skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump-supporters think the election was a scam and barged into the capitol. WSBers think the stock market is a scam and bought GME. Same thing, different day.

Isn't it? Look at what they've been doing lately to make the GME stocks go down. The small guy always loses.
my Beyerdynamics comes with ability to switch cables and they also sell components for repair. So designed to be fixed
Author here.

>so he writes an article about people being assholes about him not writing free extra stuff

I did write that extra free stuff, and I'm arguing that some people are being assholes because they perpetuate the lie that I didn't do the free work, and because feature "foo" doesn't work, project bar must be bad. But feature "foo" does work, and using that falsehood to say project "bar" is bad is a dick move. This is the "horseshit" that's pissing me off.

The Nvidia issue is different: Nvidia goes out of their way to prevent their hardware from being used for this purpose. For example, they use signed firmwares that we simply cannot use for implementing the features we need, relying on cryptography to lock us out of their platform unless we use their driver. Then that driver doesn't support what we need. Nvidia deliberately prevents us from putting in the effort. They have created an artificial monpoloy on the required labor, then refuse to do it.
We can start with the contention that that isn't true. Even for a new user, the change is going to bring with it a bunch of new bugs because the new code is new, and invalidate all of the solutions to problems that people can search for on the internet until the new thing is as old as the old thing (at which point somebody tries to replace it again).

Also, "users" are "people" and the average adult lifespan (18-78) is around 60 years. That implies that the time for the "new users" to become half of the user base is around 30 years, so what does that say about how often it makes sense to do this?

But suppose you're right. Then the solution is competition. Don't take away the old thing, provide both. If the new users want to use the new thing and the old users want to use the old thing, great.

And then if the new users still want to use the old thing you've got a pretty good red flag that you messed it up.
Thanks for sharing it. We follow quite the same best practices both for our Dallas and Ukrainian offices. And yes, we are about the value as well. But usually, companies outsource either to cut their costs or to reach talent that is not available locally. That was the reason why we outsourced.
The main issues for me were HiDPI support and screen tearing (when not running a compositor)
Really cool. I think using standard JS or TS with a standard UI framework (like Vue, React, Svelte, etc.) would have attracted more contributors than Clojure.

But otherwise , I'm really looking forward that project !
Hi, thank you!

> I'm willing to forgo cloud backups and some usability to have default encryption for all my conversations, which I think is something Signal provides.

Indeed, it does.

> None of these apps are perfect, it comes down to what combination of trade-offs works best for you.

That is exactly the take-home message :)

Anyway, I mentioned that Telegram does not support e2ee for group chats here:

> WhatsApp nowadays has end-to-end encryption enabled by default for all chats, while Telegram has not enabled it by default and does not support it on group chats.

Note however that group chats are even more difficult to handle securely, because in theory you are supposed to verify the identity of every participant.
The “Atmanirbharta” of open source software
Check CHERI architecture, it is also being supported by ARM and Microsoft.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Stripe fully supports Visa transactions in India.

And strange—I'm sorry you never got a solution. Would you mind forwarding one of those support emails to me at edwin@stripe.com and I can see what happened?
If you assume that half the posts on WSB are true, and then assume the usual 100:1 poster:lurker ratio, that’s thousands of retail traders who’ve dumped student loans, college funds, retirement, life savings, etc. into the stock. Obviously this is not a precise or highly accurate estimate, but it is an estimate.
Can anyone remind me what is Wes Snow’s job title?
For some that seems too troublesome. Shrinkwrapped convenience it is! Following your argument to the end, all distributions are superficial, since there is http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and anything more than customised recipes in some wiki are just a useless waste of effort ;->

edit: See also 'A Generation Lost in the Bazaar' by Poul-Henning Kamp https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
What a great bundle of projects. Kudos.
> I'd love to see the result of a concerted ground-up creation of a hardware and software system that starts from scratch and leaves unresolvable legacy considerations to virtual machines or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
That's funny, because for me, it's exactly the opposite. I use Gnome on Wayland/Mutter and it works great - I've never had a linux desktop that had such great UI rendering. Gnome on X doesn't work and is buggy - it's riddled with graphical glitches that other platforms (even smartphones and tablets) don't suffer from. How can that be considered to "work"?

But my requirements are different from yours.
>Robinhood is now allowing 100 share purchases. GME continues to suck air.

This doesn't take from the fact that Robinhood restrictions had a major impact, which is what I said.

I never said this stock would be indefinitely high, or that it would go to the moon, or anything like that. The wave would crash eventually after the hype was over.

Still, Robinhood restrictions removed a massive amount of demand from the market, and that has consequences - namely on stock price, momentum of the market, hype, everything.

The market went sideways when Elon Musk smoked a joint on a popular podcast, so how come the most popular app for retail investors imposing demand restrictions, to buy a stock bound to a popular movement, wouldn't have any impact on it?

>And last weeks trading reports showed retail investors were net sellers of GME after Monday.

Like I said, the supply with restricted demand drove prices down - people were selling, and after restrictions they could only sell. Some were planned, some were panic, some were automatic.
I've had my HD 598s since 2012 or 2013 I believe. There's small cracks near the headband adjustment (common issue I believe) but they're still great. Of course, I did have to change out the muffs once.

I imagine I won't be replacing them because they break, but rather because I want to get something better. However, the 598s sound pretty great to my ear so there's not really a huge incentive for me to get anything new.
There's not a single "deadline", each short seller has their own contract with their own terms and conditions.

So since it's a rotating cast of characters, it is entirely possible that the very early short position holders have all taken their lumps, and the current short sellers sold their borrowed shares for $100's of dollars each, and now have the ability to hold on for quite some time.
I'm tired of this pro-Wayland horseshit

You have been trying to reinvent the wheel for a decade and splitting the whole community on petty shit like this, halving development effort on an already non-popular platform, and yet you wonder why people are angry. Instead of evolving X11 and deprecating old features to drop tech debt over time, you went and created your snowflake project and paraded over how much more secure your project is when it doesn't have features to this day, features which are working perfectly on X11. This blog post is the epitome of the whole wayland development group's selfishness. You did this thing for yourselves, for your own comfort and feel-good bullshit, not for the whole community. The Linux ecosystem has suffered too much for no good reason, to the detriment of user experience and market share.
Most of KDE doesn't get that either and they have support for wayland.

I can excuse XFCE for being slow. However that is very different from the claim that because XFCE is a bit slow that Wayland is in general bad.
Pick a Method and Stick with It
After a while yes, what caused the initial issue was their initial press release that made no mention of not having enough money to cover transactions for GME/AMC. They said it was to "protect their users", which is what triggered the widespread outrage.
Yes you can see horror stories in the UK press of well of people (100's of k) putting all their life savings into a single boiler room stock scam.
The more I hear about this game the more dumbfounded and kinda curious I am.
I find good Wikipedia articles with competent copy-editing, pure fact and no nonsense to be a good read - at least much more so that many pseudo-intellectually-sounding articles from a few outlets that get posted on HN regularly.
RH does their own custody & clearing, so the DTCC was telling them directly what type of collateral they needed to post. Companies like Revolut outsource this function to DriveWealth, which coincidentally are the backend for many trading-focused fintechs. So there is 1 level of indirection.

On the other hand - not too clear why everyone is claiming some massive conspiracy. There are rules around liquidity and collateral and they are directly tied to volatility of a stock.
The default Garuda GRUB options disable all CPU/GPU level security patches against Meltdown, Spectre etc. by running with "mitigations=off". That is playing with fire for anything operating on data you'd consider non-public, imo.
You know pneumonia is not a disease but a symptom, an inflamation of the lungs, right? And that covid causes pneumonia, right?
> You might find that your attitude is the problem, and not the industry itself. If you’re so cynical as to compare writing code for a living to human trafficking and sex work, which are very real problems that you have carelessly and insensitively used as a metaphor, maybe you should find a new gig.

He's extending on a comparison by Dave Chappelle, who wasn't actually talking about sex work itself, but rather the kinds of manipulation exploitative people use to push others past their limits in order to profit from them more. Someone linked it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997841.

I think the OP article has issues, but not the one you're complaining about.
Those problems have crept up into new hardware, and depending on the product, "old" may be more than a decade, because users do not need new hardware and increasing numbers of them know that.

Memory performance is not too big of a deal, IMHO given the last decade of hardware, but stability is.

Lost mental state is generally as painful as data is. People hate it viscerally.

I have seen 4 figure software get replaced by 5 figure software over that alone. 5 figure stuff runs for weeks to months at a time. 4 figure can crash daily or more often.

Stability was a primary selling point for me, and I used to maintain a session for that purpose. "My session has been active for months and 10's of projects, lets open your sample data and walk through it...." Did that on a reasonable, but not great Lenovo. Hibernate, sleep, hibernate, sleep...

Win 7 too, lol.

I came from IRIX. I would go the better part of a year, apps running, system up, all ready to go. Spoiled. Win 2k was good, Win 7 matched it, and Win 10 is solid, except for forced updates.

I would never, ever devalue stability. People who are focused, task intensive, live it, love it, will argue they need and are worth it.

Not sure they are wrong.
DTCC [1] is increasing collateral requirements for these shares. Last week they raised them by over $9 billion, which is why Robinhood stopped the trading.
So the question is...who at DTCC made the decision to raise the collateral requirements, and why? Was it discretionary, or was there a long-standing policy spelling out exactly when they raise collateral requirements? If I were a hedge manager having my career destroyed in a matter of minutes by a bunch of amateurs, I'd pressure someone with the power to cause the halt of trading across the market - not just a single brokerage.

So while it is not a smoking gun of any wrongdoing, if wrongdoing has occurred, it occurred between a hedge fund and DTCC.

[1] https://www.dtcc.com/
21 years at Microsoft led me to have great disdain for "Software Architects".

5 years at Amazon led me to fall in love with the concept of a community of Principal Engineers. The Amazon Principle Engineering tenets are amazeballs.

Exemplary Practitioner - Principal Engineers are hands-on and lead by example. We deliver artifacts that set the standard for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations. Only by being close to the details can we earn the respect needed to be effective technical leaders.

Technically Fearless - Our company's startup culture does not admit the luxury of conservatism. Principal Engineers tackle intrinsically hard problems, venturing beyond comfortable approaches when necessary. We acquire expertise as needed, pioneer new spaces, and inspire others as to what’s possible.

Balanced and Pragmatic - Principal Engineers are pragmatic problem solvers. We apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests. We simplify processes and technologies while advocating a long-term view.

Illuminate and Clarify - Principal Engineers bring clarity to complexity and demonstrate smart ways to simplify. We frame each problem in its customer and business context and boil it down to its essence. We probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. We accelerate progress by driving crisp and timely decisions.

Flexible in Approach - Principal Engineers adapt our approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product. We solicit differing views and are willing to change our minds as we learn more. We recognize there are often many viable solutions, and that sometimes the best solution is to solve a different problem, or to not solve the problem at all.

Respect What Came Before - Principal Engineers are grateful to our predecessors. We appreciate the value of working systems and the lessons they embody. We understand that many problems are not essentially new.

Learn, Educate, and Advocate - Principal Engineers are constantly learning. We seek technical knowledge and educate the entire organization about trends, technologies, and approaches. We combine vision and discretion to drive fruitful and even game-changing technology choices.

Have Resounding Impact - “Deliver Results” is a low bar for a Principal Engineer. Without seeking the spotlight, Principal Engineers make a lasting impact that echoes through the technology, the product, and the company. We amplify our impact by aligning teams toward coherent architectural strategies.
But none of that code runs on Mac alone. Even if they're developing on a Max their python or Julia or whatever code that they want to run on the cloud will run on Linux. The only real use case out there is building/testing iOS/Mac applications. The only other one I can think of is a Mac only video editing or animation software that you'd prefer to render somewhere besides your laptop.
con•spir•a•cy [noun] - A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

Going by the definition, you're right. Not a conspiracy since they aren't hiding it, they're brazen.
Thank you for your comments. We shared only own our experience so talked about countries where we outsourced our software development. To date, we have two offices - in Dallas and Ukraine. For years, we worked remotely so we have in place all systems and processed. We are also a product company so we decided to set up our own office. But for a few years, we used a dedicated team model
3 off the top of my 40 year old head:

Everyday you wake up healthy is a gift.

Time in the market beats timing the market.

Exercise regularly, eat well.
it doesnt have flatpak..... :-(
I'm sure the "business event" was a renewal/renegotiation of the contract
EC2 isn't enterprise hardware, it's all commodity and, more lately, custom-designed silicon. It certainly fails, and Amazon's own recommendations call for redundancy using things like EC2 auto-scaling groups and RDS multi-AZ.

EC2 has a slight leg up because EBS stores data redundantly, so a single disk failure won't knock out your data. But failure is still possible, and a durable storage strategy should involve backups.
> I wonder if Covid will revise those trends.

I imagine COVID may possibly have an impact on our megacities trend (even though it had many dying signals already), but I don't believe it may push people into rural areas. Rural life isn't for everybody.
Envy = Desire, I'm sure you'll do similar side-projects soon!
People complain about mixed DPI all the time on macOS and Windows too. It works better, but it still doesn't just work. If you want things to just work, you'll have less fiddling to do if you get similar DPI monitors.
Because the user they were hostile to were the users that had been until then the majority of Gnome's users. It may be a good business move to ditch your existing userbase in favour of a potential larger one but the userbase you've moved on from have no obligation to be happy about that
Plato's Cave
It's true and false. I had some Grado S60s handed down from my dad. While this would seem to support the original argument, he kept them in a box for about 20 years and I broke them after 6 months by tripping over the cord. As far as I can tell, most consumer goods just don't last that long (~10-ish years).
If someone hasn't stayed long enough to trigger GA, is it really a user? :)

Another option: only delay the scripts the first time user has landed on your page

I think the single script embed is a good path (much better than asking people to change DNS, remove scripts or such). Maybe you can optimize other areas using JS (like images).
The search results are impressive!
> But they're out now and the story is over

some say they are, some say they aren't. Is this in fact true?

> WSB doesn't hold the full capitalization of GME

does anybody know how much does wsb hold approximately? very rough number would still be interesting to know.
Agreed, my workflow is a workspace with firefox with jira gitlab etc. open. Then a few with terminals and vscode open, several of those are often vscode running on remote machines via x forwarding. Then I develop on one box that is a couple vpn hops away and its too slow for forwarding. I hate it though because I have to switch to that workspace, fullscreen the window, and then when I'm done, esc the vnc and switch to another workspace. If there is a wayland way to have just firefox or just vscode running remotely that would solve my concern.
> haven't really figured out what to do with it

pretty much the same thing one does with any other exotic hardware- install a niche unix variant, then proceed to stare at 'top' and 'show registers' output in the debugger while fantasizing about how cool it is and fixing programs that don't build on it yet :)
It's like a real life PVP zone.
My only source is the logically conclusion when we don't have the data how the vaccine will affect children yet we do have data on how many children are suffering serious side effects from the virus.
If only there was some technology to prove settlement occurred, an eansy tiny bit faster than 2 business days, so that brokers don't have to come up with their own additional capital to clear other people's trades.
Rule of thumb: do not listen to the vocal minority, code for all the satisfied and silent customers.

Edit: unless there is a majority of unsatisfied customers (:
There are numerous other graphical environments that Linux runs on where screenshots don't make sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_embedded_systems

For debugging purposes, the display server can just dump the screen to a file or a serial port itself. The only reason you would need this in the protocol is so other arbitrary applications could capture the screen.
It’s fashionable to diss at the AirPods these days. They serve a specific purpose - on the go inconspicuous listening. I have a pair of Bose headphones (wireless) for about 5 years now. My old model with a family member is about 10 years old now. I swear by the Bose. All I had to change are the cups. But i use my AirPods Pro more often because I don’t want to wear a giant pair of headphones when I’m walking my dog. When I’m at my desk I wear my Bose.

Technology can be made to serve our needs.
No, its not a programming problem, its a herding problem. That person will have to have the ability to get all 3 implementations to agree to read and write compositing configuration the same way, so users don't have to suffer.
Can someone explain to me how the volume of GME compares to the FAANG stocks? How can a few retail investors create such an impact that clearing houses are hitting limits compared to the daily amount of value traded on the top 100 caps.

I mean we have the SEC watching over everything so I am sure there is nothing shady going on here. /s

Seriously:
Can someone explain as I would like to understand it?

5-day volume AAPL 121,284,172 * 135$

5-day volume GME 58,017,305 * 119$

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/AAPL/technical-analys...

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/GME/technical-analysi...
Have you tried any of the containerized distros? I haven't tried Nix but want to.

Just wondering if you can compare/contrast NixOS with something like Fedora Silverblue or Fedora CoreOS.
I'm not following, why would a 500 be ironic from site with a domain that belongs to a bunch of islands in the Indian Ocean that the Brits seem to think they own.
Theists are the ones claiming an explanation for the nature of existence - the burden of proof is on them. “Belief” is not a valid argument when putting forward a theory. I might “believe” we are living in a simulation, but it doesn’t make it any more true than a belief in a magical all knowing space unicorn that rockets through the universe propelled by rainbows while it creates life or any other as of yet non provable nonsense
>They have the huge plug

That's pretty standard even in newer Sennheisers. I think HD 650 and above you get the big plug. Some might come with two cables, one with a standard plug and one with the bigger.
Probably not, although caching in memory is still faster than disk access. More commonly sites that fail under load are dynamically building pages, hitting DB, etc. though.
I hear you! The thing is that sometimes (only sometimes) you do need to use the best technology for a project. In this case, Penpot's very own nature demands technology that is super-performant manipulating zillions of vectors and mathematical objects. I'm not saying you couldn't do this with standard JS or TS but to reach this status in 1 year we needed to go for this route. Anyway, we have plans for a more straightforward plugin contribution architecture so that shouldn't be a problem, but the "core core", yeah, it was our choice, same with SVG, a tough choice but it was worth the challenge. Thanks!!!
There were rules against such things on the English Wikipedia (and other large Wikimedia projects), but not necessarily the smaller projects. The new rules apply across all Wikimedia projects.