skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But what isn't ambiguous is that GameStop stock wasn't worth nearly 400 dollars, and whatever was going on was fishy.

Having many people buy a stock after being encouraged also sounds like how the system has worked for decades. How many times has an analyst issued a 'strong buy' recommendation, and the stock then goes up.
This is not about ugly vs beautiful. Good UI is not primarily about being nice to look at, it is to be usable. The UI has to be really bad to be able to screw up this bad without even knowing it. Horrendously bad.
Terrible Inet_aton in Glibc
>It wasn't even subsidized.

Internet access is insanely high margin. Once the lines are laid, the cost to provide service is next to nothing. The bulk of the costs come from paying off the loans associated with laying the original lines.

There are probably many cities in the country who could provide free 10Mb symmetrical service to every house, then have tiered monthly charges starting at $10 up to $50 for 50Mb to 1Gb services for those who want it, and turn a profit on internet access.
A company the size of Google should not be seen as a single homogeneous entity.

Some departments of it do wonderful, stellar work and give it away as open source. Other parts do so-so work. Yet other parts do something which is seen by many as nefarious. You can often see the whole spectrum represented in one major product, such as Chrome or Android.

This is why seeing entire Google (or FB, or MS, or even Oracle) as uniformly "good" or "evil" is a dangerous simplification. OTOH knowing their corporate policies from prior experience, one can presume how "good" or "evil" an outcome is more probable in some new, unknown case. Known cases, such as V8, can completely contradict the common perception.
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Amazon then sells your searches to every other company that happens by and correlates it with other broker data, and resells that.
> It would also make your theoretical AI racist, as it identified blacks as not human.

That isn't how racism works. It's like saying that an AI that misclassifies a bat as a bird is racist. It's not racism, it's just error.

And it's not a race-specific error, it's a general error for which someone cherry picked the instances that imply a racially motivated intent that doesn't actually exist.

Calling it racism is pointless and misleading because there is no race-specific cause or solution to the problem. The solution is completely identical to the one for the same error in the general case, i.e. get more training data.
> For Apple, there is a different set of axioms and some people seem to agree with them.

I don't think this is true for all Apple products though, or at least that was not the case in the past. To my knowledge, setting up a free OS on a second-hand Macbook has never been a problem.

However, you are correct Apple is trying to impose new axioms with the iPhones: unique app market (taking controversial posture, such as forbidding alternative browser engines), iCloud lock, non-interoperable hardware (eg. power socket)...
We need money that has actual value that can't be manipulated. That is why the gold standard worked. At the same time that is why those in power ended the gold standard.

Without the anchor to gold our money can freely be manipulated for personal or political gain at the expense of the public.
i wish they would stream the video and audio from the craft live as it descends to the martian surface
Ask HN: Where to read non-tech news?
Where are you reading non-tech news? HN is great for the tech stories, but I'd also like to read non-tech stuff.

I'm currently subscribing to NY Times and considering the cancellation due to their recent disappointing behaviors, but I found myself not as decisive as I hoped. I guess my hesitation here is mostly just FOMO, but the coverage on non-political, non-tech topics of The Times are decent and I'll miss it after the cancellation. It has provided me some sense of how (a subset of) Americans see the world, which is valuable for me as an immigrant.

I'm curious what tech people here are reading. Are you still reading some newspapers for the news? Or mostly skimming Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/Google News or whatever? Are there any decent news sources I’m unaware of? Or you just don't read the news?
SolarWinds hackers studied Microsoft source code for authentication and email
I also have lots of issues with reinstalling broken Big Sur. The installer apparently needs to phone home to Apple to get permission to reinstall the OS, and this fails. When this doesn't fail, it doesn't get permission to write to nvram, so the OS reverts itself to previous version after reboot.

I like Macs having iPad-like performance, but I don't like the boot process is so locked down that it reminds me this computer belongs to Apple, not me.
> With all this in mind, getting Ingenuity to Mars in one piece and having it take off and land even once is a definite victory for NASA

Sorry, slightly off-topic: Not a native English speaker. Isn't this sloppy writing? Seems like declaring victory ahead of time?
> I kind of wish some of the SQLAlchemy core devs spent a bit of time using ActiveRecord to appreciate how an ORM can make defining and querying relations straightforward and easy.

The main SQLA developer, and the whole team, has been doing this now for almost 3 decades, has presented on and had thousands of serious detailed technical discussions on the subject with a diverse range of industry participants, and I can assure you is WELL aware of how ActiveRecord works and all of the patterns around it.
Despite 2018 promises, John Deer won't provide repair info/equipment to farmers
The nice thing about larger SMD components is that you can route interconnect between the terminals. This way you get a "free" layer in the form of components.
>I would say that what really matters is the interest rate.

Interest rates are negative in many places. Germany has had negative interest rates for nearly 2 years and 0% for over 5 years. Does that mean you have can infinite debt?

Worse yet, Germany was deflationary for nearly all of 2020 and are officially in a recession. Constitutionally Germany's government cannot run a deficit. As such they have reduced their government debt in the last several years. For all of 2020 however unemployment basically never moved.

Now lets look at Canada where the government has run historic record breaking levels of debt. In 2020 alone the central bank took on $400 billion in debt. The Canadian government stopped reporting their economic numbers during 2020 because lets be realistic...

GDP of Canada is roughly 1750 billion. 14% unemployment. That $400 billion does mean that Canada was not deflationary.

So the government took on $400 billion in debt and how much did GDP increase? Surely we should see 15-20% gdp increase? Nope. We see -17%.

>It is not at all clear if such a low level of interest rates can be sustained forever.

YTD on interest rates is +35% or so. Which is interesting because inflation targets are well below target.

>There is another risk of having interest rate too low: zombie corporations can be kept alive longer by borrowing, unprofitable projects too.

Well we're seeing it all over. So many countries are over leveraged and bubbles are everywhere. They are going to pop.
What a ridiculous frame from Tagesschau and whoever is syndicating this news too.

As a German, I'd have happily paid 50€ or 100x more to receive a vaccination as soon as possible.

And then as a country, I'd be happy to pay that price too as it'd allow me to profit long-term by opening my economy that has been suffering from the crysis.

The EU has messed up vaccinations and now there needs to be consequences. Why do we even allow governments to handle the distribution of such a rare good when we all know they're too incompetent to do so? Markets exist for a reason.
I've used both chiclet and mechanical keyboards both for far longer than 2 years, and I feel the exact opposite to you.

Mechanical keyboards are better in every measurable way, particularly typing accuracy and speed.

Of course there's nothing wrong with being contrarian because it's cool.
Heh, same happened to me. I managed to get hooked on Nicotine gums after reading about the nootropic effects. After a while I moved on to snus (Swedish smokeless tobacco) due to expense/hassle of getting the gums.

Nowadays I have a pretty big nicotine consumption and probably extremely marginal nootropic effects.
This seems really poorly designed and planned. First thing that would have helped would be to make it mandatory, so you could plan to have people from each discipline present, and plan a challenge based around the people available.

First, only 4 out of 13 team members joined, that's a huge difference in manpower. Second, a bunch of the failures he listed point directly to a lack of product/project leadership - because those people noped out. Finally, as dumb as this sounds, you can't team build with 3/4 of your team not participating...
Lawmakers Demand Answers from Military on Muslim App Data
The dimensionless %age terminology is misleading (hence the Kalecki quote) but I agree standard: it would make the difference in kind clearer to give this in terms of time, say days, but I am not going to object every time I see this. But to use metaphors like saying a class of debt "makes up" GDP is magnifying the confusion and not the kind of thing a financial journalist should be writing.
Yes, I think that's an element of it.

For me, it's when the metric they're proud of is always changing from quarter to quarter, and it's rarely the one we agree to focus on. Like they make a basket of six metrics and usually at least one of them is doing well, but never the same one consistently, so they're always talking about the great performance on whatever metric randomly turned up well this month.

It's kind of like the inverse problem of management obsessing too much over particular metrics that don't properly capture the bigger picture, and can also be gamed.
But this goes against other security advice: stay up to date.
The japanese layout HHKB does have arrow keys, but the original (QWERTY) design never had them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/36n5cl...
It's something that comes up a lot that is simply not true: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c....

Clean energy absorbed most of the growth and shrinkage of coal & nuclear in the years the transition happened. About 2/3rd of the nuclear capacity disappeared around 2010 and the combined growth of coal, gas, and brown coal is a fraction of that in that period. Rewewable growth around the same time on the other hand took most of that. And it didn't stop growing. At this point that dwarfs nuclear, coal, gas, browncoal combined (<40% together). Of those gas is pretty much the only thing that had some growth (beyond 2010 numbers); from the looks of it partially at the cost of black coal.

Brown coal has been more or less the same in recent history thanks to the CSU (mainly) lobbying hard for keeping that around for a few decades). But they might have to negotiate with the green party soonish and I doubt they'd agree to continue backing that.
Sure. When you gamble, sometimes you win. I'd still rather not try though.
I agree with your general point. I would just add that I personally feel too much of the blame is placed on the media companies. They should get some blame, but ultimately they are providing what the consumer wants.

I feel the consumers deserve a large part of the responsibility. Too few people want to pay for quality news, or even simply give their attention to quality news.
I've driven a diesel tow truck with a manual before. It gets really tedious driving a manual when you redline at 3000 rpm and your final drive is geared to be able to pull a Honda out of a ditch.
They can pay with crypto. Obviously there are some hurdles too and they have to earn it first.
I agree with him. Only a small percentage of people who do cocaine become addicted. It's almost always those who are trying to escape shitty circumstances. While heroin is dangerous the uncertainty of what you're getting and its strength is the cause of most deaths.
The interests of people writing new language toolchains sadly does not seem to extend to supporting older platforms. This doesn't mean that they are not important, it just means that that they are not important to the people writing the new language toolchains.
Telcos are big, big Democratic supporters. And they only need to flip a handful to pass a bill like this (which will be upheld in the supreme court)
Waze CEO Noam Bardin explains why he left Google 2 weeks ago
Absolutely. 8% is incredibly high.
> I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.

It's easy to understand. Great technical work and products don't bestow sainthood.
Having just moved to Youtube premium... fuck yes. Get rid of this advertising bullshit in gmail, please. Let me pay your server costs (tiny at their huge scale) plus a small premium to continue to fight bugs and improvements.

Yes, yes yes. Yes.

Oh, wait. REQUIRED. No, then. If it was an option then yes. Required no. Not at all.
Excellent point!

Tensegrity is another area that must be studied...

As is tension/compression...
A life hack for anyone here trying to quit is using lent which has just begun, to both set a time limit and to externalise quitting. “I’m giving X up for lent” isn’t so daunting, and something you can tell people.

Changing your environment is also a good idea - if nothing else move change room to sleep in and move furniture to new places, and you’ve got a new “place”.

I use it to quit my daily beer habit. Kindest regards to you internet friend who struggles with addiction.
Hug of death strikes again.
Apple Platform Security Guide Gets Biggest Update to Date
Needs 2019 added to title
It's always amusing when someone posts "do you want your ISP to be like a utility?!?!" like it's a slam-dunk argument.

Uh, yes, I do? In more than three decades of life, I've only had my power go out a handful of times, and other utilities (gas, sewage, etc.) have literally never gone out- 100% uptime across decades. By contrast, my internet breaks several times a year. And when my power goes out, I know for a fact that a figurative army is going out to fix it as fast as possible. When my Internet goes out, the response from my ISP is along the lines of, "Eh, it might be back soonish. Or it might not. Fuck you."

So, yeah, I would love for my Internet to behave like a utility. It would be a huge upgrade.
Reviewing doesn't cost money for journals. Scientists do it for free. As for editing, don't know how much papers improve by that beyond a very few select journals.
Do you honestly think Trump had anything to do with vaccine development? I don't think he hindered it, but I don't think he accelerated it either.
Hi Vadi! Sarapis here. ;)

He's right, Mudlet is the best desktop client out there for Mudding with. This is the part where I mention that I run a company with five MUDs ranging from almost 24 years live to just a couple years live. https://ironrealms.com
You're correct, he actually overdosed roughly a year after his first use of heroin, not a month like I remembered:

>I overdosed on a combination of (mostly) fentanyl, plus I had a lot of diphenhydramine, pregabalin, temezepam, and maybe some lingering oxymorphone in my system. I stopped breathing with several fentanyl patches in my mouth (they were previously used and I thought they had much less left in them) partially blocking my airway and would have been dead dead if I was found 10 minutes later according to EMS. It took multiple shots of Narcan to revive me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dw6u0/iama_patient_in...
A startup studio is essentially this. Also, every big company has a X for Startups, plus open-source projects. Most big companies derisk by acquiring competitors, you can think of that as a startup inside a big company.

* where X is an element of FAAMG
Introducing the AI chip leading the world in precision scaling
Yep, I'm looking for this too. The VVER-1200 design definitely seems like it has a myriad of safety features, so I'm curious what is being left out.
A series of charts plotted by Wolfram Alpha (for US data) shows that debt seems to go up, steadily, forever. [1] The steady rise of debt seems to be a phenomenon independent of specific events. Perhaps this is simply a long-term effect of interdependency.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chart+of+debt+to+gdp
LastPass free account won't allow using both desktop and mobile
Oh, I'm not suggesting that they will use Go–they will use C and I'm just responding to you saying that it is difficult to find situations where Rust is unworkable.
SQLAlchemy author here.

Your comment states the problem space addressed by SQLAlchemy 2.0, which is what the above document is about, really well! So for your comment to have value, what did you think of SQLAlchemy 2.0's direction in how it seeks to vastly improve the very issues you speak of, "where the transactions are", "how committing works", etc.?

For example: "accidental cross joins" - SQLAlchemy 1.4 now warns/ raises for these: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/changelog/migration_14.htm... cool huh? The new docs are worth a read before commenting.

It sounds like you were relying on flask-sqlalchemy in any case which unfortunately makes some poor decisions in these areas, but in SQLAlchemy 2.0 these things are brought forward unconditionally in all cases so you really can't talk to the database without having your transaction and its scope front and center.
Keeping this in mind for the next time someone asks why we need to reinvent UIs every so often, or why technical debt needs to be paid off. Because they tend to cause financial damage, that's why.
One leetcode problem a day keeps unemployment away (and helps career advancement).

By the time you are already interviewing, it can be too late to start leetcoding. Unless you're a genius who has a natural knack for this kind of stuff, or are a networking savant that has a knack for finding the rare, good companies that don't hire via leetcode interviews.
So if my understanding is correct this is orthogonal to the raidz type one is using?

For example I can have a hot spare with a dRAID setup as part of my raidz2 pool?
Yes, that's Oracle Forms, one of the older versions. 6, I think.
The sentence is fine; they're saying the fact that it took off and landed successfully is a victory in itself.
because they themselves were swamped with 10,000 other users who did not have cleared credit who were buying the stock
This ignores nuclear power. It also ignores the fact that you can put solar panels in places that you can't put farms such as the desert.
Live in a glass house, tell me your complete sexual history including all of the kinks you're ashamed of, and give me your email password. I thought so.

Your viewpoint come across as extremely naïve until you've had political persecution, targeted harassment, or stalking issues. Privacy isn't something you or anyone else gets to decide no one else needs because you don't understand it or value it, but you're free to try living in a fantasy world so long as you don't put the lives of reporters or refugees at risk, or condone the invasion of the lives and personal effects of others.
Parastronaut Feasibility Project
If you search HN for "municipal ISP", the results are mostly positive, and many I expect have evidence you'd need to make the case for them. I'm not advocating that there should by only municipal ISPs and no commercial ones, just that they should not be made illegal.
The Bizarre Reaction to FB's Decision to Get Out of News Business in Australia
This is a great point. Reading code is such an important skill and how most of an engineers time will be spent. The ability to reason about code that was written by someone else (including your past self) and update/expand it in a clean/maintainable way is a better indicator of success IMO then writing a little chunk of code that solves a brain teaser.

Read code, explain what it does and discuss how you would expand it to add additional functionality or fix a bug. I feel that would be a better approach than most of the current leetcode style interviews.
It's unfortunate that people have to split their time between two separate jobs but these stats never mention the number of hours worked which is the key metric. If you have a job that is only 10-20 hours a week, picking up another job with equal hours, while less ideal than holding one with twice the hours, is not worthy of the headlines.
Oh, there's literally no way he's the only one. Hell, Martin Shkreli used to be a mod of the sub (or at least a very active member).

There are plenty of people on WSB who very clearly know what they are talking about and trade for a living. I just think the narrative became that he was this random guy and finding out that he has a little more experience than people thought changes the story a little bit.

Like I said above, I really don't think he did anything wrong and I don't think he was intentionally being misleading. He didn't really even post many comments on Reddit. Half the time he just posted a screenshot of his account and that's it. I think people just interpreted it how they wanted.
I took my typing class in 1983 junior high.

There were two IBM Selectrics in the back of the room, and everything else was manual. There was a schedule for the lucky two.

I think we had more than one Apple ][ for after-school signup at that point, but I'm not sure.
>because talent is increasing in quality at a fraction of price compared

Funny that this didn't get much discussion than I thought this would. Would this mean that developers living in high-priced areas in North America would just need govt assistance since their salary would not be able to meet cost of living?
Extensive discussion of the original source yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165809
Top Gear did a piece a while back on car controls and the Model T did not look easy or intuitive to drive.

It looked shockingly capable off-road though, which I guess makes sense if you think about what counted for a road in the 1910s.
I said twice that it's not about left-right. Please don't try to make my comment about that.

The problem is they are treating politics like fashion, where it's super specific and constantly changing. And they are bullying (or cheering it on, at least) anyone who doesn't conform.

Whether these specific fashions they promote are "left" or "right" or "center" was immaterial to my decision to cancel.
> Democrats are nearly as bad.

I mean, after supporting the reversal of a fair and free election, leading to a violent insurrection, anyone who still engages in this 'both sider-ism' is basically a lost cause at this point.

I far respect people who at least pick a side than continue the 'both sides are equally bad' argument
I dislike self-promotion that unfairly attacks (quote below) what has come before. The "software priesthood" has made numerous compilers and interpreters freely available to download and use. If repl.it makes it even easier for people to start coding, great, but they are extending the work of others.

"Our mission is to give everyone in the world computer superpowers. We build powerful yet approachable tools & platforms for developers, students, and educators.

We see a new generation of hackers and entrepreneurs rising to seize the power of computers and the internet to create software that empowers them and their communities. They refuse to be programmed by the software priesthood that wants them to endlessly consume ads."
I worked at Netflix at the time and managed the transition, and wrote some of those blog posts. :)

Which is why I ask. We never quantified the savings, we just did it.