skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could absolutely do that bread trade (if you could convince a baker to lend you a loaf of bread), but then a smart baker wouldn't drop their prices at the end of day because they know a short seller needs to buy a bread to cover their position. The example is also wrong because stocks don't go off like bread does. For commodities that keep better like frozen orange juice or steel you can definitely borrow (for a price) a few hundred tons of most commodities if you want to short it.

For some reason people think borrowing a stock and selling it is some super nefarious plot to kill companies, but apart from some special circumstances like secondary offerings or employee equity compensation there is really no reason a company should worry overly much about their stock price. If the company keeps making a profit, no amount of short selling can make it go bankrupt.
MAME will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you to all who contributed. And to the original creators of all the games it supports.
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I've successfully refurbished batteries for items that were no longer supported, it's a bit of work but doable and dirt cheap ($5 / cell, and about an hour of work).
> The presence of 15 year old script kiddies using aimbots does NOT IN ANY WAY justify having kernel level control over my machine, Linux or otherwise. Valve, and every other company that contributes to gaming in general, kindly stay the fuck out of our kernels.

I agree that we should take a stance and I don't like kernel-level drivers any more than you do.

Kernel-level drivers are required on Windows. However, we even know if this is also going to be required on Linux?
VR is a medium that lends itself well to this.

For example a VR memory palace[0].

We're in the early days of haptics but gloves like the ones in this video[1] will allow for more dimensions of touch based tools.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=T9trIH_33qc

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=TajCGQJTrT8
"then other things, using technology" is about the level of sophistication I've come to expect here.

Uber had two paths to success: either invent self-driving cars and get enough of them to replace private car ownership, while costs of cleaning and maintenance are handled by riders fees. OR Use VC dollars to subsidize a taxi service, while not investing in infrastructure and simultaneously fighting against regulations that protect riders (such as background checks and commercial insurance).

Guess which one they're stuck on? Because self-driving cars haven't happened yet, and won't happen in a meaningful way on city streets for some time yet.

But you know what? I've ridden an autonomous vehicle in a major city. Line 14 of the Paris Metro is driverless. It's also a train, and a public good. Uber would rather not see the proliferation of that kind of self driving vehicle.
Surprised by Doctrow's flinged claim that Peter Thiel advocates against women voting.. seems absurd and well, didn't stand a quick sanity check:

https://mobile.twitter.com/juliagalef/status/105489825464980...

Edit: Thanks for the responses.. made me go read more. Here's the source article for his original quote:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

And apparently he got a lot of flack for that comment on voting and so replied a couple weeks later:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/01/peter-thiel/suffrage...

"It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better."

That was directly linked from the original article, and happened over a decade ago. That's enough for me; Doctrow seems either to be parroting a falsehood or simply incorrect.
These terrible slogans are the product of social media. A good slogan is only going to get juice from one side. A slogan that is supremely dunkable by one side yet scratches the itch on the other is going to surface like curds in spoiled milk.
As a Googler I was approached by Amazon, and when I started to look at the culture, a photo came out with Jeff Bezos using a door because he was too ,,frugal’’ to buy a desk… I would never join an office where people are proud of that.
Web dev seems to be headed in three directions imo:

1) The old style, where the server owns the routing but can cede control over html to the frontend for discreet applications. Always cedes control of JS and CSS to the frontend.

2) A fully separated frontend and backend application that talks to one another over REST or GraphQL

3) A very javascript-light frontend that uses a technology like LiveWire, LiveView, or Hotwire to render on the server but push reactively to the frontend

I think any is fine and each have their merits. I imagine that #3 is the one that is most likely to supersede #1 as it's a direct evolution. But I would think that it's a bit gatekeeping to tell someone whose whole job is HTML templates, javascript, and CSS that they are No True Frontender.
> We could already have this reality today if we just implemented a universal basic income

This is at best naieve. How can you possibly reduce all of the complexities of a nation's multiple economic wants and needs to that conclusion? This is the problem with the movement, myopic and idealistic notions of being free from work. Universal income basically drives up inflation, if you give everyone a free $10 everything becomes $10 devalued. Money works partly because it is scarce and takes work to accumulate. Other people want to exchange their effort for yours. If there is no effort, there is no value.

Even if the above is not true there are surely numerous other forces at play that don't fit in with your simplistic idealism.

If you think it's the boomers keeping you down, wait until all the YouTube and social media players get into their 40s and see how they feel about giving away their wealth. People are greedy, selfish, family first, and tribal regardless of a generation.
No.

Cars will be a luxury due to unavoidable environmental regulations and general decreasing economies as the world's population gets older.

I am pretty convinced that my current ICE vehicle is my last one, or next to last one, and that probably I won't have a justification to buy an electric one after the end of life of my last ICE car.
I vehemently disagree with sentiment expressed in the article. Sure, on the surface the work done Valve does significantly improve the state of Linux gaming. But this is not Linux gaming. This is Windows gaming under Linux. We need to think about the long-term effects, about maintaining a healthy ecosystem. I cannot imagine how delegating Linux and Vulkan to be a long-term emulator of DX12 and Win is supposed to be healthy. What about platform autonomy? Shouldn't we strive towards a future where Vulkan is a strong, independent API with its own voice and not just an interface for emulating DX12? And one where game developers actively want to support Linux as first class citizen and not just make Windows games and putting all the burden of compatibility on the maintainers of the emulation layer.

The worst outcome of this is that the market share and quality of Vulkan implementations will diminish. WebGPU is a strong upcoming API contender on the mobile side, which IMO has a good chance of displacing Vulkan for many applications. And if DXVK works that well on Linux, more developers might end up choosing DX12 and only supporting Windows. Giving up autonomy and becoming a subordinate of a different technology stack is never a good idea. I mean, if this is the way how the Linux community wants to play, then why not make it official and just scrap Vulkan and have a DX-compatible API in place with IHV drivers?
Fabien Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. He posts mostly about internals and implementation details of classic video/computer games, plus other tech like Git and USB.

https://fabiensanglard.net

And if you find his blog to your liking, he has a couple of books doing a deeper dive into the internals of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
from what i can see the tax laws in albania are pretty strict, and tax seems to be applied on world-wide income [0]. i think this is rather problematic for incentivizing foreign investment into startups. compare to general tax rules in bosnia and herzegovina [1]

[0] https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/albania/corporate/taxes-on-corp...

[1] https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/bosnia-and-herzegovina/corporat...
He traced the math behind it back to a computational fluid dynamics paper, which the debunkees had used equations from with no context. He cold emailed professors asking for feedback of his organized findings, got back a 3000 word article based on it, and with help from a mathematician and psychologist in smoothing the writeup, and ultimately got it published in a top journal and the offending results recognized as flawed. The general crusade continues.

The result in question was the legendary 3-1 positive to negative tipping point between flourishing individuals and languishing ones.
two lessons learned

1. check linked in. if you a dozen of kids out of undergrad in Marketing/Product/Sales/Strategy/Finance with Director+ titles a year or two out of college....and others out of industry with entry level titles, RUN. There is obvious inequity. You wont be able to motivate people to work hard with such a setup.

2. avoid companies with split executive offices. Our engineering group was 95% on the East coast while the "business" office was in SF. CEO/CFO/CPO/CRO all in SF. CTO on east coast.
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Nah, Madison is very explicit in The Federalist Papers that the masses are a bunch of idiots. They were merely expressing the outlook of bourgeois British culture with its strong ideas of class, which doesn’t disappear in America until the 20th century.

Packing your things and fucking off was expensive and dangerous for the common man
Geez. Well done! So what made you stop? With so many tweaks untapped, it sounds like guaranteed profits.
I have a lot of friends and family for which this would be quite detrimental, in the short (and perhaps medium) term if it happened. I don’t wish for their means of staying in touch with each other to just disappear overnight.

Personally and somewhat selfishly though, I couldn’t think of anything that would delight me more than if Facebook buggered off out of Europe.
I’m not in an espresso phase right now, but I’ll consider that next time I get the urge. No more Nespresso for me!
Did you read any of the article? The whole point is that it was specifically a radical space, founded and filled by radicals, with a (somewhat) coherent radical message. The fact that there was a shift to "we should have mildly better working conditions within the same system" and "lol funny quitting text" may disqualify Doreen from being the representative, but the discussion being had here is how exactly that shift in the community's purpose is managed.

I'm extremely far from agreeing with the anarchist view of work, but your comment contains precisely the dynamic that the piece describes: a cause-focused community gains steam and followers, at which point the message is neutered (despite retaining a now-contradictory name) and those responsible for the movement's success are written out of history and ostracized as unrepresentative weirdos.

Seriously, I recommend reading the piece. It's too late to do so before commenting, but you may take away something more than "God why is this weirdo claiming that she represents antiwork when it's obviously just a board for bored teenagers to post memes about how they hate their job and tepid centrist messages about overtime pay"
I see this trend in nearly everything online. Anything that becomes sufficiently large will eventually decline this way. A lot of niche communities intentionally engage in gate keeping behavior which I suspect is to avoid ever succumbing to the de-evolution of their niche.
‘super-enzymes’ that eat plastics could curb our waste problem
That PPC640DD was a fascinating device, far cleverer than people remember. Really quite forward-thinking.

Side note: my brain saw "NEC V20" and I knew what it was, but it instead took me to my memories of my NEC P30 (Pinwriter) -- a wide-carriage 24 pin dot matrix printer that was loud enough to shake the whole house, and which you configured using an amusing question-and-answer dialogue. It would print a config question, scroll the paper up so you could see it, you'd answer with the buttons, it would scroll the paper back down (no wasting!) to print the next one. At the end you had this neat little transcript of the configuration and you felt like you'd talked to an alien intelligence.

Side note 2 on the subject of forgotten Amstrad devices: my first PC was an Amstrad 3286. This was a time when Amstrad stopped making weird, slightly incompatible PCs and instead made a range of excellent, straight-down-the-line compatibles with nice cases. Just at the same time as IBM were manufacturing the (really non-standard) PS/1 at a factory not twenty miles from Amstrad's... both lost to history but that 3286 was great. I think I put a 20mb HDD in it, formatted to 32mb because of an RLL controller.
I've been an interviewer in Google for quite a few years now. I know my favourite question inside-out, implemented it in a couple languages, know the theory behind the advanced follow-ups for theorists, know the realities of running this down to the wire level for applied folk... I always answer "sure, let's assume that" when the interviewee suggests a clarification. Just makes for a smoother interview flow. If what they suggested is out of bounds of reason (say, round trip time to the moon in 10ms), I'll just note that in the report.
In the past I've explained this as a comparison of Costs and Outcomes. The total cost of the plan, and the outcomes (mostly as benefits). In the GP's example it could have been, for example, the cost in time for the existing to develop the iOS application, the opportunity cost that's being given up by causing schedule slippages, and the discretionary effort of staff based on doing unfavorable work for the benefits of reducing management complexity, upskilling existing staff, and gaining a wider variety of experience within the team.

Alternatives such as using a supplier to build the iOS have their own costs and outcomes. For example, cost in terms of capital dollars, a technical person still needs to invest time in finding the correct supplier, a technical person still needs to invest time into creating the specification to build upon (even if you find a supplier which can do agile and incremental delivery/iteration), and management overhead for managing the team and/or relationship with the supplier. Further, since the product is something that needs to be maintained (presumably), a maintenance plan of some sort will need to be put into place, and for the benefit of getting it done more quickly, a better product by developers interested and competent in the domain the total cost will likely be lower, and other projects will slip less. There's also the advantage that if management has to put in capital dollars then they are more likely to take the project seriously and fund its maintenance and reward those involved, especially if that's accounted for up front.
I think the author is justified in his thinking here. It's a large time investment to build skills to a certain level. To just set aside those hard earned skills, and not know when or if you'll be able to utilize them again is demoralizing. Especially if you enjoyed working with said technologies.
You tax a couple dozen ultra rich billionaires and a couple dozen ultra profitable companies. There's plenty of money. We don't need to print more. And each doesn't need the spare $20B anyways.
> and produces a dynamically linked executable
Yeah, but mass transit is also meant to be mass transit.
Hacking the Nintendo Game and Watch (2020)
I think their point is that while motorcycles are deadly for their riders, cars are still deadly, just not for the occupants.
> Casual players looking to spend money on cosmetics aren't affected by cheaters because the system influencing the players to buy isn't affected by the cheaters.

This is a rather confused thing to say. Are there players out there that just grind cosmetics and don't care about win rate, game quality, or wasted time? Probably a handful.

But the overwhelming majority of players in a game are there to have fun and cheaters utterly destroy that. Cheaters, smurfs, etc, are a plague on online multiplayer gaming where one troll ruins everything for everyone else match.

At the end of the day it's just a game, and if the game disappears or whatever humanity will go on. So let's not lose perspective. But saying casual players aren't affected by cheaters is flat out wrong.

I worked in gaming as well, so I'm familiar with the issues you're referencing, but hyperbolic exaggerations don't help us address it.
Do you think it's important to acknowledge that you got lucky with a gamble? If you have kids, would you advise them to make a similar move as you did, in the hopes that they also get lucky and win big? If not, advertising only the benefits of your choice just lures desperate people who will statistically lose their investments.
Link to the paper discussed in the article:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

And the two key paragraphs in the article:

> More unexpected was what the researchers found when they looked at the factors that predicted how many people got infected. Some of the obvious candidates — population density, G.D.P. per capita, and exposure to past coronaviruses — failed to predict much in the way of outcomes. But both trust in government and trust in fellow citizens proved potent.

> This yields the paper’s most striking finding: Moving every country up to the 75th percentile in trust in government — that’s where Denmark sits — would have prevented 13 percent of global infections. Moving every country to the 75th percentile of trust in their fellow citizens — roughly South Korea’s level — would have prevented 40 percent of global infections.
For your electric car example, that may be true, but at the same time, the Ford F150 has been the number one selling vehicle in the United States every year since 1976. It's not as if everyone is clamoring for an electric car, but they settle for an affordable Prius instead.
this the dude who just bought a 500mm yacht?
exactly. I heard about this interview before, hearing it was disastrous. I read this article and just then watched the interview. I thought she explained things pretty well. She was mocked for being dog walker, but why? Why is news presenter inherently better than dog walker? I guess net effect for society is better from dog walking than news.

That the community got angry at her is beyond me, and I was very sceptical of antiwork subreddit
More than the design of the language itself, the culture suffered (and still suffers to a lesser degree) from the legacy of those bad designs, such that if you wanted to avoid a whole ton of awful codebases, poor practices and mediocre developers you could have easily done so by putting a language barrier between you and them and "graduating" to some other language.

Many teams and codebases these days have moved onwards and upwards toward a world where sensible design exists.
Huh? According to Wikipedia, CS:GO is a game which came out in 2012, still receives regular updates and has an active competitive community.
This Stanford article provides some explanation and also references several studies for more in-depth reading: https://basicincome.stanford.edu/about/what-is-ubi/
In what way are any of these jerking the regulators’ chain? You list four facts, and you claim that these four facts are insufficient to regulators. Please provide the remainder of your viewpoint, so that we who don’t understand you yet can have a chance to consider it and be persuaded by it.

For example, here’s a question I can’t answer from this tweet or from this entire HN discussion:

“In what way do each of these four facts conflict with one country’s regulators’ decisions, characteristics, or historical tendencies?”

(However, if your goal is simply to preach to the choir, then your comment is certainly sufficient for that purpose — so long as it’s acceptable that it won’t persuade anyone that doesn’t already agree with whatever viewpoint is left unexplained here.)
There are more languages not only JS, with small standard library and the community offers multiple packages for same thing(like more packages for json) but you install them at your own risk - though this weaknesses are promoted by Cool.lang fanboys as features.
TIL, neat, thank you.
This doesn't match my experience. I guess it depends on the role but for engineers it's well known Amazon has been throwing large sign on bonuses to close the vesting gap for years.

For instance I received an offer that was 160 base, 325 cash bonus and 5% of my RSUs for my first year, putting my TC at ~510k. Second year was a slightly smaller bonus, and 15% of my RSUs.

Is it possible that when folks were voluntarily disclosing comp they were just including base comp and not total comp?
Yeah, while I'm not a particular fan of the mindset of moving on the moment something happens that annoys you, in this case it really does make sense. If you show up at a job and the work really isn't what you expected for some reason or another, it's not unreasonable to just cut your losses and move on. You don't have appreciable investment at that point and there's not a lot of incentive to change the environment to make it a better fit.
I live in a city. I own a car. I pay 25 EUR/month for a personal parking space reserved just for me, just outside my home. If the value of real estate in the area would be included in the price for parking, the price would be somewhere around 250 EUR/month, 10 times more. Though the comparison isn't entirely fair, if parking would pay for it's usage of land, I'd guess we would have no on-street parking, narrower streets and instead parking would be in multi-story parking garages.

So although I'm one of those who benefit from the cheap parking, I do think it's stupid, and in the end it just causes sprawl making us all worse off.
Don't you americans have taxes on vehicle ownership and fuel? Toll Roads? That's how a lot of countries pay for their roads.
It should be straightforward to design a hash function that can't be preimage attacked using all the computing power in the universe.

Maybe an omnipotent cryptographer would find flaws in SHA-256, but then they could design a better function and include it in the book.
Amazon today and Amazon in 1996 are two different things.