skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the app is free and so you can rate it without paying anything. The In App Purchase to make the app usable is 400$/year.
Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?
The most recent and complete book on Distributed Systems that I'm aware of is Design Data Intensive Application (2017). I'm currently reading it. I also want to learn about other problems and ideas:

- Ideas that stood the test of times

- Ideas that were not feasible but now possible thanks to hardware improvement.

So, what's your recommendations for books and papers on these topics?
UI/UX Designer looking for contract roles in Europe/Australia
Hi! I am Manasi Shetye.

I am a User Experience Designer & an Illustrator based in Ireland. I have more than 6 years of experience working in design industry.

My skills include User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Conceptual Illustrations, Advertising and Print Media.
Obviously take this with a pinch of salt, but it's the first piece of writing I've seen achieve a 'post-graduate' readability rating on Hemingway.
For 30% of all revenues, why should anyone give a flying damn about poor Apple having to do its homework?
Z-Index by Examples
Ah no thats more for AWS spot instances I think. In Google, preemtible rates are constant, which makes it way more deterministic
Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
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> At that level people wont know what you wear and wont care.

A friend of mine got a watch for his birthday (or Christmas I don't remember), he showed it to me and I told him: "Oh nice, it has a transparent back to display the 'automatic' mechanism, just like my $60 swatch from the 80s"

Turns out his watch costs more than $4k... You're so right, unless you're in a social circle who knows as much as you do about watches, you can have a $30 copy or a $30k original, it doesn't really matter, all people will see is "a nice watch"
Turbo button. Changes everything.
So, in your opinion, the world would be better off today if textiles were still manufactured by hand, by highly skilled artisans? I’m not necessarily a fan of Forever 21 throwaway fast fashion, but I like being able to buy a shirt without it costing me more than an hour of labor.
M-PESA fraud using USSD on the rise
And yet hedge funds still tend to underperform the market. Warren Buffett once bet that over a 10 year period, the S&P 500 would outperform a portfolio of hedge funds (https://longbets.org/362/). He won that bet.
Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords
Both look like they "create shares" but the consequences are different. Don't you agree?

Would you rather be the Carol who bought the XYZ stock that Alice lent to Bob or the other one?

Proper-shorting-scenario Carol owns a perfectly good XYZ share.

What does naked-shorting-scenario Carol have?
What would you consider a reasonable frequency?
So... you're in favour of the current military coup?
That is interesting but it looks pretty biased. Any other sources?
Ask HN: Elon Musk speaks of DOGE regularly, can it be used for payments?
Elon Musk has been mentioning DOE COIN regularly lately, apart from it being a joke, can it really be used for payments? Does it have any advantages? Disadvantages?
And how would they know it's one or the other party that violated the terms?

"Because our app was posted first" is not enough.
The military always had real control. The coup is over them feeling they didn't have as much as they wanted
Are you sure? According to arch docs, it should be openGL 4.3 or 4.5 when using mesa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin... (if I'm not mistaken the GPU architecture is TeraScale 2)
If you like the idea of having bare-bones text-only web then you will see how everybody and their granny have a feature that they won't get onboard until it is implemented. Then at that point we will have HTML again.
>Some people want to create great, useful apps. That's what they want to do. They are willing to give away half of their earnings to different 3rd parties to just not deal with the bullshit. It's unlikely to be their full time job. They probably don't make that much money on it, cloning happens just when the app begins to make any reasonable profit.
So dealing with all your described is just not practical.

Well, sucks to be them, then, since that's the reality.
> Buying a mechanical watch is utterly irrational, if you subtract the status, scarcity, and design components.

Yes, buying something is irrational if you "subtract" all the reasons people buy it, but I don't think your conception of those reasons is accurate. I like my mechanical watch for many reasons that have nothing to do with status and scarcity.

It looks good and I appreciate the quality of workmanship. I find the mechanism's complexity and delicacy beautiful. I like that it has a glass back and I can watch it work. I like that it is entirely powered by my own body's motion, and I never have to charge it or change its batteries. I find its ability to keep time through purely mechanical rather than digital processes fascinating, and a useful balance to a life that would otherwise be dominated by ones and zeroes. I find the history of the watchmaker and watchmaking interesting, and like that I wear an item that is part of a centuries-long story. I like that, if maintained well, my watch will work when I am 80 years old and I can give it to my son—something that cannot be said of an Apple Watch. I like that it doesn't have notifications and doesn't track me: it only provides useful information to me and not to the company that made it.

It is less accurate than a quartz watch, but I neither need nor want atomic precision from a watch. You conflate "rational" with "utilitarian" or "practical" but they aren't the same thing at all. Even if people bought mechanical watches solely for the status and looks, that would not be "utterly irrational" because those are values of importance to them.
Maybe this is linked to the language [1]:

"Ao (hiragana あお; kanji 青; adjective form aoi (青い). is a Japanese color word that includes what English-speakers would call blue and green. For example, in Japan, blue skies are described as aozora (青空), and green traffic lights are described as ao-shingō (青信号)."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color)
Court orders aren't much of a barrier, especially when many judges effectively rubber stamp police requests.
You can absolutely sell 5 bananas 500 times.

You can't have 500 net buys (i.e. someone is 'long 500 bananas', or 500 people 'long' 1, etc.), but sales, fine!
Posting this throwaway because I don’t want my residency canceled. That should give you a hint that I might know way more than the armchair experts.

Any article that talks about Myanmar and doesn’t include the word “China” all over it, is probably propaganda of some sort. I won’t go more into this and I will allow people to do their homework and make up their own minds about the good and the bad of all of it, but Myanmar is perhaps the first country the modern-West has totally lost from the grasp of its sphere of influence.

Sanctions won’t work. They will just punish businesses that were stupid enough to work with Americans and Europeans. At the end of the day, Myanmar is going to come out of this period looking more like China than like the British colony it was before — guess what that’s meant to prepare us for, in terms of the way the world looks by the end of this century?

The military couldn’t have done any of this without China’s permission. This is a giant fuck-you to the West, and it’ll work, because the West has zero leverage. Also, every Western ambassador and diplomat ran away like a scared child at the beginning of coronavirus, so they’re not even in the country to state their case. Guess who IS around?

PS: If you work for Facebook please tell your deranged CEO to leave the mini State Department he’s set up in Menlo Park to sit down and stay out of this one. They’ve done nothing but cause Myanmar to endure more violence and instability than was ever necessary, and made a GREAT case for the country to embrace China’s Great Firewall.
The Changing Landscape of Lego Part Colors
Well, they can always take their business elsewhere, where the grass is greener. But they came to the App Store because it's a dozens of billions of dollars a year market...
Tangentially related, in Amsterdam a few years back they were digging into a spot in the central city for a new metro station. They made a display of all the archaeological artefacts that they found, which you can see along the escalators.

It goes from 124,000BC (ok, seashells) to the 1300s (old pottery, cooking utensils), to 2005 (flippo disks, ID cards, probably some still functioning Nokia phones.) You can browse it here: https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en
Try Amsterdam, for example. €1000 is your rent.
Thanks!

I was about to play Outer Wilds but their recommendation to go with a controller made me postpone it. I just realized I can use my NVIDIA Shield for streaming it though so I'll do that.

Will check out Braid as well, somehow missed that.
So a trully free market (aside from the exceptions you've mentioned), without IP or copyright!

The dream of any free-market economist as the best for the customers!
Apple just had a blowout quarter, thanks to iPhone 12 sales
Though arguably, naked short selling should be allowed as well. (With certain safe guards and sufficient margin requirements.)

After all, we allow something similar to naked short selling when people write options or trade futures. And those markets work just fine.
The GeForce experience requires an account but you can download the drivers without it. Still obnoxious and clearly confusing to the end user.
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That makes sense although I still have an info@ email that collects my catch-all that is not my main, so while I agree it would be preferable to customise from address, at least I still retain a signal that it isn't personal email.
The underlying data source is just a YouTube video, so to remove head bobbing, you'd have to apply visual processing algorithms for that (that boil down to computing the most likely global pixel shift frame-by-frame, and shifting the whole video horizontally&vertically to compensate).
concurrency is excellent in OCaml (Lwt, async, ....) it's just paralllelism that's a problem. multi core ocaml will eventually fix that.
Yes, so? It's still a 100 billion market they've built, for devices, OSes, and SDKs they build.

And it still has better paying customers than the Play store, and 1/50+ less malware (according to stats), so more customer trust.

Is it perfect? No.
You should know that this is a religious topic like vim vs emacs, but worse: vim and emacs users don't feel that the other side is a threat to allowing them to continue using the software they prefer.
Of course I have blinders on. Of course it isn't for 98% of people.

1. I did say it was usable, I am pretty sure most people could use it, although it wouldn't be a great pleasure (an personally I loathe these "addictive" mobile interfaces). One could get real work done with it.

2. I did say there was a gui for this. You don't have to type that if you don't want to. There are multiple gui front-ends with categories, descriptions, screenshots, ratings, etc. Courtesy of appstream metadata and packagekit, that both abstract away platform-specific package manager subtleties and provide "modern" store metadata.

3. This way a contrived example, there are simpler tools if all you want is record & play back.

4. "fun" is very subjective, that was part of my point.

Oh, and while we're on it, most distribution repositories are in fact walled gardens with a curated software selection (the audacity example above is part of it). That doesn't prevent you from sideloading whatever you want.
Some fractional reserve banking systems do.

Historically, systems without lender of last resort have done quite well. See eg the Canadian system of the 19th century, with no lender of last resort, and that often ended up as an emergency lender to the mis-regulated and crisis-prone American system to the south.
Building cross-platform CLIs on .NET Core
ProtonMail does client side encryption/decryption so there is no way to offer vanilla IMAP endpoints without some sort of client side decryption. This is what ProtonMail Bridge does. Although I'd admit it's not always the most stable experience, depending on your mail client.
>This gets users away from WSIWYG without forcing them to learn something as complex as HTML.

To be fair, though, tons of non-technical users were able to handle HTML in the old days. It's not that complicated.
I imagine that the respective user wouldn't want to see the number of background processes for all the other modern OSes, in this case :-)
Well, there's still this: https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security.... (2019)

50 times LESS likely to be infected with malware sounds like good walled-garden gatekeeping to me, even if it's not perfect...
(Speaking as a free member)
Pretty reliable generally, meets almost all my expectations as a non intrusive mailing service. Surprised that it crashed, but gotta cut them some slack.
I've experienced some serious bugs on ProtonMail, one of them being that a saved draft from the desktop web app subsequently sent from the iOS app doesn't show up in the sent mails.

I've since switched to Tutanota which I'm very happy with and is in some ways more secure. It doesn't support third-party clients for security reasons but theirs is open source.

And to top it off, it's significantly cheaper...
In The Future (a short song about jetpacks) [video]
> until the money runs dry.

And once a year as the government decides its budget you get to chew your nails as you wait to see if the money is in the next budget.
You know that a put and a call combine to make a synthetic stock? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put%E2%80%93call_parity

(If you write a put and a call for the same strike, you are basically in the same position as a short seller. If you buy a put and a call for the same strike, you are economically in the same position as an owner of the stock.)

Hence, you can't separate options from stocks.
You can still manually download them here, without an account: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

My guess is the huge file size is due to the GeForce
Experience tool that's included. It would be much better if it was a separate download, but you can choose not to install it during the setup process.
Meme Investing
ProtonMail has been rock solid for me for several years now. I might have just gotten "lucky", but Gmail has been down more often for me than PM.

While I do look forward to their calendar solution, it's by no means a deal breaker. I've seen too many products driven into the sand by feature bloat. I use PM for email, that's all it needs to do, and it does that very well IMO.
This claim about coup results is disputed.
Fun! Nice work. I did the US one until I got a repeat. Transit and license plates were the best context clues. Weather, foliage, and architecture helped a bit, as did some business names.
These were quite eery the first time I heard them. I was listening to an episode of Conan O'Brien's podcast from early 2019 and in the middle was an ad (read by Conan) for enjoying Miller lite at home during the covid quarantine.

I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell had just happened until I found a page promoting Spotify's dynamic ad insertion for podcasts.
> only if you are involved in a situation

Isn't the whole point of a dashcam to pre-emtively record all the time in case a situation happens? Otherwise I would just use my phone after the fact if I am still able to after an accident.
Yes, it indeed a good argument against most regulations.

However, this argument does not apply to regulations that lower barriers to entry, because low barriers to market entry are exactly what enables competition.

(Most regulations, alas, raise barriers to entry. Even if that's not their intended purpose.)
Seconded. The last week has been actually quite unsettling and completely changed my perception of HN.
Just looking at the numbers here, this could just be a case of a sign getting flipped somewhere along the way.

Global Links intends to do a reverse split, replacing 350 old shares (worth 10¢ each) with one new share (worth about $35). For the sake of argument, let's say they mixed up the ratio in their split filing. Instead of doing a reverse split, they do a forward split, replacing each share of old stock (10¢) with 350 shares of new stock (about one third of a cent, each). The shares trade at a somewhat high volume, because each share is worth a fraction of a cent.

Simpson notices that, after a 350:1 reverse split, Global Links ought to have about 1M shares outstanding.¹ He also notices that the current trading price is a fraction of a cent. Small enough to make this a worthwhile experiment. He acquires about 1.2M shares without moving the price too much. He also doesn't question how this was possible to happen within a day or two.

After the split, Global Links has some 100B shares outstanding. Simpson's position of 1.2M is less than one percent of that, so the shares continue trading as before.

¹ He might be combining multiple sources of information here. Perhaps his brokerage doesn't show reference data, so he combines the price he sees in his brokerage's app with reference data from Yahoo!finance or something.
Ah, of course. Clerical mistake on my part
> A record buffer that overwrites itself is ok though.

That makes sense now.
This looks great. I’m interested in your approach to databases and specifically the data in staging environments?

I’ve found setting up the data in databases for staging environments can take as much time as CI, and often works in quite a different way. Shared databases can work, but then may limit staging changes that include migrations.
Then you switch.

Same, what happens when your Matrix instance stops being benevolent? You switch.
No matter how many times it gets repeated in the thread it is still nonsense made up by the stock market. Exchange "Share" with "Burger" and see how many Burgers you can create from thin air. If you end up with more than one you should start a McDonald's competitor!

If you can't it is because you are making mental gymnastics as soon as the word is some magical word Wall Street made up. Sure it is correct that you can but it shouldn't be and can't be fixed fast enough.

But thank you to everyone who gave me GME money with their mental gymnastics <3
Companies are allowed to issue non-fungible shares.

Eg it's common in some tech companies to give the founders super-voting stock that reverts to normal stock on sale.
> like Hackers-inspired visions of computer people as living Mondo 2000 articles.

Upvote just for this line of poetry. Mondo 2000, haven’t heard that name in decades.
Sure, we used Elm as well. But it sometimes helps in getting buy-in that MS is behind F# to some degree.
So you shouldn't trust the new york times or other major websites that have served malicious javascript?

That advice didn't work in the 90s let alone nowadays
When person A lends their share to person B, they no longer own a share, they own the right to receive a share from person B sometime in the future, interest payments on the lending, and collateral to ensure the borrower can make good on their obligations.

This website seems to mainly be talking about naked short selling, which is selling a stock without first owning or borrowing it. This not necessarily illegal, although can be under some conditions, including aggressive short selling. Wikipedia has a fair amount of info on the practice, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling

The practice of a selling a share that one does not own is supposed to be used by market neutral market makers to ensure their is always liquidity. They must then at some point in the future buy a share from the market to replace the phantom (i.e., counterfeit) share that they sold.

This practice is useful when there are suddenly more buyers than sellers and the market maker exhausts their standard supply of shares. Otherwise there may not be any bids on the stock at any price for sometime. Other argue that this is no longer necessary with many participants beyond market makers that also employ algo trading and can quickly adjust to increasing demand. Further, if lack of supply becomes a regular occurrence, investors may start regularly setting high, possibly even ridiculously high, standing sell limit orders such that there will always be bids at some price points.
> Myanmar is perhaps the first country the modern-West has totally lost from the grasp of its sphere of influence.

Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. It can be factual, at least. But in case China is supporting the military overthrow of foreign governments over the world, then "the West" has zero moral ground to criticize, as we've been doing exactly that since, well, forever.
Personalisation the Future of Ecommerce
It's still experimental for USB drives, worked well with a Samsung T7 for me.

You'll need to explicitly bless the volume beforehand to boot from an install that was made on another Mac though.
Nunuk Nuraini, the woman behind Indomie’s iconic flavors, dies at 59
> Sanctions won’t work. They will just punish businesses that were stupid enough to work with Americans and Europeans.

> This is a giant fuck-you to the West, and it’ll work, because the West has zero leverage.

They won't work to fix Myanmar, but at some point the West has to ask itself if trade with China is worth it, for the future of both the West and all other countries that are not already in the grasp of China.

My opinion is that anyone who have political representation in the west (i.e. congressional representative, member of parliment, etc) should be calling and writing to them and demanding that they sanction China to the fullest extent.

I think there are plenty of reasons to sanction China, and maybe your political representatives won't actually push for sanctioning China as such a move would be rather impractical now, but they need to understand that the people they represent are not okay with what is happening so that, at the very least, they start pushing back and stop making new deals with China like the EU-China deal that Germany rammed through on it's neo-empire[1].

If the West does not take action on China soon it will be too late, if it is not already too late, and it is pathetic that Germany, a country that should know what "never again" means more than any other country, can't find a backbone and stand up against a genocidal tyrannical state like China. Germany should be ashamed of itself.

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-drive-for-eu-china-...
Each loan is also a deposit. Each debit is also a credit.

Similar, each short seller not only adds a _virtual_ share to the market, but also has an obligation to later on buy a share back.
That is pretty nice for testing, since it removes the need for depency injection, or am i mistaken?
Use Lightning network. It’s virtually zero fee and lightning fast.
Only if you need to raise money in order to survive. Which most companies don't.
I wonder if there is public accessibly list (or registry if this is more correct term for it) where everybody can check the involved parties of short selling (of Gamestop).
There is https://fintel.io/ss/us/gme or https://www.marketbeat.com/short-interest/ - but a I mean a more (and free) total overview for stocks traded on NYSE for example.
So far I was not able an URL for it.

For all EU-countries there is an official list here: https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/library/ssr_w... (and most of the links work ;- )

Is there something similar for NYSE?
It's about the potential for abuse. The police can use it as an excuse to charge or arrest you when they don't have anything else on you.

Most of the places with really bad traffic situation (e.g. India) already have cameras and infinite footage of violations, and they don't have any impact on law enforcement.