skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An excellent analogy would be the metric system vs imperial measurement system, at least in the USA.

A productive and profitable country of feet and pounds and inches, but significant progress is usually made in labs full of meters and liters.

One could say the constant translation problems between the systems are something like an intelligence filter which provides its own rewards when not actively translating.
This line confused me for a while, because it looked like a copyleft provision to me.
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Misunderstandings like this are part of the problem.

Anyone can take out a short position. It's only marginally more complicated than buying a stock. Plenty of retail investors are taking short positions, too.

More importantly, the idea that short interest only goes down is a mistake. Anyone, retail or institutional, can close out a short position and re-open a new short position at a higher price. Total short interest remains unchanged, even though earlier shorts have been closed out.
GitHub won't terminate any contract with ICE now that they are owned by Microsoft, who has a ton of government and military contracts
I am totally behind that. The Ethos of the platform and the visibility it has are priming it for acceptance and its own market. When Open Source crystallizes around it, this could be the spark to break the duopoly of the mobile platforms (by framing a hypothetical future alternative), AND provide Desktop OS's an Ethos-First platform for releases, where the developers would want to be on their best behavior from the get-go.
Agreed, I doubt GitHub will do this but you know what, anyone could start an App Store linked to GitHub (or GitX, or all of them, doesn't matter).

This has been tried in the past - Freshmeat, SourceForge, but that was a different era and also none of them tried to upgrade and modernize. So now there seems to be a niche opening for this in 2021.

Make an App Store platform everyone would love to be on. Get developers on board by giving them first 2 years for free, then a moderate membership fee. Take a reasonable cut from IAP's against providing customer support for the payments/chargebacks/fraud. Just make it awesome, reliable and fair.
There's pushback on another app store from Microsoft because nobody wants more walled gardens.

The pendulum has shifted, and it's swinging towards PWA.

Per Microsoft, Outlook is now a progressive web app.

App stores are dying - they're just going to take a bit to timeout.
The difference to me is that rural ghost towns kind of just disappear.

Urban ghost towns require billions of dollars every single year: https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2018-1...
This article sounds like it's written by someone who read everything in a book, and painfully smacks of elitism. Big industrial cities like Detroit have fallen, and urban decay is abound, but it's not always a "major" industrial center. Take any moderately sized down in rural America and you will find a place that was once a boom-town. Employment, prosperity, and great strides in the live of its citizens, slowly evaporated as rail lines were cut, highways were built around, manufacturing jobs exported, and you will find not only urban collapse, but abandonment.
To a Docker outsider, to me this implies that Alpine for testing and non-Alpine for production is not harmful. Is that right? Wasn't having a unified environment half the point of using Docker? Doesn't two different base systems just open you up to a load of headaches? If so, then isn't it more of a "Alpine Linux as a Docker base is harmful" situation?
You're being quite selective here, sure the Debian way has it's positives but let's not pretend that model is free of problems -- there's been plenty of software that has been removed or is not allowed in Debian, and once you want a newer version of something that isn't in there then getting what you want can be difficult if you're not an expert, etc.
This is really cool. It's unclear if this is a community effort or not (getting page timeouts), but it would be great to see some experts in texture and lighting help bring this to the next level because the models already look great.
IEEE 754 round-off errors
> I don't know why you think dismissing legacy code is valid!

Because everyone everywhere has legacy code. In that sense, Python isn't split between versions any more than any other language, making that statement moot.

If you want to use type annotations, you can, for years now. If you want to use macros to generate macros in Rust, you can, it's not Rust's fault if you're stuck on 1.20 and don't want to upgrade.
To update an old teaching for modern times: He that is without security lapses among you, let him first impose sanction on those who have.

Or to put it more bluntly - all users have flaws, and if your system relies on users not having flaws for being secure, it isn't.
Cost benefit trade offs of Docker will fit some and not others. For smaller projects with less change and few+standard components Docker is probably overkill. In other cases Ansible is too fiddly or slow.

Still important to keep in mind those Docker images must be maintained too.
According to the actual covid death rates, infection rates, and projections, Sweden is doing about as well as the rest of Europe, and much, much better than the US:

https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden?view=total-deaths&tab=...

I’m not sure why Tegnell gets so much hate for doing a softer economic shutdown, and getting similar results as more draconian approaches. As a bonus, projections say they’ll hit herd immunity sooner than many
countries (assuming vaccine rollouts).

I guess, as you point out, history is written by the victorious, and Sweden’s minority approach will always be backed by a minority political voice.
They used to have a lack with casters and a bottom shelf which made it perfect for heavy storage servers. I just retired my storinator for a proper rack, but the lack was able to support a ~70lb (maybe more, its a beast) server without issue. The Casters made it really easy to work with given how heavy this server is fully loaded.

https://www.ikeaddict.com/ikeapedia/en/Product/10198411-2/ca...
I found your introspection valuable. I work as a presales engineer. When a customer has a problem and is stuck on something I become obsessed with it. But as soon as we have a fix or a workaround I lose interest in the area. This makes it hard to generalize the solution or publish it as a blog post.
>The EU is now coming late to a EU first supply policy, but still doesn't have the manufacturing capacity.

The EU is just naive with all the "let's do this together", e "lead by moral example", when in reality they should have placed precisely the first supply policy and everyone would be waiting for Pfizer vaccines until now.

It's sad, but it's the world we live in.
When I look back at the last 50 years of protests in the USA, the damned hippies turn out to be correct almost all the time.
In contrast, I was surprised with how "quickly" it was resolved, compared to my expectation.

MS is beholden to US.gov through contract cash and unspoken agreements - those ties are lessening, but are still pretty deep.
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An enormous amount of it comes from development, just the physical and chemical interactions of lots of dumb components making a pretty complicated whole.
It’s interesting. There are all sorts of memes about AI killing us (Terminator, et al) but none that I’m familiar with about AI getting us to kill each other.

Tim might be onto something here, even if it’s only a new way to look at the problem.
This author appears to be completely unaware that, in the US anyway, the progress of the pandemic has been completely and totally disconnected from all control measures.

San Francisco, where I'm told (and believe, based on having lived there) that they had very strict lockdown measures:

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/coronavirus.asp

* Population: ~900,000

* Total Cases: 31,111 (3,457 / 100k)

* Total Deaths: 324 (36 / 100k)

Compare Austin, TX, where I can personally attest that basically everyone has said fuck the rules for almost six months now

https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#...

* Population: ~2,400,000

* Total Cases: 68,290 (2,845 / 100k)

* Total Deaths: 655 (27 / 100k)

The stats are virtually identical despite dramatically different policy decisions. So what the hell is the point?

As an addendum, to put this into perspective: in 2020, Oakland's murder rate was 23/100k, making it _almost as high as the covid death rate_. Why is it that one year of covid deaths is a world-destroying incident, but _every_ year of Oakland deaths and nobody does anything about it ever? Are Bay Area people really just that racist?
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Agreed. Use it for what its useful for, ignore the rest. Social media in general is mostly noise. The key is to optimize the best use and ignore the rest. Honestly this is much easier on LinkedIn since I have a pretty limited subset of activities that I want to engage in there.
Serious question. Why doesnt he run for president? We need someone like him to sort all this all out because clearly the technically inept people we have in office have no ability or want to deal with it. Nothing has been done. We need tech people to deal with tech issues in a tech era.
I have a question regarding the moderation needs of stores: why exactly do we need stores for mobile devices, whereas we don't have any store or moderation for installing application on computers, or visiting websites?

Except various edge cases, you can technically visit any website that is served from any server, or you can install any application that has the correct binaries for your platform. What makes mobile devices different in this regard?
Growing up in Mississippi I often heard of the phrase "bombed out building" to describe old buildings and infrastructure that had decayed so much it looked like it had been bombed.
Here are some blogs to investigate

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
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> Essentially you either use the main server or you are a large org that can pay for a powerful machine to run it.

To be perfectly clear, the above was the original statement I was referring to and it is completely false.
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What do you mean by "manage the processes"?

Why would you need to touch postgres when updating your application?
That's a great site! Love it

But unfortunately, no. The one I remember wasn't TV-based. It was more like a normal blog but hosted on a university domain, iirc.
Exactly.

I'm afraid all the reasons the author lists, just boils down to: 'GitHub (Microsoft) should host all our apps because they listen to their users!'

What could possibly go wrong?
The devil is, however, most often in the details. Lines such as

> United States law calculates copyright terms differently for individual and “corporate” authors.

make me wonder what it is like in, say, France or Germany.
Great point.in addition to the excellent sibling comment on Ada, I would add that I have personally benefited (in the field of scientific computing) from contract programming facilities available in D

https://dlang.org/spec/contracts.html
All fine and good but what we need first is an antitrust case against apple and google just like we had against Microsoft back in the day when internet explorer was pre-installed.

Just now we have a situation where you can't even install an alternative app store in one platform and the other one is crippled.

And don't tell me apple has a small market share or you can use another vendor. Back when Microsoft was being forced to open up it was as extremely easy to install another browser and they still had to go to court.
Compression is weird.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
> Everyone who has been on WSB for more than a week perfectly understands that it is a gamble and you can lose it all.

On the surface, yes, but they've also been fed a lot of misinformation about how they're more likely to get rich than to lose it all. They think the odds are stacked in their favor, but that's definitely not true for the late entrants.

> Also, vast majority of WSB users (at least up to the last few days) are buying GME not to profit (according to their own words).

WSB isn't a democratic subreddit. They will downvote or remove any posts or comments that don't support the pump. They upvote any post or comment that encourages people to buy stocks they own.

It's a pump group. They gain financially by pumping the stock. They'll gladly upvote any narrative that encourages more people to pump the stock.

> And all these events obviously will leave a large mark on stock market and probably introduce some new regulations which is a good thing.

This topic keeps coming up, and I keep asking people: What regulations do you want? Or expect? Specifically, what regulations would help here?

If anything, we're going to see more regulations on retail investors after we see how vulnerable they are to falling for mass pump-and-dump schemes with the widespread availability of margin accounts.
So, what do I do if there are multiple secrets needed? How do I know which secret goes to what? This is just using a protocol as a stand in for a header variable, and it is decidedly not a URI.
RH say they scrambled to organise necessary credit lines in response to new DTCC requirements. Well why weren't they in place by Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday in the expectation that DTCC would increase these requirements? Volumes were already exploding with many days of advanced warning and IVs already approaching the hundreds of percent. There's a plausible alternative that RH is not being entirely truthful, and purposely didn't organise the required lines in order to satisfy their biggest customer, so they had a legal way to restrict trading. I don't have evidence that this is true, but nor would I expect to have this evidence at this early point in time.

I believe RH's explanation is probably the truthful one (Hanlon's Razor), but some scepticism is warranted.
Branding does matter, but friction would be extremely rough.

Windows is ironically an extremely open system. All users are very used to doing what other platforms would call side loading. And all apps on windows have developed their own methods for receiving updates.

The Microsoft store for windows is pretty sad. Not because the interface sucks, at least not more so than google or apple ones, but because there isn't a real incentive for developers or users to use it.

Searching for a ssh client on the windows store shows ZERO free options, and all of them look worse than PuTTY. They are in the windows store strictly for visibility; which is a good use of an app store. But without the major players who don't need the limited visibility of that store, they users won't think to look there for their needs as well.

If Microsoft rebranded their app store the Github app store, Or made some easy pipeline for github actions to publish to their store; there would be a fair amount of people yelling "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" as well as fearing that microsoft is using the good will of GitHub to get to a similar world of the closed gardens of the others.

Lastly, Microsoft has not done so well in the mobile phone markets. Creating an android store similar to F-Droid would be a hard sell and limited appeal. Google very likely won't let you install the windows app store from the google app store. Apple will never allow a competitor on their platform _at all_ unless legally required.

I don't see how a GitHub app store could succeed.
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I highly recommend that you diversify your media consumption portfolio. Your take here is from an alternate universe.
When I heard what macOS did for fractional scaling, I said “wait, they can’t actually be doing that, surely? I mean, that’s obviously a stupidly bad way of doing it!” And even if the proper solution required more work for individual apps (it’d be only a tiny bit at most), Apple’s in a better position than Microsoft to require that their developers get it right.

I’ve still not actually seen it for myself, and even having heard from multiple sources that yes, it really does work that way, I still find it hard to believe. It’s just… “here, let’s put higher-resolution displays in our laptops, but then scale things so badly that somehow it manages to be worse than a lower-resolution 1920×1080 panel would have been”. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I also find it utterly baffling.
This system is cool, because it is battery powered. On the other hand, decent 3D sensor can also monitor the interaction between product and customer much better. And also track the customer’s movements in the store during whole shopping tour.
> a huge amount of SEC scrutiny

A couple billion dollars in the bank buys you a lot of lawyers.

As Matt pointed out, AMC is doing it. I agree with dougmwne, this is the corporate kickstarter opportunity of a lifetime. They should take it.

It's also a negative feedback mechanism in a market full of positive feedback mechanisms (ie, the short squeeze). Creating more stock makes the market more stable.
Deloitte is a horrible consulting company. They designed an awful financial system implementation at the company I worked at and we just kept giving them more money and they kept bringing in more entry-level consultants. They even billed us multiple times for work we did ourselves... I thought it was also shady that one of our department heads was married to the Deloitte partner who led that practice area.
Even though I hate MITM services. I enjoy reading Cloudflare blog articles.
Game 51 was a draw, making Stockfish (version 20210113) the winner. The last 5 games are now being played to determine the margin of victory.
FWIW, the 0BSD license omits this line and has been OSI approved.
If there is stance to be made, it should be principled.

Today it's just companies reacting to any specific issue internet mob in social media has. They ban specific people or organizations based on mob activity.
F-Droid doesn't enroll as device administrator on your phone. I think Microsoft could easily pull that off if they wanted to which would let them push updates and manage applications the way Google does. My workplace already basically runs BYOD devices through some Microsoft Azure management thing.
My app is small small potatoes, I wouldn't use IDFA. I suspect Apples coming privacy tracking change will render most IDFA based cross app strategies irrelevant as developers scramble to eliminate that dreaded prompt.
Because there's less soft targets of mainstream wealth on Linux desktop...

...and the 0 days are saved for valuable servers and embedded devices
I know literally nothing about the legal landscape here. Are they allowed to be dishonest or even misleading in PR statements on topics like this? (I’m thinking of how much trouble Musk got in for “420”).
I agree that all languages have legacy code, that was sort of my point :)

> If you want to use type annotations, you can, for years now.

Yes! And it's a cool feature. Can I expect most libraries to provide types so that I know I'm calling them correctly? Is it going to be an uphill battle for my team to use them, because the community at large doesn't find them necessary? The default for a majority of Python codebases is to not use types, and that's totally fine, but that also means that rather than type annotations solving the super-grand-OP's concern, they're going to potentially add friction.

It's likely, and that's FINE, that you're going to be in dynamic-land when you're working in Python, due to the preferences of the community, and it's cool that you can use annotations if you yourself want to get some nice signature checking.
> While others only halted options

> - Interactive

False, IB halted buys of GME stock even with 100% available cash funds
Sure, but we are talking about a single threaded program that is not doing crazy data processing at all. I'm all for Rust but there is a fairly steep learning curve.
I always assumed it was a corruption from someone saying "bubble" with an exaggerated Chinese accent.

Granted, I now know this is wrong, since it's apparently a straight-up mashing together of the words for "big" and "bubble". So, funny how languages work.
We need multiple app stores with legislation on providing access and default searches, much in the same way EU will require devices to allow users to select default search etc..

A good amount of competition will help solve a lot of problems, and very strongly highlight the ant-competitive practices inherent in these value chain verticalizations.

I respect Google wants to form a Union to influence who can and cannot be on YouTube, at the same time, I want absolutely nothing to do with some foreign special interest group dictating content to me, so let's have some choice, thanks.
That isn't the same functionality.

- Linux kernel TLS doesn't provide a full implementation of TLS in the Linux kernel, only the symmetric encryption part. The handshake still has to be performed by the application in user space, and the application then needs to call setsockopt() in order to inject the keys into the kernel. By contrast, z/OS AT-TLS implements all of TLS (including the handshake), so the application doesn't have to do anything. As far as the application is concerned, a TLS socket looks exactly the same as a plain one (unless the application starts calling the AT-TLS ioctl, which will tell it whether a socket is plain or TLS)

- The Windows "kernel mode SSL" is only for the built-in HTTP server. It doesn't apply to clients, or to other protocols than HTTP. By contrast, z/OS AT-TLS works for any protocol, not just HTTP, and supports both clients and servers

So nobody has built the same functionality as z/OS AT-TLS in Linux or Windows. People have built some small subsets of z/OS AT-TLS's functionality, but not the generality that AT-TLS provides.
Thanks for the suggestions. They seem interesting.
> Spiers spoke about her experience with CWA and said she wanted to acknowledge that the alliance announcement was not an isolated incident. Now, she’s participating in a campaign to disaffiliate from the larger organization.

It's important to choose allies carefully. If you opportunistically work with an individual who's more invested in making scenes and silly sloganeering than using good judgment to accomplish meaningful change, you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out she's not much of a team player. Can't feel too bad for the CWA here.
Not the same industry, but it’s changing. Silicon Valley meets big Gov:

https://a16z.com/2019/10/03/anduril/

Basically, build first at the VC’s risk and then deliver a finished product to Gov.
Which question have I refused to answer ? I made quite clear where I stand as far as the RSS or the farmer protests are concerned. I will say that yet again, RSS has over its history been a silent approver of acts of violence refusing to distance itself from such acts. The farmer protests had sections, possibly govt sponsored, who indulged in violence. The farmer protest bodies have condemned these harshly and distanced themselves.

On the other hand you have not yet pointed out where I have called millions of Hindu a terrorist or where I have been inconsistent. Its you who called me names (that I consider millions of Hindu a terrorist)