skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of Bloomberg's value is, counterintuitively, because it's so expensive. This limits the user network to people who can afford it, typically professional traders at major firms.
> be kind to less intelligent people -- the world is already not so kind to them.

This feels weirdly patronizing. Why not just treat every person with humanity and respect and be kind to them regardless of any particular trait or lack thereof?
> As the article stated, the schooling of the elites continued uninterrupted during the pandemic. COVID did not spread uncontrolled into those homes.

That's not what the article stated.

"Students with household incomes above $200,000, in contrast, lost about 54 days—still considerable"
IMO Portfolio123 is the best option for nonprofessionals.
I never developed phone addiction in this way because I always had mobile data disabled.

I only enable mobile data when I need to sync calendars.

That being said: on PC and too often check hacker news and similar sites: I'm trying out Krishnamurti's "observation":

Can you catch yourself the VERY MOMENT you wish to go to some website (NOT after you already did: but when you wish to go: what kind of pressure/frustration is building up in you?
Thank you for that Twitter thread. Unfortunately quite a lot of books end up with criticisms that feel like it undermines a lot - Gun, germs and steel and Why we sleep both come to mind as having inaccurate or misleading information.
Is this a short story that predated the full novel? Flowers for Algernon that I read was 300 pages or so... what am I missing?
> Graphics card's shot, monitor's shot, fans run full blast even when nothing's running and it's totally idle, motherboard's faulty, power supply's sketchy

Then later

> without properly functioning power supply, cooling system, video card, USB ports, heat sinks, or motherboard,

Sounds legit. How are things “shot”, “faulty”, and “sketchy”? How does a heat sink “not function”?

> USB ports in particular keep coming up as a failure point, which suggests to me that they really do just have widespread issues in their manufacturing process:

I don’t think this person has any idea what they’re talking about and is happy to jump to wild conclusions.
How does it compare to something like Tradytics or Trend Spider? I've been a subscriber to the former for over a year + Trading View for charting.

https://tradytics.com/

https://trendspider.com/

https://www.tradingview.com/
Clearly there needs to be a single legal, authoritative, and publicly accessible source for any music product's (public) metadata. Before it gets aired by anyone. A good model for this might be DOI ('Digital object identifier'). Anyone- music companies, artists, stores and streamers - would get a number for each published title where they could then find all the related metadata. Including reliable sources that can be queried for (private) legal details.

It would seem like the rights orgs like ASCAP, BMI, Harry Fox, etc etc should have been all over this long ago. But maybe it'd mean their extinction. Or it would would complicate the back-room deals.
Fair point. Entirely correct, our focus is on a different demographic.

Really appreciate the constructive feedback -- will keep it in mind for our future work :)
No, I am contextualizing what Epstein is saying. It is from an industry advocate/lobbyist, not a scientist. Epstein has a bias, and is being up front about it, and I am repeating his own words. He may be right, and he may be wrong, but his goal is to persuade not to find the truth. I hope they overlap more often than not for all our sakes.

I note that you didn't address the scientific portion of my response - that while everyone is happy for the GBR recovery, that there was an element of luck in it vs they other years 2014-2020 and isn't a trend.

Look at your repeating the phrases "deranged", "lunatics". How can I be expected to have a good faith conversation with you when you are saying that I'm mentally ill and illogical. I didn't do the same to you, and I'm disappointed.
Can't tell if sarcastic or not, because so many of the comments here along the lines of "the SEC is sticking it to the little guy" are clearly from people that haven't read the 3 proposals in the article, which are all detrimental to large institutional interests for the benefit of smaller traders.
IMO: There's a discussion to be had about rape, you didn't consent to pregnancy by having sex then and the child is effectively an intruder. Whether or not you're justified in killing the child is complicated there and I don't have the answer.
Clay Shirky once casually said in a class, "Can criminals use your app? How? If criminals can't use your app, no one can."

I think about this every time I see a thinkpiece about how a public forum's gone south after incentivizing attention seeking.
Box<str> is still going to be smaller if you know how big the text is because (unlike CompactString and String) it doesn't need to carry a capacity value. In exchange of course you can't append things to it (without re-allocating)

CompactString is a very clever† SSO implementation, and I'll remember it is there if I run into a situation where it might help but I firmly agree with Rust's choice not to implement the SSO optimisation in the standard library's String type.

† Storing 23 UTF-8 codepoints as one of several representations in a 24 byte data structure makes sense, you can see how to write a fairly safe SSO optimisation for Rust which does that, but the CompactString scheme relies on the fact Rust's strings are by definition UTF-8 encoded to squeeze the discriminant into the same space as the last possible byte of an actual UTF-8 string, so it can store a 24 byte value like "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX" inline despite also distinguishing the case where it needs a heap pointer for larger strings. That's very clever.
This story is looking incredibly suspect.

The image SecretGamerGrrl aka Secret Gamer Girl provides for the "broken screen" here: https://twitter.com/SecretGamerGrrl/status/15395401361023303...

...is from this five year old russian article on how to do a screen replacement on a sony vaio laptop.

https://gadgetshelp.com/diy/busted-kak-spravitsia-so-slomann...

This person earns over $800/month on Patreon and is either incredibly terrible at marketing their work, or hasn't generated any work product in five years.

Edit: since SGG has showed up: what's fishy, SGG, is that you/your partner have a massively defective laptop and neither of you have taken a single picture or video of it demonstrating these defects, and instead had to use a GIS-sourced image to show what the laptop is 'like'. Most people would flood a tweet thread with pictures and video.

It's also fishy that you didn't return such an obviously defective machine within the return window.

It's also fishy that your partner went from "has a functional but old laptop" to "cannot work for six months." Their replacement laptop was very obviously broken but they sold or disposed of the old laptop?

Second edit: to head off the inevitable tweet deletions, archives: https://archive.ph/yVGGc

https://web.archive.org/web/20220623051934/https://twitter.c...
The legal department is useful if your boss wanted to scuttle something.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1993-01-31
Also, smart and stupid look much alike (in that both experience a state of few unsolved riddles). So beware.

Frankly, I think the desire (I want to crush somebody) comes first and the justification (he's a fool so it's only just that I crush him) comes second.
> All my best business partners and nerd friends were one of the above and rarely public school educated.

This seems extremely anecdotal.

I went to public schools. Of course I'm not your business partner or friend, but most people on Earth aren't either.
Because the conversation is about rail transport between Europe and post-soviet Europe. It would in fact be surprising to see China being mentioned at all, given it's complete irrelevance to the conversation at hand.

And no I'd pretty easily say that Chinese rail is not the most advanced in the world. That award would go to Japan. (China buys (or steals) their technology from Japan and also Europe.)
Space Needle did the music for this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1XhVV61ck.

Which is weird because I don't really consider them to be a 60's band.
If you’re serious, you may want to talk to a lawyer.

For example, depending on what type of student you are, and if you used school resources, your university might have some ownership of what you created.

So, first confirm you actually own copyright over what you made. Then work out what to do next.
It's unfortunate that strings are badly named in rust. They got that better with Path and PathBuf.

str is fixed size, like a Java String

String is growable, like a Java StringBuilder

After that, we get into memory ownership, with &str not owning memory, and Box<str> owning memory, but you rarely need the latter, so it's really &str vs String that you need to care about.

EDIT: changed immutable to fixed and mutable to growable to better reflect the real difference, though typically you almost always use immutable &str and &mut String. I thank the commenters below for pointing it out, I don't want to make the problem even more confusing than it already is.
So, not only is your arrogance out of control, you're fragile too. So fragile that echoing your own intemperate words back to you triggers you.

In future, remember that you're on Hacker News, not Reddit. If you can't be civil to people who ask you to clarify your points then perhaps this isn't the site for you.
Ask HN: Critique My Blog Design
I wondered if the people of HN could critique my blog design.

It's here: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog2/

The version it is meant to replace is at https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/ - the new version is meant to be less cluttered and less ugly, and honour a dark mode preference.

I'd like to know whether the new version is actually an improvement, whether you think it looks ugly, whether you think it is too hard to read, and what improvements you would suggest.

Cheers!
Naval mines are certainly not banned. The US military is back to investing heavily in mine warfare, and plans to use air-delivered mines in any future conflict with China.
This story hit me hard when I read it as a kid.

When I was young, I read another story with a similar emotional texture that I've been trying to find again for years now. It had a mentally challenged boy who worked in a restaurant with a lobster tank in the front, and the boy loved the lobster as a pet and stopped the restaurant staff from killing and serving the lobster. But one day when the boy was gone the lobster was killed.

I don't remember much but I've been looking for it for ages. I hope I can find it and read it again someday.
Hey, thanks for that! Proper comma (and semicolon) usage is always a challenge for me.

I decided to develop the habit of the "Oxford Comma," but I don't think I have it down, yet. It also seems to be "un-American." American English does not like commas.
Clickable link: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog2/
I adore most of Chiang's work, but Understand is one of my least favorites. Fun premise, yes, but it reads to me like much less mature sci-fi, like something written by a teen about what being super-smart would feel like.
Those people all comment on Hacker News.
> I kind of feel like it goes without saying that Rust isn't ideal for beginners.

I think that depends on, first, what the goal is, and second, what you're comparing to. It think Rust is easier on beginners, in many ways, than C. And C is easier on beginners, in many ways, than assembly or machine code. But if you want to really understand computer programming, starting at machine code or at least assembly isn't a crazy way to start.
The problem is not designing. The problem is worst case analysis and testing.
Cornmeal is less than 1% simple sugars, as is cornflour. While it's not great compared to high fiber low gi sources like brown rice or sweet potato, it's not sugary at all. You have to split the polysachharides somehow to make it into sugar.

Of course if you spend extra time, money and energy turning your relatively ordinarily healthy grain (which is admittedly a low bar) into sugar you spend more time, money and energy and wind up with sugar. It's no different from wheat in that regard other than you should maybe add a bit more fiber to the meal.
He was an author of fiction. They usually write a lot of stuff that is on some deeper level "true", even though it is on the surface fictional... And a lot of stuff that isn't.

Or sometimes both, because it's only part of the truth. Maybe the complete version should be: "An armed society is a 'polite' society, but with very frequent killings and not-infrequent massacres." I think I prefer living in a less "polite" society.
> When I first got Pacific Bell (now part of AT&T) DSL in California in the early 2000s, it was run by a seperate division of the company, "Emerging Products Division". i always assumed that was because the traditional side of PacBell just didn't get digital at all and the leadership kept them apart to avoid the innovator's dilemma.

This technique had previously been used by IBM to the the PC out: they built a whole division from scratch in Boca Raton away from the IBM mother ship in NY
Don't worry. As soon as you explain to them that appending to a PathBuf is O(1) amortized they'll come around, and it will scale much better for all their GB-sized file paths.

I guess this adds a prerequisite on complexity theory but nobody should go anywhere near advanced data structures like strings with less than a bachelor in CS.
"'Information wants to be free!' ... but not ours though."

"'There's no such thing as intellectual property' ... except mine. Don't you dare touch my IP. I"ll sue!"

"'Downloading a copy doesn't deprive the copyright owner of anything' ... hey, stop stealing my code. Thief! Pirate!"

The irony of the anti-IP and pro-FOSS crowd failing to live up to their own professed philosophy is profound.
PDP-8 Small-C Compiler (2012)
Looks fine. I'd make the content area less wide; on my MBP (2017, 2880x1800 resolution) it's a bit of a tedious reading experience.
Yeah, I don't know what part of "had to buy this laptop on a payment plan, and Dell refuses to refund a single damn cent" suggests she has the money lying around to buy another high end laptop. Especially when the thread mentions having to sell various things to keep bills paid.
Right. I and probably many others have only heard of Bloomberg, never actually seen nor used it.
Suggestions:

https://diataxis.fr/

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/
It's called 'only so many shits to give', and most people are all out and solidly overdrawn.
Lots of modern software is getting faster and better over time as time is spent optimising it. Sure, there is also lots of software that gets more bloated as time goes on, but the big problem is functional software (or parts thereof) being replaced by a more bloated rewrite because of broken incentives (e.g. when performance of managers is evaluated based on number of product launches).
It must have been an early version of AAC. Bell was involved with that. And another message in the thread claims "the early versions of the audio compression stuff were not quite is good as the later versions (which became apples stuff)"
The US also has a larger population then Russia.
A bunch of software offers good technical analysis based on charts in the present moment.

But if you want to find the fundamental data of any imaginable company -- income statements, operating ratios (eg. Return on Capital), or even what analysts are saying -- going back decades, at a reasonable price, this is your solution.
Because it's bullshit. The image of the broken screen is from a five year old russian writeup on DIY'ing a sony vaio screen.

Secret Gamer Girl did a google image search for "broken screen" and dumped it into a tweet, and somehow didn't think they would get caught lying?

Edit: SGG's partner's laptop shows up, and SGG is "there." It shows a broken display. We're supposed to believe neither of them took a picture or video of the damage?

Why, in fact, is there not a single picture or video of these failures anywhere in the entire thread?
I feel the same way. I found it interesting that when smartwatches came out, people were excited about being able to see text messages or other notifications on their wrist.

As someone who felt the need to be on top of things, receiving notifications was slightly stressful as it meant something I'd have to evaluate and make a decision on "right now". (Obviously, feeling like I should react to things immediately was something I had to work on in myself, but the phone didn't help.) Feeling a notification buzz on my phone gave me slight anxiety as I'd immediately react with, "oh, what is this that I might need to take care of?" Putting the phone aside for periods helped, so the idea of not being able to escape it with notifications on my wrist was a little terrifying.

In the last few years, I've set my phone to always Do Not Disturb mode, so it doesn't vibrate or even light up when a notification comes in. I do the same on my Mac. It's helped quite a bit with my stress levels. I just manually check periodically to see if there's a notification instead of always feeling like it could go off any minute.
Most of the innovative parts of bitcoin have been done independently as pieces; it's novelty is the combination of things like Proof of Work (Hashcash, Bitgold) with p2p consensus and asymmetric cryptography.

Nothing special about its structure or operation inherently.
A staggering amount of California's water is used for alfalfa, which gets shipped to China to feed cows. In essence, we are allowing certain farmers to sell CA's water to China.
One notable difference is that ToOwned for &str gives you a String, whereas ToOwned for &[u8] gives you a [u8] by cloning the slice you have.

In fact all four standard library types that are ToOwned without invoking Clone are more or less strings (str, CStr, OsStr, Path)
> loaning out shares to short that straight up didn’t exist

We should note that naked shorting was apparently just fine until not that long ago[0].

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4453048-naked-short-selling
Same day as when data such as financial statements are posted.

Real-time for stock prices, etc.
That's how I feel about it, it's essentially the way stuff is incentivized on 4chan, and we all know that community isn't really know for its high quality, friendly discourse...
NPR's marketplace also touched on this over the last week, and does a decent job laying out the basics.

Generally speaking - I think we're seeing the same dilemma here you see with digital advertising: The "customer" now pays no trading fees, but because they're no longer funding the activity through those fees, they start to become the product sold, and the actual customer getting catered to is now the brokerage paying the best PFOF... which they can likely do because they inflate their earnings by taking a larger cut, which means the original "customer" is still likely paying anyways, but they now have no recourse and no say in how they are bought and sold.

I'm not at all a fan of the kind of perverse incentives that pop up when you have to trust an agent, and that agent is getting paid better by someone else to fuck you.

We have fiduciary duty laws for a reason - this situation leads to bad places.

For comparison - the vast majority of EU states have this banned as under their inducement to trade laws.
> But if he hadn't been nice what would have happened?

I would have tried to negotiate a deal. If that failed, I would have abandoned making a C++ compiler.

Consider that at the time C++ and ObjectiveC were neck and neck, judging by the message volume on newnews. I rejected doing O-C because Stepstone demanded royalties for implementing it.

When Zortech C++ was released, an inexpensive native C++ compiler that was well-adapted to the 16 bit DOS model, C++ took off, and O-C sputtered and died. If AT&T had also demanded royalties, C++ would have been a failure, as cfront was not very practical.

90% of programming in those days was done on DOS, and Zortech C++ was top of the heap. If I may say so, Zortech C++ gave C++ the critical mass it needed to surge ahead.

My partner made the mistake of telling Eugene Wang of Borland how well ZTC++ was selling, and from the look on Eugene's face I knew we'd made a big mistake. Borland did an abrupt change in direction and went all in on Turbo C++. And the rest, as they say, is history. Microsoft also soon abandoned its object extensions to C and went with C++.
Hmm, it's meant to be max-width: 900px - is that too wide?
Order Independent Transparency, Part 1
What about people who use smartphones for socialising?

Staying in touch with friends, finding new interesting people, browsing local events, deciding where to meet, etc.
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The framing of this article makes it seem like the SEC is acting to protect the hedge funds from the little retail investor.

The reality is that many naive first-time retail investors experienced big losses on the backside of the meme stock rally, to the benefit of a few sophisticated retail investors: the ones who incited the rally in the first place.

This was possible in part because they were working on top of a new system of well-marketed apps that made trades free and incentivized. Taking all the friction out of the system made it easier for a few people to whip it around with emotion.

The problem is structural which is why the SEC is looking at it.
https://www.kubegres.io/ has worked well for me. You can use custom images, provided they follow the conventions of the official postgres image. I haven't tried a major-version upgrade yet - my impression is that it will probably be a bit painful and involve some downtime and manual ops.

Some of the more advanced operators might better handle the upgrade problem? But in general, I've been happy with Kubegres for a ~10GB database with low traffic.
Interesting. No response.
Should be fixed, got lots more traffic than expected and have now patched.

Please use an email address with one of the major email providers for it to validate :)
The problem with configuration expressed as a code is that it is not automatically auditable. With simple ini or json files, the auditing tool can just parse them, or, even worse, grep, and find out if a particular option has a certain legally-mandated value. This also applies to configuration files generated via templating - you just feed the end result to the auditing tool. With the code, the auditing tool would need to run the code, and this is a no-no from a security perspective.
> his goal is to persuade not to find the truth.

I found it to be exactly the opposite. The current CC movement leaves no room for dissent. Just like the first year of COVID where we left no room to listen to credible scientists, CC movement is singularly focused often ignoring inconvenient truths.

> Look at your repeating the phrases "deranged", "lunatics"

I mean, I wasn't calling you mentally ill, but there are people that with close approximation resemble precisely someone that has no logical basis and has taken on a religious pro or anti CC agenda. Watch Fox news sometimes and you'll get what I mean. Alex is quite the opposite, but your first instinct was to smear his character by aligning it with Peter Thiel. Bad faith arguments start with ad-hominem attacks on the person's motives instead of the content of the argument. You kind of did the same thing with me by criticizing my language instead of engaging in arguments, just one step shy of a false moral superiority card (you're insulting mentally ill people).

Most NYT reporters that invest in propelling Climate catastrophe agenda are not scientists either.