skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooo fun. Okay.. really stretching here..

Lets say decoherence is no longer an issue. You've got your qbits suspended in some sort of fancy diamond lattice, and for some reason you really want your scheduler and all your hardware IO to be running via quantum algorithms. So you've got your fusion core crystal loaded into your compute crystal, and you really just want to eliminate any need for silicon at all.

So now we're talking about a self contained smart-diamond, probabally embedded into a human forehead. It pretty much sits around doing its own thing, observing the world around it and computing out all possible fates of everything it sees, and every once in a while your tiny little monkey brain can reach out and ask it dumb questions like "Hey, how much of my life savings should I dump into some random new cryptocurrency??" and it will be obliged to look into it momentarily and respond accordingly.
> anti-personalised advertising

That is almost Orwellianly hilarious.
I did some measurements based on the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite, see my post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495450
I tried to once when quitting by asking the CEO. He said the company was not interested. If the company you left don't have a future, chances are they're don't want their stock back. Start by asking if they're interested, then give them a high but fair price.
It can achieve good results, I don't deny that.

Chocolate, coffee, and banana producers are in a different context. If you want to stop child labor on the chocolate farms, there's currently no choice but to have Nestle and Hershey do it, because the governments in Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire either can't or won't enforce their own laws on the topic.
That’s fair enough, and sorry I missed that.
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Regarding how it can be circumvented, insurance companies, in my experience, try to say that this or that service was not actually part of the emergency.

For instance, they may want to begin some of the long term maintenance of your new condition while you're still in the hospital. Whether the insurance company is successful or not, they may at least try to say this isn't covered.

Eventually, you and your loved one are dealing with one of the worst moments of your life, how much time do you have to fight all their attempts at not paying your benefits? Keep in mind the fights happen during business hours, and you just missed four weeks of work and need the job to keep the insurance you now need more than ever.

Laws that reduce the number of ways insurance companies can avoid paying will be helpful.
Why would that be worth the effort? Support is pretty far-reaching and picking up marginal old phones isn’t that important.
This argument is moot* since the Nuremberg trials
>> the benefit of a benign neglect

I love this phrase and looking back on my career see that I too have received this treasure. If you're a self-starter but work inside an established company there's no better situation than having lots of ideas, lots of blank space on the map and very little oversight.
It doesn’t matter if it’s false or where people got the information, what matters is a surprisingly large amount of people honestly do believe it. Including most of my extended family, various friends in Georgia and Michigan, and even several friends in the bay area who should know better. If enough people believe a lie, they can force action based on that lie. We feel so safe saying “that’s hogwash”, but we should take it more seriously.
This would be easier to read with spacing between paragraphs. Or reader mode.
I have nothing against Apple. I respect them for their stand on privacy, I respect their innovation in hardware, but, this is not the first time their suppliers have used slave labor. It happened multiple times in China, now its happening in India.

When a company claims it is not shipping a charger in the box due to environmental concerns, how can it repeatedly be caught using slave labor ?

Can't a company that builds monumental buildings in the MOST expensive real estate in the world not hire a few DIRECT EMPLOYEES who monitor working conditions in supplier factories on a day to day basis ?
Yep, and that works for cloud infrastructure. But we also have mobile/IoT ...
> Make student loans no longer exempt from bankruptcy.

The other problem is that education can not be retroactively taken from them. But garnished wages can.
As much as I sympathize with the workers, this situation is unavoidable for a company the size of apple. People here also assume that just because Apple is a giant they must be trying to exploit. Just because it hurts our sensibilities doesn't make it apple's problem. This could very well be the country's issues with labor and how they deal with it. We should at least be glad that they are rioting and causing a ruckus. If this were China they would be suppressed a long time ago.
“Behave ethically or we don't work with you" is Apple’s power”

I agree with this. Presumably it’s what Apple is going to do in this case.

What would you suggest they do if they can’t find a more ethical alternative to Wistron?

“Apple wants to be a world-spanning power.”

Does it? Or does it just want to keep making computers and software? It’s not obvious what Apple’s size has to do with Wistron breaking their contract.
A JavaScript interpreter would be brilliant, but I can't find a complete one written in Rust. NectarJS (mentioned upstream) seems to compile to WASM (by embedding a JavaScript runtime environment), so I'll probably use that for prototyping.
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That gets rid of all but one of the problems. The directions on your site are to use alpha.17.

The remaining problem is the use of a recently stabilized Rust features, which means distro-packaged cargo can't install it.
In your case syntax highlighting helps. Everything which is not part of a calculation is rendered as a simple text (greyish): [image](https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/558a94779b3b3c5d...)

But yes I admit it takes some time to get used to the colors and their meanings.

Currencies and exchange between them are on my feature list btw.
Had a 5% equity stake in a startup that got acquired for ~$20M + earn-out. Actual payout was low due to investor 2x prefs and all kinds of shenanigans, but after earn-out/taxes it was enough to put a down payment on a nice house. Only took around 2.5 years to pay off.

Couldn't 83b at the beginning because I didn't have enough liquid cash, so I ended up paying a lot of taxes in the end. Company could have easily failed / not gotten acquired so I don't blame people who don't exercise early.

Currently have a larger stake in a startup that's dying due to COVID killing their industry, so I'll likely leave with nothing. Womp.
Nah, distributed ledger stuff.
Thanks for the quick response! Let me clarify though.

Each of Elastic, Redis (Labs) and Mongo (and many others) have put licenses in place to explicitly exclude people from taking their code and turn it into a service.

I think that’s fine and their right, as much as making any propriety software (including source available) is someone’s option. But you seem to have a different view about upstream (fully open?) and downstream (scarcity) that I wanted to understand more clearly.
Coding is basically the one tradeskill where the free market is still working reasonably well. Apple or Google can turn a $500k total compensation package for an employee into $2M/year or more in revenue, so they'll keep snapping up people and dragging wages up. Facebook doesn't even bring people on to a specific team, they know that coders are so valuable that they'll hire as many as they can and just find things for them to do.

Even at the low end, six months of tooling work from a $100k coder can often put a handful of $50k/year white collar employees permanently out of work (or make them twice as productive as before). If one company doesn't realize that, another eventually will. It's not too tough to pull in ~50-100k/year running a SaaS business or freelancing

Things in the USA are really broken in the retail sector. Companies pay the absolute bare minimum that will keep them in business, and make up for a lot of the terrible morale issues that come along with that using Orwellian management systems
you assume law enforcement won't become too reliant on phone records to find you in the first place.
There are credit scores in some places in Europe, mostly in the form of lists of people that may have failed to pay something in the past. It's a pain in the ass to correct if you get there by mistake and it's very opaque. Overall credit scores seem like a great idea with a terrible implementation. In general you as a mindful consumer that pays your bills on time wouldn't want to be paying the same prices for loans (spread, interest) as other consumers that have a history of not paying. A well functioning credit score system makes for a more efficient lending market, allowing consumers to save money if they have a good track record. How it actually works in practice is a joke, though.
> I go to a school infamous for its high price. And truth be told, I don’t think I could advocate going here barring some serious prerequisites.

I went to a similar school. The benefits are not granted when you attend the school but afterward in the alumni network and the reputation of the school. I get in a lot more doors than I rightfully should given my qualifications because my school was more expensive (and thus prestigious) than most.

It shouldn't be the way it is but the benefits from getting a 'top-tier' education are more in signaling to people that they should consider you than actually giving you a better education. There's also the argument about the access you have as a student and alumni but I don't want to go on forever.
Not really. In a p2p scenario with n participants, every participant needs to send (n - 1) copies of the packet. In a centralised scenario, each participant sends just one copy of the packet, and the server duplicates it (n - 1) times.
Whether this is wasteful depends on where the server is located. If the server is close to the receivers, it is a net gain. If the server is in the US while all of the participants are in Europe, it's a terrible waste, since all of the packets need to cross the Atlantic.
Server federation solves the issue: you put one server in the US, one in Europe, and each packet crosses the Atlantic exactly once.
I doubt many people lost money. If you're going to lose money, you don't exercise the options.

I had some in-the-money options. I operated on what you might call the principle of least regret. I wanted to get at least something from them, in case it went down. But I wanted to get more if it went up. So I sold part of my options when they were in the money. Then, after it went up some more, I sold some more. Then, after it went up some more, I sold some more. I finally sold it all in about five or six waves.

Could I have had more money if I had waited to sell? Sure... or I could have gotten nothing, if the stock had done something other than what it did.
>The private sector will replace them for students who are good bets, probably with income-share agreements or something similar and MUCH less predatory than the current federal loan programs.

[Citation needed]

We already know who the "good bets" are. They're the rich kids. And if you think "income sharing" and the private sector will drive rates down from a federally-subsidized ("predatory") rate, well, I don't know what to say.

I certainly don't think burying underprivileged students under a mountain of debt at graduation is a good thing. I'd very much like to see costs come way down, and I do agree that doing something about the loan system is a piece of the puzzle. But the reason the underprivileged are taking on this debt is that they're attempting to move up, in a way that avoiding debt by avoiding higher education will never achieve. Unfortunately, higher education has become the only way to hang on to an otherwise-falling standard of living; wage stagnation despite increasing education level.
There are various home automation tasks that might be neat (hit the remote and the lights dim and the room goes into movie mode) but

* Nobody seems to implement these

* The risk of smart devices actively working against us is too high

* I have 0% faith in Samsung's ability to keep a fridge OS updated over the, whatever, 20 year lifespan of a fridge.

Unfortunately so many things are "smart" nowadays that it can be hard to avoid, but at least I can keep the wifi password away from the devices. For now. Until the manufacturers start including cell modems in the things.
I’m fairly sure Apple already has such a contract with their suppliers.

This one happens to have not taken it seriously.
What about Operation Mockingbird[1] and the Church Committee report?

In a 1977 Rolling Stone magazine article, "The CIA and the Media," reporter Carl Bernstein expanded upon the Church Committee's report and said that around 400 press members were considered assets by the CIA.

Undoubtedly this continues to this day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
Great info, thanks! I think derivatives could be very suited for a compact implementation of POSIX regular expressions. You need to handle unicode classes but not backreferences!

Although it does seem more suited for functional languages for sure, whereas I basically only have a C runtime.

Capturing might be an issue. I found this

https://www.home.hs-karlsruhe.de/~suma0002/publications/posi...

but I think it's actually being a bit pedantic, i.e. if "almost all POSIX implementations are buggy" then applications don't rely on that exact semantic (they probably rely on the buggy one, if anything ...)

Maybe more relevant: http://www.home.hs-karlsruhe.de/~suma0002/publications/ppdp1...
Have not read. From everything I've heard around it -- I already hate it.

Why do you ask?
I think the money is the problem. Before Facebook was profitable, it was fun to use and I enjoyed using it. But any competitor to Facebook must be more profitable than Facebook, and if you can’t do that while remaining ethical, then you will lose out. This is why I’m such a fan of regulation because it can level this particular playing field.
EU's new Decryption Platform to tackle the challenge of encrypted material
Facebook is used in Myanmar to incite actual violence against a minority, it's been years since I have read any positive news about this company, maybe it's time to just stop using it and shut it down.
Income Sharing Agreement - You go to school, possibly with a small stipend, and in return the school gets (say) 10% of the first 7 years of your income, possibly capped at a max repayment amount.

https://www.purdue.edu/dfa/types-of-aid/income-share-agreeme...
FDIC Releases New API
Wtf. Why do you curse old people for not dying? What is wrong with you? Do you feel the same about your parents? In 30 years when you are old, are you gonna move to Kansas and sell your property under market value to some younger people?
Great idea. I can certainly relate to the feeling of thinking "this is sketch" while following a google map route.

Google should just build this feature in.
I used U+2718 HEAVY BALLOT X and forgot that it’d be trashed.

On the double escaping thing, I thought of it earlier on and was careful to make sure it did the right thing, but then I transformed the code in such a way that that it ended up being read by the HTML parser again, and neglected to switch it to double escaping, which was rather careless of me. \u0026 can be more briefly written as &amp; (saving one character) or \x26 (saving two). I suppose this bumps my 229 up to 235 (the first of the three ampersands will be parsed correctly unescaped), and brings closer the possibility that DOM methods rather than crazy HTML strings may be more suitable (I think it was ending up something like ten or fifteen characters cheaper this way, even with escaping the value this long way).

I’m not willing to use <xmp> because it leaves a plausible injection attack open. In fact, I’d probably exploit it with my very first TODO item, “fix <xmp>…</xmp> injection attack”!

I like the way you’re thinking on these things. Not many people think of things like the double encoding, and although I didn’t think of <xmp> this time, I’ve definitely thought of it before on other similar things (and used it for fun on hard-coded values, but rejected it if user input is involved).

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Taking a tip from the original challenger’s solution, I’ve refined my not-using-serialised-HTML solution down to 209 characters, once you replace \u2718 with the actual character which HN eats. Here presented with the necessary wrapping in a data: URI for convenience (<body> now being necessary):

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<body><script>d=document;e=(p,e,c)=>(p.append(e=d.createElement(e)),c&&e.append(c),e);x=e(f=e(b=d.body,"form"),"input");f.onsubmit=i=>(e(i=e(l,"li",x.value+" "),"button","\u2718").onclick=_=>i.remove(),x.value="",!1);l=e(b,"ul")</script>
Can you send me that study/article, would love to read it.

What I did come across a while back was a study done by the NY FED. On the effect of the amount of available credit and tuition rates, they found that increased loan availability did increase tuition costs, but they looked at subsidized and unsubsidized loans and how much they increased the tuition cost. They found:

"We estimate tuition effects of changes in
institution-specific program maximums of about 60 cents on the dollar for subsidized loans and
15 cents on the dollar for unsubsidized loans"

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
In the US, the threshold for employers providing health insurance is 30 hours per week.

A reduced 4 x 8 hour work week is 32 hours, not 28, which qualifies for benefits.

Reducing the workweek further to 4 x 7 = 28 hours means these jobs are benefits-optional, so I would want to see a column clarifying if health insurance is provided or not.
If they love them so much, they can easily enable them for facebook on iOS, just because these people exist doesn't mean it should be the default setting.
I have joked before that I should wear an undershirt that says “Healthcare accepted only by in network providers <insurance ID #>. If out of network, stay away and let me die”.
Yes this will be, thanks :)
Huh. Today I learned.
One strategy is to exercise as many options as you can until you would hit AMT (or an amount above AMT you are ok paying). You can do this each year until your expiration date comes up.
How is that not straight up fraud? If you don’t know if a procedure was for me or someone else, you’re lying by billing me!
It depends on the currency / country, too. Lots of countries put the currency afterwards, even "¢" comes after. $ and £ come before, but € ends up moving depending on the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Written_...
Shouldn't there be some kind of broadcast mode, where TCP/IP solves the problem of routing (n-1) identical packets in the most efficient way possible?

How does this work when e.g. the BBC broadcasts an internet live stream with millions of viewers? Shouldn't a conference call work in essentially the same way?
I wouldn't be surprised if that guy (Konstantin Kudryavtsev) also gets taken out by the Kremlin in the coming days/weeks.
I've seen Facebook's algorithmic feeds radicalize an entire side of my family over the past 10 years because they've been allowed to bury themselves in a radical-right leaning feed of Fox, OANN, and online conspiracy theorists. There's nobody moderate left to help normalize their beliefs, so they keep drifting further and further right based on what Tucker Carlson tells them.

I have a very hard time socializing that that half of my family any more because they bring up politics constantly and their beliefs on race, healthcare, etc. are frankly embarrassing to be associated with. And I say this as somebody who is overall very moderate and willing to engage with both left and right-leaning beliefs.

Facebook made half of my family unbearable to deal with. I don't think that's a unique situation by any means. So I'd say that they're an awful awful cancer on society that needs to die.
AI improves Tax Policy by 16%
Has Apple withdrawn business from this company?
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At one point aluminum tools were a good trade off in time vs quality, but these days they only save maybe 10-20% of the tooling schedule and cost over steel. Tool life and robustness isn’t great so they’re not so popular any more. Usually when someone says “soft tooling” these days, they just mean softer steel which is slightly cheaper and faster to machine, at some trade off in tool life.

There are already 3D printed steel core and cavity inserts for injection molds. They laser sinter powdered metal and then run a very tiny ball end mill around each layer to clean up the surface finish. Traditional CNC and EDM is still how most molds are made, but occasionally it makes sense to 3D print. You can get cooling lines in patterns that are impossible to machine and you can make tools faster sometimes. The costs for the machines are very high, and the size of the parts are limited.
My quest to project Undeniable Competence- diving into Uptalk, voice, body lang
What about also removing your SIM card and disabling iMessage or otherwise firewalling all traffic to Apple?
Yes.

"Connect to WiFi?"

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Worked for a startup in 2000 which Sun Microsystems bought. My options get switched to Sun options, and had a strike price higher than the value of the shares. Right before the options were set to expire, I got a call from someone at Solomon Smith Barney (remember that) who was like "I know the answer is no, but do you want to exercise these?" lol

That job, and especially my time at Sun, super kickstarted my career (I really valued my time at Sun), so I wasn't bitter at all.
> Many in the West would be shocked, about what an average (educated) Russians could tell them about Navalny ..

As an average educated Russian I wonder, what do you imagine they would tell them?
The factory is located near Bangalore. I would challenge you to survive on even double that salary in Bangalore.

Also it is not just low pay. Even that has not been paid on time
Is the screen perceptibly larger on the 16”?
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"Moot", not "mute". Moot means (in this context) irrelevant or not admissible in court. Mute means unable to speak. So, the argument is still presented, so it's not mute, but it is moot, because it's not going to fly in court.
I believe that’s specific to drug prices. Services are interesting in that they just dictate it.
There are two separate things:

- Git does have spurious conflicts coming back for no reason. The problem is so real that there's even a `rerere` command to take care of it.

- Pijul has "minimal" conflicts, in the sense that these are conflicts you can't possibly make sense of without human guidance. You get the guarantee that fixed conflicts don't come back. Unfortunately, "obvious" cases are never completely obvious: let's say Alice and Bob both add a case to a C function, and both change `#define NUMBER_OF_CASES 42` to `#define NUMBER_OF_CASES 43`.
> has turned me from a pure free market thinking into a believer in single payer healthcare

The current trend in 'free-market economics' is to call captured markets free and then argue for the relatively lax regulation.

Most markets are not free markets and the healthcare definitely isn't. There's very little true choice, participants are typically under duress when seeking expensive services, and prices are hidden.

If there was ala-carte transparent pricing and no insurer lockouts things may be a bit better.

My suspicion is that Private Equity has been funneled in healthcare for two decades intentionally distorting the market behaviors for increased profitability which is why the US has such excessive healthcare costs without any apparent justification.
Just like how paying for cable TV means no ads right?