skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although that scene raises questions though: How did the two of them even get onto the trading floor (e.g. What firm were they with? How were they capital backed?). How did they have enough margin to sell that many futures short? Why was the market seemingly only open 20 minutes?

I guess the implication here is they e.g. sold 10,000 futures short, then re-purchased 10,000 futures to settle it and kept the difference. The problem is that even if you wind up with net 0 futures, you still need to hypothetically cover the short position during the trading day, or you could be violating the law (this is typically via margin, but who agreed to lend the two of them that money?).

Maybe I'm forgetting the part of the movie where they had some rich backer or approached another firm to bankroll them/get them floor access.

PS - The movie is still tons of fun, and I'd recommend it. These unclear details don't really undercut the core message, just odd as they went to pains to get a lot of things right.
The web has mostly removed the need - but pre-web the ability to have embedded objects in documents was powerful, if tricky to implement correctly.
I think that market is largely already consumed by phones.
For most people, there is no reason to not just use a phone to take picutres.

Once you are in the 2k$ usd lens space the buyer is looking for ultra premium stuff either as an enthusiast buyer or as some one who makes their living that way.
My ex-wife would lose her keys approximately every time she wanted to leave the house. I wish I was exaggerating, but it was like a ritual, she'd decide to go out, and then spend ten minutes stomping round the place looking for them. Unfortunately she'd also do the same thing with her phone, so I'm not sure AirTags are the solution.
Hmm, it wasn't my understanding that Hatetris did that. I thought it tried to maximise time to completing a single line, but I may be misremembering or may have misunderstood. Moreover, if it did do what you claim it does then I believe that reversing a sign would end up always giving you the long piece.
You're not capturing the rays, you only get where they strike. You can't fix it all computationally.

Secondly, we already do correct distortion and chromatic aberration in software, but this doesn't really make up for loss of resolution that you can't fix. Information is being lost.
iPhone 12 Pro Max ranks fourth place in first-ever DXOMARK battery test
Micro-management like that very often fails, though. What do you suggest shops do if they risk crossing the 1% threshold, for example?

I agree that a lot can be done if you're careful about how you do it, but if you aren't careful enough, you may easily make things worse.
> Some people are intelligent in their specific domain because they spend a lot of time working in that domain

But most people spending a lot of time working in a domain are still mediocre at it.
lol at how it has:

>>NOTE: the discoverer states "this vulnerability has no real-world implications."
No it isn't. The paper forces the universal turing machine to execute a different machine than the one on the input tape by providing crafted input to the intended simulated machine. It isn't a joke paper.

U is fed machine T and input I. By only changing I you can force U to execute a different machine X.
They’re artificially hamstrung at the moment, and current service levels aren’t indicative of irreversible organizational failings.
Not sure where you are coming from.

If you actually support different architectural styles in the language, like in Objective-S, then you don’t have to resort to the kinds of hackish implementations that were necessary, but at least possible and reasonably easy in Objective-C.

And that are still necessary, but much more difficult in Swift, because it (rightly) tries to restrict hackish things, but (wrongly) still doesn’t support other needed architectural styles.
Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Stirs Up Controversy
I can't actually speak for Switzerland, it does have a reputation for "no questions asked" banking.

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, "Know Your Customer", "Due Diligence" and other Anti-Money-Laundering measure are important. (1)

I think your last point is better phrased as "If the banks make it harder and harder to get your money out in bulk, without proof that your transaction is legal; then of course things like bitcoin will be used for the illegal transactions. And as a result the regulators will sooner or later regulate those too".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence
It depends on your situation.

For an smaller scale individual, the paperwork is a pain unless the entity is designed to be used by an individual.
Lovable HN snarkiness here. I didn't say that every virus does it. Geez.
You can fix the colors in post production.
Sorry, I got it wrong. I was thinking of a perennial version of Chenopodium capitatum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitum_capitatum ) not Arbutus unedo.
Show HN: JXL – It's Jira, but fast and easy
Amazon had net income of $21 billion on 2020. Were you the sole shareholder you would be entitled to collect that if you chose. Currently amazon reinvests to grow but that doesn’t mean profits aren’t there.

Meanwhile if you owned all of bitcoin and wanted to keep the current hash rate you’d have to pay in about $20 billion a year, maybe more.

From a cashflow perspective, one is certainly better than the other to own, even if you are barred from selling.
That market — the one that would be happy with a mediocre lens and great image processing - likely overlaps with people using top tier mobile devices for their work. After all, acceptable lenses with amazing image processing is basically what the flagship iPhones and android devices bring to the table, and their use case tends to overlap with that of a 50mm prime.
>His credibility is about on par with WHO at this point.

I'm not sure why he's ever had credibility. He's been criticized for years for what he did during his aids research., especially by the LGBT community back in the 80's.

https://www.aier.org/article/fauci-was-duplicitous-on-the-ai...

He's been criticized over his work during the anthrax attacks.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113383825463714813

Prior to last year, nobody had anything nice to say about Fauci.
The issue says the color choice was poor, effectively critiquing the ability of the person who chose that color.

I'd be insulted too. Wording choices matter.
Back to Basics: Software Project Management
> If a civilization doesn't have FTL then expansion beyond their solar system seems unlikely. Yes, it is still possible with sub-light travel, but then you run into the problem of motivation.

> When limited to sub-light speed trade between colonies and the home system is so slow that you probably can't usefully import resources from the colony systems.

I mean this seems to disregard our entire history as a species. There have always been "others" within a population that seek, above anything else, to find a new place to go in order to live life they way they want to.

We are also moving into an age where data and knowledge are raising to supreme importance. Both of these things can be transported at the speed of light, so a multi-solar system civilization that is able to increase is total resources available to acquire new information and knowledge will be at an advantage. Then, of course, there is the desire to preserve the human species as a whole by "spreading our seeds" so to speak.
If your logs are that important they should get shipped off the node immediately anyway. That's what ELK, Graylog, loki etc are for. If you don't do centralized automated log management on a many-node server farm and that impedes your forensic processes when a node fails then not compressed logs are to blame but your system. On any server I am responsible for, any log that is created on the node and required or useful for forensics gets shipped off the node immediately after it's written, including all system logs, container outputs, etc. I can only highly recommend it. The amounts of data to store centrally are very manageable as well even if you ship 100% of logs.
>The last bit just extends the delivery of a feature but brings long-awaited joy to the soul.

Programmer productivity is so hard to measure that I think nearly everyone can get away with this and should.
How much do you expect that “price of doing business” to cost? Probably at least $10k plus opportunity cost which for my small app business would be a serious kick in the nuts.

These regulations just further enable monopolies and make it more difficult for diverse entrepreneurs to get into the game.

I’m just saying to be mindful that you might be costing a small business an enormous amount by making these types of requests.
I came so close to buying this lens when I got a Nikon D750 last fall. I'm not really a photographer, but I was unsatisfied with the images coming out of my phone, and if I was going to get a dedicated camera, I wanted to go "all the way", so to speak.

But the problem with 50mm prime lenses is they all seem to lack image stabilization. (The one exception I could find, a 45mm from Tamron[1], has bad chromatic aberration which really bothered me when I tried it out.) Maybe OS isn't essential in all situations, but not having it just seems like a needless downgrade for no benefit.

1: https://www.tamron-usa.com/product/lenses/f013.html
There is fairly new Zeiss camera that implemented the whole "camera OS" with Android and even included mobile Lightroom editing capabilities. I guess it's as close as it gets right now.
My theory is that the main Japanese companies are extremely conservative and they don't pick up such changes easily - see how Canon and Nikon completely missed mirrorless and suffered huge market loss to Sony.
This will change the way you feel about Jira. No lag, no limits. Here's a 2 min video - https://youtu.be/BW6y7qHiN9k - or just start a free trial and let us know what you think.

All feedback much appreciated!
I have been a simple customer from the beginning also. Probably since 2012. I just did the transition and had no issues so far. I hope that continues. Sorry to hear about all of these experiences.
>overlooked the shortcomings compared to Office.

I agree with your general point but I'd also argue that, for a lot of people (including myself), the reduced feature set was mostly a feature, not a bug. I use presentation and word processor apps a lot, but I'm not really a "power user" these days.
Private smart home hard drive
I like the way you out this, it resonates with my own beliefs and thoughts but I could never put it in those words.

Sort of like seeing your younger self in some kid and your advice being the cheat code.

Hao! Hao.
When we say a program is "insecure" what do we mean? Do we mean that there is some class of inputs which cause it to behave in a way that it will do any arbitrary computation the designers of the input-data want it to execute?

Or less critically that the designers of the inputs can cause the outputs of the program reveal some information which can be used to implement further exploits?
Why is a DOLLAR like a NEANDERTHAL
> Now I am thinking whether the agenda to bring open computing is genuine or is it a front to make dictatorships independent from western technology?

I mean, technological independence from the US should be a desire of every country that _isn't_ the US, as the US gives no rights to foreign nationals or their data, has a history of backdooring products and is suspected of making some of the most sophisticated malware the world has ever known.
Discovery learning – how to construct new knowledge
> There are people who can pair indefinitely, for years. Who don’t experience the most demanding version of it often. Whose recovery capacity comfortably outpaces the demand.

I've paired for years, at two companies, but I have no personal sensation of "recovery capacity", because I'm an extrovert, and pairing gives me energy, instead of draining it away. One of my biggest complaints with my current company is that pairing is never done.

Extroversion is nothing but a neurological condition from birth.

Pairing is awesome for some, and torture for others.

Another benefit is the ability to work productively in the noisy Great Hall offices into which careless management and high office rents conspire to confine us. Instead of requiring the dead silence I need for solo concentration, I only need to be able to hear my pairing partner over the constant din of telephone calls, and reviews of last night's tacos, aisles away.
Government price controls inevitably cause shortages and black markets. It is completely infeasible to enforce a limit on throwing away food.
>I believe we shouldn't just dismiss the old remedies and other tricks.

We test many of those remedies and tricks with a formal method. The ones that work further science and our collective understanding. The ones that don't are relegated as old wives tales.

Even the article narrows in on this correctly.

>Alcantar told her postdoc about this, and because they didn’t have a lab, directed him to try “a quick and dirty experiment.”

>“Two days later he came back and said ‘Yeah, it worked,’” she said.
I recently got back into photography after a decade break. Brought a nice mirrorless camera and a few good lenses (Sony A7iii, 24-105 f/4, 35mm f/1.8). I was truly blown away at the progress that has been made in handheld imaging. The difference between my old Cannon EOS 450d and my current equipment is immense.

What has happened to the iPhone camera in the last 10 years has also happened to handheld cameras too, but they were starting from a much better place, most people just haven't realised as the iPhone is good enough for almost everything.
Looking at your comment history, it's too bad we're seeing this type of trolling leak out of Reddit onto HN.
As I understand it, wheels support is coming to musl. I cannot remember where I read this, but it must have been on some issue related to this.
The FBI seized safe deposit boxes knowing ‘some’ belonged to ‘honest citizens’
Excel Meets Lambda
I had a real soft spot for OpenDoc, remembering seeing the demos at AppleExpo in the late 90's.

Yes you have to start with what people need and go from there. However, you can also start from what a niche of people need and go from there.

Honestly I think OpenDoc was way too ahead of its time to be groked by mainstream users. Currently we have various workbook online apps (like Observable) that are similar in spirit and super useful to those who know how to leverage them, but haven't yet crossed into the mainstream.
That this is acceptable in any way is ridiculous
And the original true story that Moby Dick was based on. Quite gruesome. Lesson learned, don't wait until your ship mates have no body fat to eat them, or the protein won't be absorbed.
What does Turing completness even mean in practice when it comes to non-theoretical languages?
> There is nothing special about consciousness, it's the unified field, it's all there actually is.

That just begs the question of what consciousness actually is. You can define consciousness as being the wave function, but then you still have to actually check if what 'consciousness' colloquially means has any resemblance to that.

For example, when you tell me something is conscious, I expect that I can teach that thing certain things, like how to sing or how to fetch. Since a photon has a wavefunction, by your definition I would expect to be able to teach a photon to do things.

Similarly, I expect conscious things to be able to interact with the world and have feelings about it. Do you beleive a photon admires an electron more than a proton, or anything similar?

Until you can show any experiments where anything that is known to be described by a wavefunction is shown to have all of the properties we associate with the word 'consciousness' in everyday usage, your assertion that all wavefunctions have a corresponding 'consciousness' doesn't really mean anything. I could just as easily say that all wavefunctions have an associated music, and that music is all there actually is. It's a definition, so it's not wrong, but it's not illuminating.
How to buy pre-IPO stock if you are a retail investor
Not looking for advice, thanks :)
That’s more than I was expecting given the 98% selling less than 5000 referenced in the opening paragraph.

But then again, that 2.6 million books were sold is also more than I expected.
I've found pairing really useful for certain activities. If I'm working on very critical code or if I need to churn something vast out quite quickly, then pairing has served me well. As a new generation enters software I've noticed there's some differences, but it follows the same theme. Aside from pairing, they like to watch people code. Notably, I had a codebase that had been through a POC but lacked some E2E tests, so I streamed myself writing tests and refactoring code to make it more testable. The engineer picked up on the tools I was using, what I was doing, why I was doing it, and got to see me make mistakes. I think this is yet another avenue where we have opportunities to engage young devs and onboard them more quickly.

As someone that loves and suggests pairing, I'll pass on this:

- Never mandate pairing, authorize it. Some people really don't like pairing and will just complain endlessly.

- If you authorize pairing, find two people who are really good at it and have them train people on how to do it with your equipment and your environment.

- Personalities that clash on a team will predictably not pair well together.
I don't have the data, but my car insurance is considerably lower as a result of modern safety features in my vehicle. My insurer has a large checklist of things which correspond with a discount, such as automatic breaking, cameras, blind spot sensors, lane departure alerts and steering, etc. In total it comes to nearly 15% for my vehicle. I suspect it means these things actually save my insurer money on average.

Which brings me to the point of common sense. Not everyone shares it, or uses it, and so these features are useful. We can talk all day about what people should or could do, but at the end of the day, it just isn't going to happen.
I've never seen or even heard of a place where pairing is optional. I've only ever seen it compulsory or forbidden.
Why not both?

If you have reason to believe that some state-equivalent espionage group implants malware in machines headed in your direction, it is to your advantage to defend against that.

It seems to be the case that human-rights advocates as well as dictatorships have been such targets.
Cardano Africa Special reveals second major partnership, this time with Tanzania
> I just hope that fear of the old power structures doesn’t bring good people to ally with values that we would not want in a new system.

That's why people need to call BS on the current hype train. Otherwise, when a sufficient solution surfaces, people are going to distrust it just as much as the old power structures. And I'd say we're already getting close to that point.

The problem is, with equal distrust, people will tend to choose the option that doesn't require change.
Money represents value. It's the lowest common denominator when talking about whether or not an idea is worth doing. It's hard to quantify altruism.

e.g. An idea to plant a garden with entirely toxic plants is just as valid, but not as valuable.
The Dark Forest is book 2 of Three Body Trilogy
Lucent, AT&T etc. are like NASA in their failure to use these amazing achievements as part of their popular story/narrative. Imagine if the Nike marketing agency had, instead of 'shoes', literally 'space' to work with? It would be like crack for an agency creative. They would make 'Avengers' quality stuff.
Saponins are a well known type of substances. It was created as predators deterrent but we can use if as predator's detergent. There is even a tree that bears soap berries, so you don't need to kill any poor cactus or use animal fat for that. First course of plant physiology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology...
I fell off of Dark Tower during the flashback sequence in the 4th book, but up until that point I agree it was a solid and off-putting story.
Why do people insist on supporting the closed source horror show of os x aid beyond me.

Apple docs are some of the worst on the planet. It's like they intend on making the barrier to entry high so once you are in the club you somehow have prestige.

No, you have Stockholm syndrome.
> You can spend quite some time configuring firefox not to check for update

Yeah I tried doing this once. I searched about:config for any mention of `mozilla.org` and deleted it. It still pinged Mozilla looking for an update.

You're probably wondering why I wanted to disable updates, well I have a few toy browsers I don't want updated because I like the specific version and some addons I have are not compatible with newer Firefox (due to the webextensions overhaul).

My solution was to use an older version of Waterfox (Waterfox Classic) which still supports older addons. I also use Palemoon for oldskool extension support, but don't use it as my main browser for obvious reasons.
>A joke? It's deadly serious. Standardized tests help entrench racist ideas and keep the poor out of good opportunities.

With Internet access I think you can overcome shitton, at least when it comes to english, math and similar like physics, computer science

Unless you're literally taking about poorest of the poorest who cannot even access internet.

>Simple. If universities want government funding they must admit classes that accurately represent the socioeconomic conditions of the wider population. 1% of the class can be in the top 1% of the income bracket. If a university doesn't like this, that's fine, they can go their own way. They get 0 federal dollars and no federal backing for student loans that go there.

I don't see it working in practice.

Even when there are standarized tests there is significant gap between top and bottom students, with your approach the gap will be even wider, thus it will decrease quality of classes unless you change system even more

and I guess that's what you want to do - change system even more.

So, how would you pick students?

let's say that 500 students that sit at top 50% income applied, how will you decide which will be accepted?

Also

What will happen to those top performing students that will not be accepted due to them being at top $$$?

Rejecting them in long run will cause your whole nation
Covid-19 scatters tech hubs for young talent
Well, it's not such a bad idea for most cluster admins (me being one at a large UK University). Most of our compute time comes from a small number of very popular MPI parallelised applications, all of which suffer from worse (or at best equivalent) performance with hyperthreading.
I’ll save you a click: this article basically says “to make them better.” Little explanation of what the elements do.
I should think any civilization capable of producing, operating and placing such a beacon would be able to detect us on their own and might have the same interest in communicating with us that we have with ant colonies. WE think everyone wants to find and communicate with us but there is no reason that we should assume THEY feel the same way.
We had a fun bug in production with our timezones going haywire due to a similar issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64581249/rails-activesup...

No broken builds but all times displayed from our alpine based services were off by an hour.

The best bit was that users started entering times for scheduled events that were off by an hour to "compensate" for our brokenly displayed times.