skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See previously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_crisis : alleged electoral fraud (which I think was somewhat substantiated, but it's very unclear) -> questionable rightwing government -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bolivian_general_election

Election fraud can be a real issue. The question is, like "weapons of mass destruction", getting the evidence rather than going on suspicion.

(Prior to 2020, there were real concerns from security experts: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_elec... ... but everyone assumed it would be rigged in favour of the Republicans)
Very cool sensation of literally walking through all these places! I have never been to India, but was mesmerized taking an HD tour through an open street market.

The map/guessing UI is a bit clunky, since the map always starts centered on USA, so if you're in a country-specific mode, you always have to click and drag a bunch, and then after you click the city, you have to click again the "Guess" button.
Thanks for the update. The laziness doesn't surprise me. I have often thought of running my own mail server. I have had a free business plan on Google for a long time. I will hold off until Google totally hack people off.
Just to counter; I've been using their VPN and email for a while and haven't had a single problem.

And while a proton calendar would maybe be useful, I personally don't need them nor want them to become a one stop shop for all things.
When in reality it'd be arguably best to direct them to MDMA-assisted therapy in therapeutic setting and/or invite them to a medically supervised recreational dance party with MDMA and listing a selection of songs that may be played X/Y/Z DJs; not sure any nation's health system is anywhere nearly understanding or accommodating enough yet to offer our facilitate this, especially due to indoctrination and regulatory capture, for-profit interests, etc.
Or just like on mine case - built from source.

Most of time it's 5 commands
tar -xf code.tar.gz && cd blah && ./configure && make -j5 && sudo make install
> Give me a break.

I can hear the remaining 99% of the world that doesn't invest financially, but whose lives are often very negatively affected by the financial market, ask the same: "Give me a break".

Like many, I'm tired of being told the economy is broken and we will all have to "sacrifice" something to make it better, when we have no responsibility in a financial crisis.

We are asked to pay for someone else's gambling gone bad, but when their gambling is successful we don't get any of the rewards.

Collectivized risk, individual rewards AKA "Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for the poor". Sounds like a great incentive to keep an economy healthy.
cl_bob 0 (less serious)
In Germany you can have a dashcam and it can be recording all the time, but any and all video recorded by it is inadmissable in court, and you can't share it online without bluring out faces and licence plates. So it's a bit useless. You can have it if you want to record for the sake of it.
Catch-all is nice but I came from the self-hosting world where I could also customise the from address when I reply to a catch-all email. Protonmail only lets you reply from a non-catch-all address, so you end up leaking your "private" address if you ever reply. That's my only real complaint about Protonmail. I requested this feature but I doubt it's high up their priority list.
The expectation is that users should have up-to-date external backups, and the internal drive should be treated as an ephemeral cache. You should already be prepared for the circumstances that your laptop gets stolen or that the actual flash chips or controllers break anyway, so if just the logic boards break you use the same recovery plan.

All IT professionals know that quickly restoreable external backups are really the good and proper way, but the reality is that we're only human and most of us fall short of the ideal (just like with exercising, eating healthy, maintaining your teeth, etc).

Google's approach with ChromeOS is to force you to treat the laptop storage as a cache by technical means, rather than as primary storage. iOS and Android also largely use that model. Windows and MacOS are clearly heading in the same direction, they're just moving slower due to legacy.
Couldn't agree more. SuperDuper is a fantastic bit of software. Makes upgrading an older Mac HDD to an SSD an absolute breeze
Being a big fan of the games you mentioned I can fully recommend "Outer Wilds", as it gave me great joy of puzzle and exploration and thinking logically about solutions and the expertly crafted world, hints are given almost purely through the environment in a "If this thing A works like this, maybe this other thing B can be manipulated in a similar manner" fashion. It is hard to talk too much about the game as it is heavily spoilable.

However I have to add that while I feel it is very similar in its spirit (learn the logical rules of the world by doing, apply and combine them to solve new situations), it adds a layer of dexterity into the equation (flying a space ship and jumping around) and moves at a faster pace, time being a relevant factor in its exploration and puzzles.

Also of course if you have not played it already: Braid, the first game made by Jonathan Blow.
Ban adtech. Keep beating advertising and marketing industries with a regulatory stick, until the only thing allowed is a logo on company building, tradeshows, and publishing honest-to-god feature listings that would-be customers can voluntary search for and peruse at their leisure.

All these recent scary tech inventions? They are all driven by collecting data for targeting ads, fine-tuning marketing strategies, and manipulating people better. Let's go after the root cause.
dear lord, my eyes
I looked up Gell Mann but I still have no idea what you meant by that.
Text editors and all programs that can create executable files are huge special cases. Everything touched by them should be marked as "tainted" and should require explicit user blessing to leave their sandbox. Windows does something similar already with downloaded files.

Still, few programs need to change PATH, open arbitrary ports or ptrace other processes. These scenarios are so special that they should require explicit user approval. Also, apart from text editors, most programs don't ever need to access arbitrary files from the file system.

Android being locked down is a distributor's decision. They have average users in mind that might not ever need nor want to fiddle around on their system with a debugger and a text editor.
Baseless, unsubstantiated ad hominem attack. A rather shameless attempt to invalidate arguments..
In other words, nice try Goldman!
> So then you agree that there could be situations where only a couple percent of the ownership of a company is available on the market, and if you buy all of those shares, then you would not control the company?

Sure, it's possible that at any given time people aren't offering to sell a majority of the voting power of stock, or (theoretically, at least) any voting stock at all (it's even possible that the only class of stock trading on the market is nonvoting; SNAP I think does that.)

I was taking issue with the particular claim, made twice in the direct chain of ancestry of this comment, that a company could simply hold the majority of it's voting stock itself, so that holding 100% of the shares not owned by the company would not give you control since the company itself (presumably, it's management) would exercise most of the voting rights. It doesn't work that way.
You can just download them...
So MSFT continues its attempts to extinguish the smaller providers while ostensibly being in favor of "diversity" and open source.

How about blocking MSFT in Germany for anti-competitive practices?
"Fractional banking" is not a philosophy that can equally apply to cash and stocks, or oil, or sheep. These are different things.
BaCon – Basic to C Converter
My POV: SystemD is a software driven not really by technical, but political reasons by RedHat, to put the most important parts of a GNU/Linux system under their control. (Appart from the kernel of course). It is modular, but also dependant as a whole, so in the end, it spreads almost like an invasion, slowly leaving the admins not other option than accepting it. That's quite off from the Unix philosophy (do one thing, do it well, be really modular)... so my conclusion going back to the beggining, that didn't happen by mistake, but is a deliberate design choice, with shaddy political reasons behind it, so I reject it. And then we could talk about the convenience or not of putting such amount of tools and complexity under PID 1, the crazy binary logs, the weird behavior of the service utilities, and the possibility of being able to modify/add services using regular scripts instead of binary excutables...
Yeah, that's what I thought the argument was until this bit -

> Same if you bought a stock, and your broker suddenly decides to steal it without your knowledge, and loan it out in order to sell it in the hopes of earning money if its value drops (i.e. short the stock). Clearly you'd want to know if your property is being loanded out, because it means that you're incurring risk, no matter if you're compensated for it through interest or not.

I can't find any other interpretation for this logic and terminology other than a rally against fungibility.
> they have the right to allow anybody they see fit

Within the limits of the law, and I'm not so sure that these scam apps are in most jurisdictions. I'm actually reasonably sure they're not.
I use pm on personal emails where I need privacy. For work emails that I assume everyone can read and that needs availability I use Fastmail and G Suite
Hey, OneNote is supposed to be a stable product, you can't expect them to just go and import some random feature from a bleeding-edge experiment like Notepad!
With "normal" CCTV you control the data. If the police want it, they are very welcome to obtain a warranty and I'll be more than happy to give them copies of everything. No problem at all.

But with something like Ring, you don't control the data. Police will have special arrangements where they can view recordings whenever they like, sometimes without a warrant, based on "suspicion" or some other nonsense like that. I'm also guessing that Ring doesn't tell you when this happens. That is a system prone to abuse.

As to your last point - of course you should be able to volunteer the data if you want to. That was never in question.
Well, the company who owns the rights to that song you skipped certainly has a financial motive to figuring out if there's somehow they can get you listening to it again so they can collect more royalties from it - so they may be willing to pay X for that chance, times X by Y for the number of profit-driven rights owners and that likely adds up to a decent, new revenue stream; industrial complexes are dead, long live industrial complexes!
That’s a long way to say that you think that when they said:

> Were you paid? Could you leave the job if you wanted? Then it’s not slave labour.

That’s not a great definition of “slave labour” because, for starters, “getting paid” and “ability to change jobs” are not binary.
> In the wake of recent episodes of police brutality targeting Black people and the growing coalition around Black Lives Matter protests across the United States,

What does HN think about Roland Fryer's research on this issue?
The problem with Rolex,in a same way as with Louis Vuitton, is that most products you see in public are fake. I just couldn't force myself to commit a few grand to buy a watch that does look like a Chinese knock-off,even when it's not. The sentiment isn't there for other watch brands.
You're right but, I'm deeply interested what AMD can do now or what's in the works.

ATI was left in the dust while the foundation has been forming, unfortunately, but the history is not that straightforward.

TBH, while I appreciate what nVidia is doing, I don't appreciate how did they came to this point.

I have some close friends who're doing game engine and very low level 3D development. His thoughts about nVidia's driver behavior, even under Windows, is worth another rant.
Indeed, try pushing-in to a queue in the UK to see how "loose" things are here.
Another alternative (written in Rust): https://github.com/kaegi/alass
Social Cat(egorization): Tag posts and group social circle
'By Africans, for Africans': Woman pioneers facial recognition
can you point me to any cultures where green is replaced by blue?
Probably a reference to the Chrichton’s “Gell Mann Amnesia Effect”: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Thats a very nice write up, working with grpc this sums it up nicely.
> something is horrifically wrong

Horrifically wrong! Heavens to Betsy!

What went horrifically wrong is the company went public with a clueless CFO. For all corporate actions—reporting, dividends and buybacks—that additional float is meaningless. It’s only relevant for short-term holders and short-term metrics.
> App stores can't spend too many hours on each app because there's tons of them,

In this specific case it seems they didn't even spend one minute, since the app is not working.
If at Apple they don't have the resource to at least try to open every app (I doubt it, they are swimming in cash), they could at least find a way to decide which apps to test first, like complaints from other developers, reviews telling that the app is a scam etc.
The first "France" video I got was from Paris at the Arc de Triomphe, which I duly tagged exactly on the map, only to be told I was one mile out (the map's marker was near the Louvre). Doesn't inspire 100% confidence.

Also, when I choose some geographically constrained area to guess in, like Europe or France, it would be nice if the guessing map didn't start out centered on the USA...
Doesn't this comment contradict the article?
I think there's a few bugs to work out.

Clicking the dialog box buttons sends you straight to the bottom of the page in Firefox
Here (in Brazil) this started happening for me only since a few weeks ago.
That's Manchester for you!
Discuss: How would I flat-start indie business in 2021?
First, I would write a concise and sincere introductory post, like that you are reading now, of which fact I am INSANELY grateful. Nice to meet you!)

I am Paul, live in Russia, have 20+ years of programming and a balalaika under my belt. My passion is to discover the world, in practical ways by creating value, and sharing best of what I've found.

Well, here is what I see coming for 2021, from my experience and current research.

1. The rise of indie hackers. It is already a reported trend in 2020, and in coming year or two will only strenghten, due to unfortunate but highly likely global recession. Millions of people will be urged to make a living by new ways, after demolition of what was known as "jobs".

2. The rise of Telegram platform. +100,000,000 users just in January 2021, and Durov has already released import tools to make migration even easier. Also they is known to seek funding at the moment — and one may bring a hell crowd of new users if able to PAY for acquisition. Also Telegram announced more business-specific features, like those in Slack, which makes it more and more useful for work stuff. Besides, I am personally amazed at how well-thought and capable Telegram platform is, having a couple of years buliding chatbots, and seeing companies like WhatsApp or VK chasing to copycat its features.

I plan to start small, build in public, eagerly seek for feeback and share my findings. Everything is a hypothesis unless proven by the world out there.

My first practical hypothesis is a simple chatbot service that would help businesses of any size to communicate to their customers in Telegram. It allows an owner (indie hacker?) to set up a single, branded point-of-contact in Telegram for their audience, by few clicks, needing no coding skills (I'll cover your back on these).

If you are interested in what's next, feel free to follow me at the links I leave there below in first comment, and leave your feedback!

I wish you a great 2021!
What people need is proxies between touch points such that scaling or changes/migrations are not a pain later on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwartist

Telegram blog: https://t.me/softwart

Weblog: https://softw.art

A Chat product: https://Sincerely-Yours.Online
I assume the downvotes are from people who think one of the tribes attacking the legitimacy of the Office of President was justified while that of the other was reckless.
Common Lisp allows to annotate code with type information, which can be checked at runtime. Also it's object system works on classes and thus generic function have arguments for those classes.

Something like Common Lisp is a dynamically typed language, but where implementations can use knowledge about types, either at runtime or even sometimes at compile time.

SBCL

* (defvar *foo*) ; a global variable *FOO*
*FOO*

We tell SBCL that the type of the variable is an integer between 0 and 10.

* (declaim (type (integer 0 10) *foo*))
(*FOO*)

Now we try to set it to 30:

* (setf *foo* 30)

SBCL detects the problem:

; in: SETF FOO
; (SETF FOO 30)
; --> SETQ
; ==>
; (THE (MOD 11) 30)
;
; caught WARNING:
; Constant 30 conflicts with its asserted type (MOD 11).
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"
scale is not needed, except wrt know.how of setup

profit not needed, only sustainability, is cheap
Spoiler! :-(

Now it won't be a surprise.
Hello! This thread is no longer on the front page, but just to keep the few people still passing by, I finally created a browser extension! It completes the site :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multy/

I'll send it to Google for Chrome as well
I guess this is where the sentiment of "let's break it so they fix it" comes from.
Its different based on what service you use but pretty much all of them just involve dropping a line of curl in to your crontab file to run every minute.
Even though the author posits that

>"At any given point in time more than 100 emerging companies are under attack as described above. [...] The success rate for short attacks is over ninety percent"

he/she can only find two examples (Global Link and TASER), which is a bit odd.

In any case, there is a connection to the current narrative of "short sellers are evil". But "the shorts" or "they" is one of these "us vs them" constructs that does not exist in any meaningful way.

Even worse, there is a common notion on r/WSB that "the shorts" are also "the suits" and there will be some rough awakening when folks find out that Wall St made more money on $GME than Main St, and that is on the long side, before any dip in share price!

By the way, this awakening might never happen and there is a scenario where we will never find out who traded what on $GME, because transparent transaction data is not publicly available. Thinking back about the 2010 flash crash [1] we still don't know with certainty what exactly happened.

Grant Williams did a podcast about the current events [2] and I can only recommend it (also check out his Endgame series).

There certainly are unethical sellers of stock (see e.g. Jim Cramer video where he talks about manipulation) but I have yet to see convincing evidence that unethical or fraudulent behaviour is more common on the short than long side.

There was a recent poll on Fintwit to name examples where "short attacks" hurt companies, and the paucity of meaningful examples further confirmed the above point (can't find reference due to crappy Twitter search).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash

[2] https://ttmygh.podbean.com/e/gwp_003/
Tesla owner credits Autopilot for avoiding disaster in odd collision with driver
Yes it was. It momentarily showed a spot price of 30USD but then dropped below again. It has been in the news, that is what I was refering to as "rumblings".

I will predict though that if the US retailers selling physical bars and coins come into work this morning in about 3 hours and try to replenish their stocks that they sold online over this weekend they will drive prices past the $30 mental barrier and then the sky's the limit for how high it could be pumped. Then it will be all over the news just like GME.

Redit might not even be the cause, it could be Bidens plan to increase solar production, the Myanmar coup or a plethora of other things going on.
Why? If an app scams users, is Apple going to be liable for that?
Which is a form of hostage negotiation. Promise breakers are incentivized to profit as much as possible from broken promises as long as they can hold the system as a whole hostage.
The compiler is open source, available at https://github.com/intel/cm-compiler

More documentation at https://01.org/c-for-metal-development-package
> Why does nobody ever talk about those stories

There's been wall-to-wall coverage of DeepF*Value and the other lucky people who are getting out early. Half the stories on here, on Reddit, in newspapers and on TV. You sound frankly delusional claiming nobody talked about them.

(Highlighting the past winners is essential for every pyramid scheme, for recruiting greater fools.)
If you don't like it, Build your own twitter.
Microsoft seemed to have a better understand of UX design back then. I'm not saying it's prettier, it's not, but it seemed more consistent across the operating system.
Perhaps Babashka[0]? It sounds like the closest thing to what you want =)...

Alternatively you could just use cursive[1] or vscode[2] and follow the REPL guide[3]?

There's Racket, which has it's own built in environment[4].

Perhaps you'd prefer Common Lisp[5] instead, I don't believe you need to use emacs?

There are options =)...

- [0]: https://github.com/babashka/babashka

- [1]: https://cursive-ide.com/

- [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterth...

- [3]: https://clojure.org/guides/repl/introduction

- [4]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/

- [5]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
> Sound familiar?

Are you talking about the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections?
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On KDE you can choose to control the mouse with the numeric keypad under accessibility settings - no need for external apps. BTW we also have KDE Connect, where you can control your mouse with your smartphone too.
Oh right! Completely forgot about that.

ffprobe -print_format json -show_format -show_streams foo.flac

This should be easy to parse.
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Training, Visualizing, and Understanding Word Embeddings: Custom Datasets
Ah yes. Thank you for the correction.
That also stops people from driving around and "playing cop"
> As you point out, an IOU for a share doesn't pay out a dividend from the company

Huh? They most definitely do. That's actually one of the simplest non-objections to naked shorting; in the system we have, the short seller must pay the dividend to the person who loaned them the stock. In a naked short, the short seller would pay the dividend to the person who bought the stock.

Voting rights don't transfer so cleanly; in the current system, a stock lender can't vote the loaned shares. The most natural system of naked shorting would prevent the purchaser from voting a share that was sold short, which would produce a difference between shares sold short and other shares.
Is it realistic, assuming a heterogenous network the Internet, for having high percentage of block dissemination and 100 confirmations in almost every node in 12 seconds (and how many peer connections are assumed per node?) Would not that segment the network? Sorry, I am just asking as I have no knowledge how ETH 2.0 and its LMD GHOST works.
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