skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin Cash Just Trumped Bitcoin in Venezuela
I'm all for improving transparency in the credit system. Woz had/has the same situation as DHH apparently. My suspicion is that the algorithm takes into consideration factors such as "are you the co-founder of a highly successful software business", or maybe it's something like income or total assets you're legally responsible for or some such.

That said I do wish Apple and all other companies issuing credit would just come out and say exactly how the algorithm works. Would make a lot of these conversations easier and less annoying for everyone.
I believe the parent meant people literally doping in the parking lot space.
Mysql's explain is very difficult for me to understand compared to postgres...
Feedback taken, I apologize and will refrain from ranting in the future. I was unaware of the merging of stories being a normal thing on HN as I regularly see multiple stories posted about the same topic (not same link). I posted on one story then went the the home page, saw it posted under a different link and copied my comment over as it appeared to be where more discussion was happening.
> at least as long as hardware manufacturers let it run on their computers.

Linux is thankfully totally emancipated from this now. There is no longer an exclusive x86 hegemony of desktop computing - its fringe for now, but ARM, Power, and RISC-V exist as alternative options with currently purchasable hardware that can run several Linux distros today.

If Intel / AMD did anything to try to lock platform exclusivity on their consumer offerings to Windows there is an escape hatch. And it also doesn't really align with their business interests to help Microsoft on that - they just want to sell hardware and both employ substantial development teams to support their hardware under Linux already. AMD just got a bunch of money from me this year upgrading to their latest platforms all for their ongoing commitment to Linux support.
What is Yoda's syntax in non-English versions of Star Wars? (2011)
It's been a while since I've heard elevator music as well, although it used to be ubiquitous.

How ubiquitous? I worked in a hotel once, and even the cargo elevator (used by all employees) had it. Oddly, the speaker wires would get mysteriously snipped on a regular basis to make it stop. That would work for a couple of days until maintenance got around to reconnecting things.
This shouldn't matter for a married household with merged finances - they count whatever income the respondent can rely on to pay their bills.
OLX Invests $400M in Frontier Car Group
This is both the most compelling and poetic argument in the article, and the most wrong:

> ”Apple’s vision involves us constantly updating work, constantly adding to our games, constantly paying to exist here, even when some of this stuff is done. Often when a game is done, it’s done. Games aren’t a service. It’s like asking for a director to keep updating a movie, or for a musician to keep changing their song so it can keep running.
Decisions like this erase our history.”

On the contrary, you chose an ephemeral medium for your art. That choice, like making sandcastles, has consequences.
Wonderful post, so glad that Mrs. Hansson stepped out for this cause, as uncomfortable as it was.

I've personally wondered at credit scores + credit offered for a long time. The amount of regulation provides wonderful cover for these big institutions to really do whatever they want and lean back on "algorithms" / that they can't override the policy due to regulations, etc. Meanwhile, it's becoming more clear that the algorithms have encoded biases. In addition, the whole credit system is not one of those things you can opt out of (if you ever want a home or car, which I get, not everyone needs), and the whole thing is based on previous borrowing, so responsible (using cash) or underprivileged (never had the chance to start the credit bootstrap) folks are extremely disadvantaged.

The interesting twist in this story that I find damning is that Apple actually overrode the algorithm due to pressure -- this pokes a HUGE hole in this "cover" these institutions have created to date.
Idea is good, here are a few details that really killed the experience for me (early game at least):

- It is not explicit at which level of each "skill" each character is. i.e. how many self start levels have i bought for founder?

- Item/skill price should only increase per level. i.e. Self starter level 1 should always be a fixed price, then level 2 higher etc...

- income progression is slow... you are stuck back at 1000$ for way too long after projects.
Fairing Recovery – SpaceXFleet
Using performance enhancing drugs in the parking lot prior to the race.
https://www.pilotfiber.com/ip-transit
I find that the simplest way to avoid getting stuck on someone else's schedule is to get a ~month ahead of your expected productivity (even if that means sandbagging estimates, or working extra, or accepting a bad performance rating because you are holding back on reporting your accomplishments), and then whenever you are asked for status update for management/customer, report what you were working on last week/month, not what you are working on right now. This means you are never playing "catch up" externally to yourself. It's like having a month of living expenses saved in your bank account it's a month of political capital saved up at your job.
She said there would be no issues if it was a legal requirement. But there could be issues if it was a demand by a customer.

The CFO replied it was part of a possible contract.
So I assume that we are talking about Moores law for cpu/gpu and not for memory.

The bottleneck for GPU today is the amount of memory on board and not compute. Especially with large size models.

In addition, the problem with deep learning, in general, is the seq nature of the alg. I.e it is parallel within the layer, but not between layers. And for multi gpu setup, again it is the communication link between the GPUs.

So I think that the nature of the current state of the art optimization alg are what matter.
In DHH's Twitter thread, there were a few people offering opposing data points.
Well their reputation is mainly among those who also feel rules need not apply to them.
An indie movie can't install ransomware on your TV. An eBook can't corrupt your Kindle to spy on you.†

That doesn't override the need for free expression. Software is art, and no one should have the ability to ban a piece of art. However, it makes sense to design systems which take these risks into account.

So by default, Macs are shipped in a "safe mode" that only runs vetted software, and anyone who wants to run less-safe code—and accepts the risk—can type four words into a Terminal window and go along their way.

I really don't think a single Terminal command is too much to ask—it doesn't take long, and it's a good litmus test. If you can't open a Terminal window, you probably don't understand the risks involved in running untrusted code.

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† Outside of extreme scenarios involving zero day exploits.
One thing I don't see people talking about on here is.. html5. Probably the greatest number of individual indie games are games made to be played in the web browser.

It strikes me that as a developer if you can't afford $100 and just want to make games, why not make them in the safety of the browser sandbox?
I think enterprise grade means, among other things, having the means to scale support to meet demands. A large enterprise runs databases in 100s or even 1000s of different applications, developed by maybe 100 different teams. It helps to know that the vendor is able to meet support needs, not just for the use by one team where you know the circumstances, but generally, even when you don't know them.
Among quite a significant portion of the vocal participants in social media anyone right of Bernie is a nazi. They call orthodox jews (Prager, Shapiro), lefty academics (Haidt, Peterson, Weinstein), and liberal gays (Rubin) Nazis.
She mentions she has better and longer credit history than David, and since they share all financial accounts, she likely reported her income as their joint income. I sincerely doubt they'd be raising this much fuss if she'd put $0 in the income box and was surprised.

Her point is that all those factors showed her as more credit worthy with the exception of 'Homemaker' and 'Female'.
Is this a current use case, or did that just make sense 100 years ago? (As in these assumptions: "tracking actual relationships in data is Hard, and family name correlates strongly with real-world relationships") I mean, it sort of works even today, but neither of the assumptions are as strong any more.
> Apple hasn't sold a computer with a 32 bit CPU in what, 8-9 years?

The Mini was the last Mac to make the switch to 64-bit, in "Mid 2007". So a little over 12 years.

For comparison, the Macintosh was on M68K from 1984 to 1994 (10 years), and on PowerPC from 1994 to 2006 (12 years). IOW, the Mac has been on 64-bit x86 for as long as they've been on any CPU architecture ever.

Another fun fact: there was less than 10 years between the last Apple IIe they sold and the first Power Mac G5.
Soviet Union planned WWII with Nazis well ahead of it. They were well aware of Nazi beliefs and motives. Stalin killed most of SUs senior cadre for his own political reasons leaving SU almost defenseless.
> At least in the US, land is an negligible part of the cost of PV in most of the country.

If you pick any one component of the overall cost it's small, but the panels themselves are already less than half the overall cost. Everything else adds up. And the everything else has stickier prices than the panels -- the price of the panels may get cut in half but the price per acre of land or the hourly wage for labor doesn't.

> And here, many reactors have been having trouble meeting their operating costs, particularly if they encounter a major maintenance issue, or if they are smaller or not paired with other reactors to save on staffing. The remaining reactor at TMI was cash flow negative for six years before it was retired for being unprofitable.

TMI is hardly the typical case. It's the one site to have screwed the pooch and lost a reactor. That harms their reputation and makes it cost more to buy insurance and borrow money, and doesn't lend itself to receiving any sympathy or leniency from the public or regulators etc.

Their operating cost correspondingly exceeded the average.

And it's true that operating multiple reactors on the same site significantly reduces operating costs, but that just argues in favor of opening new plants with multiple reactors on the same site.

> There is some reluctance on the part of utilities to shut down nuclear power plants because continuing to operate them allows decommissioning (and its costs) to be delayed.

Feature not bug. The net present cost of decommissioning goes down by a lot when you can push it out 40 years and collect interest on the money in the meantime.
It's not a photo, but there's a render (originally from SpaceX's Starlink website): https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/satellite_...

The red arrows indicate the phased-array antennas.
Content creators could pay the hosting costs for their video and sell ads themselves.
Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods
When was the last time you called a company and reached someone who wasn't just being paid to follow a script?
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I think the point where you stop trying to pivot into higher and higher growth opportunities and accept your fate as a sustainable but small business could be classified as a form of “death” (perhaps “undead”) if your original goal really was to get rich.
For one person? You only watch one channel on YouTube? I watch hundreds of channels on YouTube and if it meant making the lives of content creators easier then yes I would pay/month for that. Of course, it would have to mean making the lives of content creators easier. Currently you can pay so you don't have advertisements but apparently that's not making the lives of content creators easier.
How can you escape survival of the fittest? With 8G people, it's a numbers game. Even if one or the other is driven by interesting motivations, is that a strategic advantage the competition for the fittest business processes?
Came here to post the same. If my wife had an income and I didn’t then I would expect her to be offered a higher limit even if everything goes into household income. Does the US credit system not differentiate between household and individual income?
>People seem to forget there is a huge percentage of the population that will never meditate or can't meditate due to extenuating circumstances.

This is just a restatement of what you said in your first line, but again it's just an assertion: "they won't do it" - well okay, why won't they? Is it because they feel they don't have enough time? Then we must give them more time. Is it because they have little regard for their mental health? Then tell them the dangers of letting mental health go unchecked. Is it because they are averse to it because they see it as a satanic ritual? Then we must educate them.
You can't get the digital signature without Apple's approval.
I completely agree with you.
When it comes to academic writing, the content transforms itself into a more coherent entity as I write. Oftentimes the big picture seems laughably inadequate and even inaccurate when I look at the final product, so much so that writing itself seems like research and thinking beforehand, almost redundant.

Hamming agrees in his famous speech (see the Q&A
section on this page - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html) that 50% of the time is just spent writing/presenting research.
Except that statistically, men more often have control of finances. This debacle is regressive, but very likely based on market research.
No: https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/A...
From what I understand of the original post, they filed taxes jointly and his wife had a higher credit score (though there isn't information about the credit history details, just on the overall score). This would suggest she should have received about the same credit amount, or more. To be fair, it isn't clear if she had more personal debt, which based on the official response, might have caused the difference in credit limits.
Also a Rails guy but have found Node is quite a good fit for async work like managing email queues. Would use Phoenix but don't have enough production experience in it yet..
So much outrage for a product where many better alternatives exist. I don't for a second believe that the Apple Card has sexism built into it.
Track & field (governed the IAAF):

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/26/606039409...

And this has, in fact, affected actual (not merely theoretical) XX females:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/sports/caster-semenya-los...
It's a small world. Denise used to sit outside my office until I moved moved to a new location. ;-)

She has forwarded requests that people may occasionally send directly to me in the past and I generally try to respond. I prefer all communication be done through proper channels to avoid any "issues" that might arise.

I have a son who is a CS major in college now. I completely understand how challenging (and borked) the hiring/interviewing process is now as I speak with him about the frustrations he experiences. Which is why I try to be approachable when people have queries.
I'm bipolar and that's pretty much how I work. If you are in a hypo phase, you'd better spend it somewhere useful.
Without getting into the validity of the gp’s post, RenTec does seem to recruit from NSA/CCR, particularly in the early days. Again, not saying this lends credence to the gp’s post, just adding an interesting bit of info.
How about letting people try their preferred schedules, and then circling back and showing (some) people that it's in their interest to follow a "9-5" schedule because you actually saw them performing better? And then leave it to them to decide if they want to underperform and face consequences, or do what works well? At my job I get paid how good my boss thinks my work is, not how good he thinkgs it could be if I worked differently.
Yep! The first reuse of a booster was actually two and a half years ago; they've been gradually increasing the amount of reflights since.
These days almost every ship is or can be easily tracked.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/cent...

Also, it can be easily checked when the ship left/entered the port.
> Jamie Heinemeier Hansson

Is it common for a wife to take her husband's surname and middle name, or is this a branding thing since her husband is commonly known as "DHH"?
I am starting a bootstrapped business along the lines now. My take is that sellzong a solution won't work. You have to compete with Excel, and all the reasons you just stated, and SAP (or any other ERP-System they might use if any). Selling a service is different story so. If you can show them that you as a subcontractor, in my case as a 4PL, can deliver better performance or solve some of their pain points you can use whatever solutions you want. And being more efficient and software-heavy only helps you.

All you have to do is give them their data in the se excel sheets they are used to. Preferably by e-mail, portals and such are the devil.
> I think this works for writing as well.

Many many many fiction writers have said they don't plan things out this way. A vast majority of writers I've read interviews of do not plan things out this way. Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Jeffrey Eugenides, Stephen King, and George Saunders are a few I've seen talk about this in person.

Reported pieces are sometimes different, but even then in narrative non-fiction that narrative can evolve along the way. For technical pieces it could be the same.

The reason it works is that it is far easier to futz around with the master plan/outline than it is to get your ass in a chair and write. Also, in fiction certainly, the characters reveal themselves as they go. You can't build more than a pastiche of a human with an outline.
Professional sports today are the more result of artificial selection of people that have specialized bodies for their sport.

Relevant TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0
> having some basic telemetry is way more reliable than sending out a survey to users.

True, but this fact isn't important. What's important is having respect for your users and their preferences.
I doubt it; people have been going on vacation, and selecting places based on non-self-interest reasons for ages.

In my own family, every vacation turns into a question of how many tours and points-of-interest we can fit, and the whole thing is just stressful. And at those PoIs, the only real interest is getting a good picture with $thing in the background, and visiting the next thing.

And it's common enough behavior that whole industries revolve around it, which we call tourism.

And of course, those tourist hotspots are natural places for locals to avoid, because they cater very directly to those tourists.

Instagram is a very direct extension of the model, but with a much tighter feedback loop, and much more advanced strategies and competition. Boomer-style tourism is just as culturally dumb (and profitable) as instragram-tourism, but implementation-wise, instagram-tourism is simply on a different level of technical proficiency.
So, I have a different and more sinister version. My sinister version is yes, yes, please, keep those imaginations in the box so that I may continue to have a monopoly.... whwhahahaahhaa

----

I'm a principal engineer with a fully capable imagination, and I once got the feedback that my creativity was "transcendental"; the reality is that I don't confine myself to schedule, and my only real discipline is using English to describe my thoughts and improve as a writer.

I try very hard to get people to think out of the box, but it is really hard because 99% of the work does not require "divine inspiration". Most people gravitate towards this advice because it is most applicable, and it becomes a virtuous cycle for them.

However, it creates a vicious cycle of the Pareto distribution where 1% of engineers can actually use their max level of creativity and use the full breadth of computer science.
I wrote the second half of the draft of my novel (kids Sci-Fi) on my iPhone on the train to/from work (scrivener app). I could get in the zone and just tap away.

Now editing, that’s a whole different ballgame. I find editing very hard to do on the phone.
Is it legal to model that type of dynamic into credit decisions? I've never heard of being able to use that type of social dynamic into a very regulated financial product.
This line makes me think it went higher up in the chain of command

> when the AppleCard manager told me she was aware of David’s tweets
Okay, then 90% of Americans aren't moderate, centrist, neoliberal, socialist, socdem, demsoc, neonazi, fascist, far right, far left, etc.
Easy to answer
>Who has the unchecked authority to blame others for their mistakes?

No one, its done by committee and/or senior leadership, the team/department with no seat at the table is always at a disadvantage.

>Who will take direct credit for the work of others?

A managers job is to distribute credit and shield blame/failure. This may sound generic but its true... a managers true strength/power/greatness or what ever other BS comes from the strength of their reports. Its extremely short sited to not pass on credit and grow those under you.

>Who's going to write a bad performance review of someone they don't like that much?

A good manager tries to be very objective and doesn't bring personal opinion into reviewing performance. I have had people who I did not like personally who i brought though multiple jobs... good managers respect effective people not people they can get a drink with after work.
I suspected the root cause of this situation was due to the income signal, not credit score. I bet that Goldman Sachs is not correctly accounting for California community property laws, where 50% of the household income is hers. This seems like the exact type of oversight that is:

- Not “technically” using gender as a signal

- Ends up practically causing gender-based unfairness

- Is simply bad data and I would consider a bug

- Is something customer service is not going to be helpful with

I’m glad this issue came to light. I hope it leads to productive conversations about black-box algorithms and underwriting.
Surnames can be multiple words.
There was an equally good and polar opposite video where the Russians are advancing through some fields using APCs for cover until a Ukrainian tank shows up (unsupported) and wreaks havoc for a little bit. The audio is a combination of the guy in charge yelling at everyone and the lower level grunts making wise-ass quips about how poorly the operation is going the whole time. Everyone involved was well beyond the point of giving a fuck about anything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/sports/caster-semenya-los...
It's actually hilarious when some store employees/managers will desperately try to get your attention even if you're wearing headphones to tell you about their sales. If I want to be left alone then leave me alone!

(I only did this once but it was very eye opening)
I generally agree that there are some really bad effects of funds like this. But wealth is not zero-sum.
Sure, alright, I forgot about Premium but apparently it's not making it any easier for the content creators. What I was thinking was eliminate the free version of YouTube entirely. Then, setup a system that is more healthy for creators with the revenue they generate from memberships. Perhaps it wont work but if that's the case perhaps YouTube just wont work.
I think you'd enjoy "Draft No. 4" by John McFee. He talks about a very similar approach to writing. You might pick some things up from him talking in depth about the same :)