skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university attending friend who is financially affluent wishes to know where people are downloading z library books now?

He is a law abiding stand up dude who pays for music and wants to write a thesis paper on z library and absolutely does not wish to download these books.

( He is also asking if there is any anime/manga books as he is an Asian American History major )
You can think of booleans as a built-in, two-value enum that has a common semantic meaning. Use booleans if this is suitable for your purpose; it will be suitable for many.

That said... this article feels like a bit of a strawman. Does anyone by default use three booleans in cases that are arechetypical enums?
I might be missing something, what code practices do you have in mind that help with CPU profiling?
Great project, came in super handy on a project and I needed a way to mass import csv files which wasn't a feature at the time (7 years ago), threw together a PR over a weekend and the kind maintainers helped get it in. The chief maintainer at the time Justin is a cool guy, donate if you can.
Y Combinator Startup Podcast: How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills | Dalton & Michael Podcast

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes...
Also called the Boolean trap: https://ariya.io/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-trap
For most simple designs, you should forge the ring and solder it closed instead of casting. Casting would be more appropriate for detailed designs that you don't have time to carve or hammer out.
I am not an expert, but I think one of their layers of protections (that is, to ensure that TM itself gets the greatest share of scalping money) is applying much greater scrutiny to freshly-created accounts when it comes to the in-demand events. I'm not sure how they effectively bootstrap new legit users of course, but I've been offered I think around $100 to sell my Ticketmaster account, which is old. (I can't recall how they found me, perhaps it was an ad just stating that they'd buy an account older than X years).
shorting or longing?

pun intended

sorry :)

can anyone explain the difference between shorting a stock and the opposite of it, if any? and what both of them mean? ELI5, please.

I've read about it from long back, but have been too lazy or never thought to check out what it meant, since I don't do much share trading.

double sorry.
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I'm Janki, a user-driven Senior Front-End Engineer with an M.S. in Computer Science, specializing in Interactive AI. As a UX engineer, I love to focus on improving user experience through thoughtful designs, interactive data visualizations, and intuitive user flows. I value user feedback, and take pride in the iterative, continuous improvement of my work.

Recent favorite projects include prototyping and overseeing implementation of an AI document chatbot UI (React, Figma), data visualization for private equity and public portfolio liquidity modeling (React, Highcharts), and the implementation of a user bug report and feature request workflow (React, Microsoft APIs) to organize user requests from any given internal application into a centralized location.

Although my recent experience is in finance and the investment/asset management space, I am open to any industry where I can make a difference, help people, and learn something new every day.

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New Gato GraphQL with MultilingualPress extension (to power multilingual sites)
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/theres-water-on-t...
For me he touches on this here:

“One thing that distinguishes the persistent is their energy. At the risk of putting too much weight on words, they persist rather than merely resisting. They keep trying things. Which means the persistent must also be imaginative. To keep trying things, you have to keep thinking of things to try.”

If you have ideas on what else to try, you persist. If not, maybe time to move on or risk it becoming obstinance.
Generally if your victims are in a country, other (friendly) countries will arrest and extradite you if the crime is serious enough to justify the effort. There is no "world police" that forbid countries from prosecuting crimes committed outside their borders. A lot of it boils down to how friendly the two countries are with each other, and how serious they view the crime.
https://remix.run/ seems a good approach
(Doubles down on $10 per square foot.)
> The trouble is programs running in terminal may want to deal with Ctrl-C by themselves. Text editors for example do that, but terminals have no way to know it. Terminals even don't know what program is running now, because job control is a job of a shell.

But then why does Windows Terminal (even when running against WSL) not have this problem? The terminal doesn’t need to know what’s running inside it to know “if text is selected, intercept Ctrl-C and copy the selected text”.
I think you can probably re-read and understand that their entire post is about the fact that Ticketmaster hosts, processes, and charges fees on resale tickets.

I know that you already know this, based on your other posts on this thread.

The technology referenced in the post above is, at least in part, to prevent you from reselling the ticket without involving TicketMaster. That may be justified as a way to prevent selling the same ticket more than once, but it’s certainly the case that this is one of many possible approaches, and it’s the one that most favors this business.

It would probably be criminal for the company to act any other way, so I’m not claiming any evil doing here.
> If Roku doesn't want to run afoul of these laws perhaps they should make these kinds of features optional instead of forcing them on people?

Maybe they don't care about running afoul of these laws? Or feel that they are on solid ground?

> The whole point of these laws is to prevent manufacturers from squeezing people by making products that fail early, or that are difficult to use.

But neither of those things happened in this case did they? The TV still TVs (it didn't fail early) and it's not suddenly more difficult to use. The person just dislikes the update.

> I personally continued using the phone but I could see how someone who purchased the phone for that feature would be dismayed at its sudden removal.

I guess this is where we differ. Somebody feeling dismayed does not mean the company owes them a refund (in my opinion) and governments should not (in my opinion) be writing laws that protect people from being dismayed with their purchases.
digital books also run the risk of being censored or disappeared from your devices overnight. Another nice thing about physical books is that you don't have to worry about anyone spying on you and collecting data on what you read/when/where/how often/how quickly, etc.
Delightfully hardcore indeed!

But of course you don't have to buy a rack of servers for testing, you can rent it. Servers are a quickly depreciating asset, why invest in them?
Saint Kitts and Nevis is a sovereign state and part of the Commonwealth. It's primary business is tourism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis
>”Big companies already make tons of profit, way too much in my opinion”

It’s just stealing. Trying to justify it with a Robin Hood explanation doesn’t change it.

Also, KFC is a franchise.
These look like graphics straight out of 1998.
These are ones that are actually used, not just ones I made up. Sorry that wasn't more clear. I really hate conversation on this site.
Bob,

Since you’re the GPP author - as someone who recently published a Steam title and has glowing community reviews, I wish your comment was the article.

pg just doesn’t do it for me. It’s a nonsensical word salad of half-baked conjectures and aphorisms. There’s nothing to discuss because there’s nothing thought provoking in there.

I am however glad it spurred you to write something worth reading (again).
The self driving space does this :)
You're right (as I saw another comment cite the primary-source for); but I'm still curious now, whether there'd be a way to pull this off.

> I think that would mean you cannot use native drivers

Yes, that's right.

> at which point you're just writing another bootloader

But that's not necessarily true.

Even if you could only use EFI boot+runtime services until you call ExitBootServices, in theory, an OS kernel could have a HAL for which many different pieces of hardware have an "EFI boot services driver" as well as a native driver; and where the active driver for a given piece of discovered hardware could be hotswapped "under" the HAL abstraction, atomically, without live HAL-intermediated kernel handles going bad — as long as the kernel includes a driver-to-driver state-translation function for the two implementations.

So you could "bring up" a kernel and userland while riding on EFI boot services; and then the kernel would snap its fingers at some critical point, and it'd suddenly all be native drivers.

Of course, Linux is not architected in a way that even comes close to allowing something like this. (Windows might be, maybe?)

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I think a more interesting idea, though, would come from slightly extending the UEFI spec. Imagine two calls: PauseBootServices and ResumeBootServices.

PauseBootServices would stop all management of devices by the EFI (so, as with ExitBootServices, you'd have to be ready to take over such management) — but crucially, it would leave all the stuff that EFI had discovered+computed+mapped into memory during early boot, mapped into memory (and these pages would be read-only and would be locked at ring-negative-3 or something, so the kernel wouldn't have permission to unmap them.)

If this existed, then at any time (even in the middle of running a multi-user OS!), the running kernel that had previously called PauseBootServices, could call ResumeBootServices — basically "relinquishing back" control over the hardware to EFI.

EFI would then go about reinitializing all hardware other than the CPU and memory, taking over the CPU for a while the same way peripheral bring-up logic does at early boot. But when it's done with getting all the peripherals into known-good states, it would then return control to the caller[1] of ResumeBootServices, with the kernel now having transitioned into being an EFI app again.

[1] ...through a vector of the caller's choice. To get those drivers back into being EFI boot services drivers before the kernel tries using them again, naturally.

It's a dumb idea, mostly useless, thoroughly impractical to implement given how ossified EFI already is — but it'd "work" ;)
> The model doesn't "understand" anything, but if you, the programmer, understands it well enough, that can be enough to direct it to find a solution.

This is exactly my point.

Whether a programmer uses past experience exclusively to author source code or a statistical code generator (LLM) and then their learned ability is orthogonal to my original premise.

Without understanding, statistical code generation is
little more than a popularity contest.
Retired a paid Vegas install for Resolve. It is quite feature packed. And the learning curve wasn't bad. I also like that it's backed by a hardware company so they aren't incentivized to gate a lot behind the paid version.
Enums in Go
You'd want it to be the exact same hardware as in production, for one.
I'm not a fan of it either. Just sayin' that concerts and events are where the densest crowds are. Are we protecting people from doing things to events more than the events themselves? I'd hope this is an argument for more granular control. I'd love to fly short-hops without ID, but maybe TSwift concerts should require something? (Edit: Do they? Events/venues do start to have their own security at some point. Flights also have different controls for national vs international.)

I'm also probably overly discounting border control. Traceability in particular. I'm not a fan of this either.
it was a bubble, bubbles pop eventually
Was Pipewire a shitshow? PulseAudio was, and it had a bunch of issues (idk about design issues - I haven't really dug into the details, but it certainly had a fair number of unpleasant bugs), but I think Pipewire transition was fairly uneventful, in a good way.

And systemd was (and still is, I guess) controversial, and there are certainly some design decisions that are questionable - but even in its early days, at the very least it worked for a number of basic scenarios and the majority of issues I've had or heard about was either in its limitations (I remember having issues with journald) or because folks didn't want to change from their preferred rc system as it already worked well for them and systemd was radically different. So, I think, it was less of a shitshow than Wayland. Or maybe I'm just forgetting things - it was a long while ago.
It doesn't handle transitive dependencies. So it's only a "Maven/Gradle alternative" to the extent that you don't need those. Enjoy!
It's asking you to empathize with users who can notice motion smoothing by imagining that you suffer a major noticable annoyance. The logic flows perfectly well in that sentence.
I have been used similar approach at embedded system to copy data ram and kexec kernel there
Downsides: you have to name and import all the enums (notice no one ever shows this in code examples). You can't do boolean math on them (and, or, etc.).
If you have 10,000 people willing to pay $X to see a concert, but you only have 5000 seats to sell at $X, not everyone is going to get a ticket.

Our economic system (arbitrage!) increases the price of the apple by $N until only one person is willing to buy that apple at $X+N.

If you make arbitrage illegal and implement a price ceiling at $X, one of two things will happen. If $N is greater than the cost of breaking the rules, people will start a black market to sell at $X+N (like in many communist countries). As mentioned in the article, this is already occurring with Ticketmaster because they take such a large tax on tickets; arbitrageurs are realizing they can avoid Ticketmaster's system by just sending around PDFs.

If $N is less than the cost of breaking the rules (Ticketmaster benefits from $N>$X), there will be shortages of seats because not everyone willing to pay $X for a seat can get one.

The market system works great when people who derive the most value from tickets are the ones who pay the most money. This works even better with arbitrage because people can just pay what they value the ticket at.

The market failure here is caused by wealth inequality, because there are people with unfathomable amounts of money who will pay tens of thousands of dollars to see a musician they sort of like.

Personally, I like how box seats deal with the problem. They have a high level of luxury that costs little to implement compared to price + is very scalable (you can stack boxes directly on top of each other and you're paying more to sit farther away!), and that's helping soak up a lot of demand.
Which is far more realistic than defining single-use enums all over the place.

I don't know why more languages don't have named parameters...
wikipedia can though investopedia might be a more fun rabbithole for you.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortsale.asp
> That would be a weird definition of profit.

That's fine. I'm using layman's definitions of these words so that we can avoid the "What do you mean you don't want my business to make a profit?!?! What sort of MONSTER are you??" style of soundbites. Jargon has its place and can be very, very, very valuable. However, in the realm of economics, jargon obscures far more often than it illuminates.

> But yeah, people think they pay too much for everything...

Some people do, yes. If you're of the opinion that businesses working together to ensure that they extract every penny possible from all of their customers would not result in people consistently paying too much for everything, then I ask you why you're not taking the amount of money that you're underpaying for each and all of your goods and services and donating that (whether to charity, or directly to the businesses that are undercharging you). [0] Don't forget to structure your donations so that you have to choose between having the occasional luxury or maintaining a very small emergency savings fund... after all, all of that consumer surplus needs to be captured, doesn't it?

[0] Assuming that you're not already doing this, of course.
> To grantee having a ticket with this system, a wealthy or connected devoted fan can have private arrangement with the artist manager or event organizer to get tickets.

This is the system we have right now. Ticketmaster is the event organizer.
Because their primary driven is something other than maximising profits.
However, GNU/Linux's better terminal experience compared to Unix could be part of the reason why it wiped the floor with Unix.

When you log into a BSD box, it's like taking a time machine back to the 1980s.
I'd be up to build the MVP if we could discuss the idea and the basic project scope.
When a plane reaches V1 (which depends on the model, weight, runway length, temperature etc) the pilot has 2 seconds to abort takeoff or they are too fast to stop before the end of the runway. At V1 a multi-engine plane will take-off even with one engine out. The pilot will normally wait until Vr or V2 to rotate as this ensures a climb rate of 2.4 degrees. If the runway is long enough V1 will be higher than V2 but commercial aircraft will de-rate the engines and make use of the available runway to avoid running the engines at maximum.
This is the most ridiculous lawsuit ever. How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"? How is less than 2TB of total bandwidth amount to millions of dollars of damage? Something is off here. Maybe there is some other motivation behind this, like drawing some legal representative of Anna's archive out? It makes no sense otherwise. Considering that high ranking officers of OCLC (taking a look over their executives in [0]) seem deeply intertwined with the book industry, it makes sense that it is used as a proxy for other types of interests.

[0] https://www.oclc.org/en/about/leadership.html?cmpcat=md_ab&c...
Shorting a stock is like taking out a loan, but when you pay it back, you don't pay it back at the value you started with, but at the new value. So, if you shorted starting at $100, and it's now worth $10, you could keep those $90, and pay back just the $10.
I'm a hobbyist photographer and my dad's a professional. This is the first time I've ever heard of these files, so what do people use them for and why are they deal-breakers? As far as I've seen them work, professional photographers spend nearly all of their time in Lightroom, it's pretty rare to see someone reach for Photoshop.
PDF417 has non-square pixels (or rather as it's called in barcode nomenclature "modules") which feels very janky - it was meant for linear scanners after all.

Oh, and quoting Wikipedia:

In practice, a PDF417 symbol takes about four times the area of a DataMatrix or QR Code.
The assumption being that the language you are using does not have named parameters. Something all modern languages have, except, as usual, the ones the world is built on (JS, Java).
I have a Roku stick, and volume on the remote only works with Roku sound bars. My Amazon stick and Apple TV remotes handled it no sweat.

Then there’s the constant screwing around with the home screen. I think I’ll be going back to AppleTV next time around.
Importantly here, Boeing doesn’t require licensed engineers because they operate under an industrial exemption.
If one compares the heat of combustion of hydrogen stored at 100 bar and 20 C, to the energy of water elevated by 100 meters, the former exceeds the latter (per unit volume) by a factor of 1000. So that "holding pond" is going to be much, MUCH larger than the solution-mined cavern for storage systems of equal capacity (and remember one needs two reservoirs.)
Long: you buy a stock, hold it, later on sell for profit or loss.

Short: you borrow a stock, sell it, hold the money and later on buy the stock back at a lower or higher price you originally sold it for. Then return the stock to the person who lent it to you.
I think the last thing the US needs to do is drop bombs in or near the Middle East. Enough damage has been done by US weaponry and personal in the region for several lifetimes.
They address that here: https://strongboxsafe.com/support/#reamaze#0#/kb/security-an...

Is Keepassium audited?
The observation that there is a (very) strong statistical correlation between cranium and social size is an interesting and correct observation.

That much is true and uncontroversial.

What the article takes issue with is the exact number of 150, which can vary from person to person. But really, the criticism entirely misses the point. The number is just a rule of thumb derived from extrapolation. It's not a hard and fast rule like "You can only have 150 friends". Obviously.
I don't think it's even fine for anything. In all the implementations I've seen, as soon as the action gets too big/complicated, the interpolated frames are dropped. Right when you need the intermediate frames most, it seems to drop to the source frame rate. (maybe just for part of the screen?)
> It's just that the bootloader is itself using the Linux kernel

This sentence does not say "the bootloader is itself another, separate, Linux kernel", so I'm not seeing him saying what you're saying he seems to be saying.
Yes: it put a much larger, more expensive, and less efficient part of wall street out of business. Before it was done with computers, it was done with lots of people doing the same job. What was that job? Well, if you want to go to a market and sell something, you generally would like for there to be someone there who's buying it. But it's not always the case that there's a buyer there right at the time who actually wants the item for their own use. The inverse is also true for a prospective buyer. Enter middle-men or market makers who just hang around the marketplace, learning roughly how much people will buy or sell a given good for, and buy it for slightly less than they can sell it later for. This is actually generally useful if you just want to buy or sell something.

Now, does this need to get towards milli-seconds or nano-seconds? No, this is just the equivalent of many of these middle-men racing to give you an offer. But it's (part of) how they compete with each other, and as they do so they squeeze the margins of the industry as a whole: In fact the profits of HFT firms have decreased as a percentage of the overall market and in absolute terms after the initial peak as they displaced the day traders doing the same thing.
Pulling the latest version without freezing is how you Break Stuff. Every python developer seems to be addicted to breaking changes.

Nuking and recreating, freezing, etc are all easy minor tasks but nonetheless add a few lines each of code.

Auditing for security issues would probably need some other package or other.

And with virtualenv, you can have an activated environment. It's stateful and your scripts have to then take into account state. Poetry run doesn't have that issue.

That's enough minor annoyances to make me not want to ever use anything but poetry plus the audit plugin and freeze-wheel if needed.
It’s in the post, can’t you read? Also, something being low-level has nothing to do with documentation.