skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's easy enough to imagine implementations that allow the addition of software vendors to the package system that permits regular updates. Many of the Linux package managers (e.g., Apt, Portage) permit this; for example, on Gentoo, I install Steam by adding Valve (/Steam) as a place that the package manager can obtain packages from.

That's not to say Apt/Portage are by any means perfect; the nature of how they are configured is definitely not going to be friendly to your typical Windows user. But I think it is possible to wrap that in a UI that adequately expresses "okay, you're adding the ability to install software from this vendor, and [the package manager] will help keep it patched & up-to-date."

I think we also need to combine that with better security models, so that desktop software isn't necessarily granted access to everything by default.

But UI design trends have spent the last decade "simplifying" UIs down so much that they fail to solve the problem at hand.
Yes, but it's possible the company also had a bigger debt than assets and no hope of turning things around...
Anecdotally I’ve seen a few people move to Florida (not necessarily Miami) now that remote work is apparently here to stay.
I know, but most often the answer doesn't rise to the top and you have to look closely at the dates to have some context. Dead links and now-useless answers are my day to day stackoverflow experience.
Being close to clients and money flows. I spent a year writing vaporware for imaginary use case, younger generation takes this as an opportunity to build up skills, but I can not stand it any longuer.
Fractional reserve banking in the real economy is utterly irrelevant thanks to the FDIC backstopping a run. In the last [edit: 88] years nobody had lost a single penny to a bank run or default including 2008s WaMu default thanks to the FDIC.

Crypto fractional reserve like tether has no backstop and that’s a completely different beast. It’s what exacerbated the Great Depression.

As with all blockchain unless the state is 100% totally and utterly encapsulated within the blockchain, then it’s garbage in, garbage immutably recorded. Which is why the only thing you can do with crypto is currency and kitties.
No blockchain would ever be able to keep with with equities trading
Genes Carrying Memes
Super excited to see WebHID landing! I have code to control lights via a browser application and finally will be able to release this!

Also NFC support is huge - I can imagine all kinds of neat activation features for a website. Imagine sending a flyer in the mail with an NFC chip built in and then having a webpage verify based on this... Lot of really neat IOT apps that can be created with this feature...

BLE is amazing and I really wish we had the query permissions API... since that would allow for heart monitors and other permeant native app like experiences...
people get paid doing this. would you rather have they don't have a job because all of a sudden managers realizie that 90% of what they do is bullshit?

because that's what you will get!
Longtime DB Cooper suspect dies 94, leaves mystery of daring hijacker unsolved
what's not being discussed here is that Robinhood became their own clearing broker in 2018. I'm sure at the time of the launch it was celebrated with great fanfare as it would "help the consumer" and add to their bottom line. It's not an evil conspiracy but it's the typical silicon valley grow at all costs mentality. They apparently did not account for the risks of being their own clearing broker and having to put up the deposit to the DTC before settlement. However, they should have realized in this past year that their users have a hive mind and have the same collective behavior (which is also why citadel pays them so much), so when a stock gets popular, everyone will be on the buy side. Other brokers such as webull, were able to reenable trading the following day without limits because they use Apex Clearing which likely has the ability to collateralize the trades and has a more diverse set of trades (buys/sells) that net each other out.

Things they could have done to prevent this, that actually would have been good for the user, but limited growth is:
disabled margin trading, reduced account size, use a third party clearing broker.
This is an awesome article. Here is another example of somebody overcoming their disability to play games.

https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/27114444/mike-brolyl...
Isn't this kinda inherent in all currencies in a way? Those born in rich families "yielded currency much more quickly".
You don't understand what "extend embrace extinguish" meant. It's a tactic MS used to take control of a technology it, with the goal of making it unviable -- see the "extinguish' part. Back then, it was in Microsoft's interest that people used native windows apps to keep them in the MS ecosystem. The web was good for makers of other OSs like Apple. Nowadays, Apple tries to keep the web in lame duck mode for the same reason. Google wants the web to be powerful not to neuter it but because it's in their interest. You can argue if the web _should_ be an app platform, but applying "embrace extend extinguish" to Chrome misunderstands the motivation of Google.
And in the early days the cost of 1 Bitcoin was abysmal. The idea is that the harder it gets to mine the more expensive it becomes.
> The D in DNA stands for deoxyribose, a sugar. This is not how chemistry/biology works.

I don't know if you can really digest DNA and get calories out of it, but the thing is, methamphetamine and MDMA both bind to the serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake transporters and produce release of monoamines. I would bet you that they are also deactivated by the same enzymes, etc. It's not a coincidence. They behave similarly because they are (very) similar molecules. Not all molecules that are similar behave similarly, but they often do. That shouldn't be so surprising if you have a background in chemistry.

> the pure MDMA effects are not well suited for partying.

I know many people who party on pure MDMA. The effect varies from person to person. Some people find pure MDMA very relaxing, others find it very stimulating.

> People are chasing the intense party life vastly enhanced by drugs, not exactly the drugs themselves.

As someone who has experienced this first hand, I would say that things are muddier than you think. Stimulants affect your reward pathways. They slowly change your behavior so that you can get that dopamine hit again. It can sneak up on you without you really realizing. You think you love partying, but at some point, you might just realize, you have a lot of friends who do drugs, and you've gradually restructured your life so that you can do drugs more often.

> Many MDMA addicts limit their consume to the weekend and suffer through the boringness of work week; usually it doesn't spiral out of control like with other drugs. For most people it's not a every day kind of stimulant drug like cocaine, amphetamine or meth.

I think there's two aspects to this:

1. MDMA depletes serotonin reserves. If you abuse it during the weekend, you get diminishing returns. It's kind of self-limiting in that way. With cocaine and amphetamine, you can increase the dose and keep getting a strong euphoric effect, you can push things much farther, go on binges that last several days without sleeping.

2. The culture is different. There's a whole subculture of people who party on weekends. That subculture is different from that of meth users. Most of the people who can afford to go out to parties and clubs have day jobs and lives outside of partying. Most people are disciplined enough to throw their lives away and use drugs with some amount of moderation. I also know many people who manage to take cocaine, ketamine and speed on weekends and live a pretty normal life the rest of the time.

People who take meth are often poor, even homeless and in dire circumstances. They're looking to maximize cost-efficiency, get the best bang for their buck in terms of getting a high, which is why they inject or smoke it. Kind of like an alcoholic might go for drinking pure, cheap whisky. People do that because they are desperate and hopeless :(
When I hear "serial," my mind goes to those 9-holed round ports on the back of a computer in the 90s. Didn't pay any attention to that section until I read your comment. Thanks for the nudge.
His CV really is something to behold.
Not all cryptocurrencies have finite volumes by design. Ethereum, for example, currently doesn't have one. It also uses a proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work for consensus, so even early owners of hardware don't maintain an advantage.
TI's Project X – The Keystroke Programmable Calculator that couldn't be
> all it takes is the current players acting in their own self interest to keep perpetuating an extremely unfair and totally rigged system

I’ll entertain this topic

Lets take a yellow cab driver in Manhattan not wanting to pick up a black passenger. If you ask them, they’ll assume its because the black passenger lives in Brooklyn or some other not-Manhattan place and that the driver wont get a good tip and wont be able to get fares at the destination, making it less economical.

The cotton and tobacco trade was also economical.

Economics is never a good reason to make an exception for discrimination.

But an individual may not have specific feelings about race, while they perpetuate a system of discrimination regardless.

It still requires empathy to be able to relate to all parties in an articulate way, to see what needs to change to provide service and access to everyone.

(To the person I replied to, there is nowhere that I’m disagreeing with you, in case you’ve been conditioned to look for that)
It’s 12-36 inches (a big deal at 6 feet elevation) but the bigger issue isn’t the average but the peak during storms and flood events with such water tables. That affects less obvious things like the sewage system, coastal erosion, etc. Billions of dollars in things like sea walls and disaster relief will probably keep Miami around as a major city but it’s not going to be cheap and the uncertainty over the period of a 30 year mortgage will have a big impact on the real estate market.

Here’s a report you might find interesting:

https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/florida-climate-out...
Cool Sight-Reading App
I just launched this new sight-reading app that provides real-time feedback for guitar, piano, violin and alto sax. Any feedback is appreciated!
Note: Shorting more than 100% of shares outstanding does not imply that there is naked shorting happening. You can re-borrowing the shares someone shorted and it happens.
NHTSA Crash Viewer
I thought extremism pretty much defined itself. Any political position that is void of any factual evidence to back it up, that acknowledges no nuance....

Just off the top of my head, but I think we all know extremism when we see/hear it.
When you switch resolution to lower; the operating system cannot do anything then, and whatever you see is either your GPU or your display scaler's fault.

It will be not pixel perfect; but: In the display control panel, under "Customized" group, you should have "larger text" option, as the first one. This will keep the native display resolution, and the description will says that "it will look like XY resolution".

However, I don't currently have @1X monitor available to test it; it works with @2X display, which might not be the same - it works by rendering at higher resolution, which is how @2X normally works. But worth a try.
Yeah, I "use" fdroid. Usually that means searching for apps, finding their download links broken, and then finding the apk on a couple skeezy-looking apk download pages and checking that they checksum the same (verifying, at best, that the skeezy sites have the same possibly hacked apk... ick)
That's the goal of those credits to make it easier for anyone looking to make electrical vehicles to succeed and reduce environmental pollution in the process of switching to Electric cars/trucks. And factor in the Health cost of Transportation related ICE pollution and that makes good financial sense for the credits to continue as the goal for the credits creation extends beyond only Tesla's business model.

The Heath affects of over a Century on ICE pollution must be part of the math as well. And one need only look at the degradation of Building Facades and Statues and the cost there in Urban areas from ICE related pollution and that's more billions spent there over the years as well.
I built an e2e encrypted cloud service for secrets in case you’re interested in trying it: https://cloudenv.com
This argument really doesn't resonate with me. Like, if people want to download trash on their Windows computer, who am I to stop them? You can do that on your Mac and Linux devices too. People don't need to be protected by App Stores.

I'm not only concerned about that, though. The standard 30% cut of revenue flowing through the app if it was downloaded from the app store is also an issue.

In general, App Stores create a 'marketplace' where one doesn't need to exist. That it's the default method of getting software isn't really a benefit because it makes self-distribution harder (or impossible - which is really the anticompetitive issue here).
> Billionaires can remain solvent longer than you can remain irrational.

Melvin Capital has a very real chance of going insolvent. Also have you heard of Lehman Brothers? Hell, just watching Cramer get upset is enough for me to realize the rich aren't happy with what's happening. It seems pretty obvious they're worried. Why else would they pay for ads claiming to have closed a position for which they supposedly no longer have an investment stake?

> And my point is that the losing side of this is inevitably going to be the majority of people long $GME.

I said the same thing about TSLA way back when. So did David Einhorn. I still believe TSLA is more than 10x overvalued, and people continue to get rich despite my "rational" obstinance.

Also you're completely missing the point. Do you not even understand most of these people aren't trying to make money? If you don't understand that, then you don't even have a basis to start the conversation.
If compute performance is not a requirement, python is a lot faster to develop in. Once the design has solidified, a few simple techniques can improve reliability to an acceptable degree.
And you can’t see the problem with creating a situation where Microsoft is in direct competition with all the ways you can already deploy this code?

That light at the end of this tunnel is an oncoming train. Not freedom.
Firstly, C is statically typed, so if you're arguing for static typing as the cure for security holes, citing C examples of security hoes won't speak well for your argument Secondly, C has an incomplete static system, which has no run-time safety net to compensate for it.

Many properties of C programs go unchecked. What is checked is easily defeated with type casts. Even the numeric conversions lack safety; e.g. floating point to integer conversion is silently implicit, with undefined behavior if the value is out of range.

All of that is a straw man example if we are arguing against incomplete static type systems, because the iron man is incomplete static with strong dynamic checks.

C also doesn't provide access to the language at compile time; we cannot execute test cases for the code in the same breath as compiling it. If code is cross-compiled, it needs unit tests compiled into individual executable programs, and an emulator like QEMU to run them.

Because C doesn't have run-time safety, unit tests do not reliably flush out type errors; programs with type errors can pass unit tests by fluke due to undefined behavior. E.g. a string that is not properly null terminated can have a zero byte in the right place anyway during the execution of a test case, and so on.

C security holes are not a good example to invoke in a static/dynamic debate as something that could be prevented with static, so I'm asking that: if those are the examples, please spare the debate.
>> but only because Google allow them to exist

It is good that Google still allows Firefox to exist. I hope this love for my go to browser lasts. Every day I pray it will last. I'm scared though, because deep in my heart of hearts, I know it won't last.
Thank you so much! I feel like there is a massive vacuum in the software ecosystem for a product like this.

I'd really like to support LaTeX in multiple ways throughout the app, and have plans to build a feature to automate the animation of equations. There is also another planned feature to try and create an integration with sympy[1], and it's likely there will be some overlap between the sympy and latex stuff. I don't think there is a good way to automate exporting functions to LaTeX, even using sympy, because its not 1-1 (not sure though).

I think having the kind of visual environment math inspector offers has a lot of potential when it comes to computational PDE's. At some point I want to draw the Lorenz attractor, which is something that probably won't work very nicely with the current plotting system in the app. It would also be amazing to do fluid dynamics simulations, but that is a really huge job for sure.

[1] https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html
>I don't think I get the question... is a country obliged to say they won't export something to other country? I guess so, how the hell is the other country supposed to know?

Again, why should they export it? When the whole UK site was paid and set up by UK government before it was handed to AZ for further development.

There are no obligations from AZ to fulfil that order from another plant.

It is the same with Silicon Wafer, Foods, Metals. If you want something specific, production has to be planned ahead in advance.

>Well AZ is the one that told 2 days ago that it won't fulfill a order of 100 million doses due to March

Which is absolutely normal if their yield aren't up to standard. It is new, sometimes things dont work. I dont have any experience with Vaccine Production but these things takes time. Supply Chain and Production basics and fundamentals are nearly the same across all industries. Which is the same thing with Germans complaining about TSMC holding up Wafer capacity from their Cars manufacturers. What lots of Bollocks.

Worth pointing out again, they are doing this at "Cost".

I am in agreement with NoPie. Should the UK share some of its vaccine to its neighbour for good gestures? Yes. Are they obliged to do so? No.
Is the Chrome team still hellbent on killing ad-blocking with the half-baked Manifest changes that will render uBlock useless? How much longer will ad-blocking be supported?
Anywhere but there. Who would seriously use them for their savings or investments after this? Who cares about their UI when they don’t have your best interests at heart.
How does dependency caching configuration work? I get wanting to make things as fast as possible, but I struggle a bunch a Python dep caching in Circle CI... is there a way to ensure a 100% rebuild? Also interested to see how you plan to support open source
Well fractional reserve banking is accounting fraud. Widespread and legal, but fraud nevertheless.

Also fractional reserve banking is a thing of the past. We've now evolved to no reserve banking. The banks' ability to create money from thin air is almost unrestrained.
Great, let’s all accelerate climate change even faster.
I had a similar experience. I used to turn my nose up at recreational drug use, because I thought of it as a purely pleasure-seeking activity. One day, I took some MDMA out of curiosity, and found that within a few hours I had a strong sense of empathy for everyone else in the room. It amazed me that it was even possible to feel that way -- I actually wanted to interact with people rather than shy away from them. It left a strong impression on me, and made me wonder whether some people naturally walk around feeling that way by default.
This website by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has collections on motor vehicle crashes to aid in the development, implementation and evaluation of motor vehicle and highway safety countermeasures.

I came across it today and found it interesting.

Here is an example of a detailed crash report:

https://crashviewer.nhtsa.dot.gov/CIREN/Details?Study=CIREN&...

Please note that this link should be viewed on a desktop or laptop computer, as the mobile version is not readable imo.
> There’s orders of magnitude more money to be made today shorting $GME at $400 than there was shorting it at $20.

I have been running scenarios of this in my head over the previous days. This play would be to short while the squeeze is near closure and force the remaining shorts to purchase your stock. The problem with this play is that eventually you need to cover, albeit at much lower price, unless, of course, the bag holders i.e. remaining retail isn't willing to sell to you at a lower price, so you can never close. If anyone else attempts to short at the rebounded prices, you can close your position, but this becomes a perpetual game of hot potato. For this play to you work, you need to assume the retail will paper hand, but if WSB is any indication, WSB can, as they put it, stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent and if they don't paper hand at those prices, they won't give it to you that easy.

The alternative play, is to make a deal with other firms where you rotate who owes the shares and you share the profits from shorting the top, but I suppose that constitutes market manipulation. If we were to assume that the market moves up and the profits can be reinvested and profit more than the interest, this play makes the most sense.

These two plays assume that all the floating shares are held by WSB, and if that is true; the bag holders will be people willing to let the prices literally moon. Then the only solution would be to wait for GME to issue more shares. The most plausible case is that WSB will be the ones holding the shares when it eventually squeezes and the shorts need to cover since all others in retail would have already sold.

This isn't a particularly good position for anyone to be in because no institution will be selling and nobody will be buying, so you will end up with a staring contest between you and WSB, and if the past few days are any indication, your only bet is your profits outweigh the interest.

If you can imagine the actual play executing in a scenario where WSB doesn't hold you by the ..., please share, I am interested.
> cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency

This is true of Bitcoin. Others, such as Ethereum, have a known inflation schedule, which would help alleviate the issue you mentioned as being a currency of the future. Furthermore, it is looking like the "currency of the future" may (at least in the short term), look more like a cryptocurrency that is worth $1 and is 1:1 backed by a dollar in a bank account. These are known as stablecoins and are an in-demand topic right now for central banks around the world.

Bitcoin has a property of having a known, fixed supply. This allows it to serve as a store of value. It can and is used for day-to-day transactions, but there may need to be more advancements to make these types of transactions viable long-term (such as the lightning network).
Dynamic type errors lack relevance
In which case of course the trading has to happen on totally unaudited, unauditable exchanges like Bittrex’ (GME:USDT) pair and settled on the blockchain - which is absolute free for all in terms of shenanigans.
I plan to of course. But it feels so stressful and toxic to be in that situation. I feel extremely uncomfortable.
Basic rule of thumb is any company where the management is whining about shorts, and about naked shorts in particular, is garbage. The reason companies get shorted over 100% of outstanding shares is because everybody agrees they are garbage. Not a conspiracy. Go look at the stock of the absurd company in question after you read this article.