skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gradients in photographs or video rarely have a perfect linear progression like you can generate in an image editor. (Sensor noise and other natural phenomena) There basically already is some natural dithering. If your software is not dithering extremely gradual gradients that's the problem.

Still in that case if you wanting to dither you gradient you better be working in a higher precision format.

Anyways, please notice I said: "8 bits is enough (generally)". There is a reason I said generally, I did not say always.

-Edit-

Although, lossy compression may effectively linearize gradients from video or photographs. Consider an extremely simple example: A compression algorithm that detects/fits to a gradual gradients to much smaller delta encoding. Such as increase the channel value by 1 every pixel for a 100 pixels. While this might be rather simple example. It's obvious to see how that would remove noise and make that section of an image highly linear.
Why not? Gaming/hardware is a massive industry. They have enough brand recognition to take a slice of it if they make the right moves.
> scaling poorly

Source?

It's become satisfyingly fast for me over the past years.

> only supporting static documents instead of interactive (tcp) servers.

You can develop dynamic services on Freenet just fine.

It is just done in a different fashion technically:

Instead of hosting the software on a server, and running scripts on the clients' web browser, there is no server/client model. It's true peer-to-peer: Every client is its own server, and the code runs there.

I.e. users install "plugins" for Freenet, and those use the network primitives which Freenet provides to establish dynamic connections and render dynamic content.

So you can have dynamic HTML if you want to. It's just not served by the sites you visit. Instead, things are developed "once and for all" as plugins for all sites and users to use.

So it's kinda like "forced true decentralization". You can't just shove JavaScript down the throat of random visitors of your site. You actually have to go through the effort of making your site's service a real application which people voluntarily choose to run.
The original forum post [1] that this article mentions has more details, and some discussions that also include Ubuntu devs.

[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/trying-wayland-by-default-aga...
This is the classic advertising doesn't work on me mentality.

Whether you realise it or not, the algorithms behind these services are having a subtle impact on you and show you things for various shady reasons. For me, that was enough just to ditch those services.

It's good to see that you're limiting your exposure to them though.
Why? Nobody will remember the memes. Boycotts hardly ever work. And AMC already did it.
If you care about price, check out (used, ofc) infiniband cards.

They all seem to offer/suggest daisy-chain connectivity at least for those with two ports per card as one potential topology.
Lol, I empathize. Some description of what these folders mean would be helpful.
That's why there are people rallying amongst themselves to hold. A significant number of shares are with people who simply does not care if they lose it all. They want the hedge funds who are shorting to bleed mostly from the interests.
Fundamentals isn't everything and is really a way that wallstreet has brainwashed people to invest in companies that provide no returns on their investment. As an extreme case, a biotech company with no sales, no profits, no approved drugs and sinking money into R&D is still worth something, and can be worth a lot.

On a more practical case, if you'd preferred to have invested in Intel on "fundamentals" instead of AMD because INTC has 10x more sales...then go ahead. But you should know, 1 stock went sideways for 3 years and another is up 750%.

And Chamath Palihapitiya said it best when he was on CNBC...who got the TSLA investment wrong? Hedge funds. Who got it right? Retail investors.
The US has been consistently providing 50% or more of the world's food aid for a century at this point. It has saved tens of millions of people from starvation over that time. No western countries eh.
> But isn't he correct? Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates could almost certainly achieve what the Reddit mob is doing and engineer a short squeeze. But how would that not be market manipulation?

So I actually spent a bunch of time thinking about this the other day, and came to the conclusion that yes, either of them could easily do the same thing to a small-cap stock all by themselves. There are a couple differences though. First, as soon as they control 5%, they would have to report. This would likely start making it more difficult for them to acquire additional shares), and they would have reporting requirements. This doesn't apply to a group of small individuals.

Second, even if they could, what is the point? They bid up the stock, completely corner the market, and then what? *They would have no exit plan.* If they just start selling, the price will start dropping again. At the end, they'd end up in a similar position to where they started (minus transaction fees). If they planned to keep the entire company, and were buying it to control it, it would be cheaper to just acquire the company the traditional way ("hostile takeover" type acquisions not-withstanding)

For what it's worth, I think this logic applies to hedge funds as well; they need to have an exit strategy, or there is no benefit. They can't make money for some of their investors, and lose money for others.

This is different than the current WSB group. Their exit strategy is "try to undercut the rest of the group". Some of the group will benefit, while most will lose. This leaves an actual benefit for the leader.

> The number of people who want to burn it all down is only increasing and it makes it hard to be optimistic about the future.

It may seem rather tin-foil hat of me to say, but seeing reports of large amounts of foreign money piling in to the GME situation definitely made me consider how this would be yet another time that a relatively small amount of money could do a lot to destabilize the country.
Some of the larger SV companies publicly said they would be adjusting salaries for employees that chose to move to lower cost of living locations. Typically when this is done, it uses the numbers provided by the government to provide the adjustment numbers.

As someone working remotely for a company out of the Midwest where things are cheaper, they specifically mentioned that they would not be adjusting salaries up or down if their employees choose to move.
You gotta be a man with principles. And why do you think your petitioning the government would make as much of an impact in this case, when opting out of using their services deprives them of revenue and data almost immediately?
Which DE do you use with Ubuntu? If Gnome then the wayland support is already pretty decent with 20.04 and 20.10. (Gnome versions 3.36 and 3.38). The wayland situation on KDE Plasma is also improving with each new release and some other distributions (Fedora) are planning on switching their plasma session to wayland by default as well.
To say that Robinhood wasn't fined for offering its clients inferior prices directly contradicts the SEC's own statement which you can read here:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321

"The order finds that Robinhood provided inferior trade prices that in aggregate deprived customers of $34.1 million even after taking into account the savings from not paying a commission."

What you are referring to is the fact that Robinhood can't offer a worse price than the NBBO, but the NBBO is not the best available price, there are also dark pools and brokers can match orders against their own clients.

Robinhood, like all brokers, has a fiduciary duty to its customers and as such is required to do what it can to always offer the best price to its clients instead of simply offering the NBBO, whose price serves as a worst case scenario when all other options have been exhausted. Robinhood not only failed to do that, they failed to do it while claiming in marketing materials that their execution is better than their competitors (it's not).
There's a context menu for settings to set the curvature, it's under the "Effects" tab: https://imgur.com/a/RazVuRD

Searching the repo for "curvature" shows you what they are doing with Qt: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/search?q=curv...
I completely agree with this and didn't mean to imply otherwise.
> Yes, Lehman was doing a bunch of stupid stuff, and the management under Dick were behaving like cowboys. But at the end of the day, that was the entire market at that time. What sunk Lehman was, in the end, a decision by all of the other big banks and the regulators that they’d let Lehman die because of something that might be best summarized as “lol idk sorry Dick but we’re just gonna let you go and let the Fed bail the rest of us out sorry bro lol.” Like really. That’s how it went behind those closed doors in the lairs of the lizards that control the universe. Lehman had already suffered near-death in 1994 — the world has now forgotten that Dick was the hero that saved the firm back then — and now it was to be made a sacrificial lamb for everyone else’s benefit.

I thought everyone knew this? It was an open secret that former GS CEO and Sec. Treasury Hank Paulson threw Lehman under the bus only because he was tight with Blankfein and was on bad terms with Fuld. Not to mention, Lehman was a much smaller sonofabitch challenging all the big banks.
I will bite: Firefox, the one that cares about privacy and open standards, even if it has a lot of income coming from a search bar deal with Google.
F-Droid, or use Element as a PWA.
My understanding is that brokers are not legally allowed to use money in customers' accounts to put up collateral to the clearing house. So the broker must instead pull from their own cash reserves until the trade settles 2 days later, even if the customer has deposited enough money to cover the trade.

I think what Robinhood is trying to avoid saying is that they simply didn't have enough money to cover that collateral. Hence why they have tapped into credit lines and have done an emergency funding round. If they had allowed GME to trade the past two days, it seems likely that they would have run out of money and instantly gone out of business.
It is good to see such implementations adopted more and more
>So I should probably lower the quality of my life to make a statement that will have no impact on them at all?

God forbid we "lower the quality of our lives" for such lowly things as principles!

>Sure you can, by petitioning your government to draft laws and so on.

Else what, you'll vote for another party? Both parties (in the US) take money from Big Tech, and they vote the same shit anyway. That will "show them" nothing. Especially since their stance on such laws is 1/100 of the things you vote a party/candidate about (so you will still vote for them if you agree on other matters).
MS never was liable for damages.

But back when Windows update had the option to disable updates, people who shouldn't (e.g. little Timmy setting up Gramp's machine) turned them off.

Then Microsoft got dragged through the mud, and grampa lost his retirement savings.

Back in the early 2000s, things were really bad. Going over to a non-geeks house, better than 50% chance to find malware, if they had broadband, good odds they were part of some sort of file drop for a warez group (or worse).

The issue now days comes that MS also pushes down feature updates, that is something that very valid objections to exist, especially with the dropping level of QA that exists throughout the industry today.
I see the potetnial for a VIM 101 course. :)
> initially they planned to cut Canada's deliveries by ~50% for 4 weeks but EU's by a 8% for 2 weeks.

This is simply because of different contractual obligations to the different parties. If I owe you $100 by the end of year, but owe someone else $20 by end of month, I'm going to give full priority to repaying the other person.

> I am deeply concerned that EU would simply block exports to Canada to make up for the shortfalls in its share of the vaccines.

Unwarranted: they've explicitly said they won't. Lots of articles on your news source of choice. one random example: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/01/28/news/eu-health-o...

As a fellow Canadian, it simply doesn't seem to be a big deal yet. May become one, but whatever.
You can try going to the subreddit of the school and asks for it.
Authorities Seize Dark-Web Site Linked to the Netwalker Ransomware
Automating data center expansions with Airflow
That's a personal disaster, but not a disaster for society.
Wouldn't this just not be a problem if they rewrote it in Rust?
Well, they got to where they are by being trusted at what they do. They have rapidly lost that trust, in my mind. Once a party violates some level of implicit trust, you have to distance yourself from that party. Big tech has shown their true colors. They will abuse their monopoly power to exploit politics, manipulate people, cut up and coming competitors off at the knees, and censor anything they don't agree with. This is not the web I signed up for. This is not the revolutionary open tech that kids like me that grew up in the 90s gushed about. This is a dystopian Orwellian nightmare. It's time to get off the ride.
Right. At the same time, there would be a net loss of value because any shorts who were margin called on GME's meteoric rise will have blown up. Their investors will have lost (possibly all their) money at the same time retail investors found their asks unfulfilled at $330 because the bids crash landed at $33.

In this scenario both the short funds and the retail investors are fucked. A select few retail investors and some of the momentum-trading quants do well. But the majority of the money on either side just evaporates - rapidly.

In a more distant but plausible scenario, this hits a bunch of funds across a bunch of tickers, and it goes systemic. They liquidate their longs trying to survive, and when it's not enough it rolls up into their brokers who are left holding the bag.
Sum types are the main reason I love writing Rust code. We all miss sum type Enums wherever we go. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/l594zl/everywhere_i_g...
It’s not about that either.

There is a healthy market here. Forcing Apple to do what you suggest is harmful to users and reduces user choice by making the Apple ecosystem like Android. This removes Apple’s ability to do things like block tracking and force store compliance which is the reason I and others choose them.

An option exists for people that don’t want a curated ecosystem. This is about you forcing your preferences on everyone else, specifically users that prefer and chose Apple’s model.
https://www.quora.com/Which-caste-is-looting-India/answers/2...
Robotic police officers are slowly being normalized, whether we like it or not
So as someone involved in this trade for the lulz, I had the exact same thought today, though you could probably have framed it a little less... sarcastically.

I couldn't help but notice the "this Friday is the day", "no wait this Monday", "no wait..." evolving narrative has felt an awful lot like folks dealing with cognitive dissonance. The parallel to qanon ("Trump will take over before the inauguration", "no wait during", "no wait March 4th"...) is definitely there.

Now I absolutely don't believe there's any nefarious orchestration behind the scenes. I think it's straight up groupthink.

But I'm up a decent amount on the trade so far and this realization absolutely made me rethink my exit strategy.
Legalized slavery? Enslaving prisoners was never illegal in the US.
Open Sourcing the Docker Hub CLI Tool
He said that they were worried about counterparty risk.

Peterffy is a brilliant guy. You've got to respect anyone who is a self-made billionaire.

But I thought he did a bad job expressing himself in this interview. IMO he should have clearly separated stocks and options at the very beginning, and he should have stressed the difference between them.

The counterparty risk is higher in options. A lot of the Robinhood crowd is/was playing by owning call options.

If professional option market makers step away (which, in my limited study of the market they did), then the only way to make money on an in-the-money option is to exercise. But the risk is huge on a stock that is so volatile. And most of the Robinhood crowd that owned those call options most likely didn't have the cash needed to exercise.

Peterffy is right that being a counterparty to Robinhood was risky. As proven by Robinhood needing to raise $1 billion in capital on an emergency basis.

Of course everything gets even more complicated as soon as the DTCC starts increasing margin requirements. They probably demanded 100% (instead of more typical 2%) on GME stock. Oh shit! Now the stock itself is very hard to trade. So much capital required.

Peterffy should have explained stuff like that. But that's probably hard to do when the CNBC anchors are asking loaded basic questions.
> Windows has incredibly good keyboard shortcut support.

yeah and they are all scarcely documented and basically impossible to discover. you just randomly come across them on obscure 00's era PHP forums, there's no big comprehensive list of them somewhere.
I just hope there is a post-pandemic era. Too many unknowns still about the mutations and whether they’ll out-maneuver the vaccines.
Google reads your e-mails to develop its ads. Psychological profiles are collated from every click you take on each of these platforms and pulled into ad brokerships. The people that are hired to do this profiling often have crossovers into government sectors, as this is just another form of surveillance. I am personally shocked (not necessarily appalled) at anyone feeling OK with this level of scrutiny being applied to themselves at all the times by government bureaucrats, or companies just looking to make a buck off of your behavior without you even knowing. We're past the point where anyone can claim ignorance of these facts.
New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy
Let me get my dusty PDP-11 then... /s
I'm in the same boat here, at least on Android alternatives such as F-Droid exist, however I'm concerned about the repercussions for MDM, as in our case (intune) we go through the Play store.

My largest concern is if Apple follows suit, which could lead to large problems with our employees who use iPhones.
I think he covered that by 'the one paid for by Google' as the main income for Mozilla is the default search engine deal.

But I agree, FF is the best
> hitting back, then forward, then forgot, then back, then forward, then "create offline account" will appear as a hidden option.

You're joking, right?
It's not a gimmick. It's a way to make electronic displays appear closer to what our eyes can see, and it looks great.

The whole "HDR photography" thing from the last 10 years that's so overused in real estate photos is not truly high dynamic range; rather it compresses high dynamic range (often captured with multiple exposures) so it will fit onto ordinary (low) dynamic range displays.

HDR displays are the real deal. Less compression (or maybe even no compression) is needed because the display can show a much wider range of colors natively.

That said, HDR is pointless for the graphical elements of most GUIs. Where it shines is when you're editing photos or movies or viewing them in a window. That window is HDR but outside that window the dynamic range is normal. I saw a link about how Apple is doing this a few weeks ago but can't find it now. It's quite nice as a way to make photos and video really stand out brighter on the screen while letting the GUI elements recede more into the background.
Misconceptions related to the GME debacle
Hundreds of millions of dollars? Not even a billion dollars was set aside for vaccines as trillions of dollars are being lost?
I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, mostly in college towns with small stints in Midwest cities. Nothing techy.

Today I work remotely for a company based in California, but previously I've worked at several local firms, largely B2B, contract and full time. We are actually moving somewhere out west, for non professional reasons.

For my particular slice of the Midwest:

Pros:

- Local jobs do exist, especially around a few urban centers

- Your wages go further here, especially if you earn a coastal salary

- Maybe local companies are a little more WLB oriented

Cons:

- Local jobs are largely around a few very specific industries (ag, insurance)

- Your org might run a little differently than you'd expect coming from the valley (dress codes, non technical leadership, older tech and older deployment practices)

- less "to do", and fewer takeout options

Nothing too unexpected, and you have the same pros and cons of normal remote work. Lot of freedom, limited social interaction.
Is there any way to know if that has happened? I imagine if a big player knew this or it leaked from a credible source, the stock could crash.
>So let me ask you a question, how were they negatively impacting your mental wellbeing? I ask this genuinely, because I have a tendency to feel these tools only negatively impact people who use them in stress-creating ways.

They use highly optimized and self-optimizing techniques and psychological tricks (including A/B testing, consulting experts in cognition, using dark patterns, and everything) to get you hooked on dopamine hits, make you jealoush of your timeline peers, anger you, milk your engagement etc.

The idea that "I'm different, these ads don't work on me" is basically the 21st century version of "I'm not addicted can't quit anytime" of the drug addict (not to mention that it's not just ads, but the feed that's problematic, from reasons that range from echo-bubbling to comparing yourself to 1000s of people you don't know but are your "friends" -- and even with actual friends, people used to have less visibility to their spending habbits, vacation photos, etc, not share everything including pics of their branch).
Correct, the data shouldn't be trusted. The US has been directly financially incentivizing the inflation of the number of Covid deaths, so the real figures are likely lower.
Yes, I can.

$ rails new myapp

Or the days I'm not such a rebel:

$ django-admin startproject myapp
I am also no expert, so speculation ahead.

- I have heard that the DTCC does not require collateral (or perhaps not as much collateral) for the party selling the stock. This would mean that allowing selling would pose little to no risk to brokers.

- If that's not true, I wonder if Robinhood decided that preventing people from closing positions was an unacceptable risk. If GME tanked and people couldn't sell, the outrage would be insane. So perhaps they did the math, realized that their available cash wasn't enough to support both buying and selling, and decided that only allowing sells was the least bad option available.
Do you know if this is the "most maintained" fork? There sure are a lot of them, and this one is a fork of a fork of yours :)
For servers, I would never consider anything but linux. As a desktop OS, Windows gives me a great experience. I’m lucky enough that I don’t have the performance problems that others describe. Games. Hardware compatibility without configuration or tweaking. Windows subsystem for Linux v2. It all works like I expect and I don’t have to fiddle with it constantly.