skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly are you proposing then? You literally said no retail investor should be purchasing individual stocks. It's not a giant leap then to think that you want to prohibit retail investors from purchasing individual stocks. If that's not what you want, then what do you want?

> We're saying that Robinhood is playing an extremely dangerous game with their clients' well-being by promoting risky and irresponsible decision-making around their livelihoods.

How does Robinhood promote risky and irresponsible decision making? Robinhood doesn't force anyone to buy stocks. Retail investors have been able to buy stocks since the stock market existed. Robinhood's innovation is to let them do it for $0 commissions, which dramatically decreases risk for small investors.

For example, Vanguard charges a $7 commission per trade unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with them. If you want to invest $100, you will pay $14 in commissions - $7 when you buy and $7 when you sell. Now your investment needs to return at least 14% just to break even.

Compare to $0 commissions on Robinhood, now, if the underlying investment makes money at all, you make money. This is a huge benefit for people who only have small amounts to invest.

The $7 commission doesn't matter much if you're investing tens of thousands of dollars, it matters a lot if you're investing much less.
For all but the last ~150 years or so of human existence, meaning and purpose came almost exclusively from (1) raising a family and (2) religion. I think the cruelest tragedy of modernity is that we no longer teach our children that life can actually be quite rewarding and fulfilling outside of one’s profession.
Chomsky is a terrible, terrible historian.

He regularly presents things that are heavily debated as established fact.

He doesn’t lie or even repeat blatant falsehoods. He just misrepresents the level of certainty regarding historical events.

In his recent essay Prospects for Survival, he talks about Stalin’s offer to unite East and West Germany as though it were a good faith offer.

He equivocates with “we can’t be sure”, but then acts like it’s a reasonable proposition.

While the absolute truth died with Stalin, there’s no evidence anyone in the Soviet Union or East Germany was prepared to surrender control.
Sure. I expect it comes up infrequently in Go. It comes up a bit more in c++ or Rust because the tooling allows it and people some times over-engineer solutions (still on the rarer side).

That being said, at the end of the day all the synchronization primitives you use end up using atomics to actually be implemented. They’re the most fundamental concept everything else is built off of.
When we Dutch buy Hollanse Nieuwe (herring of this year) we get asked if we want 'ui en zuur erbij?' ('onion and sour with it?'). The sour are pickles. I wouldn't want my herring without either.

Maybe lutefisk counts, but I don't think so. Fermentation has to be done correct, else it is dangerous. That's where the gross feeling stems from; it has/had a purpose.
Thank you! We're doing what we can with what have where we are, or maybe just what we must because we can, depending on your preferred aphorism :)
> That's interesting to consider a code walkthrough as different than a code review. How would you describe the differences?

The code review process I'm familiar with is: open a PR, wait for a couple of reviewers to comment on the work. Then normally what happens is:

- The comments are trivial, so I implement the changes (these are almost always things that could be automated, but for one reason or another haven't been).

- The comments need to be discussed/clarified, so I need to call the person.

The code by itself doesn't have all the context, all the things that were tried etc. A code walkthrough is a session with other coders, where it is explained how and why we arrived at the solution, what considerations were made and so on. Walkthrough sessions provide much faster feedback and all improvements can be discussed immediately with much greater clarity.
That’s something that comes in time, if ever. If Kubernetes started by replacing the OS later of abstraction, say by requiring unikernel applications, then it would have virtually no adoption because we as an industry don’t know how to build and operate unikernels in production. You have to meet the market/industry where it’s at and then co-evolve with the industry into some tighter, more optimal form.
Great analysis. I bought from sparkfun, but they should be taken better advice to deal with it. The article is not good enough as defence, just like a stand or a wish more.
I have lost 5 kg since january going from ~102kg to ~97kg. This has happened from two changes: going for a run 2-3 times per week and reducing the amount of cake I eat. I still have fries with mayonnaise with my hamburgers.

I acknowledge that there is an issue around cheap food being unhealthy food and people being forced to eat chips for lunch for financial reasons, but for anyone in the middle class or above I really don't understand why it's more complicated than 'move more, eat less'.

It's hard. But it's not complicated.
I went and did the other side, living nontraditionally and trying to be what I wanted.

I just applied for a regular job. Because to be honest, it’s gonna be pretty sweet having a fat bank account, even if it’ll take till I’m 50 to have FU money.

My current hypothesis is that the team is all that matters. The work can be the most boring, crud-type work. As long as you’re working with people you like on something vaguely interesting, who cares?

20yo me would be mortified to hear myself say this, but the chances of either of us influencing the world is quite small. I’m happy I threw all of my effort into doing something I wanted, but my honest answer is that you’re not really missing out on much.

Relax and enjoy yourself. Most days, I end up wishing I’d had kids 5 years ago. It was nice to prioritize myself, but you can’t prioritize a family you never focused on building.

(I had no idea I even wanted a family or that it was important to me until about… 29?)

I guess my point is, the “relax and enjoy yourself” mentality isn’t so bad. No one will probably remember us the way they’ll remember pg. But I’ve helped thousands of devs directly, whether in DMs or by contributing code, and I think I only care whether those folks might remember me.

So that’s the area you can really make an impact: on the people around you, in your day to day life.

Maybe I’ll wake up in a few years and realize this is a terrible mistake, but that seems unlikely.
I get what you're trying to say, but what I'm saying is that the approach you're proposing simply doesn't work. Sure, it'll route POSTs and PUTs to the write master, that part will work fine. But GETs will randomly bomb when they throw an UPDATE at their read replica. We can't predict which of those GETs will break on behalf of our users, and the one thing we're trying to avoid asking our users to do is to do complicated surgery on their applications to make them run well on us.

Like, I think it would make sense to have the feature that routes by HTTP verb! But it would be dangerous to promote that as a write-steering feature.
Yeah I guess those things don’t really strike me as conspiracies, like I guess they fit the technical definition in some ways especially if they’re deemed illegal but just because a program is covert doesn’t make it a conspiracy. It might just be a dumb or poorly executed idea (although I suppose also “harm” may be in the eye of the beholder)
You would enjoy Firefox Containers!
Excellent article. When the memory model in the Linux kernel was being improved to better support additional architectures and techniques like Read-Copy-Update, we had many deep discussions about hardware details like this. Jumping into this level of complexity is pretty mind boggling when you first encounter it.
Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors
Economics is the new god, the god of materialism. At some point in the 20th century we decided that material prosperity is really all you need for a happy and healthy society. Doesn’t seem to be working out so well…
Thanks, Blair. I've spent an afternoon pawing through the USPTO trademark & their TESS system. To self-register a trademark with already-listed goods (eg, a T-Shirt or a clock) costs about USD$350. The cost bumps up for every class of goods your trademark covers (say, your trademark covers T-Shirts and Clocks). And oddball, unlisted items (Klein bottles) cost noticeably more.
This is the argument Hubert Dreyfuss advances to postulate Artificial General Intelligence can never be achieved - because computers are not “in the world.”

> One of the leading critics was the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4
> Also they pay crap

Do they even employ any sizable number of IC SWEs in the US, or are they all Leads/M2s that manage outsourced contracts?
IME they hear "there's a 95% chance it'll be done between 5-7 months", when the real 95% interval is more like 2-15 months.
Official Windows for RPi is Windows 10 IoT Core, not Windows 10. ARM Windows 10 license isn't sold separately but bundled to certificated device (like Surface X), but some hackers installs ARM Windows 10 image (that's for certified devices) to RPi without license.
I agree, this all makes sense. Although I think the team-embedded QA is generally the right thing, I wouldn't use it blindly in all cases. Some teams I manage only produce HTTP API's, these are ideal candidates for automated testing (incl. end-to-end integrated tests) and the developers are happy to own this without a QA on the team.
Not really. All of the investment tax pain I deal with yearly exists to prevent some sort of loophole someone exploited in the past.
I’m 41, and know all those things, and my father’s company ran for most of my life on AS/400. But they replaced those systems over a decade ago. My whole professional career IBM has been trying to commit corporate suicide in a stumbling awkward way. It’s a testament to how long you can keep spending down brand credibility. I struggle to call them important today. Maybe historically interesting. But not important.
I took the Kayten course [1] to review for the Patent Bar exam. It was three days, and then I spent a couple months reviewing all the old exam questions.

[1] https://passingpatentbarwithprg.tumblr.com/post/9992218513/w...
For an article focused on the benefits of agency, the author sure seems to ignore agency on behalf of parents and people to decide how to make space for their kids. Modern education is no more a trap for the gifted than it is a vehicle to produce mediocrity. Greatness and mediocrity are products of what happens around school. The reality is that most folks aren’t Da Vinci or Steve Jobs. And in the case of those people, they found a way.

If the author preaches agency, stop pretending like you don’t have the agency to “just” be as the system asks.
Copilot is trending and I thought I'd make something for fun.

Captain Stack is a VSCode extension that mimics Copilot's code suggestion feature. But instead of using AI, it filter search results on Google and return a list of code suggestion option

It was meant for fun. Though I realized this method is quite effective since that's just what devs usually do

Feedback and question are welcome
This is a good idea.

I'm surprised a clever 501c3 isn't quietly buying up patents, and burying them, or using them as legal weapons against companies that abuse the patent system.

Just did a quick search, and there is a company.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-takes-another-step-t...
When I enter "Klein bottle" or "Acme Klein Bottle" as a search pattern, the first item in the list is https://www.amazon.com/Kleinverse-Exquisite-Handmade-Educati... . Is that wrong?
Yeah. Beliefs feel more like skin. And acting as if I believe something I don't feels like putting paste on my skin to avoid discrimination. Our skin doesn't get ripped off easily nor without pain - it does get burned, or healed, maybe. That's what I can liken to the sensation of changing beliefs.
My understanding is that this is basically the endgame of all patents related to computing. You want to patent something so vague and poorly defined that it can be used to make a claim against anything.
As a kink artist, I really appreciated this paper. There's a lot of types out there on twitter (I no longer have a feed on there) that don't care for art and send vile death threats and worse on a regular basis to those who draw taboo art - that is still art.

So this is particularly relevant. I would encourage people to give this paper a chance.

The paragraph that sold it for me: "Thus, self-censorship is another way in which networked harassment functions as a norm reinforcement technique. The networked audience engaged in harassment successfully reinforces its moral norm by discouraging the target from violating it in public. And, because networked harassment is more likely to happen to women, trans and non-binary people, sexual minorities, and people of color, networked harassment causes minoritized voices to be systematically eliminated from the public sphere. Networked harassment also reinforces symbolic boundaries between groups by creating moral distinctions between us and them. As discussed, polarization and partisanship involve both in-group solidarity and out-group animus."
You should let your child have lots and lots of freedom to do whatever he wants, even if that is often watching television or whatever. Ideally you would have a lot of outdoor places for him to roam --- whether that be a large amount of land that you live on or just a green neighborhood.

This is based on my own experience, because I was allowed to manage my free time. When I got out of school, I had a chore or two, but the rest of the evening was mine to manage. (I was expected to do my homework at some point, though, and make decent grades. In fact I made A's and B's.) But the rest of the time I watched about 2-3 hours of TV, drew a lot, jumped on the trampoline, and in general ran around outside (We lived on five acres).

My parents never sent me to summer camp. The summer was mine. They never made me take piano lessons or join the boy scouts. Nothing.

I graduated magna cum laude, started my own business (which failed) then pivoted to a completely different field (web programming) and taught myself everything, through books, blogs, etc. That was 15 years ago and professionally speaking, I lead a very stable life.

When I hear about today's children being shuttled from school to one extracurricular activity or another, where they have very little unstructured time, I scream on the inside on their behalf. I've known a handful of adults who were homeschooled, and most of them have turned out very poorly. They basically are walking time bombs: quiet and obedient through childhood, then they get out of the house and explode.

As my mother wisely said, "Kids need to be kids." (We had a very strong religious teaching, however, in my household --- firm but not oppressive. I ascribe my own acceptance of that teaching as a key reason I did not just squander all that freedom on drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll. But most of all, I felt very, very loved and accepted as a person, even if I were to screw up royally.)
> but I almost certainly won’t have the time nor the persuasive powers to convince a (hopefully) rebellious 7 year old that, say, grammar matters and gardening is dope. Seeking any suggestions.

Mine are grown up and have moved away, but I do have a suggestion. It's okay, and may be the best method, to just say, "grammar matters and gardening is dope," then stop talking while you gauge their reaction or listen to what they say. If all you ever do is talk with them, they will listen and talk with you.
But it’s just simple physics and math. How can you possibly think masks accomplish nothing? It’s nonsensical.
Back to how I worked before our company got it's first PC in 1987, but not ethernet until 1998.

Drive around talking to people, phone, hand written letters, Spirax #561 paper notepad.
(GTD device: write in a reminder chronologically, cross it off when done)

Productivity = work/time will tank.

My 1990's employer didn't network our PCs as the boss thought we'd be 'cyberbludging'.

This was probably fair, but the spare time we gained through IT productivity far outweighed any increased loafing.

An important gain preemptive action, you can now 'cut things off at the pass' before you could drive there.
I meant to say code that isn't part of the compiler or special cased in any way. So, yes, code that could very well be a normal third party library.
Have to disagree. It's overly optimized for getting every tax deduction over speed and the result is most users wasting tons of time.

Example: I know every year there is no way my itemized deductions will exceed the standard deduction. But there is no clear way to tell TurboTax to stop wasting my time on itemized deductions.
There is also ancient Cisco IOS too.
I am wondering the same.
Are you kidding? Narcolepsy epidemic caused by swine flu vaccine in UK and Northern Europe in 2009/2010.

https://www.narcolepsy.org.uk/resources/pandemrix-narcolepsy

In fact, there are many, many vaccine-related long-term injuries that are well-studied and were totally not detected until well after the fact.

In fact, there's an entire medical school textbook about it, if you want to really know, published by Wiley, called Vacines and Autommunity: https://www.amazon.com/Vaccines-Autoimmunity-Yehuda-Shoenfel...

The corporate press does everything possible to make it seem to the common person that vaccines are the very single medical technology that has zero side-effects and zero long-term safety issues, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

(Wiley is not some crazy conspiracy theory crap, they make legitimate textbooks for colleges everywhere.)

Not to mention, the question itself is biased. You should really ask, Is there any example of an entirely new medical technology (really, three, if you consider the LNP) which post-deployment caused long-term safety issues?

And that would be a resounding yes.

And, please again note, even knowing all I do about all those things and the dangers of vaccines, I still am more vaccinated than you, having taken, e.g., rabies vaccine, even knowing the not-insignificant risks involved.

However, there was a risk I'd catch and be injured by rabies.

There's almost zero risk I'll be injured by covid, lol.

I mean, as well, look at the injuries being caused by the vaccines: They happen to people like me, young and healthy. Covid only hurts the fat people my age. Why would I take the side of the risk that hurts people like me?
Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'
Because unpopular opinion like this will inevitably be downvoted into oblivion. But the truths must be said.
> Amazon won't tell him who it is

Does that matter to the police? Surely police reports don't have to include the name of who you think caused you some injury.
1500 bytes is also the maximum size that can be used and have errors reliably detected by the particular CRC32 in Ethernet. And that's a hard requirement as sometimes the only way you notice a collision at the receiver is when you notice the packet failed the CRC check. A more complicated CRC was not an option because of the limits of hardware complexity (and cost) at the time.
I think there's different types of work/life balance. Temporal, spatial, social, etc. Some people strive to keep their work and personal locations explicitly separate. Others set timers and hard boundaries as to exactly when they're "working." Others avoid mixing their personal social lives with work social lives.

The person you're replying to is pretty similar to me, where I use the fact that I have a physical office as my work/life boundary. But I also don't shy away from having a social life when I'm within the work side of the boundary, and another social life when I'm on the outside. If you spend 1/3 of your life on the inside, you can have fun there without contradicting your personal work/life balance.
A variety of Pulumi, Terraform and eksctl.
I have no idea what effect it would have.

But an externality is “a cost or benefit caused by a producer that is not financially incurred or received by that producer.”

Suicide poses a cost on the producer. It also poses a strong immediate cost on the producers family.

I’m not saying suicidal isn’t harmful to society. I’m saying that a cost is paid by the person committing suicide.

From a strictly economic perspective, dead people can’t own any property. So a suicider would pay a 100% cost on their net worth.

I know that’s a bizarre thing to say, but there I said it!

Edit: life insurance makes things more complicated. Most modern policies do pay out in the event of suicide, so it’s possible to make a profit.
Somebody without a recent track record of protecting China's lies.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/08/who-china-...
I wonder what Facebook (et al) planned to do if this went live? Would it be easier to drop all of Florida (similar to the Australian news thing) than comply? Or maybe open up a Florida-only version to limit exposure? I’m not sure this legislation would have helped the state if it went through.
Emma Watson and Twitter’s cofounder back startup aiming to revolutionize plastic
I had the Coleco Adam and played hours of Gorf and Looping and enjoyed them a bunch. Conveniently also the only two games we had on cartridge...
So just having a web shop shields you for example from the consequences of selling counterfeit goods? How does that work?
Fake news is the new propaganda...
> If you wanted to run workloads on 100k servers...

But... Most don't run 100k servers. Most don't run 10k servers. I was working with a very large consumer insurance company recently and while they are really large for their segment, they're well under 15k servers in production. And containers aren't much of a thing. There's a lot of overengineered architecture going into not-so-hyperscaler/FAANG production environments compared to what Kubernetes' original use case was designed to solve for. The common consequence appears to be increased complexity and less operational system knowledge .
East Asians are the most lactose-intolerant humans. I assume that's a factor.
I've tried to detect MTU on PPPoE sessions with LCP echo requests, and it works... Until I came across consumer wireless routers that send back short LCP echo replies to 1500 byte LCP echo requests. Sometimes software is such complete garbage in the real world.
It would be nice if you could cite the most cited research you're referring to