skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many of our systems are designed with the assumption that there is one stay-at-home adult in each household who runs errands during business hours.
>An example: a good private school costs circa 16k a year.

I think the argument is a good private school doesn't make much difference.

I can't find it now but there was some research in the UK a few years ago that showed nearly all the superior results output from private education was determined by the input. Children starting at private schools were already ahead of their peers at state schools by a long way.
I think the insurance companies will have a different and much more financially based standard.

More importantly, I doubt NIH will trump that conglomerate and its influence on NHTSA

Also, you could argue that restricting a technology that will result in 20% less deaths on the road is the opposite of the public health.

To underline that, that is potentially 10,000 people in terms of death or major disfigurement. PER YEAR.

And self-driving could be, in a targeted/situational manner FAR safer if it took drunk/drugged/tired drivers out of the equation, which are responsible for around 33% of deaths.

If someone is drunk, a technology 2x an alert driver will be
10x a drunk driver.
Super inspiring to hear that someone, somewhere has pulled this off. Cheers!
FWIW, "first" and "rest" are literally aliases for "car" and "cdr" (and there's a bunch more, see [0]), so it may be that the code you're working with isn't following a good style. The general style rule for more modern code is that you use "first"/"rest" if you're dealing with regular lists, and "car"/"cdr" if you're doing something more peculiar with cons cells - though it's not universally followed, and I guess at this point "car"/"cdr" & friends are too established in the history of Lisp.

--

[0] - http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_firstc.htm
There are other considerations as well. If renting is cheaper than buying (for a given unit size / location), it might make sense to rent and invest in the market. There is a great NYT calculator for this, but it is behind their paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Thanks for your reply. Sounds like the proof is an interesting piece to study.
If you're comparing rent vs. buy, typically: 1. rent is less than a mortgage, and 2. to buy you need a substantial down payment. The "rent discount" is what you'd put in the stock market for the purposes of these comparisons.

A good "rent vs. buy" calculator will let you easily visualize these terms, e.g. this [NYT calculator](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...) which helpfully shows you the sensitivity of the outcome on each parameter.

I think your model here oversimplifies and misses some of the key details.

In more detail, you need to consider that your mortgage is going to be more expensive than rent, so if you're renting you have an extra $X/mo to invest in the stock market. Plus you have your deposit $Y that you'd invest in the stock market as well. Then you need to make your prediction on what the growth rate per annum of stocks vs. real estate is going to be, and compound your investments accordingly over time.
Cory, you are such an inspiration and thanks for sharing your journey.
There used to be this thing called SVGAlib in Linux...

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <vga.h>

int main(void)
{
vga_init();
vga_setmode(G320x200x256);
vga_setcolor(4);
vga_drawpixel(10, 10);

sleep(5);
vga_setmode(TEXT);

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Sure, not quite as simple as a BASIC program, but very familiar to those of us who grew up with BGI in Pascal or C.
My family purchases went from tens of thousands of dollars in 2018 to thousands in 2019 and even less in 2020.

Now I'm on the brink of closing my Prime account. So yeah.
Yes, I use it professionally, and have for over 30 years, since before it became Common Lisp. It is far and away my favorite programming language (hence my HN handle :-) for two reasons: macros allow me to capture any design pattern and seamlessly add it to the language as a programming construct, and the generic function model of OO built in to CL is vastly more powerful than the C-based single-dispatch object.method() model that is ubiquitous in the rest of the programming language world.
Yeah, sorry. That was just my hyperbolic term for "monthly reduction in net worth in exchange for shelter".
Yeah, diminished 6th system basically “fixes” classical music theory IMO. Like, classical music theory has to bend over backwards describing very common and pleasant groupings of chords (think Debussy), but in BH stuff, by adding an extra note to the major scale, now all of that stuff is not only easy to explain it’s in fact very natural. What I like especially about it is how all the very diatonic stuff ends up being slight outliers (ie “borrowing” notes from neighboring diminished chords), while the combination of maj6 + dim is the standard. It creates very pleasing sounds.
Representations of things aren't things, realism can't be reduced to realism of perceived graphics. Sitting behind a computer, clicking a mouse and watching pixels is a fundamentally different experience to murdering someone.
> overall it is as good, if not better, than equities as an appreciating asset

This directly contradicts the article, so please cite your sources.
The compare nomenclature is a one size fits all, given larger structs require a pointer to prevent large amount of copies. Think of qsorts compare, which uses two void* arguments.
I’d rather have five shorter days personally. The last couple of hours of each day is usually a mental write off for me.
I feel like this comparison doesn't really make sense without adding in a few more factors. People who buy houses as investments aren't doing it just for capital gains, theyre doing it so they can get passive(ish) income from renting the place out
Quoting: "I’m concerned that people interpret your conjectures as facts.". Harris the author is a Phd candidate in biology at Stanford who is calling out Levitt, a Nobel Prize winning structural biologist at Stanford, for his evidently non-scientifically based popular COVID advice "in keeping with your hostility to epidemiology". Harris maintains Levitt is doing damage, real damage to public health, to his reputation, and the reputation of Stanford. I am just some random, but I was persuaded by her reasoned and pointed argument. Her article took some guts to write. I hope it is constructively received. I would be curious to understand what is driving Levitt.

EDIT: adding a link to an interview w/ Levitt from 8/20:
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/08/02/qa-michael-levitt-o...
I will keep this in mind when I implement unordered_set. Thank you, and happy holidays
Taxes for one. Everything you do for the home is a write-off assuming you have other income rather than an out and out loss. Water heater? WRITE OFF! New roof? WRITE OFF!
Don't give them money if you don't support them doing crappy things. Still using them is giving them money.

Also if you're looking for Chinese knockoffs.. go directly to the source and go with Aliexpress.
Right, but I suspect what’s happening is the inverse. Things like a chess and image classifiers are special cases. They’re important problems of course, but they’re not core building blocks of general AI and mistaking them for that is, well, a mistake. And sure some people do that, like the famous comment on Slashdot that Alphago was a sign that general AI was imminent, but actual AI researchers know this is simply not the case.

Discussions about be real human level AI do involve using poorly defined terms unfortunately, but that’s because we don’t actually understand general Intelligence. I think pinning down those concepts more concretely will be part of the process.
That mechanical connection is definitely prone to failure. I've had phones where the charging port was physically worn enough that I could plug them in and charge them OK but bump it just a bit and it would disconnect. Wireless charging isn't quite there yet but I'd be happy to get rid of all cables.
I have to agree. I'm on vacation right now and I've been spending several full days cleaning my house and upgrading my home workspace.
> There has been no drop in productivity.

As in, your output is the same as with a 5 day work week? So essentially a 20% pay cut per unit of work performed?
> Unless those people don't own the cars anymore, but rent them

Yeah, that was the idea (hence robotaxis, not owned ones). It seems feasible especially in urban areas where car ownership is not essential so the remaining uses could be replaced by rented autonomous ones.
Done that myself in the past. Can recommend. 20% cut, but feels like 50/50 weekend to workweek ratio indeed.
I generally do that, does the bank still have you Cosign? I put properties into an LLC and always need to cosign on the note. I was under the impression that putting 20% was mandatory for investment properties if you're getting a note from a traditional lender (ie bank, not the mob)
Pad to, not pad by.

I.e. the padding to add is (5 - duration_of_operation) with duration of operation being far lower than 5 s.
Could you expand on the ROM game commands bit? Does it mean that all actions are serialized?
I still think you go to far. For instance, this study found that there is usually a net savings:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521706/

(the study evaluates medical costs and productivity, it's not doing a sentimental analysis to get to the savings)

Of course there is lots of room to improve a vaccine that is sometimes only 10% effective, but a reduction in costs to society by operating a vaccination program is a pretty good place to be starting from.
back in the mid-2000's we had a very hot summer and the company I worked for allowed us to switch to 4x10s for the summer. Gas prices were very high at the time too so that was the main benefit from the company point of view.

But we had to take either monday or friday off and we had to work together with our teams to make sure we weren't all off on the same day.

It was great! 3 day weekend every week, the ability to do chores and errands that are much easier to do on a weekday than a weekend, and cutting out a 1/5 of the commute made a big difference in both sanity and money.

But the best part about the whole thing was that because there were some people out on mondays and fridays all meetings were scheduled on tuesday, wednesday, thursday - and you knew that if you had fridays off then your monday was free and clear to get actual work done. It made a huge difference to productivity and morale.

I have tried to convince every company ive worked for since to do it and none have, but I will keep trying.
The article just means "young/poor people don't buy homes", not "buying a home makes you rich".
That was my experience as well. I'd use my lunch break to go to the gym in our building, and eat a protien shake or something at my desk.
I wouldn't exactly call its charting abilities great, for example something as simple as aligning the Y axis over multiple charts can't be done, and for BI(-like) charts you need to go through a bunch of hoops to get them right. Also the alerting system is not flexible at all, it's primitive (but functional). All and all it's only through the flexibility of the database we use (Postgres) we're able to massage the data enough to display it the way we want.
The darker edges seem to be due to ‘natural vignetting’, as I learned from this article recently posted on HN: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

In the comments on YouTube, people discuss some other race-related aspects that reveal the age of the video. Such as lack of protective barriers, and people standing right next to the race track.
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It is not, also educated in the UK and two spaces were required. HTML makes it hard to double space, and we get a lot of reading material via the web now, so maybe this is why single space is the world standard.

It is harder to read, but other aspects contribute here too (overly wide or narrow columns, bad contrast, bad font choice, late-bound style/fonts/js/ads that move what you're reading, dancing hamsters)
There’s a lot of other points that work in different ways.

A mortgage has extremely low flexibility, it’s not something you’re able to diversify and you’re stuck with for a decades at times depending on your situation.

Also most predictions are based on people never ever moving around, which was the norm for a while. Nowadays it’s not crazy anymore to change country, or to at least move around depending on opportunities or life changes.

In these occasions, changing renting places is a matter of paying an extra month or two. Switching a mortgage will be a magnitude more in general.

We played that game with an apartment we bought, the different costs we hit at every corner wasn’t anything trivial or accounted for in most “why you should buy” listicles.
Steadying
Interesting. I didn't realize some states didn't allow it. Looks like around 14 states don't allow deficiency judgements.
You should try to learn more about the FI/RE community. You'd be surprised at how diverse it is.
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Do you find the salaries competitive within your location? What's the policy on remote work?
I head that availability or russian vaccine is not that high.
I use Common Lisp for most of my daily programming, and SBCL is a big reason why. Once you get over the initial hassle (getting used to the Emacs+SLIME tool chain and learning to read the compiler diagnostics) it really gives you the productivity of Python with the performance of C++. And a lot of that performance is thanks to the tireless effort of the SBCL developers, who have been churning out a new release every few months for the last decades.

Kudos to all SBCL contributors!
Given the diminishing returns of hours worked in a day, I'm guessing business outcomes would be somewhat worse for 4/10 schedules, at least in fields where productivity varies.

I also bet, business outcomes would be improved on a 4/8 for 80% pay system. At least some of that work output on the lost day would be shifted to the other 4 days--since work tends to expand to fit the time allowed.
> There was a general claim from the late 80s to 90s that the invisible hand of the market would eventually move Americans to higher paying fields while allowing low wage international competition in manufacturing.

Yeah, that was super short sighted. It boggles the mind that anyone could have believed that replacing many of the core productive bits of the economy with fluff like management (and ownership), finance, and hospitality would lead to anything but weakness. It's not like people in other countries are going to do most of the actual productive work and continue to let Americans lord over them indefinitely. Under that plan, America would just seem to climb until everyone else realizes there's no there there anymore, and then it will fall to a 3rd world economy who's main advantage is people there will be desperate enough to work for low wages for the new wealthy countries. Of course, some Americans will experience wealth over their lifetimes as that happens, but they're basically getting fat and happy by eating their family's seed corn.
If you are addressing a global audience, it is difficult to make statements about taxation that generalize well. I'd say even within one jurisdiction, individuals have vastly different profiles and optimal tax strategies.

Conversely, interest rates are low in all wealthy nations and anybody can buy the S&P500
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-covid-vaccines-focus-...

I was wrong, its the nucleocapsid protein, not the membrane one, but that's even weirder as the N protein is only found inside the virus particle..
I agree, the problem with AI is that companies seem much happier to say "the computer said so", and leave the answer at that.

Except of course when they want to get out of something, at which point they say "Oh, that was just the computer which said that, we didn't mean it".
Too many very smart scientists have gone the same direction. Was sad to see Carl Jung go down this route.
Readme: https://pipedream.com/@demo/where-is-the-iss-p_ezCAObR/readm...

Code: https://pipedream.com/@demo/where-is-the-iss-p_ezCAObR/edit
Another potential problem with this analysis that weighs toward buying is that it doesn't take into account leverage. If the home appreciates 1% in the first year but you only put 10% down, then your equity has effectively increased by 10%.

On the other hand, you also have to consider that owning a home doesn't remove your ongoing housing costs. In San Francisco, the only options in my conceivable price range and preferred parts of town are condos, which come with eye-watering HOA fees. And no matter where you are, you have to pay property tax and upkeep. With Prop 13 in California, if I were to buy something similar to what I currently rent, even if I owned it outright, my monthly payments would only slightly decrease. My rent right now is covering the owner's HOA fee and property tax, but most profit they're getting (beyond appreciation) is basically tax arbitrage: the landlord has owned it long enough that their tax burden is much lower than what it would be for me.

NYTimes put out a calculator a few years back that I usually refer to (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...). It forces you to take into account all these sources of ongoing costs on both sides. Paradoxically, in some of the most expensive metros (SF, Manhattan, etc.), renting is the better option with reasonable estimates of stock market performance, because even though the rent is much higher than the rest of the US, purchase prices are relatively even higher.
I have to admit, the STL - and more generally templates - in C++ are very perplexing to someone that has a strong background in a language with a more complete generics implementation (ie, Java or C#).

The very fact that templates are not classes, specifically not base classes for all derived variants of the template is perplexing and, in my opinion, a major swing and miss for a language that seems to pride itself on having everything including the kitchen sink.

I've read the reasons behind why templates do not share any inheritance with derived classes, and it makes sense within the context of how C++ and more specifically the compiler works... but it limits the usefulness of templates past mere containers.
The original reason behind why I created SeeLink was to share important links with friends and family. SeeLink makes your links shareable, searchable, and easily readable (as it displays each link in the form of a card with a title, description, and image). It also allows you to write text around the links using a tag, and has a ton of link specific features that make it easier to share links. These include creating specific boards through which you can add specific links to share with specific people. I think these are the main advantages that SeeLink has over something like IM clients. Let me know if you have any further questions!
This seems to be the defining factor of homeowners: they like the idea of owning. They are also open to having home maintenance/renovation become their main hobby in life. If you have large, nontrivial hobbies, adios to those for a few years.
I didn't say that. I said that the antibodies might behave differently (this is purely theoretical, I have no idea) when presented with a spike vs a spike attached to a corona. That different behavior might cause different long term effects. It might be that the virus causes the worse long term effects and an auto immune attack... In fact, I personally know someone who got an auto-immune induced arthritis from getting a virus infection in central America.
Whether these children were already ahead is beside the point.

The point is that being able to afford a private school makes a big difference in what it brings to the child (education, environment, facilities, etc) and also to the potential stress and effort at the expense of quality of life it avoids (see what some people do to pass the 11+ and get into a grammar school)

This is just an example to illustrate that a £50k-70k income in the UK is far from the level where additional money no longer makes much difference to well-being.
Yay. They are near to officially demanding more RAM.
If the only thing you see in a house is the investment profit, you are already part of the bubble problem of the past and future. During ownership, a house offers you benefits that a stock investment cannot provide. Thinking strictly in terms like the stock market profiteers that fucked it up for the general population is not the solution. Part two, one of the biggest benefits to home ownership compared to rent is control. You get much more say over your living space and customization. Theres give and take with decisions across multiple factors. Just the investment potential makes for a boring ass life.
Apple Pulls App That Promoted Secret Parties During Ongoing Pandemic
> you knew that if you had fridays off then your monday was free and clear to get actual work done

I don't understand the rationale behind this, doesn't your Thursday then become your "Friday"? What is it about Friday that makes Monday harder?
One thing I've noticed is that CLion seems to at least partially index things in the directory tree even if they're in your excluded set. Seems like a bug, but I gave up fighting with it, and I gave up trying to get the Chromium source tree to be workable in CLion at all, even on a 48-core Xeon with 256GB of RAM (not joking). But my coworker had some success by creating a second directory which was just symlinks for the code he was interested in, and opening CLion on that. Painful, but worked, kinda.
International rankings are nonsense. They're not interesting cities - they're not places people want to live.
Imagine that, negation of a negative has in practice no consequence.
anyone else have no idea what is going on here?
I would gladly settle for a gui terminal program that has a simple api for drawing graphics in the terminal window. Like curses but for graphics.
I remember you from reddit! Awesome project.
I remember having a distinctive moment of clarity watching Seinfeld reruns in 16:9 HD. Did they have the foresight that it would be a classic making billions in syndication?
> 1. rent is less than a mortgage

This is highly variable. From what I've heard this is usually the case in the USA, while in Europe renting is often much more expensive than a mortgage on a similar home.
Honestly if I were your customer I would probably really dislike this since I tend to put food products on subscriptions.

Also the fact you were able to do this for something (I am assuming) was relatively innocent shows someone could do this for more nefarious purposes.
Maybe people want self-driving cars to be 5 times safer because they don't trust the people saying the cars are X times safer to begin with.

Like you are testing how much they trust machines, and how much they trust the people telling them the machine is X% better.

Given 2020, think a little skepticism on both/either is reasonable.
> Most people don't consider all costs associated with buying a house which include closing costs (when you sell as well, renting has no such costs), property tax, maintenance, insurance, HOA, etc...

100%. I was in escrow on what would have been my first home purchase. The amount of money that goes into just buying a house was insane.

After the sale fell through I ran the numbers for my parents home and much like the article says over the last 25 years or so they made next to nothing or maybe even lost money after interest, taxes, upkeep, etc even though the cash value went up over 30%
You can definitely consider Scotland part of Northern Europe.