skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Functioning democracies don't mysteriously have one party obtain 95%+ of the votes in every election.

Single party rule is naturally ineffective.

So when Americans try it in Flint MI and as a result of stellar leadership the water is undrinkable, send in the National Guard to fix things and its rah rah america F yeah stars and stripes forever.

But when foreigner militaries have to "reset" things after a decade of single party rule, suddenly its all "toppling democracy".

I find it fascinating that when Stalin and Hitler and Saddam Hussein got 95%+ of the vote, that's marketed as evil dictatorship, but when Myanmar gets similar suspicious numbers, "well that's just the beauty of democracy in action". It seems in practice the sole determining point for if you get marketed as a dictatorship or a shining beacon of democracy is how much the US State Dept likes you.

Another novelty of propaganda is we've been heavily indoctrinated for decades that dictatorships are inherently evil, yet ironically the one in Myanmar seems like pretty nice leaders. Of all the dictatorships to topple in a military coup, it seems a shame to topple one that's actually pretty nice folks.
Nothing against cool RPi projects but be aware that a motherboard with a NAS-grade Celeron, like ASRock J4105M, sells for $85 or so (but needs RAM, $20 for 4GB roughly). At $105, this leaves this carrier board around $35 of budget if you can get RPi CM4 4GB for $70. Plus all the doubts about reliability mentioned above.
AFAIK (just browsed https://unicode.org/main.html for a while to check), UTF-8 doesn’t proscribe that ‘a’ is a valid character either (or just as much as it proscribes that 0x00 is one). Yet, saying your code supports UTF-8, but rejecting ‘a’ is not a good idea.

And yes, they do wreak havoc, but not more than ascii strings containing null characters.
That sounds suspiciously like a "union rep."
Meet the nano-chameleon, one of the tiniest reptiles
> WSB has 7.6 million users

I keep seeing this metric everywhere, it's irrelevant, $GME became a meme stock, people are joining the sub to check out the fun, not to invest. Max 1% of them are really investing anything of value.
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I found this article very enlightening about Sino-Myanmar relations https://cm.scholasticahq.com/article/5874-sino-myanmar-relat...

I don't think we have any credible source for if china is in any way involved in current military coup. (Would be great if someone can correct me here)

But what we do know from past is

* China has previously financially supported military regime in Myanmar.

* China has vested interests in many infrastructure projects like dams, ports, oil and mining. There have been many human rights violations in these copper mines which are operated by chinese state owned companies [1].

[1]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/02/myanmar-suspe...
Just tell your broker to not loan your shares. If they weren’t bought on margin then they won’t loan them out. Standard broker agreements for margin accounts state that your shares can and will be lent. Sometimes you’ll even share in the profit from loaning them as in-demand assets for shorting often have a borrowing fee.

The analogies hold though - people sell things they don’t own all the time. The important thing to understand is it is based on promises to deliver an asset/money by a certain date.

Likewise people buy assets on margin all the time. This means people can buy things they don’t have money for based on a promise they will pay that money back. Credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, bonds, etc.

This is how our finance system works and for whatever problems it has, the future promise concept isn’t one. Especially with the regulations and limits on it.
Myanmar's mess isn't worth a single missile off a Predator drone. No more military interventions from the West please.
Doesn’t this 50% loss apply to the cum sum of gains though?

That is, if I started with $1 and made $1,000, a 50% loss would still be $500
It’s good for consumers because most of that advanced tech would not exist otherwise.

By the way, Tesla has stopped patenting their tech long ago and freely share it with the industry. Their moat is the actual execution, production lines, charging infrastructure and quality of the products, not patents.
I agree 100%, seems to be the case with plenty of Native Ad providers. At some point while watching the stats and the clicks roll in, you easily get the feeling that "this is not human behavior". It's a shame and totally not worth the money or trouble IMO. You would think it would be more regulated.
Not really, few percentage points of that sub are actually investing. Loud minority.
I've seen this issue report before. It doesn't substantiate the earlier claims made though. Particularly as these comments predate the improvements made to declarativeNetRequest since this issue was posted.
Price inflation in foodstuffs is often pretty subtle - the nominal price doesn't change, but ingredients are replaced with lower-quality (often less healthy), cheaper equivalents and sizes are reduced. Or, sometimes, the product itself retains its volume, but not its mass.

A great example of this is the mass replacement of butter and olive oil with the much cheaper soybean oil or canola oil. Just try to find bread (on the bread aisle) or mayonnaise that doesn't contain soybean oil. Even the mayonnaise specifically branded as OLIVE OIL! simply has olive oil blended with soybean oil.
Intel has also recently announced AVX512 VNNI (Vector Neural Network Instructions), but it is only available for the Xeon CPU family. Not desktop. This should significantly improve inference performance on the cpu.
Very well written article.
Cool location-based features for your app to add in 2021
Apple is hosting user created content though (in the form of apps). Don't they become liable for that hosting if they don't handle the DMCA request themselves?
>> a relatively stable config.

That's where I was on my last rig (AMD+nvidea). Every driver update was a dice roll. Am I going to play today, or spend three hours googling to figure out why my machine keeps booting into safe mode? Since I switched to AMD+AMD a few months ago: no issues. Maybe nvidea would give me a few more FPS at the same price, but you cannot put a price on "it just works".
> Linux users do not refresh their hardware too frequently generally.

> I'm running a GTX680 on my primary Linux box, but it won't be nVidia next time.

Well, you're kind of making their point. Your business is probably insignificant for them, you have an 8 year old GPU :-)
it's good for consumers because the it allows electric cars to exist, and consumers want electric cars. Ford or GM has the resources to make electric cars and mostly doesn't, so the regulatory system forces them to give those resources to somebody who will. that's good for consumers.

and of course, what's good for the planet is good for consumers because we have to live here. but the "pro-consumer" argument always seems to ignore that.
I've heard it called : dancing with the dragon.

Refers to the 'power' it gives to developers to soar high on a dragon and wield unknown riches and promise for a time.

Then sometime the dragon coughs, and well you get burned to a crisp ... Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Youtube are all dragons (naming only those).
I thoroughly enjoyed "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems" from Martin Kleppmann.

It's a great book that goes into pretty much all of the commonly used strategies to scaling data-intensive applications. It's not incredibly deep on any of them but it will allow you to get a great overview of the entire space. For each component, there's usually references to places where you can read and study more about them.
I read somewhere that holding s&p for 30 years at any arbitrary period, worst you could was 2x
If I was responsible for ingesting and returning JSON strings from a server, my attidue towards people who require nulls in them would be rather juvenile and brash - "lmao fuck em".
A quick internet search tells me that between 50 and 74% of adults (depending on the source) need some for of vision correction. That's very much not niche. Also it's a pretty bad example because very rarely do you need to worry about "corrective lense accessibility", except maybe for things like VR helmets.

A better example would be things like wheelchair accessibility for instance, which is indeed very much not implemented everywhere.

To be clear I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to implement accessibility features, It's actually quite commendable. I just feel like in practice it's a lot of additional work to get it right and even then it may not do much good at all. Again, while the "lang" attribute is technically supported by HTML, I struggle to find places where it's used in the wild, even in places where it doesn't seem like it would be technically difficult to do it (like dictionaries and language learning websites).

If I was a gemini developer I'd definitely listen when people complain about bad accessibility, but I would also take the time to understand how people deal with things like multilingual content in practice and how to make it easier, because clearly at the moment "lang=" is not it.
How do we fix the startup ecosystem?
We conducted a case study with 150 people about what needs to change in the startup eco-system. The answers might surprise you.
At that price any copyright lawyer will be happy to deal with the paperwork. You were making 2000/month, so the infringement is taking money away. For a share of that it is easy to register the copyright and then send the proper letters. Probably this will settle out of court where apple pays your lawyer from fund the developer would have got and then removes the app. you get nothing directly from the lawyer except that next months all your sales come back to you since there isn't the competitor.
> As long as a creditworthy institution guarantees the same stream of dividends, they are identical in value from the investors perspective.

No, the stream of dividends doesn't have identical value.

There are other relevant corporate actions.

Shares can vote, your stream of dividends cannot vote.

If the company spins-off a segment it may distribute shares of the new company to shareholders while the owners of that third-party stream of dividends won't get anything.

If someone wants to acquire the company they will make an offer to buy outstanding shares, they won't care at all about those syntethic streams of dividends.

In general, if you want to sell a delta-one derivative that's fine. But you cannot sell that to someone who wants to buy a stock!

Would you want to be delivered a derivative when you bought a share in the market?

That wouldn't be shorting the stock, it would be selling something else. Related but far from identical.
Right, why not just conduct auctions?
Fair enough; but they wouldn't know the Function key equivalent either.
how is fable better than ts, could you elaborate?
Unicode standard has made bad choices over the years. "Because it's valid Unicode" is not a good reason to do anything. It's better to detect errors in strings sooner than later.

If you want to carry any valid UTF-8 string, you can as well treat them as binary blobs and solve the issue.
Amazon Affiliate commissions drastically drop off in Europe
When we make mashed potatoes, we slice potatoes in chunks, add them to an instant pot with salt and water, cook it for 8 minutes, and after it's done we drain the water, add a little milk and butter (not a lot) and mash it all up. Tastes great, and doesn't take all that much effort, really.
Glide (YC W19) is hiring Software Engineers (remote)
This is very much a description of the fiasco US encountered in Iraq.

The battle was a total triumph, but aftermath a tragedy, and mainly so for mind boggling incompetence of post-war Washington policy effectively instigating a civil war, then backing one side in it, then another, and then showing a middle finger to both, and walking away.

All of this could've been avoided under different leadership.
I'm pretty certain you can trace a lot of the current fervour over short-sellers to Elon Musk's ongoing paranoid rants about how they're evil and trying to ruin Tesla. There's likely a large crossover between WallStreetBets posters and Elon Musk fans.
Martin also has a short course about distributed systems on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_HdUFe...

And I found some MIT course as well on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...
Isn't 'writing general purpose libraries' most programming? I think GUIs and database modelling are pretty niche.
Nice, but the Gen10 HP ProLiant Microserver is my NAS platform of choice.

It supports ECC and has 4 cable-free swappable bays plus space for an SSD system drive in the top. The bolts-as-caddy system is also a great idea.
Book Review: The Lean Startup
Ah customer versions of knockoffs of soviet tanks then :-)
String Encoding Explained in Ruby
I went and did a season at mcmurdo in 2011. Its an amazing place and anyone with any amount of adventuring in them should make an effort to go work a season. It's life changing.
No that's false. Short selling a stock doesn't reduce the business's assets (except for treasury stock) or increase it's liabilities. Even if theoretically short sellers drove the $GME share price to zero the GameStop business would still exist.
I can't say I agree at all.

Naked short system is potentially very disruptive (like we are currently experiencing with GME), is essentially a tool for entities with large capital to synthetically induce bankruptcy earlier than necessary, and poses systemic risks. There is a reason there are regulations that attempt to guard against it.

See: Dark Side of the Looking Glass, a 9-part lecture on the same. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWzOjB8qtU
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

If you are using some js library with the MIT license in your frontend then you are distributing a copy of the software. You have to include the notice somewhere on your website (typically next to the library)
An electric race car has lapped Daytona for the first time
Economists, as a rule, shouldn't pretend that they are ethicists.
And indeed there are discussions to create a CO2 tax on gasoline. You can say that's more fair than a price on the car itself, as then it punishes frequent drivers more than people who drive less. In general though, your individual CO2 production doesn't matter that much, instead the population's emissions matter. And on a population level, you can create statistics about how many km each bought car will drive on average, and base the different car prices on that. Whether you want to punish frequent drivers or everyone who buys an ICE car is a political/social discussion. In general, a tax on gasoline is not helpful in getting people to switch if there is no EV car around they can switch to. In Germany, gasoline is already extremely heavily taxed, and still people drive a lot. Even in the current stage, where there are few EV cars compared to ICE cars, economics of scale still favour ICE cars, so there is still an effect in favour of EV cars. Maybe that's what such measures counteract?
I'd say this.
Flutter vs. Xamarin vs. React Native: choice criteria in 2021
> I suppose it's getting robbed?

America.
I have been doing coding for some years now. Went from terrible to average and sometimes even good. Still no passion. And I'll never be one of the really good devs, my learning speed during work isn't high enough. I know what to do to get better, how to practice. But that would require huge time investments during my after work hours.

And for what? Doing more of the same I don't really like, so that my employers profit even more of my work? I can't convince myself to spend time that way and don't believe I could do it for more than a couple of weeks before burning out. So, maybe you start liking what you do if you become really good at it. But there is an assumption, that anyone can become really good at what they are doing. Or if I remember that book correctly, that case was covered by noticing that everyone else is going to drop out of the profession. In any case, not everyone drops out of the profession who isn't good at it and not everyone who stays inside the profession will become good eventually. But sure, whose who are really good will properly enjoy it.
TBF it isn't Germany that lacks a backbone but rather the entirety of the EU. Even if Germany wanted to make a statement I don't think they would risk dragging eastern EU members into a spat since they are already busy buddying up to China.
If you exclude both regulatory credits & Elon's stock options then Tesla is significantly profitable.

If you're cherry-picking revenue to exclude due to "reasons" then you have to be fair and cherry-pick similar expenses to also exclude. If so, Elon's stock option expenses should also be excluded.

- they're non-recurring. The company has to hit higher EBITDA and market cap goals for Elon to get another award, so at steady state Elon gets nothing.

- they don't impact cash. Elon gets stock, not cash, and he doesn't sell them so it doesn't even affect float.
There are plenty of self-published books on https://leanpub.com/ and https://gumroad.com/
They won't block google because they are aligned with US. Google will probably remove it's news tab in Australia.

No matter which country. news organizations have to eventually find a way to organize and deal with their internet providers to get a fee based on quality and quantity of news they provide.
> Your $60 Swatch had a battery-powered quartz movement which was a lot simpler than whatever he was showing you.

Simpler maybe, but it's 100% mechanical: https://www.fratellowatches.com/tbt-the-original-swatch-auto...

I made a mistake though, not from the 80s, but from 1991.

> why did you feel the need to rain on your friend's parade?

That's the point, I didn't know there was a parade to begin with
Nintendo Switch sales surge past those of the 3DS
They have a very close relationship with North Korea and host knowledge sharing meetings with them. They are trying to model their dictatorship after NK.
In Chile, there has been a growing anti-China sentiment over the past several years as they began dominating the retail sector, pushing out many locals’ jobs.
True. We trust all tenants. It's a way of separating tenants beyond database schemas or organization_id columns.
>M1 Macs can't readily boot from external drives.

That's surprisingly shitty for such a premium product, especially coming from a company that claims to be reducing e-waist.
In fact the "fractional" part goes the other way.

You can lend the whole share you bought.

But the bank cannot lend the whole dollar you deposited, they have to keep a fraction of it as reserve.
> When nVidia got what it wanted from Linux by dominating compute space using CUDA, they've just left visual part of their drivers to rot.

In their defense, from their point of view, gaming on Linux is a tiny fraction of their overall business and, presumably, even their Linux one. For them, Linux is the same as HPC and ML model training and, maybe, cryptocurrency mining.
Myanmar is already sanctioned from all but humanitarian aid.
>> Sanctions won’t work, but tanks would.

Southeast asia + tanks = bad mojo. Study the history. Tanks are white elephants in areas dominated by mountains and rainfall (both are tank kryptonite). Sure, US air power could dominate. They can use the same flightpaths they used in Vietnam, to the same ends. Myanmar is a country where light soldiers, guys with AKs and flipflops, are far more capable than a dozen tanks sinking into the mud.
Show HN: Abstract networking layer over multiple transports (JS)
Startups that own their success to Ruby on Rails
Maybe an "app store developers union" wouldn't be such a terrible idea
Jet did, but they're now dead...or do they still live on inside of the greater Walmart (Labs?) organization?
That's a good point, but in practice, it works fine on Linux. It looks like the static content of the disk, including CURRENT.UF2, is all at the start, so the only time you could have a mix of CURRENT.UF2 content and the uploaded uf2 in a single page cache entry would be the very last of CURRENT.UF2 and the very start of the new flash content. I'm tempted to wave my hands and say that will work out fine (since that content would be overwritten again when reaching the end of the uploaded uf2) but it does seem like a potential problem and it would be nice to know why it's okay..
> The point is that the value of AAPL is just the value of its future dividends

This is simply not true at all. Like anything that can be bought and sold shares derive their value from supply and demand.
Hooray for English words where antonyms sound almost exactly the same. Prescribe/proscribe.
> Like, if people want to download trash on their Windows computer, who am I to stop them?

I think that attitude was fine pre-internet, but these days we are all sharing a network and there's an analogy that can be drawn with public health policies. App stores are one small part of the strategy to help reduce the number of machines that end up as part of a bot net or other similar uses.
yes, that is doing it for good, the morally compromised part is that the DMCA is a solution created to allow big content owners to shut down whoever they want without any culpability.

Most often things are morally neutral, and can be used for good or bad, some things are morally bad and it is difficult to use them for morally good things, and some things are morally good and it is difficult to use for morally bad. But most things are morally neutral. I think the DMCA is morally bad, but here he can use it for a moral good. But even when you use a morally bad thing for good it is still slightly bad, as in people could point at his usage here (if he chose to use it) and say "see the DMCA isn't bad" and the benefit for the bad solution his good usage promotes would taint his good usage ever so slightly.

As I tend to be more of a pragmatist I would say use the DMCA takedown if possible, but I can understand someone else feeling that would be bad.
That's what I meant. Tesla is not the only company that can build EV cars. Eventually they have to compete.

They have non traditional approaches to some things, and in that regard they might be able to build EV cars more cheaply than competitors, and it probably also helps that they have lots of experience now, but eventually the fact that the cars are electric won't be the killer feature any more.
The App Store review is about protecting Apple, not the users.
Yeah I'm not a fan of the law either. Google's response was also irritating: plastering ads for their video (against the new law) on every search made from Australia.
I think you're out of luck simply because Americans dominate the English speaking internet. According to loosely eyeballed data [0], Americans account for over 20% of English speakers (a commanding plurality) and over 60% of native speakers. It might not be fair, and there are plenty of valid reasons to want to talk about other countries and other perspectives, but it's going to remain the default perspective of the English speaking internet unless demographics substantially shift.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
I wonder if there are a load of failed submissions too. They'd want to minimise effort so I guess they'd have good ways to quickly rebranding an app as a new one.