skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In chess, really no one has problems beating extreme novice. You just take their pieces as they leave them hanging and that is it.
I don't have a problem with this.

Did this really harm your confidence in the markets, or did it only harm your confidence in politicians who have been doing this for hundreds of years whether there was mandatory disclosure or not?

Insider trading regulations are based around people feeling willing to use the capital markets at all. People use the US capital markets, so expanding that regulation is not necessary.

For the latter observation, I would like there to be quicker reporting so that we can trade alongside it.
Yeah, most times the Third Party Doctrine comes up these days afaik is with location tracking services.

EG, technically cops don't need a warrant or subpoena to ask Google where you were on a particular day. Though, in practice, they often still get one because they know that it's kinda unfair and judicial or statutory protections are probably coming soon and they don't want to jeopardize the prosecution should the law change during the investigation.

For example, the January 6 insurrectionists are largely being caught through location data obtained under warrant from Google. Do they technically need the warrant? No. And if they were investigating, like, shoplifters, they probably wouldn't have bothered to get one. But they don't want to let thousands of insurrectionists off the hook in case this is the case where the courts decide to flip.
ok should be back up and working now!
Let me phrase the question differently:

How much money is enough if you already have $100M and to gain more, you have to manipulate and cheat?

But even without changing the question, $100M invested in a very low risk manner will generate considerable cash flow (if you regularly take some profits). So without even spending your "savings", you can live very comfortably.

However, a special thing happens when you are high net worth. You suddenly have a lot of lenders begging to loan you money at very low interest rates. They need a place to put money, and they know you have assets to cover any loan they might give you. So you, the wealthy individual with $100M in assets, CAN still go buy nice stuff even if your cash flow from your investments isn't huge.

Honestly, unless you just need to show people how much money you can drop because you're so rich you don't care, you don't actually have to spend any of your money to live bigly.
What is the 'messy' problem with Firefox on Android? I have moved those I help with tech to Firefox. My mother for example. They don't know the difference between "the internet" and "Firefox" but so far they run Firefox with UBO with no problems (well not anything new that wasn't there with Chrome too but that is a old people Vs tech problem not unique to Firefox).

Anything I need to know?
Because the real estate market is very illiquid. Each property is unique. It's not easy to figure out the right price. Trading isn't even bad, it's contributing to price discovery in the market and makes sure that the average sale price is close to the actual market price.

The problem isn't that speculators are evil people but rather that the "arbitrage" they are doing is fueled by regressive housing policies. Increasing the efficiency in the housing market exposes the fundamental housing problem. After all, it can't just be that speculators are snapping up properties, there must be buyers that are willing to buy properties from the speculators, otherwise the speculators lose money. Those buyers don't even need to think that the house is overpriced, the house could genuinely be a good deal for them.
My (highly simplified) take on Steve Mann's scheme:

See:

The Cybernetic Chordic Keyer: A simple low cost high performance multikeyer for
wearable computers or the like

Steve Mann

Pdf at http://wearcam.org/keyer
Phase 3: Connection of all Apple health fitness tracking/health tracking data. As wearables and body data monitoring continue to evolve and increase the number of bio markers/biometrics measured, apple is poised to integrate these in a way that Peloton and other fitness focused brands may or may not be.
We don't grow our food. The chloroplast inside plants that we live around grow it. Fungi can do the same thing. See lichen, for example.
nsswitch.conf is what tells it whether to use the traditional nss_dns (the thing that looks at /etc/resolv.conf), or whether to use the newer nss_resolve (the thing that talks to systemd-resolved).

So yeah, if the article is contrasting resolv.conf vs systemd-resolved, nsswitch.conf is how you select which of those approaches is used.
RIP all gamers everywhere.
I'm looking at this from a labour and compensation perspective. If everyone you hire, and all the subcontractors you employ are making livable wages, you're less exploitative than if you directly or indirectly pay people non-livable wages.

You are correct, Amazon without warehouses only pushes the problem one step out to their fulfillment / shipping companies. The only way to rehabilitate Amazon (from evil to not evil... still far from good) would be for them to pay their employees (ALL of them - not just the tech workers) a livable wage, and for them to only sell things that have been made with non-exploitative labour practices.

The way I'm seeing it - the more you control the situation, the more guilty you are of the exploitation. Amazon controls who they work with pretty fully - but when I look at gates-era microsoft, I work my way out from their direct employees to the companies they work with, and I can't find the exploitative labour until I hit the PC manufacturers that were buying windows to put on their PCs. Maybe I'm missing something, but that feels pretty far out of their control - I'd place my blame at the feet of Dell or Compaq, not MSFT at that point.
As near as I can tell the SPL is part of early stage boot that initializes RAM, then loads the later stage bootloader to it (like uboot).
You're in good company :)

Great write up. Question: why does the one keycap on the 'behold' photo look like it is so much less high? (on the other photo they seem identical)
A lot of snark for someone who's trying to use what many considered a core scenario of the non-cellular Apple Watch... listening to music without your phone. Even my iPod from 2003 synced music more reliably than an Apple Watch. It's definitely one of the most frustrating experience with an Apple product I've had.
Here is a demo of the video meeting experience https://aboutsnack.com/i/CgwvwjFgeB

However, most of the Snack complexity comes from orchestrating invitations. I've churned through couple hundred clients until we figured a mechanism to invite people to have these spontaneous events in a way that (a) is timed right (b) provides social validation. The current version has a growing number of active users and increase retention.

It is a fun weekend project that I use to learn about new technologies, measuring product usage and validating product ideas.
All of the camera manufacturers tried to jump on the Zoom call train to some extent. Every one of them released some form of Webcam USB driver, where you don't need a video encoder you just plug the camera directly in via USB and it shows up as a webcam. The downside is it's not as high quality as you'd get with an encoder, and not every camera supports charging during use.

Canon at least released a couple "Webcam Accessories Starter Kits" that include a little tripod and an AC adapter to work around the USB charging limitation. I'm surprised the manufacturers didn't jump in even more but perhaps they were hampered by the pandemic. There have been significant supply chain disruptions in photography/videography industries for the past year.
They also criticized it for poor "developer aesthetics". [1]

> We were resolved that using strings representing SQL commands lacked the elegance of a “web native” JavaScript API, and started looking at alternatives.

> In another article, we compare IndexedDB with Web SQL Database, and note that the former provides much syntactic simplicity over the latter.

IndexedDB and "syntactic simplicity". For anyone who has worked with that API, boy oh boy.

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
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How many millions, or billions, of database users are you comfortable managing?

0 millions for me.

I'll stick with the well tested and explored method of having a users table with foreign keys on the ID to other tables to identify data ownership.

The idea of using one DB user per end user is, at best, novel and untested. We don't know where or how it will fail. Scaling would be a real bear too. And I'm fairly certain an InfoSec professional would have kittens if they saw that attempted in a production environment.
“2.5B T. Rexes Roamed North America over the Cretaceous Period”
> Allen only saved his stake in the company because he happened to walk through the office late one night and heard Bill gloating with someone else about how they were going to screw him out of his shares.

Sounds like a fun story, do you know if it's online somewhere?
Have you discussed your challenges with your mentor?
Aren’t the customers who don’t return their purchases subsidizing the cost of the ones who do? I’d much prefer to pay a restocking fee (or to have more stringent return policies) if it meant I could pay a little less up front.
We had this issue as well. Out tens of thousands of dollars. For a tiny startup, this almost killed us.
Looks like a PR [1] was started 4 hours ago but for such a simple task not much progress has been made.

Security breaches happen. If it hasn't happened yet consider it luck. I'm disappointed by the lack of urgency in the response and failure to take nominal steps in improving their posture.

I hope this is a wake up call for them and other Saas companies.

[1]https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action/pull/282
Same here. I do a lot of bike riding, hiking, canoeing and open water swimming. All this stuff keeps me in very good shape. I look fine I feel even better so do not care bout them metrics.
Yeah, it is also very similar how US has democratized middle east for the past 20 years
With uBO, I would also disable things like Third-Party Cookies. I also have No-Script, but that's mainly for making sites easier to load (Though it does block ad-tracking js-files, like uBO).
It is not immoral or unethical for somebody to have or earn more money than another. All people try to increase their wealth however they can. At lower income levels that is very difficult but the behavior is the same.
I am trolling on the person you to whom you replied...

<<This bug has occurred to me personally multiple times.>>

Hello, I am AirBus engineer (not really, only pretend). Does my plane crash? No, it does not!

Dear Random Internet Person who complains that open source software is broken. Are you joking? We are talking about SQLite!!??

SQLite has whole pages dedicated to "why you should NOT use SQLite". How many open source projects are /so/ good they can do this? Incredible!

The test coverage feels like NASA.
I see you've read Graeber. Great book and changed my views on a lot of things, particularly how much of our "common sense" understanding/education on topics relies on "just so" assumptions made by some aristocratic scholar a couple centuries ago.

Anyhow, to explain for the forum: Graeber's book goes through the evidence we know of from the places were money first appeared. In essence, debt came first, and money was a later innovation. Very interestingly temple records using tally mark schemes may have been what lead to the development of cuneiform writing in the levant. A similar debt first pattern appears in other places, at other times too.

Coinage, particularly metal coins, came about much later as a clever hack by rulers to simplify raising and maintaining a large army. Pass a law demanding all citizens pay you X coins each year. Pay your soldiers in coins. Suddenly your society is figuring out how to feed and house soldiers, without you haven't to build a command hierarchy to run it all directly.

I can't recommend this book enough. It's dense in parts because he goes into a lot of detail that fully justifies what he's saying. Still, completely fascinating to learn much of the way we think of economic history is mythology. It's also a great lens for understanding what's happening now with cryptocurrencies.
Ah, did not end up getting that domain name and went with something cheaper. The profiles are at booking.beunstuck.me, you can see mine here: https://booking.beunstuck.me/profile/hCTa0hQ2qAa85SYTer2t0in...
Does anyone have the bash uploader script on hand with version 20210309-2b87ace?
The very minimal thing each and every one of us can do is to write to their representative [1] and senator [2] expressing concern over the issue.

[1] https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...

[2] https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
I predict ML models predicting how will the Earth look like in the future:) loads of fun!
Show HN: Control a robot over the internet with WebRTC!
Also as a regular fintech worker, I have to get internal approval from my employer for anything I do. Why can government representatives trade willy nilly without any oversight?
So the senate didn't give their consent, as is their right. But you think the reasoning (or, lets face it, excuse) behind withholding that consent was somehow unconstitutional?
Unfortunately that risk is very much in play even without stock trading. Politicians often appear to be working purely to stay in office and gain whatever side benefits they can along the way, and to establish a very lucrative lobby landing after they leave office.

It is all practically very corrupt, viewed from most angles. The few well-meaning politicians either don't get elected or don't stay in office, because it costs too much to get there and stay there (funding); so to get there and stay there, you have to play the game. And playing the game means ensuring your wealthy donors get what they want from you in terms of legislation.
Jane Bernhardt sells a 30 key steno keyboard, georgi [0], that she bills as appropriate for plover.

[0] https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi
That's not the meaning they are going for. It means allowing everyone to have a chance. Like when Unreal Engine or Unity said they democratized game development by releasing their engines for free.
If Apple can’t effectively administrate their nice plans and the consequence is that a few abusers ruin it for everyone, then it’s better for customers to not have it. Too bad.
Apple's Core Data persisted-object-graph engine (kind of like Hibernate, I guess?) uses SQLite as its default storage backend.

There is a lot of macOS/iOS software using Core Data who already have "SQLite as an application document storage model" without even realizing it.
Voice dictation and transcription?
I thought it would be cool if I could base a chorded typing system off an actual digital piano and use the MIDI interface to type, and design it such that most words would actually sound nice if the digital piano outputted sound at the same time. I just haven't put in the time to figure out a good efficient system.

Would be kind of neat if I could "hear" a blog post as I was typing it, and maybe eventually even learn to listen to text transcribed as music.
Hey, thanks Vivaldi, I'm sure everyone will fucking listen to you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_IWVB2B7AI
Then they might have fixed the block :). Hash horse is just an aggregator across blockchains
It was Asimov's favorite
The article focussed on how /etc/resolv.conf is being managed and populated. That’s not affected by nsswitch.

I only addressed why nsswitch was likely not mentioned, not that it doesn’t serve a purpose.
they probably developed it for themselves.
And if it were in the standard there wouldn't be at least five well known libraries implementing it (including from Adobe and from Facebook): https://github.com/boost-ext/te#similar-libraries

As far as I know (I don't really follow the committee work) the latest attempt to introduce run-time duck-typing in the standard was https://github.com/andyprowl/virtual-concepts, which seems dead.
I think he is talking more about where the opportunities are for the talent.

In the past, if you wanted to work on cool shit, government/military had plenty of projects, and research was being done in academia.

Nowdays, if you want to work on cool shit, you go to tech companies.
I'd love to see a timelapse over the past 20 years showing Google's energy usage / consumption across all their data centers and offices.
The flip side to discontinuing the old systems is regulatory scrutiny as they would essentially be stealing their customers purchases.
How medicine discriminates against non-white people and women
> Do people end up finding concepts useful?

I'll get back to you when my work projects are allowed to use a C++ version newer than C++11. </rant>

But, more seriously: I'm curious if so few people are actually using C++20 (for work, at least) that it will take a while to answer questions like yours.
No one claimed Apple stopped making computers, so you're attacking a straw man here. All that was pointed out is that there is no Apple Computer (note the capitalization) company anymore, as it was renamed to Apple Inc. in 2007.
Low rates of growth lead to a population collapse in 2 generations or so and an inverted demographic pyramid where mostly old people exist with few youngsters. Not a good recipe for the species or a civilization.

Look at predicted population numbers in Japan for example.
https://archive.is/T5eae
Yeah, it's so cheap to store on Filecoin I really want to backup to it as another offsite option. But I'm waiting until Duplicati has built in support for it instead of figuring it out on my own.
Its worth noting, as most of the discussion here focuses on the imagined variation of the headline of “don’t we all want raw SQL access to our backend DB on the front end”, that the article isn’t about that at all and is actually about having an in-client SQL database with local copies of the relevant subset of backend records in the same shape, with a plug-and-play syncing mechanism rather than per app custom front end data request, caching, etc. logic.
> F16.5 hallucinogens (LSD and others)[citation needed]

no studies found.
> ActiveRecord beats this, since the code ends up more readable

It's subjective and I tend to disagree. Especially for very simple and very complex queries.

Also, unless you are a following a "code-first" approach and doing all your schema migrations through the ORM, you have to redefine your tables, columns and relationships a second time and keep them up-to-date with every change, which is a huge hassle.

Obviously if your app is a simple CRUD app, might be simpler to just use Rails/Django/Symfony with an ORM and embrace the code-first approach.
Yes I agree, owning is better than renting, but it’s effectively not a positive investment return. Either rent out your property or put as little into it as you can would be my advice. Your other investments will outperform your house, when you consider the fundamental need to have housing.

Also agree on the mortgage rates which are economy dependent along with the stock market. Right now you should certainly not pay off the mortgage but there are some times in history where it might make sense, which is why I noted it.
A proper scale can detect all sorts of weak effort fraud.

Years back, I talked to someone who had done some analysis on some of the "fake silver/gold" bars floating around places (I think they were common on Silk Road for a while?). Apparently some of the people faking metal bars didn't actually bother learning what a "Troy Ounce" was.

There was a "10 oz" bar that was 10 ounces - 283.5 grams. Except, in metals, "oz" means Troy Ounce - so it should have been 311 grams. You could literally feel that it was light if you were used to dealing with metals.
As far as I know, these were not consolidation so much as trailing players dropping out of the race in a winner-take-all market.
> This means it can even be used on many embedded systems far too small to run a Unix.

A good example is that SQLite is used inside many video games. You wouldn't put Postgres in your game engine.
There are a bunch of different versions with different capsules. For example, the Modmic Uni doesn't sound very good, but since it's unidirectional (it's a 6mm cardioid electret I think) it is rather more resistant to ambient noise. The Omni has your usual run-of-the-mill 6mm capsule, these are all very similar in terms of sound and noise performance. The Uni is kinda good enough for pure communication, but you'd really wouldn't want to use it for content production.

Also, being electret capsules directly wired up to your soundcard, the soundcard has quite an influence on the quality of the audio (mostly in terms of noise and hiss). Meanwhile the digital versions don't suffer from bad microphone inputs.
Any reviews on it? Looks pretty great!

A few years ago in university I tried taking notes using an Apple wireless keyboard with my iPad in my backpack. It was surprisingly liberating to just type and not have to look at a screen. I'm sure I looked like an idiot but it was an advanced software engineering course so it wasn't to far leftfield :)