skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing the short squeeze and all the coverage did was put Gamestop under a lot of scrutiny. I might have added some value just because now more people are paying attention to what they do.
Robert J Oppenheimer and Weapon of Mass Destruction in Ancient Scripture
> I exhibit behavior that allows you to pursue your own desires

Okay, then please don't rearrange my brain, even if you think it would "improve" some "deficiency" of mine. If we're agreed on that, then I'm good.
I was an early user of rss and blogged for years, then got sucked into social media like everyone else. Recently I've ditched that and got back into writing a bit and using Reeder / Feedly again. It is such a pleasure! Really just echoing this article, but to be able to do this at my pace and with my preferences as to what I choose to focus on or skim over without some bottom-feeding algorithm choosing for me is a really welcome breath of fresh air. I really hope there's a resurgence, the mode of reading presented by rss is so much more user and life focused...
Any password-like object has to be changable. And easily.
Is Rust a Functional Programming Language?
You mean when Google Sheets interferes with the keyboard shortcuts of the browser.
One thing I hope we take away from this is that just like we way over provision food production here in the States as a matter of national security, we should build out massive amounts of vaccine manufacturing capability.

The federal government should massively invest in MRNA manufacturing or whatever other vaccine technologies make the most sense and lease the facilities out at a loss if need be to pharma during normal times. Or just subsidize pharma to have massive amounts of capacity ready to churn out 5-10 million doses a day. I don't really care how it happens, I just want the capability as a society and I'm willing to pay for it.
I'd guess 95% of what we use databases for; actual performance of the database is irrelevant.
One really neat feature of RSS is that users don't have to provide email addresses or visit the site (be tracked) to see the material.
I could almost imagine running a small service that presented the contents of an IMAP folder as a feed, but I can't imagine actually using such a thing!
Half of them may learn a lesson, but the other half will just blame hedge funds against for their own mistake.
I played through Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia and I'm lukewarm about it. On the other hand it's a good way to experience new games without the hardware (I played on a seven-year-old Hackintosh), but on the other hand, it's not a great gaming experience. Visual quality has issues and there is always some input lag even on a good connection.
xmpp lol. Great protocol, terrible clients.
The Origin of the Word ‘Tweet’ (2013)
IBM employee here, can confirm (the Red-washing) after having developed a product that HAS to be running on OpenShift and HAS to go through RedHat's horrible scanning and catalog system. Of course this is in addition to IBM's existing horrible scanning and catalog registries. It's a red layer on top of existing blue layers of tape. It's multi-colored bureaucratic tape all the way down.
No, this is the real answer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010606131022/http://www.bagley...
makes sense. congrats!!
The performance gain of the MRI Ruby JIT is not really impressive, see e.g. http://software.rochus-keller.info/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_r.... Actually also the factor 4 PyPy speed-up in geomean is not that much overall (e.g. compared to V8).
You dont need a masters in dance to know race stuff is the final frontier.
For me 4th was boring and even more disappointing considering that, after all they suffered to open the portal, all that they found was a ruined, minefield piece of shit planet.

Fith is being a little more entertaining but also turning the back to the portal.

Edit: also there's sound in space. IIRC that wasn't the case in the first seasons.
People like to make this snarky comment a lot while ignoring that over the last 30 years batteries have in fact become enormously more energy dense. The revolution came a tiny bit at a time and it is here.
>Hypothetically, there could have been no lying anywhere in the chain

Very hypothetically though. I don't know of many countries where they'd believe "not lying involved" to be the case (or even the higher echelons not knowing it, much less someone like DWB).

This appears to be a naivety unique to the US and a very few other places - perhaps because most people never had much issue to distrust the system in their personal lives, they get screwed over only in aggregate or abstract political ways. Any country that has had a more direct experience of history unfolding (wars, dictatorships, meddling, etc) knows this isn't the case. I guess blacks in the US did have such an experience (e.g. Jim Crow and other actions against them, open and convert - e.g. MLK/FBI).

>For example, claims of election interference and espionage by the Russian government can be and frequently are easily dismissed by citing the WMD incident.

As they should, unless evidence is given (and real evidence, not the kind usually given "we found some russian IP involved" etc, as this is fool proof, not to mention we have to trust them on having found it).

Historically intelligence agencies have lied again and again (judging from when they are sometimes cought or stuff gets unclassified over time), and on purpose, and it's not some bad apple/incompetence involved, it's matter of policy (basically their role is not to "find the truth" but to "serve the given objectives/create a narrative").
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, better known as 'equal employment opportunity', prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It does not say anything about college degrees or professional certifications so no, legally speaking, requiring such things is not discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
At the 2014 DEFCON Biohacking village I did exactly that. I gave out like 50 tubes of plasmid, all you had to do is go sequence em to extract the private key, and boom, you get like $200 (or like 15K today...)

Literally nobody did it for a couple years, so I ended up taking out the bitcoin to pay for more DNA synthesis a few years ago. I actually did delete the bitcoin private key though, so I had to pay for sequencing it back out...
I'd like that. This pattern you mention bugs me.
Even if you need to distribute trust, you may just need a system where half a dozen or so players maintain replicated databases with duplicate transaction logs and a way to compare them.
Lol. This is hopelessly romantic statement.

15 years ago they could have tried to compete or pivot.

Now they are in position of an underdog with no experience vs established platform - Steam, Epic, GoG - if talking about selling games.

You are basically suggesting that Gamestop have a second chance to compete vs Amazon, or Ebay, or Facebook for that matter.

They are starting from scratch, all they have is physical locations. And presumably infrastructure to manage those locations. No software teams, no user base, 0.

I realize i sound very negative but saying there is a second chance for a ship that has been sinking and captain gave everyone a bucket as means of coping is not going to miraculously fix itself. Especially since they are now 100% thinking how to exit with that cash.
An Introduction to M3
The RPi has a serial port on which Linux can present a console. It's just a matter of converting the 3v3 RX/TX signal to some 12V RS-232 level. Plenty of devices or instructions out there.
Hugo, and other static site generators that support RSS, can easily be modified to provide the full content.
This is a pretty interesting take on divorce.

I'd be hesitant to view marriage as a financial partnership though. To me, marriage is more of a life partnership where both parties are "all in". A lot of the benefits of having a "life partner" stem from having someone who unconditionally watches your back and keeps your needs in mind. You can't put a price on that type of a partnership by definition (you introduce a monetary condition).

I agree that someone with real wealth could hire folks to manage their assets, administrate, listen to their thoughts/concerns, provide intimacy, etc, at the cost of a fraction of their net worth well below 50%.

Maybe people worried about protecting their wealth should just hire out those roles instead of getting married. I wonder why they don't. :)
Usually when I hear this sentiment from a developer, it's not because the developer has a burning desire to run customer surveys, analyze top support requests, document byzantine business process, sit in 100 meetings, etc, themselves. It's because the imagined alternative is that the developer just does whatever they feel like, which is not the reality.
I think beyond Family and Friends, there’s another use-case here that you may not have thought of. I can’t think of the number of times that I’ve encountered various HOAs and other small orgs that want some online presence, but also want strict access control. Like, they want a directory of everyone’s name, email, and phone, and a place to post some updates like “trash is delayed because of the holidays this week,” “reminder: annual meeting on the 5th,” “minutes from the last meeting available here.”
You're being unneccessarily flippant and you're not even addressing the point. The point wasn't about short attacks, it was about "short ladder attacks". The person you're replying to is actually right, that explanation of a "short ladder attack" actually just generically describes short attacks and doesn't address the nonsense conspiracy of short ladders.

The short ladder attack actually is a stupid conspiracy. It's the idea that you can paint the tape by trading back and forth with a conspirator, but do it at a price that's lower than fair market value. This is impossible. If you try and buy at a price lower than fair market value you aren't going to be matched with your conspirator, you're going to get matched against the order book at the best possible price. So to ladder down you need to control the entire demand in the market. It's absurd.
Considering Apple is all about quality, wouldn't it be in apple's best interest to do proper quality checks on the apps in their ecosystem?
That's the exciting part. We don't know. Read Neil Postman's writing.
Discretion is part of a bribe's value proposition. The existence of this post is why public speaking fees are a horrible vehicle for corruption. You have people complaining and asking for recusal. It's negative publicity and a hindrance to corrupt acts.

At Yellen's level, access to information is what has the most value. That's how I would bribe someone like that. No paper trail
Unless the degree is for something quite uniquely skilled, it's always been the case that college is just an indicator of baseline dedication and ability to learn on the job.

Of course there are always sharp and diligent people that didn't go to college. But if they don't have a degree or work experience, then you have to interview them to find out and possibly do more on the job training. When someone already has lots of applicants, they don't bother finding out.
Writing Great Documentation with a Wiki [video]
Some accounts have a limit of 10000€ per day for transferences. I've never had to transfer more than that but I guess you can do it over several days or visit your bank. I've done transferences with 4 different banks and never had to pay anything for them.
The restrictions affected the price and the price affected everyone involved. I wouldn't be surprised if the big boys received a call before a decision was made to make sure they dump everything they have before they unleash the restrictions panic.
Common CMSs continue to automatically generate RSS. Even if the website no longer advertises its RSS overtly, the RSS feed is there in the HTML source if you look for it. Yes, there are some sites out there without RSS, but for the vast majority of sites I’m interested in following, an RSS field remains available.
Same with US Navy and US Merchant Marine ships.
Any uptick a pension fund would have had was lost once GME reverted back.
Pension funds are buy and hold, so they could care less about short term fluctuations in 0.05% of their portfolio.
WSB moderators were (and still are) actively suppressing posts that don’t toe the line. I had a seasoned Reddit account that had been in WSB for a long time. As soon as I started commenting about how the short squeeze wasn’t a sure thing, my posts stopped showing up. They’ve been dismissing any comments that aren’t about GME going to the moon as hedge fund shills or bots.

It’s extremely difficult to find any posts or comments critical of GameStop in the sub right now. If you sort by new, the critical comments are quickly removed.

Moderators aren’t just letting Redditors figure it out. They’re shaping the conversation into the illusion of a consensus.
Oh, most do. This kind of vacuous PR nonsense is blatantly transparent and isn't really fooling anybody.

Those who are already on the "team" (i.e. - they identify as a member of the party but have no particular ideology of their own) may appear swayed, but usually this is just a bad faith effort on the part of party loyalists to stifle criticism from within.
And trying to stop bad stock tips on the internet is the ultimate fools errand.
The path to building wealth using boring old index funds is often paid for by day trading losses. At least, that's why I switched from individual stocks to index funds.
> It's extra clear in a market like air travel.

Sure, that is a market with large amounts of geographic network effects. I already said that markets with large network effects could have competition problems.

IE, with air travel, on any given route between two cities, there might only be 1 or two airlines servicing it. So yes, thats a problem.

Most things that people spend their money on do not have much network effects, so my original point stands.

> to such an extent that only 14 car companies control 54 brands

So not a winner take all market then? Got it. I already said that it would be ridiculous to claim that a market would need to have 10,000 companies of equal size, in order to be considered "competitive".

So yes, I consider the car market to be fairly competitive, and not one where you only have "no choice".

> Fridges are another great example.

You just posted a link that shows that there are a bunch of competitors, and that it is not a winner take all market.

So I stand by my point that neither cars nor fridges are in any way similar to something like internet service, where someone might only have 1 or 2 choices, or something like the Google ads business, where Google has a huge amount of power in the market that is no way comparable to the fairly competitive car market.
Europe has SEPA which is still not instant but a lot better than it used to be. Now the money appears in your account (for banks that support it) immediately and the official transaction date is the next working day. So the speed is technically 1 business day, which is a lot better than it used to be, and 0 business days for a lot of practical purposes.
The devil is always in the details.

Also, wouldn't it make more sense to poach from Valve or Epic?
Chatbot that can actually resolve queries of your customers on your website
As a business owner, would you be interested in a chatbot that can actually resolve queries of your customers/prospects on your website?
Old video terminals demonstrate the beauty and timelessness of solid protocol design.

While old computers are effectively useless except as curiosities, an old video terminal is still just as good at its job as when new.
VLC is better then QuickTime and therefore "Free software encourages sharing, social responsibility, and independence." is not exactly logical implication.
This is narrow-minded thinking influenced by recent events instead of a realistic risk assessment. Imagine you spend trillions on vaccines for possibly deadly diseases, and then the Yellowstone supervolcano breaks out and general disaster control is in a bad shape because you've spent trillions elsewhere.

You can prepare for everything but it needs to be done on the basis of balancing many different concerns.
Settlement isn't an effective fraud mitigation, or even operating in the right part of the system for it.

By all means allow users to set such delays if they want them, but the technology enforcing T+N really isn't a feature for customers so reframing it as such is probably a bad approach.
exactly. A database with a running hash is probably good for like 99% of "blockchain" use cases.
Except it has no power over the physical world. Just as one can lie on a ledger and say slave labor did not make these resources, so too can some one lie onto a block chain about where resources came from.

The chains can only really enforce protection on their own currencies, no?
This is a major PITA and is derailing a lot of other plans. I'm pretty astonished that they are stopping submissions by Feb 28th. Pretty amazing JCenter is going away too.
Embarcadero? Are they still around?
Nobody has those levers. They're in-built to Nature. As we collectively continue down this path, there are irreversible lock-ins that just accellerate Climate Instability. If we lose this stability that bio-diversity provides us, we have no known way of turning back to normal anymore, or to sustain civilization as we know it.

The later in the game we are before playing, the more it'll cost in damages and mitigation. This is on an exponential trajectory, so people won't truly notice until the last moment, ie. doubling from 50% to 100% in one "last" step.

This is not to say another Ice Age is preferable, so the science will be of vital importance. This for dealing with uncertainty of which might even defer some decisions too.
The important thing being lost in all the chatter: Elon Musk didn't have a creepy grudge against this hedge fund, therefore it is a good hedge fund.
> What's the elevator pitch for A Tale of Two Cities?

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." London and Paris through the revolution.
I had exactly the same idea, and I’ve implemented it for myself but haven’t productised it as yet, and I’m not sure I will. Love the self hosting part, and it’s not that hard but the security part I found problematic.

I used Oauth for signup, which made it easy to share links to galleries via e.g. Facebook and then click through using Facebook login. I also went for a more open model where anyone could log in but I could block people later on if I didn’t want to share. Depending on how sensitive a particular piece of content is, both models would probably better. It seems important to minimise friction as much as possible or people just move on. Come back later when I’ve approved you is not a good model, I found people simply lost interest.
It was such a relief when the KeyOne came out and I got to use a QWERTY keyboard again - slab-of-glass style phones have been a never-ending exercise in frustration. I have a Key2 now and love it. I can't imagine that I will ever go back.
Monaco is actually pretty biased against women in its divorce laws (I think alimony is capped at $100k per annum). There's a reason a lot of rich folks go to Monaco to surprise their spouses with a divorce. Now imagine if you were someone like MacKenzie Scott, who was actively involved with Amazon's founding. While her settlement with Jeff was quite generous on his part, in a Monaco divorce, she would have gotten maybe a mil or two tops. Monaco is in no way holistic when it comes to divorce, just a magnet for boomer millionaires and billionaires.
Game theory inevitably takes over; I better sell before the next guy does and lowers the price even further. The only people with diamond anything are the ones who bailed and took their profits early.
Nike wants to make sure that if a shoe store goes out of business, they can only throw out any Nike shoes they had, rather than sell their inventory to another retailer.

Similarly if you bought a pair and they didn't fit, your only option is to throw them out and buy a new pair. No reselling.

Gray market is very far from chinese knockoffs though.
There’s a lot of anger against the financial system but unfortunately not much financial education to understand why it is working so poorly for average investors. That anger makes people lash out to try to change the status quo, which in this case caused Redditors to buy GME in spite of its ridiculously high valuation. But because they don’t actually understand the mechanics of the market the hedge funds will easily out maneuver them.

Melvin Capital was a big loser with their fund down 50%, but the funds that held GameStop made out fine. A lot more of the volatility was probably driven by hedge funds than people think, and a lot less driven by Redditors. A billion dollars is an insane amount of money and even 6 million wallstreetsbets members working together can barely make a dent in these prices.

At the end of the day hedge funds will be fine and retail investors will be left holding the bag. Their very real anger is valid, but should be turned toward the actual causes of financial injustice and not playing into the hand of hedge funds.

Ironically, the shorts who have been blamed for much of this mess are the only ones screaming about the broken regulatory system, including the toothless SEC, and warning about asset bubbles driven by low interest rates that are making it very difficult to responsibly invest. If average investors would listen to these contrary voices instead of breathless longs on CNBC they would have a more complete view of what’s happening in markets today.
I've never tried it, but there are plenty of reaction videos of people doing a ludicrous start in a Tesla and the passengers showing expressions of fear and surprise.

If you are the driver then being in control probably helps quite a lot. In a roller coaster you are always a passenger.
I think colleges do it for cachet, but finance companies do it for ROI.

Think about the business models...The college business model depends on maintaining prestige to continuously attract applicants willing to pay high admission rates. The finance business model uses money to make more money, and the risk to reward ration can be swayed depending on decisions made by certain individuals.
Yes. When you get into commercial systems, they are faster, but there's going to be a wait time that probably exceeds the time the customer is willing to sit around. At the end of the day, the material/physics[0] have more to do with "how fast it can print" than anything.

It'd make sense for them to offer some way to do this online and pick up in-store (or, hey, ship directly). But, it might bring people into the stores or you may have people that want to "feel" examples of the material they're printing the item in (assuming it's offered with different options, which would be a good idea).

[0] I'm thinking FDM here, mostly, but you're basically taking a material, heating it to the "right" melting point, applying it to a surface where gravity and controlled cooling cause the layer to adhere securely to the previous layer. The printer can only print as fast as it can reliably melt/adhere the material, any faster and you either under-extrude or fail to adhere and end up with spaghetti.
I developed these training videos for our hosted wiki product called Miki[0] but they're also great for anyone using Wiki.js (on which we're based) or other common wiki platforms. I take you through how wikis are different from other documentation platforms and then build out a real wiki from scratch.

[0] http://miki.mimix.io
Mudricks position in AMC substantially predated any "hype" or "meme" economy impacts.