skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will you argue USSR was a democracy?

Contemporary Russia has far more of the form of an electoral democracy than the USSR had. 25% of the Duma is controlled by opposition parties. How much of the Supreme Soviet was controlled by opposition parties?

If we distinguish form from substance, contemporary Russia has a lot of the form, but the substance is impaired. By contrast, the Soviet Union was lacking in both.

> We don’t quite know that.

The Nov 2020 Levada poll gave him a 65% approval rating – https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ – that seems to support what I said

> That already happened in 2011 and in all the later ones

Looking at that article about the 2011 election, United Russia was polling in the 50s to 60s, and won about 49% of the vote, suggesting they underperformed their polls. There may well have been some fraud, but unless the opinion polls are rigged too (which might be true, but where is the evidence?), it doesn't look like any fraud actually changed the outcome.

> Apparently, land grab of Crimea boosted his popularity by a lot back in 2014

Which seems to support what I said earlier, about him being "genuinely popular with a majority of Russians"
30 years ago (1988), Maldives was predicted to be underwater by now. These kind of extreme "predictions" which don't pan out makes regular folks doubt the science. There need to be percentages of the event actually happening assigned against any forecast.
Yup, Quake had something similar that allowed players to have fancy looking names in multiplayer games.
Phases of the moon could be playing with your bedtime without you knowing it
"declined" is a major understatement. Too many practices at Amazon is now decisively anti-customer:

- Fake reviews have been happening for years but almost no progress from Amazon

- Huge number of fake products and/or misleading specs

- Sponsored products trumps organic results every time

- Sellers use whatever brand they wish instead of their real names giving appearance that they are "official" vendors of that brand
>All in preparation for a MacBook Touch?

I doubt it, the spacing isn't enough to accommodate touch and they have constantly said they don't want to go down that road. They just need to look at the mess Microsoft created to see it isn't a good idea.

I think it's far more likely that they wanted the same design language across platforms.
Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact
A/B tests work only for features you've built. You don't get insight into what customers say they want, you only can observe if they like what you built or not.

There is a use case for both.
The Last Squeeze: Digital Colonization as Manifest Destiny 2.0
2.2 mil is nothing - that's less than fifteen hundred $1.6K Covid-19 checks.

Like I said in previous comments, no one complains about the Federal gov adding 200 5nm fabs worth of budget deficit every year, and burning it on nothing but consumption.
Stop expanding.

They don't have losses because it costs them 1 dollar to operate a VM that they sell for 70 cents.

They have losses because they are paying for construction of datacenters that are to be utilized in the future.
oh yeah? have you ever returned products on other online stores?
Yes it’s physically different. You could use QLC memory as if it were TLC (just ignore a bit), but you’d be reducing your storage capacity and (to the best of my knowledge) not gain any speed. You can’t do it the other way around- you can’t use TLC as if it were QLC, you can’t make an extra bit appear that the memory controller can’t read and the memory cells weren’t designed for. Basically, if the hardware was only designed to store and read three bits of precision, you aren’t going to reliably get four bits out of it. The engineers wouldn’t have wasted that much margin.

I don’t think you would intentionally ever use QLC as if it were TLC. Leaving it in QLC mode means you’re writing half the number of cells for whatever data you’re storing, which is going to be the best way to maximize drive lifespan.
I've (edited and) compiled VTTEST to run under Windows. The latest iteration of the Command Prompt does surprisingly well in the tests. Of course the new Windows Terminal does well too.
There's a term called the UK "landbridge" [0] where about 150,000 lorries a year on its way from mainland EU to Ireland would go through the UK to the shortest ferry distance to Dublin.

It looks like with Brexit, the paperwork and associated costs have reached a point where firms are seeing value in just ferrying around the UK.

[0] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/trade-u...
QuestDB 5.0.6 released with improvements for PostgreSQL wire protocol
Because they "hacked" their way around regulations?
I've been doing this so long that it's sometimes what I type on the terminal when I'm just thinking about something else completely, planning my next piece of work or whatever. Like an idle or holding pattern.
Nice tool!
The ETH-BTC pair is limited by the 2 decimals display, for instance, is this configurable somewhere?
It would also be great for crypto traders to source all trading pairs available on coingecko.com, not just the few available on yahoo finance :)
I think, you're right.

I'd even go as far as saying management roles aren't needed at all below the C-level.

The problem is that many companies already moved their engineers and designers away from the customer, and I think this model only works with small autonomous teams that talk direktly with customers.

Most engineers don't even want to talk with customers, they just want to solve what they think is the most important technical problem and be done with it.
Not sure what you mean by this. It is very easy for one side to pack their bags and leave, if they "don't want it".
I don't think you'd notice a 1.2 inch change in anything over 20 years. Especially something like the ocean, with tides and waves. Source for .06 inches per year: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
wouldn't it be common to rip right next to stiffer the joints if they where the hardest part too?
Improving the C65 ROMs
'Got to work on that landing': SpaceX rocket in fiery crash, again
I don't agree that PO is a necessarily "bullshit job", because "the customer" is often a complex group with demands that need to be unified and prioritized. So there needs to be a standin for the that group in the dev team - that's the PO. As dev, I much rather have that be one person than a "comittee" of all the different customer aspects.
If I read the article correctly, it would seem its not needed.
Just for context, Covid-19 deaths per 1 million (yesterday):

Florida: 1249

New York: 2265
New Jersey: 2430
California: 1058

USA: 1378

UK: 1549
Italy: 1479
Spain: 1279
France: 1182
Sweden: 1166
Netherlands: 822
Germany: 707
Denmark: 372
Norway: 104
Japan: 46
Singapore: 5

Florida could have done worse, but really has not done particular well WRT deaths per capita. In the US, Florida is ranked #26 worst (so somewhere in the middle, I guess).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I had a recent experience on a server thst seemed a fun community, until an admin took a dislike to something I said and punted me.

It was a brusque move, but, in retrospect, who needs that sort of mess?
Ask HN: I am banned from GitHub and need to apply for jobs, what now?
I have no idea why I got the ban, but I got banned and with that I lost a venue to display my code to potential employers.

Also contacted support about it, but no response so far...

The thing is I need to apply for jobs now. So it won't help my case as an entry level applicant stating that I know some C, C++, Python and JavaScript w/o any proof.

I don't know, I can offer my employer to send my works as ZIP files, but this might be akin to shooting myself in the foot. Why? B/c I got the impression that you are expected to show your projects using GitHub.
I wish the phrase "nobody cares about your sh*tty GitHub" would hold true, but I had employers looking over my past projects.

When you are dependent on a platform, and you get barred from that platform, you pretty much loose an opportunity to improve your life - like finding a job.

But these kinds of denials of services seem to happen to people in other instances too (Gmail/Google). At least I saw that somewhere on HN...

Anyway, what now?
This is easily avoided by not writing option contracts. If you're new to options and are ready to start exploring with real money, you should only be buying them and then selling them, not writing new ones.

The exact same thing can be said for shorting stocks and, to a lesser extent, buying stocks on margin. I'm happy to say after getting margin-called in 2008, I haven't been since! Writing options and shorting makes you way more likely to expose the rest of your portfolio to that risk.
Great overview of the biotech behind these COVID-19 nanobodies by Vincent Racaniello [1]:

> Human monoclonal antibodies that block infection with SARS-CoV-2 are being used to treat COVID-19 patients, but an alternative, antibodies produced in camelids (alpacas and llamas) might have advantages. Camelid monoclonal antibodies can be more cheaply produced in mass quantities in bacteria, and protein engineering can be quickly used to produce a better therapeutic product.

Nanobodies are small and stable enough to be delivered as a nasal spray unlike the current mabs (Regeneron and Eli Lilly) that are delivered intravenously.

The paper An ultrapotent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike [2] was discussed in the podcast TWiV 708: Alpaca llama full of nanobodies [3] on Jan 7th.

Unfortunately this spray is too late to impact the course of the current pandemic but it gives hope for the future.

[1] https://www.virology.ws/2021/01/14/camelids-for-covid/

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6523/1473

[3] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-708/
when it says: Works with almost any program - what programs is it not working with, and are they OS specific? From what I know of text expansion on Windows I would expect every program on Windows works and it is Mac and Linux that gives the problems?
I agreed with everything you said, except this:

>>I think its well understood among people who are familiar with unions that increasing labor costs results in acceleration of an automation process that is already in progress.

Increased labor costs slow the rate at which the economy automates.

The rate of automation is almost indistinguishable from the rate of economic growth. Almost all economic growth comes from the labor-cost savings, and those in turn come from automation and trade-derived specialization.

When one of the major inputs to production, like labor, is subject to arbitrary government imposed price floors, it leads to economic deadweight losses that reduce economic output, and in turn reduce the volume of economic resources available to invest in new capital that automates production.

Automation increases per capita production, and with it, wages.
How to Use the Rule of Thirds in Content Creation
Intel Processor Names, Numbers and Generation List
Microsoft Supports Australian Government Proposal Addressing Digital Platforms
What companies would benefit from native app development vs. crossplatform apps?
1st post.
This seems very nice and I'll definitely give it a shot. If you're looking for something simple, try ticker.sh[1].

[1] https://github.com/pstadler/ticker.sh
Fluxtion embeddable Java complex event processor
That's true for every commercial transaction including every labor market transaction, and it's the reason why voluntary transactions are positive sum to both parties (ignoring the negative externalities to uninvolved third parties, and edge cases like a diminished ability to make an informed decision such as with a gambling addiction)

You paid $1000 for an iPhone because you thought the subjective value that it brings you is worth $1500. If Apple was asking you for $1501, you wouldn't make the purchase.

Google hired you as a dev for $300k because they think you bring more value to the table than $300k. If you were asking for more than what your value is to them, then they wouldn't hire you. Same for every other hiring arrangement including the ones Amazon makes and the ones you make in your personal life (such as if you hire a cleaner, book an uber, etc)
See also CNBC article about this:

Microsoft says it would never ‘threaten to leave’ Australia after Google said it could withdraw search engine

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/microsoft-backs-australia-af...
Technical Communication vs. Technical Writing
The first time I had the chance to use the internet I typed in "whitehouse", hit enter and whitehouse.com loaded. It turned out to be a porn site, the teacher saw and I got banned from using the internet - in 40 seconds.
I would say 1 salesperson in 20 has the ability, interest and influence to alter a product roadmap. The other 19 exist because of their competitive drive and ability to bang their head against a wall without losing enthusiasm.
A lot of these like 'Write a Book' do not involve actually losing money. They are in fact earning money, just at a lower rate than the author demands.
Amazon: Jeff Bezos's Successor – Andy Jassy
The article nor the comment section mention curses or the terminfo database, which makes me sad.

Wanna read something about terminals and terminal control sequences? https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html

Disclaimer: i use a DEC VT520
Having strong anxiety (from family and especially a bad mushroom experience that let me wrecked), I can only strongly recommend Escapadl advice.

The best combination has been cutting sugar definitely plus a lot of sports (freeletics + a lot of running. Running helps A LOT)

You can't imagine how sugar affects anxiety before cutting it entirely. This is insane. Just having some sugar raises my anxiety for a few days.

Just try to follow Escapado advice and you'll endure it way more easily.
Segment is great but speed really isn't where it shines. In fact, like GTM, it often adds (a lot) to how slow the website is. CDP and Tag Management software serve one static file to all your visitors, meaning that adding a tool just for one 1% of your traffic, or adding a tool just on one page - still affects all traffic and all pages. Also, we call Zaraz a third-party manager because we aim to support all third-parties, not just customer data tools. For example - we optimize Google Maps widgets, and we also support adding custom HTML so you can integrate tools we don't yet support. Segment doesn't really let you do that, which is why we're seeing many websites using both Segment and Tag Manager, making the website slow.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is shown to drastically cut transmission of the virus
No, he didn't beat the S&P, but holding some investment in the S&P and some in his fund beat the S&P in risk-adjusted returns (Sortino ratio, Shapre ratio, etc.).

As I mentioned, look up portfolio optimization in Post-Modern Portfolio Theory or Modern Portfolio Theory for details, but the gist is that

Var(aX + bY) = a^2 * Var(X) + b^2 * Var(Y) + 2ab * Cov(X,Y)

His fund was essentially uncorrelated with the S&P, so Cov(X,Y) was approximately zero. MPT uses Var(aX + bY + ... )^0.5 as its risk measure, and PMPT uses downside_variance^0.5.
Remote Onboarding Process by Shopify
Please also include Google in your list.
Create a new Github account with a new email and showcase your work there?
Going by their annual earnings: Probably?

I wouldn't expect for Apple to sell any memory without a huge markup, so let's not focus on the 4x for this paragraph: In general "cheapest != worst". The combination of memory and other hardware has to be stable (that's were part of the markup comes from - Apple guarantees your system to be stable [I'd expect]). So if CL22 memory is still fast enough for the general work load they'd expect, then it's also good enough.

Edit: And, as others pointed out over on Twitter: It's possible that they have multiple sources for memory, and you just get what they currently have in stock. Plus, even if their RAM always ships with the same memory chips, it's not sure the stock photo shows those they actually use.

Personal opinion: The x4 is why I don't buy Apple and recommend them to anyone who needs a lot of power. The bang-per-buck ratio is just terrible (even if x4 seems extreme even for Apple).
Worth mentioning that we are offering a high-quality (paid) course https://training.statebox.org
Assuming all those 36 sons were actually children of their legal fathers.
At the time of my posting, the title on this article read something along the lines of

"Government asks Twitter to comply with orders to remove content/accounts related to farmers protests"

I added 'Indian' to provide context. And had to remove words to comply with HN's character count rule.

You can see what the original title was in the slug:

government-notice-asks-twitter-to-comply-with-order-to-remove-contents-accounts-related-to-hashtags-linked-to-farmers-protest-2362377
this is fantastic news for Ireland. They'll be absorbing a lot of the business that has traditionally gone to the UK (or stayed in the UK):

> "And Irish traders too are seeking direct links to Western France."

> Port of Cork chief executive Conor Mowlds said it was a "hugely positive" development for Cork.

> "Importers and exporters now have further transport options to get their freight direct to the EU and bypass the UK Land-Bridge," he said, adding the new travel corridor will "strengthen the region by offering more flexibility to Irish customers, ensuring supply chains are maintained".

NI remains a problem for EU as it's currently like a Trojan horse within the EU[1] and will/is used to bypass the tariffs and import/export taxes. Europe should do everything to support a United island of Ireland by staying tough on the sea-border between IE/UK.

(off-topic: as the old joke goes wrt the DUP "What's the difference between an apple and an orange? There is no such thing as an apple bastard!").

[1] Northern Ireland suspends Brexit checks amid safety fears for port staff: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/01/northern-ire...
RSS can have push if it uses the same method that OStatus (ActivityPub's predecessor) did: PubSubHubbub/WebSub.

In fact, Google itself recommended doing this for a while to Atom and RSS feeds to use this tech, since they wanted to be able to consume it on their end.
(Author here)

As long as the program accepts keyboard input or clipboard pasting, espanso should work correctly.
There are some programs that behave a little bit differently (such as Thunderbird on Linux), that require a couple of configuration changes to work as expected (for example, slowing down the injections if the program is slow to process input).

Happy to answer any other question :)
Congrats! I sometimes will do what I should not do and do regret day dreaming of if I had done more than just think about what you actually did back around same time.
> What if the "value" is actually less than the cost of the task (but it's still absolutely necessary)?

This is a false premise. But it's surprising how many people seem to hold it, to their peril.

> I have a feeling that all you're doing is shifting the complexity around. The underlying complexity is still there

That's right, but do you agree this approach moves it to a place where it makes more sense, where it informs good decisions and is manageable?

> it's impossible to accurately estimate a development task and impossible to measure developer productivity

It's not impossible, but it's not something we as a society or an industry have a common fine grasp on. On this topic, I like best the books by Doug Hubbard: "How to measure anything" and "The failure of risk management: what is it and how to fix it".

It just requires yet another unusual mindset: probabilistic thinking, in addition to the above-established value-based thinking. You have to use a technique called calibrated probability assessment. We started practicing this at my workplace, and it seems to be working as intended, but we're not well calibrated yet.
evidently some people on HN were interested in it.
(Author here)

Feel free to ask any question, I'll be happy to answer them :)
White House was the first time I ever seen porn / naked women. Cue me spending the next 6 months sneaking to load the page on dialup all hours of the day. To be a kind again. Now we have TBs of data but tend to be uncontent sometimes.
I'm moving to a new country soon, and I've been considering setting up multiple DVB-T receivers to a low power computer to record all free-to-air channels simultaneously into a multiday looped buffer, to make available to myself over the internet. Where I live, the local free-to-air channels rarely have YouTube live streams, and when they do they only have around 12 hours of history at a measly 480p.

I have a bunch of those cheap RTL2832U USB receivers from a decade ago. I've played with Tvheadend before and the way DVB-T works is multiple channels are placed on a single multiplex, so you only actually need 5 tuners to receive 30 channels.

Traditional platter-style hard drives are cheap and well suited to such workloads too: so-called surveillance drives used for looping multiple days of security camera footage are available in 10+ terabyte capacities. I may re-encode given most broadcast TV where I live is broadcast in MPEG2 (used in DVDs) rather than better codecs like H.264 (used in Blu-Rays).

Anyone else do anything similar?
#3 is the only thing that has ever helped me
I would look at wsb daily for the past 2 weeks. On the Monday when I googled $GME to check the price all the google news snippets that came up were “Reddit dumps gme for silver”, etc. Then I go to wsb and it’s all gme talk. And everyone is saying silver is a lie.

After reading the news articles I started to think that they are just jumping between tends now but I knew it didn’t sound like wsb. But if you were an average non-wsb reader it would definitely dissuade you from buying right at the time when it hit is maximum mainstream news spread.

So as a wsb follower I never even saw a silver article on Reddit. It was definitely manufactured by the media to divert attention.

I don’t think it’s so unusual either in that the upper class elite who own and manage the media networks need to put their money somewhere to get the best returns. And the chance that themselves or friends of theirs were looking to lose huge amounts from the squeeze at one of the hedge funds, is pretty good incentive to say “can we run a story to take pressure of gme”.

A coincidence that a war on powerful connected hedge funds ends up with the media clearly planting stories and broker platforms preventing trading. If you thought: oh I am an average joe I don’t want to miss out on this and you had robinhood you could only buy one share at 300. Instead of say dropping 10k. Is this sensible? That’s irrelevant though.

So yes it seems like a conspiracy...but there is good evidence it was not.

But we should think about other explanations:

- media wanted clicks and they knew FOMO of missing out on the next thing would be a big hit. But how they found the thread for the original story is a mystery. They saw a small story was getting huge clicks so gave it more visibility.

Would be interesting to trace back at what time the first silver article was written and by who and which outlet.
I have always wondered what common usecases such systems address. How large are the graphs typically? Are graphs really that big that they dont fit in a single machine?