skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money goes to whoever holds the real share.

A loans a share to B. Now A owns an iou, which doesn't have any voting rights. B agrees to pay A an amount of money equal to a dividend payment if a dividend is paid by the company.

B goes short by selling the share to C.

C owns a share of stock.

When the company pays dividends, C is paid and B pays A.
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HN has been a huge part of my experience bootstrapping my business. I've learned a great deal from articles and discussions here, and I've received tremendous support and advice when I share updates about my projects. I hope you enjoy this summary of my third year.
This might be "old man shaking fist at clouds", but was crapware this bad before centralized app stores? I know it was out there - most famously stuffed into SourceForge downloads - but it didn't seem to be as prevalent. Though perhaps it's more a reflection of increased ROI from doing things like this in 2021 vs 2001.
Yes, you likely could threaten Apple with a lawyer.
But based on your comment you likely have never dealt with a lawsuit, especially involving several jurisdictions. And trust me, the lawyer want the same thing as the scammer. Your money!
No his point is to stop playing games anyone can play (including the console maker who has a tremendous incentive to be the best at the game), and build a business with a sustainable competitive advantage.

I’ve built an entire business around OS enhancements before, it’s like picking up nickels before a steamroller.
I re-watched The Emperor's New Groove with my kids a year or two back. Still a great film as an adult.
> not really that difficult to handle.

Sure, you can write a contract detailing all the possibilities. Maybe even get those derivatives listed.

But you could be doing that already!

I'm not sure what are you proposing that should replace "the current system".

Do you suggest that when you buy a share of J&J or whatever, and pay the price of a share of J&J, you may find later that what you got is a derivative product issued by "I can't believe it's not stock! Ltd"?
Nope. It's a social club. Always has been.
WhatsApp has this.

Google Location Sharing does this, and i can access it from inside the SMS app:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7326816?co=GENIE.Plat...
What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?
Really feel you're on the wrong side of this one. It's not the same at all in my book. Especially if, as the author of the blog claims, it will never be able to be changed.
Congratulations on your solo success. $2K in monthly revenue is great (so far)!

Developer question: Is Swift UI mature enough at this point? Where do you feel it needs improvement when it comes to developer experience?
Nothing. If you accept only workable specific subset of Unicode and validate input, you can get the point back. Using utf-8 encoding for text is almost always the right ting to do, treating it as generic Unicode string is usually wrong.

Unicode is as complex as UTF-8 encoding is simple an neat.

Joel Spolsky studied Unicode and was so sure that he understood it that he wrote a short intro for programmers without knowing that code points in Unicode don't correspond to "platonic ideal letters" aka user perceived characters. They correspond only in every case he used them (user-perceived character may actually be a sequence of code points).
And how long does that legal process take compared to the time it takes for the spammer to set up a new legal entity, app, and App Store account?
Each tool has its upsides and downsides. There's no one to rule them all. For me setup with Postman and k6 works good enough. Still not perfect but good enough.

For real load tests you should replicate real traffic with something like wrk.
I wonder if Facebook will be able to find a way to collect not exactly same amount of data but most of the data it captures atm. Ok, if you like to access to uniq identifier that's going to trigger a confirmation modal but as we all know Facebook doesn't necessarily need to capture all the data from the mobile phone directly with their SDK.

Especially, if the user is logged in app owner can send data to their backend and send it to Facebook from there. Like many of those marketing / analytics companies ask you to do.

For the long term tracking, the app owners can still generate uniq identifier and store on device storage, can't they? I guess the only functionality Facebook or any ad network would lose will be cross-app tracking. But I'm not sure how important is that.

The initial reaction Facebook gave to this was too aggressive and Apple will push back for sure with their own way. We all have bloody cookie confirmation on all websites and people mostly just click ok. Isn't that gonna be the same for the apps? In iOS14 modal asking you for confirmation, is it gonna say "Facebook wants to access idfa?" or "X application wants to access idfa?"
Since the conversation started about students needing 2k Euros to live, the 2k we're talking about is net or after taxes.

I know Norway has high wages and prices but I can't imagine new-grads there making 4k after taxes.
Watched this with the family on Saturday after reading the piece in Vulture. I honestly was expecting a trainwreck of a film, but really enjoyed it.

The key take a away from the Vulture article for me was the Fulmer quote: "I met a very nice woman on a plane once coming back from New York, where we’d recorded Sting. She was like, “Oh, you work at Disney. What are you doing?” Blah, blah, blah. “Oh, my. So, what the movie’s about.” I feel like I talked until we got to Los Angeles, trying to explain it all. And I realized, Okay, this is not good. There’s too much here."

I think that applies to any product. If you can't tell the story in a concise manner, nobody is going to be interested.
This is a very good list. Adrian's blog is, particularly, a treasure.

I wrote this post a while ago, aiming to answer a similar question about finding paper: http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/05/25/reading.html One key point there is that there are, in my mind, multiple 'modes' of reading, and I like to use different approaches to finding material for different modes. Those blogs you list are great for curiosity mode. Another great resource there is Twitter: following distributed systems practitioners and researchers, and seeing what they tweet about. When I read a (recent) paper I really like, I often see if the authors are active on Twitter and follow them there if they are.

It's also important not to weight too much on recency. A lot of the canon is actually more approachable than newer papers. For example, Lamport's classic "Time, Clocks" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-cl...) and distributed snapshot (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/distrib...) papers, and Gilbert and Lynch's CAP paper (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.67....) are approachable without deep background or systems knowledge. Similarly, John Little's "
A Proof for the Queuing Formula: L = λW" (https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.9.3.383) is quite approachable if you have a math background but no systems knowledge, and is one of the foundational results behind the practice of building stable systems.

I've got some longer-form dives into researcher's work here: http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/03/30/lamport-pub.html http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/09/21/liskov-pub.html
http://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/05/10/lynch-pub.html

Finally, books. There are a couple recommendations for Martin Kleppman's Designing Data-Intensive Applications book, which I like a whole lot. Alex Petrov's "Database Internals" is also a very approachable introduction. I wish every practitioner in the field would read Harchol-Balter's Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems.
That's also a key reason why market cap is relatively meaningless outside of the actual stock market. E.g. TSLA has a giant market cap for an automaker, but that has no real operational impact and has essentially no relation to their behavior and performance in their market.
> a matter of justice

Ooof. This kind of wording makes me flinch away.
Though the nuance is Slack did know how to handle it, AWS didn't.
I have the opposite experience. AMD is effectively unusable for AI. As much as I'd like to switch, I need those NVIDIA drivers because CUDA is the only thing that works reliably. So it's AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU + Ubuntu sigh
Depends on the city and the student. E.g. Munich is known to be quite expensive. 2000 Euro would probably still be comfortable there, but 1000 Euro would probably require quite some frugality.

At my alma mater (SW Germany) you could live on 450 Euro with the same frugality. OTOH a friend (living in the same dorm!) burned through 2500 Euro a month, that's until his parents started to expect some progress after a few years.
This problem was so bad that a lot of places installed blue lighting to make it difficult to see veins to use for injections.

So the story goes.
I guarantee Apple automatically refunds users when they ban a scam app.

Any iOS user can get a refund from the App Store, they just have to ask, and the process is pretty much automated.

Unfortunately few know this. I had a template email for unhappy customers that would walk them through it.
Why figure stuff out, when you can just force others to do it for you?
In the same way that Objective-C is just C++ for Macs. They share a common lineage, but do so many things so differently that you really can't consider them to be all that similar. And the difference starts with having completely different object systems.

Beyond different OOP mechanisms, some things OCaml has that F# doesn't:

- Functors
- Polymorphic variants
- camlp4

And some things F# has that OCaml doesn't:

- Computation expressions
- Type providers
- Quotations (as a built-in)
- Units of measure
- Active patterns
Joe Armstrong's (co-creator of Erlang) Dissertation is incredible.

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors

https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Comes from the short-sellers. If I lend a share to you, you owe me a share and all the dividends that I would be receiving.
Much better!
This is in C and Python and under AGPL.
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You can also boot the pi 4 via kind-of-special-sauce PXE. I wish they had just adopted standard PXE (why do we need a magic string? What the hell is going on with the three spaces in that magic string... Why can't we use the standard PXE way to specify the file to load?), but it's better than nothing. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

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If the scammers are going to the effort to create apps that can actually pass review, why not just sell those apps unaltered?
I think the novel thing is that this is doing it dynamically, which bypasses the static analysis and makes it applicable to situations where static analysis wouldn't be useful.
That is a well known issue, also what prevented F# to be properly used in .NET Native.

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/5780#issuecomment-40...
You really expect her to die on a hill that can’t be held? What’s the point of that? Publicly shaming the military isn’t a way for her to achieve anything. She is a prisoner of the people responsible for the war crimes in Rakhine state. She doesn’t need to condemn anything. Everyone in Burma already knows who is responsible. It would achieve absolutely nothing.

And Desmond Tutu’s letter is patronizing and ridiculous. She has no power over the Rakhine situation. None. The only power she had was negotiating with the military. She doesn’t need to be told that people don’t deserve to be victims of war and ethnic strife.

We stand with Aung San Suu Kyi until the end.
And yet this AI company can be undone by a single good salesman who's friends with someone in Purchasing.
Imagine the outrage if your ISP told you the fee was going up to pay for Murdoch's propaganda machine.
I am surprised no one has recommended Leslie Lamports writtings [0].

His paper, "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" is still considered a serious read after 40 years.

[0]:https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html
Well Slack depended on the Cloud(tm).

It is a interesting though because a lot of the blog posts like "How we handled a 3000% traffic increase overnight!" boil down to "We turned up the AWS knob".

What happens when the AWS knob doesn't work?
Royals have been a favourite topic in the news since long before search engines existed.

The algo is just picking up on the same trends tabloids did. Tons of people want to read that stuff.
Robinhood is just one part of stock retail demand, and overall a tiny one. And institutional demand is huge, I guarantee you there were Hedge funds buying GME hoping to provoke margin calls for the shorts too.

There is no monolithic blocks here. The conspiracy crap is doo doo.
I find the marketing for the platform to be inadequate at best. It’s very much “stream all these games” - not as much on the side of “buy this game to stream it now”.
I don't necessarily think it should change, but I think the fee free trades remove a pretty heavy barrier to this kind of manipulation.
"reducing e-waist" - certainly, their products get thinner every year.
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> All of this could've been avoided under different leadership.

What do you mean? The war in Iraq has outlasted 3 US presidents, so clearly "different leadership" just doesn't work in practice.

IMO the US should completely change the modus operandi. "Invade & install new regime & call it democratic & steal oil" just isn't a good proposition for the local population. Unless the US can improve the proposition (to match China's "we give you lots of money and improve your quality of life") foreign military interventions just won't work.
I personally see no reason to believe the next generation isn’t going to suffer from similar supply issues. As I understand it there just isn’t extra bandwidth at the manufacturers, it’s less that AMD and Nvidia underestimated demand and more that they couldn’t have gotten more throughout at a reasonable price point. Presumably at some point more factories will start up to close the gap, but (again as I understand it) between COVID slowdown and how difficult modern computer manufacturing is extra throughput could be a few years off.
That's actually not how it works. "Holding" a share doesn't, by definition, do anything to its price. The price is determined by trades. That's what a trade is. You can be sitting on 99% of a company, but as long as that 1% of shares is active in a market it will determine what gets reported as the share price.

And yes, someone with infinite resources can absolutely push a share price down. Borrow every share you can and sell it at $1, for example. Obviously no one does this because it's a terrible investment decision, but it's certainly possible.
I believe the U.N? had to update their guidance for this reason. Iirc, the max allowed brightness was either calculated incorrectly, or was just set too high.
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No, I agree, it should be more difficult!
C# also keeps copying Java stuff to this day like default interface methods.

In fact, having had spent most of my focus across Java, .NET and C++ since their early days, it is quite interesting to follow how certain features keep being copied across them.
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What is not clear to you? You logged into the app and were not able to purchase shares of GME, plain and simple, you could only sell.
This seems really cool, but can someone who knows both Lean and Haskell (the former is probably just a subset of the latter, lol) explain how this is materially different from a Haskell implementation of the same algorithm? I don't know where to look for the cool dependently-typed parts.
>> in mountainous terrain

In mountainous terrain with few trees. Drones, and air power generally, become less effective over a dense canopy. The dry bare mountains of Afghanistan was a paradise for drones. Southeast Asia's jungles and river networks won't be.
Surrogate escaping / UTF-8b is kinda genius. Unicode has two reserved ranges of 256 values each ("surrogates") reserved for the UTF-16 encoding, which are used there for encoding stuff outside the BMP. Surrogate escaping realizes that 1) These never appear in valid UTF-8, because UTF-8 is a variable-length integer, and doesn't need surrogates 2) So you can use them to pass-through binary data in UTF-8.
I still don't see what this has to do with the point above, which is that a promoted tweet from CNBC for one of their segments is clearly not a paid advertisement by the guest in the segment.
You said Western countries have no moral high ground because they invaded other countries. Western countries (US, U.K., etc) invaded Nazi Germany. So by your argument they shouldn’t have done that? You can never invade another country and still have the moral high ground?
It’s gonna go fine in front of a judge. They will say look at our terms of service, what we did is explicitly allowed. The judge will immediately rule for them and no public interviews of the CEO/Founders will ever be an issue.

Not only is what they said vague, but they had a very clear responsibility not to provoke a run on the bank.
I bought DOGE because it’s uncapped. I believe that the crypto market is just taking bets on a financial war. The only currency that will have any value is the one that supports the most productive economy. The most productive economy will be the one that offers the best chance for new entrants to build long-term wealth. This is a balance. There must be new supply available for low-capital work. There must also be price stability for capital investment. Mining is not perfect, but it works. It has tight margins and a huge downstream economy such as semiconductor fabs, and hydroelectric dams. The new supply is the core of value creation activity. Without that, decentralized crypto will never have its own economy; it will only exist as a collectible to be traded for goods produced in the fiat economy.
I meant, improved proportionally.
Horse hockey. They'll still do the same thing, there'll just be larger networks of individuals who activate a SIM and then swap it with someone else. The terrorist excuse is no excuse at all. It's just a pragmatist's paving stone on the path to hell and tyranny.
It's not illegal to create an app that does the same thing as another app. Method of operation is explicitly not protected by copyright. Copying your icons and text could very well be illegal.

Still, threatening legal action against the people they plagiarized? The audacity of this chinese...
What do you find problematic about app installation on Linux? The poster you replied to was talking about mixing packages from different distros, not about installing apps in general.

Installing packages on your distro is very easy, either via a simple command like `apt install <package>` or via a graphical appstore-like interface to the same thing. All major distro package managers are very mature and reliable.

Distributing software through those repos as a developer is not very easy, but it's not required either. If you want to distribute your app to all Linux distros without worrying about compatibility, and without requiring your customers to use the command line, you can use something like [App Image](https://appimage.org/), which is basically the same concept as [App Bundles](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...) on Macs.

There are also a lot of (less good) alternatives to App Images, like [Flatpack](https://flatpak.org/) and [Snap](https://snapcraft.io/).

If you want something fancier, you could go with something like [Guix](https://guix.gnu.org/) or [Nix](https://nixos.org/explore.html) if your customers are developers or otherwise technical.

If you want to get less fancy, you could distribute your binaries with an install script that detects the current distro/version and downloads dependencies using the installed package manager.

And if you're a user who just wants to download stuff on their computer, you just need to follow the instructions from the provider. It usually involves one of the methods above.
It's even more surreal that not just Bloomberg, but pretty much every major media outlet is pumping the "/r/wallstreetbets are changing targets to silver" narrative in perfect unison. There's definitely something fishy going on here.
All Greek immigrants have spoken Greenglish for decades. Sentences were usually a mix of Greek and English in my youth. This forced me to be right brained and assign meaning to words through imagery. I still visualize a lot and in fact it continues to hobble me in certain areas of physics (quantum) where mechanistic thinking and visual models are not sufficiently descriptive.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about ancient Greeks is that they used letters to represent digits. I still cannot wrap my brain around the fact that a word like 'spiti' could have a linguistic as well as numerical interpretation that every ancient Greek would know.

Today, all computation with language uses unicode to represent letters. I tried once to make an ancient Greek number to arabic number(the numbers used in English today) converter but failed miserably.

Claude Shannon actually made a calculator that used Roman numerals.
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>My prediction is we won't see much of them until 2024

Indeed. A Google Trends search of "black lives matter" shows a clear spike in 2016, then flat until 2020.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Spotted this on the recent Smarter Everyday episode "HOW TO LAND ON THE MOON" [1]. This is a collection of material from the Apollo missions, organized in a pretty cool user interface.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXk4RKZhaY
Their F# projects under github.com/jet are still active at least. The main contributor/s appear to just have 'Walmart Labs' in their profile now.
You're going to have to fill in some of the blanks explaining how paying someone to deliver a share 2 days from now is fraud but paying someone to deliver coffee 6 months from now isn't.

How about if you sell a share that you bought within the last two days. I mean, your buy trade hasn't settled yet so you technically don't own it yet. Is that fraud?
Very nice. How do i sort the results by number of comments, date, etc?
Apparently it is used a lot in electronics

https://geology.com/articles/uses-of-silver/
Dark pools have deceptive marketing imo: to investors they advertise how no HFT ppl will be around to eat you alive while simultaneously giving a totally different presentation describing all the benefits of the dark pool to the HFT firms.
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You know that widely acknowledged problem that a large part of current economic theory is completely divorced from the systems it is studying? This would be one of those parts.

The real world is not a special case.
> in an enclosure of chrome steel uprights, mounted on a wooden base, with a handle at each end

That sounds so much better than “built on an upturned coffee table” ;-)

But I jest - it’s very cool. I love the physicality - makes it feel much more real than 3D graphs represented on a screen.
To be fair, there is plenty of batshit insane patents like that. The most famous example being US Patent 6506148: https://patents.justia.com/patent/6506148

As to what does that mean, whether the things described in the patent have actually been used or it isn't just a bunch of nonsense, I don't really know.
It is a purely selfish concern to continue existing. "Mattering" doesn't really come into play.
It makes me think about old devices that used 3-d mechanical cams.