skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing. This article is an argument for the thing it rails against.

The author starts out saying you clearly shouldn't listen to the financial advice, because it is inaccurate. He then goes on to tell you that, adjusted for inflation, you will save up $90k over 40 years.

$90,000 just for not buying a coffee every day. That is amazing. Even more amazing if you're not a highly paid white-collar worker. $90k buys a lot of prescription pills, or pays for an expensive operation, or an upgraded old folks home. You will need every penny you can get when you're old.

And then there's the slippery slope. If you keep spending willy-nilly, with $2.50 here and $9 there, whenever you feel like it, it really starts to add up. $90k on take-out, $90k on movies, ubers, etc. If we keep buying trifles we could (even adjusted for inflation) actually be wasting a million over our lifetimes.

A smarter way to manage your money is to still have a latte every day, but compress the expense. Save up for 2 months and buy a Nespresso latte machine with reusable pods. Save a few more months and buy one for work! Then have a latte any time you want, for pennies on the dollar.
"Mainstream" as in outside of technology circles.
Online Template Attacks
Someone in my building does. I see the return envelope in the mailroom!
I believe Kubernetes itself supports that kind of a change - that is, re-applying a config and creating or deleting resources based on the update.

I would say that helm is batch, in that it's applying a bunch of stuff at once, but not doing it transactionally.
> Any natural born citizen can become a member of Congress (provided they are over 30 iirc)

Tangentially, both the age and natural born citizen requirements are wrong; the minimum for a member of Congress are the requirements for the House, where you must be a citizen for at least 7 years, 25 years old, and an inhabitant of the State you represent.

For the Senate, the age requirement is 30 and the citizenship requirement is 9 years.
Thanks for that. I appreciate the additional data-point, as most of what I was seeing before was that there was pointing towards a possible inventory buildup in North America. If even the high end trims are actually in shorter supply than indicated, then maybe demand isn't so soft after all.

It still leaves me with a lot of questions about Model X and S, but I think there are more reasonable theories there than a demand cliff.
>The amount of resources and thus damage that an individual in a basement can do is rather limited.

It is for now. We will get to a point where a negative utilitarian with accesses to genome synthesis technology will be able to kill tens of millions. And this seems like it could become pretty feasible, even from a basement.
When I first saw this he almost had me, but the wind sound track
that was dubbed in when he fires up the rig had me laughing!
That works with Siri on Apple TV. Say "what did he say", and it'll jump back a bit and temporarily engage subtitles.
Exactly. This is the original source of an attempt of one real 737 pilot to reproduce the conditions similar to those that happened during the last crashes, using the existing (non-MAX) Boeing 373 flight simulator.

The company he works for requested the takedown of the video, but the video shows a lot that the public shoold know, and the conclusions are still there.

Moderators maybe please take a new look here.
this makes me think of Qt in a web browser using WebAssembly [0]

I find it really impressive that desktop applications can now run quite smoothly in a web browser. In like 15 years we've made it from phpbb forums through 56k modem, to this.

Congratulations

[0] http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/widgets/richtext/textedi...
Apple doesn't allow third party music services on HomePod?
The entire point is that spending $5 on a beverage should not financially break you. That, if not buying a $5 latte is the difference between financial success and financial ruins, something is very wrong. That, people are much better off focusing on large fixed costs. I agree with the post wholeheartedly... And I bet most of us could afford both the coffee and the $5/day investment, so the point shouldn't be lost on us.
The article fails to support this level of alarmism. Yes, it can be abused, but it's just a statistical modeling technique. Even linear correlation can be abused as well, vis a vis the replication crisis in the social sciences.

The danger of AI abuse is that existing large, powerful entities will put too much faith in statistical models without understanding their limitations, and will make bad decisions that harm people. Fortunately we have a filtering function -- entities that use these techniques with more nuance will slowly replace the failing ones because they are making better decisions. There will be a long transition as governments desperately try to save the dinosaurs from the consequences of their poor decision making, but if they can't make the transition, they're going to cease being relevant.

AI abuse is just statistical abuse. If a bank has a model based on ten years of real estate data that says, "hey, real estate increases in value, we should leverage into that", then come 2008 they'll find that things that their neat statistical model stated don't work any more. That's all the "dangers of abuse" are.
What about the paragraph before that?

> the service needs to be accessible, so either citizens need to be able to get to the buildings in a timely fashion, or the buildings need to be able to send their vehicles out to various parts of town in a timely fashion. If traffic flow gets bad enough that this fails to happen, citizens get upset. All you need to have effective public services is enough capacity + traffic flow for your citizens to make use of them.
On Github, they only posted LICENSE,
https://github.com/gg4real/gs-quant
I get these too, and I’ve never owned a car in my entire life.
Yes - its really meant as a symbol for recurring monthly subscriptions such as full Comcast triple play at $200 + $10 for Netflix + $10 for Hulu + $10 for Disney+ + $10 for Amazon Prime + $20 for Apple News/TV+ + $10 for NYTimes + $15 for Costco as well as luxury car payments instead of a basic car payment, etc.
>discover and purchase experience is abysmal.

0. Home page
1. Select product: https://puri.sm/products/
2. View prod descs, select product: https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/
3. Scroll down, view prod desc, click shop now
4. At product configuration page: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-13/

Seems pretty normal to me... now normal isn't "great" but abysmal is a bit strong.
> IEEEuler's identity
I'm in stitches here.

On a more serious note, is there a way to treat IEEE floats as some nice algebraic structure? I recently learned that associativity is broken, so I started thinking that it'd be nice to study floats in their "native environment" per se.
I agree. Reasoning about correctness can be a very powerful tool for some of the algorithmic parts of a system. But large parts of a system are not really amenable to formal reasoning about correctness.

As an example, if you try to write our own web search engine, the linear algebra or neural network operations you may be using are certainly amenable to mathematical reasoning, but the relevancy of the returned results is not something you can prove mathematically.

And in my opinion, this fact often leads "correctness" fanatics to retreat to safe areas where their methods work, and snipe at all the rest of the world. Characteristically, the article quotes E.W.Dijkstra, whose much beloved notes are full of explorations of mathematical toy problems, and catty dismissals of anybody trying to make real world use of computers.

When Knuth was dissatisfied with the results of early computer typesetting, he spent years of his life developing TeX. Meanwhile, Dijkstra kept hand writing his papers and having staff turn them into printed form. That, to me, is the epitome of the "correctness über alles" mindset.
Remarkable Nebula Photos
Okay. Your argument only becomes valid after the fact that all that money that would have been spent on things like coffee is retained. In most cases people would simply not have that money. Not to mention that if you have some guaranteed amount of money coming to you at some point it should be possible to get a loan using that as collateral. And I would like to see examples of forced savings where any of the supposed issues actually manifest compared to what we have now where we literally have millions of people with no savings and retirement ages that keep increasing.

Almost 30 percent of households have less than $1,000 saved, MagnifyMoney finds, though the amount varies drastically by age. As of June 2018, millennials have less saved than baby boomers, because older Americans have had over three decades longer to save and larger salaries to work with.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/how-much-money-americans-hav...

Here's how Americans' median savings breaks down by age:

Millennials (born 1981-1998): $2,430
Gen X (born 1965-1980): $15,780
Baby Boomers and older (born before 1964): $24,280

In fact I could see something like this really putting a dent on all the privilege in America where African Americans and other minorities basically have no savings... and no potential for ever accumulating any real wealth. When grandma or grandpa can send their grandson to college or put a down payment on their house or give them a business loan, that's an actual difference in people's lives.
In my experience Java beats most languages out there in the speed department.
A lot of this discussion centers around retirement and how many will end up with little-to-no savings to live on when they exit the workforce.

General question: what recourse does someone have that retires with no savings now, in the US?

Some ideas...

1. Gov: Social Security (Income)

2. Gov: Medicare (Healthcare)

3. Gov: Various assistance programs (Food, utilities, etc)

4. Social: Add roommate(s) to split cost of living expenses

5. Lifestyle: Downsize

Follow-up question: if the majority of people do not save sufficiently for retirement, then what might the recourse options be 20, 30, 40 years from now?
Ah, you're right. I didn't realize the bugcheck parameters weren't included in the code, that's definitely something which would be helpful. However then you still might run into the second problem of not being able to reliably render it in a crashing state. That's the only reason I could think why they would not include those parameters in the QR.
Unions do not exist to protect potential members, they exist to protect actual members. Saying "it's harder to break into the industry" isn't going to discourage someone already in the industry.

This actually does hit on the major difficulty in unionizing, which is that people want to make games. It seems fun. It feels rewarding to point to something bringing joy to your friends and family and go "I helped make that!" Because this feeling is so common, it's extremely easy to find someone to to do the job for less. If you're a cost minded manager (instead of a results minded manager) you might be willing to take on 3 dirt cheap juniors to do the work of one really expensive senior dev.
Either a bug on the OS they're on, or some Rust library (OS based bug or bad assumptions bug). Guessing the developer only tested their code in one OS.
The government and corporate America is winning the war on poverty - in preserving it, as they (somewhat) openly desire to do.

Just read Businessweek or the Wall Street Journal when unemployment falls. This is not seen as a good thing but a bad thing. I can link to dozens of examples if one can't figure out how to Google that.

That this is the case has been known for a long time -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour
I'm not sure if I'm being poe's law'd or this is going to turn into a recursive thread but... this is also describing a corporation:

> seeks to extract as much value as is possible/reasonable from the host organization, but not so much that they destroy it
Can you talk about the road building engine? Are you using splines to generate the smooth curves? This is a really amazing project, I can tell you have put a ton of work into it.
Probably. But in the link I posted, did you notice the qualifier "as secure as your browser's implementation of the Web Cryptography API"? Also, AIUI, Webkit implements no PRNG so some Webkit-based browsers might have stupid implementations of the SubtleCrypto object.

The thing is, there is a chain of things you have to trust wrt the LP generator: Has the OS implemented the backend API correctly? Were there issues in the browser build that mess up the entropy derived from the OS seed? Has the Javascript done anything stupid?

In comparison, I have complete confidence in the entropy of the passwords I generate via CLI.

Wrt. password length: yes you can change it. But the dialog is a bit of inconvenience that tilts away from the hassle of switching to my terminal and typing "suggest-password". And I have something of a moral objection to password generators that default to insufficient entropy.
I'd sign back up if they started offering UHDs. Seems like a great way to get people to give them another 10+ dollars a month IMO.
AWS makes it pretty easy to get a lot of computers, at least.
Ask HN: Cheap Document Signing Solution?
Does anyone know of a cheap document signing solution with API access? We have about 3,000 documents (1-2 page) per year that need to be signed by customers and emailed, that's it. We're getting quotes of between $2-4 per document from all the major companies. That seems very high to us for just requesting an electronic signature on a 2 page PDF. Anyone know of a cheaper solution for this one use case?

EDIT: We've decided to just build our own solution for this simple use case, it's actually not that difficult. We still don't understand how document signing companies are able to get away with charging so much.
That's like saying, "Pardon my lack of enthusiasm about self-driving cars while we ignore an industry that continues to pollute the environment." Pardon me while I have one conversation at a time...
If you can present it in AR/VR then I'll take two!
Why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’
The statistics keep changing over the years ...

If you see https://theblog.okcupid.com/race-and-attraction-2009-2014-10...

In 2014 :

---------

Asian women preferred Asian men

White women preferred White men

Black Women preferred Black men

and Latino preferred Latino men

Where as in 2009

---------

Asian women were preferring White men

but its interesting to see that Asian men almost always preferred Asian women
Supporters gather after reports Assange may be ousted from embassy
I'd guess a lot of that sort of optimization happens at the framework/library level (React, Emscripten, etc) and less so in your typical application code.
Quite surprised he didn't attempt a covert exist before it came to this. If it is indeed true.
Wow impressive! This runs really well on Firefox on a Ryzen 7 1800X.
DeepMind AI Flunks High School Math Test
Found: An Archive of Newsletters from My Atari Users’ Group Past (1986)
They may not blog as much but tool users of all sorts are as obsessive. I knew someone who had a whole house full of machine tools.
It is the only way to get mainstream films on netflix any more.
> then pragmatically they are considered within that category even if they don't perfectly match it.

The problem is that it is not normally pragmatic. It's not pragmatic for a woman in the workforce to be associated with feminine characteristics whether she displays them or not. It's not pragmatic for a more feminine boy to be told by his parents that he needs to act more masculine. A lot of these things are purely social constructs.

No one is arguing that sex isn't a thing, or that you don't need a male and female to create life. No one is even saying that your biological sex has zero bearing on your gender identity. The point I am making is that categorization based on a binary spectrum of gender is not pragmatic and is not scientific.
==Assuming we only pay 2% interest on that debt==

Where does this come from? the 10-year bond rate was closer to 3% for most of 2018 [1].

==So that's a 4x ROI correct==

You can't calculate ROI with an I. In this case, that is the 3.9% of GDP mentioned. Going forward, we may gain more tax revenue than we would pay in debt servicing each year, but that ignores the initial investment we made.

In reality, you would need to show that the present value of your annual tax revenues (0.29% of GDP - 0.076% of GDP) is larger than the 3.9% of GDP invested initially.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/interest-on-the-national-debt-411...
Wouldn't your customer lose all their data if the app crashes?
You can visit spotify.com on an iPhone though.
I love PotPlayer. Pausing playback on minimize and auto playing URLs, Youtube included, after pressing ctrl+v in the main window is well beyond amazing.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. The current Liberal government is in the process of imploding (And since they've gone back on their promise of electoral reform, we're again looking at a Tory majority.)

And before people praise Canadian culture as the reason for better support of the poor:

Yes, there is a cultural sense in Canada that the government should work on helping the poor. It's held by ~45-55% of the population. There's also a similar cultural sense in the United States, and it's held by ~40-50% of the population. Small differences at the margins make a big difference in policy... But can also be lost, from a minor shift in sentiment.

(And yes, Canada has all the same problems with homelessness that the United States does. Shutting down all the mental institutions, unsurprisingly, turns East Hastings x Main into an open-air mental institution, staffed by cops and bystanders.)
Try tens of millions of people in Africa. This is an extremely bigoted comment. As a gay man, I am disappointed that HN is allowing viewpoints like this to be spread. This sort of thing is why the tech industry has such a bad reputation with these topics.
I have little clout but as an American who visited for 2 weeks during the whole Snowden ordeal I felt it kinda "meh" looking at the place through expatriation goggles at the time. Quito is a very religious and conservative city, Baños is a cute mountain village with a quiet reserved culture, and Guayaquil was the more liberal but raw and somewhat... "boisterous" city. Not sure that word fits but outside of smoking pot and surfing all day in the costal town of Montanita all day I would say it's not a great ex-pat country. Overall the country felt very religiously devout and not starting to hockey-stick (at the time anyway) on tech-forward business and culture. It also is an OPEC country so it is bogged down with corruption and political issues though it does seem to strive to stamp them out. However, if your goal is South America and you would like to expatriate and remain in tech, Chile would be the place I would recommend most for all the programs the government is pushing for startups. Much more to say but I'll just wrap up with that...
Are Bankers and Venture Capitalists Getting Fleeced by Patagonia?
I thought Redbox took over the market of watching mainstream movies
Performance Measurements of Intel Optane DIMM Memory
I was just playing with Coder's VS Code fork (what this solution uses for VS Code) the other day [1]

I want to love it. It makes a very specific use case I use much nicer. I can leave code on a remote server with all the compute power I need to build and run my project, and edit the file I'm working on with VS code's editor without having to sync files around. It does, however, have a few big caveats that killed it for me.

It doesn't block any of the browser things that would leave the webpage. Notably, if you hit Ctrl-W to close a file tab because of muscle memory, you'll close the browser tab. Also, if you hit back on accident like I apparently do all the time, you'll go back to the blank tab page. In both of these cases, you'll lose any unsaved state.

Also, the extension repo it's pointing at isn't MS's live repo. There are apparently reasons for this, but it means you don't get the latest version of extensions, which was annoying for a specific extension I've gotten used to.

I also had issues with VS Code getting confused about state when my connection to the remote box was less than ideal.

All in all, I really wanted to like it, but for truly remote cases, I'm back to using Mosh to interact with the remote box, and a simple tool I wrote ages ago to handle rsyncing the local files to the remote box to build and run them there.

[1] https://coder.com/
Looks like it's already in this thread.
You specifically mentioned OpenSSL. Our auditors would have been up in arms at my previous company where we did do everything on prem if we ran a custom version of OpenSSL. Do you really think we could pass either HIPAA compliance or PCI compliance with our own unvetted version of it?
having taxes on earnings and not gains multiply taxes on products that have long manufacturing chains, or at least that's the theory.

the result is that you can shift earnings and inflate costs to reduce gains dodging taxes.

people should be able to claim expenses even for luxuries, but then nobody would have savings because those are capital inefficient.

so there are two different drives that make the tax code asymmetrical, even in principle, before those schemes for dodging fair taxation.
They keep using the term 'AI' when they seem to mean 'software'. We have all these problems regardless of how 'intelligent' the artificial machine is.
Try Peaky Blinders without subs. In most shows I can get like 90% of what they're saying, in PB I can get like 5.
Probably because you end up reinventing unions from first principles. You start off with a group of employees organising together. Then they realise some of the things they need to do require money. Then they realise you need some contingency to pay for big expenses. Then you realise you can use your bargaining power to help members in other ways for example here unions offer lots of services, discounts and funds for things like education. We’ve also just been through a period of labour renegotiation with some strikes which has ultimately ended up with the government getting involved with promises of reform to resolve them.

Plus many countries have laws surrounding how unions can operate and protections for employees organising them. In a less enlightened society employers will just lay off anyone attempting to organise.

So in general Unions are typically formed explicitly because people have lots of existing evidence of the benefits.
Some info here https://www.teamblind.com/search/cloudflare, though Klabnik is probably an outlier for reasons.

And also note they're pre-IPO.
I watched a presentation by Larry in which he stated Amazon runs on the Oracle Database. Is that just AWS or was Larry telling tall tales.