skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until a UFO crash lands on my front garden, I'm going to continue worrying about; weird weather, extinction of species, privacy and data leaks, increasing restrictions of freedom by western governments and the price of a loaf of bread.
Serverless Framework X-Ray for API Gateway
Isn't the author and the nytimes part of the attention economy? By reading the article and commenting on it, aren't we partaking in rather than resisting the attention economy? It's put us in a bind. In order to learn about resisting the attention economy, we have to join it.
Yeah, t-shirts are an interesting idea... I haven't really looked into it. Thanks for the tip!
Where the Good Jobs Are
Getting downvoted here but really not sure why - don't live in Silicon Valley (or the States for that matter) and it was a genuine question.
Sysctl Explorer
That's what it sounds like. So, it's pure text (and easy to version control), and you can compile it two ways: Once for the machine to execute, once for humans to read.
Apple saw 30% decline in shipments in Q1 YoY, Huawei up 50%
ARM Clusters and Selfhosting: A Perfect Match
Ford doubling his minimum wage is simply an example of capitalism (not government) raising wages. This is why capitalism is the greatest economic system (by a mile) ever devised.
It's no more unethical or loophole to suppress taxes when an etf reallocates holding than it is unethical or loophole to suppress taxes when a corporation sells a widget and then buys another one. There is no realized gain to the shareholders
My counter-argument: eslint and tools like that will warn or error when you use `==` when you should be using `===`, up to the point where `==` is considered a code smell (JS's 'loose' comparison has been the target of a lot of brouhaha)
The global economy will collapse the day people get a hold on their senses to the fact that time spent on social media is time wasted poorly. Ofcourse, it is hypothetical... saw a video of a chimp using Instagram the other day on Twitter, so yeah global economy is not collapsing anytime soon.
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I get that shareholders have powers to vote etc. but... are those vote usually used?

I have both ETFs and individual stocks, and in neither cases I use my shareholder power to vote or anything.
I’ve moved away from mmap for trading in favor of a separate write thread.

While mmap is fast, the combination of factors that can make it decide to stall your thread while it commits to disk is difficult to manage from an operational standpoint. A slight misconfiguration is all it takes to introduce a rare and hard to notice multi-millisecond delay.

Whereas with a spinlocked sized-reserved vector, the fail state performance is however long it takes to allocate more space which is on the level of microseconds. You do pay 50-150ns for that spinlock though.
I also have an x230 with OpenBSD, can you share which tutorial did you use to get the SIM wlan working?
Show HN: Continuous UI Testing
> Oh I see you didn't get to caveat 5

> On x86 you'll get away with it...

Guess we'll have to wait for the proliferation of a different architecture to encounter this one :)
And when the "demons" show up on radar simultaneously to being witnessed?
You can play the windows version on WINE, right?
In the case of mutual funds, the individual investors are all subject to capital gains (or losses) whenever the fund sells any shares. Even if the investor hasn’t divested any money from the fund.

This loophole now results in investors only being subject to taxation when they actually sell their stake in the fund. IE the same way as how ETFs are designed to work.

Alternatives result in double taxation, which means it’s the investor that pays twice anyway - the fund will just add the costs of being taxed itself into the value of the fund, and then the investor will pay a second time when they divest from the fund.
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Yes, attention is a commodity with great value when accumulated in large numbers. Exponential in a way, I would say.
The EU cookies consent law is a prime example of how worthless this is. Easily 99% of sites either don't display this warning, or display it with no "decline" option.

I can think of 2 instances over the past year where I've been able to "do not accept".

I completely agree with the proposed legislation, but it's pointless without consistent, continuous enforcement. They need to be fining sites a small amount UNFAILINGLY across the board. $10 per violation (being unable to show opt-in consent) with no appeals.

Not the trackers (Facebook, Google et Al), but the actual sites (eg. NYT) who've implemented them. They'll drop it REAL QUICK until it's been properly implemented.

But who actually has the budget for enforcement? I don't know the answer to this.
https://gist.github.com/dikeert/ce43bfe607e46c9c04e47ab5a0e6...
> Onboarding itself is extremely valuable.

As a user, I find them extremely annoying. They stop me from achieving what I want to achieve and I try to get rid of them as quickly as possible. I also find them as the hallmark of a bad UI -- if you have to tell me how to use your product, then it's not well designed.
Or maybe, as I mentioned in a previous comment [1]:

- Mr. Wuang knew about the bad spot
- A Tesla OTA solved the issue for that particular spot
- He got used to the car behaving properly in that location
- A Tesla OTA introduces a regression for that particular spot
- Mr. Wuang dies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17141784
> If you remove price, it will be something else besides price, such as a lottery, how politically connected you are, or something else.

The main driver of price is not "demand" imagined as how much people willing to pay for a particular house but demand as how much people are capable of paying, which is mediated by access to debt. If access to debt is clamed down on across the board, then prices will fall accross the board. People will still compete on price but as a society a smaller fraction of income will be spent on housing.
> but judging from the information I've read in the Tesla blog post

Lol
> According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location.

The idea that "bullshit marketing" is the problem here seems short-sighted.
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Did Multics have anything like NFS? Everything is easier if your kernel has control of the underlying device.
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Pretty meaningless to present the numbers for passive funds without including the numbers for active inestors.
Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
99% of Borrowers Rejected Again for Student Loan Forgiveness
I once toyed with the idea of a machine-oriented spoken conlang similar to Lisp in "syntax" by reserving certain syllables for punctuation (brackets, etc.)
One of the main problems of existing solutions is that they lack flexibility due to the poor state of natural language understanding, which is solved by pretty much removing natural language from the equation. However, it would be unusable for most people, or at least would have a learning curve too steep for it to be practical.
This is the news media trying to be sensationalist. Vanguard is mutualized... Ultimately this means ETFs and mutual funds assets are part of the same pool. You can argue that they would be violating their fiduciary duty if they didn't do something like this, which is completely legal and above board, and saves their investors billions every year.
So, this is the second front page post by the same user this morning. One takes a direct shot at vanguard (“tax dialysis”), and the next an indirect shot (“they don’t use your votes right - but we do! Invest with us!”). The user only has four posts in their entire history, and three are on the same topic and posted in the last 24 hours.

This ... looks off to me.
Europe’s Dangerous Creation Myth
I don't think we are anywhere close to Jarvis which is general AI ( aka real AI aka "conscious" AI ) no more than we are anywhere close to building Ironman's nanotech suit. But we are improving on "dumb/unconscious" AI like Alexa, Siri, etc that could help with day to day life whilest spying on you 24/7.
100% agree. No editor comes with such font used as default. If a user wants to add fancy ligatures, she has to set it up by herself. It is very unlikely for such person to forget she is using ligatures in the middle of coding. Also, text editors put the caret to a proper position if the selected text breaks a ligature in the middle.

I personally see no problem using Fira Code aside from 10 seconds long brain hiccups every once in while (once per year, maybe rarer). I've been using it since 2015, on multiple editors including Xcode, Android Studio, iTerm2, Sublime Text, Atom, VS Mac, VS Code and IntelliJ. I can't even remember which one of these still doesn't support the proper rendering of ligatures, and yet no issues for me so far.
Yep, or it didn't happen all the time and he perceived it was fixed after reporting it. We do not have all the facts.
Passive (index) funds have grown because they work.

Read "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet" or "The Bogleheads Guide to Investing", you'll see it clearly laid out. For the Cliff's Notes version, turn to YouTube and watch Warren Buffet, Jack Bogle, etc.

Index Funds enrich their investors. Actively managed funds enrich their providers.
My thoughts exactly. Situation in healthcare is utterly dismal. I see prescriptions of very expensive medicine where there are alternative brands (or generics) for a fraction of the price and when people complain (a serious percentage of the price comes off their pockets) doctors respond with vague mumble-mumble about that drug being a new generation.
Similarity of Neural Network Representations Revisited
The IRS is currently strapped for manpower/funding so they're as willing to negotiate as they've ever been. CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) unless that business is tech or selling metaphorical pickaxes to the metaphorical miners.

Your statements appear to be specifically calibrated to be totally false yet believable to people who know nothing about the subjects in question and I find this dishonest and disagreeable.
> Why not helping Wikipedia and contributing to this huge open knowledge base?

Wikipedia is incredibly selective about what they allow to have its own page. They simply aren't interested in being a huge open universal knowledge base - it's aggressively curated in an awful way that isn't immediately obvious. I've seen notable/important/interesting people be removed simply because they didn't meet some arbitrary level of notability, even if they had high impact in their respective communities. That kind of selective enforcement and control of information is what we should be fighting against, not encouraging.
I know that if I come over as an individual on employment contract I will pay among the highest taxes and contributions in EU, although there seems to be some tax relief for newly arrived foreigners.

The point is rather about large global business entities with sophisticated ownership, leadership, and shareholder structure - somehow they oftentimes are registered as Dutch BV, or in Luxembourg/Ireland. This way or another it’s always some kind of Dutch-Irish sandwich with Luxembourgian sauce.
Baffling really. One of the most obnoxiously well differentiated and profitable enterprises in history raising their minimum pay can’t possible be an analogue for the entire business world
Makes me want to try Racket out!
I'd say that if you're browsing HN or nytimes of your own free will, came across this article and decided to read it out of interest then attention economy doesn't come into it.
This is hilarious, and sad.
In a fund, the manager can vote in a way in which you might not agree with... Even if you had preferred to do a "no vote"
On Linux I love using the "Compose" key to type these unusual characters. It works better mnemonically than having special keys for everything.

One language that uses unicode symbols liberally is Agda. Since it is a proof assistant, being able to use mathematical symbols helps a lot. They even remap the backspace key on Emacs to act as a sort of Compose key for typing all the symbols.
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I can guarantee you if this happened in the organisation I work in, they would have been fired. It's a different kind of organisation, in a different kind of business though.
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The world first non-custodial debit card is now shipping, after 2 years of dev
Don't waste time on writing an article about introducing new members either. just go immediately into another customer manifesto.
I appreciate that the customer has to be the focus, but this article was a bit bait and switch, and didn't give any time to the legitimate issues of growing a startup team.
> “The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.”

I note that in a world of globalising trade this isn't true - there are vast untapped reserves of both employees and customers out there. It then becomes possible to cannibalise the existing market through unsustainable practices. Until the global market as a whole is lifted up to the same level.
It's made worse by the common UNIX developer insisting on hard-coding fixed paths into things. The whole ecosystem is just plain hostile to the idea of applications that aren't recompiled every time something changes.
Came here to say this
ST handles ligatures very sensibly
It's a joke. emacs is the operating system, Linux is only the kernel for emacs
So how do people reach you to sell to you? Or, to turn it around, how do you find out about new products/solutions?
I've heard others do this as well and I don't quite understand it. If you don't want to see ads, sure maybe use AdBlock or PiHole, but why block the company?

Not trying to put words in your mouth, but are you offended that the company spent money on a promoted tweet? That it was an overreach on their part?
Huh. Well, I thought Newsweek jumped the shark, but it seems a number of publications are giving this serious coverage.

Interesting.
Yeah every time I hear the phrase "late-stage capitalism" I roll my eyes.
Pytorch is amazing and Facebook's open source contributions to AI are great.

However, tooling for deep learning in general is not ready for industry grade technology. Many bugs could be prevented by dependent types, but compilers are not there. Also, debugging models feels like alchemy and random changes until it works. In addition, in production systems, rigorous testing is not a standard. The closest thing I have heard of is Tesla's data engine and AI system, they do have unit tests and a shadow mode. Of course big companies will have similar technologies for critical systems, but it's not as standardized as testing in software engineering.
I know of doctors in a different country who get paid trips to conferences in the EU and elsewhere for prescribing certain pharmaceuticals over another pharma’s. It’s straight up pay for play. This behavior isn’t restricted to one bad pharma actor either.
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> 10 years is just wild.

Most 20 year old Windows applications still run on Windows 10.
Occam's Razor. It is likely not aliens and more likely man made because it isn't that advanced compared to what we can currently do. It is like 5 to 10 years ahead of publiclt disclosed tech.

It is either US or Chinese skunkworks and given it was in US airspace I doubt the Chinese would do this. Also it has to be US because otherwise military brass would be freaking out the Chinese are penitrating us airspace with advanced tech.

Thus it is a us skunkworks project.

It is probably just advanced drone techonology. Probably really cool tech.
No need for name calling. With a stable population, no tax incentives, no legal or government incentives, etc, your home is a depreciating asset. If you've owned a home, you realize it is constantly breaking down and you have to constantly fix it. A home isn't a productive asset like a business. It isn't making you any money "productively". The only way homes become appreciating asset is purely through external manipulation. Increasing population, limiting development, tax incentives, legal incentives, etc. This isn't a secret.
This is a topic that's warming up in the investment space. There is a company, SAY, that is trying to get more shareholder participation.

Ultimately, the regulations need to change to allow fund holders to vote their stock. And this certainly can be enabled by technology.

In this scenario you wouldn't necessarily vote all 500 stocks of the S&P500 but you would set your preferences (always support board gender diversity, say on pay, etc... ) And the service would auto vote along your preferences.
Getting much better than the average human is achieved by a lot of humans. Deaths per mile are about 30x lower for bus/coach compared to cars, about 4x lower for vans and about 50x higher for motorcycles. There's a lot of variation. https://www.statista.com/statistics/300601/average-number-of...

If you assume vans have about the same crash protection as cars and some van drivers are idiots then I'd guess you could get 10x better than the average human just through driving skill/technique.
The UK bans advertising to the public for prescription drugs, and has a standard cost-effectiveness approval process for what the NHS will prescribe ("NICE"). Drug marketing is a lot less prevalent here.
It is possible to patent a “business method,” no algorithm required [1].

Also, TFA addresses the ethics question in this case, and I don’t think it’s so obviously unethical:

> A lot of middle-class people love investing in ETFs and not paying taxes until they sell their shares, and politicians and regulators seem pretty happy to let them do it. It is also quite reasonable: People who buy ETFs pay taxes on their gains when they sell the ETFs and actually realize the gains, which feels like the right time to pay taxes, whereas people who buy mutual funds have to pay capital gains taxes at random times that have nothing to do with their own investment decisions or cash flows. From that perspective, the heartbeat trades are not an evil tax dodge but just a sensible mechanical use of the rules to achieve the logical result that everyone wants.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent
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And it's so common we have 1 example from a century ago and we're still talking about it.
And generally, unless you understand the business deeply and are actively aware of the trade-offs of your vote, you shouldn't be voting.

We can all yell "pay parity" and "tie CEO compensation to worker compensation", but there are trade-offs. It means high performers who earn their pay are more likely to go elsewhere, where they'll be properly compensated. And who takes their place? Most likely, someone less qualified who is on the other side of the bell curve.

I'm not saying CEOs are justified in their pay or the rank and file don't deserve better pay, but there's no free lunch. Business is complicated and the current policies were put in place with CAREFUL considerations of the trade-offs. If you don't understand them at a deep level, don't get involved.
Use a Sinatra app and include ActiveRecord. There are a few gotchas like making sure to clear connections at the end of requests.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41400202/replacing-activ...

I’d love to see more examples of picking pieces of rails and combining with other libraries.
How to live without free will
> I'm easily making more money, in nominal dollars, than an average CEO in 1919, but I'm not running wild in Saint-Tropez every summer either.

Not arguing with your general point. But on this count, I think you're vastly better off than the average CEO in 1919. You have luxury they couldn't have even imagined.

- quality of medical care
- entertainment
- air travel
- cars
- food regardless of season
- etc
TL;DR if you don't have a college degree (or have one that does not get you a foothold in a lucrative industry) stay out of all the cities that are a clusterf*ck of white collar professionals driving up prices on everything.
I recently upgraded my laptop to a Thinkpad T470s, which supports M.2 NVMe, and M.2 Sata.
I upgraded from a 500gb NVMe drive to a 1TB M.2 sata drive.
Why do I say upgraded if it is slower?
Well, in a laptop, power usage is hugely important, as is heat.
To prevent throttling on the CPU, less heat is better.
I did a lot of research, and found that the sata based M.2 drives consume less power, and generate less heat. For my purposes the sata speed is sufficient. :)
Why would mmap lead to double caching? I can't follow.