skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These complaints need to reframed in terms of the sellers of the extremely underpriced call options that triggered the insane volatility in the first place. There are only a tiny number of companies responsible, possibly as few as one

Robin hood users certainly weren't clicking around a UI buying stocks fast enough to cause the incredible moves witnessed, that could only be the action of the option market makers attempting to hedge options they'd sold to those users with a notional value vastly exceeding available liquidity
Thanks, somehow I managed to miss that for Kiwix.
Yes, because if they'd bought more they'd have lost money, and RobinHood only stopped them buying.

"but we could have driven the price up by cornering the market" I hear RobinHood/WSB users say.

Maybe, but that would be illegal market manipulation. So if your case is that you lost out because RobinHood wouldn't facilitate a crime, you have a poor case.
Create a larger separate storage partition for all valuable data, then move all valuable data from your C: volume to sensible folders which you create there.

Redirect the future data generated to the same or additional folders on the storage partition(s).

Keep a record of what default settings are changed to accomplish fully effective data storage to places other than C: in every way.

These folders can easily be backed up (copied) manually to external drives, retaining the same structure as on the working storage volume.

Still install all programs to C: and C: can retain their settings along with your Windows settings.

You manually build a simple straightforward text record of the mission-critical installs & settings you make to Windows and the programs on C: anyway as you go along. Much easier to reproduce settings from your own log than any Windows install log.

Now C: then only grows with the size of Windows, its updates, and the executable apps installed but not the data generated. Also the garbage like Temporary Internet Files stays on C: but you're supposed to have that kind of thing excluded before backing up. So a complete backup of your C: volume is as small as reasonably workable and only takes a few minutes to save as a WIM file using DISM.

And even less time to unWIM the backup file onto a freshly zeroed & formatted partition when you need to get your system back.

DISM is made especially to back up the structure of a Windows volume like you can not do manually but would be good if you could. Folders on C: other than Windows' needs come along for the ride and fatten up the backups so you have to be judicious about them.

Done right it's the quickest way to recover when you suffer from a Windows failure or corruption on C:.

So even in case of a complete HDD failure you can rapidly go from a new(ly) zeroed HDD to a partitioned, formatted equivalent of your former system as of its latest backups without the woe that can ensue when you let C: in general become fat with anything but necessary apps or let the
C:\USERS folder become scattered with things that you are not willing to discard, while trying to depend on less-manual backup plans than DISM.

Windows, and therefore the whole C: volume has always been best treated as disposable regardless of how much people think it is worth.

You probably can't rehearse your backup & recovery process too carefully or too far in advance.

After using DISM to recover, you can use BCDBOOT to create new boot files.

Some apps are not robust enough to withstand this process without additional re-enabling of some kind so test them all, and really shoddy ones which need to be reinstalled anyway can then be excluded from backups to further simplify the backup until a more appropriate app can be found worth including instead.
I thought this was the Jet of MS Access but they call that JET Red.

From the ESE wiki page:

> For JET Red storage engine of Microsoft Access, see Microsoft Jet Database Engine.

> Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), also known as JET Blue, is an ISAM (indexed sequential access method) data storage technology from Microsoft. ESE is the core of Microsoft Exchange Server, Active Directory, and Windows Search. It's also used by a number of Windows components including Windows Update client and Help and Support Center. Its purpose is to allow applications to store and retrieve data via indexed and sequential access.

> ESE provides transacted data update and retrieval. A crash recovery mechanism is provided so that data consistency is maintained even in the event of a system crash. Transactions in ESE are highly concurrent making ESE suitable for server applications. ESE caches data intelligently to ensure high performance access to data. In addition, ESE is lightweight making it suitable for auxiliary applications.

> The ESE Runtime (ESENT.DLL) has shipped in every Windows release since Windows 2000 [...]

I was wondering how that might fare with the SQL Server edition meant to be bundled with apps. Besides being non-SQL seems it could be lighter keeping transactions and concurrency.
Bitcoin mixers do a pretty good job of obsfucating transaction history and maintaining anonymity.
GME Billboard on Times Square!!
Holy crap, this is actually true. I thought it was a joke.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/revealed-...
Slow government response to Covid-19 linked to higher frontline worker burnout
The US system isnt perfect, but arguments against the current allocation of Senators is effectively arguing that the Senate should be abolished (which would take a constitutional amendment). I think small states suddenly finding themselves largely powerless would consider secession if that were the case.
My bet is that this will be lasting to the point where Robinhood will need to change name. Out of the things people are a bit careful with and want full control of, their own money is distinctly one of those. The Robinhood story as it being describe include both forced sales, as well as not being allowed to user their money to buy stocks. Both seems pretty scary to would be new customers as well as existing ones.
You should stop spreading misinformation. The agreement Israel signed doesn't allow Pfizer any access to the "country's health-care database". That's complete nonsense. Nor is there anything even remotely "shady" or "undemocratic" about it.

Israel will provide Pfizer daily aggregate data that contains no identifiable health information (as defined by the Israeli Patient’s Rights Law), or any data that may result in the identification of individuals.

The signed agreement is publicly available, is under the oversight of Israel's Helsinki committee, and is in full compliance with Israeli law. Any citizen who believes their rights are being infringed upon, can petition to the Supreme Court of Israel.

The reason Israel was able to reach such an agreement, and the EU wasn't, is because Israel, given enough vaccines, will be able to vaccinate its entire adult population by the end of March, whereas the EU isn't even close to having such capacity, regardless of vaccine access.
I don't think 10x developers actually exist - there are just some people who happened to have good, original ideas. It's more art than science at this point as there's no clear path to achieving this status, just like there is no clear path to winning the International Chopin Piano Competition.

But I've met 2x developers, where "x" is your average corporate code monkey such as me in my current role or my teammates, whose children/spouses don't seem to be at peace with the concept of their family member working from home.

I know three people who at the moment are working two jobs. What they have in common is the uncanny ability to squeeze out 8h of focused work a day.

I've measured my ability in this regard and best I can do is 4h of taking orders from other people on a given day. It appears to be enough to maintain employment for now.
Can AI Let Justice Be Done?
Yeah, I guess the real world is tolerant of them – otherwise we wouldn’t call them fallacies :) If we’re to get closer to the truth though, we must be intolerant of them (but not each other).

I think it also depends on precisely what statement you’re trying to prove. In the jQuery example you have to get really specific, because just talking about the best can be pretty vague. There are many examples of best where merely pointing to the popularity of jQuery is a logical fallacy, and perhaps some where it isn’t (e.g. the breadth of documentation making development easier). This is really a different class of problem to something more abstract such as the belief in alien civilisations, where the fallacy is more clear cut.

The currency example is a slightly different case though, because it’s the belief in the currency itself that creates the currency. So the statement everyone should replace their USD with Bitcoin is undermined by the overwhelming depth and breadth of belief in USD (misplaced or not). So I don’t think it counts as a logical fallacy, because it goes beyond merely trying to leverage the majority opinion on the subject; the beliefs themselves are absolutely instrumental in driving the relative utility of USD and Bitcoin.
macOS supports fractional scaling just fine, by rounding up and then downscaling. Sure it's not pixel-perfect to the display, but at such high ppi it's not really noticeable, and certainly much better than trying to get actual fractional resolutions working.

Apple tried true resolution independence in the early 2000s and it didn't work out. 2x and 3x scaling proved to be a much better solution.
Ok. Loook . If you have something constructive to share, then share it and everyone will benefit and discuss the merits of your opinions and facts.

.. What the point of being a poser? Applesauce for 5$ — don’t mean a hhhhill of beans to me.
Would they have gone out of business if they had suspended trading as opposed to suspending just buying?
My pet peeve is the incorrect definition of the "10x dev"

The "10xDev" is one that's 10 times more effective than the least effective developer; NOT 10x the average dev nor 10x the median dev.

The 10x is the absolute best versus the absolute worst.

It's not the good vs the bad.

Honestly there's no surprise here. What field doesn't have such a major difference between the most talented vs the least talented? The discussion is overblown.

From Peopleware:

"Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1"

"Count on the best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer"

"Count on the half that are better-than-median performers out-doing the other half by more than 2:1"

Most "10x dev" articles should really be using "2.5x" if they're comparing the best with the median. Again, a 2.5x difference between the good and the bad is again, not surprising.

It's also worth noting that the study Peopleware uses is from 1985 and sampled about 600 devs. The amount of pixels spilled over this basically ancient software study is honestly hilarious.
Why is that useful? The challenge with overuse of the term 'conspiracy' is that like the suddenly common term 'baseless' it all too often ignores conjecture based on facts and events that arouse suspicions.

One man's hilariously mad tin foil hat conspiracy theorist is another man's investigative journalist...and imo opinion we can't have enough of those...
KeyKOS – a persistent, pure capability operating system
But then it's a faux bold, and it's a no-no in typography. Her's a better technique: https://css-tricks.com/bold-on-hover-without-the-layout-shif...
Robinhood canceled my GME calls orders at 1am and sent a message confirming that I canceled them (I didn't). Doesn't matter if they're technically in their rights or not the trust is shattered and I'm closing my account. Everyone else even in IRL spaces agrees with the sentiment. Anecdotally my barista at my local coffee spot told me to move to Webull or another platform so the sentiment seems to be widespread.
Totally fair. Depends on the problem space you’re hiring for.

I’m still gonna check though :)
I think dennis is using something called magnet wire there. Jumper wire could also be a search term
If the put those shares on the market, the shares in the first block will go for the current price, but the shares in every block afterwards will go for $2.
I do trust the latest data coming out of the US. Why wouldn't I? Even if the CDC no longer counts cases (which I think this was reversed) you'd have to say thousands upon thousands of nurses/doctors/hospitals were all lying and pro-Trump, which is conspiratorial nonsense.

Case counts in every country are likely under-counted, but the death rates relative to counted cases is likely very accurate.
Similar experience here. I would only buy hand tools from them, or buying other stuff with the expectation that it's only going to last for one job. Anything electronic or with a motor doesn't seem to last.
that is not accurate. Amazon is brimming with dark patterns.

They walk the line between selling to customers and selling customers.

Over time, there are more and more "sponsored" results occluding and confusing my search results.

There are now warranty upsell screens on just about every purchase ("would you like coverage on your $5 part?")

They don't offer you the lowest cost on an item, you really have to drill down into all the offers to check.

If you block part of their site, things don't work - but if you sign in, all is well.

Can you delete your browsing history? Well, no. You can "hide" your browsing history but "removing items from view".

Search results are peppered with nonsensical results - that you searched for/bought before. I'm pretty sure this is timed with memory decay.

for example if 3 months ago you searched for dishes. Today when you search for computer parts, there might be a dish thrown into the results.

They talk about "free shipping" everywhere, but even if your cart is $500, you are opted-into non-free shipping and must manually select free shipping.

They don't tell you what is being sent in their shipping emails. But you can install their browser plugin and get all the info conveniently.
Yeah, in your scenario it seems like the manager should have that thing muted. If he's on a heated conversation he'll get the pings. If he's participating then it's his problem. Seems like the more appropriate thing would have been for you all to jump on a phone call, but I'm not invested in that.

I think I have some Slack PTSD from messages that come out of the blue:

message 1: hi

message 2: where do u

message 3: think the blubber bee API is failing

message 4: when I get 404

<eom>

I respond with a question and then don't hear back for 10 or 30 minutes. Screw this noise.

What you said seems reasonable. But the context of the article was the initiation. My bad for lumping your scenario in with the above BS.
This paper just validates as “fact” something that I strongly believed by “personal experience” :-D

As humans (evolutionarily social creatures), we have a natural empathy that’s hard to circumvent unless the discussion turns into very abstract statements about belief & facts & rationality. IME, all but a narrow segment of people are typically very receptive to hearing about and empathizing with other’s experiences. Over time, this might also significantly change perspectives through osmosis.

Very rarely do perspectives change in any significant manner before and after a “logical argument” — and for good reason https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
Well I can edit the title but I wrote "can reduce" not "is sure that Covid-19 reduces", this is the short excerpt for the title.

"Current studies have documented that SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, can damage the male reproductive system [...]"
The "10xDev" is one that's 10 times more effective than the least effective developer; NOT 10x the average dev or 10x the median dev.

What about people who have negative effectiveness?
You seem to have a lot of info on this topic. Do you run a blog or some other way you disseminate this stuff?
But functional-only business applications already did take the world by storm! Relational DBs is the defacto way data is organized, and a Junction table is the way you model the data so that a functional query (generally in SQL) can be made against it.
I agree UBI is better than a minimum wage, but it seems a Negative Income Tax as advocated for by Milton Friedman would be still better. It would have the desired effect of supporting the poor with guaranteed income (something minimum wage can’t do because of the labor shortage it creates, especially amongst low-skilled employees), but do so a lot more cost effectively than UBI since you wouldn’t be guaranteeing payments to people who don’t need them and would avoid any welfare trap created by existing welfare programs.
I have used a 4k screen for several years now without any issues on GNOME with 200% scaling.

However, I recently bought a ThinkPad T14 with a 1080p screen. With 100% scaling, the fonts and widgets are too small. The ideal scaling seems to be 125% or 150%. GNOME has experimental support for fractional scaling. This works generally ok for Wayland applications, but windows of X11 applications are incredibly blurry both on the laptop display with 150% scaling and the external screen with 200% screen. I think they are rendered at 100% and then scaled up. There are various workarounds for X11 applications, but it seems that e.g. none of the workaround really works with e.g. JetBrains IDEs (there are some bug reports about it).

Windows 10, on the other hand, handles fractional scaling and per-screen scaling just fine. It's frustrating, because I highly prefer GNOME and Linux and if all applications supported Wayland, there wouldn't be any major problems.
If 1% do that’s 1,000,000...
For the purpose of one to many type of live streaming you would probably want to use HLS.

Twitch uses it's own transcoding system. Here is a interesting read from their engineering blog [0]

[0] https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2017/10/10/live-video-transmuxing-...
In politics, there's a saying, "A story is worth 1000 spreadsheets."
Most engineers are 0.1x engineers, just trying to remain employed while browsing a lot of HN. Then there are 1x engineers using the rare skill of actually trying reasonably hard and having discipline. (These 1x engineers may eventually experience a significant life disruption, mental or physical illness, or simply lose the feeling of meaning from the work, and subsequently become 0.1x engineers temporarily or permanently.) There may be actual 10x engineers for short stretches. I may have been something like this for a short period in grad school when I was obsessed, skilled, healthy and knowledgeable all at the same time. But I’m certainly not anymore.
My only issue is that my mid sized 4k screen is a but clunky at 2x UI scaling but otherwise I don't have an issue until I plug into a standard Monitor when 2x scaling is ridiculous.

But I find 1x scaling to be too small to enjoy on the QHD screen. Multiple integer scale factors are possible but it is a bit complex and when I did it machine was prone to crash...

That said I still love it.
On the other hand, aren't they legally obligated to do so?
The Silicon Valley Startup That Caused Wall Street Chaos
Unless you don't have any food....in which case either would be pretty welcome.

I tend to agree that if we (society as a whole) determine that there should be a minimum income below which no one is allowed to fall, a UBI-type system is more equitable than a minimum wage increase.

The costs of UBI fall on everyone, while the costs for minimum wage increases fall on the very business owners who tend to employ the young and/or unskilled. It's McDonalds and the local car wash (and their employees!) that take it in the neck with a minimum wage increase, not Google or Goldman Sachs.
Who is 'you?'

Capitalism is a social good to the extent that it solves problems and makes people's lives better. But capitalism only solves the problems of people with money: their cash is THE incentive for others to figure out how to solve their problems. If people with problems have no money, they effectively create no demand.

Add wealth to the bottom tier of society and we'll generate generate demand to solve problems at the bottom, which in turn generates a supply of people to fix those problems. This is effectively what happened after WW2, driving the massive growth of the American middle class and a huge increases in standard of living.

Finally, there are plenty of studies backing up minimum wage increases. The boogeyman of inflation in this context is nothing but FUD.
They're getting commission when they succeed.
I’m working on a Rust library for this as my MS project. It calculates the queries inside the type system, so there’s minimal runtime cost.
A multi-cameral legislature is a net increase in representation because it forces national considerations to be examined multiple ways. The increased attention and varied perspective represents the beliefs and desires of more people than just a majority as measured one way (e.g., by political party.)

By contrast, a single-house legislature fulfills the desires of a national majority population the most quickly, which is what you are advocating for. This is at the expense of more careful consideration.

In other words, we do not agree on the definition of representation as you see it as maximizing activity and I see it as maximizing consideration.
what worries me is that our mind (at the very least mine and all like it) are ultimately intellectual constructions. thus intellectual property leads the way to mind property.

how can it be that if I know something, this knowledge is not mine?
I'm not interested in and take no position on your broader argument. I'm exclusively interested in: "HFT? How is that anything but absurd?". I think that's easy to refute. If we agree, we agree, that's great.
> would avoid any welfare trap created by existing welfare programs.

How would it do that?
Does anyone recognize which software is used to make these graphs and diagrams? (I love how everything is aligned very precisely, and the design is cohesive across slides with respect to colors and fonts.)
Most definitely - I'm sure there's at least dozens of implementations of the idea you can find just by googling.

I wrote it because I'd directly seen or heard colleagues complain of real proposals to use git KPI as serious, primary perf measures for ICs. Linking to the satirical example of why poor measures result in poor outcomes can be a pretty effective tool for resolving the discussion to a good place ;).

This was a fun project to figure out and frame with the readme copy.

From the GH perspective I'm guessing they run some offline batch aggregation jobs to roll these stats based on the 24h timeframe. I capped the total commits to an arbitrary but polite # to avoid DoSing their stats pipeline after skimming ToS and seeing nothing that said - don't do this. It appears that they do monitor for excessive usage and care more about large objects than many commits: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-accepta...
Those who are tired of paid streaming services can just go torrenting.

Either Gen Z has become absolutely technologically inept or these numbers are used to shape a narrative that pleases the news conglomerates.
So, all the fuzz about Wayland security and how it is good security to kill window managers at will... comes out totally void.
Ah, cool! IIRC Bazel predates docker, so perhaps it's more correct to say that dockerfiles use a Bazel-like command caching strategy.
The problem is largely X11. Wayland desktops such as GNOME + Wayland applications generally work very well with HiDPI.

Even X11 applications work reasonably well on XWayland on e.g. GNOME, as long as all screens use 100% or 200% scaling. Unfortunately, with fractional scaling things break down with X11 applications.
I don't necessarily support forced arbitration but... I would rather not pay the court fees because a bunch of people are upset their broker didn't accept their orders and want to waste the courts time over it.