skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Sure you'd love to make 20% returns, and so would literally every person who has cash. If there were a pool of people willing to pay 20% interest without the risk of default or non-payment, then everyone would be out there lending to them, and the market would saturate, and someone would say "hey, I could get more customers with 19% interest", and so on, until you basically can't charge more interest than nominal market rates for interest. That's the "race to the bottom" of capitalism, not the increased number of shady tricks that you would pay to get the 20% return.

The reality is somewhat different from two axes. One is the regulatory axis; you can't just up and start making payday loans; there are huge regulatory burdens that come with it that exist as a moat to keep out new players in the market by increasing the cost of compliance.

The other is more direct and unrelated to regulation; the 20% is not realistic -- non-payment and default do exist, and you have to collect in order to avoid making huge losses, so with the total costs involved, the actual rate of return on this class of loans ends up being not much better than free-market interest rates anyway; you can get additional returns by improving quality of service or offering better features, or reducing the cost of collections, or, in this case, using the ability to charge fees to try to recoup some of that loss.

So what you end up with is a system where the problems inherent in #2; subprime lending is risky and encourages taking advantage of customers, which leads to regulation, which makes things worse by limiting the competition, and eventually leads to a spiral where we keep thinking that we can solve the problems caused by the previous regulation with more regulation. And eventually someone breaks out of the cycle by offering the same product but just slightly different enough to not be covered by the regulations; they take over the market and then everyone copies them, and then we start the regulation game again.
Alcohol's dangers get whitewashed frequently, but they don't hold a candle to the likes ketamine, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine.
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I'm even fine with OpenGL if the functionality is impressive. (Generated textures, models, great visuals etc.) A text noneditor is not.
Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
The material conditions of life have been annihilated in the areas that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. My brother died of a drug overdose on one of them, and it wasn't because of a lack of moral underpinning. It was because almost nobody who is born and grows up in one will ever have a chance of a stable life. No steady access to income, healthcare or a chance of escaping the working class. Hoping for the chance to lead a stable middle class life isn't a moral failing.
> while open source keeps adapting and changing

In these places, this is a great thing to avoid. Old software is well known. You do not want to be the one to be affected by a bug that stops production or changes data.

> mainframes have remained stagnant in features

Having a well known universe without any beta software, and not being disrupted by new stuff that you don't need anyway, is a damn good feature.
Twitter rants are basically unreadable to me. I don't understand why people don't just link to a normal blogging place if they're going to blog.

I don't see what's wrong with Hardin's model. The metaphor behind it may be wonkey, I wouldn't know, I haven't looked into it, but the math works out.

Furthermore, I don't really know why his views matter so much here.
I find it ironic that golang was supposedly created for "large scale" programming, but nothing really in the language supports that notion (no dependency management, import system sucks, verbose error handling, and so on). I just see the claim without anything to back it up.
Intel and ARM are just approaching the same points from different directions, that's all.

We can equally say that you can't extrapolate and assume that your 45W x86, with lowered clock and voltage, will fit in the power budget of a mobile phone and still give good performance. But all these companies are throwing a lot of engineering effort at it and making solid progress. There's not some reason why x86, the architecture, should be faster than ARM. Intel has been enjoying a process advantage for many years now, and an enviable R&D budget, but that R&D budget is spent fighting against diminishing returns and in the meantime, competitors are catching up. As long as everyone can buy roughly the same node (a big "if", but looks like we're close enough), diminishing returns will bring everyone closer to parity.

But, benchmarks show this a bit better. Geekbench (I'm looking at Single Core):

https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

iPad Pro 11-inch (iPad8,1) has the A12X at 2.5 GHz, score ~5000.

iMac 27-inch retina (iMac18,3) has the i7-7700K at 4.2 GHz, score ~5700.

This is not a cherry-picked comparison... this is just a comparison of whatever happens to be top of the line in both categories. Note that multi-core benchmarks will paint a slightly different picture, but that's very natural, since you can get a Mac with 18 core Xeons. Presumably, adding more cores to a mobile processor when you switch to desktop and can handle proportionally higher TDP, while not trivial, is not especially difficult either.

I assume that different benchmarks give different results as well. This is just one benchmark I know has results for both platforms.
It does require a certain level of patience. Then again, I've known a fair share of developers who will do just about anything to "make it work" even if it means copy/pasting snippets they don't understand.
This article says it opened in 1982 as well [1]. And quoting from the original article “...that prompted Tubman’s creation in the 1980s, ...until..advocates got their way and Tubman was built, the school district bussed thousands of black children out of their own neighborhoods rather than provide them a school of their own.”

I’m trying to find out what it was before it became Harriet Tubman school but not finding anything.

(It doesn’t matter who was there first because we shouldn’t have a school there now. The problem should be corrected and moving the school is the only way. Air filters do not let kids play outside.)

[1] https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/04/a-middle-school-prized...
Social media is also an important way to connect for people who are socially isolated, so we should avoid demonising it.

We need to worry about promotion of self harm and suicide being distributed on social media, but most companies are taking action on the worst content.
If they want photos or videos as part of an investigation, there is a legal procedure: subpoenas.

What does it have to do with putting journalists on a customs control list for special treatment when re-entering the US?
Seth Godin has a great line about how the first person to put a urinal in an art museum was an artist, but the second person to do it was a plumber.

It makes an interesting thought experiment about what makes art, what it means to be "creative", and how the world may (or may not) appreciate your work...
I feel like modern art market is primarily a way for a subsegment of rich people to buy certain intangible goods: These are people that feel lonely, and have low self esteem... They really would like to socialize with cool and charismatic people, and the "modern art scene" is basically a very pricey matchmaking service for them to make friends and go to parties with people that fit this description (i.e. the artists)
https://github.com/ByteDev/ByteDev.PasswordMask

Similar thing but .NET windows app.

And yes pasting your password into some guys website is ridiculous :p
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I'll just leave this here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development#Res...
Oh god, nobody effing documents anything. It's the bane of my existence. So much time would be saved if people simply documented things along the way.
Today I worked from home. Had a nice cup of tea. Listened to classical music and spend a number of hours getting aws cli to play nicely with org more. I used the internet without touching social media for 18 hours and this is not unusual. Get off the outrage machine and do something with your life. The only people who benefit from you constantly being outraged are the ones selling you the outrage.
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science [pdf]
The key factor, I believe, is how much needs to be shown onscreen at the same time. Your newsfeed can be compressed to a smaller screen because you can simply show less of it, without sacrificing the core goal of the view. Whereas, consider a desktop app with multiple panes that show different information about the same subject. The default way to condense this would be to arrange the panes into a single vertical column that you could scroll up and down. But if you need to see them all at once, this adaptation is useless. At some point there are only so many physical inches of screen space.
No problem from Germany. Interesting, why would they block Lithuania?
>Scanning Facebook is easier than getting a drink

If only it were that easy.
When things like art are hard to qualify, it seems it’s rasy to fall back on reputation. It seems a similar thing happens with investment. Have they had success in the past, with that do they have what it takes to succeed in the future?

It’s imperfect, but without a crystal ball, what else can you use as proxy given the unknowns?
We have different definitions of the American dream. Just the idea of 'your kids should have a better life than you had," which I think has been fundamental to the dream seems unsustainable.
As far as I know, the available open-source tools that are suitable for producing pixel art, are strictly flat-2D-only.

Not that you can't do 3D pixel art with them, but they certainly won't help you get there.

Edit: I just realized that maybe your question is broader than just pixel art. Open-source game development in general is a very underserved field; in terms of integrated game development environments, the best option I know of is Godot, and that's still miles behind a tool like Unity in terms of capabilities.

Audio production tools aren't great either, none of them integrate particularly well with the few game development tools that do exist. Good texture generators are difficult to come by; I believe Blender does have some functionality to this end, but it's not very accessible.

In terms of 3D modelling, Blender is decent, but suffers from bad UX (although that's being increasingly fixed, so that's great!).

I'm not aware of any production-ready general-purpose release/infrastructure tooling existing that's equivalent to something like Steam Workshop.

In short... there are basically almost no good, accessible open-source tools for game development, no matter what aspect of the process you look at.
What a weird and condescending take.
The difference is that it's admitting that in some areas the managers/consumers can discern between good and bad, just not in every area. It's a bit closer to, "it's not what you know but who you know, when nobody else knows anything."

When a non-technical manager hires his nephew to write PhP, he isn't thinking "I love my nephew so much that I am willing to sacrifice our company's technology plan to help his career," he's thinking, "I have no idea how to evaluate web developers, so I might as well hire my nephew." Cynically, most people serve themselves first - so if you find them serving an in-group of the fashionable or blood-related it's often because they don't know how to serve themselves.
Do you want to spend your free time reading through a bunch of right-wing MAGA memes? I sure don't.
Wouldn’t it be SQL Server to blockchain migration consultants that are getting the wealth as opposed to the other way around?
What changes at the corporate level caused those effects in the stores?
In most situations I'm a pretty impatient person, but coding never seems to try my patience. Getting into the flow and working the problem is what I enjoy doing.
People with substance misuse disorders have huge impacts on other people - often spouses and children - so the state has a role to play in protecting those people from violence.

Minimum unit pricing is a good way to do this, especially if the money raised is hypothecated for alcohol treatment programmes.
Adding regulation without forbidding payday loans sounds to me like the worst thing you can do.
In emergency situations, it can be perfectly rational to take out such a loan, despite high interests and fees. On the other hand, if you take a payday loan for an unneeded expenditure, you will have even less money in the long term.
So either you get rid of the regulation, in order to lower the fees. Or you forbid payday loans outright, to prevent people from hurting themselves (while ignoring the needs of those who are in an emergency situation).
I don't think there is any real middle ground. Everybody loses when you do something that increases fees without actually helping those who are affected by this.
Anything serious on arm runs the risk of throttling. Upping performance will see more consumption and power usage.

The even bigger problem is ARMs closed nature with no support for the open off the shelf culture that has made the PC industry what it is today. ARM is about closed SOCs, closed drivers and closed vendors and this in effect closes up the drivers and software ecosystem.

Something like Linux and the open source movement would not have happened with this hardware model, and it a paradox of our times that it is Linux developed because of the open culture of x86 that is used to support this closed model. There is something ironic even parasitic about this.

There are large forces of centralization and control currently in play and getting excited about a closed ecosystem becoming mainstream seems shortsighted for the tech ecosystem and consumers who have benefited from widespread choice, competition and the open source movement in x86.
>The low end thing just isn't true at all, and I don't know where that myth comes from.

Well for me it came from running multiple copies of the same bass heavy tracks encoded in different formats through spectrum analysers. But I guess those lie?

>Regarding solo vocals, the history of the MP3 format says: "The song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega was the first song used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the MP3. Brandenburg adopted the song for testing purposes, listening to it again and again each time refining the scheme, making sure it did not adversely affect the subtlety of Vega's voice".

Human voices come in a wide range of tones and frequencies. Optimizing something for one voice doesn't mean all voices will benefit from the same optimizations. The specific track I was referring to had a lot of variation in high and low notes. You can tell me all you want what I did and didn't hear.
It used to be much better (I run linux on my 2013 MBP, and used to run it on my 12" powerbook back in the day), but I think there's been some progress on the newer MBPs: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Others have asserted it was there first on the basis of the aerial photograph of a building in the same location. But as I have linked Harriet Tubman school was clearly, 100% created on that spot in 1982. Now if that repurposed an old previously closed school building that’s possible but I haven’t found evidence of that. It’s pretty clear from what is written that Harriet Tubman was built there in 1980s in response to activism from the local black community wanting a school in their neighborhood.
>If there's a power difference to the point of coercion, it's coercion and one party is not consenting. [...] Of course, there's a point at which informational asymmetry turns to outright fraud.

Yes, coercion and fraud are bad, but you'll note that you're indicating that the quality of consent appears to be on a sliding scale from 'we're reaching a real agreement between well informed equals that stand to benefit from a transaction' to 'an unsophisticated economically distressed person is forced into taking a poisoned deal'.

Yes, the law recognizes that not everyone is sitting firmly on the 'ideal contract' side of things, which is why in areas where there are systematic issues, it modifies the way the contracts work.

>Such as? Last I checked, nothing stops me from offering cheap junk for a ridiculous sum of money, nor is there a law preventing me from attempting to hire workers well below market rate.

Perhaps you don't believe labour standards, collective bargaining rules, minimum wage, and other pro-worker laws exist, but they do.

If you want to know more about the specific frameworks that exist in your jurisdiction, you can just look up any employment law digest that covers your area. If you're an employer most jurisdictions have 'employer community' circulars that contain employment law related briefs in a short newsletter format that tell you things like "Don't sexually abuse your workers" and "Don't let your workers collect evidence that you pinch secretary ass regularly".

In fact, if you're in the civilian legal world, the entire field of nominate contracts is essentially the legal community fixing systemic problems associated with different fields of contract, one by one.

Maybe you hate labour laws specifically, and want to ignore the idea that 'contracts as an idea can be gamed'. Take a look at the SEC, then. They perform the exact same function, but for wealthy investors. Do you hate them too? Are you upset you can't release yet another vaporware ICO to fleece a few hundred crypto hopefuls? I really hope not.
> ...I'm quite happy with my own custom Linux setup on my laptop, I don't want to install PureOS on there.

PureOS is just Debian with a few tweaks. This work is being done as part of the GNOME mainline branch, so any GNOME user is going to benefit from it down the road. And as "alternative" Linux desktops (MATE, Xfce, LXDE) transition to GTK3+, users of these environments will likely be able to make use of it, as well.
It works just fine for me with Firefox. You may want to check the monospaced font in preferences (General tab -> Language and Appearance). HN just uses the default monospaced font, and swapping through my fonts I found a decent number of fonts that did not render it correctly.

You'll need to click OK to dismiss the settings popup to apply the change, but the page doesn't have to be reloaded.

You may also want to un-check the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" box, my experience is that just using a fixed sans + serif font (GNU Freefont for me, though Apple's San Francisco is also good for sans) makes many websites look better, makes very few websites look worse, and makes everything look consistent.
I doubt this will impact the costs of Foreflight. There is already competition in this space in the form of Garmin Pilot, WingX, and Fltplan Go.
So, I should binge on them?
I heard that recent SSD s don't really rely on trim so it doesn't really matter, does it?
"Most important"? My mother is a patient and detail-oriented person, but I wouldn't hire her as a software dev.

To take a less extreme example, depending on the role I'd still rather hire someone who was occasionally impatient and didn't always write tests but knew how to code really well vs. a fresh grad who's always cheery and polishes the hell out of their work but takes a lot longer and produces meandering code.
Although the "glorified Excel" statement makes me cringe, I would agree that APL's strong point is numerical work on data. I wouldn't use APL to write, for example, an operating system.

When Ken Iverson wrote APL in the sixties, numerical work was one of the big uses of computers (after the typical finance applications such as billing, inventory, accounts payable/receivable, general ledger), and APL filled that niche quite well. When I was working at IBM in the nineties investment banks were still using APL for some of their modeling.

APL also took a different evolutionary path than many of today's languages, operator precedence for example. APL's rule was simple: evaluate left-to-right. I didn't need to remember that exponentiation has a higher precedence than multiplication which in turn has a higher precedence than addition (those were the easy ones to remember; the hard ones were bit operations, logical operations — some languages had both high-precedence logical operations ("&&" and "||") as well as low-precedence ("and" and "or"), which further muddied the waters). I found Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) the most elegant when determining operator precedence, with APL's a close second.

Another difference was the way that the code was maintained. For example, my father, who was also an APL developer, often said, "APL is write-only code". Rarely would one modify someone else's code; instead, you'd re-write the function entirely. Thus the most important aspect of writing APL code was documenting what the function took as input and what it spat out.

But I'm glossing over one of the most important aspects of APL: it made you think about the problem space differently: instead of nested for-loops, you'd think of vectors and matrices. The manner in which you thought about the problem was incredibly succinct, similar to APL's vocabulary.
Or people will just pick short passwords so its easier to count along the chars in their head. Again, not a thing we really want to encourage.
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We've already asked you to please stop breaking the guidelines and it's not happening so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lambda Concurrency Limits and SQS Triggers Don’t Mix Well (Sometimes)
> earned wage access

Sounds like debt bondage.
Why would removing regulation reduce fees, and why would adding regulation increase them?
I used to run Linux quite well on a 2013 MacBook Pro, then I got a new 2016 MacBook Pro through work, and ran into tons of issues and finally gave up running Linux on it and just use Linux on my home-built desktop. Issues included the keyboard not working out of the box, suspend not working quite right, issues with the dedicated+integrated GPUs, etc. I don't know the current state of Linux on recent MacBooks, but here are the two GitHub repos I had used: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux and https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6...
This seems quite important, and raises questions about whether free market capitalism is actually the best or only model to spur innovation (spoiler: I don't think it is, at all).
Yes, they are grouping together the (lets call them) "DARE drugs" with "medical drugs".

Presumably this is strategic to hide whatever issue is going on with the "medical drugs" and inflate the apparent problem with "DARE drugs".
Then how come the team does good work? "Firing constantly" sounds exactly like weeding out unproductive members (of course I now nothing about the workers' feelings, though).
thanks! I'll look into it
Can you really? Do payday loan customers typically comparison shop?
Original Diablo now sold online, with more Blizzard classics to come to GOG.com
None of this is responsive to my points.
Same thing with twitter; every tweet is a notification it seems *facepalm
Yeah - I did understand there was an implied "like you" in his statement :-)

Not that I've used Facebook much!
If the 'invisible hand of the market' was indeed working, why are such obscene rates common?

In my mind it's profiteering on the backs of impoverished people.
Who has cash? Money Laundries (in re high residential rents)
> With wgpu-rs we can finally deprecate the old gfx and have a solid recommendation for people getting started with graphics in Rust.

Does this mean that gfx-rs (the low level API) is deprecated and no longer maintained?