skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting part is that indeed, the people who write these articles are usually building large scale systems, writing books, newsletters and building companies for them, and then telling everyone else how they don't need it.

Of course engineers have a tendency to over-engineer solutions. I don't think anyone is surprised by that. But this "oh you don't need it, I've used it at <bigcorp>, and you're not that" thinking just rubs me wrong. Especially when it's backed up by hollow arguments like the ones in this post.
I am not sure where to begin.

WhatsApp didn't create any of these. Before that it was MSN, and before MSN it was ICQ / AIM. Instant messenger has been around for a very long time.

Every Single criticism of WhatsApp could be said to any of the above.

I felt the author made it as WhatsApp was specifically designed from Facebook for target advertising. For a long time, even after Facebook acquisition WhatsApp has little to do with its parent company, other than moving their insanely great Super Size FreeBSD Box to thousands of tiny little Linux blade.

WhatsApp used to charge iOS user $1. And $1 / Year for Android. Despite that they still grown to hundreds of millions of users.

WhatApp grew because it was the only IM that worked on Smartphone. Thanks to Erlang. Yes. ICQ didn't bother. Microsoft refuse to accept Smartphone is the future of computing hence there never was MSN on Smartphone. Other contender tried but none of them managed to Scale. I still remember all my colleagues and friends used to download instant messenger on our phone to test them out, creating a group and basically DDoS each other until the system or network crash. No IM was able to handle the traffic load, not only did WhatsApp does it many times better than their competitors, they also had almost all platform support, from Symbian to Blackberry.

It then made its point about User domestication. Which really is a FOSS, GPL, Richard Stallman angle on Software. I argue it would be the same with many of today's software.
Many production-hosting solutions offer similar functionality, but the catch is that they only really work if you're already using that system.

If you're already deploying on Vercel, then you likely just want to use Vercel's solution. The same goes for Netlify Preview Deploys, Heroku Review Apps, Render Pull Request Previews, etc.

If you are not using one of these PaaS's, trying to tap into one for just this functionality tends to end up rather convoluted, and somewhat defeats the purpose.
Curious, as your solution to the problem seems to be to do nothing. Does that mean you don't think it's a problem?

Here's the problem as i see it.

Facebook's and other companies with data exchange driven revenue models have monopolization on some of our generations most intelligent minds and are using cutting edge psychology and algorithms to get the general populace to click that, scroll for longer and be deeper entrenched in the depths of political extremism.
They're wrong though. I'm not worth much at all, but slowly (and thanks mainly to YNAB) I've managed to build up 5 digits of cash (savings, not folding), rather than living paycheck to paycheck. This is a huge load of daily stress I used to have that I no longer do. My credit card is for convenience and frequent flyer points, not something I might not eat without. I bought the missus a (6-year-old, boring) car recently, and I did so with a personal loan not because I had to but because I chose to keep the money on hand, and the world is a little shaky right now. I didn't have to accept a lien on the car, and if there were a crunch on my cashflow I can make minimum payments for a while.

I don't have "fuck you money", and probably never will, but even this much peace of mind has helped my mental health significantly.
I've used several email applications including Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, even Roundcube and Horde. I can't say that I'm familiar with snoozing email, so I had to look it up: it's basically a way to remind yhe iser to respond to a message later.

Given that, I would say that no, snoozing an email and archiving it are different things, regardless of the snooze duration. With my workflow, I archive any email that no longer requires my feedback, so anything that is still in my inbox would probably be the same as one that has been snoozed anyways.

If you're snoozing messages forever, you may want to reconsider your approach to managing your inbox. Snoozing a message over and over seems like a lot of wasted action. Why not just leave it in the inbox if it's short-term or set up a calendar reminder if it's long-term instead?
Covid-19 and the Global Shift Towards Authoritarian Governance
They're not in effect any longer, but Microsoft (promoter of this format, that depends on the FAT filesystem, another Microsoft thing) used to enforce their patents on the FAT filesystem against companies like TomTom (as recently as 2009).

FAT is a wide standard now, but it's garbage, even with the ExFAT extensions. I hope people start doing everything they can to move away from the ecosystems promoted by those who would wield standards as weapons.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Microsoft_FAT_patents

Note: they did ultimately pledge not to enforce their ExFAT patents against implementors, but I don't forget their behaviors that quickly. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-readies-exfat-patent...

> Why is Microsoft doing this considering over the years it's made tens of millions from its FAT patents? Stephen Walli, Microsoft's principal program manager for Azure, explained at Open Source Summit Europe last year that "Open source changed everything. Customers have changed. Fifteen years ago, a CIO would have said, 'we have no open source, they would have been wrong, but that's what they thought.' Now, CIOs know open source's essential … Microsoft has always been a company by, of, and for developers. At this point in history, developers love open source."

Beware of Redmond bearing gifts.
If he had said that Robinhood put those restrictions in place because of a liquidity crisis, he just lost every Robinhood customer all their money. That’s because Robinhood gets forced to increase collateral with everyone they do business with, everyone try’s to pull their funds out, and Robinhood files an instant bankruptcy. Meaning customers get paid a fraction of their accounts years from now.

He didn’t lie, he mislead. And he did it for you.

Edit: Actually to correct myself, Robinhood accounts are insured, so customers accounts are at no risk in a bankruptcy. It may have meant you couldn’t sell your shares for months, while GME slowly works its way back to $20, so I think the point about bankruptcy hurting customers stands.
Creating multiple embryos in the lab then screening them for diseases etc. can of course help with some situations, but if both chromosomes from one parent carry some variant of a gene, you can't get rid of it. Similarly, you can't introduce desired variants if none of the two parents want them. So arbitrary edits are way more powerful.
I think those are low-hanging fruits.

I write in CL and Clojure and feel similar.

It's a matter of how easy it is to reason about complexity, typing is just a method of dealing with it.
if I gained 50%, 44%, followed by a 53% loss with a 2% fee, I'd be under water for the last 3 years, but the sp500 would have yielded me a 37% gain - virtually no fees. I'd rather the sp500 over these guys
Aren't you concerned about privacy implications? I am glad some people don't have this totalitarian thinking and will never have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltb3lJCd1mA
I highly recommend all videos by Nomad Capitalist.
Or Brave, best of both worlds.
The article misses some of hte core problems with WhatsApp.

- It treats Phone and Contacts a personal identity and world.
- You don't need any permission from your contacts to add them to a group.
- You can forward any message and it cannot be verified for the source.

All these try to given an effect that user is in control of many things, while ignoring socially learned concepts of personal space, non-intrusive behavior and sharing of truth.
I think this pandemic will transform American cities because of economics. I live in the suburbs of my city, but pay income tax to my city because that’s where I work. Well, where I used to work prior to the pandemic. My company is about to announce that we’re going to be working from home from now on so my income tax will switch to my suburb. The city stands to lose a lot of tax revenue. We’re not the only major employer in the city making this decision. I figure this can’t be unique to my city so these huge income losses are going to be hitting cities across America and will lead to rapid decline.
WeBull may have had a less dangerous solvency issue.

Either way it’s Monday morning quarterbacking to say RH could have been blunt. They may have been within hours of bankruptcy.
Considering other hedge funds reloaded shorts after getting decimated, there's no indication their losses will stay at 53%.

Like a bankrupt gambler returning to the casino after getting bailed out by their parents, Melvin will be back to the shorting slot machines soon enough.
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LSD Lets the Brain 'Free Itself' from Divisions Dictated by Anatomy
When did the goalposts get moved? Your original argument was citadel/robinhood was "front running trades". That's a more serious accusation than robinhood/citadel not getting the best price.
After 6 hours I cant find more reputable sources for this
Thanks and nice catch! Fixed it!
In my ignorance of Sámi life and culture I can’t help but think “what a terribly cold and squalid existence”!

Apart from elk, fish, berries and a handful of hardy veggies, what did they eat?
Can someone remind me, and I mean this seriously, why we decided that we need app stores to begin with? Why can't I just go on a website and download an apk?
Ray uses it to more efficiently transfer objects across processes and nodes.

https://docs.ray.io/en/master/serialization.html

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2017/10/15/fast-python-seriali...
Dang I totally feel you on the whole self promotion thing and for me, it happened with Medium.

Used to love reading essays all the time but now all the titles tend towards click bait and every essay seems to begin or end with them pitching their newsletter/podcast/etc. and that ends up coloring my whole impression of what I just read.
Moves to Boost Your Productivity in 2021 (Part 2)
> Why is there ''and/or'' in the MIT license text? Why is it needed?

It's a stupid lawyer thing. A lot of us still write like this. I'm sorry.

> Does the phrase ''this permission notice'' cover the following disclaimer?

Arguable, but why would anyone bother chopping off the disclaimer?

> Also, what is the shortest possible license that is functionally equivalent to the MIT license?

Form and function aren't so neatly separated in natural language.

> Is this really a license?

It's a cute suckless thing. They're edgy like that, among other ways.

> What about the SQLite blessing?

SQLite holds their work out as in the public domain. But you can buy a license (and some commercial guarantees) to make your company's lawyers happy: https://sqlite.org/purchase/license
That is true, but its easy to centralize private ASIC designs or in a more extreme case the underlying chip fabs. If TSMC wanted to control the Bitcoin network they'd have a fair shot given they have by far and away the best fabrication technology for high performance chips
You didn't, otherwise you wouldn't still be saying that inherited wealth isn't a problem.

Norway is equal because of high redistribution, actually. It's sad that you're so politically motivated to do apologetics for the rich that you'll refuse to learn some basic facts about a country that does it better than yours.
There is nothing magical about 100%. If it's useful in 99% then it's useful in 101%. Short squeezes and other things happen also before 100% of stocks are shorted. Shorts relative to float seems more important.
Does Australia even have winters? I mean, it never gets cold in Melbourne. Your winter is close to my summer.
That's huge and a big reason why my next GPU will be from AMD. If I can ever get one that is, between scarcity, demand, bots, scalpers, ...it is terrible out there. You can be on a stock watcher Discord and click instantly to still see that it is sold out (and at a huge markup too).
They probably should have. But “we are virtually insolvent”, if that was the case, is not the sort of thing that companies, especially private companies, are normally excited about doing. Bad look.
Yes - but for proper hardware support you often need to compile the latest Mesa-git. That's not super user friendly yet, but I expect it will get better down the road.
Discovering Millions of Free Datasets – News Break
There is a lot of paranoid shit in this writing. MDMA is a beautiful tool, but ask yourself: do you want to follow where this person is leading?
This is amazing.

I've sort of had the idea of building a museum web interface where you could walk through the space via an isometric view (sort of how adventure games worked back in the day), but this works well too. I'm amazed that the Art Institute would open up its exhibits like this. I just looked up the Met in NYC and they've digitized large swaths of their space too.

That said, I usually already visit the Art Institute about twice a year (I live in the city) and will likely continue to do so even though it's now on Google Maps. There's something immediate about seeing the works in person that makes it worthwhile to be present in the space.
Spending 5x the effort to redesign when you have 10x the money/resources isn't an unreasonable tradeoff. Since the vast majority of early stage startups fail spending money on things which don't matter until they succeed is not a good business decision.

Of course, WeWork at this point had 1500 engineers so calling it a small startup or using it as a case study (either way) for small startups seems a bit silly.
Other very capable analysts have argued that MIT does grant patent rights, either express or implied. They've also argued that other legal rules, especially patent "exhaustion", remove the risk.

I'm with you on this, though. It doesn't have to be broke. We can fix it.

Blue Oak Council, a nonprofit I'm a part of, published a tier-ranked list of permissive licenses. All of those at the top handle patent explicitly: https://blueoakcouncil.org/list

We also published a model permissive license, which comes with a very explicit, very broad patent grant: https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0
> It's pretty cool that this can host other distros, but is that the only advantage over NixOS?

The ability to transparently get features from other distros is Bedrock Linux's defining characteristic. It's not trying to do anything more than that.

Ideally the contrast wouldn't be Bedrock _or_ NixOS, but rather NixOS alone or Bedrock with NixOS. Bedrock's goal of getting features from other distros includes distros like NixOS. Sadly, there's still R&D work to be done there: while Bedrock supports a large number of distros, NixOS isn't yet one of them.

> I don't know if I would enjoy crossing distro boundaries constantly just for a small handful of desired packages, and I'm not sure what other use cases this might have.

I think trying to find use cases other than getting features from multiple distros is driving you in the wrong direction for modelling Bedrock. Most Linux users - quite likely including yourself - are happy with what one distro provides them. Others, however, find it limiting. Bedrock targets the latter group. Try thinking of scenarios where a user has competing pressures for different distros:

- A user may require RHEL for work, but miss the large package selection offered by Debian.

- A user may like Void Linux's init, but miss Arch's AUR.

- A user may like Gentoo's ability to customize packages, but only want to compile about half the system.

> Does anybody have experience deploying Bedrock in production? What are some pros and cons?

You might be looking for these FAQ entries [0] [1].

[0] https://bedrocklinux.org/faq.html#why-use-bedrock
[1] https://bedrocklinux.org/faq.html#why-not-use-bedrock
> "Everyone" includes other users who would benefit from the fix,

They can still benefit from it by getting the fixed version from the PR author.

> the PR author who can continue using the same version as everyone else,

In other words, the PR author is expecting the maintainer to do the work of upstreaming and supporting their (the PR author's) fix for free.

> and yes, the maintainer who is foregoing even the possibility of the fix without starting from scratch.

And that is their prerogative. If they actually really want that fix they can always get it later. But as said by OP, chances are really good that the way the fix was done would conflict with the direction they want to take the project. And that would actually be a net loss for the maintainer.

> As I said in my comment, it makes total sense to me to look at a major change or a risky fix and say "no this isn't worth my time". But I'm sure we've all had those bugs where they take forever to track down until eventually you find a simple problem in code that is obviously an error. To not even take a look at it, as a rigid matter of policy? Yes, I absolutely think open-source maintainers would be missing out on saving some larger efforts.

This basically boils down to, expecting an open source maintainer to do the work--for free--of maintaining other people's patches in a patchwork codebase that they no longer have total control over.
app usage data is collected all the time, in form of server logs, and you shouldn't expect this to change. We should be able to opt into using our data for marketing purposes, getting various benefits in return, but that should be opt in , not opt out. Still , this begs a question, what could be attributed as marketing purpose
Intel/Nvidia here, starting with Windows and then exclusively Linux. Both CPU and GPU are from early 2015 (ready to upgrade my GPU first, but impossible to get anything these days, as I noted in my other comment). Those parts have been great, but ready for AMD (open source drivers, better VR support, competitive on performance/price).
I don’t think people are any less willing to pay for social media than they are for their phone and it’s time we recognized that.

The largest player in social wants to normalize free service and lock-in: this way its users can come but can hardly leave, competition is impossible since no one can undercut it on price, and its leverage with the advertiser approaches infinity.

Now, the moment big social is legally obligated to enable feature-complete third-party clients to exist so that users can easily switch social service providers, a company will pop up and say “we don’t make money from advertising; we’re very transparent about all our records; we provide a full API so you can keep using your favourite client app; our subscription starts at $X”. You can count that this new provider will tear out a chunk of WhatsApp’s user base.

The next day yet another provider pops up and advertises cheaper subscriptions at $X/2, further eating away at Facebook’s advertising power. FB understands that the earlier it revamps its business model, the more revenue it can generate from actually paying users; so it revises the ToS, adds paid tiers to its services and becomes very good at upselling them.
That’s Big Sir to You
Can you please not mention Nomad Capitalist?

The person running that business is a known scam artist.

Here is a discussion about his schemes: https://www.sitejabber.com/faq/nomadcapitalist.com/has-anyon...

Here is a Reddit page about him: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/6wl962/is_and...

Here is someone who created a whole website stating his scheme: https://nomadcapitalistscam.com/

Reviews page with revealing information: https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/nomadcapitalist.com

Thank you for understanding.
>I have never used bedrock linux in anger,

But you have used it in joy? Or what does this mean?

And as for rollback capabilities, wouldn't snapshots just work far easier than any of your other ideas? Not only can you easily rollback, everything about the failure is still accessible.
Patents aside are there any real alternatives to FAT that are even remotely widely adopted?
I think you might be underestimating the complexity involved in doing anything with equities at $10B.

I also wouldn't classify this as high risk. This risk is arguably novel. Short squeezes have happened before, sure, but not with the same sort of trigger. This is probably a new risk signal for the 30 or so funds which were blown out that haven't been as well publicized.
What about the countries, ethnic groups and religions that can't afford to edit the genes of their children.

Is their destiny to be out-competed by those groups with the best gene editing technology?

What if a particular highly effective gene editing technique is perfected and patented in country A and they refuse a license to country B because they are rivals?

What if in country Z only ethnic group X is allowed to receive the treatment?
Yeah equivalent percentage losses cost more than gains.

Starting from 100, if you swing 50% up 50% down you get: 150, 75, 112.5, 56.25, 84.375, 42.18, 63.28, 31.64....

You need a 100% gain to make up for a 50% loss.
You can get a net positive utility gain from a net zero money gain with a continuous function, if it were say, logarithmic. A has 1X$ and B has 10X$, then an exchange occurs where 1X$ moves from B to A, now it's 2X$ and 9X$, but the change in happiness for A could be log(2/1)~=.30 while B log(9/10) ~=-.04

This is just one utility vs wealth model that would argue wealth transfers improve net utility in some contexts.
This is incredible, I love the creativity and ingenuity I see in the Pico-8 community.
Well, as one example, what happens to all the miners and their infrastructure? Seems like they get hung out to dry.

Second, the technical complexity involved seems challenging. I'm not a dev, and I'm not saying it's impossible, but making substantial core changes on a live, decentralized system running all sort of layer two infrastructure seems really dicey.
Yes it does make renaming harder, but if your compiler warns about unused variables it might save you more often than not.
> when nuclear proliferation is all but expected at this point

The (pretty effective) nuclear non-proliferation treaty does beg the question here...
To make things worse, gyms are shutdown. They were a reliable 24/7 location if the driver had membership.

There needs to be infrastructure for true public restrooms in urban areas.

Uber et al needs to make mandatory access to its drivers a condition of doing business with the food service.
It's secured against assets that may not be worth tomorrow what they are today. Imagine if you stopped paying your mortgage, and the bank sells your house, but they only make 5% of what you paid for it because the price of houses in ubercow's neighbourhood happened to plummet recently. Now somebody else has your house, but you still owe the bank almost all the money.
Reindeer. For the last several centuries before modernity totally overtook them, the Saami had established an economic niche as reindeer herders, and before they domesticated reindeer they hunted wild ones. Also, Arctic peoples often traded with other peoples for bread, which could be stored frozen for weeks and thawed when needed.

Lapland is definitely cold and stays cold longer than southern parts, but the Saami weren't living in all that much colder conditions than your average Finnish peasant from Karelia or Ostrobothnia.
"Startup is a really low paying job"
At least in this beginning, this holds very true. Can't agree more.
There are examples of successful companies using any programming language. It doesn’t prove anything about the quality of the language. The world still succcesfully runs on COBOL. That is not a good enough reason to pick COBOL for your next project.