skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Otto had realized that United Copper had 105% short interest – i.e., 450,000 shares were trading, yet only 425,000 had been issued, the rest borrowed.

But Heinze miscalculated. Every one of the twenty brokers could find the stock from buyers other than Heinze. No one defaulted.

Irritatingly, there is no explanation of the miscalculation, or how the 25,000 share difference was made up.

All I am left with is the knowledge that one group of speculators went bust rather than a different group of speculators, and the conclusion that the crypto market will be regulated because it exhibits some vague similarities to this incident in 1907; no discussion at all of the 2008 financial crisis, which seems highly relevant.
> Linking this next time somebody tries to tell me iOS's limitations on sideloading improve security.

This IS a case of using an enterprise certificate to sideload an app.

If anything, this proves that sideloading, even with scary warnings to the users, enables malware.
If you're doing a custom case and don't limit your imagination, you can use one of the many netbook or laptop motherboards. Downside is they're limited to 1-2 mPCIe slots, on the other hand they also have 1-2 SATA ports so you can easily connect decent storage. Plus USB and video ports.

Some boards have stupid whitelists for the mPCIe slots, so a bit of research is desirable. Or just steer clear of HP/Dell/Lenovo.

Low power netbook chips can be passively cooled, and power bricks and connectors aren't as much of a problem as you'd think.

They can be had for as low as $10 on eBay since barely anyone buys them. Kind of a shame.
This seems to be from the view point of a top percent home.

35 million Americans are on snap. 53 million Americans used a food pantry in 2021 (thesev groups don't always intersect)

Whether it's urban, rural, or suburban (high percentage shift since 2008), the percent of Americans that have parents that can provide food, shelter - much less plan for education and their own retirement is not a very high number for this phrasing.

Imagine if the expectation was that a part time fast food job could pay even half of college expenses.
This is the Wikipedia article for the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Adele_Lim_film
Developers talk about reducing/avoiding complexity all the time. And yet the very same developers keep making things more complex. I am starting to realize that most developers don't understand what complexity is. So they say crazy things like "microservices are less complex than monoliths". And they actually believe it! When I then step by step show them that microservices are actually objectively more complex than a well designed monolith they agree with every step of my explanation but somehow still don't get it. Very strange.
Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers of Cool Video Games
Yep, me too!
Google Analytics has an enterprise paid version and it starts at 6 figures, Adobe has a very competitive product in the same space. So there's definitively room for a paid product in the market.
Can you please tell me in what country that is the case, and to what extent?

What do they do about vendors that don't cooperate, like John Deere, or Sony?

(Serious question, not sarc. It definitely is not the case in the US, and the country that already has such laws might be a good indicator of a good place to move).
The premise of eliminating entire classes of errors in the abstract is nice and all, and definitely something we should do, but it isn’t the sole deciding factor in choosing an implementation. language:

- If the language is not well known, that’s bad. It will be harder to hire a proficient team. More time will be spent on learning the language.
- If the syntax is needlessly verbose, that’s bad. It increases the chance for typos and time spent fixing typos to get things to compile. Eventually it leads to ide completion based programming which results in the degradation of the skill set of the pool of programmers that know that language.
- If the concepts the language uses are difficult to manipulate and remember, it takes more time to engage with any given piece of code
- If you often need to drop into unsafe modes that’s also not great because now you effectively are using two languages not just one. The safe language and the unsafe language. they interact but play by totally different rules. yikes.

I think rust is a great language and the borrow checker is an amazing innovation. However I think rust has a lot of warts that will harm its success in the long run. I think the next language that leverages the borrow checker idea but does so with a bit better ergonomics will really take off.
It is not the association fallacy; the role of a news site is to provide news, which includes fact-checking the work of their "journalists."

If Breitbart pulled a Fox News and argued in court that their goal was to entertain and not inform, then you have a point! But until then, you have a terrible misunderstanding of journalistic integrity and what it means for a publisher to attach their name to a journalist's work.
A few points, my array was installed in 2018, so fairly recently. It still is one of the largest home arrays my installer, PES Solar maintains.

This amount of money I save on my monthly bill is the amount of money my local electric company pays me for the electricity the array generates. The way I was forced to install my array is such that it feeds the grid directly. They deduct this from my monthly bill where my home generally uses around 4500 kWh.

Now, I think they are not giving me fair market value for the electricity and I'm looking into purchasing either Tesla Powerwalls or another brand so I'm drawing from a battery bank and the array before drawing from the grid.

However, my conclusions at this time are that Solar is NOT ready for primary home usage unless you want to live a subsistence lifestyle.

I don't want panels in a field or on a lake for the same reasons I don't like our current versions of pavement or cement. Everything under it dies. Further, birds above the arrays are killed. This is not a reasonable alternative to energy dense fossil fuel yet.

We need to be more creative and realistic in our future energy sources.
Monkeypox in Africa: the science the world ignored
Your analogy doesn't answer the question. How frequently does this happens in real software?
The problem that regulation is trying to solve is that if "personal data" becomes an acceptable form of payment then people won't actually have a choice and companies can force people to provide data by not offering any alternative payment methods.

The GDPR effectively outlaws using personal data as payment which IMO is a good thing because unlike money, personal data is not a one-off transaction (the data can be valid long-term) and can be misused in all kinds of ways we might not even know about yet, thus the risk is too high.

This doesn't necessarily mean advertising is banned - targeted advertising is generally beneficial to the user (if you're going to see ads, you're better seeing something you're interested about) so they could offer the user a way to set their ad preferences manually (and thus sharing personal data freely with no coercion).
Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice
> Which will then contain a link to the file

Why? You already have a copy on your local machine ("local machine" being anywhere you'd want to play that file). What's more important is the hash; if you really care about remote storage, IPFS kills both those birds with one stone.

> Still, you'll now pay >50$ for each file, 98% of which are transaction fees

There are other NFT-capable blockchains besides Ethereum, you know :)
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
You know, late Nov to Apr, is 50% of the year, so yeah. I usually biked starting in March.
You’re missing my point, as there was a colour flip in the us south. Blacks and whites flipped the parties that they had traditionally voted for. Republicans freed the slaves but their positions became rather different. Many workers shifted to republican for various reasons, reversing the rural vs city balance. Clinton might have done better in the south but obviously the south has been republican since then.

Republicans today would be recognized as doughfaces from 1856. Radical republicans from the civil war would not have much overlap with their namesakes today.
This is a real issue, but it's solvable with work.

It's claimed that ML models' output isn't copyrightable because it's fair use, but that's hard to believe; a large model can easily memorise and output exactly one of its inputs again. This is easier to see with text, where GPT and Copilot both do it, but images can do it too.

> So how do you get access to hundreds of millions of images and use them to create derivative works? Did they get consent from millions of authors?

Build the model out of Creative Commons images only. There's a lot of 'em and it's good enough. You may need to exclude CC-BY since they currently can't follow the attribution requirement.

> Or is something like that only available to the rich with access to lawyers on tap?

More likely companies willing to license a stock photography database.
Similarly, when I sometimes talk to people about AI (and AGI) and how it will change the world, people respond, meh, yeah ok, so what?
That wouldn't affect latency in any noticable way.
That's a eukaryote though, whole different kettle of fish. This is bacteria, far simpler and smaller.
Ask HN: Programming books/tutorials subscription recommendations for 2022
I'm mildly happy with an online programming books and tutorials subscription service. But I'm curious if there is a service that HN users would overwhelmingly recommend to others. My interest is web app development, data engineering and ML on the big clouds.
I think switch made a certain amount of sense on the iPhone and iPad. Especially in the skeuomorphic era. I see no problem with them there.

They make absolutely no sense on the desktop. And of course lots of other people are copying this approach, including various website designers, meaning that now instead of useful checkboxes websites often have stupid little iPhones slider things.
Yes, he has a PhD in Economics from U Washington and has worked in at least two private sector companies. The first was probably Amazon, definitely in Seattle. Don’t know what the current one is.
>Related, I miss the insane dedication to quality that team had. Every single bug had a regression test created for it.

Compilers in particular are usually easy to have rigorous regression testing for. Investigating any issue usually forces you to produce a minimal repro because of how complicated a compiler is. Also, all the inputs and outputs are known. Then it's just a one tiny extra step of putting that all together into a checked-in test.
> the fact that they got beat on tech

What tech is the EU missing out on?

All the recent "tech" I see from the US is all about novel ways to screw & exploit people for profit, at the expense of turning society into a dangerous wasteland full of outrage and saturated by advertising.

No thanks.
Yes, times have changed; today, "game device" and "not connected to the internet" are almost a contradiction in terms. Besides, the makers of such devices want to stop the next Gary Bowser from finding an exploit that will let people run "homebrew" (read: pirated) games.

The fact is that new developers (and many old ones) see C as too risky and difficult to work in now, meanwhile JavaScript kids are transitioning to Rust and writing code that's nearly as performant as your C code but with fewer bugs.

As I like to say, Rust isn't for you... it's for your replacement.
Yes, because default Django app name by default using the same name with Django project name.
The perception these companies has created is totally bullshit and you are self selecting yourself out.

Although these companies create artificially high barriers, most of the work is pretty ordinary and my colleagues are pretty ordinary too. That's totally OK because people would be very unsatisfied and leave if they were working too long below their ability/aspiration.

Sure, there are the big throbbing brains here and there but that's maybe a few percent. Most SWEs are just stringing APIs together, doing boring YAML work or whiling away their days in meetings.
I didn’t say anything about work. I know people with interesting and worthwhile accomplishments or hobbies outside the field of career advancement. This is great and I’d be pleased if my child found something, money or no, to pursue passionately. I also know people (stoners being overrepresented) who are completely passive consumers watching life drift by, who only play games/watch shows and don’t do anything creative or challenging. It’s not a lifestyle I would take pride in. I don’t mean that as an attack, exactly - pride is earned, and to earn it you have to actually do something.
OP includes a link to a subset of reports of deaths from "non-natural causes" and then speculates based upon an absence of evidence.

See also the below which describes a bunch of deaths including deaths from natural causes that are not included in the above stats site.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

"A Consular Report of Death of a U.S. Citizen Abroad is:

Issued by the U.S. embassy or consulate upon its receipt of the foreign death certificate or finding of death by a local competent authority.

An administrative document that provides essential facts about the death, disposition of remains, and custody of the personal estate of the deceased U.S. citizen.

Generally used in legal proceedings in the United States as proof of death;

Based on the foreign death certificate, and cannot be completed until the foreign death certificate is issued (This can take as long as four-to-six weeks, depending on the country)."
If you can lift 60 pounds, you can bear atomic weaponry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...

You're right; rather than fix the issues technological progress has made for the Constitution, we've chosen to wimp out and make a bewildering, inconsistent set of "yes, buuuuuut..." legal decisions.
> Then the second chance with web3 but this was also spoiled by people getting too greedy and too nasty too fast.

Maybe the laws & regulations you complain about are actually necessary because otherwise people will keep being greedy & nasty and eventually outnumber honest people?
My impression from the OP is that the company does not claim to operate out of Russia or Belarus. Presumably, neither would the website. Clearly there's some other method by which that third party makes that determination, and clearly that method produces false positives.
I definitely agree there are upsides. I had a Twitter for a while and found a ton of interesting articles, informative accounts, etc. I've learned a ton from YouTube. Sure, some TikTok videos can be helpful.

But the idea that the media forms and platforms play no causal role and it's all on us and our choices is nearly indefensible imo
SalesForce built their Lightning framework with web components. It's a complete dumpster fire. Front end has settled on React for a reason; it's the best way to build UIs for the web.
The US hasn't been willing to imprison entire populations before? It's practically the only thing the government's ever been truly good at.
So if there's bike infrastructure for March to November, there also has to be other infrastructure for November to March?
>Your “personal freedoms” end when they cause you to become a burden on the state.

Orwell, is that you?

>If you want to smoke I’m totally fine with that as long as you agree to be banned from using any public health services ever, no Medicaid no Medicare no social security.

This is something that people who harass and spit homeless people would say.

>As you said, the dangers have been known for decades, so everyone involved can make a rational decision.

You think drug addition is in any way rational? Wake up.
If they were to make the copy available for everyone through their own syndicator then sure, but they don't. The "copy" is only available for the original reader, who had legitimate access to the original anyway.

Under copyright, you're allowed to make full copies of works which you have legitimate access to, as long as you don't distribute them to others.

https://copyright.unimelb.edu.au/shared/using-copyright-mate...

To me, what Pocket is offering is like a warehouse where you can take books which you already own, and they're charging you for the warehouse space.

Doesn't sound like anything to do with copyright to me.
Any e-mail client with rules can do that and much, much, much, much more, though. Slack only offers three primitive options for notification filtering, and they can only be applied at two levels.
> Google announced earlier this year that Google Analytics 4, its successor, does not log or store IP address at all.

So if I go to a website and it has me load code from Google's servers it's still got to send my IP address to them. I'm not sure why we'd take them at their word that they won't keep that data around (I'd like to see that independently verified). but it'll be sent to the server logs if nothing else. What does not storing the IP address even mean? Do they hash it and store that instead? Do they do a quick lookup and just flag your dossier logging the connection and when it happened before dropping the IP info?

If people care about their privacy I think it's probably best not to send information to Google in the first place. There are alternatives to google analytics after all.
Would you mind including more details about why this comment applies to this particular piece? I feel like a comment like this shows up every time an HBR article lands, and I rarely see the criticism fleshed out to be meaningful in any way.

Sometimes commenters seem to only have read the headline. With HBR, it seems like some people only read the URL.
An Autonomous Ship Used AI to Cross The Atlantic Without a Human Crew
personal anectode: I'm born in 1986 and had internet since 1998. Immediately got into contact with IRC's XDCC file-sharing and Usenet bin groups. Never paid for music, started burning CDs in 1999 and owned the first commercial MP3 player. Only when Spotify came around, I started to pay for music out of lazyness to further take care of my HDD sized, tediously managed and tagged MP3 (and later M4A) library.

So at least for a large part of my life, that crazy industry didn't get a dime from me. Reading about their practices now makes me feel even less sorry.
Here’s a GIF of the NYT video:

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d2a49c29f981d0a8...

Image description: Filaments of a bacteria named Thiomargarita magnifica, placed next to a dime for scale. It is the largest bacteria ever observed, and each filament seen here is a single cell.
Cenbe’s Commentary on GeckOS
401k owners, IRA owners, and taxpayers via defined benefit pension funds want to pay for the management that maximizes returns.
You mean the guy who doesn't pay taxes but tears up our highways with billions of deliveries each year?
The less people smoke cigarettes (vapes are not part of the deal), the less the states get from the Tobacco master settlement case in 1998. There is a significant financial incentive for governments to keep people smoking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
I'm honestly having a hard time listening to the difference between English "li" and "lee". If you mean how "lee" tends to hold the vowel for longer, maybe you're indicating that that syllable holds the phonetic accent in "libre", which you'd be right about. Fundamentally though, they sound the same.

Not sure what you mean by flipping the "r".
Unfortunately it seems like it's greater than 0...

If we ignore the procedurally generated NFTs created from mixing and matching various assets and go with ones where AI is the selling point, we're left with a few notable ones: Sophia, a robot w/ some low-level AI sold a single piece for 689k USD [^1]. Botto, a VQGAN-based algorithm sold a single piece for 430k USD and has sold multiple other pieces for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Slightly more modest are some other projects like Metascapes [^3] and Eponym [^4], which produced some really tedious pieces that managed to sell for 3.5k USD and 10k USD respectively. That said, the Eponym piece seems to be some sort of self promotion, so maybe we can say that the actual prices for these collections are somewhere in the fraction of an ETH range if they can be sold at all.

Honestly, only the Botto piece is remotely interesting to look at, and even then I feel as if the blurred, "dreamy" aesthetic that seems to be in so many different AI painting approaches (style-transfer, VQGANS, DALL-E, maybe others I'm not aware of). I think it was more interesting back when we could pretend that these were the electric sheep at the fringes of some deep-sleeping latent intelligent potential but now they just feel kinda arbitrary and lacking deliberation. I absolutely love the field and think these researchers have done tremendous work, but I feel as though all the lay news attention is on the art, and not on the algorithm that generated it. The fascinating thing is that we have a machine that can produce novel something from words or basic ideas and that the output's content retains these ideas, not so much that art itself has that much compositional or stylistic merit.

[^1]: https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0xbe60d0a37ebde6...

[^2]: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/scene-precede-29922

[^3]: https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x75d639e5e52b4ea5426f2fb...

[^4]: https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xaa20f900e24ca7ed897c44d...
Popcorn is actually really calorific

But anyway I like joints and so do a lot of people, I don’t see this as a solution
> I think the main feature of property is to disallow others from using it in a way that restricts your own use. For IP, others selling copies would restrict your ability to sell copies as they undercut you.

The main difference between the wheelbarrow and IP lies in the copies. If someone else uses my wheelbarrow I can't use it while they're using it, or they may damage it. If someone copies an mp3 of a song I performed, I still have my mp3.

We had a working economic model based on physical property and we've been crippling the wonderful ability to infinitely create zero-cost copies of digital artifacts in order to fit our existing model. It's not horrendous that we've done this, and I'd optimistically view it as a step on the road to something yet unrealized.

> medical data

That deals with privacy, which is a different can of worms.
The market would only react if people were actually aware of the privacy violations. This is what the GDPR is trying to address by making data processing require informed consent.

The vast majority of people (some even on HN) have absolutely no clue how advanced the stalking actually is. You hear every so often these anecdotes about people suspecting Facebook of listening to them; it's actually more creepy that the tracking is advanced enough to successfully infer conversations without actually listening in.
Is there a compare and contrast between Imagen and Parti anywhere? I realize the paper came out yesterday, but maybe other people remember what "autoregressive" means better than I do.
>I don't know where to draw the line but assuming self driving cars are a thing they'll arguably need constant new data and constant updates so unlike most cars to date, they aren't things you'll just be able to buy and the sever your connection with the company you bought it from.

That sounds like an argument against self driving cars.
Right click the message and choose "remind me later"
AI is now creative