skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably not a coincidence or an oversight, but rather a "what can we get away with" attempt, similar to previous efforts to remove UBlock Origin.

But why? Matrix is tiny and no threat to Google services.

I'd personally expect three letter agencies to be involved here. The US government has been aggressively going after encrypted communication for years, with extreme tactics like personal intimidation and secret courts. Read this story about a secure email provider if you doubt it. [1]

This doesn't work so well with EU based companies, even though they have been pushing EU governments to do the same. (There recently was a leak that the encryption ban currently discussed in the EU parliament has some roots in Five Eyes efforts and that governments were pressured by the US to support it. Published by FAZ or Sueddeutsche, I'm trying to find the article...)

I also doubt that iMessage and What's App gaining "backdoors" to their encryption is purely motivated by user experience.

At a time where a lot of people want to switch communication platforms, nipping any such efforts early might well be viewed as important.

"Abusive content" is a convenient excuse that can be arbitrarily applied.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-...
I don't think this is necessarily true. Analogies are useful to help build bridges when two parties have differing corpuses of knowledge.

If I want to discuss the merits of different woods in cavaquinho construction with someone that's spent all of their life in an office, then it is almost always easier to work in an analogistic manner that spend hours upon hundreds of hours building up their knowledge.

If it's a _debate_ with two parties trying to convince the other of a point, then analogies begin to fall short.

You did say _conversation_ though. Not all conversations are debates.
This never seemed quite believable to me.

Outside of some pretty narrow circumstances, hunting (presumably small game) by chucking stones seems like a very hard way to make a living. It's easier for me to imagine a club being or non throwing stick/spear being a game changer than rock throwing.

There are living traditions of so many kinds of human hunting methods. Rock throwing is not in the top 1000. OTOH, there are many hunting/fishing methods that require nothing but bare hands and knowhow. If throwing rocks is such a breakthrough, why does no one do it anymore? Meanwhile, the few hunting methods and/or tools that chimps use are represented in extant human hunting behaviour.

Also fighting. I've never seen involved in a paleohuman duel but if I had to, I think I'd choose the hitting stick over a rock. The david vs goliath approach doesn't leave much room for error... and David had a sling.

I mean, the technical parts details of this theory is interesting. Explosive movement abilities developing in the Erectus lineage. I just think the rock throwing seems off.
> you are behind the times

Seriously? What is wrong with running programs natively without any layers in between?

Also, IIRC PostgreSQL isn't recommended to be run in docker due to a possible data loss?
What are your favorite Linux/Unix blogs?
I wonder if we could implement a decentralized version of SO. It can be a CLI app since it is used by developers only. The app can keep all question/answers of topic relevant to the developer locally. This will allow developer to find answers offline as well. Since it is only text data it should not take more than a GB.
Ask HN: Risk of Broker Bankruptcy Due to GME?
Robinhood had to take a billion dollar emergency loan to meet it's requirements. We have seen Robinhood is a very shakily run brokerage with lots of downtime and was fined last month for illegal activity in how it handled client accounts. Interactive Brokers CEO pointed out that if one brokerage goes bankrupt, the other brokerages are obligated to pay off its debts. In the case of a massive GME short squeeze that crushes Robinhood, what are the odds other brokers go bankrupt too?
That’s quite a stretch to blame the last part on the FAA haha.
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Building management, landlord, local charities and residents association are using whatsapp and Facebook, good luck moving them.
What does the tail risk look like on this strategy and what kind of annual return do you expect?
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> You assume so, for Volta onwards that's not true.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.06826.pdf

NVidia's SASS on Volta is pretty clearly SIMD-instructions. The PTX "virtual machine assembly" is fully documented. SASS is not documented, but it ain't a secret either. SASS follows closely with PTX, with exception of some "barrier bits" that seem to track dependencies (probably compiler-managed read/write dependency chains).

> Each SIMT thread on NVIDIA GPUs for Volta onwards has its own instruction pointer. And yes, it's scalar instructions at the ISA level.

When your "scalar" instruction executes 32-threads in parallel (subject to an execution mask), that's called SIMD.

The instruction pointer is to resolve deadlock conditions with locks, and the 32-wide SIMD cores will execute one-at-a-time to prevent deadlocks. But your goal as a GPU programmer is to get as much 32-wide execution going on as possible.

1-at-a-time serialization is very, very bad for performance. Its POSSIBLE to do on Volta, but highly recommended you stay away from that cornercase (you lose over 95% of your performance).
Our Qt version is currently being revamped, in the interim I suggest the GTK version :-)
This article is interesting but tautological. It is arguable that philosophy is arguable.
Get yourself an US ISO keyboard or US keycaps and then set up a modifier key combination for special characters, it's best if you have some extra keys dedicated for macros though.
I don't think there is a huge difference between the "weight" of the two. And when you have a small amount of chrome over a web engine the difference is almost certainly imperceptible compared to where the "real work" is happening.
The Career Page Crisis
Insurance company I use to work for made it really difficult to actually buy their car insurance online cos they'd virtually always loose money if you bought their online deals. The website tried to get you to phone with your quote so that sales reps could bump your price up for basically no reason. If this was too much then they'd pretend to talk to their manager for a few mins to "see if they could get you a good deal" come back on the phone and make up another price for you. Worked on old people best. Lovely.
Is interesting to read the words of Trotsky just after the Munich agreement was signed, predicting the upcoming Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the upcoming war:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/10/predict.htm
Seriously? It's a test flight of an enormous brand new rocket! It exploded! It doesn't matter what the flight plan is or what SpaceX claims is enough clear airspace. Launches of this sort endanger every flight in Texas and several surrounding states. It also endangers many civilians. While the danger can be monitored and controlled to acceptable levels, every single government in the world would want close oversight of this. It would be deeply irresponsible to let SpaceX proceed unhindered with an experimental rocket launch. As a US taxpayer with family in Texas I would be very pissed off if the FAA wasn't enforcing the terms of their test licenses.

... especially when the rocket EXPLODED. This "the government needs to get out of the way of our billionaire spaceship overlords" mentality would be insane even if the launch was an unqualified success.
Having all countries in the EU in the same boat when it comes to vaccines seems like a good thing to me. Now we have this spat between the EU and UK, but if every nation in the EU negotiated by themselves we might have a conflict between EU countries themselves... That's not to say the EU didn't screw up along the way.
Running docker with homebrew and on docker, no problems. I am not using antivirus as they produce many problems on mac (and are hellish slow), i guess the problem is really on triggered by antivirus software.
We love our walled garden.

Don’t upgrade for a few weeks, and the hardcore fanboys will have fixes for all the annoying little breaks.
2^30 is just above 1 billion. Isn’t “billions of colors” at least imprecise, if not false advertising?
>being around some of the most brilliant engineers

I think this is key. If you have great coworkers on-site work really helps your development. But if your team sucks, it can stifle it. Having been on both sides, I would place an emphasis on your team, especially early, and look for jobs that have a strong mentorship program
Commands that download random 3rd party code and dependencies from the internet are precisely the kind of thing that should be included in a virus scan, surely?
Robinhood had to take a billion dollar emergency loan to meet it's requirements. We have seen Robinhood is a very shakily run brokerage with lots of downtime and was fined last month for illegal activity in how it handled client accounts. Interactive Brokers CEO pointed out that if one brokerage goes bankrupt, the other brokerages are obligated to pay off its debts. In the case of a massive GME short squeeze that crushes Robinhood, what are the odds other brokers go bankrupt too?
Thanks, you're right. I was looking at their "fixed" price structure, I wasn't aware that "tiered" was an option. You've actually changed my mind on this; eliminating PFOF wouldn't be as bad for retail customers as I initially thought.
There's a lot of metadata not being caputred by MetaData which would be insanely useful for a lot of purposes. It would be kind of neat if a lot more of that was captured... and if SO answers had more programatic access.
For desktop software, I really like the Jetbrains model. They reward loyalty by giving you a discount for continued usage. ($149 for first year, $119 for second, and $89 from third year onwards)[1]

And if you have paid for one year and then decide to stop paying, you can download a perpetual license for the version you were currently using.[2]

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/store/#personal?billing=yearly

[2] https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Reading it, i get a strange deja-vu. Having been spending the past 3 months on implementing Ryu to do the reverse operation, this looks a lot like what Ulf Adams have been working on to do the reverse based on Ryu. The lookup table are really close and the map look the same.

While Ryu and Ulf work is indeed cited for the reverse, i do not see any acknowledgement for his work on the string to float version.... despite really close similitude.

I suppose sometimes it is too obvious...
Ask HN: Can you secure a loan from a friend with startup options?
Hi HN

I'm in the fortunate position of having a large amount of money (on paper) in startup options, and in the unfortunate position of not being able to afford the tax.

It seems that generally people recommend borrowing from family or friends, and then paying back when the stock is liquid. I have a friend willing to lend me a not insignificant amount of money ($350k), so I can exercise my remaining options.

However, my startup's option agreement says that:

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, this option and the rights and privileges conferred hereby shall not be sold, pledged or otherwise transferred (whether by operation of law or otherwise) and shall not be subject to sale under execution, attachment, levy or similar process.

For anyone who's been in a similar situation, does this kind of legalese preclude me from saying "When company X is liquid, I'll pay you back the loan, otherwise I'll give you the options"?

Of course I suspect the real answer is to talk to a lawyer, if anyone has any recommendations for that I'd be all ears as well!
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This was not the EU pushing, rather the smaller countries were scared that they'd be left out and thus put pressure on the German government to agree to do it jointly.

That said, the main source for the story tha the negotiations were advanced is the German health minister who has skin in the game and reason to try and assign the blame elsewhere...
> Text requires at least two bytes (it needs a separator), and negative numbers require yet another byte.

True.

> it's hard to make a point that they occupy less storage

No, like I said, it would occupy less storage for sparse data. That's true even with separator characters (2 bytes as against 4). Doubtless there are much better solutions for representing sparse data that aren't human readable. A simple (index, value) dictionary, say.

> it can represent infinitely large numbers

Right, there's no upper bound beyond the limitations of the systems, although again a non-human-readable bignum format could do this more efficiently.
Sure.

Corruption

Ursula von der Leyen. Just the wrong person. I would say it sounds very much like corruption to me.

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-scandal-hanging-over-urs...

Seems that France tried to help it's own company Sanofi.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/macron-accused-of-holding...

Bureaucracy

Eu approved weeks later then others. If every day counts that is in my point of view a bureaucracy disaster.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-e...

Here also a claim from Pfilzer about ordering policy as too bureaucratically and slow.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/01/france-to-step...
I won't hold you to this, even though you are guaranteed to lose in this bet even if you are right - because the trial for 5-12 that would allow to vaccinate them is not expected to yield any data until later than that. Even if you are right, it will still be here in that age group.

Also, there's a nature paper from last week that shows incredible correlation between Sun UVB at 34% of equator and the date that a wave starts. Covid will be gone by June, just like last year, thanks entirely to that effect (and possibly arrive again in Sep/Oct, or not). I'm not interested in meterology, but it's possible that even if I'm right, by end of March covid will be very dim in correlation with UVB exposure.

The amount of data actually attributable to cause and effect is incredibly miniscule. I do data science for a living. The headlines are basically all wrong, most discussions are, and quite a bit of the primary data cannot be right.

added: p.s - Did you actually read the papers before calling me a lier (or after?) or just did it based on headlines. I'm not holding it against you either way, just wondering.
None. Most of the content on Stack Overflow is just people repeating what they heard from a more authoritative source looking for some internet points. (and often when it gets repeated it loses accuracy, context, and a real understanding of the issue at hand) There is a small subset of content that is original and not posted elsewhere but its not that common to be worried about. Often quality answers come from a person who has already published work somewhere else (eg. white paper, book, blog, documentation, etc).
I think they were referring to their wealth, not income
> So when do average developers just start considering macOS toxic and stop supporting it?

Presumably at the same time breathless and misinformed comments stop being posted to HN.

In this case returning EINTR is documented behavior and the bug is thusly on PostgreSQL not handling it (correctly or at all).
Given how dated many of the answers are on Stack Overflow are, that refuse to get updated and prevent people from asking and answering similar questions on software versions that aren't from 2013, this has already happened but more slowly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law

Governments can try but you can’t beat Gresham’s Law. No one wants your debased paper money anymore.
I'm curious as to what the biggest win in terms of speed was here (in terms of an approach, good lookup tables?). Also I'm curious how this compares to the many (?) JSON parsers that have rolled their own number parser because everyone knows the standard library is so slow ... (just more accurate?, faster?). Regardless, kudos to the authors on their work!
thats a huge hurdle for normal people, it means you can't make a business out of selling things that way unless you have an established product like fortnite
Much wow

Very blockchain

Good boi
Missed opportunity for Typing of the Dead accessory!
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Ask HN: Is there somewhere to find a mentor to help grow a book?
Hello

I have a book I'm growing that has been useful to people but with no formal marketing. I see a lot of advice for start-ups here but I was wondering if there's some group or individuals that are interested in supporting the growth of books?
> I personally don’t see a difference in logically sound and logically valid

They aren't the same. These are standard terms in logic, as explained in the Wikipedia article.
Skimming through the paper, it seems they don't referece or review other recent GPU languages, just OpenCL and CUDA. Seems curious as it's an active area.
I program as a day job and kept a small nightly gig as a veterinarian, which was indeed my degree.

How common is coding as a hobby? I used to code as a teenager as many here. Made the switch for many reasons.
Reddit is by far the hardest to quit tho. I get constantly dragged into the shitshow, but can't really get off, because there is useful information there, I can't find anywhere else.

In a similar way, I can't quit smartphones for encrypted messaging and navigation (not even Google Maps, but OSMand).
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ungated: https://archive.is/JMLcp
> there's so much on StackOverflow about bugs, pitfalls, caveats, breaking changes, rationales, use cases, background, etc

this question is closed as off-topic.
Instead of putting some money into good service in two sided markets, Google is fine with automatized or low effort curation. High visibility post in Hacker News seems to be how errors can be corrected.

Monopoly power in action. There is little pressure to fix this.
seriously would love to find another strong career page. can't find one!
"Mebibyte" and similar units were only coined in 1998, a few years after the era of 4mb/8mb graphics cards.
> I would say this knowledge adds to discourse when used appropriately.

We could say this about very nearly everything that exists.
How do you compete with factories offering these streamlined logistics services and marketing direct-to-consumer on Amazon?
That seems to me like saying that Google Search is insignificant because it only shows content from elsewhere.
So when a hospital switches from in-house clinical pharmacists to your service, what happens? Do they leave the hospital and you hire them, or are they just fired and have to find a hospital you haven't taken over yet (what happens when there are none in their city)? Is there a way they could remain embedded in their hospital community whilst also providing expertise to your service, potentially you could get a wider variety of questions through your service this way too, to grow the range of things you can handle.
Of course there is. There's Gitlab and Gitea, at the very least. They aren't very popular, but they don't need to be as long as signing up is easy or as long as they offer federated/social login.
In my opinion the usefulness of Stack Overflow is vastly overstated. It's nice to find a few examples to get started in a new framework that lacks documentation (when there's documentation at all...) but generally speaking non-trivial questions never get answered anyway.
I haven't used it in at least 6 months, maybe even a year if my memory serves me well.
Oh we could start fresh with actual up to date answers!
How is returning EINTR undocumented? It’s part of the POSIX interface.

It is true that typically Apple doesn’t care if they change things within the limit of the specification and 3rd party applications fail. That’s why they release beta versions.
There are liberally millions of app, Apple can't expect all of them to be always up to date on day one, to even sw like postgres. You can't just change the semantic of an API, it's just wrong. Apple should introduce a new API, deprecate the older one and remove it two or three versions later minimum. They just don't care until people is going to buy their hw.
NeoChat does work on Plasma Mobile but it is still missing a few features to be production ready. https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/23/announcing-neochat-1.0-the-...

I'm currently working on encryption support in the base library: https://github.com/quotient-im/libQuotient/pull/443 and once this is done the other big missing feature are notifications.
I once had a side-gig where I advertised auditing out-sourced coding. Basically hundred-k loc reviews. It was fun, but word got around that I was good at it (uncovered security issues, reduced costs by finding things that could be optimized, etc). It’s on my resume, and that’s how interviewers know I can do the job. I can tell “war stories” about the code I reviewed, how I handled engineers that tried to obfuscate the code, etc.
The slippery slope fallacy (which I see made the list) is often abused in discourse to argue against anyone proposing that A could plausibly lead to B, even if the person thinks there's a fairly low probability of it playing out.

I would go so far as to say it's not a legitimate fallacy. People can both overestimate or underestimate the probability that A will lead to B, but we call the former fallacious and not the latter, which makes no sense. If we think that the former should be validly called the slippery slope fallacy then we need a fallacy for the latter too (inertia fallacy? fallacy of lack of imagination?)
Even boards and licences won’t keep one from being a bad recruit. It has the same value as a CS degree I guess most people applying will have, and you’ll still be whiteboarded.
I don't know about you, but where I live the government provides reasonably coherent and researched information on the therapeutic value of cannabinoids [0]. There are also government grants available for legitimate research in the field. Not to mention several subjurisdictions in which the governments hold the legal monopoly on sales and distribution of cannabis product.

It was edifying to read in senate committee reports, during the run-up to full nationwide legalization a few years ago, that no better treatment for anorexia and nausea due to anti-cancer chemotherapy has been found than THC, that CBD has clinically significant effects on certain kinds of epilepsy, that a combination of the two has been clinically demonstrated to slow the growth of certain neuromas, and that use of cannabis as an anti-anxiety drug is strongly contraindicated because of a marked rebound effect. All of these facts, and many others (like cannabis use with MS: no published study has shown any effect), footnoted and linked to published, peer-reviewed literature. Unfortunately I can no longer find the original report to the committee but I did find the official government communication (see [0]).

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...
with a human in the loop, this is IRC.