skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But a total war between any two superpowers will be profitable for no one.

This assertion has no historical basis. Plenty of people stand to profit from such a war. Just look at World War II. Countries, companies, and individuals profited greatly. Even in the worst case of total nuclear annihilation, someone who was prepared for such an event could profit, depending on your definition of profit. In any case, what matters is whether the people involved believe they can profit; however they define profit.
Not just spellcheckers, virtual keyboards too. Writing German on a smartphone can be slightly infuriating
For that reason I'd want a really simple rule, such as "allows unprivileged shareholders real voting control." Except the S&P 500 has actually been enforcing that rule since 2017. Google and Facebook are grandfathered in, though.

https://www.dividend.com/news/2017/11/03/companies-multiple-...
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I wonder what all the negative side-effects would be of rewarding review writing of certified purchasers with store credit, and if there would be a way to avoid those side-effects.
Roughly 40% of global stocks don't even pay dividends [0], so that's pretty clearly not the only reason to own stocks.

[0] https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-smarter-mutual-fund... (from 2014, but the number likely hasn't changed substantially)
It takes a long time for housing to get built, or rather upzoned, bought out by a private developer, deconstructed and then rebuilt. It would have looked absolutely foolish 10 years ago to start the process of upzoning and building as much housing as we'd have needed to keep housing prices flat over the last decade.

Like I said in my original comment, if we had known how much was coming down the pike, we'd have started the process of building more housing immediately. We did not (and could not) know, so we're doing the next best thing and building as much as possible right now.

Your argument about individual cities is a red herring. Show me a city that went through a similar level of high wage worker growth in such a short amount of time and somehow managed to build enough housing to keep housing prices flat.
Software Deloper A/B Resume
Not long ago I was looking for a new position. I am a software engineer. I was not getting many hits at first and I suspected the reason was my resume. I tried the A/B approach to find what configuration of my resume worked best. To my surprise I got much better results with a configuration of my resume that omitted my military experience, my MBA, and my risk management training/certs - leaving only my 12 years of software development experience and Comp Sci education (my 'B' resume). I had overwhelmingly more hits with my B resume, subsequently did some code tests, and landed a position.

Does anyone have any theories as to why that happened? In both cases the resume was concise with a one page configurations or a two page configuration. The formatting didn't seem to matter only the above mentioned omissions.
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All the article is saying is that Zuck owns most of the votes therefore the other stock holders can't vote against him.

It just seems like the only one getting fed up with Zuckerberg is the media. They can take any ordinary sounding news and turn it into a vilification of Zuck or facebook. It's so blatantly obvious, I'm loosing respect for a lot of these so called "professional" media outlets ~ it would seem the quality and objectivity of their articles are going downhill, at least with regards to the tech industry.

I'm sure if Zuckerberg sold most of his shares, relinquishing control of FB votes, the media would find a way to twist that into bad news as well.
> had pollen allergies on a form and was instantly disqualified (like you would ever be breathing pollen at altitude).

Any form of rhinitis (nose irritation or inflammation) after age 12 is disqualifying (allergic, nonallergic or vasomotor).

The reason for this is because anyone who has rhinitis has higher risk of getting the reaction at least sometimes from changes of humidity, barometric pressure, irritants like chemicals, dust, stress, etc. Having runny nose or puffed eyes is no-go for fighter pilot in a breathing mask. Spending millions to train someone who has a change of not being able to fly is not a good investment.

It's the same for the eyes. They estimate how the eye conditions develop for the rest of the career. Small things that don't matter now can become problematic later.
This is a strong argument, but that 4 year delay also helps you mature and figure out how life works and become more independent and self-sufficient. A 19 year could do a great job I'm sure. I know a guy that was flying combat missions in Vietnam at that age. From what I hear he was a phenomenal pilot. I think he made some decisions he wouldn't have made if he was a little older though.

Also I have a feeling the older guys can handle the G's ok, better than a lanky 18 year old who hasn't gotten his man-physique yet.

With the technology we have I think I'd rather have an older, wiser 40 year flying my F-22 than a 22 year old, but maybe I'm wrong, I have no stats for their relative performance.
I am getting a little tired of the "programming is the least important part of programming" platitude. Yes, yes, talk and learn and soft skills and people skills and all that, but there's a reason why it's programmers who do the programming.
There's a more subtle argument though: someone else will do it, and they will be worse. If you're in the room, you might have a chance of affecting a decision.

Personally I avoid having to make tough calls, but I respect people who think about it differently.
Have your non profit cake and eat 100x returns on your good graces. Then you get to be top dog in a world of "useless human beings". I don't know much about the next world but it probably won't have air conditioning for these people.
>The cases are accelerating, and the information is actively being suppressed from the public (for what they see as good reasons, I guess).

Do you have any sources for these claims or is this tinfoil-hattery? What would be these "good reasons" for suppressing information? And if the information is unavailable, how do you know that "the cases are accelerating"?
Plenty of people support policies that do exactly that. Plenty of people also have positive opinions of, say, the Cuban revolution despite all the metrics indicating that the overwhelming majority of Cubans were ultimately worse off because of it.
Amazon derives a lot of value from the reviews on their site. They can put people who are skeptical about a product at ease and lead to a purchase, for example.
lz4 compresses and decompresses faster than snappy, and compresses similarly. You can see some comparisons on the GitHub's readme https://github.com/lz4/lz4.
With modern hardware, for this to be a meaningful percentage of your workload, you'd need to be working with super high data volumes (100 megabytes per second at the very least, maybe an order of magnitude more depending on the exact hardware).

A reasonable system designer would never create an interface that accepts only hexadecimal input for bulk data transfers at those rates. That would waste half the I/O, which makes no sense!

In this case, the problem with your system isn't the cycle count of your hex conversion function. It's a poorly designed interface that's forced to use hex for high data volumes. You get maybe a fraction of a percent optimizing the hex conversion function, but there's a low-hanging 100% improvement if you just use all 8 bits of your bytes.

Or in Donald Knuth's words, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
The future companies that don’t accept buy outs and are successful are obviously the ones who will beat you .
,,Hardware changes with the times, but best-in-class algorithms are eternal''

Nowdays for these kind of problems the really interesting solution is the best parallel solution. It may be elegant to still prove things for turing machines, but a GPU has 2000 running threads (and if the tensor cores could be used, it's even more instructions), so an algorithm implementation that's not using it is about 100x inferior in practice.
That's the idea behind the ZTE Axon M. Neat idea, but the device seemed uninspiring.
Train first responders to do it. There's already a pilot program for blood transfusions and it's already saving lives:
https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/03/new-fire-and-rescue-progra...
I'm a member of society (with a law degree) and think these are absolutely conscionable and in many circumstances (some of which I've been in), are absolutely beneficial. Looking at the APR on a very short-term loan for a very small amount is missing the forest and the trees for the crack in your glasses.

If you think these loans can be provided at a significantly lower rate, then you've obviously got a huge market opportunity in front of you, and should pursue it. Otherwise, you're advocating for removing what is often the best option in unfortunate circumstances.
Folding screens can certainly enabled more software based design. Its obviously a really exciting new form factor considering how prominent folding screens have been in sci fi. We all really want to have Westworld level tech. Even though we are still a ways away, its awesome to know that its becoming possible.
I'm no fan of zuckerburg but as far as generating money for FB, he's the man for the job.
Here's the US Army version of HoloLens that Microsoft employees were protesting
Is Google OAuth Down?
One of the arguments for pilots to be officers is that they are the ones who ultimately make the final decision on dropping bombs. The U.S. Air Force took a heavy mental beating over the horror of indiscriminate bombings it conducted in the Vietnam War (that was not a war...), and has internalized it.

The thinking is that officers are personally responsible for the command decisions that they execute. If you are ordered to do something you think is illegal it is your responsibility as an officer to refuse. Enlisted are not expected to be held to this requirement. I understand the realities of things, but this is the theory.

The tie-in with a university degree is that that is supposed to have exposed you to enough other thinking that you are better (not to be confused with "well") prepared to make those sort of decisions.
No. Ads in general and bad/abusive tactics are not unique to the web. I’m willing to take the good with the bad and be discerning with my clicks and quick with the back button. And that includes paying for valuable apps and services.
This particular tool lets you trade analysis time for accuracy (amount of false positives) depending on your choice of settings, which is pretty neat.
Are you asking a question?

Since Satya Nadella has become CEO of Microsoft, exactly what history is there that is dark enough to blacklist that company from any positive reaction?

I AM asking.
Puppeteer?
Google sign-in is having an outage
Except for the MacBook Pro version whose logic board failed, and the iBooks who plastic cases cracked and peeled.

About half of Apple products have serious hardware design flaws.
I had one of my juniors who uses Firefox install Chrome to use those dev tools 4 months ago, because Firefox was just throwing garbage in the stack traces, while Chrome had transparent React code.

Not that it'd be a deal breaker for me, but he now debugs in Chrome when necessary, and still uses Firefox as his daily driver.

I'm sure there's something we could've changed for Firefox to work too, but for what it's worth we didn't do anything in particular for it to work in Chrome.
"Stock" is just a way to split up ownership of a company, letting the owners vote on management.

Without this feature something isn't really a stock, at least not in spirit. It's more like the shittiest of trash-tier junk bonds.
They have one that achieves high accuracy without requiring human QC? I'm skeptical.
That's the justification I give when my boss says my code is shit.
That's not what I heard and read at all. There were reports that each side was accusing the other side of spreading "misinformation" about it. But that doesn't mean people testifying didn't understand. Do you think anyone who disagrees with you does it because he lacks the mental capacity to "understand" things as well as you do?

See: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/how-a...
any chance you could share them (after removing contact info)? I'd like to see what the difference was myself...
I don't think it's just 2fa - looks like more general reports of failure to sign in https://downdetector.com/status/google/map/
Neither of those were Microsoft's decision. You are complaining about the armed forces' decision-making process, not Microsoft's.
Given how much my personality shifts from relatively minor things like switching between high/low carb diets, or medium things like whatever was in my drip when I went under general anaesthetic, I totally believe that her personality was changed by having a transplant, or separately by her anti-rejection meds.

I’d be surprised if most such changes have statistically strong correlation with organ donor personalities.
Are you though?
perhaps we should have a larger safety net instead?
I can train a superhuman-performance facial recognition model with consumer hardware sitting in my garage.

I don't think you can, but it depends entirely on what you mean by "superhuman performance."
I'm with you on the desire for scientific rigor. My point wasn't that the remedy mentioned in the comment per se has merit, but that the discussion is probably better without it being killed.
As someone who used to build the systems that process these loans online, I can vouch that indeed APRs are as high as 400% and do you know who owns the debit? Indian tribes, who are usually exempt from state laws and who sometimes you would literally have to meet with the chief of the tribe to settle a debt. Its insane, and sad, but few have no other choice because their credit is bad/maxed out
Ask HN: What is your business paying for internet?
My company is moving, and we are looking at internet and the cost, is nearly 10x what residential is, for 1/3 the speed.

I know there is an higher cost for commercial internet but this seems insane, and wasn't having a lot of luck finding this data.

I'm trying to get a general idea of what people are paying for internet.

speed/location/cost?
I especially hate the smooth text cursor movement in Microsoft Word, where it even animated the movement as you type characters - I find it really off-putting. Thankfully, disabling animations, as you describe, also disables this "feature".

Annoyingly, after some Windows updates this setting is reverted though.
Antifungal resistant fungal infections are common in the Cystic Fibrosis community. I haven't participated for several years on any CF lists, but I used to be on several.

I checked my old emails. There is zero mention of candida auris.

This appears to be fairly new and becoming very serious, from what I gather.

(Updated to say "antifungal.")
But the loans are designed and in 80% of cases rolled over into a sequence of short term loans, meaning that looking at the APR is not as unreasonable as it might sound for a 2 week loan.

Source:
CFPB study: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201403_cfpb_report_payda...
Personal experience: I've taken out payday loans they definitely tried to steer me into rolling them over
Upgrade cycles are slowing, and you only need to keep up if you want the most cutting edge graphics on AAA games - most everything else will run just fine on old mid-range cards. And having Windows automatically install the right drivers seems like even more of an 'inevitable evolution'.
Then go after payday lending by getting a bigger safety net, which undermines their customer base. "We need a bigger safety net, therefore we should ban one of the things that helps people in its absence" is not a coherent position.
Apple removes TikTok app from Indian App Store to comply with state demand
In all cases i would not lose anything, because i would have already lost everything when dying. So in all cases it's a bonus time, and though being properly resurrected would be great, helping scientific progress and dying is still better than simply dying.
Does AMP run on Firefox? I've been using Firefox since the Quantum launch and haven't seen any AMP lately. I had completely forgotten this nightmare once existed.
If the interest were so high just to counterbalance the 'high risk', then lenders wouldn't be profiting the billions of dollars they are off of them. Why not just cap the APR at something less exploitative?
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Wait would they get the details or just the information that you went and did it?
You're moving the goalposts now from "people actively want this" to "people support policies that I say have this as a side effect".
There are no configuration options of any kind in Google App Engine with managed SSL security enabled (since the point is to let Google manage it), which I'd rather keep enabled if feasible to avoid having to worry about renewals etc.
Lambda School Now Live In: United States, European Union, Africa, etc.
> He is probably too old for a faang.

[many expletives later]

Really? REALLY?
Better not to work at all and just collect the free housing, free healthcare, and free food.

Throw in SSDI for a family of 4 and you’re well over $6k/month. That does assume you worked enough months to earn the SSDI coverage to begin with.
The linked articles explicitly say that hospitals are not publicizing the infections because they want to avoid panic. Previously rare fungal infection showing up in five hospitals is a pretty significant uptick.

The fact that it’s extraordinarily hard to eradicate is notable as well. One of the linked articles mentioned having to tear out ceiling tiles and flooring to get at it.
According to some people, the problem is the data. C is a nice language for dealing with plain data.

Just today I rewrote my own streams abstraction, because libc sucks and I want to support my own printf style functions and my own custom streams (for example dynamically memory allocating streams. fopencookie() is not portable). I think that streams are one of the most abstract and most useful abstractions. It went pretty good. Making a few vtables explicitly in a few places is not that terrible.
Brotli is great at compressing static web content, zstd without a dictionary is unlikely to outperform it. For static content you'd probably rather save 5% of space over some decompression costs, since Brotli decompression is fast enough.

Zstd has an advantage if you don't have the CPU to compress at the maximum level, since zstd is generally faster than Brotli at the lower levels.

Even still, for web compression, Brotli has the advantage of already being present in the browsers, so you're betting off using Brotli for web compression as it stands today.
And yet people keep buying FB stock, and IPOs with this same dual-class scheme (and no intent to ever pay dividends) still get hyped up. It's because the people buying them aren't long-term value investors, they're gamblers. They just hope to find another sucker to buy the stock at a higher price than they paid.
Sure it may be difficult to accommodate the demand quickly. But at this point you've agreed on the point I'm making: the lack of supply - not the demand - of housing is what causes rents to rise. There are cities with orders of magnitude greater demand for housing that have low rents because the supply exists.

A rapid spike in demand will probably be accompanied with a temporary increase in cost as supply catches up, but it will not result in long-term cost increases unless the supply is constrained. Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, etc. are not dense cities by any means. If apartment buildings are taking 10 years to get built then there is massive mismanagement or onerous regulation going on.
I actually quite like the Windows 10 start menu, at least after removing all the default tiles for games and what-not and replacing them with things I actually use.

Totally with you on the broken search functionality though - it didn't work in Windows 7, and it still doesn't work. I literally have no idea how such a core feature of the world's most popular desktop OS can be so horribly broken for so long... but it is!
Another meme from cryptography: attacks only get easier; they don't get harder.

While both are true, they aren't any help at predicting the level at which progress plateaus.
farm-raised fish cause plenty of havoc in the ocean.
Also traditionally steps of computations are counted for finding the best algorithm, but today the bottleneck for many problems is memory bandwidth. An algorithm that used to be best-in-class can become quite bad by just changing the ratio of CPU speed to memory speed.
I really dig this approach. Pretty clever.
Requiring officers to be enlisted first would be a great idea, in my opinion. And yes, most jobs nowadays require a college degree, and flying F-22s is one of them. Again, the problem is not that they can't find enough people to train, show me anything that says that. It's that they can't retain the people they have already trained.

Since their incoming pipeline is completely full, if you want to use enlisted pilots you are going to have to pull some officers out of line to replace them with enlisted.

I'm not saying enlisted guys can't do the job, just that this is the way the system works, and this part doesn't seem to be too broken. If you're enlisted and want to do it, the government will pay for your entire college and give you a stipend on top (ROTC, GI Bill), you can even do it part time while you are still enlisted in the military[1], then give you a nice raise to become an officer. Pretty good deal.

The numbers might not always add up for free tuition, but there are a lot of schools in the yellow ribbon program that will cover additional costs for servicemembers[2].

[1] https://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/air-forc...
[2] https://www.benefits.va.gov/GIBILL/yellow_ribbon/yrp_list_20...
The thing is that most people who take a payday loan do so because of an emergency need such as a doctor bill, car repair, or rent shortfall. Then they are stuck because suddenly next months pay is already being spent today and its more expensive. About 85% of the traffic is repeat customers from what I observed when I built the online systems that would process these applications
With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are reluctant to disclose outbreaks for fear of being seen as infection hubs. Even the C.D.C., under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. State governments have in many cases declined to publicly share information beyond acknowledging that they have had cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...
The oldest type of molecule has finally been spotted in space – Science News
We had death by Powerpoint recently on HN. Is this life by Excel?
The World According to the 1580s
I'm not sure I follow. Low density housing is much worse for the environment than high density housing. Lower density means more transportation burden, larger energy costs to deliver utilities, greater risk of those utilities breaking, and more wildernesses being paved for roads and housing.

There's nothing environmentalist about low density sprawl.
Privacy Lost
It's not a principle relating to proving ownership. You cannot own contraband, for instance.

"Is there a jurisdiction where a company cannot license (permit) access to data contigent on prior assent to an agreement with conditions on use, duration of use, transfer, etc. such that the licensee does not get the same rights as the owner of the data?"

I, uh...do you mean...nevermind, I can't figure it out. Can you rearrange the question into a less pseudolegal form?