. Imagine today if Beethoven is here, he would not be struggle and worry about income in his dying bed. (He would not be starved to death or without a drink. The newly formed London symphony society heard about his worry and sent in money for his tenth and later wine. But even he is on ...)
This is similar to the usage of 被 in Chinese slang. E.g. 自杀 (suicide) turns into 被自杀 (was suicided, with the implication of foul play). 失踪 (disappearance) -> 被失踪 (was disappeared).
Low end ASD can make dating really hard for men, and their often inflexible nature makes them hard people to live with at times. I think from that perspective alone it's a disability.
When you're a Social Justice Hammer, everything looks like an Oppression Nail.
You might want to ratchet down that percentage for your future speculation:

> I’ll be basing this entire article on the American version of the show, which is more fully developed than the original British version, though the original is perhaps more satisfyingly bleak.
Where would Facebook and Goggle be without Apple, the app ecosystem and their pernicious tracking abilities?

Apple made something that Facebook and Google only dreamt of: they put a spying device in people's pockets

Android was only a reaction to their success
> MSG sensitivity has never been shown to be true in a replicable clinical environment in humans.

Actually, it has been. The fine article even mentions that.

> The few studies that have shown this to cause symptoms use extremely large doses of MSG that aren't used in food (for one thing, the dosages involved would be unpalatable even for those without the symptoms;

So you do accept that some studies have demonstrated MSG sensitivity? So why the lie in the previous sentence? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I just don't see how you claim the former statement given this statement.

In any case, yes, you are correct here. As per the fine article, the dose at which symptoms become common is six times the normal dose. Do you find it utterly impossible that some people could be sensitive at one-sixth the dose that "most people" become sensitive at?
While copyright law's interaction with new technologies can be hard to predict, I strongly suspect that the level of "blocky-ness" doesn't matter. If an image was created from another image created by a different artist, the new image is as derivative work[1].

In general[2], as long as the new work is a transformative[3] difference from the original, a new copyright is created, although royalties might need to be paid to the author of the original work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

[2] see a real lawyer for actual legal advice

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_%28law%29
I'm actually really curious now if the GitHub repo where the password was found was the initial cause of the breach.

The article doesn't make this clear, but the original Twitter post[1] does: it was a password that allowed FTP uploads to downloads.solarwinds.com (the same DNS name as where the backdoored updates came from[2]). Vinoth Kumar (mentioned in the article) uploaded a PoC text file which could then be downloaded over HTTP.

His screenshot has the repo name redacted, but if SolarWinds accidentally included their code-publishing credentials, maybe the signing key for their code was also in that repo at some point? I've seen that kind of thing before, even if I had to grep through old commits to find it.

[1] https://twitter.com/vinodsparrow/status/1338431183588188160

[2] https://twitter.com/Andrew___Morris/status/13386142089053020...
They're the ones who are the first to say that "science is on my side" or "I believe in science"
Sure, you can create a closed vertically integrated system which will allow you the freedom to do what you want, but you've not created a platform for others to integrate with when you do.

The point is those industry standards make the PC a more open platform, where multiple vendors can contribute innovation on the same common basis.
I am afraid the author can't really hold on to his old laptops much longer. The web browser may demand more resources than the old hardware can support and the websites the author frequent to may embed enough scripts that slow his experience to a crawl.
Parmesan cheese and Worcestershire sauce are used to add MSG to western dishes.
>However, my local Hippy Organic Community Grocery Store has all sorts of products proudly claiming the absence of MSG.

I wonder if they label tomatoes with that? if so they are falsely advertising as it naturally occurs in tomato.
We all know they where in trouble then. The point is that Elop made it 10x worse. Doubling down on Windows Phone was a terrible choice. Nobody wanted that.

I know a lot of Windows fans have convinced themselves Windows Phone was awesome but it wasn’t.

Avoiding Windows Nokia could still have been alive by going for Android. Sure a smaller company than in the heyday but still alive.
Unbelievable because of scurvy for instance.
"fully knowing that they are with 99,99...% likelihood just fiction."

Given the size of the universe, and its age, I would take some time to consider that the possibility that there is not some sort of phenomenon like that would be 99,99....%.
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Tankers need to be equipped with external ports on each side for easy ways to drain them in the event of shipwreck.
It's certainly a distinction.
I mean I kind of get your point but just replace "racism" with "prejudice" and it doesn't hold water any longer.
I may be misremembering, but I believe that at the time Elop joined, Symbian was still the largest smartphone OS by the number of devices. And (my memory is shaky here), the fact that Symbian and Maemo both used QT meant that there was a path for existing Symbian app developers to transition to the new platform. Maemo was slow coming, but killing it at launch still seems like an odd move.
Absolutely not, in fact I didn't mention USA anywhere in my post. I was curious on what constitutes racism in the east vs. the west and I don't have experience in the east. I'm also not disregarding anywhere in between the countries of the east and west.

I know of the historical factors but that's like saying Germans are still racist because they have a history of being Nazis - I was more interested in what kind of experiences of racism between Asia are happening in modern times which I've seen you've written so thanks for that. I was also curious whether there were any parallels in one of the bigger issues like police brutality of minorities in Asia.

There is a whole other discussion when talking about true hate vs. stereotyping.
Sure, but the evidence he's putting forward suggests that it doesn't exist, or at least isn't widely present among people who claim to suffer the condition.
Most (like 90% or more) autistic people are low functioning. But they are completely invisible to people like you. When you hear the word you think of the border line cases that fall under the label "high functioning autism".
But the author is not limiting himself to just these borderline cases.
Yes they have noticed it! To the extent that I have seen articles in which people explain in detail concepts for which they hope a concise German word exists. For example: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/concepts-for-which-i-sus...
Distressing video shows California hospital overwhelmed by Covid patients
a local computer store sells such machines for $100-$200 USD that are clearly from old offices/schools. You can tell because they're all the dell optiplex. My father is using one of those.
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The expensive bit of putting in a fibre network is the holes and ducts.

Once you've got that you can replace fibre relatively cheaply. Guess what, BT's labs were well there too. They also invented the tech for blown fibre installation before anyone else.

BT were the world leaders until the Torys thew that away, for who knows why.

IMHO twisted pair copper or coax is nothing more than a slow cludge compared to real fibre.
I still think it's wrong to dismiss people's experiences out of hand and lump it all onto the racism pile.

So it's likely not the MSG, but maybe the chinese restaurants these people go to have a reputation for not being the freshest? This can raise histamine levels in the food and cause the same symptoms as an allergic reaction (which it basically is).

Whatever it is, there is no reason to assume the food intolerance itself is a lie..
> compromise ... build server

The first think I think of is Jenkins running on a public IP?
> True, but I also feel this might also be part in staying relevant with touch displays.

Undoubtedly - at about the same time, they introduced a swipe-to-unlock screen which is crucial on a tablet or smartphone, but useless on a desktop or laptop.

The thing is, Gnome don't seem to have achieved any success in the smartphone/tablet market. So with the benefit of hindsight, trading off mouse and keyboard power user UX to improve touchscreen UX doesn't seem to have paid dividends.
> If we do not pay for news, news has to be financed through online advertising

Agreed.

> which is basically selling personal data for profit

Not necessarily. Mostly untargeted display ads don't. They could profit from personal data as much as TV or newspaper ads. They also yield a lot worse; my point is that it's possible to run ads that don't actually use personal data.

My bigger concern with ad-funded journalism is it encourages stories and headlines that get clicks, not stories that are important. Journalism isn't supposed to be entertainment.
While I'm sure this is being used as a "gentler" term for being fired (and I'm sure perception will catch up as it did for terms like "opportunity"), I can think of one case where this is different from being fired. I've seen it happen at a couple of companies where someone high-ranking suddenly "retired" or "resigned" and it was obvious that it was a face-saving way to get them out the door. I could see the word "resignated" being used for these face-saving faux-resignation/retirements.
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Just world fallacy
It's just different. Why would developers in Europe make the same money as developers in China/US/Argentina? Different places, different salaries.

Personally I envy the high salaries in the US (for devs) but I wouldn't move to the US because in Europe I got 30 days of vacation plus public holidays (which makes around 45 days off per year... paid) working full-time (35 hours/week)... and anyway, if one wants to make serious money as a developer, the only way is to bootstrap your own SaSS; working for others (in Europe or in US) only gets you so far.