skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, we do. Asteroids large enough to be considered planet-killers are the easiest ones to spot.

https://youtu.be/4Wrc4fHSCpw
That is some headline... wow.

What is the appeal to people who use penis cages?
love it, is this a repeatable trick?
It's simple. Just find somebody on LocalBitcoins, find a dark alley, put on your N95 mask, and bring $5,000 in cash with you to said alley. Hopefully they'll neither rob, nor rape, nor murder you, and won't follow you home to determine where you live.

But if they do, you can rest assured that's simply KYC.

It's the on-ramp the fat cats don't want you to know.
I think that there's a real problem with people using 'Cunningham's Law' as a way to learn. It might be fine for that person (because they know their limits), but then anyone reading it could incorrectly quote that person as being right (because it wasn't corrected). These ideas are then duplicated and we get into a real mess where we can't differentiate widely held views vs the experts/most agreed upon view by experts.

In general, this can't be a way to move forward as a society if people just make stuff up.
Last night for giggles, I tried to see if I could get a few coins having dabbled in crypto over the years.

It was surprisingly hard.

Highlights:
* Coinbase doesn't trade it.
* Held my nose and tried to sign up for Robinhood last night, could get through their process as it kept crashing.
* Ditto for Kraken.
* Tried to download their wallet, required Java 6.

Gave up since I wasn't actually going to purchase more than $5 and won't touch the offshore exchanges.
Indeed. Even then, as a term, it refers to a specific regan-era tax policy.

What many on the left assume it means, is a sincere description of growth "raising the tide"; and how ridiculous an idea that is.

Of course the tide has risen to an unprecedented degree in human history both since the term "trickle down" was invented; and moreso, over the last 40 years.
> What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists?
Exactly, they should look at indy developers like Nate Hayden, Hollandspiele and others who make niche games, but professionally.
I feel at some point choice paralysis sets in and voters choose people at almost random.

We also do not live in a democracy but a representative democracy. Very big difference. Having the elected legislature or mayor choose the school board is perfectly in line with a representative democracy.
Yes, this can be a pain. There are some contracting companies that handle this for you, but that can involve hiring people in other countries as contractors, not employees, having an extra intermediary that handles their payroll and whose incentives in terms of quality service may not align with yours, etc, etc. Plus of course regulations about how long you can have people contracting for you before you have to hire hem as employees and whatnot.

Also, it's not just tax implications. There's also complexity about time off (vacation and leave regulations differ a lot across the globe), conditions under which people can or cannot be fired (or hired), differences in terms of non-salary benefits that must be provided, etc.

A simple example of the hiring/firing thing: under French law, if someone is on maternity leave you can't fire them. You also can't hire someone on an indefinite-term basis to do their job while they are on leave. Hiring someone for the specific term of the leave seems to be OK. See https://www.globalworkplaceinsider.com/2017/05/do-employees-... toward the end, though the whole article is a great illustration of some of the differences in this area between French and US law.

And then there are the fun parts about general regulatory compliance. As a simple example I've run into, the US _requires_ you to collect and report data about the race of your employees (see EEO-1), while the EU _forbids_ collecting this data to start with, last I checked. So you have to have distinct processes for employees in different jurisdictions, your HR database needs to handle these differences in rules, etc.
I'm afraid Jeff Bezos himself couldn't afford such IOs on AWS.
> Another thing that I would say Pony has that Erlang doesn't is an easy FFI mechanism

(Disclaimer, self-promotion):

It doesn't get easier than this: https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html

(I'll be dropping direct c support in there in the next release)
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Neat! But looks like maybe an inch or two of travel? Hard to imagine it would fare well in serious offroad conditions.
Isn't it actually neither buy nor sell? Most common indices (by AUM) are market-cap weighted. If a total market ETF contains 0.25% of it in GME, and GME doubles in value, it's GME it holds is now 0.50%, and that's how much it should hold now, according to market-cap weight. No buying or selling.

Of course there's many ETF's that aren't market-cap weighted, but the majority of funds/value is.
Not if it's a cap-weighted index fund.
Thanks! Very valid points, I left out all the nuances to get some counterpoints and yours are very valid. I think the biggest issue, as in most federated/decentralised scenarios, is the inevitable(?) backend/server hosting providers that will crop up. In this case there would be very large incentives to try to provide "easy solutions" that hide the technicalities allowing for loopholes to aggregate and sell data. The individual datapoints might be encrypted but you might monitor what kind of data consumers are attached to the PDS and based on how much activity the consumers generate aggregate and sell data about eg. users with many/active fitness related data consumers and target these users with ads about fitness equipment.

Disclaimer: I couldn't really grasp how Personium works from the "app screen demo" but it didn't stop me from commenting...
Now that you mention OCaml, I have been using the OCaml dialect F# for scripting.

It works just like any script (.fsx files) and you can also compile it ahead of time.

There is a REPL for experimenting and the type system provides for a superior IDE experience.

It has the full .NET ecosystem at its disposal. And algebraic data types to ensure you cover all edge cases.

And last but not least - if you are scripting any kind of data wrangling, the Type Providers feature of F# offers a very powerful way to build those ETL jobs with type safety with just a few lines of code.
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Saudi Arabia Building 100-Mile-Long “Linear” City
>> If this is in any way true, you need to contact a journalist ASAP.

??? It sounds like he's saying the supply chain is working out normal issues, and the FDA is rightly holding it back until they are resolved. I don't see anything newsworthy about that. Certainly could be misquoted/smudged for some great clickbait though.
Hmm

> Pony doesn’t care about filenames other than that they end in .pony. But it might matter to you! By giving files good names, it can be easier to find the code you’re looking for later

I cannot imagine anyone is going to be learning to code from the first time from this Hello World page. Although, the rest of the page is very much not for beginners, so maybe this was a fluke.

Often with new programming languages I wish they would present themselves in the form "Here's what you need to know about this language if you're already a professional developer" instead of an actual tedious tutorial.
To clarify a bit, what he is saying is that the act of renaming the schools is the example of "bike shedding", the "law of triviality", not the statement itself as is implied.
I am naive here, can someone explain what is the economic utility of a stock market ?

For example, its easy to understand utility of food, cloths, car, house, money. But I am not able to find a reason about stock market existence for day-to-day trading, where secondary stocks are traded daily after IPO. It seems none of the day-to-day trading money/profit ever goes back to business to help them to improve that business.
They accept a tradeoff between convenience vs security, simplicity vs complexity.
I will not argue with you about what Robinhood did to any of the margin accounts, if people borrowed money to trade stocks and Robinhood think that's risky, they have the right to close positions as part of standard risk management.

But I am against what they did to the cash accounts (and margin accounts not borrowing money to trade). It seems that you think it's a small portion of all of the accounts, which I disagree.

Even if it's only a small portion, what Robinhood did to these cash accounts was unprecedented and unacceptable as a broker.

For point 2, I think you are referring to the clearing process. Brokers were liable to cover if clearing houses do not[0]. But that is Robinhood's liquidity issue and not does justify Robinhood disabling cash accounts from buying stocks.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH4XKP55fM&feature=youtu.be
I disagree as someone who is running a couple a PCs I built myself.

Normal people can just buy a MacBook and be done with it. Logic is why I bought my Mac, and nothing for PC comes close to ease of use when it comes to audio production. It's not just that it's easy, but logic scales in difficulty for whatever you want to do.
Game On – Big Corporations Are Harmful to the Free Market
If you are going to create a new language in 2021 please make it use scoped + name-spaced module imports. Everything becomes difficult if you can't even know which variables are used where and what it is / originate from. Global variables are evil.
Guessing Chrome's dev tools performance monitor. The metric names are the same: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAIxk.png

Edit: Since it's a little confusing how to find it, I made this: https://i.imgur.com/sQpHFoU.png
> [1] As the saying goes.

It's from Arthur C. Clarke.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/155962-when-a-distinguished...
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Your "facts" are basically corporate PR statements from corporations that have a huge entrenched reason to distort the truth and have changed stories multiple times. I'd say your eagerness to accept RH's version of the truth as 100% credible is far more actively dangerous than what you responded to.
We shouldn't make fun of people for not knowing things, but it's perfectly okay to make fun of people for being narcissistic enough to think they are experts on a topic and arguing fervently based on their shallow and distorted understanding of the topic and hand when they are clearly not.
If it doesn't affect small businesses then who is buying all of the FB ads?

If you look through your ad feed what do you see? When I had FB, most of the ads were for products (or services) from small businesses. Maybe you can dispute small, but that was the majority.

> "Sellers on Etsy?"

I think that'd be included yeah, also anyone with a shopify store, etc.

I'm not the right person to ask but I'd believe there's large volume here, I'd also be happy to be proven wrong.
And what about all the people who watch MSNBC and CNBC and Cramer, do they need to stop pushing stops as good or bad too? They tell lots of people "who don't care about hedge funds or any of that, but just got the impression from the news that hey this stock is going way up and that must mean it is a way to make a quick buck" too.

None of this could have happened if they weren't shorting GME at 143%+ of float. They were greedy, this is the consequence. In 2006-2008, they ALL were greedy and so the government had to bail them out. No lessons were learned. If the SEC wants to do something, remove these instruments that allow infinite leverage and collapses.
Good thing we had you here or there'd have been no world to say hello to.
Has science solved the Dyatlov Pass incident, one of history’s great mysteries?
Perl.com domain stolen, now using IP address tied to malware
Could someone please explain briefly, where the problem is if someone small investers start investing in a trade? Yes, my question sounds as if it was from someone who doesn't get the whole story.
@rakibtg - not sure if it's just me (Windows, Chrome) but if I scroll down manually and then click any of the links on the left I end up in the middle of the section, rather then at the top. So go to the site, scroll down a little using the scrollbar, click "Delete Data" on the left. You are now in the middle of the "Delete Data" section. Looks like you show/hide different sections, you should scroll to the top of the section on click.

Besides that it seems rather great, I am going to test it out.
Hi, let me google "how short sellers hurt companies" for you.

First link of one practice: short and distort
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/030102.asp

You can google more yourself.
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> Prior to 2020, most medical professionals believed most viruses, and corona viruses particularly, could not be transported as aerosols.

That’s most American medical professionals. And they mostly seemed to believe you would get yourself sick faster by touching your eyes after taking the mask off wrong, or that masks provided 0% protection unless you wore an N95 with a fit test, or that if they didn’t lie about them being useless people would steal them from hospitals. They certainly didn’t believe they were truly useless, since they were all wearing them for procedures.

Actually, wasn’t the excuse for suddenly being like “face masks are good actually” that they didn’t know COVID had asymptomatic spread before then? That’s even worse than not knowing it spread through aerosols.

> This was a subject of research where the data had not come in.

By using the technique of “not assuming all of Asia is primitive and superstitious”, it was easy to figure out what to do without an RCT. Note there isn’t evidence that surgical masks help during surgery either.
I like this animation showing how a FET is fabricated using photolithography processes: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/transistor/inde...
The ‘Roaring Kitty’ Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets
Let’s Crack Zodiac: How was the 340 cipher made?
Isnt this like the recent GlacierMD?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921697
Giving away control to a sexual partner. And on this person's case, to a bunch of internet hackers as well.

Wow, this is the most Cyberpunk thing that's happened so far.
If you navigate up one directory, there are a couple more layers available: https://siliconpr0n.org/map/raspberry-pi/rp2-b0/
Does that mean you can't change BTC to USD? I don't understand what freezing USD purchases means.
Expertise is not a Boolean. I'd trust a qualified physicist to make useful predictions about quantum devices, an EE to model an analog circuit, and a structural engineer to design a bridge that doesn't fall down.

But financiers, bankers, and economists have a much less convincing record - and that's after you filter out the ones who have been caught breaking the law.
Mister Invoicer: Invoice as a Service for your business in 2021
Market experts have been caught with their pants down many times before because of the actions of uninformed investors.

In 1999, the rational move would be to short tech stocks as they were over valued, but those who tried it lost lots of money because they didn't factor in how crazy investors were at driving up the price.

You can technically be right but still end up losing everything.
Do you believe Facebook has no legal or moral requirement to host content from people regardless of their race? I don't quite know the law in America, but I'm more interested in the moral question. Is racial discrimination by a company like Facebook morally acceptable to you regardless of whether it's legal or not?
Ada makes a real effort toward if it compiles it works, which is an exaggeration of course but Ada is much closer to that ideal than is C. More recently we have Rust, but Ada is too often overlooked.

I'm not quite sure what to make of those criteria. If you want a platform for writing DSLs, I believe Racket Lisp is impressively flexible, but it's a somewhat exotic language.

For flexibility and conciseness, functional languages are the obvious place to look.
> However, I wish I could feed gdb commands directly to it.

you can: while debugging, enable "Debug Log" (in the View menu), and this adds a pane where you can input gdb command. Output is not very pretty though.
I think it's entirely reasonable to hold laypeople to the standards of what is taught in a typical middle school pre-algebra curriculum.
Thanks! In case you're interested in building a ThreadRipper Pro WX-based system like mine, then AMD apparently starts selling the CPUs independently from March 2021 onwards:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16396/the-amd-wrx80-chipset-a...

Previously you could only get this CPU when buying the Lenovo ThinkStation P620 machine. I'm pretty happy with Lenovo Thinkstations though (I bought a P920 with dual Xeons 2.5 years ago)
>> Apple could take measures against FB. How about deplatforming them?

That will only make the case against Apple - walled garden and all that

>> How about NOT allowing them to include trackers in Safari or apps, bankrupting their revenue stream?

You know they are anonymized right? Also, you are not even talking about pennies on the dollar, when it comes to Apple's revenue. I suggest you read the recently quarterly financial report.

>> Genocide for dollars, the way it's always worked. Apple is being disingenuous here.

There's a case to be made for world to be appearing as we see it. You don't kick the good boy in a rowdy party(that is web) for not being good enough.
Microcontrollers being on larger processes like this is nothing new. As you mention, it's a way to keep using older fabs, but that's not the only reason.

40nm offers tons of performance for microcontrollers and the die area can still be reasonably small. You tend to want to have lots of variants of microcontrollers for different applications, so mask costs matter. And you tend not to want exotic, very low core voltages and do want high voltage tolerances and strong drivers on the IOs, which mean relatively big geometry-- no matter what your minimum feature size is.

Also, sleep power consumption is important, so low leakage is nice, which is easier to get on large geometry.
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+1. On a project with any serious complexity (ie not glorified CRUD apps), a junior engineer is pretty close to net neutral without good guidance.

The industry at large does not realize how much mentorship a beginning software dev needs, or how much damage a poor engineer can cause. I know of a startup where an eng with too much appetite for shiny new tools caused probably $500k in lost runway, and I don't think that was exceptional.
Dogecoin was created as a joke. The founder removed himself from the project, other people are probably use it for scams. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-rise...

Regardin all crypto: https://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-bitcoin-will...
> When an employee at Pottery Barn drops a plate, we don't deduct it from their paycheck. If we did, no one would work there.

Actually, in professions where we are talking about serious damages to people or property, the institution doesn’t cover it and makes the practitioners buy insurance. Can you imagine if Surgeons and Lawyers operated on this pottery barn standard?
Yup. Your average PCP/internist is good at one thing: analyzing your symptoms and directing you toward someone who actually can help you.

Not saying that a yearly check-up isn't beneficial (it is), just that they shouldn't be prescribing Type 2 diabetes medications on the spot (and getting kickbacks) and instead should tell the patient to stop stuffing their faces so much.
Surprisingly, police do fine in other countries without qualified immunity. And judges can strip QI, but this happens far, far too rarely. So maybe it shouldn't be the default.
> The largest impact I have ever had was when my manager put some trust in me, gave me autonomy and a huge project.

Full stop, this is the _only_ way I think to allow an engineer the ability to actually affect change.
This argument runs the other way too. Why stop at electing school boards? Why not the public water company's board, and the animal control office? Why not elect the janitors at City Hall? This can be extended until anything but total direct democracy is undemocratic.

I live in a jurisdiction with elected schoolboards as well, and I find the notion odd and somewhat anachronistic. It seems only natural to me that public schools should be handled by the municipality's government, or maybe the provincial one directly. (The provinces have, in practice, assumed much of the responsibility anyway. I understand it's the same in the USA with state laws, and state funding, being very involved in public education.)

Even municipal elections are marginal enough that many people don't take them seriously here. No one knows anything about the schoolboard elections. I have to actively research quite a bit just to find out anything about the candidates. I often abstain out of ignorance despite trying to inform myself!
I can only applaud this succinct diagnosis of the difficulty in dealing with online debate.
Classic Fear Of Missing Out in action. Don't worry, money not gained that way is not "money lost".
Reinterpretation of Godwin's law:

As a parody cryptocurrency's blockchain grows longer, the probability of it remaining a parody approaches 0.
It’s possible that it’s just been so long since we had a bad respiratory pandemic that medical advice assumes everything is food poisoning and norovirus, where cleaning surfaces actually does matter.

But it’s also possible they’d have to admit grandma-type adages about opening the windows actually work and office buildings don’t let you do this anymore.
I think this question is just as much about data as it is intuitive and feelings. Does a rollback make the front page of HN? Does the newer version leave a lasting impression that can't be measured? I don't think you can truly measure these things without actually measuring sentiment, etc.

I'm sure Netflix has seen increased metrics across the board but everything they've done and added in the last three years or so has turned me against the brand. As a very happy subscriber since 2002 I stopped in 2019. Anecdotal and maybe just me but I don't think everything is about some 28-day conversion metric.

I think it's more about the guts to do something you believe in and trusting the people you hire than just metrics.
They do.

Go look at the review scores of all of the top apps in the app store. None are below 4 stars, unless they are apps for services where users don't have much of a choice in apps, such as crap companion apps for hardware or national services that people are forced to use.
honestly, it also sounds like author's dream place to work is a Brazil-like bureaucracy. ugh.
I don't have children but I do have a "vested" interest in an educated populace with tax money spent efficiently on the education itself.
There are mission profiles that could manage a flyby on a multi-decade timeline.
Search Google with "cache:$YOUR_URL_HERE".
In the UK a company worked around that by having large batteries near their fast charging points. So the batteries are charged slowly to not put strain on the power grid and when you're fast charging your car, the juice is taken out of those batteries. IIRC they said about 6 cars could fast charge this way, the 7th would have to wait a bit.

It was on the Fully Charged YouTube Show, about 2 years ago or so.
> This sort of event would be less likely if America's wealth disparity weren't so grotesquely skewed.

Highly unlikely. It doesn’t matter how rich the rich are if you’re poor and want to gamble your way out. The problem is with poverty, which is completely unrelated to wealth disparity.

One you can fix by making life worse for everyone, the other you can fix by making life better for the poor.