skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Germany would have been far more ready to face England and France in 1942 or 1943. In particular the Kriegsmarine was completely unready to threaten the UK, which it was much more able to do in 1914. More submarines, cruisers, battleships to complement a superior Luftwaffe. Another few years to prepare and Germany might have been able to knock the UK out of the war.

So the allies may have been unwise to not confront Germany in 1938, but the fascists were probably unwise to force the issue in 1939.
As expected: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/apple-aapl-earnings-q1-2021....
its untapped market.
I use QtTabBar -

http://qttabbar.wikidot.com
“If you calibrate the HDR screen to be as dim as the LDR screen they’ll look the same” isn’t a great argument.
> What they were talking about is giving up on smartphones and social media altogether

That's incredibly encouraging to hear. It seems to be a common feature of "I quit Facebook/Twitter/whatever" accounts that once you break the immediate addiction there's no real urge to go back, so if this does happen it should have a decent chance of sticking.

(And as a mobile refusenik I sometimes feel like the last holdout left, so a bit of company would be nice.)
As a onboarding hack I can see this as a great idea to help people get their first $100-$1000 on the market fast.

But the chance of an eventual margin call is almost certain in the long run (as has happened here).

It’s time to talk ethics in tech, this was a design decision to not unwind this once the user was embedded or otherwise clarify this upfront.

Margin call risk totally must be disclosed and is legally required (in Australia where I am) to be disclosed by any investment professional you paid to setup this sort of arrangement. I’d be fairly confident the same applies to US investment advisers.

It’s totally the sort of ‘feature’ that the user could have been advised of around say the 30 day mark. “We’ve set you up a margin account that’s valid for your first $1000, please now confirm if you’d like to continue to carry a margin call risk otherwise were converting you to a standard account.”

It’s also super common for margin facilities to allow investors carrying the risk, 24-48 hours to contribute to retain the position, auto-selling out is a last resort.
Here's a short list of some browser engines that are not based on google's or paid for by google:

Webkit: [1] It's a thousand times easier to compile and was the original base for chromium

Servo: [2] This is much more recent, I haven't looked lately (until today) but it looks to be making rapid forward progress

Elinks: [3] and friends, these are more capable than you'd think (hackernews works, even if you don't build it with javascript enabled.)

Also it's surprisingly easy to write your own engine, it's just keeping up with some of the more political stupidity/abuse is hard.

[3] http://elinks.or.cz/

[2] https://servo.org/

[1] https://webkit.org/
> Why didn't they just license some working vaccine and start cranking it out?

In the case of the mRNA vaccines, according to comments I saw on some prior COVID vaccine discussion, they depend on specialized precursors that not many companies can make.

mRNA vaccines are still quite new. Some human mRNA vaccines were developed before COVID, but they didn't do well in testing and none were approved. With no one needing to make mRNA vaccines in more than research and trial quantities, not many companies developed the capacity to make the prerequisites.

The issue then is not getting Pfizer to license their vaccine to some other company to make too. It's that Pfizer is already making as much of it as can be made right now due to precursor availability limits.
What was the plan? Other than "let the states handle it". Which is the same as "no plan".
Me too! I graduated, in a manner of speaking, from FORTRAN, which had no recursion and pointers to Pascal.

Looking back I believe Pascal was the perfect language to learn those two fundamental and tricky concepts. It felt aesthetically pleasing and struck just the right balance between the terse (and sometimes quirky) C and verbose COBOL.

When I coded up those graph algorithms in Pascal I felt “happy” in a way that can’t be explained and which I didn’t experience in C.
This will never happen with people being able to report authority similar too the people they 'police?'
>unironically implying modern Windows is better than older Windows

>obviously has never used Linux

U+1F923
What did you include?
It is discouraged in Pascal as well. Can give really nasty surprises with scoping / debugging. Well to me it is mostly gossip as I refuse to use WITH in my Pascal code so no practical experience.
> virologyst

Is this an actual spelling in some dialect of English?

It looks interesting. In medicine, when I see “gy” I’m thinking gynolocologist.
Woz is constantly underrated.
I’m new to this as well - how do you know how many shares that have shorted? I heard that even the number of shares shorted isn’t guaranteed to be accurate.
Also it personally just sucks to have opportunities taken away because some people can't handle them. Anything with high reward is inherently high risk. It sucks that some people just don't get that, but that line of thinking is why opportunities on every axis systematically disappear from the middle class. Can't invest in early stage companies unless you're an accredited investor with $1M+, can't use social media because some people can't handle it, maybe we should ban driving too because some people crash their cars, ban podcasts because some people get radicalized by listening to the wrong ones. The end of that road is permanent social immobility and a very boring life.
It’s like how people equate rattling of facts as being smart. When you’re effectively carrying the equivalent of all human knowledge with you at all times, memorizing facts and historical dates seems obsolete.

Now it’s about filtering out the “noise” facts and figuring out which facts or dates are relevant.
At least it's not a ballistic missile inbound alert for a Chucky doll
Taiwan’s GDP Growth Outpaces China’s for First Time in 30 Years
"And I especially don’t like it when shareholders pocket parts of the profit that I made them without bringing anything of value to the company."

Are you trolling? You do realize why those shares are out there, right? Because your company needed money, and those people gave your company their money to get started, grow, hire more people, etc. Is that not bringing something of value?
Saving costs on Heroku for Ruby on Rails app
What would Mussolini have thought about filling the Italian government with brits or Germans?

They definitely had the Italian enthocentrism with the trying to recreate the Roman Empire thing
QR Reader – Quick QR and Barcode Reader
Lightning Fast QR Scanner!

* Focus the camera to the QR code: The app will navigate you quickly.
* The app is equipped with an easy to use interface.
> If you can't sell the stock that you bought on the same day that you bought it, then by definition you can not day trade.

Deposit $1000, wait 3 days, buy and sell $100 of the same stock in the same day. You still have $900 to trade with.

It may be “less efficient”, but it also reduces your risk, and risk management is fundamentally what successful trading is about.

Some people don’t want to depend on the bank for margin or leverage, and are happy to trade with cash only. Increased efficiency brings increased risk and decreased ability to deal with short term shocks.
I have a bad habit of pressing shift with the same hand I use to hit a character. Eg. I'd hit Shift_L + T (both left hand) instead of Shift_R + T (hand hand for T, right hand for Shift_R). I wish that was an easy way to configure my shift keys to only modify keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. It's kinda possible through xmodmap but it's a PITA to set up.
Who cares if we can't dictate what the terms of phone usage are.
Looks like some test data made it into production.
I thought the platform was considered secure because Apple is good at making a secure OS with working sandboxes. Their app moderation is bad enough that I would not want to rely on app store policy alone.
ING does too. I've been bitten by that.
Is array_is_map(), etc, planned? Or is the pure php equivalent fast enough for those?
If I was so extremely deplorable, more people would give me their money enabling me to increase my bargaining position. Alas, I’m just a regular boring schmuck.
It absolutely would be, humanity would die off in just a few weeks.
There are just so many things you rarely do and do only at the start of a project. I have done most of my development with Django on the backend. I start a project once every few months at most. There is plenty of config that I am copy and pasting from the internet. There are lots of little quirks like CORS that are handled once and never touched again.

So yeah, I might be able to get a basic page going, but I am sure I would need it for the postgres integration.

Only with Pycharm, so I can scroll through and search code easily as an alternative to Google.
Ok, but the question in the thread was about sources showing that Moderna & Pfizer did not do regular screening; seems like no one had found that info earlier, but I now see someone downthread has posted more about this.
> I could not imagine I would be able to differentiate a billion colors from its previous factor.

Darker single color gradients exhibit very strongly noticeable color stairs. Tried to generate one for a background, locked horrible. It only looked good once I randomized the gradients a bit, i.e., even with 8 bit colors, you might need dithering.

Similar effects can be noticed in relatively dark photos of scenes with gradients, e.g., a sky.
Google is, and people purchasing their other products are. You and I are at best enjoying the fruits of their labour.

>Why would a browser want to get into the censorship business?

Is having an opinion getting into a business now? It was a pretty bad article and I don't care for it, but please explain how they're "getting into the censorship business".
> Our rules allow you to leave if you've got a reason to be gone longer than 3 months.

What happens if an Aussie simply says "There are some countries out there that are relatively unconcerned with COVID right now, I would rather be traveling them for the indefinite future instead of staying home"? Would the state still prevent him or her from leaving?
Useful reading: "Unauthorized trades".

[1] http://www.securitiesexpertwitness.info/unathorized_trading....
In Europe we have instant transfers. We can transfer from any bank to any bank in the EU in less than 20 seconds, guaranteed.
Thank you for your reply. I'm going to just lift your explanation as it's much better than my own.
AA sibling comment mentions double tap to zoom in on a paragraph, but there's also a single finger zoom (tap and hold, then move the held finger vertically) for Maps (and by default in MapBoxGL last I checked).
Free and Open Source languages cost less than commercial languages.

I remember that Janus Ada for DOS cost thousands for a license. Java and GNU C++ were free.

Now Microsoft has the Community edition of Visual Studio for free C#, Visual BASIC.Net, C++ and other languages.
sigh, and there go another bunch of people disabling amber alerts on their phones.
Not that secretly. The major US players, press, finance, industry were all open NAZI supporters. They financed Hitler and the industry to start the war against communism. Eg they gave them free oil patents, took over IG Farben, the chemical industry to produce the needed oil for the tanks to invade Russia. They gave them huge credit lines to overcome the desastrous WW1 reparation payments. They financed the military buildup.

All played well for western fascists until Japan sided with Germany to take over China, South East Asia and esp. Singapore. When Singapore was threatened, US changed sides. The US certainly never thought Russia will win over Germany. That was their nightmare scenario. Workers rights, socialism. This would have killed their idea of freedom of private contracts over civil rights. Workers would demand 10 hours workdays. Or even less. Workers demanding their rights couldn't just be shot down, as in the Coal wars. Smaller companies threatening the big ones could not just be eliminated by the national guard and army, as in the Texas oil war, and the Railroad commission. The German NAZi system was the big goal of the US industry. A fancy "democracy", well liked all over the world, with a bright film industry, and a beloved charismatic leader.
It’s not just on-boarding. People expect to make a transfer from their bank account and have insta-credit to their RH tradable cash balance. This is a core feature of their app.
Hot Jupiters were unknown until they were discovered once instruments were sensitive enough to detect them. No major planetary development models predicted them. The current best explanation for them is they formed much further out from their parent stars and migrated inward. The migration phenomena is still poorly understood, it wasn't on anyone's radar in the 70s and 80s.

So until Hot Jupiters were discovered they were not predicted. No one even thought to look for them. No one was thinking about Hot Jupiter detectors that just didn't get funding.

Had billions of dollars flowed into astronomy instead of particle accelerators exoplanets (of all types) might have been discovered earlier. Then again they may not have. It's a pointless "what if".
It worked on a Commodore 128 and 1571 drive in CP/M80 mode. I used to program in it way back when. Cheaper than C64 Pascal.
This sounds a bit like wanting to have your cake and eat it too. Sure it's not entirely fair, but it's human nature.

It's akin to saying you want good relationships and friendships but without the hassle of all that conversation.
These die shots are all very pretty. Are people mostly interested in these just at the pure beauty of how so many circuitry can be packed into a small space and the feat of engineering, or for some other reason?
I interpreted that to mean in terms of getting things delivered, but reading was never my strong suit, let alone understanding what I read.
>Another Robinhood user posted a video claiming to have gotten 25 times leverage by turning $2,000 of stock into $50,000 worth of buying power. Multiple other users posted videos and screenshots of the hack, with directions on how to repeat the cheat code. Bloomberg News first reported the glitch.

This one is incredible because he put all of that money into Apple puts two days before they released their earnings report. He lost everything.
So turn up the brightness of the LDR screen to match the HDR screen. The brightness isn't why HDR is HDR.

I didn't say to turn down the brightness of the HDR screen. I said the brightness per area must match.

Using maximum brightness often harms color reproducibility too, by the way. So if you believe brighter = better, don't.
Grayscale gradients, yes. Anything else, no. That was what researchers discovered.
Reminds me of the "share the pain" program by Microsoft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ttBt-4vWo
You and I must be reading different documents. You must have navigated elsewhere. Please provide your exact link.

I clearly see the following. Directly from the link of the poster I responded to:

https://finance.zacks.com/tax-rules-use-proceeds-stock-sales...
Tax Rules on How to Use Proceeds of Stock Sales to Buy New Stocks

...

For example, imagine that on Monday you have nothing in your brokerage account except shares of a specific stock, which you sell that morning for $10,000. The trade will settle on Thursday.

They just described T+3 not T+2!
They kicked out Paytm in India because they were offering "lottery" prizes in the same way that their Google-competitor Gpay was.
These actions have been so fast and furious and brazen that you have to wonder: They obviously see people as cattle, but are they right? Or, do they have an ace up their sleeve that makes the answer irrelevant?
What isn't market manipulation?

Seriously, market manipulation goes on all the time at grandiose scales and at small scales. This time, it's probably a handful of people who had critical mass and the mass is following suit.

If you analyze and act on a market based on an analysis, you are manipulating the market, period. HFT for example happens at time scales never conceived before and are almost undoubtedly market manipulation. The only way not to manipulate the market is to not interact with it.

It really becomes this arbitrary pointing game where subjectivity is thrown into play and favors are called as to who is or isn't breaking the rules. Yes, there are some more established less arbitrary examples of manipulation strategies, but if anyone thinks for a second these are the limit of options available to manipulate investor perceptions, they're naive.

And to spin this further, in the world of growing disinformation or selective information herding campaigns by foreign governments and political organizations swaying elections in the US, how do you deal with those sorts of targeted campaign strategies that are almost undoubtedly, in my opinion, used to manipulate markets as well?

If we can't pinpoint actors threatening the fundamental security of our nation, how do we hope to deal with this in regulating financial systems where blatant abuse is left to pass already.
You can absolutely have two ranges which require 7.5 bits to store each (0-180) and write them to 15 bits of storage.

Just because physical hardware is more or less restricted to integer bit quantities doesn't mean fractional bits aren't a useful concept.
Ask HN: Why do got this vaccine mess – Problem explained from some expert?
Hi,
all those discussions in media leaving me very confused. I really want to understand what’s the issue with ramping up vaccine production? Is someone out there who’s able to explain the challenge from a product planing/management point of view?
they should be grateful it is a properly designed test that can't be mistaken for real data
You must have missed the last five years where Apple is looking to extract increasingly more value from “services” i.e. the app store. They very very much want to retain their monopoly there.
Use Autohotkey, it's not really a big thing, e.g.

<+t::return
One of the better “oops, this was production?” mistakes:

https://time.com/5763472/nuclear-warning-ontario-canada/
When I run a technical interview for a dev role, I make a point to ask the candidate to Google their way to a solution since I figure that's probably one of the top skills they'll need on the job.
> I think Hanlon's Razor applies here:

Yes and the corollary to that maxim is that these "stupid people should never be in a position to take any decision..."
There are plenty of people under 30 more of the "hacker" æsthetic, who independently adopt Linux and have a seething contempt for social media and streaming titans and data hoard and play Dwarf Fortress and roguelikes and what have you.

Some of them are even in the disaffected, alt-right or anti-SJW crowd[0] (but those are generally more like under 20, I think).

The ones who live on their phones and Macbooks and don't understand technology are normies, of which there are more since CS has become much more popularized and pop-culturally embraced, I think. There's plenty of those in their 50s and above, too, just less-so at FAANGs.

0: https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz/videos
Sounds lovely :) Whereabouts in India are you?
That page is "curated" by a retired historian with a grudge.

Take a look at the revision history of the page, where you see him routinely reversing revisions that would improve the page -- particularly, reversing deletions of irrelevant but prejudicial content.

There is no reason to mention Graham Hancock on the page at all, or any century-old stories. They are there just to muddy the water, and to give the ex-professor a soapbox for name-calling.

The evidence is presented in a deliberately confused order, and very selectively. New evidence is not permitted. Wikipedia is ruled by people like that, now. We have to wait for them to die before we can have pages not somebody's hobby-horse.
> If you want your prospects/customers to take you seriously they have to find you expensive.

This is BS.

If you want your customers to take you seriously, seriously solve their pain. One example is charging $1 USD for a song, which at least one company has done and made billions.

Making an offering "expensive" in and of itself neither conveys legitimacy nor value. It only begs potential customers to contemplate the cost/value proposition more critically.
Seems like the first step to kicking out competing web browsers, if the browsers don't moderate what you browse.
I agree that going cold turkey on every trace of these orgs would be unrealistic. There's a lot to be said for locking down phones and shopping locally, but taking control of the assets those orgs hold is where it really pays off no matter who you are.

Migrating email is intimidating, but alleviates the highest cost risk and is actually pretty painless. In my own case, I started a Fastmail account and told it to use my own domain and sync from my gmail account. I didn't have to commit to anything until I felt like it. After a couple of weeks I started lazily updating a few subscriptions as they got forwarded from gmail, and replying to people with 'hey, check it out this is my new email'. Now, Fastmail could vanish and I'd be temporarily inconvenienced for only as long as it took to staple my domain to some other email host. Losing access to my gmail account before making that switch would have been a disaster.
Electric Traction for Small Vehicles
All you really need to know is `python -m http.server`

The definition of what constitutes a web app isn’t clear but if it’s JS, `npx create-react-app` and `npm start` should be enough.

[edit] Whoever downvoted me, check my GitHub. @dfee. Also, I’ve literally written web services or apps in 5 languages in the last 12 months.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
They don't have a moat. What can they do that Best Buy can't?
I honestly don't think so. Before getting into stock trading, I read about it for a couple of months.

About how you can lose money on trading bonds, what is clearing and volatility, how taxes are paid and so, and so. The fact is, you certainly could lose money trading stock, and broker certainly can sell your shares without your permission (in my country).

Especially if you are poor. But that is common knowledge. And people losing money on stock exchange, on forex, wherever is nothing interesting or new. Is this predatory behavior? Maybe. Almost no retail investor makes money doing risky trades on stock exchange. That is what those people did.

Edit:spelling
A terabyte of RAM on your desktop.

It's been less than a quarter century ago, 1997, when Microsoft and Compaq launched the TerraServer which was a wordplay on terabyte -- it stored a terabyte of data and it was a Big Deal. Today's that not storage, that's main RAM, unencumbered by NUMA.
Publishers still often do some kind of promotion, e.g. ensuring that review copies get to influencers, hawking the book at book fairs, etc. Self-publishing means you have to do all the promotional work yourself.

Also, certain books in the humanities can have their costs covered by grants, and the publisher might already have staff that are proficient in grant-writing, while authors don't have that savvy or reputation.
I couldn't and I worked on a JS engine for most of a decade. Hell I "designed" one of the modern features in the spec.

Write a web app? noooooope

Write JS the appends to innerText or writes to a canvas? sure.
An alternative: Install Dash or Zeal, download docsets for your language and libraries, and use a keystroke to pull up documentation under the cursor.
I think you're supposed to cruise along the coast and take in each city one by one. Then circle back and stay at the one that seems most cozy.