skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page almost crashed my MacBook, I had to close the tab as I could feel the system freezing...
I have about the same distribution of RSS clients on my blog as well. Feedly seems to be the largest, with about 10x reported subscribers than their competitors. Newsblur, The Old Reader and Inoreader are all about the same, but far behind. Then there's a sea of various self-hosted readers like the TinyTinyRSS and desktop programs.

Note that these are all self-reported numbers from the user agent string - as far as I can tell, Feedly might be inflating their numbers to give an impression of a large user base and to appear on top of lists like this.
This is excellent and much needed. SAML is indeed a pain.

Now my question is how safe/secure is your XML parsing? Because that’s been a source of vulnerabilities in other libraries.
We'd see a lot of this getting fixed with campaign finance reform and ending the ridiculous super PAC loophole
They often don’t fight back because it’s often a fairly clear-cut matter where the taxpayer is in the wrong and both sides just move to resolution.
Rubin and Clinton passed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Rubin goes on to make many millions of dollars at Citigroup and the Clinton make many millions of dollars in speaking fees for speeches at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other places. These speaking engagements were not at venues for the general public and tickets were not sold for these speeches. These companies paid millions to have the Clintons speak at them.

It may not have been corruption but it certainly has that appearance to me. The Obama administration famously never prosecuted the finance industry. He's now making millions a year. Reagan got millions to visit Japan shortly after leaving office. The leaders of our government are getting rich after being in government. I think it's corruption.

Much of the investigations against the Clintons have been political theater. It's hard to prove the sort of corruption I'm pointing out. It's also in no politician's best interest to do so. They make millions after service so their economic interest is to investigate inane accusations rather than real corruption.
> "You don’t hyper rationalize a public health crisis like you would a line of python code."

when lives are at stake is exactly when we should 'hyper-rationalize' (which doesn't mean don't consider emotion at all). we don't build bridges, go into war, or write aircraft control software thinking we'll wing it.
This is an interesting idea! You could even add weighting into these implicit reviews so that they are less impactful than an explicit three star review, but would still have the effect of pulling towards the median. It’d help to prevent the “five stars is acceptable, not stellar” problem that these rating systems all devolve into.
> The cats at wsb might be self proclaimed retards, but they're
not that stupid.

The sub count increased 8-fold. Any prior culture it had has been overwhelmed.
agree (I wrote the offhand comment above)
i (and some teamates) actually put HDDs on some workstations as SSD just die after 2-3 years of active build on them and with modern HDDs you have practically unlimited storage while you can have only limited number of 400G builds on SSD (the org has psychological barriers to having more than 1-2Tb SSD in a machine) and the SSD start to have perf issues when at 70-80% capacity . With HDD the build time didn't change much - the machines have enough memory for the system to cache a lot (256-512G RAM).
Book 6/season 6 is the end of the "original" Expanse; book 7 takes place decades later. If they want to make books 7-9 into Expanse: TNG they might want to recast the actors. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the novellas made into pseudo-standalone movies.
I don't feel like reactjs adds much here does it? Create animation in threejs and then render via "dumb" react component that ignores lifecycle?
Industry Reacts to Google’s Claim That FLoCs Are 95% as Effective as Cookies
"Google’s announcement on Monday that cohort-based advertising can be nearly as useful as third-party cookies raised a few ad tech eyebrows."
A lot of the comments here are about trust. About how there is a technical solution to mistrust.

I am a bit confused: Trust really matters. It is one of the most important distinguishing features between societies. Societies with higher levels of trust tend to do better than others. SO they taught me when I studied development economics.

Trust is between people, it is a complex fabric. How can some technological solution replace that?

Put on your black hat (temporarily) and analyse every use case of technology to replace trust and think How could I subvert this? Will not take you long.

We all need to be kind to one another, be trustworthy ourselves, and verify where possible, and be confident in each other.

There is no technological replacement for that
It does, but it doesn’t have to. :) https://fanout.io

(Disclosure: founder)
> Marriage is absolutely about feelings or else no one would agree to it. Marriage is not an employment contract, the comparison is fallacious.

The venn diagram overlaps. If you don't want it to overlap, fix the contract instead of invalidating everyone that dares to acknowledge it.
Those big cases where an existing app gets dinged are often justified, but are also extremely rare.

Keeping out shovelware while also allowing rudimentary but useful apps by new developers is a much harder problem.

They aren’t really connected in any particular way.
For me, it's the focus on the lead character Space Jesus Michael Burnham, who has to be in every damn plot point, often whisper-talking, sometimes crying, and we know squat about most of the crew. After three seasons, I don't even know all the bridge crew names, let alone their motivations.

Extremely unlikable is right.
DrRacket is a pretty good IDE but, it doesn't have the flexibility and consistency of Emacs. A lot learning material for Racket features the DrRacket IDE.
This is not what gray market is. The issue is with distributors in low price markets braking their contracts by exporting products to high price markets. This hurts the manufacturer as well as customers in low price markets.
If you think that your chances are higher at roulette, good for you. Other people take other chances.

A few more thoughts:

- Maybe you don’t have to be THAT smart to beat the index.

- Maybe you don’t have to be consistently good or right or lucky, but only once or twice, because money has a nonlinear utility. If you strike it big in your early thirties, you have a different life than if you consistently save up till 65.

- Of course, gambling away your small investment in the beginning might give you less to compound over the years, which results in significant less money at age 65.

- Maybe stock picking helps you better to stay invested during booms and busts.

I have no answers to these questions and I’m in the process to figure things out for myself right now. However, buying puts on DAX and SPX in February 2020 made me a small fortune, which is now a very real house I just bought.

YMMV
https://brave.com/themis/ should be a good pointer about how to get an advertisement network that can avoid fraud and report views accurately while preserving privacy. The same principles could be applied to a permissioned blockchain that could be used by physicians and healthcare providers.
In order to reach a level where youtube would compensate a user you need to reach 1,000 subscribers.

If everyone used rss feeds new creators would never get paid.
I used to, but it was a nutritional deficiency for me. To fix that, I had to decalcify my vascular system and gut, then slowly re-introduce calcium lactate. Now I don't wake up with anxiety or a racing mind. A calcium deficiency (not a lack of consumption, but a lack of pathway uptake) can cause anxiety and tachycardia.
IMO, Storj (storj.io) is the most mature in terms of viability. The project uses blockchain for metering and economics of the ecosystem but uses a more traditional and practical architecture that make's sense for apps and companies to use.

They seem to be taking a more performant and practical(read: usable) hybrid blockchain approach.

I do like what Filecoin is doing albeit Filecoin is more academic/provocative and a few years away from viability, IMO.
Notice that his charitable giving began after he was aware the IRS was after him. There is evidence he committed criminal tax fraud, giving the money back or giving the money to charity doesn't ameliorate that. To make an analogy, suppose you robbed a bank and were about to get caught. If you gave back the money, and made some donations to charity, would that absolve you of criminal liability? This seems like an accurate analogy to me, with the "bank" being the US taxpayer in this case.

Here's another article that highlights how he became a major, high profile philanthropist only after it became clear the feds were on his case:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/09/smith-bro...

The charitable giving seems to clearly be part of an aggressive, multi-pronged, and ultimately successful strategy to avoid prosecution.

This is not evidence "the system is working", this is evidence that you can buy your way out of trouble.
Not really. A websocket is "just" a TCP connection.

If the API provider is using a language+framework that can't easily handle lots of concurrent TCP connections, then yes, that could cause scaling issues, but... that's a choice.

There are plenty of ways to build scalable socket servers, and it's especially feasible in languages like Go and Elixir.
I drafted a long comment but you put it better.
I don't think the author is trying to say "don't try anything new unless you have evidence", but "don't use something without understanding why". Experimenting with a practice to understand it better is a perfectly valid reason. Adopting a practice and expecting it to magically solve your productivity problems, without understanding why and whether the tradeoffs are appropriate, is not a valid reason...that's cargo culting.

Another way to look at it is...what are your expectations? If you are using something with the expectation that it'll magically solve your problems, and you don't really know why...you're cargo culting. If you're using something and suspecting that it'll solve your problems, and you expect to watch it and gather feedback and evidence on whether it's actually helping or not, and potentially axe it in the future if it's not working out...that's not cargo culting at all, but effective process.
This is my experience as well. Many put their whole stimulus in it, and I can’t escape the idea that Wall Street knew all this would happen and they just found a way to get a large chunk of that other stimulus money that went to the people and not to corporations. An artificial movement that they may have created themselves that had an ethos of “bankrupting Wall Street”. Lol. A taxpayer funded pump and dump of epic proportions enabled by new tech sockpuppeting abilities and control. Before Cambridge Analytica I would say take your tinfoil hat off, but now I don’t know anymore. I consider nothing real online and go from there.
Many people were prudent blue-chip investors whose retirement was ruined by the housing crisis. There doesn't seem to be any 'smart money', just 'big money'.
Nokia Networks used to be called Nokia Siemens Networks - it was a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens before Nokia bought out Siemens in 2013. They still have lots of employees in Germany.

Nokia Networks recently announced Open RAN allegiance/support.

I guess this is about forcing Ericsson to do the same for some added competition. If they don't, who cares, lots of money will still flow back into the german economy.

> The German draft proposal includes over €300 million of investment in Open RAN technology,

This is sort of a (possibly) legal way for the german government to subsidize the company formerly known as Nokia Siemens Networks.
It's a really interesting idea and well executed debate format.

Along a similar vein for people interested in getting different viewpoints, please also take a look at http://improvethenews.org and the work of Jonathan Haidt.
Google’s new 250Tbit/s subsea cable between the U.S. and Europe is now online
> I kinda wonder if they shouldn't charge, say $100 to list an app on the App Store and $50-$100 per update too. It's going to cut down on scam apps and pay for enforcement. Sadly it would cut down on legit apps too. But it might be worth it overall.

I don't think fees like this are a good idea. There is a lot of interesting/ free software out there which would be discouraged. Maybe just withholding payment on apps for the first 30 days until reviews start coming in and giving users better tools for reporting scam apps.

I do however think reviewers should be given a more thorough check-list on apps which charge more than $20 or $10/ month. An app which suddenly gets a bunch of 1 star reviews should be a red flag and trigger a review as well.
"I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. It takes more work to add site to a reader, and more effort to even use one I suppose"

I know for me, I didn't know what RSS truly was until like.. last year? I remember seeing the icon and all that on various sites growing up but I never clicked them as I didn't know it was a straight feed of content.

Whereas last year I read some article or blog about it dying and I decided to look it up. Now it's the only way I read or watch any content becuase it's exactly what I want: straight content with no bs.
You are giving too much credit to Epic for this. Epic is just riding on the general sentiment that has been building in the developer community for a while now that 30% is too much.
Before it was February 9 it was last Friday... ;)

> Taking into account that shorting costs money, people can hold longer than shorts. And buying them would make the available pool to buy back much smaller.

The volume being traded has been incredibly high, the available pool to buy hasn't been small. More than the total number of outstanding shares has traded per day over the last 10 days. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/key-statistics

The short interest likely isn't constant, either. Some people probably got out and took a bath on old positions, and others got in with new ones when it was super high. Anyone who started shorting at 300 or 400 is feeling pretty good.
Assuming this person is legit (which is a huge assumption given it’s a stranger on Twitter), they appear to have sunk 90% of their worth into AMC: https://twitter.com/23michaeljam/status/1356785696959209472?...
do you really live your whole life as if no one does anything wrong unless a) there is a specific law against it and b) they are found guilty in court? most businesses do not operate this way, nor did they before #metoo.

I ask this specific question because some of what is alleged in that thread is not actually illegal, it's just a shitty way to treat women. do you think I should get to keep my job if actual customers repeatedly complain that I treated them as disposable pieces of meat?
Worked out well enough for Twin Peaks; just have to hope not too many of the cast member die an untimely death heh.
The problem is their stores are too small for anything other than retail. Otherwise they could pivot to selling snacks and becoming a local hangout like a Starbucks for gamers.
It doesn't even have to be big sums. Just someone who only had say $2,000 trying to make a quick play at the peak but ended up with less than $2,000 after all is settled. That'll turn some away from stocks for a good while.
Selective cargo culting is great.

I recall talking to someone who was very very happy to brag that his company was doing "everything just like Google" and following the exact same practices he read the company did on various engineering blogs.

I asked him what was the compensation like and how he managed to get kids from Stanford to work at his company instead of their startups and he just gave me a blank stare. Said something about how they were not in Silicon Valley and paid median salaries and that he had "no trouble finding Google caliber talent in the local market." and that "it's not really the local market's customs to give stocks to coders".
I think you're leaving out enforcement costs.

If you're little and scamming a few $k here and there, the ROI (Return on Investigation) for the IRS to go after you is tiny. It's probably not worth assigning an investigator.

If you're HUGE and scamming billions, the ROI is there but you also have the capabilities to defend yourself, obfuscate things, etc so it's unlikely they can destroy you. Therefore, it's not one investigator but a team with forensic accountants, potentially informants, etc.

For everyone else, the danger is in the middle. Where you have enough that you can lose a life-destroying amount but you don't have the means to protect yourself. That is a great target for investigators.

In short, as you gain more, be careful and have a good accountant who follows the rules to the best of their ability.. until you can make the rules.

Oh crap.
> There is ample evidence that individual investors can and do generate abnormal returns.

I actually agree with this. But didn't want to put it in, because so many people hear this qualification and just assume it means they can be the next /u/deepfuckingvalue.

To put it in the larger framework, I would say individuals can win in opportunities that are too awkward for institutions. Like patiently holding beaten down value stocks. But there's two caveats. One, is that most times this style of investing is painful, with long periods of underperformance. Two is that the outperformance is reasonably capped. Maybe an extra two or three percent a year. It's not going to catapult you to /u/deepfuckingvalue levels. For large enough opportunities, the institutions will swallow the awkwardness. That only leaves small rewards for a lot of pain.

Thanks. I do appreciate you bringing this point up.
I do not think this is the reason Google+ failed miserably. It’s been rehashed enough that I won’t list my top picks :)
I'm necessarily saying it's "Trumpers", just that lots of the rhetoric, especially stuff that gets to the front page of r/all, seems to be the kind of all-caps, hyper-reductionist, chest-beating "SO MUCH WINNING" kind of rhetoric we saw in 2016. I do think this is bipartisan, in that there's no one side of the political spectrum that's flooding in here, but I think we're seeing the kind of hype devices that were used to (apparently) great effect in 2016.
> Were I to play blackjack with the house being ... the Sackler family, I'd certainly get a high out of it and I'd certainly bet more.

You playing at a gambling game with negative expected value against people you hate and you want to give them MORE money? I'm sure they'd love that. Any casino prefers irrational customers over the ones that can do math. (The ones that can do math are still welcome, just not as appreciated)
It should be taken into consideration that it's much harder to prove that the billionaire actually cheated vs. a regular Joe, who may simply have lied on his taxes. The IRS, in the vein of all prosecutors, will not prosecute unless they can make a strong enough case to make a conviction highly probable.
I pay for Feedly not because I'm interested in any of the Pro features, but because Google Reader taught me that you should pay for things you like so they will stick around.
> Blockchain has earned a bad name because of sales people trying to sell it for something it can't do.

> Sales people in this case meaning the entire community.

Not the Bitcoin community, but certainly most of the others. The Bitcoin community has been pretty clear about Bitcoin's use case since the beginning - inflation-proof digital money - and as long as it remains constrained to that scope then that's actually something it can do.

Bitcoin's programmability was deliberately limited to prevent overloading the network and compromising or diluting its core use case. That also prevented the community from advertising it as a general purpose computing platform and panacea for all the world's ills. That's something all the other blockchain communities have been doing, not Bitcoin's.
probably most of the slaves.
Sony sold 4.5M Playstation 5 consoles last year
> i actually put HDDs on some workstations as SSD just die after 2-3 years of active build on them

That sounds very low for modern SSDs, even consumer-grade. Have you tried different vendors?
Clever. Will try that!
Thanks so much! We're super confident in the 6 IDPs we've built first class support for. But we also know that there are sure to be edge cases we haven't totally caught, we're still a bit early. But at least we can catch those across our customer base, as opposed to you finding them ll in your one-off SAML integration.

We have to really manually test real IDPs, and we do whenever we release new software, but we also run e2e cypress tests against a Mock IDP we built, so SP -> Osso -> Mock IDP -> Osso -> SP, you can see these in our Buildkite CI - https://buildkite.com/enterpriseoss/osso
The Graphical Linear Algebra[0] series is a fantastic introduction to a really fascinating application of category theory, representing vectors & matrices as flow diagrams (ie. monoidal categories) and deriving useful properties from those.

The style is super friendly and builds up intuition slowly, while being completely rigorous. For a great example, check out the "Crema di Mascarpone"[1] chapter which introduces all the tools for writing rigorous mathematical proofs using flow diagrams.

[0]: https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/

[1]: https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/05/06/crema-di-masca...
The long tail of the SolarWinds breach
Just to clarify from the article - the Ontario Pension Fund was invested and cashed out stock in a commercial real estate company called Macerich that was getting associated with Gamestop on /r/wsb, not Gamestop itself.
So much truth here.
Some of the scam apps described in the article are bringing in 200-300K a year…
Wasn't Merkel's phone tapped by the NSA?
I'm doing some work for a company that develops apps on behalf of clients. There are dozens and likely soon, hundreds of apps that sometimes all need to be updated at once. The process is automated using Fastlane but it still takes significant time per app, esp. if new screenshots are needed. We've got this running on a MacStadium-hosted Mac mini. Seems like a perfect use case. Scaleway is a little cheaper but it looks like they don't have any M1s available currently.
Ooch. In my experience talking to professional reviewers, they will generally say that genres are marketing, not objective categories.

Ilona Andrews's books are marketed to romance (three series) and to urban fantasy (one series). Two of the romance-marketed series could get new covers and be sold as SF. The urban fantasy novels could get romance covers put on and be sold that way.

Repeat ad infinitum with literary SF, magic realism, respun fairy tales, space opera, epic fantasy, issekai, portal fantasies, hard SF, character-driven gay romance post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action fantasy (that was a very good one)...

I read 203 books in 2019. I assure you that the marketing categories are not helpful in my basic quest, which is to determine if the book is good. Nothing short of starting to read the book can do that.