skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a database for vectors — A vector database
this question was already answered in the fastly outage thread.

It was to identify fastly's Varnish vs customer's Varnish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433139
This is not how it works. You don’t write off secured debt loses when you die all the while passing on billions of assets.

I swear people just make things up to try and prove their point.
Did you live and experience first hand any of these two systems ?
hmm... maybe an extra 0.50c/hr from tip outs. But was kind of random; and the whole tip-out structure was pretty unfair to front-of-house that had slow nights.
It's not a bubble it's a greater wealth divide being formed.

Those with money are making a killing, those on the lower end are getting screwed over more and more by the day. Think about who Covid measures impact the most and how.
Well, no, you could take a reverse mortgage.

The US does substantially favor “primary residences” vs other forms of capital ownership, basically for the reasons you give. Renters, typically, receive fewer such protections (but this depends on the state).
Will Apple end the newsletter boom?
I'm no Perl lover (spent many years programming on codebases far larger than they ever should have been allowed to grow before switching languages), but what's so hard about references? Definitely not one of the sharper edges in the language IMO.
I don't know if you're imagining it.

But I have had the same feeling that things are going too well for too long, given the circumstances.

I'm certainly no economist, but here are the explanations I can think up:

1. We have had income inequality rising for a very long time. Where things and processes were getting cheaper, but the spending power of most of us haven't been going up much at all.
2. Instead of taxing our way out of this potential economic disaster, we inflated our way out. Inflation doesn't allow the rich to loophole their way out. So, for once, all the corporations and very wealthy have been paying their share as well.
3. A lot of the inflated money has actually made it to the middle class and lower, causing a boom in spending.
4. An explosion in pricing is the natural result of suppressing a populations growth, then suddenly giving them a ton of economic stimulation.

I hope it's not a bubble, and it's actually the economy jolting to life a bit. But what do I know, could easily be a bubble.
On page 42 they talk about two different mooring systems for buoys up to 6000m in depth. Average ocean depth is approx 3000m. Marine electronics are considerably more robust than you give them credit. All my consumer grade electronics on my boat were installed in 2001 and with the exception of one LCD display are all in perfect working order.

https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=7053
Eventually that will correct though, stocks and real estate prices can't continue doubling if it's not backed by real fundamentals. Especially with remote work, nobody is going to buy a 1 bedroom city flat for 300k when you can get 3 bedrooms for cheaper out in the countryside.
it has a decent track record and isn't an orbital flight.
Nit: I think you mean "basis" -- "strike price" only pertains to options.
Just want to throw in that Fusion 360's baby brother Tinkercad is fantastic.

It's an incredibly intuitive and well designed 3D CAD design tool for beginner to intermediate complexity 3D printer projects.

For more complex design I'll use blender or onshape. I've tried Fusion and just find it too convoluted!
https://twitter.com/dormando/status/1402466173778677764

my fault. I would sometimes monitor for "guru mediations" popping up to tell if we were throwing errors without it being caught by other systems. Among other reasons.
What are your standards for a senior software engineer?
Do you all have any resources or good articles on what are considered a fair and reasonable standard of senior software engineers?
In terms of inflation, this is a very thoughtful piece shared recently on HN: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/
She talks about the difference between broad money and base money supply.

In terms of stock prices, going by CAPE ratio, US domestic stocks are at dotcom bubble valuations. But there are other markets outside the US that have underperformed this past decade that may be 'reasonably priced'.

Based on that metric, plus the prospect of lower corporate profit margins going forward, people like Bogle and Dalio expect lower US market returns this decade, more like 3-5% IRC.

There could be stagflation, inflation, it's anybody's guess. In developed markets there are many deflationary headwinds like demographic trends and innovations in tech.

I don't know anything about crypto valuations, besides the irrational FOMO I feel when I think about them.
> only have your word for it,

Plus one of the most upvoted topics ever, 4k votes is a lot.

Btw, indicates that it's one good that HN otherwise downweights indignation posts.
Their own website uses „foundation“ and „charitable activities“: https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/en/what-we-do
Its not just short breaks. Effect of a good night's sleep are almost magical in this respect.

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is filled with examples on how sleep plays an outsized role in our lives.

One relevant example from the book that comes to mind is an experiment where they instructed some college students to type out a particular sequence of characters on a keyboard and then measured their performance across two days. The group which had a good night's sleep had dramatic improvement in their typing coordination overnight.

Apparently the author got an insight to pursue deeper into cognitive effects of sleep after a chance encounter with a pianist after a speech he gave on benefits of sleep, where the pianist told him how he struggled with new compositions on evenings and then magically gets them right after a good night's sleep.
Not only it's not pure imagination but some folks are starting to bet heavily on inflation:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4429919-dr-michael-burry-sh...
Alternately, document your 'magic architecture' in public so that people don't have to offend you or other employees of the firm by making incorrect assumptions based on the little you do show in public.

Also helps others pick up if you do go out of business or end up acquired, and before you do it even leads to a more level playing field.

However I guess a level playing field wouldn't have given you a NYSE listing... so I guess you're just being selfish?
OK, so we’re in mid-2021, why is installing Python THAT HARD? I think the only reason Node is so popular is because it JUST WORKS. Windows, Mac, doesn’t matter. One-click installer and you got NPM as well and access to thousands of packages.
I hope you at least recognize that this is an uncommon opinion. Most Americans think billionaires pay too little tax, not only that they pass too much to their heirs. It's hardly extreme left.
In elons case - the vast majority of his wealth is stock options that he can’t physically use yet, under the terms of his reimbursement plan at Tesla.

That kind of illiquidity is not taken into account In this argument.
What? This is extreme hair splitting. Switzerland, Norway, etc, do tax unrealized gains. They net tax wealth of saleable assets along with cash at a specific point in the year, as you note.

That includes unrealized gains.

It’s totally unclear to me why you think the distinction here somehow invalidates the ProPublica piece.
The complexity of providing online connectivity is many several order of magnitude lower than solving complex multi-factorial health related problems, often with each case being unique, or affecting only a handful of people on earth.

A better analogy would be to expect wired internet connectivity at the top of the Everest summit for $19.99/month with free installation fees. Even this would be orders of magnitude below the complexity of the rare disease treatments.
I tend to think it was Blackberry killed Blackberry, not Android or iPhone. Not willing to change and adapt is the recipe for disaster in tech industry. I am not aware of any other industry that moves as fast and at such scale where the whole industry shift.
The bubble was popped when stocks dropped like an anchor in March 2020. It's free fall was stopped by printing a lot of money.

The question is, if another event happens, will the fed stop the free fall? I bet yes because they only have one tool to address this problem.

Which means taking debt is low risk forever because the fed will always print money and save you the trouble of losing your money
Deutsche Bank just made a statement you may find interesting.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/07/deutsche-bank-warns-of-g...
Don't worry, I think Perl is good. I like the freedom you get when writing it. It's especially good at tasks that shell is just not quite expressive enough for. I used it heavily in a sysadmin job and it was way easier than writing ansible scripts.

The only thing holding me back is if I want to use ${library} I probably can't do so from Perl.
As I wrote on HN early 2020, Wuhan and Shanghai had direct flights to SFO and LAX of 50,000 passengers per week. No doubt corona was in SF very early, possibly late 2019.

SF got herd immunity from infections, which is why it was rare that we came anywhere close to ICU capacity. I watched the graphs daily for months, and while the rest of the country was losing their minds, we just didn't see much of a dent, typically in the range of 10% of total beds.

The only hysteria was from Newsom, who has ambitions of running for President.
Or simply tax things based on consumption. But then the tax breaks that each party worked for its citizens (both rich and poor) to not pay income tax goes away as a advantage for the parties.
I can list a bunch of trivial reasons why we sleep, about memory and so on. I can also give trivial explanations like "it's because you're tired and you get rest".

But I wonder if anyone has explained why typing coordination would be worse without sleep. This is a mechanical task where analytical thinking and so on are not involved, just simple motor memory patterns.
> mostly ignoring them.

Exactly. That is what would happen. Small nations exist all over the world. And the reality is that they mostly just get ignored. We don't really see these video game plots being acted out in real life.

Seasteading would result in the same situation, as what happens to modern day, tiny nations. It would be ignored, beyond, of course, arm chair internet comments that fantasizing about the horrible things that people want to do against their political opponents (as usually happens, in threads about this stuff).

But the actual consequences would not amount to much.
Why? Calculating the tax rate as “taxes paid” / “net wealth” is just what the effective wealth tax would be if one existed. This is consistent with advocating for a wealth tax, which, as I noted elsewhere, does in fact exist in other OECD countries than the US.
Thankfully, there already exist evaluation tasks like that, and Eleuther actually has a project collecting a handful of them together; see https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/
ECommerce Business Models – How Marketplaces, Like Jumia, Make Money
From what I've read in the "mainstream media", TSMC is lauded for playing the king game with their foundry model, and pretty much everyone looks shitty for allowing themselves to become dependent on a single company on a seismically active, geopolitically threatened island.
This comment is correct. I made that change ages ago. Amused it's still there.
The practice of de-beaking, for the purposes of rendering a quicker death to the entire herd, is a part of the job. The most the boss will say is “Do you have any questions?” There are no expectations of cooperation, no in-universe questions to ask or mysteries to solve, just deadly work to be done.

When you get sent to the feed room, you are told, “You are going to have to steal some feed.” You are given a specific passcode (which you are not allowed to ask for or demand to be changed) and are told that you will be given one eight hour time period to complete the task. If you find that you can get to the feed room more or less quickly, you are told to report back to your boss. If you do the task in the time allocated and return the approved bit of feed you were given, there will be no consequences. However, if you exceed the time you were given, there will be consequences. You will be sent home for two weeks.

This is how things work until you show an ability to actually do what you are told. You are never told what the consequences will be, nor is it clear how the
> Well, no, you could take a reverse mortgage.

Borrowing against a potential future gain is not realizing that gain, and such a loan incurs the risk of losing some (or all) of my equity in the home.
Speeding up Pandas almost 4x on your laptop
This. Aside from identifying specs and implementing them correctly.

The development toolchain becomes inherently slow and things like CI/CD are often brittle and not implemented until their returns have severely diminished.
Majorana Qubits
There's about zero useful or difficult work I ever need to automate in front-end web development, even for large webapps. I'm curious: what is that difficult work that you're doing? Because if it's legitimately difficult, it probably shouldn't be done every single time you're building and deploying your webapp, should it? Because if you have a large webapp, "difficult" is slow, and you should be avoiding "difficult." "Busy work" is for "smart" projects. "No work" is for exceptional projects.

Tree-shaking is treating a symptom of not paying attention to what is in your front-end. It's purely daft to me. This sort of thinking alone is how you get karma.conf.js files with configurations built by 5 teams over 3 years who have no idea what the configuration is doing or why particular versions of Webpack are supposed to be used, or why you have to hire some senior software engineer to do nothing but comb over some gulpfiles across various projects for months at a time that haphazardly move critical shared client/server webapp files for a product moving 80% of your company's revenue, or why a simple front-end change actually requires two weeks of development time, oh and don't forget paying your QA engineer for testing this, for something requires a simple tag change but the build process is out of date, so now you have to fix that first.

You think this is some hipster cry, and yet everything I'm mentioned above is rooted in precise engineering and costs concerns, whereas I have no idea what you're talking about. You know what's a lot more work? A build step. Oh and I've never seen a build process in npm take milliseconds across a large project. But one that has none to begin with doesn't have a creeping perf issue. Because if I do have a build process, it better finish immediately, without cache.

Because if builds don't finish immediately, it's just more overhead in my CI/CD that I don't want outside of testing, and now I have to watch it, because those times only ever grow unless someone cares enough to optimize them.

This isn't a tool for people who like to make their lives easier, because anyone who was in a position to hire wouldn't use tools like this. No one knows what Astro is.

You can't hire for it. If you did, it's a waste of engineering hours to get someone to screw around using this unproven tech versus a typical React stack.

I want tech that lasts for years and years and years that isn't PHP, so I can retain engineers who actually know what they're doing and aren't screwing around relearning something for the 10th time while I pay them 6 figure salaries.

I don't have to change anyone's mind. There are some people that work faster and produce more than others, while others ask themselves how they do it while they toil away relearning.
If you have two spare one-dimensional topological superconductors at home you can turn them into qubits (non-Clifford gates not included!)
I think you can make the flip-side argument that private property in land is the least obviously defensible kind of property for people to really own (in an absolute sense), because nobody produced it and there is an inherently fixed amount of it (except for unusual cases like land reclamation).

I remember feeling sympathetic to the argument that property tax means that you don't really own land but just rent it from a state, but if there's a particular kind of thing that you possibly shouldn't really be able to own but should just rent from some institution purportedly representing a community, it now seems like it's more plausible that that should be land, as opposed to movable property, labor, debt, and contractual interests.
If you die with $100m of stock and $10m in loans, you pay estate taxes on $90m of net assets and $0 of capital gains (your heirs get a step-up in basis on death). If you die with $90m of stock because you sold $10m of it for consumption, you pay the same estate taxes and additional capital gains on the sale.

In short, the estate pays off the loans by selling stock immediately after death.
> What now?

Event Viewer. (You already know, but for the benefit of whomever else.) Hiding things here stinks if you don't know there's something to see there.
I think he's actually talking about halogen bulbs.
We'll start with the meta here. Some of these vehicles have arcane applications that I wouldn't know about. I'm not a CPA, and I pay people for corrections for a reason (which I'm pretty sure I'm about the only person on the internet who does this). If you can demonstrate to me that I've missed something meaningful here, I'm happy to pay off and revise/note my piece accordingly.

As for the concrete, the important thing here is whether those repurchased shares retain their original cost basis or not (to the grantor) from the IRS's POV. If they do, all that's happened is a complicated tax-free cash transfer. If they don't, then cap gains taxes have been avoided.

So far as I understand the rules, it's the former. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to be pointed to a credible source etc.
What are you doing asking for this advice on HN. If you think it could actually be a legal issue contact a lawyer. They can tell you if you have liability and help you write the email.
It's hard to say, finances and governments are smoke and mirrors.

There are so many moving parts right now no one can really know. Experts in finance have been extremely wrong multiple times in this pandemic.

I agree with you it should all come crashing down because the foundations seem rotten but I've been around long enough to know some amazing financial gymnastics often get pulled off by those in power.
Indeed, there's this curious fact that you can update the FROM instruction to be repos:tag@sha256:... In other words, you can leave the tag in the name even though the next docker build will use the digest sha. I do agree with you - you have to be able to go into the Dockerfile and switch to a new tag by simply editing your FROM instruction directly. In our current implementation, the next pull request will put the current sha into the FROM line (leaving the tag in the repo:tag@digest form) and begin monitoring that tag for updates.
Or 50% error rates in case one of two nodes is down and you keep calling the faulty node.

But the faulty node should not be called in a well designed system.
It's economic singularity.
I don't understand the point or popularity of the pickup. It's like a van except no roof so your luggage gets wet if it rains.

I suppose it just rains less in America.
Thanks for such a frank response.

> building a news org with better incentives and more accountability

Interesting. How do you envision changing incentives and accountability?

> I came to realize that they have the privilege of just never having to engage with criticism no matter how rendered.

I think the journalists and news publications receive and address enormous amounts of criticism. I see it all the time. Realistically, they can't address all of it, and yes it's very annoying to be ignored. (But if they wrote about me in particular, got it wrong, and ignored my response, that would be especially infuriating.)

> I wrote about Elon Musk and the Thai cave rescue in 2018

I notice the OP article effectively, if not explicitly, sides with Musk (and others) against ProPublica. Is there a connection?
For the comment-only readers:

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Maybe.

This guy Arnold seems to take the position that the ProPublica piece is somehow invalid because…you can’t tax unrealized gains?

1. I don’t understand how the latter follows from the former.

2. Of course you can. Property taxes are just that.

3. Wealth taxes are also just that, though elsewhere in this thread I see Arnold has argued that they aren’t really that.

Whether you should tax unrealized gains is a policy debate, but it’s not an outlandish or ignorant position to say you should—though ProPublica doesn’t say that, so I’m still not sure the relevance.
I have, actually! Given that your cited example wasn't first-hand, I don't see how the question is relevant, though.
Why not? The non-error page was likely much larger.
While I disagree that property taxes are unjust, most date back 200+ years to a time when almost all wealth was in the form of land. If a state wanted to tax wealth, they taxed land. (Though this sounds progressive in theory, such taxes were almost universally levied at very low rates. Combined with very low inflation, this meant was it was very easy for the wealthy to accumulate capital by living off the rents of their land.)
This is a tech power fantasy. Its not at all representative of the state of the art and disregards a lot of difficulties.

Massed drones absolutely can wreck terrible destruction, death by a thousand cuts to any facility or base or airfield. But the kind of amassed yet precise strike against a hundred targeted individuals, with smart targeting and somehow knowledge of their career status?! Come on.

I wouldn't even finish that movie, let alone fund that proposal.
UNIX has all of the tools, and unlike IDEs, it allows you to seamlessly add them on. UNIX is more "cybernetic enhancement" to the IDE's "prosthetic limb."

ed is actually really useful if you're wanting to rapidly iterate on a program. There's a reason Ken Thompson advocated for it up to his retirement (which was very recently, mind).
Doesn't 3090 use well north of 400W of power?
Same with sports scores. I’m surprised the various sports websites have not made a cry about this as part of anti-trust investigations. Maybe because those sports sites are still reliant on Google for their other page views? Which only makes it worse.
The month my friend-group got access to it was the same month our chemist got busted, so we had to make a little go a long way. Vaporizing just a tiny amount caused mild hallucinations, nothing like the very abstract experiences in these trip reports. Taken in a park on a cloudy night under a full moon, the most memorable part was watching the cloud turn into a massive living collage of skulls in the sky. Not taking over the world, but just floating up there in the sky and intertwining with the moonlight. Like a 420 smoke cloud made of the textless stock art used by Gangster Popeye, or that one part from The Shore where the glowing faces are watching you, but in a cloud, and with many more of them in silver-grey. That was a scene which only lasted few minutes. An added bit of fun was that the vaporizer pipe (this was before the vapes we see now days) had become tainted with DMT, so subsequent weed consumed through it was accompanied with a slight hallucinogenic effect.
This is cool, it's like programming in egypt, drawing the commands.
I'd be happier if there was just more padding on the 'ends' of the address bar, and less padding 'internal' to it. The space between 'home' and address bar would be a lot more useful if it was split between the to ends and gave you someplace to grab.
The Pyrophone, an early sound synthesizer utilizing tubes and fire (1876)