skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm underwater on my car loan. But my credit rating was low and I got to get a new car without anything down, extended payments. The interest rate is a bit high, but now my credit score is good. It works out. At least I got a car that will last as long as the loan.
I am not even sure what I would call this diatribe. You seem to be putting lots of words in my mouth and doing more line twisting.
Original article discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21501341
> Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously said that he regards augmented reality as “a big idea, like the smartphone,”

IDK about the timeline, but inevitable that they'll want to do it.

A heads-up display enables larger displays and smaller devices, and seems inevitable to me, too.

Google Glass seemed to fail because of privacy. But subtracting the camera was too much for Google engineers to bear... in contrast, Apple has a history of subtracting features when necessary. They can also design cool eye-wear.

The only problem with my theory is that, without a camera, it isn't "AR"...
How do you know he wouldn’t have been hacked to pieces if he wouldn’t have supported the Saudis?
From a previous post on same subject:

Every credit card company discriminates. It is the nature of giving credit to discriminate. A private lender giving someone money is not an entitlement (at least in most societies). We build models to calculate payback. When those models work the credit lender stays profitable and afloat. When the model fails it should fail (assuming no taxpayer bailout). If the model misses out on profitable creditworthy customers then that creates opportunities for new entrants to the lending market. In fact there is already lots of competition in the credit card space and Apple card is one of so many choices available to be discriminated by. The only way to know if the algorithm works well against losses is if this card is successful in the next economic downturn. Conversely, if new entrants are profitable with similar business models to Apple will we know if the algorithm is too conservative in giving credit.

On a side note, rejecting or limiting credit to delinquent borrowers is actually doing them a favor due to the power of compounded interest.

Albert Einstein famously said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He said, “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.”
Does Lyft support and minimize the torture and murder of journalists who go to embassies to get marriage documents then chop up their bodies put the body parts in a suitcase and bury them in their backyard? All the while the fiance is waiting outside for her future husband to return?
I have AdBlocker for YouTube in Firefox on desktop, but I use the app on mobile, which shows me ads normally, so I guess I’m fine?
Yet over HTTP. Which is kind of weird. Email at one stage was primarily accessed via a web browser — maybe that time is passed now.

I think the days of distinguishing between the Web and the Internet are behind us, if it ever even made sense.
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They were acquired in 2015, with 15 employees at the time, for an undisclosed purchase price. So probably not, though they didn't fail either.
Worlds first solar powered airport too.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/technology/india-cochin-sol...
IDK about the profiler... but I have a hard time believing why the union of 2 joins will be faster than filtering first and then join the results :thinking:
technically there is a DSP scripting language in Bitwig that isn't public but you can find some examples floating around online.

That said mixing DSP + UI is hard, and if you want to make the scripting user accessible it makes sense to keep them totally divorced.
It seems like it would be extremely hard to manage a engineering project with a false release date provided to the team.
"Inequality and corruption are different things" - happily working together, one working hard to increase the other
A culture that punishes weakness, which seems to apply to most that I can think of.
Kind of an issue for optimizers in any situation. You're relying on implicit behavior which may change.

Unless you decide to document it and guarantee the optimization will be applied if certain conditions are met. Though that has its own downsides because now the system is locked into providing that guarantee. (Real-world example of a guarantee: in C, the "&&" and "||" operators are guaranteed to be lazy. Writing "0 && (1/0)" should be safe; you won't divide by zero because the spec guarantees it's optimized away.)

Or I guess you could try other approaches like having the database detect that it could be optimized, but then tell you to rewrite your own code instead of rewriting it for you.
Ask HN: Are we really getting into the “GitFluencers” era?
People are getting paid to open a PR on open source repositories to generate traction, I think this is genius but I can understand why it might feel odd for some. See Sophie Albert's tweet :
https://twitter.com/sophiebits/status/1193686558206877696
> It is an attitude. The defining quality of rude media is skepticism about power, and a refusal to respect the niceties that power depends on to disguise itself and maintain its dominance. It’s often hard for me to imagine that anyone can grow up in this era and not end up doubting the competence and motives of nearly everyone in charge of nearly every American institution.

It’s weird to me that people are so unskeptical about assertions that things are somehow completely dysfunctional in one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world.

Our institutions are not only the product of a vigorous democratic process, but we can compare the results to the institutions of other vigorous democracies. If we look to our friendly neighbor to the north, we can see that in broad strokes, and even a lot of detailed strokes, they’ve organized their society very similarly to ours. We can look across the pond to the U.K. or Australia and see the same thing. To me, what warrants skepticism isn’t our institutions, it’s those impugning the “competence and motives” of those leading them.
Is there any way to get this version? I would love to use this with my kids.
I love this. I have read it a few times in the last years. This and Never Quit If [1] from Jason Lemkin have been essential for me to keep pursuing and never stop building my startup [2].

[1] https://www.saastr.com/never-quit-if/

[2] https://standups.io
Doesn't look like it but they exited, weather they got anything is a different story.
Both give the exact same result.
The problem with Google Glass was that it was completely useless. The only feature it had was taking pictures with the camera and viewing notification pop ups one at a time. If it had a use, then the awkward start where people got mad about the camera would be remembered as a brief anomaly, like horse riders getting mad about cars.
Unless that car is involved in an accident and it becomes a total loss. Carrying gap insurance can protect you from this possibility.
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These are our learnings from our first launch. We would love to know if you have a different experience.
From my understanding they don't know where they're going, they just walk around aimlessly hunting for food and following pheromone tails so it'd be hard to find that one hole in the entire room, especially when it's on the ceiling. There may have also been slime built up around the hole which would make it difficult to traverse even if they did find it. They'd need to survive starvation and cannibalism to find their way out too.
The initial shock from this statement is the downplaying of a deliberate decision to torture and murder a man as an 'accident'.

However, what I find more surprising is that he would associate the Uber incident with Khashoggi at all. Why would you want to tie together the thought of a brutal, politically motivated murder, to that of your self-driving car running someone over?
I prefer muscle memory before voice battle any day of the week.
Ask HN: What is the best way to pass links between phone/desktop?
I normally email or SMS links to myself, but is there a better way? Ideally I would like to preserve the page location when I share the link.
While obviously not the best long-term financial decision, this situation works out for a lot of people. It's pretty risky to get a 6 or 7 year loan on a 3-5 year old car, but almost any car of almost any manufacturer should last 7-8 years minimum if purchased new and regularly serviced. Just like in the last housing bubble, being underwater is only a problem if you want or need to sell. If you are $15k underwater on your 3-year old car, that's not a problem if you plan on keeping it beyond the loan term. And even if you do need to get out of it, the best way is often not to purchase another car - it's to lease the cheapest car that will cover your negative equity and get approved by the bank. This lets you grin and bear it for 3 years and wipe out all your negative equity, while having a brand new car with service that is likely complimentary for the first 2 years if not the entire lease term (varies by manufacturer and incentives).
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-01/rithol...
I amazes me that even the smallest Indian states are still enormous by global standards. Kerala's population is over 30 million!
So, encourage lower consumption? Or just produce more goods domestically to reduce the need for international trade?

Neither proposal sounds very practical. Maybe it's more realistic to focus on cleaner propulsion systems like electric.
That's a great example! They switched to supporting polio victims and then, eventually, became a general disabled persons support charity.
Well, it's an incremental build. I am talking occasionally changing dependencies in a project written in a dynamic-but-compiled language, which leads to full rebuilds. The difference was big.

It also has tooling for "watching" test directories and auto re-running tests when certain files are changed -- which utilises incremental compilation under the hood and there indeed there is no visible compilation performance difference.
I'm using "Gawker network" and "rude press" mostly synonymously here. There may be outlets who act differently.

In general, though, I'm very skeptical of the idea that journalistic rudeness, snark, condescension, and contempt is a good way to address issues, even if the issues may be real and deserving of exposure.
"If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa, you’re both missing out and not really missing out."

First world arrogance. First world problem.
You are conflating money and wealth which are not always the same.

Money is a medium of exchange and price is the subjective measure of how the market values wealth.

As some comments stated, most of the money Jeff owns come in the form of stocks which is priced at a certain amount, paper wealth, and is not spendable until it is sold and turned into cash.

The real wealth is Jeff’s ownership of all the things that actually produce goods and services for the economy.

Examples are the distribution centers, data centers that run the site, and the army of engineers who produce software and hardware for the company. Arguably, he and his company have contributed a lot to the economy.

Yes, he is obscenely rich but saying it’s not possible to make X amount of money a second is naive because monetary value is a subjective measure.

In Zimbabwe dollars, Jeff makes like a trillion a second.

Remember when the stock market lost trillions of dollars or whatever during the 2007 depression?

That was paper wealth, monetary value that was reflected in the price of actual assets until it all evaporated during the housing bubble.

Borrowers and stock owners lost a lot of paper wealth but lost their dignity more than they lost real assets as borrowers never owned anything and stock owners owned absurdly price stocks that were bound for a correction.

Some rich people killed themselves over this too, which is funny.
For what it's worth, Alexa does ask for feedback about the accuracy and helpfulness of it's answers now.
Do you think the technology in a voice assistant is in the hardware device on your counter?

The Deep Learning in natural language processing is probably more difficult than in self-driving cars.
Thanks for sharing and good that it is working out for you. What would happen if you lose your job?

I think that is the big question for whether this would really affect people in a downturn. As long as you can keep making those payments, all good... but as soon as the jobs start to go, it cascades for a larger number of people.
U.S. Air Force Eliminates Maintenance Errors with AR
It doesn't, but WSJ and NYT get pushed to the top regardless of relevance.
I'm speaking about all former and current Gawker network writers, which this author is included in.
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Talk to anyone who claims to support 'communism' and you get liberalism. In the majority of cases where people tell me they self identify as communists it just means "super extra not republican" instead of any concrete ideology. I hear a lot about minorities, I don't hear much about the abolishment of private property.

LGBT rights are orthogonal to communism, you can have a state that murders anyone who is gay and one that enforces universal gender reassignment and both could be equally communist. Nationalizing the electricity grid and ISPs isn't orthogonal, but the 'far leftists' in the US either don't mention it at all, or mention it so far in their list of demands there will be no political capital left for it even if world revolution happened tomorrow.
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I don't know. Ideas are overrated.

If the startup is able to execute on building things of unique value, I don't necessarily think it is rational to stop.

So often however, the startups don't build anything unique, and many don't seem to build anything at all.
I never heard of a rally demanding fines for people who run read lights, either.
From a reputable company (like Celestron) it ought to be ok. However, if anything goes wrong (filter burns through, cracks, drops out) the damage will will likely be irreversible. Think of it as the risk of standing at the wrong end of a loaded gun.

Even if you avoid looking directly at the sun, it's possible to make mistakes. On a transit of Venus I was having trouble getting a telescope lined up, so without thinking I bent down to have a look through it to see where the sun was. Luckily the resultant burn made me whip my head back before my eye got to the eyepiece.
Because it might signal the beginning of a crisis, it signals that car are treated a lot like house were in the last financial crisis, under water means negative equity.

Lenders are willing to make the underwater loans, often charge with high interest rates. Many of the loans are bundled into bonds and snapped up by Wall Street investors therefore having supposedly a broader effect.
Transistors haven't been getting cheaper either. New processes have a higher cost per transistor for a while.

Or better, as old processes get improved, transistors are getting either more compactly packed or cheaper, but not both. The expensive ones are getting a little bit faster too, but not in proportion to the reduced die size.
Albert Einstein famously said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He said, “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.”
Many banks will require it in lease agreements if they feel your income/payment makes you less likely to be able to cover a total loss early in the lease. It's been a while since I purchased a Toyota but I believe they require it for all leases regardless (from your insurer, not TFS).
>>> 3 to 4 years away from being real

I think it's worth extrapolating ;)

We're probably not going to see Apple AR tech in soldier HUDs on the battlefield. Or in the F-35. I could be wrong, but it may not be a cultural fit.

The enterprise customer here is the AutoDesk / Adobe client who wants seamless 3D design integreted into digital content creation workflows and even additive manufacturing. And that is very exciting. Being able to animate and composite 3D models with live action video in a holographic environment will make creating movies just as fun as watching them.

But the driver for consumer adoption I believe is entertainment. That's where Ocuclus and Magic Leap seem to be placing company bets. Hit games like Beat Sabre and Vader Immortal give an inkling. Someone is going to create a phenomenon like Avatar for VR and content will never be the same.
Cars last a long time now. My car is 20 years old and it’s still far cheaper to maintain that car than to buy a new car.
> Even if it counts in picoseconds it’ll take several centuries to roll-over, so these probably aren’t questions you ever need to ask.

That's an assumption, that an edge case won't happen. Docs exist to spell out where the edge cases are.

Cisco thought a 32bit number for RTP timestamp would never rollover. It happened. [0] Centuries it might take if it's initialised from zero, but it doesn't have to be. And if you don't give the documentation, then you can't expect reasonable defaults to be used.

It's important to know when something like that happens, so that they can also know how to handle behaviour that may well be completely unexpected. Hiding the type doesn't help. It just tells you you're even more on your own if you want to handle exceptional events, which leads to code with holes so big you can drive a CVE through it.

[0] https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvc865...
Ask HN: If you could have any podcast transcribed, what would it be?
Are there specific podcasts (or voice-related activities) where you wish you had transcripts that you could search, discover and reference content?

What other reasons would you use the transcripts for?

What do you wish you could do with voice-related transcripts if they were available?
Yikes. I thought I mentioned this, thanks!
No offense, but an honest question: What's to come after the loan? Even with a car that's cheap with repairs, the seven (or more?) years discussed in the article mean one has to pump a lot of money into maintenance, especially as the car gets older; even more so for people who do a lot of miles/km.
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There's hardware considerations that are way outside Apple's expertise. They need display manufacturers to get smaller, sharper, brighter by another order of magnitude before we'll see something small enough to go into a pair of glasses that can deliver the visuals that Magic Leap promised 5 years ago. The software is definitely still work in progress but has made huge strides and is probably good enough to do some amazing things. The biggest problem by far is field of view.
Using gmail in 2019 lol
Why can't we just have bigger dies? Same density, more transistors. If yields are too low, connect smaller dies somehow.
Human motivations truly are something strange.

We discovered and innovated heavily on amazing pieces of technology (Computers, Web, Phones, Efficient Algorithms). And seemingly, the two foremost use cases have become to captivate people’s attention to sell them ads, and to threaten the lives of people we disagree with ideologically. (War, mass surveillance) Just look at what China has done to the Uighurs.

I often worry about the direction we’re heading. While it is undeniable that fewer people are dying due to war, maybe we’re just moving the agony elsewhere.

For every startup that begins with the ambition to make money, there lack in startups that actually aim to address a problem. Yet, somehow we manage to convince ourselves that food delivery, ride sharing, or scooters are somehow going to fix our most primal issues.
Yeah, kitchen timers & alarms are about the only thing Siri gets right often enough that it's not less work, on average, to just go do what you need to do with tappy-tappies instead.
Voice interfaces remind me of trying to solve a puzzle in Zork or MUDs: you have basically an open-ended command line and you have to remember incantations and get lucky when you try to stitch them together in novel ways.

Like you're at a locked door in a MUD and you have a key in your inventory. "put key in lock", "insert key into lock", "unlock door", "put key in padlock", -- these all fail. Then you ask around and someone tells you you need to use "push key into door". And you wonder if you would've even come up with that in 1000 tries.

That's how I've felt when using Siri and Alexa. It feels precarious.
Good idea in theory. Almost impossible in practice.
I don't understand why that makes sense? Isn't the point of a declarative language to remove the need to consider these details?
Not trying to troll or anything, but why does opinion of a business exec on what the Saudis did matter one way or the other?
I think that summarises what I have been seeing quite nicely. Its like it has lost all sense!
Contrast this with the NBA or Blizzard Activition.

My guess is what the Uber CEO said will be buried pretty quickly.
So, out of curiosity, I looked up the original Japanese, and it's also just a total non sequitor in English but the original Japanese line actually follows from the conversation.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/You_spoony_bard!

> Tellah

> original: きさま あの時の吟遊詩人！ きさまのせいでアンナは！

> literal: You! You're that damn bard! Because of you, Anna's...! (The word used for both instances of "you" is "kisama", the single rudest way to say "you" in Japanese. Because of its harshness, "kisama" is somewhat akin to "you bastard" or "you son of a bitch" in English.)

> SNES: You're the bard! You did this to her!

> Edward

> !?

> Tellah

> original: きさま よくも娘を・・・・

> literal: How dare you do this to my daughter... (Again, "kisama" is used for "you".)

> SNES: You swindler!

> Edward

> original: ちがうんです！

> literal: It's not like that!

> SNES: Please! Listen!

> Tellah

> original: なにがちがうと いうのだ！

> literal: How the hell could it not be like that!?

> SNES: You spoony bard!

I'm all for localizations that take liberties with the translation (see: the best parts of Woolsey's dialogue in FF6), but looking at this in context, it makes no sense. Woolsey's famous lines, like "Welcome to my barbecue!", belonged in context and didn't look out of place. This is just a non sequitor.

If you asked me to give a localized angry response to "Please! Listen!", I'd probably go with something like "I'm not listening to YOU!". Or if I wanted to be silly with it, "Why would I do that, bard-brain?" (OK, I'm not the best dialogue writer...).
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This is a weird summary because everyone who buys a car on credit is always “underwater”. The cars are never worth the balance of the loan. People buy cars on credit not because the car has intrinsic value or is an investment, but because it gives them access to other things of value, like their job.

I’m concerned, of course, that Americans have built a society with so few buses that everyone has to buy a car on credit. But being “underwater” is not the main problem here.
If you watch Billions it seems to be a combination of the two in some firms.