skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not symbolic at all. Stock confers legal ownership of a company. Why is ownership of a company's assets any less valuable than ownership of cash dispersed to your personal account?
That's a great idea. It wouldn't impose a cost or a require permanent change to anyone's property. If people could only see what they're missing!
No, I'm not a participant. Maybe rein in the condescension and learn something about what happened here. It's been all over the nightly news and the financial press. I'll get you started with an article from Fortune:

> And while the traders on r/wallstreetbets—the Reddit forum that kicked off the unlikely rally for GameStop stock—may be racking up profits, the damage is accumulating for short-sellers, the investors and hedge funds who bet against, or "short," the stock. By Friday, short-sellers had lost $19.75 billion on GameStop so far this month alone, according to S3 Partners, a New York–based firm that tracks short positions on U.S. stocks.

> The losses have hit hedge funds shorting GameStop including Steve Cohen's Point72, as well as other high-profile short-sellers like Andrew Left, who runs Citron Research, a firm that built a reputation for publishing reports on stocks he believed were destined to fall.

> After announcing last week that he was shorting GameStop when the stock was trading around $40, Left said Wednesday that he had largely abandoned the trade "at a loss 100%," covering the short—or buying back the stock—when it reached the $90 range.

https://fortune.com/2021/01/29/gamestop-stock-how-much-hedge...
It is if your target audience is 70+ year olds.
The answer is no, and you’re not going to hear it from the Go zealot replying to every comment in this thread.

Suggesting Go, given where it is right now, is betraying a lack of experience with at least one critical part of the software development lifecycle.
That’s very concerning. This feels just like 2008 in one way, we have limited financial journalists. No one reports anything beforehand.
Same here, It's like crying wolf at this point. In other news, I built an e-bike trailer that pushes my bike 170 miles with 1/16th of a model S battery (5,300wh) at a cost of $1200 shipped (eBay). These prices should come down in the next 4 years.
An Onion's Genome Has Five Times More DNA Than Humans (2019)
Fondest 90s TV for me was TGIF, no better way to end the week then sitting with your family in front of the TV on Fridays watching those shows.
It might be so, but I don't work in that field, so my perception will be guided by what I see. Which is my point, unless you are intimately familiar with how ACH etc works it's natural to assume that these transfers are near instantaneous.
He's talking about the fact that the RSS did not raise the Indian flag till about 2002. And that their historical opposition to the flag is well documented.
How long does it last?
It is if you’re working in government or other fields like medicine, where a ton of both legacy and new software is still being written with IE as the target, that have prevented people from moving off it.
The information about the condition of the market was accurate. They said GME was prone to a short squeeze, they were right, and it happened.
Sorry to bore you. Its just, you know, we're living in the middle of history's largest income inequality[1]. Yes it is a problem for civil society and the rule of law when money and power get to elude justice and equal rights. People who unfairly abuse privilege are problematic, they are not 'the problem'. Not being held accountable is a privilege, and it is leads to highly anti-social behavior. It means laws exist only for lower classes. It means laws don't really exist, only power. Carry on, my beleaguered friend.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/aracheology-wealth-in...
Even if those true doesn't permit anyone to trespass RedFort and do as per their will.
After reading the article, I think it boils down to

a) Poor/lack of understanding of who the actual users are e.g. these are systems that will be used by both the young and old people, especially older people in the early stages since they are the ones at the front of the vaccine line; worst case, the system should have been optimized for them.

b) bullet a then leads to poor requirements e.g. given that most libraries are shut down (lots of elderly people get help with online stuff at community centers/libraries), requirements should have included less rigidity (on errors) or a module that is fun and friendly that walks people through it, system should be designed with 'plain' mobile first in mind, and account for a person being both a patient and an admin, etc
Worst in the sense that older people often are unfamiliar with computers at all - perhaps that group should have robust options that don’t come in the form of a web app if many have never even used a computer before.
A few random videos I pulled from youtube had a key frame on average every 4.5 seconds, ranging from 0.1 to 5.5 seconds apart, seems pretty consistent regardless of type of video, at least for the few I tried.

The worst I've seen in production was a poorly configured encoder that insert a keyframe exactly every 30 seconds, along with segments every 10 seconds, which surprisingly, caused some players to crash trying to find a keyframe.
There's a growing industry of therapy clinics that are happy to continue charging patients for endless sessions. Some offer anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. However, repeated treatment isn't quite as effective as the wrong mix of drugs are prescribed, the therapy re-enforces the trauma, and it is quite costly for patients to afford.
If this hits you in the nostalgia, check out this project[1]. It uses raspberry pis to broadcast content over "channels" using existing coax to simplify finding something good to watch.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2020/02/07/raspberry-pi-serves-up-24-ho...
> Deloitte is a $40 billion company, it's not like every single one of their projects is a complete failure.

Citation needed, see Oracle, many companies have grown that large on the backs of taxpayers by employing the best "Sales" techniques in the biz.
Apparently this is the system:

https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/s/login/

It didn't load earlier (infinite redirect), right now its a Salesforce error page, of course. Salesforce and Deloitte, a match made in heaven.
> it is amphetamine

That's like saying DNA is sugar. But yeah, getting all the oxytocin alone is kinda wasteful.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-019-0569-3
I agree. I actually find watching game trailers on YouTube pretty pointless, as everything turns into mush and it totally loses the "precision" of the graphics. I found these cloud streaming services similar, though not quite as extreme.

I think bitrates need to be considerably higher. 4K Blu-ray uses close to 100mbit/sec, but movies have the advantage of not requiring really low latency encoding which means it is far more efficient with bitrate. I think probably looking at well over 100mbit/sec to get good PQ on these services.
You have totally bought the government misinformation on the protest when you say:

> It's also true that existing power nexus like these farmer brokers who are spearheading the protest.

No. These protests are organised by the opposition political parties of India through the farm unions they run or are affiliated with, not by brokers. And they are happening to address the legitimate grievances of the farmers.

Farming in India is done by millions of small farmers. That is why the broker system thrives (along with highly regulated market places) as it is easier to deal with brokers than with so many millions of farmers to procure in large-scale. Ofcourse, like in any economic system some people do find ways to abuse the system, but the regulated marketplace do ensure that farmers can get by (not thrive, but barely survive - the current system does need reforms and the farmers have been demanding changes for a long time too).

The new farm laws dismantle this regulated marketplaces, in the guise of "fixing" the broker system, but cleverly replaces them with corporates instead (by advocating and strengthening laws for contract farming in the favour corporate).

This makes the whole thing even more worse for the farmers, as their bargaining powers are further reduced. Many indian farmers are poor and uneducated but the government thinks it's completely ok to let them get into contract farming with corporates without any safety net or support.

This is why the farmers are demanding the repeal of the farm laws.

The government is hamstrung and chooses to be arrogant out of fear of appearing to be "weak" against the opposition, and so doesn't even engage with them. Matters have reached this level because the farm laws were undemocratically pushed through using the government's brute majority, without any proper discussions in public or parliamentary committee or even in Parliament.

In both the US and Europe, contract farming has seen the consolidation of farms under few corporates. Many political parties understandably do not want that to happen in
india too.

- 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland...

- Contract farming as a means of ushering in corporatisation in agriculture: https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/fast-forward-to-co...
Could you link the trial or any data about it? Genuinely curious.
Modern websites are designed to blow up as soon as there isn't an active development team anymore. The docker image needs to be rebuilt from source, the cloud APIs get deprecated, etc.
This statement

> I've never picked up on any noteworthy abnormal tendencies toward conspiracy theories or pseudoscience

Is immediately contradicted by this statement:

> - plenty of new age mysticism though, and the more the merrier I say (provided it's not too far out there, of course).

This is a prime example of why self-reporting doesn't work. If someone holds a set of beliefs to be true, they won't identify them as pseudoscience, misinformation, or false.
Companies like deloitte sees the CDC as a big cow that needs milking. They will never finish the job.
It is like going to the hospital and tell the doctor I have a great insurance. The Doctors will do every possible procedure. It is better to check.
CDC needs to employ developers and do the job internally.
Tests catch bugs too. As will pylint and mypy.
Beef consumption has been forbidden in most Indian states since independence and supported by all political parties. It’s a state issue. The Central government cannot legislate on the subject, it’s on the state list of subjects. You are criticizing the central government for a law a bunch of state governments passed decades ago!!

There is a Hindu Marriage Act and other religious marriage acts. The difference is all but the Muslim marriage acts essentially are very similar to typical western laws other than certain technical details like when in a ceremony a couple is considered married etc. The only exceptions to this are that under the Hindu Marriage Act multiple spouses are permitted with the consent of all spouses and ... well everything in the Muslim Marriage Act.

A Muslim woman can choose to be married under the special marriage act but most are not educated, don’t know they can, are pressured not to and it has to be done before marriage. It may forbid triple talaq but other provisions like custody and alimony still apply. And consider what it took to get even that passed. Protests, crazy ones just like for the CAA. And of course it’s repeal was one of the demands of the CAA protestors.
It's a bit like some of the costs that have been quoted for some of the covid track and trace apps.

Whilst I do realise some of these quoted costs involve more than just the development of the app itself, some of the numbers are utterly ludicrous IMO as a software developer. e.g. Germany's app apparently cost approx €20 million.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-launches-best-coronavirus-trac...
Is that sql docker exposed to the Internet or is there another network other than ‘web’ ?
"In "Can't Get You Out of My Head," Curtis plays a long montage of talking heads on U.S. cable news repeating the phrase "the walls are closing in," during the final days of the Mueller investigation. He accuses media organizations, including the Times and magazines like this one, of profiting from the frenzy and uncertainty of the past four years, obsessing over Trump's personal corruption and mendacity rather than the alienation and anger that brought about his Presidency in the first place."

The question I have of Curtis is whether he starts with a premise and then finds video to support it, or whether he derives his ideas from watching random archive video, or both. It would be fascinating to watch a "making of" documentary that shows how he finds the right archival footage.

Ideas like the above about MSM are the easy, obvious ones. It may reinforce what we already feel we know.

But his films are also filled with deeper reflections that are less obvious, which he can illustrate with obscure, memorable visuals.

If his films did not touch on the obvious ideas they might be too alienating, more like avant-garde art film.

If they only addressed obvious ideas the films might be too boring, more like documentaries on Netflix.

He somehow finds the right balance.

But I think these overarching general theories tying all these disparate clips together that he presents via voiceover... the "leaps" as this article describes them... these are what make his films worth the watch.

He has a true talent for that. He stretches but is careful not to go too far. That is what make his films unique, IMO.

His "general theories" are similar in effect to conspiracy theories perhaps. They can be very appealing to certain receptive audiences.

The big difference is the former seem to be designed to make you think while the latter (along with political correctness) seem to be designed to relieve you of thinking and appeal straight to emotion. His films always seem to suggest we cannot remove ourselves as factors in any outcome. We have to take some amount of responsibility. We cannot view ourselves as pure victims nor others as sole culprits.

As for this article, he reveals no overt objection to populism.

The title of this film is an homage to the author of "Bullshit Jobs", a self-described anarchist.
So Hindu and Christian marriage bills having different divorce timelines is the same as keeping Muslim women at the mercy of Muslim men where they can text a divorce? What kind of sick propaganda are you peddling in this whole thread? Can you name one civilised society where triple talaq and polygamy exclusively for men exists? It’s unfortunate that we can’t agree on this just because of our political leanings.
It’s hard to know what actually went wrong without being in the project itself - there’s probably organizational issues within Deloitte and bad incentives around the entire procurement process, but hard to know from the outside just seeing that it’s a disaster.
Hey CDC, I’ll build your website for half that price. By myself. And it will work. Just uh, hit me up haha

It’s insane how far those unfamiliar with software will take the mythical man month. Nonono throwing money and people at your problem is absolutely not guaranteed to solve it better.

My offer is of course a joke, well unless they want to talk specifics and I agree it’s reasonable to take on myself. Or just plain reasonable.
Many years ago early in my career I worked at an an engineering firm as a third-party contractor doing programming for a large municipal blackwater system.

Despite the fact that I was working on critical code implementing core requirements of the system, I was only paid $20/hr. I believe the firm was charged $40-60.

Long before I started working in the product and before any working software was deployed, the majority of the budget was spent. I believe they had at least three civil engineers, and a hands-off software architect who I only saw once, developing a document with hundreds of pages of studies and requirements.

I remember one severe issue we had was that I was not allowed to test on the real database or one of a similar size. So a main query was tested the day it was deployed (on some extremely expensive Oracle server which was very outdated). And unfortunately my query did not perform adequately on the larger dataset. But the senior programmer decided not to tell me or to try to fix it. He just truncated my query with LIMIT and said nothing. This resulted in the query breaking and showing an error, and totally incomplete and invalid data. It is amazing it actually continued at all from that point but unfortunately it did. I only found out about it several weeks later when the project manager decided to take me on a visit. Strangely, no one ever mentioned the issue, nor addressed my immediate suggestion that the software could not operate without the problem being fixed. I assume the other programmer just said "well that guy is inexperienced" and they had other projects to work on and no budget left so they just left it for quite awhile. Anyway I could not believe that so I left shortly after.
Also to be married under the Special Marriage Act you can really only have a civil ceremony at a magistrates office. If you have a religious ceremony, it does not apply.
You could use Renoise. It has a lua api [1]. There are some examples of using midi specifically [2].

[1] https://files.renoise.com/xrnx/documentation/Renoise.Song.AP...

[2] http://neurogami.com/blog/neurogami-using-lua-to-process-mid...
> As if it's a bad thing that Wall Street gangster hedge funds are finally feeling the squeeze

It's categorically false to suggest that Wall Street hedge funds are all suffering from this.

Some of them are making massive amounts of money on this situation. Some of that money comes at the expense of casual investors.

This idea that Redditors are siphoning money out of hedge funds is just not true for the last round of GME investors. In fact, those latest investors will probably end up funneling their losses right into hedge funds who short this on the way back down.
nVidia’s range of cards ship with dedicated hardware encoders; anything from the last half-decade can encode h264, and the 2000 and 3000 series cards can do h265 fast enough that a 4K stream renders frames and transmits across my local network (over ethernet) in less than 16ms. I’m not sure if AMD is shipping similar hardware.
should have hired the bois at palantir to build the system

(I am invested in PLTR)
You're no investigative journalist if you claim that the holocaust did not happen and that the jews made it up.

Also: it's not a "theory". A theory is something you can research and come up with a result based upon evidence.

Therefore "conspiracy theory" is just just wrong. A "conspiracy myth" fits perfectly since it's a myth with a conspiracy in it's core.

So saying that some fascists spread "conspiracy myths" about the holocaust makes sense while it legitimises their bs saying that they spread "conspiracy theories".
The real question is why are people incapable of regulating their own behaviour. It's convenient to say that talking about hanging politicians encourages this behaviour, and contributes to it

End of the day though -- why should my speech be held as responsible for another persons conduct?
I got an automatic redirect. Thanks for the article, it’s intellectually interesting and practically informative.
No, I want to see RSS every year as much as a True Indian want to see Pakistan Independence Day parade. Never.

RSS did not hoist Tiranga till 2002. Don't you know or you conveniently ignore?
Debian slim is certainly not 1GB. It is maybe 50-60MB larger than Alpine. And that is shared if you have multiple containers based on Debian slim.
I can't agree this more, once a moderator quoted about this in a moderation room: "I'm starting to become concerned that this room is somehow promoting the idea that all questions need to have an MCVE and/or that debugging questions are the only questions that are on-topic for Stack Overflow. That is not only wrong, it's horribly wrong, dangerously wrong. So I step in and correct this misconception as often as I can."
This is good advice! I’ve heard many engineers bemoan setting up SELinux policies however they’ll dump a non-trivial amount of time into security theatre.
maybe ppl were happier in a sense that ignorance is bliss. they simply did not have access to information like we have.
No, he’s being sardine.
I think it's still an argument, because in the real world, over 90% of the population is absolute cattle that do as they are told.

This upsets the 10% very much.
You can say that about any app though, everything kinda can be boiled down to a spreadsheet lol. This does probably have complex requirements, not saying it’s not egregious but this comment is facetious.
Some of them are available online.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=forrest%20mims
I hope you understand how unreasonable you sound to me. You're telling me that what I both saw and experienced, with verified fact and video evidence, isn't real. Your conviction that you know more about me and my life, than me, and your insistence on how invalid it is, makes you sound, frankly, like some sort of political zealot.

I tend not to waste my time convincing other people of things to this degree. I will share my experience, but beyond that, it would be unreasonable for me to tell someone else that their experience isn't even real, which is what you're doing.
We try to rationalize this when it affects apps we don't use. But censorship is a very slippery slope. No single company should have this level of power. Browsers will be next. Solidarity is the only answer to abuses as such. Shade Freud always begets irony.
They're getting paid for a deliverable. Why do you expect free work?
meta: why is there an influx of green users in this thread, and why does it look like they're pushing a specific narrative?
Yes, agreed, & thats why 100s of Sikhs are now in Jails around Red Fort, without any access to Lawyer or Phone Calls. But Modi Bhakats are tweeting all the way Missing Indira Mummy. They also want to burn Sikhs just like any power hungry party, be it 1984 like Congress, 2002 like Godhra.
are you also going to answer the phone calls and e-mails of thousands (potentially millions) of technology illiterate users?
Janet Yellen Got $810k to Give Speeches at Citadel
What do you mean by restore?
OK, so the fundamental problem with health IT is a greater problem in the commercial software industry as a whole. The buyer tends not to be the person who uses the software, and the more bureaucratic/ technocratic the process you use to get to the end user the more likely you are to not meet their needs. Put crudely and inaccurately, the procurement team end up going with the consultants who do a good game of golf.

Add government and a big consulting firm like Deloitte in health IT, and you'll be ready for a world of pain. Here [0] is a good paper on the topic.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22188347/
Shouldn't the base image be cached? So you would not be pulling it all the time.
Oh hmm, I've always approached it from the other direction, imagining a population of creatures with different genes interacting with the same environment. Like 10,000 very different shader programs (mutations of each other) running simultaneously, but sharing the same texture/environment/data. Analogous to each creature being its own process on its own CPU, ideally.

But I never saw how such a setup could be run on a video card. Admittedly, I got really disheartened about this stuff a decade ago when OpenCL and CUDA came out and seemed to be made for running one program on a bunch of different data. And complicated. Do you or does anyone know if things have changed?

The closest I've come to this lately is Unity shaders, but I vaguely remember there is a way to run Julia on GPU? Like if each different shader program is run as a layer in a rendering pass. Except rather than 8 or 16 layers, can modern GPUs run more on the order of 100+ layers? What's the limit?