skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is simply because of different contractual obligations to the different parties

I am not so sure. Canada was the 4th country to sign a contract with Pfizer. We were ahead of the EU. The initial statements by the Canadian government about the reduction in Pfizer production capacity was that they expect all countries will be affected similarly, but the next day we learned that Canada will be affected an order of magnitude more that Europe. It's unlikely that the government did not know what their contract said when they made those statements. In retrospect, Pfizer probably calculated that pissing off Canada is preferable to pissing off Europe and acted accordingly. Now we see that Canada accepted the slowdown gracefully, but Europe threw its weight and started changing the rules. Politically, they made the most expedient decision. But it was and is unfair to Canada.
But the Russian and Chinese vaccines are "old school", right?

It would be fun if the least trusted sources ended up being the more reliable ones.
And who sets the formula, who lobbies for laws to be passed to require it, who runs and owns the clearing houses? Hint: It's in the thread you linked.

> RH offered to open up stock market investing more broadly. They succeeded, clearly. But the regulations didn't change - there are still pro-Wall St, pro-incumbent rules and capital requirements. It's one of the most highly regulated industries in our nation. [0]

> So @aoc is right to ask how it can be that Robinhood stopped its clients from buying certain securities. And what she'll find is that the reason is that Dodd-Frank requires brokers like RH to post collateral to cover their clients' trading risk pre-settlement. [1]

> And it isn't the Fed or SEC who sets the rules. It's the Wall St owned central clearing entity itself, DTCC, that makes its own rules. So when the retail masses decided to squeeze the short-sellers, in the middle of crushing them, it was govt regulations which tripped them up. [2]

This last tweet in the thread was made about 13h ago, about a day after the previous last tweet in the thread. It's quite interesting, if you ask me.

> Update: the plot thickens ... @The_DTCC may have exercised its right to add additional margin charges for a set of these stocks. It's a Margin Liquidity Adjustment Charge. [3]

[0] https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1354952710202814470

[1] https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1354952711217807364

[2] https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1354952712400601099

[3] https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1355175395642003456
Pascal remains my preferred programming environment. Though a bit buggy, and short on documentation, Lazarus/Free Pascal makes quick work of any forms based windows application.

I worked through the entire Advent of Code 2020 exclusively in Pascal.
Cool idea, obnoxious video though. I hate things that are geared at an audience with a five second attention span.
Recently I've been seriously considering finally ditching iPhone because I share the same concern. After all, Apple did the same to another company recently... so we know they are willing.
I was using a Pixel 2, but the list of well documented phones is available:

https://lineage.microg.org/

It's pretty simple if your phone is supported. You enable developer mode, enable USB debugging, download the image, and run a couple ADB commands. For me it was:

fastboot flashing unlock

fastboot update image.zip

And that was it.
It’s tapping into the visual noise we are all accustomed to. Without it, a simple audio clip player would be too meditative and people would become uncomfortable staring at nothingness.

We’ve become shitty. Thanks to AdTech.
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Remind me again what Fascism is and tell me how this isn't fascist.
Ok, that's some historical revisionism I've not see before. The term sideloading was invented by an internet storage service company to refer to copying files between remote storage buckets without having to do an upload or download. The term then got adopted by the community for copying MP3 files to a player from your computer.
It does create an issue for the company of the stock, though.
Not many games are written to scale out that far. I remember Ashes of the Singularity was used to showcase Ryzen CPUs though.
The South African Covid-19 variant is proving to be a vaccine challenge
That simply means they haven't had time to settle yet
I agree Google has gone downhill. DuckDuckGo is much better now.
Hijacking for visiblity:

Is there a way of mastering pictures for "real" HDR--not the fake compressed dynamic range crap, but with the right software switches to "turn on" the magic high dynamic range mode through the OS?

HDR video specifically has a metadata tag that allows the stream to be correctly viewed on your fancy TV by turning on all the right hardware and software "HDR switch"--like increasing max brightness to the set luminance value in the metadata, etc.

For HEIC pictures taken on iPhone, the right switches are turned on in iOS and macOS. Wondering if it's possible to create pictures from my regular sony a7r4 with those metadata tags so it can look cool on fancy displays.

I've literally asked everywhere including my workspace Slack (big company) and nobody knows. The only hack I know that works is making a freaking single-frame HDR video out of the picture file.
You can spin up your website too (and it's way easier and cheaper than running a BBS), where is the problem?
Element.io rebranded from Riot.
A great visual intro to dithering here [1] and a specific filter based on Bill Atkinson’s algorithm for the original Mac here [2]

[1] https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

[2] https://www.tinrocket.com/content/hyperdither/
how did you conclude that? Also, why is it bad to have common runtime dependencies between two services? Unless you mean a shared service.
Does anyone know which framework they're using to load the images google-maps style? https://siliconpr0n.org/map/intel/4004/m0_200x/#x=1603&y=145...

I doubt it's a custom framework, but view source just shows uninformative compressed javascript and no info.

I'd like to display my high resolution ML images in a similar way.
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Lots of reason for optimism. The vaccines can be retargeted, and like the flu vaccine, approved with a faster trial. And the mRNA vaccine production can continue to scale up.

So if there is a need for a new vaccine, we can likely deploy it with a shorter interval to availability and much larger initial volume.

We can also become more disciplined. We don't need to go all the way to a strictly enforced lock down to improve on the social distancing that we've done the last year (at least, not in the US). And we can try to get people to more widely accept contact tracing/tracking.
One of many. matrix.org/clients
> You can have a social safety net and pay people to stay home. But if you're insistent that these are the only two options, look at Sweden.

I think that first sentence sounds like a great strategy, and it's perfectly in line with what I suggested. Coincidentally, that's exactly what Sweden did as part of its strategy. So I'm not so sure how Sweden is an example of the opposite?

> guess what, it turns out people don't want to go out and risk dying.

If people are voluntarily doing that, what's the point of having the government enforce the lockdown?

> So if your economy is doing to have mass unemployment, you may as well do that and avoid the death and injury.

Again, lockdowns aren't 100% free. They also cause death, injury, and misery. Suicides are up, domestic violence is up, cancer screenings are down, drug overdoses are up, alcoholism is up, depression is way up. Poor kids in the US who relied on school lunches as their only decent meal of the day are suffering nutritionally, and will lose years of their life because of malnutrition now.

I have a friend who was sick with covid for months, and she's got a long way to recovery. I have a friend who just got out of the ICU after having been there a couple of weeks, he's in shit shape, but alive. That sucks. But I also have friends who were close to suicide because they were unemployed, isolated, and really depressed. That also sucks.

There are no easy choices in this mess, and yet lockdowns are sold as an easy choice by people for whom it is easy, and failure to lock down is portrayed as some sort of moral failing, which is horrifying to me.
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The other comments are right. I found it mildly amusing that this happened after the name change, which was presumably in part motivated by some worries over political correctness.

Sorry for the confusion, throwaway.
> No, they can't.

Yes, they can.

> In a bankrupcy, pension funds get first dibs on all company assets, before lenders, shareholders, or any other interested party.

No, they aren't; funds already in the pension fund are separate and can't be taken in bankruptcy; wages owed have the kind of high priority claim you reference, but earned pension obligations do not. A bill was put forward in Congress in 2019 to alter this for Chapter 11 bankruptcies (to eliminate the “strategic bankruptcy to cut pension contributions” practice that explored the fact that it is not true), but died.

Plans are typically terminated by a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and can be terminated or modified in a Chapter 11.

> And in the rare event that that happens, pensions in the US are required to hold pension insurance, which continues to pay benefits when a pension loses income and their coffers run dry.

Aside from the fact that the PBGC multiemployer fund is itself underfunded, PBGC has an age-based maximum benefit guarantee, which will often be significantly lower than what a pensioner would have been entitled to under their original pension plan:

https://www.pbgc.gov/wr/benefits/guaranteed-benefits/maximum...

> Pensions are, very literally, guaranteed retirement income.

That's a nice thought, but it's not nearly as true as you make it out to be.
Yes other complications are possible, I had thought from the wording it was a concern about allergic reactions.
India did way better than a lot of other countries, Lot of people expected it to do way worse.

>>>> first they said that vegetarians will not get Covid, it came from bushmeat (ignoring the fact that human-to-human transmission was through cough droplets)

This was at the point when WHO was saying there was no Human to Human transfmission.

>>> then they blamed it on a minority gathering

Well obviously since even during lockdown, they conducted that gathering which had people coming from almost all states, then after the gathering went back to their home states. This was during the height of lockdown. The problem was that people though t rules did not apply to them. There was even a riot in Bangalore by these people when lockdown was being imposed.
Thank you for sharing your experience!

> how were they negatively impacting your mental wellbeing?

I think the answer to your question is obviously very personal and will change from an individual to another.

For me personally the stress came in 2 forms:

* Outrage/politics, especially on Twitter and Reddit. On Twitter, it's impossible to escape this, even if you carefully sanitise the list of those who you follow, due to the trending section being visible to everyone. On Reddit, if you visit the site while you are not logged in, again you will see all of the above.

* Time sink. The worst offender here was Youtube. E.g. "I need to do X in my aquarium let me just quickly double check that video by Aquarium Co-op" - 2 hours later (spent watching "recommended next" videos) I would realise "wow I just wasted 2 hours of my life". Note that I can still quickly view a video without having an account, but due to not having followlists and such, the recommendations are less addictive. Facebook and Instagram were also a time sink and unlike Youtube they weren't really useful in any obvious way, except maybe a couple of Facebook Groups I was part of (e.g. my daughter's school parents group where I could get some news about the school - I now subscribe to their newsletter instead).

* Instigating compulsive spending, e.g. Amazon - this is quite obvious due to it being an e-commerce website and knowing well what you're thinking to buy. I now shop on local retailers whenever possible and as a last resort on eBay, since at least it is less pervasive - unlike Amazon which entices you to take advantage of the rest of their ecosystem e.g. Prime Video or Kindle or Twitch, then "follows" you in all those places with tracking ads.

> Google Search is by far the best, IMO, and saves me hours every day.

If you use Duckduckgo, you can add !sp at the end of your search, and you will get proxied Google results. You don't need to have a Google account for that.

> I have my personal domain go to gmail, and it makes managing ages of email a breeze.

Having a personal domain is a great first step, well done! I didn't have it so I had to setup an "out of office" message, warning everyone that my Gmail address would be deactivated soon...
This gets complicated, live virus and mRNA type vaccines that hijack a small number of your cells for a full immune system response aren't as far as I know normally used for people that age, see https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html and note "zoster live" has been removed from the US market.

On the other hand, they might just wring out the best response possible at a slightly greater risk. Here I'm assuming your parents shouldn't try a PRC vaccine, so it's virus vector Russian or mMRA Pfizer, both essentially accomplishing the same thing, both with high overall efficacy.

Or look at it this way: if they don't get a good result from either of these two vaccines, they're not likely to fair well from a real infection. Maybe. We really don't known why even at their age most people survive.

The other factor is how much you trust quality control. Pfizer > Russia >> PRC in my book, but I have absolutely no read on Russian quality. But also note Pfizer/BioNTech is useless if not properly handled to its strict temp and physical requirements.
Fun fact: In human testing, subjects cannot tell the difference between 8-bit RGB and 10-bit RGB except for greyscale gradients.

(I wish I could link the study, but I found it during the peak of my 2012-era graphics career. Suffice to say, more devs should study the science of perceptual testing.)
If your quality of life depends on big tech then I suspect your life is of low quality in the first place.
So "actual white" has little to do with the color that we see.

Is it also white to the x-ray spectrum and the radio wave spectrum? If so, I am pretty sure that this doesn't actually exist.
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If you make money on trades and then spend it on food, it certainly does seem like some kind of magic trick to me. Whatever money you earned must have been lost by someone else. Or does the amount of money increase when stocks go up?

Whatever the confusion is, I have it too.
I had nothing at all, my parents had the Mac :-)

The Apple II was not capable of high-resolution color, with or without the 80-column card. You would have used the 80-column card with a monochrome monitor. I don't remember whether I ever used it personally.

I couldn't find any pictures of Kaypros with color screens. Was it uncommon?
I finally figured it out!

Literally the only thing I didn't try moving was that circle blob.
Australian here. Our rules allow you to leave if you've got a reason to be gone longer than 3 months. My sister lives overseas and has come back twice and been allowed to leave each time (at great expense). The rule is specifically about leisure travellers and business trips that could be done with zoom. If you've got a funeral to go to you get an exemption as well, for example.
If you actually had a cash-only designated account, would the broker still have to pull from their own cash reserves to make the trade?
...and doesn't care about deplatforming.

"We need more than deplatforming"

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
“ The expansion of the commerce power to include regulation of speech is therefore worrisome. This is not to dispute whether communication and information are “commerce,” but rather to recognize the constitutional reality of lost freedom. The expansion of the commerce power endangers Americans’ liberty to speak and publish.”

Also..

“ A second constitutional question arises from the First Amendment. The companies brush this aside because they are private and the amendment prohibits only government censorship. Yet one must worry that the government has privatized censorship. If that sounds too dramatic, read Section 230(c)(2) again. It protects tech companies from liability for restricting various material “whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.” Congress makes explicit that it is immunizing companies from liability for speech restrictions that would be unconstitutional if lawmakers themselves imposed them.

Seventeenth-century censorship, which the First Amendment clearly prohibited, was also imposed largely through private entities, such as universities and the Stationers’ Company, England’s printers trade guild. Whereas privatized censorship then was often mandatory, the contemporary version is voluntary. But the tech companies are protected for restricting Congress’s list of disfavored materials, and this means that the government still sets the censorship agenda.”
Hold on. Nobody has explained why TF I'm supposed to care. Is Element important or something? Does this affect real people?
Yes I agree, the main point that led me to quit is that all of those services are created to "maximise screen time", in other words designed to be addictive.
Me too, with a lot of help from Herbert Schildt books.
If the moderators don't like the titles they change them. The fact that the title is still the same means they like it and that it more accurately reflects the text then "What is A2P 10DLC?"
Looks like LeafletJS: https://leafletjs.com/
Would a framework be every language that complies to another for execution? Genuine question.
Another point in favor of Win10: full-disk encryption is easier to set up as Bitlocker on Windows. Together with the TPM, physical access no longer means easy data access, and you don't have to input a passcode for the encryption either.

There is no good story for tpm-secured booting into a full-drive encrypted Linux OS. What I have now still requires a passcode at boot, and it was still a pain to set up.
Ironically (given Vivaldi's history) I find the opera mobile browser to be better on android. Maybe there's some good extensions for Vivaldi that change that but defaults vs defaults I prefer Opera. Obligatory caveat of Opera being bought by a Chinese company.
> I.e.: Why does memory bandwidth matter to TLS? Aren't you encrypting data "on the fly", while it is still resident in the CPU caches?

I assume NF's software pipeline is zero copy, so if TLS is done in the NIC data only gets read from memory once when it is DMA'd to the NIC. With software TLS you need to read the data from memory (assuming it's not already in cache, which given the size of data NF deals with is unlikely), encrypt it, then write it back out to main memory so it can be DMA'd to the NIC. I know Intel has some fancy tech that can DMA directly to/from the CPU's cache, but I don't think AMD has that capability (yet).
I have an offline account but it shows me a dialog about fixing my Windows account every day.
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Is there any particular reason to believe that financial advisors' advice for average people is in their best interest? (The average people that is)
For low-dynamic range maybe, but for HDR 8-bit is definitely not enough.
> You can't change how they operate.

You can, by pressuring politicians to create laws and regulations. It’s just something the US hasn’t tried all that much lately.
Indeed, in my case, I bought a Sanyo MBC-550 computer with MS-DOS, a Zenith monochrome display, and an incredibly slow daisywheel printer, for almost exactly 1000 bucks. My use case was pretty narrow -- word processing and programming.

The year before, someone demonstrated a Lisa at my college, and of course I was excited by what I was reading in Byte Magazine (though it was over my head), but the early Mac was just out of my reach. The Sanyo seemed like a step above my mom's Apple II.
Not sure what TANs are, but why not using a separate (SIMless) old/cheap Android device only for that?
Still no way to keep people from generating identities in bulk.
Not quite accurate.

It's - WSB can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent.
Right, but for the most part your optimism is about better managing an ongoing pandemic, which is certainly not what most are hoping for.
Sanofi is going to produce the Pfizer vaccine too, it was reported by Bloomberg a couple days back.

EDIT: found a CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/sanofi-to-produce-100-millio...
Woah there!!! The first Authoritarian government which peddled misinformation was China. Why is China getting a free pass here? If the WHO had't parroted china's lies, then there would have been no situation like this.

Looking at worldometer, the number of deaths in china is 4,636. This is unbelievable. No one can believe this number. This is the reason why no one wants the chinese vaccine. You cant believe anythn coming out of china. Again I am talkin about the chinese government not the chinese people.
Yes, I believe they would.
Was a great tool and incredibly fast for its time. May have been the only thing fast on an 8086...
The first software "product" that I sold was created using Turbo Pascal running on DOS. I was in high school at the time. It was designed for an Orthodontist who wanted to input (using a tablet with a cross-hair "mouse") about 20 points from an X-ray of a patient's head, then perform some calculations on the geometry to predict how the jaw bones and teeth were going to develop as the patient gets older.

To this day I think it's the most interesting and satisfying thing I've ever done in terms of software. Despite getting a Ph.D. in computer science and working for Amazon, Microsoft, and Cray, nothing even comes close, with the exception of one project at Microsoft Research. These days I've given up completely any hope of working on something even remotely interesting or satisfying.
If you look at the mobile before and after it becomes more clear why this is useful.
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For example:

"We have placed some restrictions on the following securities. These restrictions will not prevent clients from making basic buy and sell transactions. This list is as of January 29, 2021, 4:30PM ET.

AMC, CVM, EXPR, FOSL, GME, NOK, BB, BBBY, FIZZ, GSX, IRBT, NCMI, TR, UONE, VIR, NAK, NAKD, DDS, KOSS

The following restrictions are in place:

Stocks - 100% holding requirement (not marginable)

Long calls and puts are allowed

Covered call and short put orders may only be placed with a broker. Please be aware that wait times to speak with a broker may be longer than normal due to current market conditions.

Covered calls only allowed if your account currently has the shares

Short puts only if you have the maintenance/cash to cover the entire exercise amount of the short puts

All other complex options orders will not be accepted

Please keep in mind that this list is not inclusive of every security restriction and may change at any time."

https://www.tdameritrade.com/td-ameritrade-trading-restricti...
Handset makers could start some sort of ... Open Handset alliance, oh wait..that's how we got Android.

Nope. Better alternative would probably be some sort of blockchain thing with reviews baked in and maybe authority nodes (devs with experience) could validate/clear apps from having viruses/etc... or just have a reporting mechanism so apps get pulled when suspicious.
While it might seem trivial, Robinhood's UX is a major plus for many.
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