skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what do you want to trust in? Your fellow citizen? Luck in hashing?

If you wanna trust your fellow citizen: You could go down on the street and deposit your cash with strangers walking by.

If you wanna trust luck in hashing: You should be mining Bitcoin. If you are lucky, every single attempt at mining a block will be successful. You'd become rich pretty fast.
I've been visiting WSB for couple of years now, and generally the mods have been really hands off, so them letting misinformation flood the subreddit is par for the course. Good or bad, that's how it is.

Honestly lots of investing communities are like this - do your own due diligence, etc. It is surprising how _much_ misinformation is being spread in WSB as of late, and feels like a weird cult more than ever, but WSB was never about heavy moderation.
Exactly this. Wasn’t the whole point to spite short sellers even if it meant losing some?
The linked article’s source is a 2018 Fortune article [0]. As it won a Pulitzer Prize, the article is mirrored on their site [1].

The parent’s linked article claims that a significant amount of the largest cobalt producing area is mined by children. The source article states that industrial-scale output dwarfs the production of the more than 100,000 so-called artisanal cobalt miners which include an unknown number of children.

I can’t say that I’m not saddened by thinking of kids, mine or others, mining for a living. The first image that comes to my mind is b/w pictures of Welsh coal mining kids. Stepping outside of my frame of reference, I can see the set of interests that bring about children mining in the DRC.

Congolese activists working to end child labor say poverty has driven up the numbers. “Because of the economic crisis, there are about 10,000 of them,” says Hélène Kayekeza Mutshaka, who coordinates a monitoring program in Kolwezi that the government began last year, to try to stop children from mining cobalt. Mutshaka says she faces strong resistance from poor families, who have long sent their children to dig for minerals in order to supplement their meager earnings. “They believe they can try to make it into the middle class if they work as artisanal miners,” Mutshaka says.

I’m less sanguine than the article about getting less child labor by moving on from cobalt. The likely scenario is that the industry moves to another similarly rar-ish element and the child miners in DRC move in to another hazardous occupation since the perceived rewards outweigh the risks.

0. https://fortune.com/longform/blood-sweat-and-batteries/

1. https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/blood-sweat-and-batteri...
Roller coasters are engineered to feel like they are about to fall apart. There is a reason they creek and shake: they were built to creek and shake. They put in lots of unneeded supports that are made to shake excessively, meanwhile the actually supports are hidden so you don't notice they are doing the real work.
Just reached this HN entry via my self hosted tiny tiny RSS. Long live RSS! Fortunately RSS took off enough before social networks, so that many website still more or less support it.
No, but I will. Thanks for the recommendation! Currently I'm reading Mark Jeavons -
The Equity Edge: A complete guide to building wealth through the stock market. It so far has helped me improve my stock selection.
All the more reason why a tax should be charged when fossil fuels are extracted from the earth.
Stadia’s terribly laggy. Also hardware is cheap, why wouldn’t I just run it all myself? Just yet another attempt to get people renting instead of owning.
But it's existence is sufficient to add Ruby to the "is JIT'd these days" list.
Alternative headline: Country plans to export money
And they take 30% from my earnings every time my app is sold? What are they doing with that money, bathing in it?
"we did it, reddit!"
And the commercial SaaS that's available for this userbase is horrendous...
I'm continually surprised with how few people, even on HN, understand why private education exacerbates inequality. Limiting access to valuable information to only those who know how to navigate the secretive process will favor those with means. In this case the valuable information impacts lifetime earning income potential hence perpetuating inequality.

I think this blind spot is because many people derive part of their identity with their university.
that's not a blockchain though. That's just a linked list or (low tx/sec) timeseries database with a hash.
I had to unsub (having been a member for years) because my homepage was full of, "WE ARE HOLDING:diamond: :hands:!!!!I :diamond: LOVE :hands: THIS :diamond: STOCK :rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket::rocket:" posts with 50k upvotes and a list of gold a mile long.

Edit: looks like emojis are stripped
> at the end of they day you are removing their ability to choose murder.

No, I'm not, because the consequence only gets imposed after they have made that choice. Removing their ability to choose murder would mean changing them beforehand so they don't choose to murder in the first place. Which, if it can be done while respecting their right to freedom of choice, would of course be vastly preferable.
It sounds like you may be on a Windows machine so this might not help you but I have been using JumpCut for years. It does what you describe and it's an essential tool for me.

https://snark.github.io/jumpcut/
This is very big and will affect a lot of java projects, JCenter is one of the most important central repositories currently available, specially because of bintray since publishing to actual maven central was quite a lot harder than bintray.
So they are going to compete with Stadia?

Google Stadia?

Actually Stadia will be dead in a year, judging by what has happened with it. Still, what does gamestop have in terms of software? A webdev team? Creating a games streaming platform is an enormous project.
Absolutely the same, and that's how I usually use RSS feed a anyways, as a source of headlines. Even there, though, it means that my choice of which articles to read isn't influenced by their snazzy new (and slow) layouts, their eye-catching (and emotionally jarring) images. It means that my daily habit is to check my RSS reader, rather than refreshing their site to see if anything has been posted.

With a limited amount of attention, even just exposing the headlines through RSS means that it is more my choice where to distribute my attention, rather than having my attention be drawn elsewhere through dark patterns and marketing tricks.
What if you aren't using Python?
It’s already turning into a conspiracy theory. The popular narrative is that GME would have continued going up, but RobinHood colluded with hedge funds to stop it. It doesn’t make any sense and ignores the incentives that RobinHood had to continue allowing people to buy.

However, when to they’ve become completely invested (some times literally) in the narrative that GME was going to make them all rich while the hedge funds went bankrupt, it’s difficult to admit that they were wrong.
The faker game sounds fun! Page would be much easier to read if there were videos of the games.

Any plans of launching for Teams? I guess bigger companies (who were already on outlook) have heavily adopted Teams (and I believe these games might be something that HR teams at bigger companies might be interested in).
GME didn't fully revert back yet, and I'm sure a lot of them realized their gains around the peak and sold.

Pensions dont make short term investments, they already had GME shares since a long time ago. They do sell when extraordinary circumstances happen and buy other stocks to hold long term again.
There's no need to bring blockchain into it. Other technologies are capable of T-0, it's a choice not to do it, not a technology limit.

Aside: some blockchain is in practice T-? which isn't desirable here.
Any random college + commencement speaker?

Here's an article about them: Matthew Mcconughey got $135k for one at the University of Houston; Katie Courik got $110k for speaking at the University of Oklahoma in 2006. Crucially, the article notes that a) fees are often confidential, but can go up to half a million dollars(!) and b) schools try to bargain them down.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/02/matthew-mccon...

Many universities also have "lecture funds" with pretty hefty budgets. I was not privy to the exact numbers, but assuming they run at cost, ticket price*capacity suggests some people are commanding six figures.
What will telecommunications technology look like in 2026?
> I think it's you that is lacking nuance, no offence.

I think you might be misreading my comment to suggest that Amazon is unambiguously good. Read it again, I'm trying to argue that it's not unambiguously bad, and that we need more nuance when discussing these issues. I'm not sure if it's possible for an argument to be any more nuanced than that.

Regarding the climate issue, we agree! It's a big problem. But again, we need to put our nuance hats on:

1. While Amazon is a substantial contributor to CO2 emissions, it's nothing compared to that of the coal industry, airlines, and everyday drivers of automobiles. That being said, it's worth noting that US renewable energy consumption surpassed that of coal for the first time last year -> https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43895

2. Amazon is simply meeting the needs of its consumers. Ultimately there's a cost to convenience (there's no denying that), and it comes at the cost of the climate. We agree that we'd be better off if externalities were priced in. The fact that externalities are not priced in isn't really Amazon's fault, because they're in no position to enact such policies as a whole. They only have control over their own policies, which brings me to...

3. Amazon is on track to power their operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 (https://www.aboutamazon.com/planet/climate-pledge), and invested $2 billion (with a B), in green energy companies (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-annou...). So it's not like they're doing absolutely nothing in their power to at least check their own emissions.

Now, all this said, is it still not worth it? Maybe, I don't doubt that there exists some people that believe that the warts are big enough that none of this is worth it. But it isn't obvious or straightforward, and there are just as many people (if not more) that do think this is all worth it, warts and all.

How's that for nuance?
I recently got back into RSS.

I am running https://miniflux.app/ on one of my boxes and its been great.

Typically, most days I keep on top of my news/interest in close to real time but there are days where this doesnt happy, just too busy.

So I jump into miniflux which is pulling in news and I can quickly in a few minutes scroll and get a good feel for what's going on, what I have missed and explore further anything interesting.
To be fair, xml-rpc truly is terrible. To start with, XML is extremely verbose and you add a lot of network overhead for that, plus a lot of parsing overhead, which makes rpcs significantly more expensive than they should be. Use https://capnproto.org/ instead. (Based on protobuff, which is an open sourced version of what Google uses internally.) As far as I'm concerned, the only valid reason to use xml-rpc is because you're interfacing with someone else's system and they have chosen to use it.

Moving on, here is an excellent example of an important architecture system that almost everyone gets wrong. In any distributed system you should transparently support having rpc calls carry an optional tracing_id that causes them to be traced. Which means that you log the details of the call with a tracing id, and cause all rpcs that get emitted from that one to carry the same flag. You then have a small fraction of your starting requests set that flag, and collect the logs up afterwards in another system so that you can, live, see everything that happened in a traced rpcs. To make this easy for the programmer, you build it in to the rpc library so that programmers don't even have to think about it.

You then flag a small random small fraction of rpcs at the source for tracing. This minimizes the overhead of the system. But now when there is a production problem that affects only a small percentage of RPCs you just look to see if you have a recent traced RPC that shows the issue, look at the trace, and problems 3 layers deep are instantly findable.

Very few distributed systems do this. But those that do quickly discover that it is a critical piece of functionality. This is part of the secret sauce that lets Google debug production problems at scale. But basically nobody else has gotten the memo, and no standard library will do this.

Now I don't know why they reinvented xml-rpc for themselves. But if they had that specific feature in it, I am going to say that it wasn't a ridiculous thing to do. And the reason why not becomes obvious the first time you try to debug an intermittent problem in your service that happens because in some other service a few calls away there is an issue that happens 1% of the time based on some detail of the requests that your service is making.
I still use RSS. One thing I've discovered is that nearly every site offers an RSS feed. I presume they're not aware of this, and that whatever CMS they use (WordPress, etc) offers it out of the box. Often times it takes a simple "View Source" to find it.

RSS doesn't seem to be dying, it's just that it's no longer mainstream since Google Reader died. I run my own instance of TinyTinyRSS on my server and couldn't be happier.
Long-term Google trends graphs are kind of useless because they're a percentage of queries over a period of time when the demographics of the user base was changing as millions of new people got on the internet.

Here's the one for javascript:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri...

Clearly javascript has been slowly dying out. But wait, that can't be right.

They're also a poor proxy for usage because the existing user base with feeds already set up doesn't have to do a search query to continue using it, so if a large number of them lose access at once, it's barely a blip because they wouldn't be doing searches for it either way.
>what action would you have people take

People can obviously do whatever they want as long as they're aware past performance...blah...blah...don't invest more than you can lose...blah.

I've pulled out from everything with a rich P/E ratio and am only keeping money in companies that I feel are a) stable and b) have a reasonable-to-low P/E ratio.

My thought is that new investors tend to go for well-known companies or meme stocks, but either way driving up the P/E ratio. I don't want to be caught in the downswing when these investors leave.
To the surprise of no one--the established, well-prepared and well-funded players out-compete Joe and Jane retailer investor.

Everyone loves the David defeating Goliath at his own game narrative. I only worry that we are going to forget all of the times that David gets slain.
I disagree. Just this morning I saw a number of posts warning people that they could lose their shirts over this and to be sure that they weren't investing anything they couldn't afford to lose.

Sure, there's a large contingent that denies this and holds onto their wishful thinking of a $10,000/share price, but you can't fix stupid.
which is what tripped up some viewers with Season 5 as the books its based on were very individual character story driven.

how they handled the Cas Anvar (plays Alex) issue did require a change from the books but they did it at end of season so its not disruptive and gave the character a good exit (which the character deserved, not the actor)
>C++Builder with TwineCompile is a powerful productivity solution for multi-core machines compiling 1 million lines of code very quickly and can work better than the MAKE/GCC parallel compilation Jobs feature due to it’s deep IDE integration

You're claiming this plugin has deeper IDE integration than `make`? I find that really, really difficult to believe. And if it's true, it seems like the solution is to either use a better IDE, or improve IDE support for the de facto standard tools that already exist, as opposed to writing a plugin for the -j flag.
It wasn’t slaves, and it wasn’t Jews (who didn’t exist at the time the pyramids were built), this has been known for over a hundred years. But victimhood narratives are often too useful to let go, even when they have no basis in reality.
Kafka Python Fake Data Producer
[Not "real" C++ code, benchmark is for compiling 14492754 copies of a fairly simple C function]
At least that isn't the dumpster carbon situation that coal-fired outer mongolian mining farms are.
-> Then again, "this time it's different!" is the rallying cry at the peak of every bubble.

It is different!

Trillions of dollars magically printed by the Fed. Bitcoin, Doge Coin, Robinhood, Covid, GameStop, Trump, insurrection...

Fiat currency always ends the same, it's the duration of the fiat currency that I believe is the variable.
Not really but I do still want to work with smart people. I guess I'll never be able to FIRE then.
This is the correct take on it. That kind of analysis has predicted eighteen of the last three bubbles.

The problem is that while, say, stocks are frothy, eventually inflation catches up to the froth - so even when the crash happens, you end up better off than if you sat the frothy market out on the sidelines.

It doesn't help to be right in the direction of the market, when you're wrong in the timing of it.
>if they use the same salt for each password then the article is correct(ish).

Wouldn't it be a pepper then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)

edit: nvm, it seems the main difference is a pepper being secret.
Easiest option is not to show rating till you get lets say 20 ratings.

But mostly on the app side, reviews are favored to 5 stars. (As you can trigger review request)

Main problem is fake reviews.
Actually the best user experience I get by using the telegram messenger as a feed aggregator. I use Manybot to only post the links, which plays nicely with telegram's instant preview feature (pretty much like reader mode/readability). Love this way to read feeds (also syncs across devices, etc)
Are you sure they hate fake reviews and counterfeit goods?

If those things didn't work reliably, I don't imagine the bad sellers would keep doing it
> A few teacher pension funds got a good uptick and they were sharing that around.

The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, who was holding GME, is one of the largest hedge funds in existence, worth over 200 billion dollars. For comparison, Maverick Capital is worth only $15 billion. That is not a case of some little guy teachers making out well, it is the rich (if not the richest) hedge funds getting richer.
>Obviously we don't observe the multiverse directly, but we observe data for which the best explanation also implies a multiverse

No, we don't have observational data supporting a theory of a multiverse. With Jupiter, if there were a planet there we would expect x to happen due to our understanding of planetary physics. We then observe, and x happens.

We can't repeat this with a multiverse, as all of our observational data ever provides no insight into how another universe works.

Two people keep saying this, it is easy to prove me wrong here.

>There's a lot we can't observe or interact with directly;

None of which are science. We have past observations, and we can make predictions of the future, but that's basically the extent of their place in science. We do observe distant galaxies, and that's where are understanding of them comes from.

As for inflation, like of space? As we do have experimental data for that, something about how long light takes to reach us. If you're talking economics, very little of it is science.
Can anyone explain the Fails-To-Deliver data for GME? Especially since its orders of magnitude greater than other companies.

I feel like only half the story is being told!

https://wherearetheshares.com/
It seems STD is trying really hard to push certain ideaologies, especially around diversity - but it feels so "fake" as if they're trying too hard. The Expanse on the other hand has a diverse cast but it feels natural and realistic.
I see it in a different way. $11 is a bargain to have support rep pick up the phone and bother to send you and individually prepared package. For phones that have been out of production for years.

Most companies don't bother keeping spare parts these days and if you, for some unknown reason, want to maintain your cheapish vintage cans, you should be AMAZED they still keep them in stock. Because they are definitely not making any money on it.
> CCP embraces very high risks with this route, while more ‘liberal’ routes exist.

Which more liberal routes are you thinking of, and how would the government actually implement them with the resources at their disposal?
a bit late to the game they are
You cannot import a haircut. It’s a service provided to you where you physically are by people who live close by.

You can technically automate hair cuts (badly, but it is technically possible, most wouldn’t want to pay for it yet).

You can buy an electric hair trimmers and give yourself a standard length.

But there are no robots for remote-controlled hair cutting. Until there are, you can’t import them.

This is why haircuts are expensive even outside of the USA, and why they vary in rough accordance with the local cost of living.
How does it handle repeats? I can understand reading AACCCT... since they say the signal depends on several letters. But what about 12 Gs? Or longer runs of the same letter. Is the some way to clock one nucleotide at a time?
Maybe user reviews are cleared every update, but ranked in the app store weighted by review averages from previous versions.
> it likely is a cause and effect system

Of course consciousness is a cause and effect system like everything else. I have never claimed otherwise, and the viewpoint I am defending certainly does not require otherwise.

> My definition of free will is the common understanding of free will

The common understanding of free will is that people can make choices and that those choices affect what happens to them. That can be true even in the deterministic universe you say you believe in.
The goal was to screw the original shorters.
Thanks for providing this feedback - now I'm glad I actually bothered to write it all out, because while I was doing that I was thinking to myself "This is going to be nonsense to anyone who doesn't already understand the first one".
Also 'long distance' was a cost that minimized the blast radius of callers. They also couldn't buy targeted call lists which I presume exist now with low cost and effort.
> It seems like all the remaining terminals and emulators have gravitated to the same feature set so people just assume it doesn't matter?

In the context of Unix-like systems, that is pretty much true. But, broader than that context, there are still terminal emulators in use which are completely unrelated to DEC VT. People still use IBM 3270 emulators to talk to IBM mainframes, and IBM 5250 to talk to IBM i (formerly known as OS/400). People still use Unisys T27 terminal emulators to talk to Unisys mainframes.

There are also some terminal emulators out there with unusual features. Consider AccuTerm, a terminal emulator specifically designed for use with PICK systems. If you read page 207 onwards of [0], you will see escape sequences to display images, run commands on the client machine, trigger file uploads and downloads, and even a facility for an escape sequence to embed a VBA script which is then executed. A lot of that is quite dangerous if you don't trust the system you are connecting to, or if the system you are connecting to doesn't correctly filter escape sequences out of untrusted data; but, assuming it does, it can be used to easily create some integrations between legacy PICK apps and Windows desktop apps such as Microsoft Office.

[0] https://static.zumasys.com/zumasys/atfiles/manuals/8/AccuTer...