skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's already in the US Constitution but these are private platforms, they ought to be able excessively moderate if they want to.

The problem is no one wants to pay for ad-free services that focus on delivering shit they're paid to deliver, rather than optimize their "free" services for the advertisers and the government.
Just like Las Vegas.
How do you think those of us not using facebook manage to not starve to death for want of a bakery? Trust me, I can find local businesses just fine without Zuck crawling up my ass.

Bakery A feels compelled to buy ads from Facebook because Bakery B does. Bakery B has to because Bakery C does. Bakery C has to because Bakery A does. Facebook isn't providing value here. Facebook is a parasite that specializes in creating prisoner dilemmas used to bleed small businesses dry. Facebook is lower than mosquitoes, who at least provide nourishment to birds.
> The difference between collision detection between two boxes in 2d , and two convex hulls in 3d is many orders of magnitude.

It's a damned shame nobody's written some kind of amalgamation of libraries, let's call it an engine, so every game developers out there doesn't have to write the same collision code a thousand times. /s

It's bugging me away how many folks are confusing pretty 3D graphics with technically complex and efficient simulations (such as piped fluids) on billions of objects.
Conveniently, it's just the right size for an 80 column terminal with a little space left over for window borders and a scroll bar.
Can I do this without MacOS?
It's getting easier and easier to create a beautiful and functional dev environment in Windows 10 these days.

Only if you're unaware of all the hidden spyware you have to find and disable... the last time I had to install Win10, there were so many dark patterns everywhere.
I mean, no one has demonstrated that it would not have either, and if you look at my comments, I've acknowledged that we don't have the information to evaluate it. And who cares if we just pissed away $40 billion dollars failing to speed things up.

But look at the distribution. Pfizer submitted their results around Thanksgiving. The FDA decided they'd look at them in a couple weeks. The Federal answer to states complaining that they didn't have funds to get programs running was "figure it out". Stupid, even if you ardently think that states should be the primary vehicle of government.
I hate to be a stickler for this but please say MB, not mb, when you mean megabytes. There are contexts where the distinction between m and M, or b and B, really matters!
> They were 4mb and 8mb. Yes you read that right, that is "m" as in megabytes.

mb is short for millibit, the abbreviation for megabyte is MB (or MiB if you mean 2^20 bytes). I know it's a minor thing, but "m" and "M" does not mean the same thing, neither does "b" and "B", and they're mixed up too often.

Sorry for the off topic.
Not commenting and saying it wasn’t a liquidity event are very different things.
>First, U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech informed Brussels that it would be delivering far less vaccine than planned in the coming weeks.

Which country isn't impacted by this?
I know what you are trying to say here, but the example is funny to us veterans. That player's extreme confidence has won us a lot of money with our aces.

New strategies have to be pretty extraordinary to disrupt a game as mature as poker. There is a lot of innovation to be tapped, but that usually isn't happening at the low- and mid-stakes games in your home room. For the most part, my skill is being able to adapt to you faster than you can adapt to me. I am relying on you playing your kings like a straight.

(Also, it's a well-known phenomenon that recreational players will hear about and mis-apply contemporary strategies with the same confidence. Somebody like Doug Polk professing about "GTO" on his hugely popular YouTube channel is often creating many more fish than he is sharks.)
> A sustained short interest does not necessarily mean that the shorts are holding their initial position, they could have closed and reopened at these elevated levels.

This occurred to me today. I see it as entirely plausible that one or more large funds willingly took the loss to exit their initial short position, and proceeded open new short positions at the current crazy prices. In fact, I would not be surprised if they haven't been doing that all this past week with iceberg orders[1] so to not tip their hands by driving the price that much higher while doing so. It doesn't matter if they were able to bankroll the new position themselves or had to take on additional leverage to do so. A huge profit could be made from trying to short from these new crazy prices, and I'd not be surprised if big money was willing to fund such an attempt.

With all the hype this past week, a bunch of people have jumped onto the bandwagon. I'd wager many are doing so out of an emotional excitement, without honestly considering the risk and whether they're truly willing to lose everything they put into this play. I'd also wager there are many who only think they're willing to lose everything they spend on $GME. But, when the share price starts going down, whether crashing from a panic selloff, or gently drifting downward as people start exiting their positions to lock in their profits, many will realize they're not as willing to lose everything as they thought.

I fully expect the funds to try to play chicken with those trying to short squeeze. I fully expect them to try every dirty trick in the book to kick off a panic selloff. I would not be surprised if new dirty tricks get invented. I would not be surprised if favors get called in from politicians and other persons of power to try to scare everyone out of holding, whether that's looking the other way while the big funds do something maybe-not-so-legal, or other shenanigans, like very public arrests of u/DeepFuckingValue and others on BS charges.

There's potentially very big money to be had here, and the big hedge funds everyone wants to screw over didn't get to their present riches by playing nice or fair.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/icebergorder.asp
And remember respect is everything! ~gta2
But in this case I imagine they have to spend all their assets on buying stock, even if they cant buy enough to get back to even, right?
True, the last part did surprise me. He went against the base of his party, and espoused science.
Nobody knows. The experts have their ideas, but there is no way to be sure.

One problem is optimal needs to consider the real world, not the ideal world. West Virgina (typically the butt of backwards people jokes) has done more vaccinations per capita than any other state even though their allocation per capita is the same as other states. This is because that state has decided that the optimal strategy is getting vaccines in arms, not ensuring it is the ideal arms: by not having the overhead of checking eligibility they can give their doses faster which is better than a slower pace of only getting the vaccine into the right people.

Note, I simplified West Virgina's strategy, it is more complex. Just less complex than other states.
Well we know what happens next. Some ambitious kid, in some random corner of the world, is going to cut and paste it and sell it to some police dept as a "Google" profiler. It will work as badly as the police do, but now they just point at the app to cover their ass, cause you know Google said so Judge. Where it doesnt do what the cops want the kid will add "features" to make sure it does. Give it a year or two and the local PD will be happily be promoting it to everyone else for a decent commision ofcourse. "Whistleblowers" will get taken care off. VCs will step in to scale up ops. The price will be so cheap it will bankrupt most honest competition. Half the world will be using it soon enough and then ofcourse Palantir will step in and buy them. The billionaire founder will then strut around grooming the next gen, funding further mindlessness. And the same thing will repeat from Medicine to the Military, from Finance to Psychology all the while a clueless buffoon class of corporate programmed robots stand up and talk about how they are empowering the masses.

So how do we stop the cycle? Dont empower the masses. Just yet. Dont work for execs pushing such narratives. If you are in positions of authority sideline them. They dont know what they are doing. Scaling everything is a prime directive for these robots and they are too dumb and unimaginative to rewrite their own code let alone decide what is good for the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Calvinball
Learn to use Powershell. You might not like it if you are a BASH wizard, but it has a large number of modules which ease administration. Even if you manage to spend most of your time in WSL2 and VisualStudio/IntelliJIDEA you will still need to administer and interrogate your host OS. Powershell is the sanest way to do that.

You should probably see what you can do with Chocolatey/Scoop depending on security policy. Package management in Windows is severely deficient compared to GNU/Linux distros but those are possibilities.
Yep, some “real” workload tests are coming next (using filesystems). I wanted to start from low level basics and later build on top of that.
Been ten years since I was last in it, but a lot of large investment firms (before automated trading was prevalent in the older large institutions) don't have people responding to the market ad hoc. Trades are executed infrequently (weekly, if not monthly) and are approved upfront during trade planning meetings to define the qualifying parameters for a particular order.
Where does mebibyte come into play?
Excellent question. Probably the biggest factor is that Phase III trials are insanely expensive, like a billion dollars plus or minus. High touch, 30,000 people minimum for the US, lasts two years, etc. Sanofi/GSK is hazarding some of their own money in this, and has to look at the market for COVID-19 vaccines, which is obviously weighted towards the elderly.

Might also be risk management in wondering if the final results for the younger would be disappointing or worse, this problem with the elderly was learned through surrogate endpoints from serological as in blood testing of immune system responses. See Oxford for how they were led astray from their first big 500 Phase I/II people test of their vaccine platform, and achieved much worse results than they anticipated when put in the crucible of multiple Phase III trials and the real endpoints of getting COVID-19, or serious cases of it.
Is this google starting to test the waters when it comes to arbitrarily kicking out software they personally don't like? (open source, decentralized, privacy oriented etc.) I might of course be exaggerating a bit here, keep that in mind.

- Element and Matrix are growing but still not equipped to fight back at large against this, so it is unlikely to create too much negative press

- If Google starts to catch too much critique for this decision they can put it back and always blame $error

I believe Element will be back soon, the problem I see here is that it will be framed as an "honest mistake" and then become forgotten until they pull another stunt like this.

Even if these removals are temporary, they can still hurt growth. Let's assume a bit more malice: Couldn't Google just monitor and analyze metrics of an undesirable app (downloads, usage, hype), pick a critical point in its growth then "accidentaly" remove it for a few days, causing damage that isn't immediately apparent, but nonetheless long lasting?
It is just business -- if the CEO & VC have the power to replace you, and believe that replacing you with a more experienced candidate is, after consideration of the downside (the potential that you and some of your team might quit), a bet that is likely to result in a more valuable / more successful business, then from their perspective it might seem like a sound and profitable business decision to replace you.

You haven't talked about what you want -- that might be worth thinking about, when you're in a place where you can mull it over in a fairly unemotional way.

Do you want: enough wealth to be retired in 5 years/buy a house/whatever; a C-suite job with high status ; a job with a large degree of autonomy and responsibility ; to gain experience growing an engineering organization ; to gain experience shipping a great service/product ; revenge ; ...

edit: it is also possible to reframe things as: different people can be a good fit for different phases in a company's lifecycle -- instead of staying with a single growing company for a long time, there could be a quite interesting and profitable career in jumping from early-stage company to early-stage company and helping them get on a good trajectory for future expansion
I’m a developer too.

“which is GOOD because that's how the web works and how every other general purpose computing platform works”

What’s good is that we have these alternatives.

The web is a shit medium for application delivery and people don’t trust it.

Android is much less trusted for app delivery than iOS because the store is less policed.

Forcing alternative stores on users will erode trust in the platform as well as creating fragmentation, and developers will definitely suffer.

If you don’t like the 30% fee - that can be solved, buy let’s not destroy the only trustworthy app market.
It's fascinating that today, I don't even know how many pixels my screen has, but I still remember doing the math to figure out how many columns a display could support. I sweated bullets over those numbers because I was buying my first computer in 1984 and wanted to be sure that I could really type a term paper on it. I had a chance to play with a Mac, but it was priced out of my league at the time.
AI generated microarchitecture could be fun, although I assume they do something similar already (What's the optimal cache parameters, number of execution pipelines etc. etc.)
Ok, waiting for a good red though.
Anything with transaction SLOs in the microsecond or millisecond range. Adtech, fintech, fraud detection, call records, shopping carts.

Two big players in this space are Aerospike and ScyllaDB.
> We’re you a part of selecting the new ceo?

No, I was not.

> How old is the company and we’re you a founder?

5 years and we got it to a profitable position. And no, I am not a founder but a consultant turned CTO and pushed hard on technology and decisions that helped us partner with a Fortune 100 company.
More people die the less you control the spread of the virus, the overall death rate at this point in time is not a good gauge of the potential impact of the pandemic.
I wrote an Android app for managing recipes with bakers percents so I definitely agree - being able to scan over the ratios of water, salt, and sugar tells you a lot about the recipe and what the dough will feel like.

I do wish normal cooking recipes had a similar convention - it's rare that I've ever used exact amounts since the ratio and technique are always more important.
The FDA isn't scheduled for anything. They told AZ long ago that their trail wouldn't meet FDA standards, and so AZ started a new trail that would. Everyone assumes the approval will happen in April, but that is just an educated guess.
Correct! I took it nicely and always, still with respect.
What are the benefits and disadvantages of Freenet vs IPFS? I am genuinely curious, they seem superficially similar and yet Freenet has been around for 20 years. Personally I haven't heard of it but does it have a lot of traffic/popularity compared to IPFS?
I haven't had any trouble. I'm running an elixir project that I'm testing over localhost, and you don't have to do any port magic whatsoever. Just run the app in WSL and go to localhost:port in your browser. The only problem I've had is if you do any of your development in the windows part of the filesystem, you might run into weird file locking issues, but I haven't had many of those.

Also, the WSL extension for VS code makes it hardly noticeable that you're even working in windows.
The original Mac had 128 KiB RAM, and a 512x342 framebuffer takes 21 KiB. That’s not unreasonably tight, but 4-bit color would be 86 KiB.

The IBM EGA card came out in 1984, same year as the Mac, and supported 640x350 with 16 colors, but I think the cost of the monitor + card was somewhere around $1K, and the 640x350@4bpp mode was only supported if you also bought a RAM expansion daughterboard. The Mac’s launch price was $2,500, for comparison.

Adjusting for inflation, the EGA card was something around $2,500 in 2020 dollars, and the Mac was around $6,200.
all they really need is a viewport tag to fix that. Weird that no one has bothered to do that yet, seems like it would be a one line pull request
Every country is, because their manufacturing in the US is also disappointing, which Pfizer announced out of the blue in December. They've got issues so grave they're shutting down their Belgium plant to improve things in ways I haven't been able to made good guesses of, besides perhaps having a sterility problem.
My original reply was to a post where someone accused RH of being predatory. To me, that strongly suggests there was intent here by RH to get users into this situation.

I don't think RH intended this situation. That is all.

I'm not suggesting there was no negligence. In fact I think there was. Negligence is essentially criminally screwing up.
A bit of irony however, with New Zealand being home some of the remaining pristine pockets of nature and home to some truly unique wildlife.

It would be like asking if you would trade Madagascar for the rest of the earth to be returned to nature?
I'm not the parent poster but I'll have a go. Please feel free to correct me if I've got parts wrong, I'm hoping to learn something too.

In other languages, lets say Erlang as an example, actors themselves do not have concurrency concerns. The receive loop/handler just executes everything as though it's single threaded. The code is very easy to reason about. It also applies backpressure in that if your synchronous loop is blocked, your mailbox will fill up.

If you need concurrency, it's done by talking to other actors, which can be processing on another thread under the hood. But the thread part of it is managed and you are not dealing with threads per se, you just know that if you have multiple cores and you send a message to another actor, it can be scheduled to run on another core safely.

If you want to run a bunch of tasks in parallel, you could use a pool of actors up to around the number of cores you have, and the parallelism is at maximum the number of actors in the pool.

Sorry if i'm over explaining, I just wanted to set the stage.

One of the benefits of this arrangement is if something is going slowly you can order the list of actors by biggest mailbox and you can see where your bottleneck is. And if you are using a lot of memory you can just order the actors by the memory usage and you can see where the big state lives.

With akka actors, instead of just dealing with the actors and actor pools, they suggest you make actors non-blocking. The way you do this is with Futures. Suddenly all the simplification of the actor model goes out the window. It mixes an async programming style with an actor model that doesn't need to be async! So you have the negatives of asynchronous programming and very few benefits of the actor model. I realise

How do you identify the bottlenecks of the system? Maybe your execution context is full - actually I'd love to know how people debug their execution contexts in general.

Last I checked, execution contexts would spawn new threads as well, so not only are they heavyweight (compared to erlang processes) but you have the operating system schedule them instead of the thing that knows how to best schedule them which is your language runtime.
“Apple added an opt-in requirement for Facebook’s ad business but not for its own.”

This is a false statement.

Apple has had opt-ins for all tracking and user data collection for a while now.

Also, it’s not possible to seriously claim that Apple has an advertising platform that competes with Facebook.

It doesn’t.
Agreed. I think the smart play is to come out with a grand plan that hopefully entices some people to hold onto their stock and keep the game going. Possibly use this to convince people that a small issuance of additional shares to do X would be a good idea. Then, just live off of the crazy publicity and hopefully good will this affords you.
If the government was funding itself on printed money, we wouldn't see that massive debt clock ticking ever upward.

In other words, the government is partly running on borrowed money.

There is some level of money being printed to buy some of that debt, but that is in more severe cases like recently.
Do you have significant equity which you retain even after your ouster? If so, I say pack it up, go on to something else, and hope that they succeed wildly and your equity becomes a huge windfall somewhere down the line.

If not, it's just a job anyway, and if the CEO really doesn't want you there, you're probably not going to be happy even if you somehow win this fight. In which case, I say negotiate as hard as you can for the best possible severance deal, preferably cash in hand and not equity, and then move on to your next thing. Wish them luck if you feel like it.

In the end, remember that you are not defined by someone else's judgment of your merit and abilities. The only that matters is your view. Go start something new, and kick ass. Laugh at those guys when you roll past them on the street in your Aston Martin Victor.
Almost everything has a cost and benefit. Point is to tilt more toward benefit.
May squeaked by because hardline brexiters (Johnson/Rees-Mogg/Farage acolytes, of which there are fighteningly many) saw her a someone pandering to Brussels and remainers. She was an unpopular PM on all sides, where as Johnson is just a populist.

> ...he’s not a sharp political mind with a keen sense of the political mood is insane.

He's a chancer. As an example, he refused to go on the Marr Show, relenting to only to capitalise on a national tragedy so that he could wave his populist flag. You could call that 'sharp', I'd call it cowardly. His saving grace was Cummings, and with him mercifully out of the picture, we'll see the real Boris.
The supply of Bitcoin being limited absolutely is relevant, and you can buy partial shares of stock (not sure if you can go down to a hundred millionth, but not sure that's relevant). The point is that Gamestop can issue new shares, diluting the existing supply, making it a terrible "store of value". Bitcoin on the other hand has a fixed supply that cannot be increased.
Windows is just so slow at most everything though...

I go back and forth between a personal Debian box and Surface laptop all day long and it really just emphasises the amount of bloat and drag that Windows experiences doing even the most basic things like manipulating files and using a web browser.

I can use VS Code on both OS's and everything is faster on Linux. Not sure why I would choose Windows unless I needed the C#/.Net toolchain.
Actually, I know, which is why I said that :)
Impossible to Delete Applications on iOS 14.2
It's not possible to delete applications anymore from iOS 14.2. All you can do, is to hide them into the "Application Library", but there's no delete option anymore.

So if you don't want an application, never install it ever!

I will have to reset my iPhone, I will probably just throw it away.
Wow, it's amazing how lite & fast web sites can be when they're not loaded down with images and advertisements and tracking cookies! Who would have ever imagined?

sarcasm definitely intended.

this is how I wish the web would be again.