skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal Server has not seen updates for over 9 months. Moxie openly states that is not part of Signal's core values to support federation in the network.

IOW, even though they say they don't want to control your conversation, they do want you in their hands.
I'm one of these people. The other skill is endlessly breaking a problem down into steps small enough to stumble through with this approach.

And the other other thing to know is when not to do it, like for the core business logic, or for anything that needs to be really fast.
Fortunately, a university axing Chaucer is not going to end him, not only because he's already dead, but also because he's been dead for long enough that you can just read his works online for free, no university required: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Geoffrey_Chaucer
Original Apple 1 from 1976 on bid on eBay, starting at $1,5M
> Pure math makes up two of the seven liberal arts.

The UK university model doesn’t follow the liberal arts model. That’s not what we’re aiming to do over here. Especially at a very low-tier university like Leicester. Our degrees are more highly specialised than yours.

Don’t judge our universities by your model.
Widely recognized “authoritarian” countries are hardly the issue here. Western democracies have been trying to usurp this power from the tech cartels for quite a while now. “Hate speech” laws have been successfully normalized in many countries already. The latest push has been to legally regulate “misinformation”. The EU has already started the process of establishing a government authority to regulate the truth. Then again, they’ve been trying to ban E2EE for years as well, so perhaps authoritarianism is the issue...
See also an article about Modula-2 for CP/M from the same author: https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/12/if-only-borland-had-stu...

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733
Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading
Looks promising. I was a bit confused because you have to get a few paragraphs in before it's referred to as a Linux distro, rather than a "new OS", but I can see why that's good marketing.
This could be a platform.

‘Keyboard that shocks...

. if you argue with someone on the internet’

. if you are on facebook for more than 10 minutes’

. if you are about to send bank details to a scammer’

. if you are about to short GME’
The same cookbook recommends weighing eggs as well; recipes specify egg whites/yolks/whole by weight (all ingredients are specified by both weight and volume, though weight is recommended).

"""

Likewise, eggs vary slightly in weight from one to another; measuring eggs by weight ensures great accuracy. “Large” eggs are 56 grams/2 ounces by definition, but they vary in weight by 10 or more grams, so calling for eggs by weight, as we do in these recipes, guarantees more consistent results. And weighing allows you to use any size egg you have access to, which is especially helpful if you use farm-raised eggs, which are often not graded by size.

"""
Sometimes third parties give you json and that's it, in these cases these libraries are useful if being fastest to react is a constraint.
> We need to remain vigilant and develop distributed platforms

They are there already. Matrix, XMPP, email, activitypub based systems, (secure) scuttlebutt, IPFS, and so on.

This is more a people and their conformist attitude problem, like "eh, my friends use X, I'm too lazy to convince them otherwise", "but everyone is on Y, I'm not willing to be the odd one out on Z", and so on.
Shorting doesn't only mean short stock. You can be short call options, and if they are in the money, the holder of the contract can exercise his or her option, which forces the seller of the contract to provide shares at whatever price.

For every long call option contract, there is a counterparty who is subject to unlimited upside price risk, just as a traditional stock shorter. The difference is the contract has an end date.

I would argue that options account for more of the pressure/volatility of these recent stock prices than the shares themselves.
Frankly, the inversion effect isn't that interesting - it's literally just `result = rgb(1.0-r, 1.0-g, 1.0-b)`. We _will_ be adding more screenshots though, since that's such an obvious thing that I can't believe we missed.
OK, but we only have 3 types of cones, so unless you make a pigment hitting the exact frequency of our blue cones, there is not really any difference in perception, is that correct?
For clojure/script I like Eric normands courses at purelyfunctional.tv
I don't understand how the mode can be unrepresentative of the overall distribution. It seems like it's one of the finest representatives.
Hm, yeah, I think you are right here.

That said, the reason for removal provided by Google seems to be nonsensical ("abusive content somewhere on Matrix", really?), so mediation should be effective here. This particular reason easily applies to an application like Google Chrome, and EU regulation 2019/1150 requires differential treatment to be documented, which I don't think it is in this case.
That's a feature, not a bug. Believe it or not, people don't like app/sw updates. Devs and money people do.
> The mRNA vaccines are 95%, J%J is 66%.

I get that, but what makes you think that mRNA are any more effective than the J&J? You can’t just compare the numbers across trials. Just because 95% is bigger then 66% doesn’t make it more effective.
I think you are measuring yourself on the wrong scale. Sure you might be less precise than some other humans, but clearly you are way better than a horse, or a wolf or many other animal who might be basically incapable to throw things.
Have you tried the Windows Terminal? What did you find lacking about the font rendering?
this is ironic because none of the modern AI, robotics would work practically without pure maths as the base.
Nowhere has this been more true than social media: a constant stream of unverified BS shared from one group to another via a mutual friend.

And the most frustrating part is it's a no-win situation: either you spend time refuting only for the story to change slightly (or more arguments back), or the poster assumes silence means agreement, enforcing their opinion and sharing similar later.
Didn’t novavax just prove they have the best efficacy with a safety profile that’s miles ahead of either moderna or Pfizer/biontech?
This is mostly a property of your choice of framework.

Many contemporary frameworks come with a project generator, because setting up a basic project is so tedious that it has to be automated.

All these files are configurable, and likely the default configuration is insufficient for your goals. You're starting out with a bunch of technical debt.

It's no wonder if we have to consult online resources to get anywhere.
My problem is remembering the syntax of the language I'm in rather than other languages I've learned.

To use your analogy; it gets tricky doing push-ups because my body remembers doing crunches and my knees get in the way.

Better analogy: I'm learning German at the moment, but my brain keeps "helpfully" supplying the French word whenever I'm mentally grepping for German vocab.

Remembering that JS switches need a break statement but Go switches don't - or that JS If statements need the brackets but not the braces, and Go If statements don't need the brackets but do need the braces. This shit trips me up even after years of coding in just JS and Go.
This just made me install Element right away and finally get away from Signal (and of course Whatssap) and bring as many people with me as possible
> I guess at some point Google will close the F-Droid loophole in Android and only allow installations through the Playstore anymore.

Google standing in Europe is already really shaky. They keep taking fines after fines for abuse of their dominant position. That won't last forever. If they close the ability for other stores to exist, the best case scenario is the EU giving them a huge fine and forcing them to go back. Worst case is being force to split Android out of the main company. Google knows that which is why they will not do it.
A naive FOSS enthusiast would probably make their ideas available freely and openly. There's nothing preventing you from getting your wish as well, though.
Ask HN: My one-page HTML site was hacked
Hello, Need help figuring out how to get rid of a rubbish description on my website. When I use google to search for this website, under the link for the home page - there's a text that's not actually on the web page (looks like ads):

https://hostrider.com

It's a one-page site in Html, how can static Html be hacked by hackers? What can I do, as I already reuploaded everything, including the .htaccess file.

Thank you.
Is it related to Quartz composer?
F-Droid publish their own builds; part of their mission is to independently build and package the upstream from source to avoid risk of the upstream doing anything unpleasant.
As others pointed out, it doesn't matter in a professional setting since everything tends to be very well organized. But I realized when I work on solo projects, it helps a lot to be fluent with the tools I use. Because when I have an idea, I think it's better to implement it swiftly, otherwise the enthusiasm fades :-)
The title actually should be "Too rude for Americans". I've never quite understood the propensity to bleep out or put asterisks in words. Like it or not, these words are part of the richness of the language.
> there doesn't seem to be a way for alternative app stores to silently update software

Yes — because that's something reserved for privileged system apps. You have to root your device to take advantage of that, or make a custom ROM with the alternative store in it. Having that ability as a permission you could grant to any app is an immense security risk. But then there are "device administrator" apps that can literally factory reset the device... I don't know. Maybe package installation should be part of that. Especially now that the legacy permission model was taken care of — if you install an app that doesn't support runtime permissions, you'll get a list of its permissions with toggles next to them when you run it for the first time.

> you'll sit there for 5 minutes just approving install prompts every week

Unpopular opinion: well-made software that serves its user doesn't need to be updated very often. Remember how you bought a program on a CD and used the exact same build for years?
I upvoted for the finesse of your last line.
Slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. It's often being incorrectly used, usually as a result of the continuum fallacy, but it isn't a fallacy in and of itself.
Sorry, I thought you were on the "How would police do their job without lying crowd" and assumed such police forces didn't exist.

Anyway most of Europe works that way. Not sure why the culture of the police in US is so different.
As another remote worker from outside the United States who is currently making long-term plans for their career, thank you for mentioning the W8-BEN form.

I think this might be one of those pivotal moments that will change my trayectory in a significant way.
&& at the risk of sounding how this will sound:

i can't quite maintain my favorite hyper-vigilant hacker-dev mental posture while switching between i/o devs
Fallacies and mental models (like precepts) are also for one to internalize. Not to really only use in debates to win arguments. Unless one a lawyer or a politician or something that stands to gain from untoward made-up agendas.

As with anything, the first step is awareness of the flaws, followed by working to correct those to whatever extent one can.
Using the new Web Serial API to build reactive hardware applications
It's almost as if these people didn't coordinate at all in spite of operating as part of the same corporation, enjoying protections such as limited liability. Google is not a subreddit.
"everyone" sounds like hasty generalization [1]

SCNR

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization#Hasty_ge...
ML uses almost entirely applied math and stochastics: optimization, numerics and statistics.
Besides that, just because they won't have faculty researching pure math, doesn't mean they cannot have applied math guys teaching pure math classes.

Personally as a math graduate, I think it is better that they focus on areas they are good at. I assume the pure math department is not doing much. It is also good for the students who might want to study math and end up at studying at a university that does not do pure math very well.
I'll just throw this out here to put some numbers on this so people understand it's more than just a political narrative.

At the University that I went to, Wisconsin, there are 2200 academic staff. (Professors, TAs, Deans, etc).

The total number of employees, however, is roughly 21000.

Now I understand that this is due to large, operations level bureaucracies that are necessary to pull off something like a University of Wisconsin. Facilities and Plant, Campus police, not to even speak of the big ones like DoIT. (DoIT is all the IT people. Network support, web developers, DBAs etc.) I get that. At the same time, that's almost a 10 to 1 ratio. Keep in mind, the University of Wisconsin is one of the more frugal universities out there in this regard.

Again, I don't question that some of this is necessary, how much? I don't know. But having the numbers and the positions these people are employed in does put us in a better position to, at a minimum, have an informed discussion of the subject.

I know that if the University of Wisconsin shut down the math department because the web developers and DBAs at DoIT had to be paid, I would definitely be someone who would assume that to be an unwise decision. Just putting myself in the shoes of the people who care about the subject university.
I think it's important to fund research for the sake of research because it's the only way to explore the unknown unknowns of the universe. At the extreme end, it's a bit dystopian to consider the future of academia being limited to only topics that can deliver immediate economic value.

But seeing how much government debt has ballooned in recent decades, it's disappointing to see moonshot research (literally [1]) may well soon be a thing of the past.

[1] https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/
>On my Apple M1 MacBook, using a realistic data file (canada), we get that fast_float can far exceeds a gigabyte per second, and get close to 2 GB/s. The conventional C function (strtod) provided by the default Apple standard library does quite poorly on this benchmark.
When I signed up for IB I had to check a box that permits IB to loan out my shares for a small fee. I'm not sure if a broker can loan out a client's shares without the client's approval.

It may be fine print in the TOS, though.
As a trumpet player, I've heard of a story where a young student kept having this one issue with a technique in how the right hand is used to push down on the valves and rigged his trumpet such that there would be pain involved if he kept doing that. His bad right-hand technique was fixed within the week, I heard.

In a less extreme version of this, trumpet teachers often have their students put a penny between the valve button and the fingertip because too many students unnecessarily lift up their fingers which causes the slightest of delays and unnecessary motion when depressing the valve next time.
It's possible to build self-update functionality into an app, just like many apps do on desktop. An app can open that installation prompt to update itself.
> As long as Chrome is not the default in the overwhelming amount of the operating systems, this might even stay like this, which is why I'm extremely unhappy that Android ships with Chrome these days and not with a thin gui on top of the system webview, like it used to.

That is also why I was rather sad when Microsoft announced
that they won't develop their own browser engines any more.
I disliked IE as much as anybody else, but what I did like
was the competition. With Edge switching to Blink,
essentially becoming yet another partially-degooged
Chrome, part of that competition is gone.
Try this:

https://www.checkbot.io/article/web-page-screenshots-with-sv...
USPS only services people who have a residence or pay a fee to have a box. Homeless people require a special approval to receive mail. So USPS does not have to service everyone, but at least they can’t ban people based on mail content.
The size of the JS library just to use a chat is something they are doing wrong in my opinion
It's how they implement the memory hole.
GoI to ban all cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency of India
API Design for Code Quality
It's helpful ro quantify different countries' vaccination rates.

Current doses per hundred people (selected countries, 29 Jan)

- Israel 53.5

- UK 12.3

- USA 8.4

- EU 2.6

- Spain 3.2

- Italy 3.0

- Germany 2.7

- France 2.0

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
And the app search on G-Droid is so much better than the main F-Droid app.
the logistics of assembling an army of millions and shipping them across the Atlantic in secrecy to land on hostile territory has had none that I know of.

If they made a movie like that, it would be so boring. Just endless meetings, with the highest drama being some argument about the supply chain. And yet I would love it, and watch it over and over.
Apple Extends Monthly Credit Deposits to Apple TV+ Subscribers Through June
that’s a lot of tooling to build for a single application—plus not everyone is tech savvy and installing from non-standard locations requires more user support
It says “one of” the most accessible, which is undeniable.

> And you continue on selling social media as means of friendly communication which is not true.

No, I do not. The section about negative effects is much longer, and the conclusion drawn at the end also damns social media. In a scientific paper, you have to present both sides.

I just included the positive effects section here, because somebody asked.
The US does have instant wire transfers. But banks usually charge for sending them, so people prefer to send payments with the cheaper ACH network.
That’s due to being a federation. The US is not the only federation; Australia, for example, is one too, and just like the US, in Australia public health is primarily a state responsibility, the federal government provides most of the funding but the states own the public hospitals and control most of the operational decisions. Yet I never heard any Australian compare foreign countries to Australian states. Other federations include Germany, Canada and Mexico, yet I’ve never heard any German or Canadian or Mexican make that comparison either. It seems to be a peculiarly American habit.
They also explore using a serial connection at the bottom of the chassis. It is specifically that part of accessing the bottom of the chassis that I was advising some caution.
What you're missing in your time line is that the first AZ vaccines that fulfilled UK orders were produced in Europe, namely in Germany and Netherlands.

So the UK is getting orders from EU, and from the UK, and the EU should sit and watch a company not complying to their duties while the block production capacity is being used to fulfill orders for USA, UK, Isreal, and many other parts of the world...

While the UK and USA have their production capacity only for themselves AND still get production from Europe.

To top that off AZ is failing to fulfill EU orders because they are using EU capacity to deliver to UK?

Basically USA and UK want all production for themselves AND also production from other countries, while everyone else should sit and watch because the concept of "best effort" only applies if it's not failing the UK contract.

So something isn't adding up here, and yes, it fucking stinks. I hope they block all vaccines exports until EU deadlines/stock is replentished.
They allow adding alternate repositories, but the ones I've come across have all also only allowed FOSS apps. I wonder if it's a policy any repo has to follow or if it's possible for someone to create a non-FOSS repo too.
How is that, it means (within the statement made)the stock is lent multiple times if a stock can be lent multiple times then that’s no different from a naked no borrowing short b) if it lent to multiple people it’s owned by none
Parler was a warning shot. But you didn’t listen. In fact,you probably supported it.
"Your model" in this case means the model used by not only the US, but the rest of the Anglosphere, Europe, most of Asia, and generally the rest of the world - as well as the UK until less than 30 years ago.

Don't blame us when you misuse the damn word.
Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world[1]. It is a Muslim country, but it is not governed by Sharia law, so it's not an Islamic country.

[1]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-large...
After more than a decade of developing on Mac and Linux I am moving back to Windows and continue to be quite happy there. Docker solved most of the problems that plagued Windows as a development machine. Mac hardware is incredibly expensive. Linux is great but I don’t enjoy it as a daily driver to do a lot of the administrative and logistical tasks expected of me as a engineering leader without the company.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Vaccination Statistics
Approval doesn't matter when AZ has to build stock to meet deadlines. Basically they weren't building stock to fulfill UK orders, from EU based production.

It takes months to build stock, but they were flushing that stock to UK.
lol... This is true
Well, let's skip the twenties part. That's a relic of the hyper-competitive academic system. Normality is you start college at 17/18, finish college around age 21/22, and finish a Ph.D around 26. At that point, you take an academic job if you want one and appear qualified. You spend 7 years having fun as an assistant prof, doing what you love, and then, unless you've messed up, you have tenure.

You don't have a string of low-paid abusive post-docs, research scientist positions, and what not. And assistant prof'ing is fun, not publish-or-perish and grant writing; you do research and write (papers, not massive numbers of grant applications). Unless you mess up, you make tenure.

The flip side is you get paid a third of industry.

That pretty much describes academia when my advisor got a job.

As you pointed out, $60k bring competition down a lot. At that point, you're no longer competing with hedge funds and FAANG. And it brings job supply up; if you pay $60k, at current funding rates, you'll have no shortage of jobs.

With that sane system, which we DID once have, lots of people factually DID take that path. The calculus isn't hard:

1) Hate my life 40 hours per week at FAANG/hedge fund/etc. so I can afford to do what I love

2) Drive a beat-up old subcompact and spend 80 hours per week doing what I love with a guaranteed (low-paying, stable) job for the rest of my life.

It's not rocket science. Lots of people pick #2. I don't much care if I have $200/plate food, a mansion, business class flights, and a sports car. I'm okay with McD's salads, cooking, camping trips, and a bicycle (I DO care about financial stress -- risk of losing a mortgage -- but stability takes that away). Splitting time between intellectual pursuits and family? That's awesome. Doing it in a community of like-minded people? Even more so. Lots of people made that same choice before elite academia became big $$$, and my math friends who bring in $1 million/year at hedge funds did so because they couldn't find academic jobs.

Think of it this way: You know that nerd who spends their days building Lego sets? There are plenty of nerds who want to code up open source, explore the secrets of physics, doing theoretical math, or working out new models for government. All you need to do is provide stability and room to focus. If you give tenured positions which cover basic housing, food, and clothing, and give a sane process to get there, you'll have no shortage of candidates.