skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was only a failure at what Google wanted it for - displacing Facebook as the dominant social media company. IMO, they failed primarily due to network effects, as in they can't bootstrap without some killer feature to get people to switch over from Facebook. Circles probably didn't help here, since the ultimate effect is to reduce engagement, when they need to maximize it to have a chance of displacing Facebook.

Probably the big risk for this thing is that nobody wants to keep track of separate websites for dozens of individuals, most of whom only post something they can see once a week at most. You need to aggregate all of those updates from dozens of people you know into a single website and build a feed, then you have something that probably always has something the user might find interesting, and all in one place, so they'll actually check it regularly.
Of course they can lie, but with blockchain it is much easier to detect the lie. If the banana producer has a receipt from the shipping company that says "10,000 bananas in the container for Jasper" and the shipping company only has 8,000 to put at your door, you can be sure it who was malicious.

Without a blockchain, if the shipping company and banana producers were colluding to skim you of 2,000 bananas, it's much easier for them to do.
Hadn't heard of Improve the News... Will definitely take a look!

There are so many fledgling companies out there trying to improve the news, the quality of social media, etc. I really hope at least one of them succeeds!
The US values software developers more than anywhere else.
Because they literally re-wrote the majority of it to use vert-x directly.

The clojure pieces are nothing more than a wrapper which is exactly what clojure is best used for.
Efficacy describes what happens in a carefully controlled study. Vaccine efficacy is the percent reduction in disease incidence in a test group of vaccinated subjects compared to an unvaccinated group under optimal conditions. Such subjects usually do not have any underlying medical illnesses.

Effectiveness describes what happens in the real world. Some tend to use ‘efficacy’ as if it is synonymous with the concept of ‘effectiveness’. This misuse is even rampant amongst doctors, who should know better.

In fact, vaccine effectiveness is the ability of a vaccine to prevent outcomes of interest in the real world.

For example, the influenza vaccine has been in use since 1938. It is spectacular at causing test subjects to make antibodies to the influenza virus. Now take a look at flu vaccine actual effectiveness (or lack thereof):

There are universal recommendations to give flu vaccine to the elderly starting at age 65. A 2020 study [1] on the influenza vaccine in the UK compared outcomes when persons aged 65 to 75 got their yearly flu vaccines, compared to those of the same age who didn’t receive it. They were all followed for 4 years.
The ones who got flu vaccine did not have any lower hospitalization rates or lower death rates (from all causes).

This study showed that flu vaccine may be efficacious in controlled studies, but in real life it is often not effective in reducing death or hospitalizations – the outcomes of interest.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32120383/
> it is clear that occupy Wall Street was a movement against the perceived notion that billionaires were exploiting the rules

That we agree on. Just like the OTPP has been known to do.

https://financialpost.com/news/fp-street/ontario-teachers-pe...

This isn't some teachers trying to eek out a retirement. It is one of the most prolific hedge funds in existence. They are literally what the movement was against, but the movement only served to help them.

Not that I expect anyone thought that they were buying up shares from retail investors to put the movement in motion. They had to know they would help other funds to hurt the one fund being targeted. It shouldn't surprise anyone that hedge funds have made out like bandits in this.
I've been using Rmarkdown and knitr for a long while, and have watched its evolution over the years (roughly 8 years now). As someone who does not use RStudio, it's become a bit of a pain for me to use. The authors seem to expect it is being used from RStudio, and using it in a different environment has become a bit fragile.

It's also a bit telling that this "definitive guide" does not include any troubleshooting/debugging sections - the expectation seems to be that it "just works" so long as you use it in RStudio, but otherwise you are on your own.

Not sure that I am aware of many other R packages with this mentality, but I am personally not a fan.
The SEC doesn’t have a case. He’s been holding for 2 years and was laughed at many times by people on the wallstreetbets sub.
I don't see an issue with using the same actors, people seem to live much longer lives anyway and some make-up will make them look older. I really want to watch the last three books as a big budget series. Jeff, if you're reading this, you should have the time and money now to make it happen. Please?
Why do you not believe people didn't jump on the free money hype train? It's not like redditors havent gathered together to do stupider things before. The fact that almost every easy to use trading app had to limit buys on gme specifically should tell you that it was not a small thing.
Holocaust happening in front of us but we're not doing anything. Whatever happened to "never again"?
Anyone who takes WSB seriously is dumb and deserves to lose their money. The sub is explicitly about using the stock market like a casino to gamble. Loss porn is real and we’re going to see a lot of it soon. To continue the casino analogy, /u/DeepFuckingValue is the dude at the craps table with the hot hand. Everyone is onboard until the winning stops, so the house is doing everything it can to reset the game.
In my experience multi-core compilation does not work.

make -j>3 just locks the process and fails.
EURONEXT is only for European (not US) stocks, right?
It may be a Windows thing. I too started reading the post and was thinking, why not -j128 or -j64 depending on if HT was on and then realized that the author's system wasn't one that had been tuned for decades to build software as quickly as possible :-).

It would be an interesting academic exercise to create a setup on Linux that did the same thing but using the extant build tools, and then to do a deep dive into how much of the computer was actually compiling code and how much of it was running the machinery of the OS/IDE/Linkages. A LONG time ago we used to do that at Sun to profile the "efficiency" of a machine in order to maximize the work it did for the user per unit time, vs other things. That sort of activity however became less of a priority as the CPUs literally became 1000x faster.
Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development
> I'd prefer to get the mRNA vaccines as they seem much more effective

I am still unsure which route seems best.

Don’t mRNA vaccines target the spike protein?

The spike is a topic of debate currently as mutations/changes to the spike (South African variant etc) may affect mRNA vaccines more?

Moderna themselves are developing a booster shot targeting the SA variant & a separate booster for all the other variants (U.K. et al) for this very reason (read: you’ll need 2 doses of vaccine & 2 booster shots for full protection against all current forms of COVID/virus)

So the mRNA route might well be 4 shots for just the variants we know about.

That isn’t to say non mRNA vaccines (AstraZeneca, J&J) won’t also have the same issues (decreased effectiveness against the mutated virus ) but from what I’ve read it seems more likely to affect mRNA
We should be debating process versus commitment, though. “They can both work” is a bit facile.

Work isn’t (typically) done except in the context of workers’ lives. These paradigms incentivize different behaviors and cultures and there are real impacts on the lives of workers as a result. It’s a mistake to purport that we can ignore those consequences in an evaluation of what works.
This is what real journalism looks like.

Of course the Chinese government covered up the covid outbreak.
This just proves it.
To be honest, although everyone know that the spike will not last, none of us knew how high it would go. Even $350 was out of this world.

In hindsight it's easy to give numbers like $300 or $350.

But I agree, for a lot it turned into pump and dump.
I agree with all of this and would add that not only can these people be dangerous, they also know where you live. Putting a tracker, or something malicious in the package even if it's mostly benign can trigger an asymmetric response.
"Building a curve" means defining a function of where you think volatility should be as a function of strike and expiration.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stock-analysis/081916/...

It gets substantially more complicated, but that's a layman's explanation of what it actually is.
Geoclue stopped working due to mozilla's API rate limit
Cheapest FIDO2 capable USB keys seem to be around 9$. At that point you could theoretically give our family and close friends a physical key to the service for easy authentication.

Some could even reuse the key for other services, assuming they realize that they need a spare for backup.
On a tangent, Cargo Cults in the Pacific are a more complex phenomenon than many people assume.

I remember in college I had a great Pacific studies professor and one of the topics he touched upon was the idea of cargo cults as a form of disruptive political protest. I forget the details of his argument, but I think this article captures the gist of it - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/1959-cargo-cults-...

I also think there was an element of trying to play Americans off of other colonial powers, although I can't find any citation for that.

Interesting to note that at least one cargo cult made the transition into an actual political party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagriamel
It’s a funny title. Both bonds and sports can be the verb. I’m assuming most people read the verb as Sports vs Bonds:

- Why Losing _Bonds_ Sports Fans: why when your team loses you strengthen your affiliations to your team.
- Why Losing Bonds _Sports_ Fans: why throwing away good money on bonds is popular (I have no background to decide why bond investing in bonds might be a good or bad idea).
Validate them when you get to town... and find that you just donated lunch to a bunch of clever loggers who knew you could not check the validity of their payments until hours after they ate the food you gave them.

You seem to have a very strange definition of "trustless."
Simple Collection Manipulation in Java Using Lambdas
Using the power of Streams in Java 8 and with the help of Lambda Expressions we can do easy, fast and reliable manipulations on Collections. We can easily filter or sort lists as well as other operations, regardless of the overall complexity.
A way to have your cake and eat it too - check out Primocache. It's pretty inexpensive disk caching software (especially for Windows Server which is where I really leverage it!).

Pair it with an Optane for L2 cache and it will speed up normal SSD use too ;)
> First, the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers) so a billionaire has much better odds of not getting caught.

That assumes they cheat at the same rate.
Cue “but it was always Feb 9” ignoring that Jan 29 was “dday” before that. Then after Feb 9 it’ll be some later date in case there’s still tubes to fleece.
Other nitpicky things:

- Lights inside helmets to light up a person's face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv series, as you definitely want to see the actor's face.

- Transparent/Glass tablets & phones is still a complete mystery to me how this could be useful in any way... other than it "looks cool".
I posit these markets only have many players because regulation prevents their consolidation.

Cars went from 54 to 14 establishing clear directionality and benefit. It's not going from 14 to 1 only because of laws against further consolidation in the space. Regulators would simply deny their request to consolidate further. Stopping at 14 isn't some magical constant or some natural end state.

My point is that the natural direction in each of these markets is consolidation, then at a point it hits a dead stop. Why is consolidation only useful up to a certain threshold? It's not. Regulation steps in and keeps it competitive.
and the last step:

- figure out something to make

(because the what always seems to come after the how)
Have you considered that most people can't recognise fake reviews? It's pretty common in India too where sellers even give you discount for 5 star.
Social Media Extension of 2021
Embracer Group acquires mobile game developer Easybrain for $640M
Truly sorry to hear about your experiences. If you are not explicitly a founder, just do not work for companies that doesn't actually have at lease a couple of employees doing non-managerial IT work. Otherwise the founders may be inexperienced in managing IT teams and consider it okay to pile on forever more work to a stagnant IT staff and be down-right exploitative like in your first example.

When interviewing for a position, remember that you are also interviewing the company. You already know what doesn't work for you, so ask about it. Don't be shy, you're not desperate for that job, you're a developer in Berlin, people want you!
What even are "productive hours"? Only the ones where you type symbols into your IDE? Revisit this article [1] from the hn front-page a few days ago then.

https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-f...
You do have a point, but I think from a risk perspective there is a difference.

When Huawei was chosen for those fixed line projects it was providing relatively ‘dumb’ pieces of kit (switches etc.), with controller software that could be looked at and ringfenced.

The 5G stack has been implemented using much more virtualisation, and the vendors are providing much more general capability which makes it a lot harder to risk assess and probe for weaknesses etc.
The NewSpace industry in Latin America, leading by example
Its also possible that the current Egyptians are not quite the same people as 2000 years ago. In the last century alone Egypt went from 8 million to 80 million population. How much do we know about how related an average Egyptian is to someone from time of Pharaohs after centuries of migration and population mixing.

I watched a youtuber travel through Egypt, and it looks like a third world country. He was getting harassed for money, stopped by police and so on. Pretty much same as my female friend told me when she travelled there.

It doesn't instil much confidence its the same people, if they are able to accomplish so little with modern technology. That Could accomplish so much with such primitive technology.
Python 3.10.0a5 is now available
Are we going to DDoS a historical vestige?
R Markdown/Notebooks, IMO, has evolved to be the key value proposition of RStudio over the years. From a productivity standpoint when both working with R and publishing pretty reports/PDFs it has been incredible. (that said, if VS Code gets more robust R Markdown support, I may consider switching from RStudio)

I wrote a blog post a few years ago comparing R Markdown/Notebooks to Jupyter Notebooks: https://minimaxir.com/2017/06/r-notebooks/
Or don't do that so you don't lose 99% of your customers because the page didn't load in less than 5 seconds.
I meant “trial efficacy”. See my comment on elof above.
No, the school of hard knocks isn’t a great teacher. It’s a great way for Wall Street to take more money from the tubes.
Interesting that anyone could genuinely utter the phrase “ethics waiver” without their face contorting permanently.
Is it typical to refer to legitimate third-party sale of goods as "gray-market?" If I buy a used pair of Nikes from the person that owned them, or a third-party consignment organization, or Nike themselves, they're still the same pair of Nikes and their legitimacy doesn't change one way or the other. Gray-market to me implies you can't be 100% sure if they're counterfeit or not.
> This is important, but more important is what percent of those were used to cover shorts. If a large portion wind up in retail's hands or are part of the theory of hedge funds selling back and forth (I haven't seen much concrete evidence of that), that volume doesn't change the math much.

Definitely, but I haven't seen any data sources that tell us exactly that. We see that retail bought a bunch, sold a bunch, institutions bought a bunch, sold a bunch... but we don't know the full path.

And not knowing that is what makes it a huge, at-this-point-irresponsible gamble, in my mind.
Easier to replace because 5G is being fresh installed, imagine replacing all that fibre. It's also easier to hide possibly nefarious equipment in 5G and proxy to somewhere else, whereas the usual fibre splitters and taps nation states use are high traffic, bulky and basically impossible to exfil back to China. Fibre is "dumb" equipment whereas much of the 5G stack includes vendor software, virtualization etc which increases risks enormously.

You're not wrong.
Thanks! 'Voting' is definitely something we've considered, but yeah, I don't think it's the right direction for us at this time.
Childcare at the office seems like a great way to put too many eggs in one basket. Changing child care centre is no small thing.

The simple solution is no meetings after 15:00.
It was pretty easy to make money if you got in at 200 and bailed above 300, you had a lot of time to do it. It's the people who listened to the diamond hands 10k+ nonsense that got screwed
For a nice sum, a whole bunch of people would probably volunteer.
We could have a futures market for doses. That way the government doesn’t have to pick winners in the drug development arena, something it historically isn’t very good at.
You bring up a good point. How do we ensure that social services doesn’t also get infiltrated by white supremacists, though?
Thumbs up for the stack and overall look&feel!
Is DynamoDB a hard dependency or it could be swapped for Firebase Firestore?
Here's one: https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/lamgp6/give_it_to_m...
You just need more ram. I 'ever compile at less than -j$(ncpu). Hard with less than 32 GB tho - a single clang instance can easily eat upwards of 1gb of ram
In other news a decentralized system can be replaced by a centralized system. I don’t think it’s a very useful point.
From IBM's whitepaper on blockchains in 2017:
https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/REGBVG7J
"7 in 10 consumer industry executives expect to have a blockchain production network by 2020"
Sometimes I don't get the hackernews community. Internet moving from protocols to monopolies is bad. But when we have a cool protocol for ledgers, then no, we want a monopoly.
> I don't think it's exactly a false choice, but I'm sure there's a name for it.

It's a false dichotomy [1] and that is exactly how these narratives are spun. Another technique isn't forwarding your own narrative, but belittling the opposing narrative. "Only a fool could possibly believe A when it is possible that B is the reason". They don't even have to say that B is the reason, just suggest that it is a possible reason and believing anything else is foolish.

We're seeing exactly that. People are too stupid/ignorant to understand how complex this subject is, so they should just shut up and trust us when we say B is the reason. Do you even know how B works? Clearly you don't. If you did you would understand your own foolishness in even considering that A factored into any decision related to this subject. You idiot. Maybe you're a conspiracy theorist!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
I'm not really convinced a low traffic SE article proves the opposite however.

While wsb is on the verge of going full Q'Anon, I find it equally curious how people seem to be willing to deny foul play when you have people like Jim Cramer confessing/bragging to it.
Goldman Sachs posts their talks on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIyiGQywEp655v2qh-3mx...

They're often interesting, but they're fairly anodyne: a famous author talking about their recent book, a CEO talking about their successes or new focus on sustainability/diversity/etc, some broad perspective on current events. You can see how Goldman folks might benefit a little bit from knowing about (say) the likely timeline for vaccine roll-outs, but you could get much of the same info from an hour of NPR.

However, meeting the person seems like a nice perk or recruiting/marketing tool.
San Francisco Sues San Francisco Unified School District over Failure to Reopen
For a while I thought this was an unpopular opinion, but now I'm seeing more people agree. Relative to season 1-4, season 5 is extremely anti-climactic and at times even annoying (e.g. the looping Naomi transmission really got on my nerves). It's hard to believe season 6 will be the last after the complete disappointment season 5 has become.

Conversely I see hate for season 4, but I really liked it. I really love plot-lines around mysterious aliens or ancient technology. It's one of the reasons why Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5 are some of my favorite Sci-Fi series.
That is a really excellent observation.

My experience is that "larger projects" to the investment in their build infrastructure to maximize parallelism in order to reduce build times because it pays dividends in terms of turn around time and thus productivity.

One of the joys of working with someone who has been building large projects for a while, is that they just design the build system from the start to be as parallel as practical.
I don’t understand your point.
Your second version of it makes me think of WallStreetBets' "loss porn", where people are fans of others losing money.
It's completely possible that DFV has a second account that he doesn't share screenshots of, that bought puts on the stock near the peak just to hedge.
> This being a zero-sum game doesn’t matter, if you have either an edge or are simply lucky

Picking stocks is basically "I'm feeling lucky".

People do win the lottery and not buying a ticket prevents you from ever winning it.

The upside definitely exists, but you get emotionally invested rather than financially.

Picking stocks is good for your sense of agency in investment & feeling connected to the results of your actions - the emotional part of that shouldn't be ignored.

Trading stocks at that risk level is very much a tribal gladiatorial feeling, rather than actual financial sense.

We're actually seeing that in action recently - poor financial sense, massive entertainment value.
I haven't used it for a few years, but I have previously set up some purely command line tooling for this (autogenerated verification reports) which worked well. Is this getting harder to do?
What I learned from my first month at Y Combinator
Is there any reason to believe that billionaires don't cheat more? I don't think billionaires are rich because they're more talented. I think they're rich because they're more opportunistic and, quite frankly, shittier human beings.
I'd strongly agree with this. I use R Markdown with Python in the Rstudio IDE, and prefer it to Jupyter. The publishing pipeline is really flexible, e.g. with one-click deployment to RStudio Server [0] (which is a paid product).

No affiliation to RStudio, just a happy customer.

[0]: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download-server/
A question for people familiar with the science:

How do we build confidence that there aren't any adverse effects from protein? My intuition tells me that this stuff is so small and the world of biochemistry is so complex that who knows what can happen.