skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about disk space, but also:

1. Security patching in one place

2. Memory usage

3. Allowing a program to be improved without it needing to be recompiled

Most obviously without dynamic linking, the concept of an operating system upgrade wouldn't make any sense. But, users quite like clicking "Update" and then their programs get new features.
a proper index fund isn't a proper bubble, since it's proportional against an index, the net underlying asset

that said, I grasp that there are some odd knock on effects with so many assets tied up in what are, approximately, a derivative.
I have used both of those methods when publishing... I do hesitate on the full article approach, but I don't run ads. (And to be clear, I do provide a whole-article feed)

One thing I don't like about the whole article RSS is that I get requests to narrate my whole website or blog experience, in addition to the normal writing about stuff.

In effect the full-article RSS audience has its own experiential needs, which include "tell me about what you added to the non-blog sections, tell me about the new tools in the sidebar, or the new article footer format, or even hey I never heard about the new design," and so on. Sometimes I also alter the CSS for a single post, when it makes sense.

Some of this narration is just expected if your main format is traditional, plain blog. But personally my blogs tend to evolve and incorporate other stuff. And for sites with even more of an experiential aspect than my own, I can see why RSS could drive the publishers a bit mad, increased exposure or no.

Because of this experience, personally I would rather try reading via a page-download tool or format, even automated w3m or something, and see if that's an improvement. You'd get the full article in plain text, but you'd also get some of the other stuff around the site, including links which you may even be able to mark for later download.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/our-oligarc...
That’s one of the key takeaways here: these people are far too desperate to be as nefarious as we might think. The more outrageous aspects of the last few months—from Twitter censorship to post-election whiplash—may be best understood not as the first flashes of an ascendant tyranny, but as a flurry of idiotic moves by an elite who clearly have much less faith in their hold on power than we do.

The wild saga of GameStop’s stock adventures over the past week or so is a perfect illustration of the point. When users of the subreddit r/wallstreetbets decided to invest in the video game chain, the price of the stock skyrocketed to peaks well over $400 (six months ago it was closer to $4). The move resulted in jaw-dropping profits for some of the amateur traders—and a whole lot of anger from the Wall Street establishment. Hedge funds and other big-dollar investors who had shorted the stock have lost over $5 billion altogether from the episode. So what did our robust market system do? Simple: citing market volatility, Robinhood and other day-trading services just restricted transactions on GameStop and other WallStreetBets picks. The big funds, meanwhile, were free to continue trading as normal. Besides giving the big guys a chance to get their ducks in a row, the freeze caused the stock to crash on Thursday morning, costing many amateur investors a pretty penny.

It’s corrupt and immoral, and I’d be mad as hell if I’d been smart enough to get in on the GameStop craze. But it’s not the kind of thing that confident oligarchs do. It suggests the same fear that’s motivated so many decisions by people in power these past few months. Not to mention it may spark a backlash that will be well worth watching—and that may yet change our course in surprising ways.

I’m as wary of the Wall Street-Silicon Valley-Washington axis as anyone. But it’s hard to be too afraid of any regime that can be thrown into such a devastating panic by a horde of Redditors buying GameStop stock from laptops in their mothers’ basements—or, for that matter, by a virus, or an election, or the host of The Apprentice.
Especially when this is a “personal tax matter” and not related to Vista. Strains credibility somewhere.
It was and is a heavily shorted and volatile stock. It's anomalous relative to the rest of the market at this point in time. But there is almost always someone out on the long tail of settlement shitshows.
There's a simple lesson. Buy and hold a low-fee index fund. Stop trying to pick stocks. And for God's sake stop trying to day trade stocks.

Deviating from buy-and-hold indexing is mathematically a zero-sum game. Winning this game is also one of the most monetarily rewarding games on Earth. It's extremely unlikely that you're anywhere near good enough to win this game. If you don't know who the fool at the table is, it's probably you.
Citadel also pays millions and millions of dollars to Robinhood in order to get first look on its customer orders.
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This is because the big kids use big kid's brokerages. Which is to say, well capitalized brokerages that communicate well with their clients on possible capitalization needs.

It is no shock at all that a cheap broker with a million new clients wasn't sufficiently well capitalized for a big kids play.
What's considered cheap is relative. $12 a month is more accessible than lump sums of $500. It may be cheaper to have your own hardware in the long run, but not everyone is able to afford seeing that through.

As for laggy, Cyberpunk runs orders of magnitude better through Stadia on my only computer - a dated Core i3 laptop - than natively.

You're not wrong. Running it yourself is obviously better if you have the hardware. It's just there is a value proposition with platforms like this that I think can make it so more people can play AAA games than before.
I have tried feed readers on and off over the years, and never really stuck with it. It just felt like too much coming in with no rest. (This was largely before social media...now that sentiment feels quaint.)

But I've recently gotten back into feed readers, and what I've realized is that I think a lot of my frustration was from news websites, which are just a constant stream of new content. Now I stick to a few blogs, HN top posts feed, and a couple other low-quantity feeds, and things are much better. I read the news directly off their websites once in the morning, and for the rest of the day I just rely on picking up major news via Twitter, etc.

Anyway, if you're looking for a nice, simple feed reader, I can recommend Liferea on Linux. I didn't have much luck finding a web-based client I liked, but recently I've started using a self-hosted instance of Miniflux, and I can also recommend that as well.
That's clearly not a lesson one can only learn by losing money.
Pivoting into computer hardware might not be to bad an idea; the limited stock of silicon and rise of scalper bots is starting to make retail a viable option again. They could curate into a few specific gamer brands to fit into their small stores and maybe also offer to prebuild PCs in a similar way to microcenter.
I was hoping there might be something on:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

But alas, support for images hadn't been invented yet.
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction and risk management techniques to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives.

That is what the OTPP does. That the hedge fund exists to fund pensions is irrelevant. If you dig into the investors behind other funds, you are likely to find that they are also investing to help fund their own retirement.
We have 4 games right now:

- Who's the faker: A game all about accusation and deception. Lots of banter.

- Roastmasters: All about roasting your colleagues (SFW though)

- Trick or Trivia: New-age trivia with about 50 topics and 5K+ questions

- Give me a break: Activities and fun corners of the Internet for short breaks by yourself

Happy to take inputs on what other games to build - what else do you think would be fun to play with colleagues?
GME open $172 down to $73 what will happened? Track Live
I recently wrote about a disaster that happened to an online ticketing service which decided to use a blockchain as a database

There are lessons to be learnt who try to put everyth to a blockchain https://ruky.me/2020/12/23/somethings-are-never-meant-to-be-...
> Everyone knew this was a bad idea

No. It was an excellent idea, with very bad execution on the supply side.
The article gives only a passing, buried mention to the thing I consider the most important part. It cites "34 percent of Americans said they did not trust the outcome of the 2020 election", but it's 45% of Republicans, outnumbering the 43% who oppose it. There's also 12% who claim to be unaware, which seems highly unlikely.

If they are receiving official support, at least tacitly, that this was OK, then nothing anybody else says or does is going to matter. If the party can't take a strong position that this is a bad position to hold, for fear of offending a near-majority of the party, what can we possibly hope to achieve as partners? You'd have thought that "it's bad to violently interrupt the peaceful transition of power" was the one thing we could agree on.

In the absence of a partner in government, the other party must do what it thinks is best for the country, and hope that that's positive enough to change some minds. But if they're being encouraged to think of them as somebody who must be opposed violently, that seems unlikely.

To make a path back to society, we need a society for them to come back to. If half the country insists that there isn't one, then there isn't.
I wonder how to deal with the amount of organic material (seaweed, shells etc) that quickly covers all surface areas and reducing efficiency.
Salt seawater is a difficult environment to have advanced equipment inside.
Everyone should see this! Spread the information as far and wide as possible. Something very odd going on with failure to deliver data on GameStop. Hold your shares!
All I know about /r/stocks is that since last week wsb-style GME junk posts are spamming /r/popular.

But maybe non frontpage posts are better.
The price was 70 not 11.
These days, it's more and more common where you see a product with 4.5-5 stars with thousands of reviews, go to the reviews, and see that all the top ones are 1-star with complaints about the product being counterfeit or breaking quickly. I don't go on Hacker News often but I do use Amazon, and I see this all the time.
Why does my memory usage explode when concatenating dataframes?
Rust is probably close to a good idea: have the programmer give directions as to the lifetime/behavior of the data and allocated memory, rather than having to guess.

Compilers might be able to do some of that, but at least the standard libraries should be able to do the hints, and almost all dynamic allocations on day-to-day code uses dynamic structures in standard libraries like hashmaps and variable-length lists/vectors/arrays.
By now the scale could be far larger than it is currently. Moving up vaccine timetables by just a few months would be enormously valuable. I never said it was easy, but the answer was not "let's do nothing because it's hard."
Whereas Hacker News is just a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing pretending to be experts to influence the actual idiots. You can find charlatans pretty much anywhere money or people with money congregate.
Echo came years after Google Now and Siri and Cortana. Taking years old concepts and putting them into a speaker isn't really that inventive. No one is getting a Nobel prize for the Echo.
Bridgerton at least was written by an American novelist and then made into a TV show by an American director / writer / producer team for an American media company.
AFAICT, the practical difference isn't that big, the supercapacity energy density is much lower, and it is always more worthwhile to just add more batteries.

EVs already use their friction brakes pretty rarely, so the potential gains aren't even that big.
I mean, Facebook is a quarter of a gigabyte for God knows what reason. Many apps are similar. There’s a reason the base capacity is 64 GB: apps keep getting bigger.

However, the cellular size limit is now 250 MB IIRC, so Facebook seems to stay just under that.
They may be a pension fund, but they do use hedge funds to balance their portfolio.

https://www.otpp.com/investments/performance/investment-stra...

"Additionally, we complement our efforts by using external hedge fund managers, which gives us access to unique approaches that both add performance and diversify risk."
> Instead, the Greens say Australia needs a search engine that's owned by and accountable to the public and not shareholders, and is independent of the government like the ABC.

... Except when it comes to funding!

Seriously, first thing to consider is how will the Australian government plan to attract the caliber of talent required to create this?
Yep - a pepper is an app-wide value that forces an attacker to get both a configuration value (from the source, or env vars) and also the hashes of the passwords (a db dump). Just another incremental thing for an attacker to overcome that is cheap & easy to implement.

Salts must be unique per password as far as I know? Otherwise they don't do their main goal which is to make every guess useful against only one hash. (ie: guess 'hunter2', check if any user had hunter2 as a password, but salted, you'd only be able to guess if cschneid had hunter2 since you'd be hashing hunter2-sssssaaaaallllltttt).
Agree, but that's how lasers were for the first 2 decades (guessing) of their existence.
I’m not a book reader and agree, although I’m only three episodes into season 5.

Amos was one of my favorite characters but am a bit put off by how his role has, to an extent, become fan service.

I appreciate that he’s a tough guy, enjoyed that aspect of earlier seasons, and want more of it. But don’t give me, the viewer, instant gratification just because I want it if it will erode my suspension of disbelief.

Feels like the characters and narratives are trending towards more traditionally defined arcs with characters getting in fights to show the audience they’re invincible or otherwise saved by cheap deus ex machina tricks.
Yes, obviously there's no way to tell what proportion of users think the same way.

> they strip away features that existed before, and completely ignore and talk down to users who tell them that the feature is very useful and much wanted.

I'm under the impression that GNOME strives for similar UX to macOS. This behavior sounds just like Apple to me, so maybe it's just the correct way to do it.

I've used both macOS and GNOME as daily drivers and got frustrated with both. I'd certainly get frustrated if an employer forced me to use unsuitable equipment (and some have in the past). But that's not the fault of GNOME developers.
NB: They sold 25M shares at ~$20/share. That's probably much more than what they paid for these shares but it's nowhere near where GME was over the past few days.
Hi Autist from WSB here. Diamond hands, and deepfuckingvalue we trust. DD is gold.

not selling is Diamond.
Stick to your guns.
Don't let the Algos shake u out.

See you techies in Valhalla.
yeah, that was my thought too.

I can literally pay for a $5 VPS and get off the ground in mere weeks as well. The only thing I don't get is the potential performance of AWS, but you have to pay extra for that at AWS as well, so paying extra outside of AWS for it isn't outlandish.

Now, AWS has a lot of value addons that can make it worth it/useful, so perhaps there's a point there but it's not nearly as noteworthy as the other poster is making it seem.
And it should be made very clear that both writers of the books (they write under a single pseudonym) are heavily involved in the writing and production of the show. Character and story changes are done to accommodate the TV medium, or to better support a future storyline not originally thought out.
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This really wasn't much notice to give for such a hugely important thing
> the notion that there is a tight correspondence between market prices and objective worth becomes difficult to sustain.

I don't know jack shit about the market. But i have played some videogames where you can trade items. This is one of the very first things i learned, "everything is worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay for".

The things i read every now and then about the real market certainly suggests to me that this applies here too.
I tried for a while, but gave up. Using anything but MS Office is swimming upstream. It's just not worth the hassle.

I have been impressed with Google's in-browser compatibility, but it isn't a replacement. It's just nice not to have to fire up Word or Excel and get a quick glance, if that's what I need.
> convert the stores into a gamer bar and show esports tournaments

> host LAN parties or move into tabletop games

The concept of “gamer bars” is woefully unexplored and one day I hope to retire early and start up one. Get space at a prime location, completely retrofit it, make it state of the art technology-wise.

The goal would be to make it a spot that high profile streamers would book months in advance for special events.

GameStop is positioned to do this kind of thing but at nation-wide scale.
So this explains why recruiting other firms to produce Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines is difficult (because the limiting factor is probably microfluidics devices built specifically for processes only Pfizer and Moderna had a reason to scale). But what's the bottleneck on scaling up J&J's adenovirus design?
By having the salt secret they are using it as an encryption key that they hope will prevent any sort of brute force attack. Thus the hash is no longer covered by privacy legislation. A separate salt per record is still brute forceable, even if it takes a lot longer for a lot of records.
First they take your money, more like.
Right, but it’s been incremental steps in improving a “boring” technology, not the new and revolutionary replacement that ends up getting voted up to the top of HN.
Is there actually a way to target the financial system? Seems to me the best anybody could have hoped for was to make a hedgefund bleed.

So far as I can tell, there's no political way to meaningfully touch that segment of society. Politicians can't be trusted to regulate such a complex system, even if they could be trusted not to be bribed into compliance. The existing regulatory institutions seem captured. Even poking at the hive with $gme seemed to cause institution involved to close ranks, and try to delegitimize retail traders, even discounting all brokerage's decision to limit trading on the stocks.

A lot of people want their pound of flesh for '08, especially young folk who's families lost everything.
Yeah. I remember a 12 hour trip that I made with a single stop for fuel in the middle. Definitely rough.
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I'm not defending Amazons practices, but from what I can gather it really isn't any different at other retailers. You just don't hear about it because the media has a dislike of Amazon.
Not sure how this is unproven when there are verified screenshots of his behavior available to us. I like the actor's performance and the character but when someone behaves as poorly as that, it needs to have consequences.
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Unfortunately the mtimes on the images are all 1 Dec 2004. Probably the files all got copied without preserving timestamps.

Edit to add: Sorry, firefox misled me by showing the mtime of the html page when I asked for image info. The images are from 3 Jan 2003.
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Owning stocks is a good idea. But if you just buy the S&P every month, you probably don't need a "terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker", which is the program being discussed here. It seems like a symptom of a short-term exuberance that may not end well for most participants.
It is a good thing that Embarcadero is keeping alive this technology to create desktop apps from the early 2000s that was abandoned by MS and other large companies in favor of complex Web-based apps.
Trackball for 20 years now exclusively. I like it. Can imagine it is a little unstable. It's rather high. I like the idea to have the keys separate from the trackball. Drag and drop for example can put some strain on my wrist.
Some people learn not to touch fire by reading a book or learning from the mistakes of others. For others, the only way they learn not to touch fire is by touching it.
I highly doubt anyone is against pension funds making money - even if they are run as a hedge fund.

The political opposition to hedge funds has to do with the fact that they often cater (or are assumed to cater) to the 1%. Who cares if it is 200B? It probably represents the financial interests of tens-of-thousands of teachers.
Amazingly, the chat example still works:

$ ssh chat.shazow.net
* prepperdev joined. (Connected: 35)
[prepperdev] anyone here? :)
Lots of discussion on feed readers but basic support should be built in to browsers really.

Doesn't have to be a full "reader", it can just have a little RSS icon that shows a (1) etc for new items, which shows the links to the posts when clicked. Show up a little marker on the same icon when a site has a feed you can subscribe to. Manage your feeds in the settings somewhere.
The first thing this made me think of is the Astronomy Picture of the Day blog. Their first entry is on June 16, 1995 and they've been updating it ever since:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950616.html
Lurking the wsb threads now it's clear that none of these people have exit strategies, or even strategies at all.

Even if that fabled squeeze was to take place I'm sure many of them would still be left holding the bags because they wouldn't know when to sell. And again, at this point I'm really not sold on that squeeze theory at all, it seems very plausible that it ended last week and now we're just seeing a good old pump-and-dump taking place.

In the end some people are going to be very lucky and some others are going to learn a very expensive lesson about the dangers of gambling.
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They can only take so much of your money before they have to take your guns and memes to continue taking your money.
As far as images that a modern browser can display, JPEG was created in 1992 and GIF in 1987, so there isn't going to be much prior to that. HTTP and Gopher date back to 1991, so the oldest image online that still resides at its original location would be on an FTP server.

Here's one of the oldest I can find, with timestamp 1988-07-06 00:00:

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/anime-manga/UruseiYatsura/Images/mendo.gif

or via http:

http://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures...

This is the oldest one I can find on nic.funet.fi, from 1991:

ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/pics/comp/net/misc/dnesu.gif

They have mirrors of many of the old ftp servers of yore, so if there's an older image out there, that's the place to look:

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/

Most of the other old FTP servers I remember (sunsite.unc.edu, ftp.simtel.net, ftp.uu.net) have long since shut down. The ftp server at ftp.sunet.se is one of the oldest still running. Perhaps someone else knows of an older one?

I tried to find a copy of lena.bmp/lena.tga/lena.pcx since those file formats pre-date GIF, but I came up empty.