skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you enjoy your annual ex/cum-divi volatility and applying income tax and potentially overseas withholding taxes and exemptions and treaties rules?

the administration and process involved in setting dividends isn't very trivial either

and too often maintenance of dividend payments are placebos for lackadaisical areas of more important management responsibility

and it's too common for factions in the boardroom to be trying to serve and attract entirely different types of investors who would be better served with tracking stocks or demergers and so on

for some people any dividend unsupported by a very clear rationale is a red light but of course if you are doing in depth company analysis you may have all of this covered in your models and settlement and actions systems.
For arcade, yes, but MAME does do consoles as well in both NTSC and PAL formats. MAME has a pretty high-quality MegaDrive/Genesis driver, for instance.
Some international agency could take care of hosting the database. You would need some kind of trusted international agency anyway for such a project, the way the database works is a technical detail that is not super important IMHO. You don't fix such a problem with a blockchain database and a website.
China confirms it has its own UFO investigation taskforce
For an equivalent item, Target is usually not much more expensive, if any. But, Walmart carries cheaper alternatives and a wider selection than Target.
I used to be like this. I regret it. I made a distinction that didn't exist-- that there were non-religious people and religious people.

Naturally, I was one of the non-religious people and therefore better. Instead of defining what I believed in, I could just attack the things I didn't believe in. It was easy. I never had to play defense. I might not win every time but I could never lose. I could rattle cages but had no cage of my own.

The way you're describing yourself is how everyone thinks. Faith and doubt are two sides of the same coin. I consider faith worthless without doubt.
There are tens of millions of people in the US who were careless, got covid, and then spread it to others in the past year who have more blood on their hands than anyone who cut a vaccine line. Vaccine line cutting is just such a bizarre thing to take a hard moral stance on. And even now months later when the opposite problem of vaccine hesitancy is a much bigger concern, you’re still calling someone out for not even having done it but for perhaps having inadvertently encouraged others to do it.

I’ve seen a lot of pointless internet fights but this is truly next level.
It's worth noting that Subaru vehicles have been doing vision-only adaptive cruise / lane keeping / emergency braking for many years, which they brand Eyesight. In my personal experience its adaptive cruise is as good or better than most other cars I've driven which use radar.

(Admittedly the reasons why the Subaru impressed me was more for its programming rather than absolute precision. I liked how smoothly it transitioned between following and open road ahead. Much less jerky.)
Cloning DARPA: A growing number of governments hope to do it
I work as a contractor - mainly to government and my experience is that at least 50% of people in the public sector are there purely to keep people in employment. They serve no useful purpose, and mainly create made up work for each other.

I also do very little that is useful despite bringing a great deal of skill. If they cared to ask me what I think, I would be happy to explain why all the things they get me to do are a waste of time. I’d also be more than happy to suggest some simple things they could do that would actually be useful.
Apple resolved M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue in macOS 11.4
Maybe someone can correct me, but it seems React Native still doesn't support box shadows on Android. There's a lot of unbaked stuff in there...
Given that governments have helped overturn regimes before, why isn't this being done now? Clearly it would benefit the Belarussian people (friends I have there are struggling a lot) as well as EU. Or are we just afraid of Russia too much still?
Kim Kardashian breaks down when talking about her divorce with Kanye West
Without some expectation of privacy it would have been impossible for people to gather together with others who had been similarly criminalized.

Without those gatherings, organizing against anti-gay propaganda (equating it to pedophilia, claiming it would be the downfall of civilization, etc.) would have been impossible and it's unlikely that the laws criminalizing homosexuality would have ever been changed.

If you kill privacy then you'll also kill the ability of marginalized groups to organize against any future oppression.

I doubt you actually believe that privacy doesn't matter however, because you're posting here under a pseudonym and haven't linked any social media accounts or anything which could reveal "private" details like your full legal name, place of residence/work, etc.
What? This example code contains so many issues...

- why would you write every character to the backend? Do they really encourage storing UI state in the backend?
- this approach fails greatly if a second user starts typing
- it says "no need to learn an additional template language" but continues to define it in the input tag

It looks like the developers of this framework aren't too much into actual client development. Example code should be at least valid to a certain point.
Fermentable fiber is food for lots of symbiotic bacteria in the gut. Our health depends on the health of many of those bacteria populations. They produce proteins for us for which we don't have the genes, modulate immune functions, etc.
The photo in the article is labeled, "The port of Copenhagen, where the artificial island Lynetteholm is planned to be built, as it is today", but fails to mention that the picture is of Trekroner Fort, itself an artificial island built on sunken warships from 1713:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekroner_Fort
The polling data cited up-thread doesn't even include "elite white circles."
The Dutch artificial island 'Flevopolder' is ~970 square km. So, I wouldn't say giant when there is an artificial island that has a 373x larger surface area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder

It is still a very nice project nonetheless!
I like the phrase "life stance" for this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_stance
The new geopolitics of global business
Investment banks are the underwriters. They do in fact buy the IPO shares from the company and re-sell them, but the mark-up for that resale is on a commission basis, customarily 6%. It’s not like they are buying the shares at price x and then trying to sell them at price y. The round is priced jointly between the underwriter and the IPO’ing company based on orders obtained during the road show.
Klarna: May 27 Incident Report
> Medium said that 52% of departures were white, and that one third of the company is non-white and non-Asian.

As an European reader, it's incredible to read such a statement. USA has a skin colour / racism problem.
Indeed. You don't need to know that you're a hero in order to be a hero...
"Also over half? of people wake up to pee at least once. That'd be nice to make unnecessary"

And then there is the hazzle of breathing.
And walking. And moving around!

Oh boy, if only someone could do living for me.
You can't satisfy the people who don't want to be satisfied.
The difference is disclosing information voluntarily, versus being forced.
Ironic how these days Windows itself probably contains more spyware and adware and likely exfiltrates far more data about you than Bonzi Buddy was ever able to.
Electricity auctions in the UK are for 30 minute blocks, done 30 minutes ahead.

Do you think there are benefits to making that 1 minute blocks, or even 1 second blocks now that all trading is automated?

It would have the benefit that solar producers no longer have to guess how many clouds there will be in an hour (and waste energy or money if they're wrong). It would mean big companies don't need to decide an hour in advance of switching on or off their equipment. It would mean pricing can represent fine-grained demand, such as surges exactly on the hour as scheduled things turn on.
It is impossible to schedule any reasonable program in advance because you don't know what the latencies of any memory loads are. (Also, you'd need a lot of register names in the ISA - modern OoO CPUs have hundreds of physical registers backing ~16 register names.)

Besides that, if you think x86 is bad you should try using some supposedly clean architectures like MIPS or Alpha. They may be RISC but they are definitely too RISC.
Author here. I can’t believe I didn’t cover that as I spent ages fighting with it before writing this.

Writing those posts was incredibly cathartic, but I still left stuff out because I couldn’t get to the bottom of it. I do recall that configuring systemd resolved and finding useful docs for it was a nightmare.
"Going to the toilet is inefficient"

By what meassure? To me it is by definition part of every living metabolism.
There are complex and strict rules around commercial banks that direct to their loan to value ratios, capitalisation and auditing arrangements (Basel accords). Tether is not subject to this.

The biggest difference you highlight is a big difference. On youtube, you can watch a series of documentaries by Milton Friedman, Free to Choose. In an early episode of this, he explains how the Great Depression was triggered by the fed failing to lend liquidity to a legitimate commercial bank that needed it.

As you point out, there is no equivalent liquidity safety net for Tether. It may be that in a tether crisis the fed would feel compelled to step in and bailout anyway to prevent systemic problems. The Long Term Capital Management bailout had this character. It was not the fed’s responsibility to bail it out, but there was noone else to do it, and if they had not then it would have created a systemic crisis comparable to the start of the great depression.

This will not happen in 2021. Crypto is not systemically important now. But as it becomes integrated, Tether becomes a larger problem.
Hmm, I "adopted" one for a couple of years and I would get regular updates - once they passed training, once they were active etc. I think it was every month or two.
>3% of US Latino adults use the term "Latinx". 20% do not use it, and 76% have never heard of it.

Who is using this term if it is not people who it is ostensibly used to describe? I can venture a guess.
> If you imagine destructors have something to do with memory management, you have much yet to learn.

It is very limiting to think that destructors is the only way to solve resource scoping problem.
Nigeria Suspends Operations on Twitter
That made me think back to running litestep as an alternative shell on my Windows98 computer and occasionally having to pull the drive and mount it in another system to recover it when I blew it up with a bad configuration.
I used Windows 10 at my last job and it was actually pretty good. But I was shocked how ugly it was (and that was coming from Ubuntu). It's been fascinating to watch Windows desktop get progressively uglier for 20+ years¹. It will be interesting to see if they correct course.

Given that so many people still spend so much of their days looking at a Windows Desktop, I wonder if there is some aggregate loss to humanity in imagination, sanguinity, or otherwise by not having a prettier, more thoughtfully constructed virtual space.

¹Win7 seems like a bit of an exception if memory serves.
> around six shot glasses each of a deep green viscous liquid that was the most horrible tasting shit I've ever swallowed

That was exactly my (single) experience. At the first sip I thought I'd manage to take it all in. At the third one I was already struggling not to puke.

And even worse, I had ZERO effects except for brain fog, dizziness and actually vomiting (very violently) about one hour after the last shot.

I'm really hoping I can take one that works soon.
Thank you for finally providing a definition.
If anyone is interested in reading the actual legislation, here it is: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
As the parent post noted, the USA Today home page makes requests to dozens of third-parties--including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and something called "summerhamster". I'm sure one of the dozens will take the FBI's call.

Hilariously, the USA Today homepage also hits OneTrust, who has the slogan "Privacy, Security and Data Governance" right in the <title>. What is there to govern if nearly all the major tech players have your access logs?

USA Today is shouting its readers' reading behavior from the mountain top.
It didn't already support arm64? Was nobody using it on iOS?

I remember trying to run Mercury on M1 recently and having problems getting it to build - some of that was because it had very old style probably wrong approaches to atomics written in x86 asm.

Also, a lot of games are still on x86, even constantly updated ones like Minecraft - and that's not even native code.
I don't think you confused the issue there at all, but forced a clarification of boundaries. The safety critical PLC industrial controller network should be isolated from the Net, however, even with the pipeline hack, the shutdown of the PLC network was due to compromise of billing systems, which are non-safety critical to the immediate user population (administration) but mission critical to the architecture of the western, market-mediated economic activity. You can't secure those systems perfectly, though we can definitely do better. The correct response, however, in this case is effective deterrence of those looking to engage in cyber offensives. Like it or not, when you can sit back outside the reach of effective enforcement measures, and cause mayhem and havoc, and make a buck doing it financial incentivization mechanisms pretty much ensure it will happen.

I just hope we don't take it too far. Many young and talented people in the CS and IT space cut their teeth testing the limits of legitimate access without pushing into the full on destructive regime these attackers have.

I'd hate to see things cracked down on so hard we lose a good signal for talent because we decide that the integrity of cyber systems must be defended at all costs. However, there needs to be a much more pronounced reaction to the types ofor blatantly malicious activity that has been escalating for the past decade or so.
There's significant funding and political force at the local, state and federal levels that, if allowed, would "ban" LGBT existence and put Christianity as the U.S. official religion. Along with every other crazy idea you can think of. Luckily, there's funding and work in opposition.

People can be very comfortable sitting on an unbalanced rock, until it tips.
“Working class”, despite what those words can mean separately, doesn’t mean “class of people with a job”.

It is a polite rephrasing of the now antiquated phrase: “lower class”.

In fact, the “working class” aren’t necessarily even employed.
The Movie We’ll Never Watch Because We’ll All Be Dead by the Time It Releases
It's not that I disagree but it's so depressingly cynical to suggest Walmart make its business less efficient for the sake of allowing for social stratification.
Alternatively the law can be written so that the multiplier is against the greater of (1) the lowest paid domestic employee, or (2) the prevailing wage of the lowest paid foreign employee if they were domestically employed. Something like that, anyways.
It isn't your boss' decision to have you promoted. It is your boss' colleagues: the decision isn't made in a vacuum. Best your boss can do is give you opportunities to obviously display that value to their peer group. All people have a limited amount of mindshare to spend on tasks. To move up, you must claim some of their headspace (in a positive manner, of course).
I like how you say ""Walmart is experimenting with something they call “Walmart Neighborhood Market” and they have had these for over a decade. I come from the area around the home office and they make the stores run quite a bit better there. The further away the store is the more likely there is less innovation or management issues.
When I moved to the east cost I could clearly see certain loss prevention measures that made me not buy products.
Framing seems to matter. If someone was following you all around town and you could physically see them taking notes I don't know a single person that wouldn't feel uncomfortable with this. But as soon as you can't see that person, people care less. But we all essentially have a world class private investigator following us at all times and this is a bit weird to think about.
Getting rid of that protection would also get rid of the protection that ISPs have, which allows them to serve up internet service without having to moderate everything. Same for hosting companies and for forums like hn.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
My closest Walmart is in a town of 20,000 or so. There’s also a Target a few blocks away. The people that shop at either could not be more different. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone above 350 lbs at the Target. Walmart? Probably every time I’ve been in there.
It's interesting, the article discusses that the request is for a relatively short period of time (35 minutes) - however for a popular website that could still be thousands of viewers.

It suggests that there's something they're specifically looking to match against - but if that was the case, I would think that specific IP addresses could be provided in the request - e.g. Did any one of these 10 IP addresses view the article in the time period. Much more specific and likely easier to justify.

I'd rampantly speculate that perhaps that time matches to the link being posted in a pedophilia related forum (with the forum behind TOR) - and the FBI would like to get a list of who might have followed it there.
So the ethical distinction is just data amount? Both send anonymous data, if you just mean encrypted.
> Honestly, we can't let basic security turn into an arms race.

Are you implying that expecting an organization that manages critical infrastructure turning on 2FA and setting secure passwords is an arms race? Hell, if I was a local coffee shop, I'd still expect my employees to use 2FA and a password manager to log into company computer systems.
The headline is only to drive home this bullshit narrative:

> It was the first time Colonial had shut down the entirety of its gasoline pipeline system in its 57-year history, Blount said. “We had no choice at that point,” he said. “It was absolutely the right thing to do. At that time, we had no idea who was attacking us or what their motives were.”

So they saw a windows ransomware screen on their windows office computers. Even a known ransomware, with a known decrypter they could not find with a simple search on their android/IPhone.

So they decided it's a high probability that the ransomware will jump from the office PCs to the non-Windows internal pipeline control system. Foreign terrorists. Bullshit.

As we later found out, they decided to shutdown the east coast infrastructure only because they could not calculate the exact gallons delivered to each customer via their office PCs. Rounding would have lead to real money loss apparently. FYI In the real world everybody else does rounding and estimation. The sensor data is for verification and control.
> If Walmart started treating their staff like Costco

If Walmart paid their staff like Costco their prices would be high like Costco’s and there would be little reason for them to exist anymore.

For people on a budget, Costco’s prices are terrible on many basic items. The “bulk prices” in many categories (e.g. dairy) are at best the same price per unit as Walmart with the huge purchase requirement.

Costco is for middle to upper middle class incomes and Walmart is for middle to lower class incomes. If you don’t recognize the price difference between the stores, you are privileged enough to be in the former category.
> The thing with Python types is that they are “type hints” and not true types

Python has several type checkers, as does Haskell, each with different soundness properties. What makes GHC's type checking more "true" than Mypy's or Pytype's or Pyright's?
CERN migration to open source (MALT Project Update) [pdf]
The simplest description I've found is at https://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/ksh/coprocesses.html, which also provides a couple of examples.

Basically, you start a coprocess using the "|&" operator:

somecommand |&

This starts somecommand asynchronously, with stdin and stdout attached to anonymous pipes with descriptor numbers that can be referenced by a literal descriptor name, "p". So running

cat <&p

will shuttle the output of the somecommand coprocess to stdout.

"p" always references the most recently created coprocess, so to juggle multiple coprocesses you have to dup "p" to explicit descriptors:

exec 4>&p
somecommand2 5<&p |&

That's not as great as having named references, but it's rare to need to independently juggle more than 1 or 2 coprocesses from the same context. You're almost always plugging them together in series or in a complex graph using subshells. In either case you're only needing to manage the same few descriptor constants. It's sort of like writing in a stack-based language, where you really only use explicit references to the top of the stack.

coprocesses provide a simple construct for cases where you would otherwise have to manually create a named pipe using mkfifo. The need for this pattern comes up surprisingly often, IME, yet because it's so messy--now you need to worry about /tmp races, cleaning things up, etc--people rarely bother, myself included. From the perspective of a shell it's a relatively simple construct to implement. The semantic benefit/cost ratio is exceptional.

This basic functionality is complemented with extension options to the read and print (non-standard) builtins: -p reads from or writes to the latest coprocess, and -u the specified descriptor number. I haven't used coprocesses much because I can't rely on them, but I don't think these are strictly needed. Maybe they were required for proper buffering in early implementations (or even current ones), where redirection to and from builtins didn't utilize the same buffered I/O context? That seems more like an implementation detail.

ksh93, bash, and some other shells provide the process substitution construct, "<()", which can provide similar capabilities to coprocesses in many cases. But I'm pretty sure anything you could do with process substitution you could do with coprocesses, making the latter the more powerful construct. coprocesses seems like the critical missing primitive from the traditional Unix shell model, and would round it out. (Of course, the sky is the limit for evolving the Unix shell model in new directions, as Oil has shown.)

ksh88 had coprocesses so I'm curious why it wasn't included in POSIX Maybe because bash lacked an implementation? Or incompatible quirks between ksh88 and ksh93 related to stdout inheritance across coprocesses?