skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about two different things. After 2008 The Feds bailed out the banks by having The Fed issue them loans and buying up their toxic assets. It's less likely that would happen with only an individual local bank.

By contrast, when a bank goes out of business, the FDIC covers most of the deposits. But that doesn't end the same way for the bank. And if the bank is the city, the question then becomes whether they have to e.g. sell all of their real estate holdings and other city assets, or allocate their revenues from taxes to covering deposits, before the FDIC has to cover them. Meanwhile all the cronies who got loans for buildings they can't afford would suddenly find the loans owned by somebody else who would be more inclined to foreclose on them if they don't make the payments etc.
Ok, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here? We're trying to be ruled by at least a little less stupidity than that, and it takes energy to hold entropy at bay for a bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s called Generic Neural “Elastic Search” - but does it use “Elasticsearch?”

Sorry if it’s a dumb question, poking around I don’t see where it interacts with Elasticsearch (maybe it doesn’t)
The gasoline engine was probably equally exotic.

Sulfuric acid has been manufactured since to 18th century. And you don't need permanent magnets to make a DC motor. And electrical motors were even used to power vehicles before Otto constructed his gasoline engine.

I guess heat engines just were something people were more used to? Going from steam to gasoline seems like a smaller step.
But when all your apps stop working every time you install a major OS update, are you saying you would be happy to pay again? Because most people will whine like crazy.
This is easily addressed by requiring your Amazon sellers to not use commingling. I've even seen a handful of companies that require their sellers not to use FBA.

>counterfeiters get access to sell the real products to minimize returns and thus issues with credit cards etc.

Not following. Amazon knows which unit was sold by which seller, so they can attribute returns to the correct seller even if was actually sold by another.
Not OC, but it seems like there was barely any communication at all until he decided to take control of the plane, and he just said "my aircraft" to ask for control.
China's burning more coal by the day.
If you listen to the episode, or even scan the transcript, you'll find that all of this covered. For a one hour show, it does an amazing job of putting everything together.
Maybe. Almost nothing is straightforward about fair use.
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
That looks like a graph of quantitative easing.

To use a car analogy I'm arguing the gas pedal doesn't work as well so the Fed is having to keep their foot to the gas to maintain it's historical speed. Others argue the Fed is has been trying to go faster and that's why their foot is on the gas pedal. The graph seems to support that indeed their foot is on the gas.
Amazon and the problem of fake reviews [video]
You mean like targeting WASM and drawing to a canvas element?
The title should include (2017)
I think you should look at what happens to prices when you legislatively engineer increased demand/accessibility:

https://www.digitalbrew.com/quality-speed-price-unattainable...
Shouldn't managers at companies make their supposedly fun activities optional?
A tech company engineering director says how she hosts some team activities for employees to have fun together.

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/should-engineers-have-fun-at-work-5042514/

I also saw comments from other users about how fun that workplace is.

My reaction to that post was quite contrary to the majority of comments. I absolutely didn't find that fun. It is something I wouldn't enjoy at all. I communicate well during meetings, and I work well with my team to solve the tasks at hand.

But when almost all of the top tech companies have such supposedly fun activities for team bonding, or other reasons, I think it alienates people like me who are good engineers but don't enjoy such activities.

Another comment on that post, is relieving and shares similar opinion of mine:

> For any software engineer truly suited to their job, the work required should already be "fun", in and of itself. If not, then said engineer is in the wrong line of work and should find something they would enjoy doing every day for the rest of their career.
For many, being forced to endure such irrelevant social engagement is an uncomfortable disincentive they would do anything to avoid. "Community" isn't something you can impose, it can only be "nurtured"! It develops organically, not from what you think would be "fun" but what those on your team actually enjoy. You learn this by observing and paying attention. Then, when you learn what works, you simply do more of it.
Follow through on this idea of imposing "fun" at work and you risk alienating all your best engineers.

Considering how STEM fields naturally attract introverts, shouldn't managers at companies avoid or at least make their supposedly fun activities not mandatory? By imposing their definition of fun, aren't they doing more harm than good?
We're going to urgently need these ports for things like PyPy, Graal, etc, when Apple suddenly switches from Intel to ARM.
Has this been hugged to death? Because I can't access it, it times out. Pretty bad advertising if so.
For 2 I could imagine that intelligence makes you rich - and if heritable wealth would run in the family. But be clear, other factors are much more important in getting rich - aggression, ruthlessness, a lack of imagination.. and being positive; a strong family affinity, luck, hardwork, attention to detail. The ability to reason and learn is clearly very useful, but it's not exclusively useful in our society, and in the not very distant past it was not very useful at all to the vast majority of economic actors. For example - if you are a land owner in a preindustrial society the opportunities for scheming and thinking are far more limited than if you are a startup owner in the modern day.

Some would say.
What is the advantage compared to other electric propulsion systems?
"Anecdotally, I am slowly raising my service prices as my costs rise. To me, this is evidence that my dollar (I'm in the US) is not going as far as it used to. And yet costs in a healthy financial system should normally be driven down, by typical Austrian Economic thinking"

I don't think that's correct. You're referring to competition and efficiencies, not inflation.

"The Austrian school believes any increase in the money supply not supported by an increase in the production of goods and services leads to an increase in prices"

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/austrian-...
People are heat machines. We definitely get more done around an optimal temperature.
The province BC is like Vermont and the province of Alberta is like (or wants to be) Texas. Imagine if those two states were together in the US.

There is lots of logging in Canada that's how you guys in the US get quite a bit of material for toilet paper and plywood.
And yet year after year there are 80m+ more people being added. If the rate of change of the rate is slow enough it doesn't matter that it's going down, the population is still increasing at a breathtaking pace, and we'll have to have a population collapse to get back to anything sustainable.
To be fair, those civilizations flourished during a time of a different climate than it is today.
I think what is being reacted to though is that its being done in a business context. Construction companies do not typically value good graphic design or hand lettering. This is stomped out for efficiency, cheap coroplast and vinyl wayfinding signs are quickly churned out and discarded. Sato's signs are surprising to me because he hasn't been displaced.
You have it backwards. There are investors (such as banks and pension funds) who want certain very safe investments (government bonds) but governments are unwilling to supply it. So, if anything, this would be too much savings rather than not enough.

But really, it's not about consumers, but about banks not making as many loans as governments want them to. That suggests a lack of safe investment opportunities.

Maybe, instead of pressuring banks to make investments that they don't want to make, governments could stimulate demand in some other way? There are certainly people who, if you give them money, they will spend it.
Experts call for ban on glass skyscrapers to save energy in climate crisis
Even within a purely work perspective, we arent machines. My productivity (as perceived by the impact of my work not Lines of Code) gies up and down. I will have a good year and save millions of dollars or make a platform that ends up employing dozen software engineers for many products and then you know have years where I make some python framework used by five people have 10 percent better latency. There is a certain tendency by management to reward me in the up years and punish me in the down years but for me as a human they aren't two things. Stuff just goes in cycles. I don't get the big years without the fallow years. I focus on learning stuff each year and trying to get people to always improve things a bit, and it all works out. At least i have learned a lot of cool stuff. And management still hasn't come up with floating promotions where you are a Senior blah blah blah for 24 months then can ebb back.
And now the long dead typesetters' mistakes are indexed by google for us all to read…

From the January 1917 issue of the Southern and Southwestern Railway Club bimonthly proceedings…

https://books.google.com/books?id=Kx0wAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA24&d...

That's a fair bit of technological evolution in 102 years.

The publication seems like a forerunner of the podcast. It is a verbatim transcript of an enthusiasts' meeting with advertisements injected.
It's funny you mention this. Certain personality types just have a hard time understanding stuff like this. I guess it's due to being ultra-rational or maybe slightly autistic.

Reminds me of one of my coworkers. Extremely intelligent software dev. Take him to an art museum and nothing will interest him. Put some music on that's not in his genre and he'll always put on his headphones instead of trying to listen to something new. But start talking about one of his interests, and he'll carry the conversation forever. He just has a hard time understanding why other humans do what they do and like what they like, because he doesn't.
Yes, it comes all down to risk assessment.

Maybe using serverless technology is too hard for your corp, because you don't have the skills, so it could lead to problems in the future (surprise Lambda bills).

But it could also be that your competitors get a huge advantage by investing in the serverless paradigm and run you away in the future.

To me that Twitter thread sounded too much like a guy who invested in some tech over the last 11 years and now tries to convince potential customers of him to use the tech he knows about.

He could be right, he could be wrong. I don't know. I started back-end development with serverless, so I'm biased in the other direction, haha.
I have been running 2 bird boxes (1.6 series, a version 2 upgrade is scheduled later this year) each with two peers of full feed for both ipv4 (~750k and ~755k routes respectively) and ipv6 (~67k and ~69k routes) and one of them is connected to a local ixp (~94k ipv4 and ~15k ipv6 routes).

No problems what soever in the almost two years, they have been running...
Author did none of the actual plumbing and just assembled a few open source libraries.. clickbait garbage
My guess: I think they mean the searches are elastic (i.e. F
fuzzy). This is the same meaning that Elasticsearch the product emphasises through its product Name. There is crossover in functionality
It already took off.

Even if Houdini fails adoption, WebAssembly + Canvas/WebGL/WebGPU will do it.

https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly

https://platform.uno/

https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-web-app-google-io...

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/client
oh, and note to new users.. don't do an "ip r" on those boxes....
It is a technology to get more satisfactory outcomes from life. Not sure why you wouldn't use it.
Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners
Show HN: Preview Python Execution from VSCode
Wouldn't it be better to have interest rates match the natural interest rate? People paying for loans can't afford the rate payment, so these payments should be lowered to reflect the ability to pay back the loan (including into negative territory). If you're the U.S. Government, you're essentially telling capital surplus holders, "You can keep you large hordes of money here, but it'll cost you 1% a year."

And if you want to take out a loan, it'll still be a risk, since you'll need to make the principle payments, but you'd get a tailwind on the interest paid to you.

I'd be happy to learn where I'm wrong if you have any insight.
I don’t think the difference is due to income directly, but more to do with class/social expectations. Eating is a very social activity, and the way people eat is strongly linked to their individual and group identity.

Healthy eating simply isn’t prioritized by some people/groups, and others don’t value it at all.
When was the last time we bemoaned the fact we don't have to call a travel agent to book a flight, or that we needn't pull out our yellow pages to find a cab company when we need to go to the airport?

The march towards efficiency is a never ending one, for better or worse. Mom and pop e-stores were a go-between that except for specific niches are likely casualties of that march.
> Not sure where you're getting the "10% believe the earth is flat" from

I'm not sure, that "yes" imply that the asked person believes that Earth is flat. I probably would be confused if someone asked me such a dumb question (why?), and I answer "yes" to make situation to be obscure not just for me.
Here are your Qt examples, https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly
Time to gamble on bitcoin.
Where does $86M go if a few open source libraries gets you most of the way there?
We are drowning in garbage, robots are being used to solve the recycling crisis
Being interoperable is one way of leveraging another tech.
Works good :)
Sure, that's quantitative easing. Something that the Fed was not doing in this form before and it's quite controversial whether it has been a success of a failure. In any case, this "temporary" solution is going for over ten years now and the Fed doesn't know how to get out of it.
How to Make Preserved Lemons in the Workshop
You can also use ImageMagick to generate a "diff" image:

magick compare img1.jpg img2.jpg diff.jpg

If you want a numeric result, you can use "-metric AE" (and a null output file) to count the number of pixels that differ.

There is also a "fuzz" option: -fuzz 2%
Ok so builders can invest in building homes, yes? But builders need capital to do that. Where are they going to get that capital?
Which is why trying new stuff you don't know how to do and also to do stuff you like but are bad at is so cognitively beneficial.
> If you need any differential geometry, it is discrete differential geometry then

This is a bit oversimplified/exaggerated.

We need to use discrete bits in our representation for a computer, but our numbers can be the coefficients of continuous functions or relations (e.g. polynomials or trigonometric polynomials), and so it is possible to represent continuous functions to whatever precision we have compute resources to handle without “discretizing” per se.
That's a lot of hypotheticals, but I think that it was pretty obvious what kind of character they were voting for. And he has consistently held over 90% approval from Republicans during his term, so they are evidently satisfied with the results. When it comes to issues that I (and many liberals) feel strongly about, he was always very clearly a complete 180 from what I'd consider sensible policy. I've read that over 50% of Republicans now consider climate change to a major issue that should be addressed, but Trump repeatedly declared it a hoax. So, it stands to reason that at least tens of millions of people who claim to think climate change is a critical issues deliberately voted for someone who will expressly move the country backwards in its response.

I'm being somewhere reductive in my position and clearly people had some other incentives in how they voted, but I'm just saying that the premise of this article is meaningless. While Republican voters may not be as strident as they let on, they have placed an army of extremely strident representatives in power and haven't wavered in their support. That's what the country now has in hand and it wasn't by accident.
Thanks! That one has comments by one of the authors.

Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513453.
Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019
Psych Profiles, FB Dark Posts and Microtargeting to Win the Presidency(2016)
> Why does it seem like nobody (with the relevant authority) is willing to do anything but stand around in paralysis worrying?

Maybe because those relevant authorities are more and more not very good at their jobs. It happened a bunch under Bush and his happening way more under our current POTUS. Unqualified people are being put in charge of large portions of our government, and there has to be some consequence. This might just be it.
Ask HN: Resources to learn how to build mobile apps
I am a web developper with 10+ years of experience building web-based apps. I am looking to build a mobile app that pulls data from a web app. Is there any online class or resource you recommend? I don’t need to go back over all the programming basics...
My parents had a mortgage in the 80's at 18%. Yes, those were crazy times.
Sales process, lawyers, taxes, equipment, support, and better correctness presumably.
Combining off the shelf technologies for a novel / desired result with little effort isn't garbage. For example, podcasts are practically just media and image files listed in some XML. Also, replicating something existing in a vacuum with no restrictions is easier than prototyping in a legacy beurcratic environment.
Taking Online Courses with a Partner
uses openalpr. 57 lines my ass.
DevOps and Mental Models
My brother and I developed https://www.infinity2o.com/ to connect people to take online courses together. We give daily matches based on each person's interests and what each person is looking for in their online course partner. I'd love to hear your feedback!
> Writing up UI designed by a designer who doesn't understand my domain's interface guidelines, reexplaining how my software works to the product person during every product meeting, trudging along under leadership that doesn't understand the costs of all the manual things I'm not being empowered to automate and not having new features to show off every 2 weeks is what is making me feel like I'm burnt out.

The common thread of each of the examples you give above sounds like, "other people are incompetent."

Applying principle of charity and assuming they are all actually that bad, you've got to meet people where they are if you want to work effectively with them. Lots has been written on the responsibility of senior engineers in guiding and improving their teams without necessarily having a specific mandate from management to do so.

Perhaps you might also apply a bit of that charity IRL too though. Examine your perceptions and interactions critically.

There's no requirement in life that you have to make things work with any given team, anyway. The clueless and the checked out exist too. If you're surrounded by them and your not married to the org, consider other work.
Creating a Ghost Blog on an Azure App Service
Checksumming JPEG files is not that useful (to me, at least). There are lots of cases where the file checksum doesn't match but the image is still the same, for some definition of "same."

Examples:

EXIF/IPTC/etc metadata changes (sometimes this matters; sometimes it doesn't).

Image has been rotated (this almost never matters).

Image saved with different compression parameters (usually this matters but not always).

Image saved with different resolution (ditto).

Image has been slightly edited.

The point here is that with images, data identity does not always equal file identity.
What amazed me is how this guy was able two weeks after the election to figure everything out. I never heard of Cambridge Analytica until 2018. This post was totally ignored when it was posted.
Does it need to be a web app? VB isn't web (afaik).

You could probably do it all in python using sqlite, matplotlib and tkinter. MPL provides tk widgets for displaying its graphs.

For drag and drop GUI dev, maybe this? http://www.bitflipper.ca/rapyd/
Statistically useful anonymized/de-identified data sets will leak information when analytically combined with sufficiently rich and diverse exogenous data sets. This is more of a "yet another example" than a new result. Techniques such as k-anonymity, chaffing, adding noise/randomness, differential privacy, etc significantly increase the computational cost and data requirements but not intractably so. The proliferation of vast sensing/event data sources provide nearly bottomless sources of exogenous data suitable for the purpose.

Anonymity is more polite fiction than rigorous fact these days.
Q&A. Compliance, e.g. correctly storing the data, while allowing audited access. Ongoing, around the clock support. Etc

Not that it doesn't make sense to look into government overspending in IT, it happens all the time. But this angle of approaching it is ineffective at best.
Do you run them personally and get full tables? If so do you pay for the peering and where?
Lawyers is probably most of this. Police departments want to outsource their blame when something goes wrong (as do major corporations, mind you), so they're paying someone to handwave mistakes away.

99% of corporate/enterprise product delivery isn't about the product, its about contractual blame assignment.
Actually an interesting project and in the authors follow up article he explains his motivation vs standing for the “click bait” knee jerk:

“Most readers saw it for what it was: a proof of concept to spark discussion about the use of open source technology, government spending, and one man’s desire to build cool stuff from his couch.”

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/remember-that-86-million-l...
I'd like to try and take GP's analogy a bit further:

- thermal paste dries out and becomes brittle due to sustained overheat

- resulting in bad contact between heatsink and CPU

- CPU (returns from vacation and) finds that even small efforts makes core temperature rise quickly, thermal throttles constantly
> I think it's pretty intuitive that Zip Code and DOB are identifiers.

It's great that you think that, but basically no company uses that definition. Most company privacy policies don't consider combinations of information when making this determination. E.g. your billing address might be personal information, but your zip code by itself might not. Similarly, IP address (with or without last octet), wifi SSID, location data, browsing history (or attributes derived from browsing history), and so on. Each individual piece of data isn't enough to personally identify you, so the privacy policy often doesn't have to be applied to it.

E.g. after reading the Google privacy policy[0], can you tell what protections your zip code and DOB have? Will Google treat them as personal information or personal identifiers or not?

0: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
Azure Ad App Registration, an Introduction
> unlike Russell's papers, where — as you may know — large segments are embargoed

That's surprising. I wonder what was embargoed from Russell's papers.