skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 26 million (official) companies in china. Just to orchestrate such a thing would require an entire department/ministry... could you point out which part of the chinese government apparatus that is?

This is just the normal Chinese gov control everything narrative that people who've basically not spent a lot of time in china tell themselves for whatever reasons.

CCP preserves CCPs power. That's its main focus, it controls what it needs to, to do that. Which it achieves by controlling just the top tier business like 10-20 of them. The other 25,999,980 businesses would likely never hear anything from the CCP in any meaningful way.

This is not dissimilar to how government has fairly significant influence over Amazon/Apple/Facebook etc in the US.

Note: I'm not defending CCP here, they do stupid/bad stuff but controlling every single business is not one of them.
Isn't the problem in Australia (and New Zealand) mainly caused by first home buyers? They seem to pay the maximum the bank will lend them with no regard for being profitable or a good investment. Just get the best house possible at any cost. Once they own them, they fill them with lower occupancy than investors do, so the supply of housing effectively decreases. I'm one of those people. My house used to be a rental with 5 people in it. Now we have only 3. My neighbor owner has 1 person in a 3 bedroom house.
It's an AI. You can see that the endpoint is TTS. Also, props to Google for getting it so good that people think its a human voice.
Thanks for the info, but the snark isn't warranted. There are better things to sneer at.
So long as Crystal was never influenced by Nikola, I see no conflict from Crystal's perspective. Money is money. It's only tainted by the morality of its origins if you let it.
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I jump on a rebounder a couple of times a day, nothing like your setup but it seems to improve my wellbeing. The rest of my time is unfortunately quite sedentary, I tried working while standing but for some reason it didn’t work out for me. But now im thinking that standing and walking are quite different. You made me think about getting a thredmill...
That’s hilarious and I don’t often stumble across something that makes me giggle out loud.
> They just rent it out.

This is not the case in some prominent housing markets (London & NYC come to mind). There are owners who purchase the properties as a way to store wealth in the US. These dwellings frequently sit empty most of the time.
I feel the exact opposite: My back twinges when I think about sitting in the same position for hours. Working with a single laptop (without external screens, mouse, or keyboard) I can switch from bed to couch to desk multiple times per day.
I spent over $1k on a Steelcase Leap several years ago and ironically switched to a Secretlab last year. It comes down to the fact that the Secretlab reclines a lot more and I find it far more comfortable. I've only been using it for a year and a half though, so who knows about long term.
When the fed suppresses interest rates and back stops the mortgage market, residential realestate starts to look like risk free treasuries with a ~9% yield.
It is ridiculous if it is. I thought, HN was protected from such manipulations.
If the problem is caused by too many people wanting to live there, rather than empty houses, it wouldn't help. Nobody likes to blame themselves, but everyone living in a high-priced area is partly to blame for the high prices, not just some faceless evil baddies.
Trying to figure out how to implement TDD on Android code. I've paid for books and code on this and it's not good enough. Reddit seems outright hostile to the idea.

I'd happily just pay for template architecture with tests built in.
Schedule D is implemented, and the long-term capital gains worksheet calculations are done, but 8949 and individual non-reported positions are not implemented yet.
The mobile app doesn’t do this (and sounds totally normal).
The Aeron was the first chair I used that tilted & locked forward to help sit upright instead of leaning back. A startup I worked for in the early 00s bought a bunch of these from a failed dot bomb for a fraction of the cost. Not all of the Aeron chairs have the forward lock feature (part of the wide price ranges). The full ones go for nearly $1k USD. I found a chair clearly inspired by Aeron that has this forward lock feature at OfficeMax for $200.
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The reasonable expectation is that cars will not be able to achieve actual self-driving without either AGI or more specialized hardware than a camera. AGI is almost certainly a 'next century' kind of technology. Adding sensors other than cameras (lidar, others) to a Tesla means that they don't have the hardware.

This claim is quite obviously true, because despite the claims of Tesla's people, we don't know of any vision system that works without relying on general intelligence. Human/animal vision in particular is only accurate because we inherently use our knowledge of the world and physical intuition to resolve ambiguity. Put a human (or other mammal or a bird) in a fully artifical environment, without recognizable objects and without shadows, and you'll see that they are about as bad at vision and navigation tasks as many current algorithms. The effect will be even worse if you recreate realistic objects but with unrealistic proportions and behaviors.

Since we can't hope that computers will gain animal level intelligence in understanding the world (no one is even really working on the necessary problems), the only path to self driving is through more advanced sensors, as everyone but Tesla has realized for a long time. This is why Waymo has self-driving cars on the road today (in perfect ideal conditions), and Teslas can sometimes barely navigate an empty intersection without a human driver intervening.
I wonder how different the world would be if he'd been allowed to use Scheme instead.
No data transacts to any server. It's just a static client side site that stores data in your browser's LocalStorage. And it does run on desktop as a standalone application (5 MB!)
Yeah, when I first read it I thought of it as an interesting and fun theory that was a good read, but I didn't think it was necessarily meant as truth as much as a tool to look at the series and examine it and use ideas and themes presented.

For example, I remember the idea of the Losers explained was fairly eye-opening for me. Regardless of the name, the fact that they were a largely savvy group that just chose an entirely different trade-off and decided to treat their jobs purely as a means to an end so they could focus on things they cared about clicked with me in a way that hadn't really before. I mean, I'd worked jobs like that, with a slightly different aim, as a teenager and while going to college, but I was so focused on getting a job more aligned with my interests (which I was lucky enough to do partway through college) that it skewed my view of work and the people around me. The idea of "Losers" made a few things click for me, by linking the middle class expansion of the middle 20th century, the massive manufacturing sector, and the people that were able to live great middle-class lives because of it. These "Losers" are people that have carved out their own little chunk of that dream, and are consciously putting the requisite amount of effort in to not be fired and/or feel like they aren't absolute shit at their job, as nothing more or nothing less is really needed for them to meet their real goals, which are not work related. There's something to envy in that.

Does that mean everyone fits in the categories presented, or that all the categories are accurate in all or even most respects? No, but nevertheless, as a prism with which to compare and reassess my own experiences, I found it extremely useful.
In Indonesia, only citizens or businesses with part ownership by citizens are allowed to own property, and I think this is probably the right way to go for most other countries as well.

Unlike the vast majority of other human endeavors, land actually is a zero sum game, at least until we are a space-faring species.
Surely a role played by Chinese Govt. Why no one talks about that?
This kind of research always interests me and at first glance I had a concern with this paper given that they mention:

> The dataset is based on a simple index file provided in the
Python Package Index [76]. In total, 224,651 packages were
listed in the index at the time of retrieving it.

For separate research reasons I've recently had cause to download the index as well and current versions are 315,000+ packages. The reference [76] indicates they retrieved it on March 28, 2020.

Initially I had thought that almost 100k packages in a little over a year had to be incorrect given that the first archived index from 2018 had around 170k packages listed (meaning 170k -> 225k in 2 years).

This increase probably just highlights just how much Python has just exploded in popularity.
However, it does cast some doubt on the effectiveness of this kind of research on the basis that there are a lot of new packages and likely noise in that dataset.

A follow-up and perhaps more useful bit of research would be to do this same analysis with the top downloaded packages visible via the published stats[1] and then perform evaluations as to whether Bandit was actually identifying vulnerabilities. I have no doubt that of the 197,726 packages they actually scanned there was a lot of noise. Also, if a package has fewer than some cutoff of downloads in the past month (perhaps 10, 100?) or is newer than a certain date it may make sense to exclude it.

The authors mention the accuracy of static analysis tools being a potential problem but the fact that no spot checking was done to see if it was even remotely correct is a bit of a problem given the conclusion. I admittedly skimmed over certain sections but I didn't notice any discussion of the "confidence" metric that Bandit uses and this is a huge problem. Bandit only ever reported low confidence injections. Consider that for a moment: the static analysis tool reported no other type of vulnerability that was low confidence, and that includes a break-out for XSS. Every other category was Medium- or High-confidence only.

Having worked extensively with a variety of static analysis tools they vary in quality by language and detection capabilities but are generally very poor measures of application security and are often rife with false positives. The underlying premise of the paper's conclusion is that Bandit is trustworthy enough of a tool to merit the conclusion that "security issues are common in PyPI packages."

Having some experience with it in the past, I disagree with that foundational assumption. Bandit is good at finding certain classes of issues but is overall not something to rely upon for anything more than sanity-check catching egregious types of problems. For example, I'd rate it quite highly on detecting the use of the "generally avoid this" functions. A good regex could also detect these. I would not trust the XSS findings, though no doubt some are correct.

[1]: https://packaging.python.org/guides/analyzing-pypi-package-d...
>The higher end brands include: Herman Miller Humanscale Steelcase Ergohuman

Can I buy a comma, or buy you some? ;-)
It is late - but while watching an episode of spacetime+ the host stated an entangled pair could be millions of miles apart and one could immediately cause a change in the other. This would be faster than light
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
Just for clarity, the race condition seems deliberate. It just returns a path and leaves it to you to create the file.
They've been working on improving their recordings for years. It's a lot better now.
Again, you're responding as if I'm making a value judgement. I was specific about who my comment was targeted towards.
Yes, that’s exactly the Facebook I want. The one nobody will use.
> Charging for those is a degree of degradation too much for a civilized society to accept

America has a Monetized Legal System, not a Justice System. We're conditioned to think of the incarcerated as not-human, and I don't have hope that will ever change (for the better).
The apartment I lived in before had a few hundred sold, with most sitting empty. The building managers mentioned most of the owners were Chinese, and would rather not rent it out than drop the rent prices, so they had to constantly carry out inspections on apartments that had never been lived in, for a few years now.

Absolutely depressing. The bit that weirded me out most was the post boxes. They were quite big, but about half of them were overflowing, which had to have been the result of a few years of accumulation at least.

If the buying price was 40-50% lower, I could save up for a deposit in a year or two, but the crazy house prices here in Australia are not getting any better at all. It also feels morally wrong to be investing at the cost of someone being able to afford a roof over their heads, so maybe renting it is for me.

Of course, the city also is going to be hosting the Olympics in a while, so that solidifies my moving away plans!
> Dwarfs trying to clean their inner organs (dwarf wounded, doctor closes the wound, dirt stay inside)

I'm curious if the fix was to just remove the dirt from the simulation or if Tarn actually went ahead and simulated infections (or more realistically, used an existing infection mechanic).
Not much different than a yoga ball as far as that goes is it?
The quote is not "all Tesla cars have HW3", it's "all Tesla cars right now have everything necessary for self-driving". He said that same thing about HW2 and about HW2.5. There are no self-driving Tesla robotaxis running any computer version. It was as wrong to say it in 2020 as it was in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Maybe at next month's "Tesla AI Day" (not to be confused with 2019's "Tesla Autonomy Day") he'll debut HW4 which will definitely be the one that turns your car into a robotaxi.
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That tax applies to the city of Vancouver. Most houses in Canada are outside of Vancouver.
And how many animated series grow to a comfortable “mom and pop” level and last longer than 25 years? Your comparison between the two is frankly baffling to me.
Wait, YouTube has ads? Haven't seen one in years.
It is definitely quite a bit faster.
Doesn't it still exist in Quebec?
>The FairTax provides a progressive program called a prebate. This gives every legal resident household an “advance refund” at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free. The prebate prevents an unfair burden on low-income families.
> I'm actually quite confused as to why the people with the oldest devices—whose Kindles presumably had the longest usable life—are the only ones getting free replacements.

Maybe there is a lifetime clause in the AGBs? If they promised 15 years of usable time (for example), this might be their way to get out.

Also, the longest customers are probably the most loyal and bought a lot of books over the years, while also being the smallest subgroup.
New Zealand did that a couple of years ago. House prices continued to skyrocket as if nothing had happened. It's local people who keep buying them and paying through the nose.
The tone of these articles gives me an ulcer. Let me relay to you all the places I've gotten remote work done over the years:

* Private office space
* Co-working space
* Dedicated home office
* Bedroom corner office
* Bed
* Sofa
* Kitchen
* Bathroom
* Garage
* Solarium
* Hotel
* Coffee Shop
* Car
* Lakeside
* Beach
* Park bench / picnic table
* Jury Duty waiting room
* Airplane
* Subway
* Streetcar
* Train
* Ferry
* Top of a mountain in the wilderness

And I'm probably forgetting a handful of other locales!

_This is the whole point of remote work._ The tasks you perform and the location in which you accomplish those tasks are wholly unbundled, and I'll be damned if I let anyone talk down to me to tell me which ways are better or worse for me at any given time. That's my decision and mine alone.
You can pay $20 to remove it, right? A $20 Kindle is still a pretty good deal.
This is exactly correct. Many people gave him various coins (typically in the hope that he would then promote them) -- he gave those away. I guess it worked, because you now have people saying "He's given away billions in Eth".
> If they made housing plentiful and cheap then nobody would buy it for any reason other than shelter

Do you feel that's a bad outcome? The phrasing suggests so, interested in why you feel that way.
> Your Facebook Jefferson would still have to build an online system that prioritizes facebook’s financial health.

Why do you think that?
Kinda - an instance of an OO subclass is a decorator around an instance of its superclass, so if you're using a language which has a good way of expressing decoration then that's usually better than using inheritance.

But as the other reply said, patterns are a language smell - the language needs to support that style and make it idiomatic. Otherwise, if you give people the choice between doing it right but verbosely and doing it wrong but more quickly, guess which one they'll choose. https://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should...
Not realistic. There will always be a constraint on the best locations and zoning laws, typically reinforced by the self-interest of landowners in those locations, apply a further constraint on the density of dwellings in these locations.
Getting asynchronous chores done like laundry, dishwashing, and cooking/baking are the best part of working from home.
> That may be an extreme example, but it proves the point that having a high-voltage charger at home or at your office is critical if you want to reap the potential financial benefits of going electric.

Bullshit. We drove our Model 3 for over a year using L1 charging. My commute was 50 miles roundtrip and we could put 60 miles back on it charging over night. We only ever charged up to 80%.

With random outings and errands we'd be down to around 150-180 miles and would just top it back up over the weekend.

It was less convenient than an L2 charger but plugging your car in every night when you get home really isn't much more hassle than charging your phone.
you cant "get in early" on an asset that can be diluted.
> I'd say that that's an example of structural or duck typing (as opposed to nominal typing).

No it's not. I'm talking about having nominal typing but easy support for delegation (e.g. look at how Kotlin does it).
That was amazing. How does it have only 62k views?!?
I don't know anything about the situation over there but did they really ban it? For example this bloomberg report talks about foreign ownership via holding companies. So are foreigners not able to hold stakes in NZ companies or are NZ companies not able to hold realestate (doubtful?).
Your friends post spam, porn, and shock videos?
I think it's less. If I've got my files right locally, my Canon SL3, on RAW+JPEG, the JPEG is 7.4MiB and the JPEG embedded in the CR3 file (the "raw" file from Canons) is 2.3MiB. So, less. Between them, you can tell if you zoom in far enough (on the smaller one, there is clear artifacting) but it's they're both 24 MP photos so you have to get pretty close to the pixels to tell that.

(I've only just gotten a decoder working on CR3 to the extent where I can extract those, though. One thing that hasn't changed since the OP is that camera manufacturers are still determined to making parsing their custom formats impossible by documenting absolutely nothing. Good hardware, terrible software.)
Nowhere near as nice a setup, but same answer to the survey question.
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> in what quality though?

JPEG basic with Nikon. I'd assume it's the same for the other manufacturers, although that's guesswork.

The newer cameras (Nikon Z for example) don't just include a single JPEG either, but multiple smaller versions for e.g. rear LCD display, which can also be of higher quality.
I heard a message the other day that there's 3 main vehicles of investment: stocks in companies, bonds in governments, and property (owned mostly by banks and a few rich people).

I've been thinking about it ever since, particularly that money usually flows between these 3. The exponential growth required for compound interest to work is only possible in a shortage. Stocks in companies follow a contract-expand business cycle. Governments grow linearly at best. But property has been increasing exponentially due to an increasing population.

I fear the day when companies realise that they'll make more money by starting a war, which would devastate governments and property. Many people of a similar age are getting married and buying houses, but I don't know feel that the future is stable enough to make either of those decisions. The kind of house I'd want now as a single guy is different to a house that would be suitable for kids (in the right school zone), or a house for retirement. I think the only safe investment is philanthropy: give it all away, and if I'm still alive, hope that some of those people I help now will be able to support me in my old age after economic, political, and environmental disasters strike.
This[1] video by ColdFusion talks about a similar problem in the US in which Housing market is now being seen as the next big bet by the Wall Street Firms.

In this scheme, a common man will not be able to buy/own any house but they can only rent it. It will be very similar to SaaS model in which Houses will be provided as a service.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu4tC3px6mc
Re: performance issues, offloading CPU-intensive operations to NIFs (or ports, if I/O bandwidth needs are low enough and you need to run something long-running) is a pretty common strategy for speeding up Erlang (and therefore Elixir) applications. It doesn't seem like the X-Plane folks have felt the need to do this, but it's definitely a possibility should they run into some computational bottleneck.

Re: GC, the Erlang VM does it per-process ("process" in the EVM's sense, i.e. a preemptively-scheduled userspace/"green" thread rather than an OS process), so not only are GC operations fast, but they also only affect the process being GC'd. The immutability is also a factor here; since data is copied instead of modified in place, it's arguably a lot easier to know when to discard unused objects (namely: for an object to persist within a process, the recursive function(s) backing some process has to explicitly pass it along to the next invocation, so that's a natural place to discard everything else).
Yep, same here. It helped me out in a pinch many times, even though that browser was excruciatingly slow.
Actually CCP is doing everything they can to stop the outflow of money. CCP wants to keep the money inside of China but not very successful. There is no rule of law in China and people with money in China want to put money in place where government can not take it away from them. As CCP tighten control, money will keep flowing out by any mean possible.
Investment is a basic aspect of life; housing has been traditionally an investment to earn a living when you retire, whether individually or as part of a pension funds. The problem appears to be the monetary policies of central banks and rampant public debt, and the low interest rates, inflation, and lack of alternative investments that go with it.