skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They have yet to reassemble those pieces into a functioning E. coli."

Sure sounds like they haven't tested them yet. Maybe unit-tested the individual changes in a test tube?

Speaking of character, I wonder what kind of person throws in random off-topic aspersions ?
Does "hold credit card debt" include people who pay their credit card off each month? If not, it seems like the premise of the article is wrong.
Oh my. Can someone check my numbers?

France revenue: 953,000 million EUR
Military budget: 41,300 million EUR (approx)
= 4.33% of tax revenue military spending

vs

USA revenue: 4,260,000 million USD
Military budget: 597,500 million USD
= 14.03% of tax revenue military spending

Damn.

I used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... (2015 numbers)

https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd...

https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-france.pdf
You know why Europeans get away spending pennies, coz Uncle Sam will come to their rescue when the big bad bear attacks them!
Largely inconsequential.

The article is not very clear. The money that is not accounted for is $62.4B. The reason that money is unaccounted for is because of trillions of dollars of accounting adjustments in budgets.

That trillion dollars figure is just summing up the magnitude of all accounting adjustments throughout all the records of the DoD. The moral equivalent of:

SELECT SUM(ABS(trans_amount)) FROM transactions WHERE trans_type = 'Adjustments';

In an imaginary accounting DB. The $62.4B figure was the same thing minus the "ABS()"...
2-b: This is not true, and is a harmful and common fallacy. Keynesian economics is not permanent government spending. It's government spending only in rare cases of overall economic depression. In fact, what Keynes would argue is that if a depression occurred, you need government deficit spending to replace the decrease in the overall economy. This has nothing to do with the normal level of government spending in the economy.

He didn't advocate digging holes and filling them back up as a normal thing - he advocated it only in rare cases of economic troubles.
3.3 from GDP. 19% from Federal budget.
It's also worth noting that the since American military provides such a large security blanket to global trade that most nations who would otherwise tough it out themselves to protect their merchant fleets don't have to, unless they are are in piracy hotspots like Somalia. Many non-American merchant ships often fly the Stars and Stripes illegally to deter those who are averse to pissing off the US Navy.

America does often not like it when countries other than itself goes to war because it makes it hard to sell American consumer goods there, unless those goods are the weapons of war themselves.
Sure, he could have been lying, so could I. Are you really suggesting that classified projects are on the same level as black ops?
He's quoting % GDP of USA, not % of budget. I think that is a discrepancy.

The spending is still massive in comparison to pretty much any country in the world. As I said in the other post, just a handul of worlds countries come close to spending 3% of GDP on military - now couple that with the fact that USA has largest GDP in the world and you get a staggering amount of money spent.
Why is the name variable not output in the worker threads?
Well, it didn't lose track of trillions of dollars, it lost track of tens of billions. Which is still awful, don't get me wrong, but the Army doesn't have trillions of dollars to lose.
> the average American under 35 had 182 percent less student debt

What does that mean? If you have a 100% less of something than someone else, you don't have any of it, right? Did colleges owe the average student money in 1995?
Startups fail all the time, many with people working endless amounts of hours. I wouldn't go using that as an argument-clearly work hours != success. It may to a certain extent but clearly working insane hours can also be a waste of time.

It's interesting that you make a blanket statement, but call another blanket statement "silly." Perhaps there are more people than we think that can come in, get to work, and deliver quality. It's interesting that this suddenly doesn't become an issue when something needs done off hours with a short deadline-then they CAN come in and work right away, right?
Years ago I heard this called "in-deflation." It's our era's stagflation.
Hi James, great question. We have used drones of all shapes and sizes, including off-the-shelf (DJI Phantom, S1000) and custom fixed-wing aircraft (modified X8 flying wing, 11-ft wingspan composite plane).

We're using them to take measurements at the beginning of the growing season (e.g., stand percentages), middle of the growing season (e.g., custom-built sensors to hunt for specific diseases), and finally, tying that back to the quality of the crops that are coming out of the ground. With that last component, we can be very confident when we say our data assists with agricultural decision-making.
Sometimes we take certain things for granted - I would bet most people reading this announcement don't know what the continuity fund [0] is.

[0]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-continuity-fund
I realize I'm likely an outlier (as a millenial) in my age cohort but... the whole reason I have no credit card debt is because I'd prefer to not pay interest when I don't have to.

I certainly use my credit cards. In fact, I use them for everything I can, to maximize my rewards (which equates to ~$75 in cash back every month). The only things I can't use them for is rent and health insurance. Everything else gets churned through, and the balance is paid off at the end of every statement. It's quicker, has better fraud protection, and is easier to ensure I'm staying on budget. I just haven't paid a cent in interest in at least a decade.

I believe the term the credit card companies have for me is a "deadbeat".
The `.windows(usize)` function almost does this, but it uses a runtime width and so has to yield slices rather than tuples.
Benefits of improving credit score: access to capital when shit hits the fan e.g. medical emergency?

Is this disputable?
Wouldn't the type guarantees provided by rusts type system allow for different implementations based on whether it was called on value types vs reference types? I thought there was an auto specialization feature created a while ago that did something like that.
> 2-e. Global stability & peace for 3.3% of GDP, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Is this irony? Because, the gigantic mess we have now in middle east is absolutely not the result of massives US military spendings, a little more than 13 years ago...
We pay alright, social security & healthcare are nearly 50% of the federal budget.
"DFAS also could not make accurate year-end Army financial statements because more than 16,000 financial data files had vanished from its computer system."

I am impressed. I did an internship at a financial company and helped do end of month closing balance adjustments. We had a onsite and remote paper copy storage of each document, an onsite server room that hosted a copy, a off site tape copy and an offsite digital back up. Hard to think of what must have happened to get that level of mishap.
Good credit helps you: rent an apartment, buy a car, lower your insurance rates, and buy a condo/house.

Additionally, buying things with a credit card gives additional benefits such as extended warranties and protection against fraud.
Devil's advocate here: That's a nice sound byte, but the US also has a MUCH higher GDP than any other country. China is the only other one even past $10T. Not including China, eyeballing the numbers the US has a higher GDP than the rest of the top 10 countries combined.
The kind of psychological problems I'm talking about aren't the kind that are fixed by drugs. I'm talking about things like values and beliefs. I'm calling it psychology because I don't know what else to call it; perhaps mindset would be a better name.
Former military here.

The #1 way to reduce waste would be to change the accounting rules. As it is, if you don't spend your full budget for the year, next year's budget will be cut by that amount. And you aren't allowed to keep a "rainy day fund".

This causes problems when you have expensive equipment that only fails occasionally. You have to budget for a possible replacement, but if you make it through the year without a failure, you've got all this money that you have to suddenly find a use for.
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That's what moderators are for. Most subreddits dedicated to particular games that I frequent have pretty well-behaving communities (with varying level of tolerance for memes).
3.3% of GDP. The ones where military is a huge share as are SS/medicare is the federal budget.
The regular Golf wasn't caught for cheating was it? Only the TDI?

I'm not sure the price comparisons you give make sense because $200 today still buys you a better CPU/GPU than $200 did back then..
I'm curious, which FOB and which DFAC? Kind of reminds me of the really big one on Victory.
Why the US military spending is so high requires some history. Before WWII, the US was actually quite isolationist: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isol...

The US wanted to stay out of other people's wars and problems and take care of itself. The simple version is that Pearl Harbor showed the US what happens when you do that, although of course it was more complicated than that.

Ever since then, the US has decided, for better or worse, to involve itself in problems around the world. It's in the US's best interests. Many countries have smaller militaries because they are a part of NATO, which is largely backed by the US. So when you compare their military to the US's, it's not really a fair comparison.
2-a. 2.1% to 3.3% is a 44% difference. So, yes, I'd argue that is disproportionate. The difference is compounded by the fact that the US is the largest economy. So, I think disproportionate is the right term.

The rest of your points skirt the question. Spending on the military isn't supposed to be the driver for the economy or the engine for innovation, those are side benefits. If those really are the goals then the citizens should be demanding that money be spent directly to achieve those benefits. I find it curious that argument is never put forward.
Reminds me of the time, when CDs became mainstream and suddendly many of the classic games fit on one of such CDs. There was one with Warcraft, CnC, Doom, Quake, Monkey Island, One Must Fall, T.I.M., etc. pp.

Thousands of hours of fun on just one disk...
Posting to your GitLab Pages blog from iOS
I agree with your and the parents comments about hacker culture being counterculture. I don't agree that it still is. The countercultural aspect largely disappeared as computers (and software) became cheap and information widely available. I cringe a bit when see modern hackers using their $3k laptops to have fun coding C in a terminal by themselves. Nothing wrong with that of course, but not necessarily something I would say is a good modern representation of the hacker spirit.
Scot Paltrow cover's this beat regularly

http://www.reuters.com/journalists/scot-j-paltrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scot_J._Paltrow

All the services are at fault. Part of this no doubt has to do with the sheer amount of turnover in the military: people change jobs every two or three years, sometimes in one year. The civilians have more insight, but the active duty officers are virtually guaranteed to make errors in cost estimates for new programs and only shut down old programs after there are obvious overruns.
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3650
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That's good point about "permissionless innovation". It will be interesting to see where this has the most value and what problems it solves, that can't already be solved by the current incumbents.
Right. And, in fact, it's specifically the lawyer's "billable hours" which are < the number of hours worked. (i.e. it doesn't include continuing education requirements, administrivia, etc.)

The numbers cited are respectable lawyer pay but they're nothing extraordinary. When I worked on an expert witness report a number of years back, our hourly fee was in that vicinity.
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Ten times more expensive over 30 years? What was inflation over those 30 years? Was it a factor of 10?

Even if not... how were the airbags in a VW 30 years ago? Oh, it didn't have them? You're literally not buying the same thing, even if it serves the same function.

The statement from the mid-to-late 1980s was that the computer you want always costs $2000. That quit being true from about 2000 to about 2010. But if you don't need high-end graphics (by current standards), you can buy a quite nice computer for $700.
Exactly, the rest of the world is super good at efficiently spending tax dollars... USA excluded.
The Iraq war was plagued by accounting problems: pallet-loads of dollar bills being shipped in to pay for rebuilding, then vanishing. I don't think this was ever dealt with.

The large military spending is supported by two factors. The first is the element of American morality that believes in righteous violence: it's not merely an unfortunate necessity but a positive moral act. The same attitude supports both individual people keeping revolvers under the pillow and a globe-spanning military.

The second it the lack of inter-state redistribution. American politics since Roosevelt is very against Keynsianism. Suggest paying people to dig holes and fill them in again and there will be outrage. Paying billions for weapons systems that are never used or equipment shipped to Iraq/Afghanistan and then destroyed new, unused? Fine.
> the mortgage you made a huge stretch to take has reduced to affordable

Yeahhhhhh but don't forget interest on that 30-year fixed was 12%+!
Then you should probably stop arguing against the entire concept of copyright law, as that gives the wrong impression.
Not really. As a counter point, see India/Pakistan Kargil war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War). Both were nuclear armed and still kept it conventional.
He didn't create it, he just more or less appointed himself maintainer after 1990-ish.
Good points, and well expressed. I'm sorry for misinterpreting which case you were referring to.

Evidence that the term was meant as a dog-whistle to provoke a reaction is that it doesn't make any sense in a non-racist context. And the context was already about race, thanks the Russ's brilliant essay.

The names that Eric the Flute (that's what ESR really calls himself ;) ) called other people were hyperbolically exaggerated, and completely unjustifiable, especially coming from somebody who threatens other people's lives on the internet, and walks it back as merely trying to defame. How many people in the open source community who don't have a file systems named after them are actually thugs (or even maddogs)? And why did they all suddenly choose to gang up on poor Russ all together at once?

Maybe Trump has made everyone completely insensitive and bored with these kinds of tactics nowadays, but this happened in 2005, and it's not an isolated occurrence of racism from Eric Raymond: he has a long track record of race baiting, not just his latest tweet.

With both Raymond and Trump, it's a big game of click-bait chicken, to say the most offensive thing possible to get lots of attention, and then prove how smart he is to be able to talk himself out of trouble when everybody gets offended. Just read his blog comments. I'm sure he thought his "I just meant to defame him" excuse for threatening Bruce Peren's life was very clever.
Elon needs his space fortress to complete his evil master plan.
that's a essentially the same question, but also a ridiculous scenario that would never occur. what's your point
SEC cracks down on made-up numbers in company earnings
I wasn't commenting whether it's right or wrong to be spending that much, merely that if one is going to do a comparison, it should not be misleading.
Well considering me and my soldiers' pay were fucked up regularly requiring us to visit S1 this doesn't surprise me.
.39% of "assets" (debt issued by other parts of government). vanguard charges about a quarter this (with vehicles delivering substantially better risk adjusted returns). their "plan" is also slated to go bankrupt without adjustment.
scroll down to here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz#Programming_intervie...

edit: I fixed the OP
Why did you start your comment with "The kind who..."

What question is that supposed to be answering? If I had said something like "What kind of person...." but I said nothing like that.

So here, we have more proof of your self-obsession - you don't actually listen to other people, you just hear what you want to hear.
I use my credit cards for everything but I pay them off in full and have never paid interest on them.
Is this really a surprise to anyone? Government historically has no incentive to save money, because if they do, they will get less money the next time around.

I worked for a nonprofit organization based on government funding for almost a decade and this is exactly how the industry (anything based on funding from the government) works. We were told to buy the most expensive of everything and if we had a surplus, we had to spend (and many times waste) the rest.

This is why we need to have less government involved in our economy, not more.
Author here.

I am having some trouble reproducing the 2 seconds number, but with optimizations I'm getting around 1.5 seconds (without, I'm up to 5!), and as balducien mentions, /u/DroidLogician pointed out a _huge_ performance flaw in the file reading code.

Writing bad code is easy in any language (as I just showed :) - writing _super_ performant code is only possible in some.

EDIT:
I made a pretty bad mistake while writing this comment, claiming that fixing the file reading code improved the speed of the decoder _a lot_, which was not true at all. In fact, the difference is barely (if at all) noticeable when decoding lena.jpeg. However, when reading a larger file, the improvement is definitely there. So sorry! Replying to HN comments while drinking and watching a movie turns out not to be a great idea after all :)
Thank you for posting this. I was stationed in Germany for two years.
The E. coli long-term evolution experiment [0] has observed 65000 generations in 28 years. That's the length of about 0.88-1.27 human generations.

But humans no longer rely on only sexual reproduction, mutation, and horizontal gene transfer to evolve. We have this CRISPR/Cas9 mechanism now, which is putting us closer to doing something like flipping a known SNP--perhaps changing rs6152(G) to rs6152(A), to prevent baldness. Or we can splice the Bt gene into ourselves, so we won't ever be eaten by corn borer larvae.

In five human generations (110-160 years), humans will probably be able to replace/augment their mitochondria with captive subcellular oompa loompa biomachines. But even in 5000 human generations, we would not replace aerobic O2 metabolism with anaerobic N2 metabolism, simply because N2 is not as reactive as O2, thus is not as useful biologically in any environment where oxygen is available. It's more likely that we would add a supplementary anaerobic metabolism such that nitrogen asphyxiation results in a hibernation or torpor state, rather than death.

Complexity pays off sometimes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
> It just seems a shame that a country that somehow can't afford to pay for the health care of it's citizens manages to lose track of literally trillions of dollars.

Its not trillions of dollars. Its trillions of dollars of adjustments, when you count the absolute value of all the adjustments to individual accounts. But that's -- as stated in the article -- in part because not only does every error involve at least two accounts, but also because the accounts are nested, so most adjustments in a detail account also involve adjustments in several parent accounts.
I'm talking about police. Either way. It doesn't matter, you have the gun, you make the arrest. They don't get to just flee.
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I am working on an application which would rank CVs with respect to a job description. Looking for some help on if machine learning can be of any help.Looking for sample datasets to get started. Looking to do something similar

https://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=iciw_2012_7_40_20189
I'm unconvinced. All the wacky projects that usually pop up on show HN are pretty strong signs of a culture that encourages things that don't necessarily make business sense.
I'm a firm believer in flex time and heads-down time. Heck, I led an engineering team from 2 engineers (one of them being me) up to an engineering/product team of 25 with more nationalities on the team than employees (if that doesn't compute remember dual-citizenship), and distributed across 9-10 countries. I have successfully scheduled a three-person call between Melbourne, San Francisco and Berlin.

All this by way of saying: I have fully tested the philosophy that you should hire the absolute best engineers you can, no matter where they are based and when they want to work. For the right individuals with the proper workloads it's definitely worth it. But we shouldn't pretend it doesn't come with real tradeoffs. A story to illustrate my point:

I had my best video engineer in London, and my best ops guy in Seattle (and he didn't like waking up early). Even though these guys could do 95% of their work independently, there were times when they had to sort out hairy issues related to bugs or edge cases in 3rd party software. There was no way to easily shove it on one of their plates, the bottom line is it requires both their expertise. We nearly burnt out the first guy by making him stay up until 4am in order to get the necessary collab time. These are juniors either, but it still was a real issue that cost a significant amount of productivity and morale.

(PS I upvoted you as I don't see why you deserve downvotes)
Reminds me a lot of Afghanistan where I watched a massive multi-story headquarters building be built. Draw downs were starting, and no one was ever going to occupy it, and they knew that before they even broke ground. But it was cheaper for the government to finish the construction than cancel the contract.
Textbooks are not particularly regulated, but they are an interesting monopoly. You probably don't think of them as a monopoly, but they are. If you just want to learn calculus, any text will do, but if you are taking a college class, you have to have the text the instructor says. You'd better even have the same edition. So the publisher can charge pretty much any price, because you (the buyer) have no choice.
Where did you take the 2%-6% from? World bank reports significantly lower numbers (<1.5% for most European countries for example and pretty much most of the world) and they line up to other reports as well. 3.3% of USA is well in the upper tenth of the world spending.
In my experience, in order to maximize the productivity in creative work and still work 40 hours, you have to pick the best 40 hours out of a 168 hour time frame:

- If it means you work '13 hours 20 minutes' on Monday Wednesday Friday, so be it.

- If it means you work '5 hours 45 minutes' Monday thru Sunday, so be it.

- If it means you work one way one week, the other way the next week, so be it.

- If you work best in the middle of the night, so be it.

- If it means you work 10 hours everyday for 52 days straight, and take the rest of the quarter off (39 days!), so be it.

The problem is, we have to do this thing called 'work/life balance' in which we are at work 9 to 5, whether we feel fresh or tired, and have to forget about work for the remaining 128 hours.

Combine that with the need for in-person interaction with the team, the boss, and what not, it gets worse.

IMO you can't have it both ways.