skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally when I engage with people I'm looking for opportunities to teach them in a way that they won't need me anymore. More simply, I treat "help" like issue triage.

a. If the help is production impacting or blocking an issue that is due soon then they'll get more direct feedback but I'll continue on with (b) as well.

b. Send the person in the direction of resources that aid self-learning.

Habitual help seekers

Some people are habitual in their search for help. I don't run into this as much as I used to, but when I figure out that someone is placing me much higher up on the help tier than my time allows me to be I will generally start continually referring them to (b). If things are bad enough then I'll generally talk to their mentor about refining their learning process. I usually find this where folks haven't "learned how to learn" yet; although software engineers do have a good reputation for learning things outside their domains, there's no shortage of folks who just know how to string code together.
The article has precisely that prompt in one of the images.

The thing is, just like certain apps require certain permissions (camera app wants to access the camera, device files, etc..) I believe a lot of people will just accept these conditions without realizing they are completely optional.
More relevant ads would be the benefit for the user.
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Worth clarifying, too: if you have tooling that depends on `get-pip.py`, you'll need to change your reference to https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.7/get-pip.py
Totally agree. I have a very niche small business (you can check my comment history) and all the community is on facebook, it has completely replaced forums. I don't have a choice, I need facebook and instagram otherwise I wouldn't be able to reach them.
Ding ding ding.

That this isn't the top comment probably has J.P. Morgan spinning in his grave.

>A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the
bonds in Christendom.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2006/20060517001te...

The fact is, it all runs on public trust. Just like governance, just like civil liberties, just like policing, just like everything else that provides a giant's shoulder to start from.

It is why honor, integrity, honesty, and transparency are considered virtues in good business. It is also why deception, secrecy, obfuscation, and equivocation are such powerful tools fpr shaping the business landscape. In a world of honest people, the liar unchecked is King (or at least one hell of a catalyst).

If you start getting widespread loss of faith in the system, or merely the operators thereof, there will be a destruucturing and re-evolution of a system people can feel more implicit trust in. What that process looks like I don't know, but I'm certain it will be slow and stymied in it's coming, but sweeping in it's non-resemblance to what we have now.

At least one can only hope.
I wonder if Google ever sanitizes web pages filtered through its amp servers.
Being diligent and internally mirroring your python dependencies is the correct thing to do, but this is a different issue.
I know 5 or 6 given paths. Which one is fastest depends on all sorts of things. Is there traffic? Has an accident on the highway brought things to a standstill? Is going North around the lake slow enough that the toll lanes are worth it?

Even when I know where I'm going, it's very useful to have an accurate ETA. If I get a call, I can tell someone quite precisely when I expect to arrive.
A more fair comparison might be that all advertising sucks from an advertisers perspective... but we just didn't have a good way to measure it.

In the world of Nielson and print the only consistently measurable ads were brand ads - and brand awareness had a loose correlation across businesses with revenue. There was no way of rigorously testing whether individual customers propensity to purchase a good from a given business was actually tied to any of the brand awareness ads that were being purchased, or customer's brands they had heard of for trust reasons after deciding on a purchase, or if customer's simply didn't care about the branding. Bear in mind, any negative datapoint that indicates customer's didn't care could always be taken as a sign that the "brand" had to be improved. Not that the ads were worthless.

Now on digital any brand exercise, direct pay per conversion, or other form of ad gets attributed to downstream revenue, and we're quickly discovering which half of the marketing budget isn't working.
A lot of total noobs have showed up on /r/wallstreetbets, I'm not at all surprised that there have been so many new accounts opened.

People who've never been in the market before in their life seem to have jumped on $GME.
Does anyone have any new insight in to plans to resolve pip search which has been broken for over a month now?

xmlrpc.client.Fault: <Fault -32500: "RuntimeError: PyPI's XMLRPC API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. See https://status.python.org/ for more information.">
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Whoa! That is very succinctly stating something that I have been trying to express.

Would you happen to have some research reference on this?
i just downloaded the app. this is amazing, thank you for posting!
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I never meant to imply that I thought Apple's (possible) intent was a good thing.

I just think that a significant number of people will see what they're doing and thing "Oh, they're looking out for me." I think it's best to be skeptical of any company's motives, whether their current business decisions seem to help their users or not.
We're a cold country!
I would love to know what HN's python folks are using for new projects these days.

I've looked at FastAPI before and it has some nice features like asyncio and pydantic integrations. But it doesn't have any official users library, and ideally a framework should have that available.

I've started looking outside of the Python ecosystem since it feels like there's nothing new and exciting come out of there. I've played around a bit with NestJS and it's amazing how far the TypeScript ecosystem has come.

It's also crazy that SQLAlchemy doesn't have typing support still, so TypeORM looks really appealing.
It actually is. A while ago, someone (i think fb) produced an article that showed that to avoid the issue, they find it is best to show user their own similar screen, and only if the user clicks "yes", show the OS screen (cause for that one you only get one chance). I suspect you're seeing the apps' first "app-made" screen and not the OS one. Look carefully. If so, click yes there, and NO on the OS screen.
> You can get arbitrarily high amounts of shorting without any naked shorts.

That's why I said "Interestingly, in both cases the short interest can be greater than 100%"

But in the situation you're describing the total number of shares on the market is still equal to float.

If we altered your example to have naked shorting it would be: B sells a share it hasn't borrowed to C, A sells a share it hasn't borrowed to D. The total number of shares that can now be traded is equal to the float + 2. Hence the claims of 'counterfeit shares' which is not a great description.

Naked shorting can only be done by market makers. The argument is that it helps to create liquidity and that these actors will have the ability to later borrow the shares without issue. The problem is that, as I understand it, there are not strict rules dictating when they must actually borrow the shares to back the shares that they sold short.

There are some indications that this has happened with GME. For example Michael Burry said in a now deleted tweet[0]:

"May 2020, relatively sane times for $GME, I called in my lent-out GME shares. It took my brokers WEEKS to find my shares. I cannot even imagine the sh*tstorm in settlement now. They may have to extend delivery timelines. #pigsgetslaughtered #nakedshorts"

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210130030954/https://twitter.c...
I took a seminar in college on Intellectual Property Law where the instructor was a former developer who went to law school to be an IP Lawyer instead, specializing particularly in software. A friend of mine got a dev job at a FAANG out of college and hated it enough that subsequently they have been working as a non-dev in human rights policy type stuff, not quite lawyer but very similar trajectory.

Just a couple of examples.
Founders AND who ever does their communication. Their email about the volatility of stocks was so belittling. Even had a hyper link of "economics 101".

From what I understand now, them having to halt buys on $GME wasn't really their call. However, given the tone of their emails, I can only blame them for the theories that they did it on behalf of HF.
> In what way?

In the obvious way for some people? It's disingenuous to pretend that opting out of FB doesn't have negative social consequences for some (many?) people, and dismissing their concerns probably isn't a good way to change anyone's mind.
To me the whole pitch is a bit too nebulous and seemingly
inconsistent. What does it mean with "portable" and
"interoperable" data standards? Does that mean specific file
formats? Protocols? Apps?

What do they mean with "Linked Data"? What's novel about this,
what makes it different from hyperlinks or shared Dropbox
folders?

Why does it say pods are decentralized data stores, but then on
the "about" page it tells me I have to host the pod on a server
- how is that decentralized?
They could have simply used a different shell for Windows. Heck, they could have simply used Electron without Squirrel and distribute it through the Windows store.
Then where is the exceptional demand going to come from to execute the proposed scheme?
That is the narrative that the mob would like you to believe, but it's actually not true. Here are some examples of that happening in the past:

* https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKCN2253T2
* https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1FT2S4

Robinhood was in a no-win situation. You can read about why they were forced to restrict buying here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/elon-musk-on-clubhouse-robin...

If they restricted sells too, they would have been lambasted, likely even more than they currently are, by people trying to get out of their positions either to capture gains or avoid loss.

Robinhood's only move was to mitigate the fall-out with customers through messaging, which they failed miserably at. It's unclear to me whether this failure was due to incompetence or because they were (or thought they were) restricted from providing certain information by law or contract.
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Yeah, its not like you access to and the sources of all versions of Python. No proprietary vendor has ever revoked licenses, pulled downloads, version or timebombed binaries, stopped support for eol products, auto upgraded, etc.

Yes open-source is clearly worse for giving you the right and means. Vs being subject to the whims and profitability of a company.
Do not miss the Facebook articles linked from the page.

"We disagree: personalization doesn’t have to come at the expense of privacy. We can do both, and we can do both well. We’ve built products that lead the industry in transparency and offer settings and controls to help people manage their privacy."

"So if you recently bought a hiking backpack from a local outdoor gear supplier and are no longer looking for a new one, you can choose to remove the outdoor gear supplier from this list of businesses, and disconnect that information from your account."

For a company that prides itself with transparency, you could start with not lying to people in such a blunt and despicable way. See, I don't want you to know that I bought a hiking backpack. Why should you know? Why do you think you are the arbitrer of the market, that people cannot do their own research and that small business need you? This is a false premise, and your position is a blatant JOKE that at this point is also sad and unremarkable.

Stop lying to people, you sad surveillance capitalists.

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/personalized-advertising-a...

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/a-path-forward-for-privacy...
Is it common to use the system version of Python with the latest version of Pip?
> "Apple’s new prompt suggests there is a tradeoff between personalized advertising and privacy; when in fact, we can and do provide both."

It's a somewhat bold but not completely implausible claim to argue that highly personalized ads are compatible with privacy. There are theoretically schemes that could make that work.

But it is, however, a wicked bold claim for Facebook to go a step farther say they are already currently providing both privacy and personalized advertising. Does anyone, at all, believe them when they say that?
I've certainly seen issues with cables before (even ones that seem to half work), as mentioned in another reply. My first step in debugging would be to unpair the devices (on both sides) and try to set them up again to see if that helps.
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> Is this fraud?

No because they have the raw materials and labour to make a new pizza and have entered into a contract to do so.

Short sellers don't have raw materials to make new shares.
You're off to a great start, but might I suggest you look into Tolstoi? The Sebastopol Sketches about Tolstoi's impressionf of the Crimean War, for instance?

For a (much more refined!) literary work, I think my favourite is Hadji Murat - where Tolstoi contemplates loyalty and honour.

And, of course, there's Anna Karenina and War and Peace, though I'll heretically admit that the latter didn't give me much except relief I'd churned myself through it by the time it was finished; I think I'd have appreciated it more if I'd kept notes underway - the dramatis personae is mind-bogglingly huge, and I suspect I lost lots of nuance as I lost track of the characters and their relationships.

Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita' was a great read, but I'd suggest you get hold of a good commentary or annotated edition; when I first read it, I lost lots of context as I didn't catch references to contemporary Soviet society and persons (With several characters in the novel being modeled on real movers and shakers in the Soviet cultural scene)

The story is brilliantly absurd and funny, though.
It's so painful to come onboard projects that should have been designed originally in an RDBM, but that was never a consideration because, "they are slow." People fight the migration tooth and nail until it becomes nearly impossible to move forward.
Complaining about advertising is like complaining about money. Advertising is inevitable in any economy.
It has to not only exist, but be obtainable.

In any case, the important limit here is that financial firms are not supposed to allow hedge funds or other entities to assume short positions for more stock than exists, because if it becomes necessary to execute the trades to resolve the shorts, that extra 40% will fail to deliver, because those shares don't exist.

The SEC actually keeps a list of trading companies with high rates of failure to deliver as a means of detecting naked shorting.
>Pay toilets have to be the most capitalist dystopian thing I've ever heard of. I apologize for the strong response, and don't mean it to reflect on you as a person at all, but the idea of charging someone for something that is literally part of the biological definition of life is kind of shocking.

You also, and for the same reason, object to selling food, right?
Agreed, I've never understood this. There are lots of good migrations tools around for SQL databases. If people mean "you don't need to run migrations with Mongo, you can just start adding fields to documents as they're accessed, and clean up as-needed" then... don't do that. That's how the Mongo DB I am responsible for was managed for most of the last 10 years. It's a nightmare now, we can barely change it at all.
Commenting on posts is something that Gemini enthusiasts are still figuring out. Currently people post Re: posts to their own gemlogs and then mail a link to the person who made the original post, but I think they are hoping to have a less effortful convention.
Also get the furk out of here with your 90s era FUD. No one believes it anymore.
Yes, valid points. Also don't think they should hold social interactions hostage in an effort to not lose their grip on selling your attention span. If their product is worth paying for or the individuals in question are too cheap to pay for it without using ads then so be it. Let them monetize on ads, but I don't expect anyone to give a shit about small businesses profiting off our data. I didn't agree to support them by selling my data so I don't feel any emotional attachment to their situation.
Ok I found that Google does have a GAID/AAID and you can hide it in Android under Settings -> Google Services -> Ads
> No one actually needs FB.

No one actually needs a car either. Or to eat industrially produced food. Or etc. etc.

"Nobody actually needs X" where X is a thing that empirically a huge percentage of people do, is I suspect never a compelling argument.

edit: bordercases brings up a good point, I picked particularly entrenched/difficult areas for examples but it wasn't necessary.

My point was more about the futility of observing a common behavior and rejecting it superficially, so perhaps I should have used "Nobody needs a smart phone" or "No family of 4 needs a >2000sq/ft house" or the like as examples.
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The more I know about Facebook, the more I like Apple
Call me weird but if I had ads at all, I prefer that they be relevant. I hate being shown something that I have zero interest for. I actually really enjoy when a targeted ad is spot on at showing me something that I would want.
I can sympathize with the idea that it is psychological warfare and I think I'd rather pay for an ad-free experience over seeing irrelevant ads.
The site should appear exactly the same in a fullscreen browser on a 27" desktop monitor, and on an original iPhone? That's rarely a useful goal.

For a page that really needs to look "exactly the same" everywhere it's viewed, maybe PDF is a better choice than HTML+CSS.
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Facebook makes so much money off of tracking users... why don’t they just start paying us.
I just offer myself. I do everything (except coding) for my clients. Right now, many clients come from word-of-mouth. If a client of mine is happy with my work, they tend to recommend me to others in their incubator/accelerator space.

But I came here to congratulate Michael, not to discuss my own work. Happy to take this conversation to an email thread.