skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...why can't the big players (at least) confirm things quickly? Why can't there be an easy status to say if a check has truly "cleared" or not?

Consider a forged check with valid identifying information. Think about what the other side of that transaction looks like. That other customer needs time to review incoming transactions to their account, notice the errant one, and dispute it. And so waiting this time is the only practical way the receiving bank can fully clear a transaction.
Is this the same thing as Zelle?
> Sound money is the surest route to destroying capitalism.

I don't agree at all. But let's wait and see. That is a risk I'm happy to take. Sound money is honest money. A system that can't survive sound money is an unsound system.

Anyway, we probably disagree on the definition of 'capitalism.' We don't have capitalism now, we have a mixed economy with partial capitalism.

> the Great Depression. Sound money caused that.

I completely disagree. This is but one theory, and I don't think it's a good one.

> It was a mixed bag, because the hyperinflation wiped out a lot of debts.

Hyperinflation = no debts, but also no savings. So only the very wealthy with large portfolios in real estate or industry could survive financially. Everyone else reduced to poverty. (Granted, I'm no expert on Weimar history, so if that's not exactly accurate, I welcome corrections.)
I know C++ since Turbo C++ , have written C++ code at CERN, make use of static analysis tooling in C++, and yet it took me a couple of days to deal with Gtk-rs, trying to minimise the use of Rc<RefCell<>>.

While I did preserve to make it work, not everyone is willing to keep trying.
I agree, Julia is a nice language, efficient, has a good deep learning library Flux, and calls out to Python easily. I have a tiny repo https://github.com/mark-watson/julia_my_code_snippets were I am collecting how-to snippets for things I do in other languages.
> Non-nullness is inferred from 'node->child = NULL;' which would be UB would node be NULL.

There’s also a dereference inside of walk, except it’s protected by a NULL check.
It... is? The difference is that the labor theory has been thrown out as unsalvageable, whereas expected utility theory is useful enough in some theoretical applications to stick around.
Never look to the back-end costs to explain the price of anything. The price is always set to what the market can barely tolerate. This is capitalism.

If you think that margins are too high, then this could indicate a lack of competition. That’s what you should look to for a possible explanation. Why is there apparently a lack of competition between colleges?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821161
You know. This could be configured to be a, [really nice] poor man's Bloomberg Terminal.

Yikes! Hold my beer! This will take all weekend.
This article is poorly written. Early on the reporter really steps her foot into it by practically insulting the kid. Then he bristles at her and responds as if he's being attacked. It's cringing and I'm learning more about these two people than I needed to.
Show HN: XSS – A chat app where every message gets inserted into a script tag
As usual: the proper way to submit your thing is (a) in a normal submission, not a text submission, and (b) prefixing it with "Show HN", because people like Show HNs and you've got a better chance of getting noticed.
It's almost ASMR for me to work in the terminal.
I grew up in a lower-middle-class family, and my parents were only able to support me during college with a monthly $100 check. Not wanting to go into debt, I went to a Cal State school, lived and commuted with roommates, and worked 2 days/week to pay for rent. I paid tuition bills by working full-time during quarter breaks. I also volunteered significantly at church.

All to say, my grades and ability to engage fully at school were strongly impacted by my financial situation. I wouldn’t wish my college situation on others. But I have no regrets. For me, it was character-shaping. That’s more important than economic opportunity and success.
"someone will adjust to optimize their outcomes under those rules."

It isn't even clear how to make them stop that, per se, because in general that's a desirable characteristic of the system. You can't use the tax system to nudge people or do anything progressive beyond the most basic and clumsy income-bucket based categorization if you can't set up incentives and expect people to "optimize" to them.
Travel 4 hours in any direction from SF and you’re either working remotely, running a business, or not making $250k/year. Remote work and entrepreneurship are not options for everyone.
I'd like to apologize and say my "read the article" self-righteousness was directed at the OP, not you- I replied to the wrong part of the thread and the sub-par reader I'm stuck with using doesn't allow editing/deleting. I also agree that gasoline would be a better comparison than oil.
I think the point is that you have poorer people who qualify, and rich people who can organize and pay to manipulate the situation. Then there are people in between, people who don't qualify, but also who don't have the ability to manipulate the system.

Furthermore, that rich people are taking advantage of programs meant for poorer people is ultimately an unethical thing to do.
+1 to this. Amtrak Northeast Corridor is amazing and the proof is how it competes just fine with airplanes and auto. I wish the food were better. I can't wait for LEO internet (e.g. SpaceX) to fix the WiFi which drops off in cellular deadzones (along with my tethered cellphone).

The delays are mostly structural: Amtrak is required to share the tracks with unscheduled cargo. I budget an extra hour and I'm fine. The same cannot be said for airplanes. It's like conflating TSA gropings with airline (de)regulation.

The rest of Amtrak is wonderful: website / e-ticketing / free changes / frequent traveler program, communication, seats, power outlets, etc. All this would get replaced by toll booths carefully metering out every convenience until your knees are in your chest.
I certainly agree that there can be a lot of utility in abortions. Frankly that's the major reason why I don't support abortion legislation. I am somewhat a utilitarian and I understand that there are instances where the utility might outweigh the ineherent immorality. But I do believe that there is an inherent immorality.

Similarly, I think it is immoral to use force to get other people to do what you want. But that quickly becomes a nuanced argument when you start taking public safety into account, or crime prevention. Life doesn't take place in a vacuum so I'm not trying to pass judgement.
This isn't exactly rocket science ... my daughter just started college, and as a tech industry employee let me tell you, she got no financial aid (some other academic things aside).

When we started filling out the student loan paperwork, I had literally this idea (the whole legal separation thing) as a passing thought. Of course, because I'm not a monster, I laughed it off and kept on filling out the paperwork ... but one doesn't have to be a great student out of Wharton to figure out a scam like this, and you can bet your arse more people have actually pulled the trigger on it.
Critical Vulnerability in Dovecot and Pigeonhole
Those people don't need to engage in legal shenanigans to qualify for student aid.

Also, you can do medicaid over the internet/phone/mail these days. Unless you have a problem with the workflow that prevents you from using these systems you should never have to speak to anyone in person. Or at least that's how it is in my state.

Edit: Since I'm apparently so wrong does anyone want to tell me what kind of legal shenanigans people who are poor enough to qualify for financial aid need to go through other than filling out the forms truthfully?
I’ve been building SD card based Pi devices and the limiting factor in IO perf is the FUSE exFat implementation. There’s a leaked Samsung internal implementation that is over 2x as fast in my benchmarks. I can’t attest whether it’s the fact it’s FUSE or just other performance optimizations that is the reason though.
Ask HN: Would you use app designed to bamboozle behavioral tracking?
I have an idea for an app I would like to build. I have no problem with basic targeted ads but I very much dislike behavioral tracking where I get thrown in an auction for that behavior and then followed around the internet.

What I would like is to render my behavioral tracking data less valuable to dis-incentivize anyone from going that route.

I imagine building a bot that randomly pulls key words and phrases from open source databases and searches google for them at random times during the day.

I don't care if I see an ad for <insert not-relevant-to-me product here> as a result. I would just enjoy the feeling that those nefarious trackers were wasting their money.

I am a marketer with frontend design/dev and product skills but not a software engineer. Reaching out to Hacker News readers for opinions on whether this could be built, what software dev approach you suggest taking, what would be the most difficult parts, and-or why this is a terrible idea.
Yes: DC. They're widening I-66, because too many people moved way out to the exurbs and commute into the city every day, taking 1-2 hours each way. So they're adding lanes on this highway, which will cause even more people to move out to the exurbs, and won't help at all. Meanwhile, they're refusing to extend the subway line out in that direction, even though a single train can carry hundreds of commuters at a time, and they'll all going the exact same direction.
I think it depends on context - I'm guessing you're thinking about flow of funds where as others are thinking about the actual process of running ACH files through the network.

As an end consumer or other entity(like a TPA or bank ISO), you can submit a request or set of requests that will end up in that banks ACH file. At the end of the day, the bank that submits that file is responsible for ensuring those requests are valid, and ensuring all the returns are processed. These requests consist of to/from account routing information and dollar amounts with a lot of other rules in the file specifications. Not every banks can submit these directly. A lot of banks submit to larger banks and so on. I vaguely recall there also being fines/fees applied to the file submitter on if you send bad data or exceed return thresholds.
What has struck me from reading history, US history at least, is how often intelligence reports prepared by the CIA, State Department, et al are accurate and predict more or less accurately what the outcome of a given situation will be. But time and time again, presidents will ignore their own agencies in favor of what they deem most politically or personally attractive. Makes me think that the whole idea of elected representatives is flawed. I think I'd rather be governed by people who got where they are because of expertise and experience in their field.
Does RTP bypass Fedwire?
Similar to no one talks about when the air force lands planes successfully, which it does thousands of times daily in peacetime. Even more in wartime. But when there's a crash, "Is the Air Force unable to properly fly planes?"
I wonder if they are just trying to allow the exFat FUSE team to start working on the merge.
Good point. "Leaves your outbox" would be a better way to put it.
Eh, if I made 250k/yr I bet I could make it work, especially considering it's only a 4 year obligation.

You have a lot of options at that income level; even if I couldn't come up with 60k/yr straight cash, I could finance part of it over a decade or so any hardly feel it. Also, my kid can take on 20k or so their damn self so they have some skin in the game. 20k is nothing.

It's pretty hard to sympathize tbh, when I've had to work with waaaaay tighter budgets than that for extended periods.
> You believe Lewinsky was a victim of what, exactly?

Being pressured into a sexual relationship by her superior, who was by many standards the most powerful person on the planet at the time?

Like, regardless of whether you believe that's true or not it's pretty obvious how people might arrive at the conclusion that she was a victim and why there's debate about it.
This looks like a nice idea even if it seems hard to monetize. How does this differ from Scott's Cheap flights? Do you mention how 'cheap' this is compared to the past. One feature I have found lagging in most travel websites are the "deals" don't mention how often they have been this cheap.
Same here experiences here. Found it to be super frustrating.
What about guaranteed software freedom for the server via the AGPL (or any similar license that exists)? Granted, that would cover the actual server-side components and not the actual protocol itself.

Depending on how the Oracle V. Google case goes (i.e. if Google successfully appeals to the Supreme court, or if the Appellate Court's ruling stands), maybe we could get something like "The AGPL for protocols"?
Hehe, you are right.

When I said 'mine'/'yours' I simply meant what we use.

I tend to presume that originality is near impossible with such pithy sentences. For quotes, I only quote things I actually read from the author.
I've always been happy with Behringer products. I especially love my Deepmind 12- no mistakes were made buying any of their stuff
Yes is does seem silly to save a few thousands now when your going to get stung for a lot more when your parents die.

Maybe some very good (but shady) lawyers are enrolling the parents in dodgy schemes. A bit like how some "self employed" people in the UK got suckered into tax avoidance schemes and are now facing tax bills of 500k plus
Gorgon Stare springs immediately to mind. I certainly can't afford a multi-day in the air drone carrying a 30 lbs mutli-million megapixel wide camera [0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
Yeah, I mentioned this in a comment in a different thread. The duplicate containers in the task definition need to be marked as "essential" in CloudFormation to make sure our capacity doesn't degrade on container exits, and this means that one container exiting will also exit other containers in the same task. So we have a bleed-over effect where OOM in one request could cause N-1 other requests to fail.

The essential vs non-essential container designation is a little confusing. The standard use case for multi-container tasks seems to be that all containers are marked as essential, i.e. they essentially represent different services that are operating in concert on the same machine. This is definitely not the situation we're in, where each container is totally independent.

So it seems like we'd be a perfect use case for non-essential containers. However, (1) at least one container _must_ be marked as essential, and (2) non-essential containers which exit don't get restarted or replaced. This means we would still have a limited bleed-over effect (if the essential container exits, the other ones do too), and more importantly, we can't guarantee that our capacity will be robust to process exits.
The very best RSS reader in my not-so-humble opinion is the FOSS [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/), the spiritual successor to Newsbeauter.

It can pipe article links and text through other programs. I can pipe YouTube videos to youtube-dl, article text through pandoc and w3m, podcast files through podboat (newsboat's sister podcasting program), and links through a bookmarking program. You can also pipe article text through something like urlview to select links by pressing a key. I can also reload each of my 200+ feeds in a different thread to speed things up.
this is like saying: it is even cheaper if you don't go do school at all...

look at the facts:

1. the vast majority of colleges are very expensive,
2. career prospects suffer if you don't attend the "expensive" colleges...
3. finally, most people can't judge the value they get out of college, yet it is all set up in an almost predatory fashion.
More importantly, they're releasing their patents so Linux can implement ExFAT in a compliant way. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-readies-exfat-patent...
Hired help is huge. We made friends with some parents in the same family situation as us (baby twins + 3 year old). But they're really well off, and we're California "middle class". Our daily chores between the wife and I take a total of about 2 hours. And getting the kids ready to go anywhere can take 30-60 minutes of prep. If you have a maid that comes daily and a nanny for each kid, you're saving around 3 hours per day.
While graceful shutdown is important, I think the higher priority should be ensuring that you can gracefully recover.

Because eventually, something is going to die while a request is in-flight. So your batch processing needs to be able to recover from the "somebody tripped on the power cord" scenario.
I guess it really depends on whether you pay attention to the change logs. My phone has Android 9 on it right now and I can't really remember any meaningful new features since Android 6.
Too little too late, with no acknowledgement of Ballmer-era exclusivity, bullying. It’s progress, but progress without awareness of baggage in the room.
This seems fascinating, but how much is that bullshit?
E.g the claimed performance numbers...
Or many of the use cases...
Indeed, many Heuristics are based on a prioris and would benefits from plasticity/dynamicity à la PGO and from classic use of statistics to drive program optimizations decisions.
I have big doubts that a neural network would be better but I would love to be proved wrong, this could be big.
It's from 1.5 years ago though.

Edit: this is the paper for replacing some major data structures with a neural network that take into input the key and output the position in memory.
One big downside is that is has a margin of error which is very often unacceptable.

And I guess it would mostly work for static size (which are already O(1) structures not growables ones (otherwise it should be trained again? Baidu introduced continual learning with ernie 2 but the overhead must be so huge..)
A thin steak cooked as fast as possible, sure.

There are so many variables it's hard to say anything concrete, but on average I'd bet people spend less active time preparing vegetables to eat than meat.
CC's are free in California. (I think it only applying to full time students however.)
First of all, completely unnecessary personal attack. Second - guy's graphics is way better then, say, Avernum 3. So, please, refrain from saying "somebody who made this" because "this" has it's style, and it is consistent style, very good flow of animation and a soul. I can bet Jeff would get bunch of new dedicated fans if he did something like that.
That doesn't quite apply here, because it seems pretty obvious the intent of these laws was to help out those less advantaged. Now those that have means have figured out a way to take away something from those less advantaged in order to enrich themselves even more. Financial aid is limited - every time a rich person gets aid a poor person doesn't.

And even worse, this isn't even just trying to get admitted in the first place. If that were the situation, then it would be much more understandable as rich and poor alike both want the best education for their children. But now the rich don't have to pay full price for the education and take advantage of a program designed for those with less money? I get what they're doing is (almost certainly) legal and everybody wants to minimize their bill, but they are directly harming the people who actually need it in this case.

The argument "poor people have an advantage" in receiving benefits designed solely for poor people is absurd - there shouldn't be competition between rich and poor here at all.
My spouse is a special ed teacher so this is based on my experience only... but I think it is more a factor of the school having more time and resources available. The school district my spouse worked at sadly has many more children from single parent and poor households and this essentially raises the bar on who they can qualify. My own city's school district does not have as many students like this, so milder cases still tend to qualify.

There are certainly standards in place which should standardize this across school district lines, but balancing the maximum student slots available with the budget is more of a challenge for poor school districts.

In Ohio at least I have a feeling some wealthier school districts are using IEPs to artificially raise school wide student test scores as well, since these students don't always count towards the scores and rankings (I am not sure exactly how it works as it depends on the grade level and other specifics).
The energy conversion is the same as in regular black but it absorbs 99% instead of 95% or whatever. That's 4% more heating in the sun, so no appreciable difference.
Median household income in SF is around $96k/year. Median SF home price is $1.7M. Notice how the median home is 17x median income? Other Bay Area locations work out in a similar way. Neither $250k household income nor a $1.7M home are signs of actual wealth in the Bay Area.
> I'm sure there is ample legal precedence to establish partnerships and shares in common property in situations without a formal agreement.

Like?
Yes I see that, I was not describing what the compiler should observe to work properly, I was describing the erroneous reasoning it was making prior to the fix. I should have written: non-nullness of 'node'.

And TBH I'm starting to be more concerned by the fact that fno-omit-null-pointer-checks did not suppress that codegen bug than by its existence in the first place...
“We’re embarrassed”: US is close to losing measles-elimination status
Are Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboards Worth It?
Adam Curtis has a great post on this.

"BUGGER: Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know very much about the world"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9...
Show HN: Quickly setup and develop Go WebAssembly front end apps
Or just use distribution packages.
How we dealt with negative App Store feedback
You're correct to identify "giving up the key" as the important step. Furthermore, 4A is very clear that should only happen "upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." The state can't cheat by pretending it has all of this for the entire populace ahead of time. The literal text of the Constitution makes key escrow impossible.
Run Tor Bridges to Defend the Open Internet
Show HN: Ray tracing 25 scenes in 25 days with POV-Ray (2013)
In that case they have a paid off home with 1.2MM in equity. They can definitely afford college.
Different cultures throughout time saw what being a "man" and what being a "woman" differently that 2019 America.
I have been following the development of some open source scheme compilers (chez and guile) and I'm always impressed by the work people do there. The chez code is amazing in most places, and I can understand why racket chose it as their base.

Guile has been getting some really neat optimizations lately (jit, declarative modules, efficient local recursive bindings and much more) and it is really fun to try to follow the code that gets published. Andy's blog over at wingolog.org is also great fun to read.
I'm retrospectively psychic. Might as well get rid of democracy and become a literal police state.
> Windows XP screenshot

There are a bunch of oldish things in it, but the backend is relatively native - so the application has a newer look on new systems.

They also improve the CAPI GUI layer with releases with new features.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/RNIG/html/readme...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/RNIG/html/readme...

There are a bunch of new IDE features, like visual profiler output, Code Coverage tool, support for remote debugging, ...

You'd have to read the release notes to find all that stuff. All in all it is a very feature-rich system...