skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the important lessons I've learned in life is that there are people running so close to the edge in every walk of life. There's no shortage of people with sizable incomes who can barely balance their books. Which is to say that inequality isn't the cause of this particular problem, even if it does fit so very nicely into that narrative.

As others point out, payday loans and similar service a need. Payday loans in particular are the low-class version of it. The businesses go by different names higher up the class ladder.
I don't think struct + function is any more OO than tuple + lambda is. That's a very shallow definition of OO.
Any decent VPN service has a monthly cost. That isn't trivial for everyone.
When showing up and saying "I'm here" results in a 4.0?

When everyone is special. No one is special.
It's abundant in the sense that there is no competition for it. I'd reckon it would be an evolutionary advantage to have complete monopoly over a resource.
Algorithm matches human cardiologists in detecting heart attacks
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NHS data breach affects 150,000 patients
>This article is extremely biased and poorly written.

To me it seems to represent the voice of reason (which, in this case should respond with incredulity and anger to the BS existence first, felony nature second, and application of law to a 13 year old, third -- and by a school official nonetheless).

I'd take something with an angrier tone, like an appeal to fire the school principle and ban him from teaching for life.
I have watched an interesting documentary on Scott Tucker that is currently serving time in prison for collecting $1.3 billion in illegal interest payments as some people paid a total of almost $1,000 to settle a $300 loan. He was an owner of a quick loan company. The guy and his wife felt they were wrongfully stripped of their wealth. They did not feel bad for people who struggled to survive, and felt 0 remorse. I recommend reading about this or finding the documentary as I can't recall the name at the moment.

These loans should be strictly regulated. They are preying on people who may lack basic understanding of loans or a barely scraping by. These companies use very aggressive tactics when trying to recover the money + interest.

These loans are a cancer to a society. As it pushes people very close to an edge.
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Detecting and interpreting myocardial infarctions using CNNs
Truly, why can't we just get a balanced look at the many nuances of charging a 13 year old with a felony for recording audio on his cell phone?
Someone shared this with me https://blog.golang.org/share-memory-by-communicating - Share memory by communicating.

And also pointed me to nats.io, a messaging system that handles 10M messages per second on a $50 server.

See the comment at: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/how-we-handle-25m-api-cal...
> In fact, if you assume that IQ tests are useful in hiring, this actually makes GPA more useful, since US employers can freely use GPA in hiring, while use of IQ is significantly more complicated.

Except that's not at all true of the underlying legal standard, and if GPA is essentially an IQ test, it is illegal in the exact same conditions as IQ tests, and any temporary advantage attend from the fact that plaintiff's lawyers haven't yet recognized that GPA is factually nearly identical to an IQ test, and some employer is going to get a big surprise when they first do realize that.
I’m building something on ios to extract text only from pdf along with some basic rendering features ( text position and font info, something that big commercial libraries don’t provide curiously ). So i’m using apple core foundation lib to do the basic parsing and use a project called pdfkitten as a starting point for font to unicode decoding and text positionning. I also plan to add obvious heuristics for « words » building later on as well as a global index for all the rendered blocks ( all done in swift). Images, forms, etc, are completely out of the scope.

It’s a very specific and ( hopefully) narrow need and is the only reason i’m starting this project in the first place.
>This argument is so bizarre. If I committed murder in high school should I not be allowed to tell my high schooler not to commit murder?

Not if you profited from it and still live off of those profits.
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Wow.
Prosecutors moved to prosecute a 13 year old for recording a conversation with a principal?

Even after the IL state govt made it finally legal to record a conversation with other public officials (like cops)?

So much for public transparency with local tax dollars that go to schools.

Good article.
there is a very interesting subreddit [0] for that, I remember people finding rifles and stuff.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/magnetfishing/
> Finally, the goal is of this policy is to increase taxation of the top x%. The same people with armies of lobbyists and the majority of politicians (GOP or DFL) already in their pockets. Good luck.

Well "nothing can ever get better" doesn't sound like much of a winner either.
Are there many developers who make a living off of donations to their open source work? Curious about whether it's viable to build a career off of open source.
There is a quiet war brewing between city councils and dockless bike companies. It's tough to say whether cities will embrace a dockless bike/scooter future, or if they will ultimately ban the companies from operation, leaving a market for docked bikes to remain.
The output format is just a means of testing the library, not the final user-facing form this will take.
A comedic explanation is given by Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

"Some logged in on the bank website and committed identity theft electronically." "I see, did they take anything else?" "Uh, no." "Oh, good, so all the money's still there?" "What?" It's just my identity that's gone. None of your money?"
Dangerous heat wave won't let up across U.S
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> and also addressed in the article towards the end.

Your perception might be that they're addressed, because you see your vision of how things should work. But to me, I can't see more than "trust me, I'm working on it". The value of that assurance depends on how well you see the limitations of the older workflows, not just their advantages.

If you build it, that will assuage most worries, but talking about what you need in addition to the pure email workflow, and showing how it can be built would also help your case.
> Now it is just another generica in the US corporate sameland, with the original Iowa Natives unable to understand what happened to their culture.

Is this a very cleverly disguised allegory for the loss of indigenous culture by invading hordes, descended from Europeans who settled the coast of what is now the United States? Do you actually consider small town mid-20th century midwestern US culture to be the culture of the "original Iowa Natives"?
Intel is resilient, if anything.

They have had a ton of flops and misdirections. The 186. iAPX. i740. Xscale. Itanium. The FDIV bug. Pentium 4.

AMD has had Intel up against the ropes more times than they can count. Faster and cheaper 386 and 486 clones threatened them. The K6 came around and beat the Pentium II. AMD leap-frogged them with their 64-bit chips. Intel has always came back and stomped them right back into oblivion. They'd probably be close to turning the lights off if it weren't for Ryzen.
Wow, I'm impressed by your Patreon! Congrats :)
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Haha exactly. There's no balance here because the charges are outstandingly moronic. We can't seek balance in all things. Some things are just idiotic.
> Second, I would love for someone to tell me how for-profit entities in this space would avoid using dark patterns to get people to pay them back

Eh, that is quite simple: if at any point a company has used a dark pattern, the loan in full is invalidated.

Now no company will dare to use a dark pattern.
My point is that all the fastest hand-tuned assembly has to do to match the compiled output is to do the same thing. The compiler has no ability to do anything a hand-tuned assembly cannot, by definition of how this all works.

So, saying it's faster than hand-tuned assembly doesn't really make sense, but saying it's faster than current optimal hand-tuned assembly could, but that also probably requires searching for a not-very-well tuned problem, as any optimization the compiler could apply is something that could be applied by hand in the hand-tuned assembly (even if it requires a lot of work to do so).

A general statement that might be made (and would also be very impressive) would be that it compiles to implementations that are on par with the current best hand-tuned assembly versions.

The small edge case where the original statement might be true is where some AI/ML/evolutionary techniques are applied and the assembly is faster in the generated output but we don't know why. That is, the speedups are not because of rules and heuristics, but derived by some complex process which we have little insight into, and thus can't manually replicate (which is what I meant by spooky stuff).
While talking to a public official, even.
I use gmail for code review on a "send email patches" project (QEMU), and what I do is:

* for sending patches, use git-send-email from the command line

* for reading, use a greasemonkey script to make gmail use a fixed width font

* when I need to apply a patchset locally I use the "patches" tool https://github.com/stefanha/patches

I also have a couple of gmail "canned responses" set up for things like "write my reviewed-by tag into my email reply".

It's not fantastically ergonomic, but it's good enough that I haven't really felt the need to use something other than gmail web interface.
>By what standard? What does that life look like? It seems so foreign to me. It seems like a lot of HN is comprised of this sort of folk or people who know them.

That life looks like living in Seattle or the Bay or New York, making somewhere between $180-$230k a year first year out of undergrad, being able to travel for concerts and live in luxe Airbnbs with your similarly elite and pedigreed friends.

>Even the people that I do know who went off to work at Amazon, Apple, or Google aren't even that great of engineers. In fact, they're probably worse engineers than the ones I know at Fortune 500s which aren't even tech companies.

I think this is a reasonable viewpoint if you believe society (or even people) cares about how skilled you are in your craft. Unfortunately, society doesn't, and rather only cares about how much you make.

As such, society will always consider a jet-setting Facebook or Google new grad making $250k her first year because of a signing bonus or negotiation skills superior to someone who graduated from ASU working at Amazon/Cisco/HP/etc companies making $150k or god forbid, even less. There's a lifestyle difference that I'll never be able to match.
Love this. I can't see a specific bubble yet. As someone in the tech industry, I'm tempted to say startups, but while the latest batch of IPOs seem underwhelming, none of them seem like out-and-out dotcom-style failures. SnapChat, Dropbox, Airbnb and their ilk seem like viable businesses to me.
The one major annoyance I've found with them is that coverage is extremely restricted. In SF, coverage doesn't reach Fishermans Wharf, Golden Gate bridge or Golden Gate park.

When I was in SF for tourism a few years ago, it was a complete non-starter even though at a glance it seemed like the most promising option.
Should fasthttp be used in production? It seems to get a lot of flak for not fully implementing HTTP.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5w3ang/switching_fr...
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I like the project itself but the emojis seem like an odd choice. Including them in a document that's intended to get people to pay you money seems unprofessional to me.

I could be totally wrong about that though, I don't use Patreon so I'm not sure what a page would usually look like. To be honest I've never really understood the culture or appeal of the whole Youtube/Podcasts/Patreon/Internet celebrities thing.
Once I got a Discover Card offer in the mail. I had become tired of these "offers", so I wrote in large black marker "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST" on this 'offer' and sent it back.

Lo and behold, I get a Discover card in the mail a few weeks later.

So I called them up: I did not sign up, why did you send me the card? They insisted I had signed up. So I asked them to send me a copy of the application, with my signature on it (which they agreed to do).

And a few days later, I get a printed copy of, basically, a database record listing the automatically filled-in information. Nothing else.
I think some rental properties are definitely underutilized
I always found the prevalence of law enforcement and criminal law within US schools odd in and of itself.

Where I grew up, you'd get detention/expelled, in the US you get charged with a crime and an actual police officer will put handcuffs on little kids, little kids will go to court, and get a criminal record until 21.

The whole criminal justice system in the US is incredibly unusual from the perspective of an outsider.

For example, you literally put innocent people into a situation where they need to plead guilty for a shorter time in jail or to save money. Such as traffic courts where the ticket is less than the "court costs" (if you fight it). Or a plea deal of time served (Vs. spending longer in jail awaiting trial).
Self hosted enterprise document server using Mayan EDMS 3.0 and an ODroid HC1
"To put it in perspective, lets count all x86 sales: all the desktops, all the laptops, all the servers, all the weird little things like x86 chinese tablets, all of it.

Combined Xbox One and PS4 sales (both massive APUs, essentially) dwarf all of the sales both Intel and non-console AMD do; it dwarfs it in per chip and per thread."

Ummmm, no...

"PC vendors shipped a total of 263 million computers last year, down from 270 million in 2016." https://www.statista.com/chart/12578/global-pc-shipments/

And that's not counting chips sold to those building their own computers nor does it count servers.

The PS4 has sold about 80 million console while the XBox One has sold about 40 million over around 4 years.
I presume that you are defining C++'s virtual functions as "not a good facility for polymorphism". Why?
It's worth remembering that people who can't pay immediately are almost by definition those most in need of credit. If you protect them by taking away their access to credit, the likely consequence is either them seeking out illegal credit or failing to gain credit at all.

There aren't obvious better options, once you strip the business down to its core of high-risk credit. It's a business that no matter how efficient is going to come with high interest rates.

The obviously predatory marketing practices need to be stopped. But the core of the business here is never going to be a nice one. :/
For each course on a transcript, the average grade earned should be shown, so that the reader can adjust grades earned for easy or harsh grading. It would be nice to see the average SAT or ACT score in the class too, to see if the "harsh" or "easy" grading is just a reflection of the quality of the students. Put this data in a csv file that employers could download, and I think smart employers would use it.
This is Tim Cook's Apple we're talking about, where margins are king. The cost savings from switching away from Intel, if and when that happens, will not be passed on to the consumer.
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What's the right price for short-term cash not secured by any assets for a customer who does not have any record of displaying creditworthiness?
seems from the lower vacancy rate. I'm curious what is the average rate for each state or county in US or abroad.
Bird just opened in SLC and they are suddenly everywhere. Park City, just a few miles away, launched the country's first ebike share system and it's wildly popular. They are also everywhere.

I have no hard data to prove this, though I'm sure it's out there- I don't think it's bike vs scooter, it's electric vs human powered that's driving bird's popularity over bike shares.
SF’s appalling street life repels residents – now it’s driven away a convention
Here is what you mean when you say a scooter:

https://www.limebike.com/hubfs/Assets/bike-s-2.jpg?t=1530481...

Here is what much of the world thinks is a scooter:

https://emmy-sharing.de/wp-content/uploads/Schwalbe_45-links...

Just to clear that up. If it was between those two I'd take the latter given that hitting a pothole on that Lime thing is liable to stop all forward momentum suddenly and precariously. But really I'd want the electric bike.

Though I think the unstated single most important selling point for the Lime scooter over the electric bike is that you don't need to deal with the homicidal, low awareness, little education American driver and the abhorrent infrastructure (and policies) that enable them.
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