skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be kinder, these semantics differences are newer(ish) developments and not everyone knows the area. It's a bit confusing to say federation does imply decentralization point blank.

For a long time, federated architecture was seen as special case of decentralized, for example in designing stuff for internal use. It still makes sense in that context.

In the context of larger external facing systems, I've found it useful to think of federated as "partly decentralized", and "decentralized" is short-hand for "fully decentralized".
The Scary Future of Instagram
Thank you tored, it even supports WebSockets :-)
I can run binaries that I compiled 20 years ago on Linux. I can't do the same with, say, macOS binaries.
It’s worth saying Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas by population, and has a long history of being very immigrant friendly.

I wonder if there was some tax evasion happening...
> Germany doesn't have many black people because Germany didn't import them as slaves and never really colonized Africa.

Yes, that was a weird point to make in the article because it's not as if there are many Black people in Germany. But you have to admit that having just two non-white people out of 179 (1.1%) on corporate boards is pretty odd. Germany is white, but not 98.9% white. Turks make up over 5% of the population.
"you sound, frankly" -addressing their extreme rhetoric, not them. How they come across is different than who they are. Every statement was a "swipe" at their disrespectful and unreasonable arguments, not them as a person. If I'm not allowed to defend my ideas and position, respectfully, in the context of discussion, within site guidelines, what's the purpose of discussion? It's enough that respectful, in-context posts I've made on controversial topics have been flagged and removed regularly here. Is this supposed to be another reddit/4chan echo chamber?
So nothing Donald Trump said _on the day_ of the event mattered, as far as this bomb was concerned. Would have been instructive if this had been known earlier, but I understand why it wasn't made public sooner.
Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO
I didn't find the background "2019 research paper", but this 2016 thesis[1] looks similar. Nor a writeup of the bee work. Their site[2] doesn't mention it, but seemingly hasn't been updated in a few years.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milind_Patil17/publicat...
[2] http://www.myvetstrust.org/
If the books were decently priced nobody would resort to pirating, except for the very few who have the know how and who wouldn’t think that it’s not the right thing to do. But since most students don’t have an income and the books are priced so high they’re all are forced to find an alternative, that alternative being pirating if used books aren’t available. Back when I was in college I was always buying used books and was selling them afterwards. But the industry realized that and they started pumping out new editions more often. Books pirating wasn’t a think back then. I really have no idea what the situation is right now, are a lot of students workng off pirated pdfs?
You can choose to that as your preferred sort order in settings, but it will always revert back in a few days, so it's a constant cat and mouse game to switch it back.
Matthew principle strikes again.
I’m waiting for an explanation why Starbucks is on the restricted list. It’s not volatile.
A name which Google isn't familiar with (Riot, as opposed to Element) is a possible reason they were suspended in the first place.
If you take off the linux hobbyist blinders you will see that having to type in "apk add audacity" and getting a mobile unusable interface is a non-starter for 99% of people. Compare that to the experience of typing in to a search bar that loads suggestions and gives results with pictures and ratings and descriptions.

I like the pinephone and am going to buy one myself but I'm buying it because of linux reasons, not because I actually think it will be a good daily driver.
Given who you are, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but... What? C security holes are strawman? What is your basis for saying so?
What's "ALSA?"
So, first of all, "white" and "black" are not good terms to use in Germany. Most of Germany's migrants are not from Africa and most are from the EU. Germany has a "black" population of about 2%, compared to the 10+% in the US.

Then, you get the fact that the minorities in the US are more qualified than the ones in Germany. Germany doesn't attract the most talented in the world, like the US and due to the lack of two oceans protecting it from the rest of the world, Germany doesn't get to be too picky about its migrants. The biggest attraction to foreigners is its welfare state. So I would hesitate to conclude to much from such a simple comparison.
All the people angry about this were delighted when Dodd-Frank passed promising to reduce volatility risk.
*Buenos Aires

No Idaho involved ;)
So do you know what was the outcome then? Are there mechanisms to prevent this now? Did the players involved get fined?
> When I was working in Switzerland a long time ago, one of the comments I heard frequently is that I am not like other Indians - I dress well, speak well and I am tall. I would consider it as a "racist" comment, but not something that would get reported.

Yikes. Very Joe Biden: https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

> "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

I've never gotten a comment like that as a South Asian (Bangladesh) in the United States.
Please do expand on this.
> Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas

Not to be confused with the far less populous and less famously immigrant-friendly Boise.

On a more serious note, I'm curious what connection you see between immigration and tax evasion. Is Buenos Aires known for certain kinds of immigration?
Will Windows Become Open Source?
That's a problem for the OS security model, not an App Atore.

The average Windows install is fine now, thanks to Windows Defender
Again, I think you are looking at this from the wrong viewpoint, at the wrong level. Of course the power is transient, it always is. That isn't the issue.

> If you don’t know how they got into the position they are in, how do you know how stable it is, or how vulnerable they are to competition? I.e. how can you analyze their business?

Eh? You just did that, not me. I've mentioned Apple once, to say that I don't know enough about their rise [financially] to comment re point that parent was making re Google and Amazon. But

> Apple is now a ship whose direction is slow to change, and they are ripe for disruption.

This is why I think you're looking at this at the wrong level. "ripe for disruption"? So what? What I'm talking about is a company that can develop their own chips, spend a billion dollars buying a modem business off another company, lobby against regulations on use of forced labour. That's what it can do now, not a decade ago or a decade in the future.
I cannot overstate how AMAZING this is! We sorely need more tools to ease mathematical intuition. As far as we've come with scientific computing we still can't feel and touch our math easily.

I looked into implementing visual programming for my work a few years back but figured it'd be an unrealistic amount of work given the state of visual programming libraries in Python (I'd looked at PyFlow back then but it wasn't quite mature enough). I'm definitely interested in contributing. I have experience in both numpy and pygame and I do scientific computing for a living.

Since you accept feature requests, one tool I've been looking for is something to implement and visualize partial differential equation systems easily. It's basically impossible to program cleanly in Python. There are systems built from dozens of equations that each are expressed by something like 200 characters per line of code that look something like:

x1 ** 3.4 + (PA / P**(3x2 + z0)) * V**t - y + (z + (7 - De/4) * 5) * DVe - ...

It's basically unreadable, un-debuggable, it's a pain to implement, a pain to iterate over and good luck to whoever comes after to try and understand what it does. And you might try to use the Object-Oriented paradigm to make it more modular and understandable with verbose functions and variables but in the end it still doesn't work. Matlab's got it working somewhat with simulink & Cie but who wants to use matlab these days. Your work already goes a long way with regards to this problem but what would bring it over the top for me would be the ability to render a block system into a latex equation so I can compare my implementation directly with the paper it came from. The second would be to have aliases for functions, some sort of metadata, so that functions can have verbose names and their associated mathematical symbol (velocity -> v).
The perils of fractional reserve banking can arise in any centralized custodial arrangement. As long as no one performs a physical audit—or there is no physical object to be audited in the first place—then accounting fraud can and will happen.

This is, in my opinion, the raison d’etre of blockchain. Public, immutable ledgers are immune to this kind of fraud (although they have other issues, of course).
Sure - but the point is that there are /diminishing returns/ on type-systems. The question is then, /where/ should one draw the line when trying to prove certain properties of code; which properties are worthwhile proving?

Are you /seriously/ suggesting that one should use Agda or Coq for most code?

EDIT. The original comment was suggesting as though dynamic and static type-systems are a dichotomy. I was pointing out that it is a sliding scale from nominally-typed ala Go, all the way to dependently-typed languages; and that's not even including model-checkers!
I was unable to look up the GME quote on TDA Thursday. In their UI, the quote is the place with the Buy button.
Call me paranoid but I've read similar in the past, and I'm reading "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" now.

Some start up will productize this offline B&M tracking, and then some Tech Giant will snatch them up and hoover that data. And so on.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
Honestly, that's minuscule compared to the flows involved.
Quite often I use the search to find a string across projects (we have quite a lot of microservices).

It would be great if you could exact match and also if the results would be from master by default. Quite often it puts me in a commit and I have no idea why or if it's still current.
If you care about running bleeding edge software, then you're probably running a rolling release distribution where the software in repositories is only out of date for a few hours or days.
> Is it really so hard to believe that such an unprecedented mass movement would break the underlying business assumptions of a pre-IPO startup that was heavily dependent on their credit lines?

I don't think anyone is discounting this. The problem is that after going through so many of these problems with various pre-IPO startups, we appear to have not learnt our lesson.

- Facebook made us think it was safe to publish our real names and pictures online, and attach them to a public profile. When cyber-stalking and cyber-bullying became a thing, they feigned shock & ignorance.

- Twitter used to suggest anonymity and low-intensity were the main goals of their product. Then they doubled the character limit just as doxing and other forms of real-life intimidation began picking up steam on this platform.

- YouTube used to portray itself as a free speech video platform, encouraging users to upload any and all videos that don't explicitly break the law. Now YouTube polices its content to such an extent, and with such murky and ever-changing policies, that speech which is perfectly legal and protected by federal law is banned without explanation. It now even inserts itself into the conversation with a degree of authority that pre-Google YouTube would never have dared attempt.
Does anyone know of a similar breakdown for licences like GPL v2 and the like? It's a part of programming I feel like I should know more about but never took the time to look at.
I'm guessing you haven't actually been to Boise?

It has a huge immigrant population. Lots of Latinos, but also folks from all over Asia and Europe to work at Micron. It also has an ever-growing number of Californian expats.
That's the beauty of it. Harm from smoking is considered (by most accounts) objectively, medically, measurably bad. Harm from social media addiction isn't quantified in terms of cancer and death.

"No one ever died from browsing Facebook" is likely false, but would be generally accepted as arguably true. "No one ever died because of Facebook" should be understood to be obviously untrue to a well-informed person.
Definitely true. Germany made a huge mistake not integrating 1st and 2nd generation Turks better and the 3rd generation is now feeling especially lost as Turkey isn't home and Germany doesn't feel like home either.
SoftBank is the $100B vision fund. $100M is just 1/1000 of that. This is like if you'd own $100k and invest 100$ in something, that's not even worth a news.
I see. That's reasonable.
Fun with an ATTiny85, Liyafy HC-35 with 8 LEDs, & a serial to parallel shifter
I don't know the outcome of their investigation on this specific incident, and I can't (quickly) find it. But I know the SEC made a few changes in the mid - late 2000s as a result of naked short selling rising to mainstream awareness: https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-172.htm. It became a pretty big point of discussion for regulating Wall Street which was amplified in the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis.

As far as outcomes go, there is this testimony from the SEC chair circa 2010: http://fcic-static.law.stanford.edu/cdn_media/fcic-docs/2010...

> In July 2009, the Commission adopted a rule which requires that “fails to deliver” in all equity securities be promptly closed out. “Fails to deliver” may, among other things, be indicative of potentially abusive “naked” short selling. “Naked” short selling, which is not per se illegal, occurs when a short seller does not borrow securities in time to make delivery. Sellers may intentionally fail to deliver as part of a scheme to manipulate the price of a security or possibly to avoid borrowing costs. Data indicates that since the fall of
2008, fails to deliver in all equity securities have declined by 63.4 percent, and fails to deliver in securities with persistent and large levels of fails to deliver have declined by 80.5 percent.
Especially needed here because the way back link is broken into 6 pages, and page 2 wasn’t captured (didn’t check 3-6, since it doesn’t matter)
From a consumer point of view - if buying something worked fine in the old days without all this tracking that Amazon gets why does this happen now online(and apparently coming to retail)? No one “gave it up” - if you interviewed 1000 regular (non-HN) people I’d be very surprised if more than 10 (1%) knew the extent of modern day tracking. We can’t assume consent when people don’t know what is happening behind the scenes.
How Expo Is Fooling Everyone (2019)
Great use-cases for SQL window functions!
I'm in mountain rescue and I'll second all of this. It's why we will set up repeaters, or station people as repeaters if we have enough people, but more often than not, we are out of radio communication for hours on end, despite all parties having the necessary equipment. More often than not, we'll use inReach texting to maintain comms.

But projects like this excite me for future directions. Sometimes when we've been in areas with cell phone coverage (some wilderness in SoCal has coverage), we will be able to see tracks in SARTopo update live from teams in the field. It's really cool when it works!
Yes, I wasn't presuming otherwise, which is why I specified "less famously immigrant-friendly" instead of "less immigrant-friendly." I simply haven't heard as much about the immigration there even though I'm American, probably because Buenos Aires is a much larger city.

EDIT: Also, in case my "on a more serious note" didn't make it explicitly clear, that entire sentence about Boise was a joke.

EDIT 2: I might as well add that I looked this up [1], and Boise ranks 175th in immigration as a percentage of the metropolitan population or 101st as a percentage of cities, just among metropolitan areas (MSAs) or cities in the US. That's not exactly a "huge immigrant population" by my account.

[1] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-...
This release now supports Julia:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10228
Thank you kind soul
Submitted title was "New powerful malware obfuscation technique". Submitters: please don't do that. The site guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We've changed the title above to the article title now (shortened to squeeze into HN's 80 char title limit.)
PCA is so fast that it can run on 100 million data-points and give you results in minutes with the proper implementation of it.

If you can find a way to project that new data quickly, and if the decision boundries are instantly recognizable to us humans - one can draw the boundary faster than a model could generate it given the data. The human drawn boundary has bonus regularization built right in too (because "sub-optimal" boundaries on the training data may generalize better)
Microsoft tripped over themselves scrambling to make advertising revenue as fast as possible and stymied the development of their operating system to do so. They have turned the user of Windows into the product. They are pulling a Facebook/Google and the author has the audacity to say they trust Microsoft more than Apple? Give me a break.
Thanks. I wish I could focus on something like that. Whenever I start a new thing I feel like I’m wasting time, when deadlines are approaching. Makes me anxious even more. Paradoxically then I don’t do either which is worse I know.

I guess what I’m saying I can’t seem to detach from problems at work.

Nice project though :)
> The analysis is so obviously wrong

Are you talking about my analysis, or Nathan Robinson's (who I'm responding to)?
>> Is your underlying theory that with no intervention the stock would have no choice but to go to the moon?

If the retailers hold the line they will squeeze the shorters. They already did it but the bulk of the juice is still there. VW is not the only example. Tesla is a more recent one. Of course GME could issue new stock. Many executives liquidated/sold their positions. AMC already issued new stock. These are different issues.

Restrict the buying of any given stock(i.e Tesla), halt it intermitently and then announce that you are banning it because it's too volatile and speculative.

What's the expected result? I could bet its goes down and that's the whole point I'm making: the brokers and hedge fund managers collude to the drive the price down. They decided what the stock is worth or better said what the price should be at the expense of the buy side/retail investors. This is a predatory environment not a free market. Imagine if the brokers would suddenly liquidate the hedge funds shorts due the volatility.
It's even worse than that. The longer the text, the stronger it is in court.

That's why contracts like proprietary licenses, buying a house, renting are so verbose.

"do wtf you want" is very unclear from a legal PoV.
It’s not treating rust as a panacea, it’s that the ambient level of expectations for software is getting higher. Although C is going to be more ubiquitous than Rust for the foreseeable future, adding new code in memory unsafe languages will eventually require some justification as to why it’s worth the risk. We’re not there yet, but it’s coming.

And yes. Low level code requires unsafety sometimes, or at least code that is not provably safe (digression: save for maybe using actual proofs a la seL4?) The important bit about Rust and other memory safe languages is that in Rust, memory unsafeness can be minimized and accounted for. That’s a whole class of bugs that is traditionally basically unmanageable in most non-trivial projects.

Go is also memory safe by default, but the runtime is too heavy, and thus we’re here.
My first exposure to the term "social justice" was several years ago, when a family member began working with local jails and businesses, personally visiting and establishing relationships with inmates, and working to help reduce recidivism by arranging jobs for former inmates. I have never heard the addendum "warrior" added as a self-description, and have only ever heard it applied as a term of mockery from the right.
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Naked shorts are already illegal, so if that happened Im pretty sure that they will all face severe repercussions. But the 140% short interest is very misleading and points to naked shorts even though the excessive short interest can explained without them.
Yes, there is a specific legal definition (I did elude to that in the post you replied to).

Most people don't understand that definition and when they hear "Margin account" they assume people are making leveraged transactions which is not the case. Even Robinhood's FAQ and documentation uses the more commonly understood definition of margin. One of the primary "Features" of Robinhood gold is "Access to investing on margin". https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/gold-overview/
Here's his google scholar page[1].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YkSKaRMAAAAJ&hl=en...
>And those things are accurate to the cm.

As someone with bluetooth development experience, no they are nowhere nearly that accurate in real life. You can take your tinfoil hat off.

Not saying alphabet agencies or military contractors can't build Bluetooth triangulation devices with high accuracy, but most beacons in the retail industry suck major balls not just in specs but more importantly they're almost always installed by contractors who have no idea about RF (antenna position and materials of nearby objects matter a lot) so the data they receive is almost always garbage.
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I think one way to distill down the simplest change is this: listen in order to understand and not to judge.
Don't cherry pick the portion of my statement you want to criticize: I did not say it wasn't the role of the SEC to protect investors.

I said it's not their role to protect investors from loss. Clearly it has a role in protecting investors by requiring disclosures that allow informed decision making, policing fraud, etc.
in my example they devalue them by hiding reported bugs
> The company could issue more shares, and invest the money raised, turning the business around.

It’s a retailer that sells video games. They’re not going to turn it around while Steam, PlayStation store, Amazon, etc exist.
OpenJDK is Oracle's free, open-source implementation of the Oracle JDK. It is where Oracle does all of its JDK development. You can use it with no restrictions. If you want to pay for support, you can pay Oracle or any of several other companies that package up and support the OpenJDK. If you choose to pay Oracle, you'll get the Oracle JDK which is identical to the OpenJDK except for a couple of error messages and the ID string.
How about the Garmin T5? It is literally made for this, no?

Edit:

https://www.amazon.com/Garmin-T5-GPS-Dog-Collar/dp/B00L3C5ED...

It's a bit of a pricey solution, and typical range is 4-5 miles I believe. Seems to be popular with people who use their dogs for hunting moose etc.
I missed the chance to buy it the first time around. Does anyone know when a new batch is coming?
Not to mention liberal too with televised broadcasts like Le Narcisso Show