skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually just started on a new project with fast api last week. Really liking it!

I think some of the other frameworks I’ve worked with in the past have too much of their own abstraction built in to the point that it’s difficult to understand the fundamentals of how the application is working. Fast API excludes unnecessary abstractions, makes it easy to use outside libraries, and feels a lot more intuitive. Less learning the docs and more coding.

Thanks to Tiangolo for your efforts!
The Next Cyberattack Is Already Under Way
Intel is behind at the moment, but it's hardly in a downward spiral.
When will VideoLAN focus on color accuracy (colors are slightly off by default)? I suspect most users don't notice but e.g. Quicktime on supported formats adjusts colors according to monitor color profile and video color profile and it's visible for trained eyes. I can adjust manually my VLC too in colors but it's not exact science and just by comparing and personal feeling. I wished I could optimise videos as good as my TV is doing it in VLC (but this is also beyond colors).

Thanks VLC!
Riffing on ceviche seems like a plausible path to something edible.
OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)
Stadia and PC's (even 3 year old ones) ran the game well.
haha! Super cool. Btw, this is an XTERM terminal so you can probably do more interesting thing other than just chat ;)
Yes, there is a big project on that those days :)
Same thing that happened to Transmeta ???.
Too much dependence on software magic.
I love this. I've often wondered how to scrape netflix subtitles for a similar reason.
There are a lot of people who show you their face (or a face) to gain trust and sell you crap. Inversely, there's also a lot of people producing really good software who wouldn't wanna show you their face.

Also, I'm not accusing you of anything but I have the feeling real name/face/whatever policies are one of those things that disproportionately affect minorities (people who are subject to harassment online or otherwise uncomfortable sharing their identity) while doing almost nothing to ensure trustworthiness.
I fairly recently _really_ started to understand how important historical reasoning and understanding is in the context of software, technology and science. Your comment is a great example. Tech developments, choices, trends and so on only really make sense in the context of history. And often we forget about history, start to reinvent things or even steer into a completely useless direction because we don't apply temporal reasoning or simply don't learn from the past.

Another benefit of this kind of approach is starting to learn about a challenging subject. Say you want to deepen your knowledge in a branch of mathematics that you find interesting and useful. The history of that branch will tell you so much more than a typical lecture-style conglomerate of concepts. It provides a great overview of important actors, their relationships, cause and effect of discoveries, the culture, the problems and so on. On top of that it is easier to remember and internalize concepts if you know the story behind them.
1950s was before the UK had widespread gas heating, so electric heating may well have been higher than it is now.
Typical Google half-assery. If they wanted Stadia to succeed, they should have been investing in game studios years before so at launch they would some games to demonstrate the concept of cloud gaming and actually drive sales. After all, it's really all about the games. And third-parties are never going to do it.

But there was no plan. They just did it and hoped success would just happen.
Please reply your take when you are 99% of the way through
> Where did the Robin Hood CEO lie? Or what issues have they downplayed?

Let's see, where do I start.

Official blog announcement: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...

No mention of liquidity requirements whatsoever.

Cuomo Interview: https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/135498974615878451...

Cuomo: "If you don't have a liquidity issue, but you have to stop the trading because you couldn't meet certain capital requirements, how does that reconcile with itself?"

Vlad: "We feel pretty good about the situation"

CNBC Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cuCcchMOsKE

Sorkin: "It sounds to me though, that you're suggesting that there was a liquidity problem"

Vlad: "No, no, there was no liquidity problem."

Elon Musk interview:

Musk: “hey what happened with robinhood”

Vlad: “uhhhh I don’t know I was asleep at home”
+1000 to the powered screwdriver or small cordless drill.
I've been putting together a lot of furniture recently, and with RSI all the screwdriving is murder on my hands; it makes all the difference to avoid this type of repetitive strain.
I don't think my org's gonna want to keep me in their payroll if I propose that to them
I'm curious - which European TLD was it?
> It is very strange for brokers to enforce one-way trading in a security as Robbinhood did, and highly suspicious on top of that

My understanding is that brokers must execute their customers trades if possible. The collateral requirement they ran into only affected purchases, hence why buys were restricted but sells were not.
i take a list of orders from a few grocery stores in my town and go to the market. i've got some orders from people who'll pay £1 for 10 potatoes, some that will pay 90p and some that will pay 80p.

i meet with the farmers. they're offering 10 potatos for £1. My order s at £1 gets filled. Theyh wont sell me any more, because more people have arrived who bid £1. Still More buyers arrive, armed with orders from people prepared to bid £1.10. Those buyers get their orders filled until yet people arrive and start bidding £1.20. potatos are in demand. those orders get filled and £1.20 is the new price.

Later, all the people offering £1.20 have gone home...there's only me left. THe farmers have some potatos left, but no buyers at £1.20 and no buyers at £1, so they lower the price further . I get my 90p order filled. noone else arrives, so farmers lower the price again, and they aceept my 80p offer..

i dont know if that makes any sense ?

its gets a litte more complicated, in that the owner of the market where the deals are done, must commit to filling everyone's orders - so they have some juggling to do . they take a small margin in between the bid price and the offer price, in return.
Do you view videolan as a platform that should support an endless array of features and plugins and codecs, or do you view it more like a product that needs to keep cutting the fat as time moves on?
I appreciate that you didn't just tell us to cut it out! :)
Somehow, VLC is both one of the programs with the most useful features and the least bloat I've ever used.

What does your project management do right to find the right features without adding bloat? This is the kind of thing giant software companies struggle with, and they have the advantage of feature-tracking scripts on their programs.
A few doses of LSD likely saved my marriage. Things were very frozen and the drug let us really talk for the first time in a year+ (having kids is hard lol)

It’s insane to me that doctors can’t prescribe this stuff. If there was any justice in the world you could go to your doctor for a safe dose of anything on your birthday.
Do you mean the Google TV? Because Chromecast Ultra has been how you use Stadia from the start. Google TV support is apparently coming this year but yeah, I am suspicious of the whole thing. Worst case, I am out $60 for the controller and not all my email or something.
https://pingtype.github.io - it helps me learn Chinese, and I'm going to keep using it even though it doesn't have any traction. Generating word spacing, pinyin, and literal translations for interesting text, rather than just homework books, is far more motivating.
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Nobody ever accepted me putting chocolate chips in my tuna subs.
It was quite well known that Cyberpunk 2077 was running smoother on PCs and trash on consoles. I was surprised too, but lots of reviews came out that Stadia was the best performing out of the "console" varieties.

- https://www.androidcentral.com/cyberpunk-2077-stadia-review

- https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-cyber...
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Okay, so questioning the validity of elections in bad faith is fascism and hate speech. I have nothing to complain about then. Thanks for your insightful input.
This is interesting! I've never thought to test myself this way on real-world examples.
If you aren't solving as many interesting, complex problems at your current job as you'd like, you should seriously consider applying here. We're a team of problem solvers at our core and we have a lot of fun doing so!
Currently you can only deploy to AWS and GCP, but we do intend to extend support to on-prem/dedicated servers in due course (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992237). Until now we’ve been focussing completely on building a scalable, reliable product by standing on the shoulders of these cloud providers where we can take advantage of services like S3, RDS, and elastic compute.

We've done a deep dive into the cost model for metrics and posted more about it here: https://opstrace.com/blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back. We are still working on a full cost analysis for logs - I'd be happy to send it to you once we have it (feel free to email me mat@opstrace.com to chat about your use case). Our goal is to be super transparent (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992081) with cost and to have a page on our website that helps someone determine what to expect (probably some sort of calculator with live data). Our UI will also show you exactly what your system is currently costing you with some breakdown for teams or services so you know who/what is driving your monitoring cost.
We're doing user testing on our to-be-released UI now and would love to have people like yourself give us early feedback (since you mentioned the BigQuery interface).
That's not how it's been broken historically. Breakers leveraged operational errors like the enemy reusing the same key for multiple messages or having messages with standard formats.
no. in order VLIW dependent on handwaving compiler magic never works.
Because women have dramatically higher fracture rates due to osteoporosis (and lower bone mineral density in general) [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11063899/], the only known way (outside of some, last I heard, unproven clinical vibration treatments) to get stronger bones is to lift heavy things while having proper nutrition, and about the only occupational exposure you're going to get to lifting heavy things on a regular basis is those industries?

At least as of 2007 those industries (and related industries) were 78% male [https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/06/art2full.pdf]

There is also a similar visible skew in the power lifting, olympic lifting, or weight lifting communities for those into it recreationally.

It used to be we all spent more time lifting heavy things. However, post WW2 that has rapidly declined.

So one way to reduce or reverse this is if we ALL lifted heavy things more often. From a risk reduction perspective, that seems to be especially valuable for women?
Long term studies on ADHD patients do not support this hypothesis.
Depends on the location. Using cigarettes as an analogue... they are really cheap to manufacture, but some places like NYC tax at a rate even greater than 100% (nearly $6/pack flat tax last I checked, which means once you add in margin and vendor costs you are looking at $10+/pack which is brutal for an impoverished pack-a-day addict). So as a result there is a massive bootleg market where cigarettes are smuggled in from low or no-tax areas and sold illicitly.

I'm not super familiar with street prices of drugs, but if politicians tax drugs the way they tax cigarettes and alcohol, it will be burdensome for drug addicts and cause increased theft and bootleg operations that have some (but not all) of the same problems as drug trafficking.
You don’t really have to jump through hoops if you value cash less than hoop jumping time.

iTunes Match is still around:

“iTunes Match gives you access to all of your music on all of your devices, even songs that you've imported from other sources such as CDs.”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

It’s $25 a year, and will cheerfully upgrade crappy .mp3s of dubious origin from the 90s-00s to high bitrate drm-free AAC.

“Matched, uploaded, and purchased tracks reside in iCloud Music Library, Apple's cloud-based music locker. Users can stream or download these tracks from iCloud Music Library to any of their 10 devices as long as their iTunes Match subscription remains active; downloaded tracks will either show up as a 256kbps matched DRM-free AAC file or an AAC-converted file of tracks you uploaded on devices other than the Mac or PC from which tracks were uploaded. If you uploaded music in WAV, ALAC, or AIFF formats, then they will remain in those formats on the Mac or PC from which they were uploaded.”

https://www.imore.com/apple-music-vs-itunes-match-whats-diff...

I moved from home grown to this when it first came out, as for me the $25 a year was worth not maintaining anything.
> but that's no different than other "consoles"

Worth pointing out that Microsoft has opened up their platforms so you can buy a single copy of a game and play on any supported Xbox or Windows PC: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-play-anywhere
The Pinocchio Problem – characteristics of successful systems (2007)
https://youtu.be/NL4lHwjX9pM
Yea, it's kind of a pessimistic take, but is there strong evidence that this won't be just like the flu, where you need to vaccinate every year to keep up? Even with vaccinations and widespread coverage, it's really hard to totally eradicate a viral disease.
Yeah, that's what I thought. So I don't get how it can "outperform" it
Yeah, without diving back into it myself right now, the health effects of caffeine are quite different depending on a single SNP. For fast metabolizers some doses of caffeine above 300mg/day can actually have net positive effects on cardiac health, while the opposite is true for slow metabolizers. I got into a habit of 400mg+ doses per day and the cumulative effect that had on sleep quality alone was a good reason to find an alternative.

I completely agree with your comments about looking for opportunities to use medication to bootstrap into better habits around exercise, mindfulness, and building better systems and habits.
I LOVE orange juice on Wheat Chex. So, I don't think this warning applies to me.
My personal thoughts are that it's a learned behavior; you know that you won't ever remember to check out that link later (like someone without ADHD might), so you open the tab as a defense against forgetting.
Please don't cross into personal attack, even when someone else is misinformed or you feel they are. The cost of a putdown like this is higher than its benefit. Perhaps you don't owe article authors better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

If you know more, that's great, but then please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Robinhood Raises an Additional $2.4B from Investors
According to the article you linked, German natural gas use barely changed between 2008 and 2018. (Chart titled "Import dependency by primary energy source 2008 and 2018 for Germany.")

The 2008-2018 deltas were:

- Natural gas +1

- Oil -15

- Hard coal -17

- Lignite -3

- Nuclear -27

- Renewables +23

Maybe you're saying that Germany could have reduced natural gas use too if they'd invested in nuclear instead of renewables? Possibly, but France started building Flamanville 3 at the end of 2007 and it's not going to enter commercial operation until after 2022 [1]. If Germany had started building new reactors 10 years ago it's possible they would still be waiting for the money invested to generate any new energy, just like France.

[1] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-warns-of-added-c...
Just to chime in here with the love for VLC, it's very rare for me to continually use the same program for years while it gets updates, doesn't lag my computer, and just works.
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We build full stack web, mobile, IoT, physical installations, etc. Our favorite stack is React, React Native, GraphQL, and Rails. We also use a wide range of other tech as needed since we face a pretty diverse set of challenges. Recent and upcoming examples: Flutter, Elixir/Phoenix, .Net, Native iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin.

Working at Blackbird is very different from larger product companies. We operate in very strategic relationships with our clients and partners which gives us all a unique opportunity every few months to deep dive into a new interesting understanding of our client's business and build ground up new apps where everyone is making major and early contributions. It is very satisfying and fun work!

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When Bus and Pizza Hut Drivers Are Paid More Than a Dev Something Is Wrong
Yeah, I was about to say, I've had mango salsa ceviche that was pretty killer. Strawberry isn't a leap.
I don't think anything could have survived the rise of X86. Most x86 chips were 32 bit at the time and you need Alpha/Sparc/PA-Risc, or some fancy custom chips to work in 64 bit.

I wonder if the AMD/Intel competetion pushed x86 to get as fast as it got surpassing all those custom chips?

HP was involved in Itanium and was discontinuing there own chip lines. We were talking about moving to it, for the "superdome" line of machines. I was working with PA-RISC at the time, and it seemed like this was the next chip. But it wasn't compatible with PA-RISC but had an x86 compatibility mode..

It was a weird chip, and required really good compilers. I thought it was long dead. It was interesting though..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518758
I think it's important to point out (if only for end-users) that Solid puts your data "under your control" in the "allows you to authorize third party access to your data" – not in the "can actually control your data in practice, post-access".

It'll let you granularly authorize first party access what data you have in your pod, but there can’t be any technical guarantees with regards to illegitimate sharing or otherwise copying (many might at least cache, for instance) – nor about what is collected and shared outside this system. It's own documentation even states this, if you dig a little.

I keep seeing data-hubs and identity-providers touting themselves as solutions to the web's privacy issues, but I don't see how they actually solve anything.
It seems like an attempted technical solution to a social problem to me.

The real problem with data how data is used these days is really that a bunch of data is collected opaquely, unethically, and in some cases illegally – and possibly shared. The whole system including data brokers and real time bidding is out of control.
I'm glad you like it!

Hehe, there's no telemetry at all. It just points to the same docs' favicon (that is not even measured). Just to make a simple and easy to recognize UX. The same way JS and CSS for Swagger and ReDoc come from a JS CDN instead of forcing developers to figure out a way to serve those static assets.

But anyway, if you want to remove the favicon from Swagger UI, it's also in the docs: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/extending-openapi/#sel...
A close relative is caught up in this because the state had them file for unemployment last year to recoup some furlough days or something. Fortunately(?) they already had their identity stolen in a different big hack. Fun times.

The Employment Security Department has basically been on fire for the past year with the fraud, delayed payments, and then demanding return of some payments. The woman leading the department was a big donor to the campaign of the current governor. However she's finally facing accountability for her departments failure, by being chosen to lead a Federal Sub-Agency, focused on state unemployment benefits[0].

I wish I was joking.

[0] - https://mynorthwest.com/2521710/suzi-levine-unemployment-exp...