skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats okay though. Alexey Pajitnov's "Tetris" was all he ever needed to do, all the world needed.

Perhaps though I don't treat games like music where I need a new fix constantly, am happy to find a new game I enjoy every year or so.
> There's no limit on the number of coins. Mining is designed to be forever-easy. The coin is _designed_ for rapid deflation.

Yes, but the increase in coins is constant. So as a percentage of available supply, the inflation rate approaches 0%.

Right now, there are 128,000,000,000 DOGE in circulation. The block target for Doge is 1 minute, with a reward of 10,000 DOGE, which gives a yearly minting of 5,256,000,000 doge, which gives and inflation rate of 4.11%. Next year, another 5.256T gets added, which is an inflation of 3.94%.

And of course, since it's a cryptocurrency, there are bound to be permanent losses in the supply because of people losing their wallet files. This is difficult to track because even with a public ledger, there's no way to be sure if unspent DOGE is simply not being spent, or if the private key to spend it was lost.
I think death is not the only factor. The tests were conducted in an open area, the territory of Novaya Zemlya still has an elevated radiation background, and the winds bring it all to Western Siberia and the Urals. People live there, and if government disclose the information, they will have to pay compensation, which is a very decent amount of money. You may also have to disclose the location of active bases. Military secrecy is a case where what seems like a trifle can actually have huge consequences and it is easier to hide everything.

In any case, it has little to do with the incident, since herd of reindeer might have been spooked by something other than a rocket, or they might have just been wandering the usual road for no reason. The theory as a whole may be wrong, but the important fact is that there are even several scientific versions. This should put those who talk with a serious face about Yeti and UFOs in their place.
If you believe this narrative I have a bridge for sale. Here's an obvious litmus test: did they re-open buying for GME after they raised an additional billion[0] which easily covers them in this position?

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/9a1b24e6-0433-462a-a860-c2504ea56...
There's no capitalism going on here. I have parents over 70 in the EU, I would gladly pay $5000 per person to get them vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfeiser or Moderna), but people under 60 are being vaccinated in Israel right now for free.

Vaccination right now is completely political, governments took over control instead of just regulating safety and efficiency of the vaccines.
Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules
Show HN: Not much to show.. basic floating todo app
Some favorite mods (I've played a LOT of factorio over the years)

Bobs Mods is a good "new game plus" after beating the base game.

Space Exploration adds an amazing amount of depth, but it's somewhat intimidating.

FNEI is a very useful recipe browser.

Recursive blueprints are incredibly cool, but also hard to reason about. Fun to try though!

Factorissimo add recursive space (buildings that contain more space inside than their footprint).
Yes it does. They used it to announce that they deliver 20% bottle because they are not billing 6 doses per bottle while at the same time arguing publicly that they contains 5. They are then hiding behind that contract the talks about doses, not bottles and best effort not hard delivery. They all have the same contract and are following Pfizer example.

BigPharma is screwing up UE big time and that is unacceptable.

Source for downvoters : https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/290121/retards-de-va... (FR)
Use AppMap recordings to generate insightful visualizations
It's one of the few truly bad design paradigms made popular by Apple in recent years. Their site has always been full of it.
"New array_is_list function"

I use PHP a fair amount, but this is one area that irks me. PHP arrays can be arrays, lists, and hash maps. PHP obviously copied some of Perl's features, and I never understood why hashmaps and arrays weren't different types, as they are in Perl.
If they bought in at 10 and sold between 50-100 if they owned 14% of the free float they would have lost 0.5-1bn. That assumes they didn't increase exposure as the price went up and it ignores the borrow cost.

They then lost a bunch of money on options the exact amount of which we don't know. They also lost a whole bunch of money on other positions going against them which we don't know but can guess at.

To get to a 3bn loss (which btw is just a guessed number based on how much new capital they took)you probably only need to assume they are down around 10% on the rest of the short book (ex GME) which under the circumstances is entirely plausible. That assumes they run something like 200% gross exposure with an evenly balanced book with 12.5bn aum.

I'm not sure where the conspiracy is here. 3bn is a huge number to lose in a week but it looks roughly right given what happened and it's not exactly unprecedented either.
We've done some things like that. The best thing I've seen for trivial business changes is to train two business people how to update the fields they need to. It works best with a simple UI in front of it.

As an example, maybe they want to change a cutoff from $100 to $50. You can provide them a standard query for modifying this field. Then they can change the cutoff value as needed. You could keep the SQL to yourself and just plug the number in that they gave you and run it yourself. Of course if you code it as an SP then it's fairly trivial to stand up a basic service and UI in front of it for them too.
> When an employee at Pottery Barn drops a plate, we don't deduct it from their paycheck. If we did, no one would work there.

Call me crazy, but I’d like to hold the armed representatives of the state to a higher standard than the minimum wage employees at Pottery Barn. When Pottery Barn employees start legally shooting patrons for dropped plates, we can revisit this.
> And many times the borrow checker is completely inadequate at preventing data races (frequently the case with distributed computing).

The borrow checker (in safe rust) always[0] prevents data races. It can't, however, prevent race conditions (but neither can pony do[1])

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

[1] https://www.ponylang.io/faq/#data-race
It doesn't work with all videos and it's what I currently use. I might be having some conflicting plugins but I like the setup/attempt.
From the spec:

> No double symbols, i.e. strong not *strong*.

I understand the rationale. But, this is immediately no longer Markdown. "It's 'Markdown, Refactored!'" If "refactored" means "incompatible," sure? I guess? But still: incompatible.

"So what?" Good question, imaginary interlocutor. Here's so what: one of Markdown's defining features, love or it hate it, is that it deliberately doesn't make you choose between emphasizing with * characters or emphasizing with _ characters, other than being consistent with the start and end. Use a single * or _ character, get emphasis/italics; use double, get strong/bold; you don't get underlines because you don't use those in typography.

The same is true for lists: only "-" is acceptable, not "+" or "". Fine, but there are a lot of Markdown documents that are out there that use "" as the list character, and I am sure there is at least one weirdo inexplicably using "+".

So StrictMark breaks every Markdown document that uses boldface, and probably about half the Markdown documents that use italics. (I don't know about other Markdown users, but over the years I have not been consistent with how I markup italics, for a variety of reasons.) And, it probably breaks about half the unordered lists in the wild, too.

I understand that this is being done for well-intentioned and noble reasons, but: it ain't Markdown. It's a new, incompatible plaintext markup system. This creates a bit of an uncomfortable point: if I'm going to have to redo all my documents (or just do things The New Way going forward), then why not switch to AsciiDoc or Textile?
> Isn't this precisely how iOS works?

I'm not an expert on iOS. From reading their latest security guide and a bit of wikipedia I think the following is true:

* iOS uses the ZNU kernel, a Mach derivative with BSD POSIX environment with traditional POSIX processes, ipc, filesystems, and networking.
* iOS implements runtime security by process/user-id separation and ACLs on system and inter-process APIs. The ReplayKit uses a similar idea by giving an app a handle on a single recording session, but it's implemented on top of the POSIX framework. For contacts it's clearly ACL based and either an app has access to all contacts or none whereas a capability system would allow a particular form of access to a single contact.

Capability systems are implemented by a kernel enforcing capabilities as the sole method of interacting with other objects in the system. There is no generic open(), connect(), read(), or listen() although there are similar methods on certain capabilities processes can hold.

For example, the user could provably give one contact to an app which was further allowed to share that contact with a third app under certain circumstances e.g. "schedule a call to Mom next Thursday" which would involve granting a scheduling app a capability to initiate a phone call but only to the number in the particular contact within a certain time window, by granting a re-grantable capability to the phone
number (and maybe display name) subfield(s) of the Mom contact, which the scheduler would hand off to the phone dialer at the desired time. This is a mildly contrived example because of the complexity of generating the specific capabilities necessary to accomplish it, but it should give an example of what is possible to do securely with a capability system that would be difficult or impossible with traditional ACLs.
> But, you won't see any police brutality commercials, and it's not because us ambulance chasers are afraid of the police. It's because the cases are so few and far between that it doesn't make sense to waste resources seeking them out.

Which is because no matter how much police violate our rights, it's basically impossible to win a case against them.
And often the results is better than the situation that came before. Until you can accurately determine which outcome is going to result, you shouldn't be trying to forbid the process out of concern for what could happen but isn't guaranteed to happen. Your actions to stop things from happening might lead to a worse outcome than if you left things alone.
How do you make a vaccine that doesn't have a price?

It's going to require resources no matter what, and the $5 to $10 that the AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines are estimated at is a pretty good value.

(for instance, the US could buy vaccine for the entire globe and not worry about the cost)
> So GameStop was an artificial bubble at $10 but not at $500? Really?

Did I claim that? I wouldn't touch GME with a barge pole.
"Our core market infrastructure has proven resilient under the weight of this week’s extraordinary trading volumes." - this is flat out false. The market infrastructure was supposedly unable to handle the desired buy volumes under high volatility on meme stocks, resulting in multiple retail brokerages disabling purchases of the meme stocks.
Is there anything that goes right with this vaccine? First they mess up the trial giving it to only 18-55 year old, then the manufacturing of half doses instead of full, then the efficacy is not so great, then they manage to manufacture only 1/3 of the doses they promised, then it turns out efficacy in old people is basically nothing and now this. As Derek Lowe said: if there is one pharma company that comes out of pandemic looking worse it will be AZ.
We're trying to be very upfront that this is a for-profit thing for the creation of for-profit companies. We're calling it a fellowship because we care more about creating a community of scientists starting companies than potential financial returns.

There are other for-profit fellowship programs that have popped up too recently -- for example, the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship.
Good to have this in PHP. It's called "spread" in JavaScript.
You're mushing together two separate issues. Shorting GME at 100+ is not in itself a problem. (There's an argument that it dilutes the stock, makes it harder for the underlying company to turn around, because market sentiment is already against them, see investment reflexivity theory, etc.)

There's a problem with bailing out big companies again and again. While not bailing out small investors (directly).

The other problem is that there's no real defense against CNBC/Twitter amplified end-user stupidity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUtU0tOmNE

Every stock trading app/site/service requires submitting tons of "risk declaration" forms. (Sure, all of it is next next finish. It's the EULA/TOS all again, but with money.) And that's the problem.
Right, that's the obvious argument against gov't regulations, that applies to all monopolies and is exactly what you'd expect their lawyers will say. My counter to your argument is that Twitter is "effectively" a monopoly, even though smaller competitors exist.

Any monopoly can claim that since were all in a free market system, it's merely customers making free choices that's causing an incorrect "appearance" of a monopoly to exist. But you can ask any journalist, legislator, or other public figure if there's another 'competitor' that can provide what Twitter provides, and the answer is simply "no".

If we were talking about gaming consoles or some other type company the monopoly perhaps wouldn't matter, but we're talking about communications infrastructure for the entire nation, and frankly world. We simply cannot let a handful of unelected overlords censor the world.
Who killed the scrollbar? https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356511)
I doubt that 100,000 people did that all at the same time and decided to review the app.
The only time I was on the GH homepage in the past.. years was when they announced that animated globe.

Agreed with the PRs. I've experienced times where typing in the description box and other actions where extremely lagged on large PRs.
At least special margin requirements have always existed, and usually day traders know to avoid them or how to deal with the special requirements with a broker that allows you a more sophisticated view of the market. e.g. for Interactive Brokers, you look at this list and know you're going to have a pain trading these stocks:

https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2F.....

Because RH abstracts those details away to make the interface easier, the only hammer they could use was to ban trading in those securities.
Too late, this affair has already been used as artillery by the pro-brexit press.
> The primary result is that we should all work to make a humane tyranny (if such a thing is even possible; it sure sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it?)

It's not possible, governments need checks and balances, things get bad really fast when they have absolute power.

> Yes, your privacy is a social fiction, but in return, we can stop almost all crime.

No we can't, and (longer conversation) it wouldn't be desirable to in any case. There is a strong school of thought that we don't want perfect enforcement of all laws, at least not ones based around nonviolent crimes.

> Here's a not-entirely-hypothetical thought experiment for you: would you allow your life to be recorded and made public if it would prevent a child from being abducted?

To me, it is hypothetical, because we still had a Capital riot even with increased surveillance. After the riot, it didn't take ubiquitous surveillance to catch those people, they bragged about it in livestreams on social media. We can do better with the capabilities we have.

It seems intuitively correct to say that the NSA surveillance is improving security, but (surprisingly) I don't see strong evidence that the programs are actually helping to catch terrorists. We're giving additional capabilities to people who aren't leveraging or making good use of the capabilities that they already have.

> I'm not a particularly good person (I do my best) and I like my privacy, but I think I would have to take that bargain.

I wouldn't. To me, it sounds like a nonsensical comparison, it's like asking whether or not I'd switch to eating only bugs to stop a kidnapping. I don't believe that it would help, I don't believe the bargain you're proposing makes sense on an individual level. And as a widescale solution to crime on the macro level, the consequences of constant surveillance for everyone are worse than a kidnapping. It's not a good trade.

I do agree with you in one way, which is that regulation of this tech is not a perfect long-term solution. We need to figure out how to enforce regulations, and outside of the regulatory world we need adversarial research into the technology itself as well. Banning facial recognition will not be enough, on its own, to solve the problem -- solving the problem will require a combination of multiple solutions. But it is a problem we should try to solve. Whether that's by normalizing mask wearing, researching how to combat systems like gait detection, making it easier to detect cameras -- we should be thinking about how to give people tools to hide from omnipresent facial recognition.
It's not a good image for GitHub and authors when they make a dedicated post about performance with "fast and performant" in the headline, even boast a 10pp CPU usage difference, when:
1) it gets close to max CPU usage, and 2) still stutters, even on modern processors; with hardware acceleration disabled.

This was raised in previous submissions on HN, and apparently even acknowledged, but I assume they completely dismiss this to the point of not even bothering (as far as I can tell) to test acceleration support in the browser.
I heard a joke somewhere that the internet is just people libeling each other all day.

I personally think that we should be intolerant of intolerance, until of course that message is co-opted by "elites" (billionaires, politicians or whoever you believe is the group(s) pulling the strings) to suppress any criticism of their power.
I appreciate your viewpoint, but as someone who has used * out of habit for plain text lists long before Markdown was a thing, this is kind of a big ask. :)
> then it turns out efficacy in old people is basically nothing

didn't this turn out to be false
Rust and Go Department Directories
> Melvin reportedly got out of its GameStop short positions on Tuesday

Only the incredibly naïve actually believe this, and shame on Ars Technica for not annotating it with a big asterisk. Their short position is (present tense) worth billions and the ~$1mil they'd be fined for lying by the SEC is far outweighed by the potential gains of a crash back down. This is what happens when white collar criminals don't go to jail, kids.

But this seems like a shill article in general, as there's nothing mentioned about the fact that Citadel makes up more more than 35% of Robinhood's revenues[1]. Yeah, I'm sure it was "liquidity requirements."

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4a439398-88ab-442a-9927-e743a3ff6...
In 7.1., when they say the EU will provide funding at an amount equal to the "cost of goods", does it mean that AZ doesn't make profits on the vaccine they sell to the EU?

There is also a mention of a cost of good estimate and how if the cost of good was off by more than 20%, the EU should pay the difference...
>I wish they were smaller and single-lane.

Smaller and single-lane as in individual half-width belts that can be placed independently? I think it would be more of a pain to play with, because now only would you now have separate left- and right- belt items, but also have more complex rotations to be able to convert one belt into another at a corner. Eg to convert a right-belt going east into a left-belt going south, you need to rotate just the tip of the right-belt, not the whole right-belt.

---

>I need resources to be on the other lane of a belt

A single splitter and a little space around it can swap a belt around if you need to. Or better yet, find the place where you're mixing the two items on the same belt and make the change there.

A ╗
╠══ A/B
B ╝

A ══╗
╔═╬═ B/A
╚═╣
B ══╝

(The ╬ in the second diagram is a crossing of belt and underground belt.)

For single-item belts where everything's on one side and you want everything to be on the other side, it's even simpler.

═╦╗
A/- ═╝╚═ -/A

-/A ═╗╔═ A/-
═╩╝

The ╦ and ╩ are a vertical belt feeding into the side of a horizontal belt. Because the horizontal belt has another horizontal belt to its left, the point where the vertical belt touches it does not make a corner.
Big problem. Was unable to exchange at top price or to send to other more legit platform. Lost 100 euro profit from 340 euro profit.
Right. Instead of behavioural surplus generated through search, it is generated through stock activity.
Thinking of building a chrome extension with authentication for that.
General murders are also few and far between, yet it is in society's interest that murderers be prosecuted. The rarity of a type of crime has nothing to do with whether it should be prosecuted - achieving justice for low-frequency events is literally the entire point of the criminal justice system.
What problem were you hoping to solve with this?
Ah, I skimmed over the part where this is a library and not application-code
So basically, two exclusive contracts? Lol..
I did pull my arguments out of the "Big Astronomy: Let's Keep Down The Little Guys" playbook. Come off it. The "science establishment" repeats things because there's compelling evidence and scientific rigor supporting those things. It's not some "Big Science" conspiracy.

Particle accelerators have exploratory experiments like hunting the Higgs boson with LHC but they run lots of other experiments as well. There's also lots of particle accelerators (of varying capability) around so if you devise an experiment needing one you likely have several options unless you literally need the LHC.

With large telescopes there's far fewer available and the sky is pretty big. Radio SETI is a long shot search and optical SETI even more so. It's not that they lack merit but getting funding for telescope time is a lot harder when the chance of any positive finding is very remote. A lot of SETI funding actually piggybacks on other research using the same telescopes.

The chances of SETI finding positive results isn't necessarily from a lack of things to find but from physical limitations. Our best radio telescopes could only detect Earth's more powerful radio emissions from a few light years away. Broadcasts like TV and radio wouldn't be detectable outside the solar system. The inverse square law is a stone cold bitch for interstellar communication. SETI's best hope of finding signals are ones intentional ones.

Even with billions of dollars SETI would have similar chances of detecting an ETI as without. It's a needle in a haystack search with warehouse sized haystacks. More money doesn't necessarily get it done much faster or better. There's a limited number of sites for large radio telescopes and they have limited fields of view and stars are only in that FOV for a limited time. More money might let you search the warehouse sized haystack a few times faster but it's still a vast search space.
I tried using Pony for 2019's Advent of Code, and I ran into this problem. I ended up writing a whole blog post about the way that I tackled error-handling, which I don't think is the solution (especially since the Pony team is looking at new ways of expressing error-handling) but was sufficient for the programs I was writing: https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/pony-errors-and-...