skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not annualised, it is annual (price increase from May-2020 to May-2021).

Monthly annualised and and quarterly annualised are a common measure - those both run between 8-9%. Not that that is anything to worry about - it's just the reversal of the -2% quarterly annualised inflation this time last year. (I.e. oil prices are back up at their previous price of $70/bbl after having gone to zero a year ago)
Ok I see. Yes you're right, needing cash also helps incumbents, ATM operators can also charge whatever they want when you withdraw. Let's hope these fees disappear soon.
Someone got a lot out of their high school debate club
Burnout Made Me Quit
This little thing caught my interest:

APL takes care of binary-vs-decimal inexactness too, so 3×(1÷3) is really 1:

3×(1÷3)

How is this done? How well it scale? I suppose well, because APL is good for math, rigth? But then I remember that must be slow...?
I don't use a rollerboard and agree that they're a plague for the most part. I use a soft-sided travel backpack. With the amount of travel I normally do, I'm not checking if I don't need to but I probably would be more likely to if I didn't have boarding priority.
Fortunately, it seems to be convoluted as a result of its underlying simplicity, perhaps?

The reason the article you linked is so long (instead of just being the standard OOP shallow- vs deep-copy disclaimer) seems to be because JS objects and classes are just dictionaries (in the Python sense of the word) with certain magic fields to control dispatch, inheritance, etc. The docs need to take care to explain how certain operations interact with those magic fields. So, still convoluted, but IMO better than if it were convoluted because everything was a built-in special case under the hood.

At least that's my impression as someone who doesn't write a lot of JS. Happy to be corrected.
In iOS one can turn on/off notifications per app at the OS level. Some apps have fine grain control for types of notifications, but this type of fine grain control does not exist at the OS level.
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In 2010 Amazon still didn't charge US state sales tax. They claimed it'd be too hard to do it. https://www.cbpp.org/research/amazons-arguments-against-coll...
An investment property still has people living in it?

I've never heard of investors lobbying against social housing (in the UK at least).

Forcing investors and developers to provide "affordable housing" arguably makes the problem worse. I.e. it makes it harder to make a profit and therefore disincentivises building new homes.
It's strange that you give SWA as an example. They sell priority boarding, it's called earlybird checkin. and they have a whole rigmarole around boarding priority, with people connecting in the middle of the night to try and get an early position
Do you have any empirical evidence it is more convoluted than equivalent popular languages?
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I have built selenium test harnesses using webdriverjs and Jest as the runner at my two most recent jobs. Been using the webdriverjs 4 alpha which has/had been in progress forever. I've never had a flakey-ness issue that was the fault of selenium.

I don't understand why it doesn't get more love and support. You can build higher level testing frameworks right on top of it.
You are my new hero.
<A future where humans are no longer able to drive will have to be a decade or more after self driving arrives.

The National Driver's Association will arise with bumper stickers: "You can pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands"
That's irrelevant to my question, which merely asked if it was peer reviewed or not. I think it was not, seeing where it was published.
Haha using APL in interviews (outside of finance) would be legendary.
This Elephant herd is wandering through China, causing chaos, capturing hearts
My wife shares the sentiment. To me it’s an acceptable trade off, similar to having gutters installed around the house, or a leech field for a septic, or a pump house.
Sure, there are multiple reasons. str[0] doesn't exist either, that would fail regardless of the mutability thing, but you're also right that the &str is immutable, and that would fail.
I agree that such reports are suspect and one should be absolutely skeptical of such things. I'm not saying this report is incorrect, but we need independent studies to support or refute such claims. Until then, I take it as a "That's interesting, I wonder if it's accurate". There is a definite conflict of interest here. I am fairly certain you would never see a report published by kWh Analytic stating the opposite if it were found to be true. I'd like to read the report, but I'm not registering for it. It's obviously a marketing tool for sales, not a peer-reviewed study.
Not literally all. I can name several small businesses which do their own taxes.
Is there a non-vacuous example of AI being used in this context? Is it matrix multiplication, linear regression, same old control theory, or deep learning?
If you get disposed of in 9 out of 10 companies, then 50% of the time it takes about five disposals to find a job where you do get promoted. Seems like the strategy to take if you want long term success and not long term marginal subsistence.
To be honest, I don't know what that claim means, but know that `(1 / 3) * 3` is exactly 1 under plain-old IEEE floats.

The "fun" is with, e.g. `0.1 + 0.2`. I just tried on the website

0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3
2.775557562E¯17

which agrees:

julia> 0.1 + (0.2 - 0.3)
2.7755575615628914e-17
Since your own computer will typically have the vault unlocked, you don't need a+b+c. You can suffice with a circa 2000s Sony Music cd. Or any driveby malware, or malvertisement, etc.

Using the 2nd factor on another device as the first means attackers need to either compromise 2 devices, or compromise a single point higher up in the hierarchy (e.g., your google account).
Well I also found this article by ProPublica that says U.S billionaires faced taxes as low as 0%. You say the terminology creates a bit of difference I guess, facing the tax is not equivalent of paying those taxes. An example would be Amazon's recent beef with EU regulators in Luxembourg. These giants owe taxes but they have found ways that help them not to actually pay these taxes.

Link to article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/u-s-billl...
This being said, the word "vegan" is not properly used here, causing confusion. "Vegan" relates to diets and food in general according to the dictionary. The author probably simply meant "plant based" and erroneously used "vegan" instead. Unless they meant it's a dish in which case... yeah, I guess.
The use of ivermectin to treat human parasites is famous and has been a great success story. My evaluation of the WP article is that the content is neutral, except for the section on its use as a palliative for COVID. The difference in tone and emotion in that section is obvious.

I have no reason to disbelieve the dose level cited in WP for treatment of parasites in humans, because the topic became politicized only after COVID arrived. OTOH, I have not verified it.

The 0.2 mg / kg is the same as the dose recommended in the I-Mask protocol I linked above.

My belief is that "fact checkers" for the media, including the AP, are, in general, unqualified either by training or experience to perform that function. It also appears to me that a high proportion of "fact checks" are eventually shown to be false and politically motivated. I usually discount them, unless they provide solid references that I can trace.

While WP is often biased on topics which have become politicized, as a long-time WP editor I am used to examining the edit history and the talk pages in order to dig out what factual information may be present. At least, one can observe the differences of opinion between WP editors. With "fact checkers", one usually just receives an opinion from on high, often with the word "debunked" attached. That word is a tell, in itself - it's an appeal to authority.

I'm posting a link in response to @rolph, which you might find useful. It's an example of an article in which the author is trying hard to stay neutral. Well, I'll post it here, too:

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/05/09/update-on-ivermect...
I suppose if arrays language get popular enough, we will get a module to use them as a DSL for libs like numpy, just like we have regex for strings, instead of a whole language dedicated for them.

It would be a win / win, you gain the strength of J, K and APL for array processing, without the weakness of them for anything else.

And just like with regex, you'll get fat disclaimers in doc telling you to not get carried away too much as it can quickly become unreadable.
Probably not as many as you think.

Studies from a New Mexico mine ending in the 1970s estimated an extra 62.4 deaths per 100,000 miners. That’s a lot, but it doesn’t even hold a candle to coal mining in the same era. In 1970 the coal mining fatality rate in the US was 960 per 100,000 (1,388 fatalities for 144,480 miners).

Secondly, most uranium is leeched from the ground, not strip mined. This is far safer for the worker, although it does pose other safety considerations for the community.

Third, we can change these things. Coal mining has gone from ~900 per 100,000 workers to ~24 per 100,000 workers. Workplace health and safety standards are a choice we can make as a society. If we can make coal mining safer, there’s no reason we can’t make uranium mining safer.
> Is it just people wanting new cars less, or less new cars being available?

Both. New cars are very expensive and most people can't afford them. The used car market is nearly 3x the size of the new car market (in cars sold, not $).

Also, as cars have become more reliable many who would otherwise buy new are buying lightly used
off-lease cars (i.e. certified pre-owned). Many people understand the instant depreciation hit that comes with a new car, and want to avoid it.

Add to all that there is currently a supply chain issue for critical parts needed for new cars.
Yes, but go with something too far off the beaten path and you just get https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview, which while really fun, doesn't get callbacks.

(I've always wanted to try doing a white-boarding interview in a visual language like Scratch)
'Every time someone asks you a question, they are highlighting a gap in the documentation.'

This would be ideal, but whenever someone asks me a question there is a high probability that they just don't want to take the time to read and process the documentation.
I've had a hypothesis for a while that the brain performs compacting garbage collection while it sleeps at night. While it's probably not that simple, seeing that various sibling posters are hinting at the same notion is interesting.
The M1 is visually deceptive because how it was calculated changed, leading to the spike. The M2 provides a better overview: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
I always had this doubt

Do billing alerts work immediately? Or do they let you know like an hour, a day, or whatever, after the limit has been reached?
April-May was the time period when prices across industries collapsed. Businesses were anticipating this massive recession and cut back production / dumped goods onto the market in preparation. When the opposite happened, and demand for goods spiked hard, lots of places were caught with their pants down, having already reduced production and laid off workers.

So there's going to be a lot of economic "whiplash" in comparing YoY metrics over the next few months.

You can see the effect here in cars sales:

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/usa-auto-industry-total-sales-...

Apr 2020 was the lowest sales month by a healthy margin going back to 2005.

Different industries saw this same effect over the April-May period. You can see the looking at the performance of the total US stock market:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/vtsmx

March-April prices collapse, and April-May, its on the upswing, by September, there's a total recovery.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/vtsmx
> And what follows is an ordered list.

Isn't it just a numbered list? You can number things, but that doesn't mean it's in order of importance, just the order it popped into the writer's head.

> Of mostly unsubstantiated nonsense explained in bloated language. That opposite of what I'd expect from good tech writing.

I agree. At first I thought this was for "tech writing" in the sense of user manuals. But this is for journalists. And it's more just a vague rant.
That's sort of like how people have had a craving for sweets since time immemorial. But, modern high-sugar foods cater to that craving more efficiently than ever before. Sure, people have an instinct for conformity and attention. FB and other social networks gave them an ever-available focus for that craving, gamified to manipulate their emotions to keep them logged in and staring at the FB screen.
nature only has an incentive to increase efficiency when that increase in efficiency results in increased chance of producing gene copies.

Nature is full of examples that are 'good enough' while balancing other competing constraints. Evolution doesn't create organisms optimized for efficiency - it creates organisms optimized for reproduction. The two are not always the same.
Seems like it depends on how you define ‘manager’. Your lead developer is what I would call a manager. In my experience, most managers have been team leads who set priorities for the group, help arbitrate technical decisions, advocates for more resources for their team, negotiates with other teams over who will do what work and take responsibility for which parts of the system, advocate for promotions for their team members, and deal with underperforming team members.

I don’t know how a large company could function without that role. If you have 200 developers working on 100 different projects.... who is deciding what to work on? Who is deciding how many people should work on what? Those people are managers.
As statistician George Box said, "All models are wrong, but some are useful"
> "As the total value of the global financial market outgrew the value of the real economy" - the first sentence

What the hell is this supposed to mean? What is "value" here, can financial markets conjure more houses, crops or datacenter capacity? Or does it mean that "market prices of securities" have outpaced the "market prices of" .. "the real thing"? Like, seriously, what?
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I felt some of this to be naive. And I think the author may be a psychiatrist, which makes the comments about inexperience with drugs particularly interesting.
The accidents are going to increase when FSD is released to the public with subscriptions.
Well, in my experience I'd say it depends. It depends on the developer. But it takes a good manager to understand if a developer needs management or not... :)
OP and co-founder of Potential here, AMA!
A delusion is a sincerely-held false belief. Please consider: If all of the developers left your organization, could it still produce products? How about if all of the managers left? Your implicit devaluation of labor is not congruent with the actual reality of whose hands work the keyboard.

(And before you write a knee-jerk response, double-check your reasoning. Without managers, developers produced the Free Software ecosystem. Without developers, what did managers produce?)
Sounds to me like the customer is trying to solve a problem and is coming to you with their chosen solution. My suggestion: Find out what problem they are trying to solve, and address that.

Also, you might look at cPanel's notices that they send out where they explain upcoming feature updates well in advance of the rollout. They also have different release cycles, where the newest features are released to the EDGE cycle instead of the STABLE, and then the long term release cycle remains unchanged except or security updates.
Paying a one time unlock fee and paying a subscription on a hardware feature are vastly different things. You might still disagree with both, but they are different.

Heated seats are a pretty standard upgrade that people will pay for, so I'm not sure that it makes much difference whether it's a physical upgrade or a software unlock, and there are valid reasons Tesla might choose a software unlock.

But charging a subscription fee on heated seats on a non-rental car is outrageous.
Yes people keep repeating this nonsense. Nuclear despite years of subsidies much higher than renewables [1,2] it is nowhere close to economical to build nuclear. And we are not even talking about the unsolved problems of proliferation, long term (~50000 years) storage and risk (another subsidy btw because nobody will insure a nuclear plant). Base load is actually not a problem, you need a large enough grid and sufficient overprovisioning. In fact building a system with only slow base load reactors is much more difficult than based on intermittent, dynamic ones.

[1]https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/nuclear-po...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Too_much...
It's one of those products where if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
RL can forget, just start training it on a dataset that is different from what it was originally trained on.
> Facebook was the biggest culprit. I unfriended anybody I didn't know in meatspace.

I stopped using it because I was getting cross-ways with people I otherwise highly respected, over political comments which invited open disagreement. I didn't want to be at odds with these people, but Facebook has designed the service to facilitate this, and has engineered the degradation of personal relationships because of it.

That's strike one. We all know how to avoid difficult conversations in real life, because we can feel them creeping up on us, and we change the subject. On social media, you state the whole argument, and then people feel free to do the same, and put their spin on it.

For thousands of years, people have ebbed and flowed through life, met new people, and stopped seeing others. A very large part of the problem with Facebook is that it destroys this natural flow of life, and tempts you to connect with every human being you've ever said 2 words to, and then keep that connection forever.

That's strike two. When you compare this situation to how humans have lived for thousands of years, it's an almost-grotesque abrogation of the natural order of things. There are relationships that SHOULD fade away, and others you should ACTIVELY eliminate once you know where they really stand. All social media platforms are designed to treat your follower number as the end-all-be-all sacred metric.

I don't have a strike three. That was enough for me.
>I want deflation to occur. There are enormous sectors where deflation is seen and everyone sees the obvious benefits[0]. But when it runs up against the work of the state printing money to finance the destruction of society, then deflation is seen as dangerous.

Greece has deflation and Japan is very close to deflation. Are those countries examples to look up to? I don't think so.

>The main argument the inflation lovers propose is, “well if the prices keep going down then people won’t buy anything as they’ll just wait longer for the product to get cheaper.”

The argument in favor of inflation is that future incomes are greater than past incomes, therefore inflation is a tax on old money and helps new people enter into the economy and encourage them to keep working. The other factor is that inflation is like a bluing dye used in machining. It shows the high spots that you have to scrape off to get a flat surface. It can therefore be used to reallocate limited resources to more productive sectors of the economy. Inflation is an incentive to invest your money, as otherwise it would sit in your bank account and do nothing except cause unemployment, which causes the productivity of the country to go down.

“well if the prices keep going down then people won’t buy anything as they’ll just wait longer for the product to get cheaper.”

We have reached a point where billionaires (and companies) have more money than they could possibly spend in a lifetime. One billionaire doing nothing with his money is equivalent to a million poor people ($1000 in their bank account) not doing something with their money. As inflation is a percentage it affects people proportional to their savings, billionaires lose the most and are forced to invest their money for the benefit of the rest of the economy. Meanwhile poor people lose the least, because they don't have that many savings to begin with and the loss that they experience would be more than recovered by finding a better paying job or by finding a job at all.

>[0] Electronics/computing is an extremely obvious sign of deflation. Prices lowered, or goods improved and everyone benefits.

With inflation incomes go up and prices stay roughly the same. Therefore you benefit from productivity growth but not by hoarding old money earned hundreds of years ago.

Meanwhile deflation works exactly the opposite way. The richer you are, the more you benefit from deflation. The earlier you have earned your money, the better.
No. The power of notation is significant enough that you would lose a lot. Someone mentioned J. It’s an abomination. Iverson made a huge mistake taking that path and likely contributed to APL’s trip into becoming a curiosity. I have written about this before on HN.

Context: I used APL professionally every day for about ten years and was quite active in the community at the time.
How much time did he spend on coding as Linux got bigger?

And you could argue PR reviews was how Linus performed his management function. Which could be an interesting way to organize technical management in proprietary software projects, too...
horrible. Same as the news infinite scroll in the Google iOS app
It isn't for that kind of tech writer. It is "for pundits, journalists, bloggers, and assorted scribblers who write about technology".
How quickly my excitement disappeared when I saw that California was not a member. Thanks for the information; I'm sure there are others, like myself, that have no idea such a thing exists.
You can think of a prototype as a fallback for your object.

If something doesn't exist on your object, JS will check if it has a prototype and look there transparently.

Now, if you got a prototype chain, JS will move through it in the hope to find what you wanted to access on the original object.

try to access obj.a

not there?

try to access obj.prototype.a

not there?

try to access obj.prototype.prototype.a

etc.

The nice thing is "this" will usually (if you call a function as method and not pass a reference of it around for callbacks and such) refer to the object and not the prototype. Also, writes happen on the object.
> He said “can’t we just unplug it?” This is a microcosm of the entire issue. It’s something a child might say. For global warming, can’t we just turn on the air conditioning? No, we can’t just unplug it.

If it were running as a sandboxed application inside some kind of runtime environment with only access to print output text and read input text, as you might expect a GPT-n program to run, certainly you could unplug it.

Humanity could be considered God's AGI, but if God doesn't give us the APIs to interact with heaven, it follows that we can't kill God. Of course, humans are much more greedy, so I'm sure our creations will have full access to any APIs needed to run our factories, advertise products on the internet, and maybe direct our military weapons too :) Oops!

> Despite the mind-boggling level of mental gymnastics performed in the wake of GTP-3, enough to constitute a three ring circus, the fact of the matter is that GTP-3 and soon to be 4 is not supposed to exist according to every single AI expert

Could you elaborate? What mental gymnastics, and it is not supposed to exist according to who exactly?