skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VERY impressive. I downloaded it this morning and took it for a spin on my current project. I love how much you pack into this tool and make everything work seamlessly together. If those source files in the DevTools view are editable, I won't need my IDE anymore! Thank you for bringing us this tool.
maybe not a full 'illusion', but it's just not liquid. when using 'net worth' calculators, I severely underestimate the value of my home - between delays, fees in selling, and the cost of moving someplace else, there's probably 10-15% gone from whatever paper 'wealth' the raw number is. It doesn't really help me in any meaningful way with respect to planning. Most of my stocks are liquid. There's a potentially similar hit re: taxes, but... I can buy and sell $1000 of stocks tomorrow, I can't buy/sell $1000 of 'house' tomorrow (REITs notwithstanding).
Like the first sentence at the WP article says,

> The Australian property bubble is the economic theory that
the Australian property market has become or is becoming significantly overpriced [...]

IOW bubbles can only be called historically asset prices fall dramatically and even then typically in housing they don't fall that much.

Housing prices have been rising much faster than inflation in a lot of places due to historically cheap financing. The alternatives to "bubble popping" are that they plateau, or continue rising, or decrease moderately over time.
Bad analogy. This would be more akin to businesses telling consumers exactly how much a product costs to produce. And even that isn't a perfect analogy. Bottom line, my salary is the business of me, the company I work for, and my wife. No one else needs to know how much (or little) I make.
Do you understand how marginal tax rates work?

Let's say you make $1,000,000 a year in California. Your effective tax rate is 11.78 percent because the top 12.3% rate is only applied to income you earned over $599k. (13.3% applies only on income above $1,000,000, which you are too poor to pay yet).

Same with federal taxes, that $1,000,000 earner is going to pay an effective rate of 33.3%. Combined, you are paying 45% state and federal income tax.
Don't most people have a very strong preference for their bathroom to have plumbing hookups?
There is a lot of CFAA[0] trial evasion going on perhaps?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Is this the first 'IoT' spec ever? :)
You might consider putting a link to County Coverage in your top nav.
> Restoring SALT deductions mostly helps the wealthy since you can deduct up to $10,000.

It helps folks in higher cost / higher tax areas. It's not really a rich/poor thing.

That was one thing I always chuckled about with respect to the Trump tax cuts and the removal of SALT. They really screwed folks in suburban New Jersey, Long Island, and California. And it was exactly those seats that Republicans lost and which cost them the house in 2018.
I really don't understand why it's such a big deal Apple wants to restrict people to use their payment system. It's their platform and they're a private company. Can't they just do whatever they want?
jdk 8 is not rock solid nor performant.

You should look at your codebase, you might be doing some strange things that changed in newer JDKs (e. g. String split no longer uses the sour String, but I don't remember when they changed that). Some options were deprecated because they are also always on (not all probably).
That's interesting. But I don't understand exactly why it would violate their TOS by accessing a library of books.

Is it because they could be bought through the Kindle app on Android and then accessed on an iPhone? Thus bypassing the apple payment option? If that is the case it seems like a bit of a stretch.
If your entrepreneurial drive is only as strong as the capital gains rate, I don't really have any faith in you as an entrepreneur. We're talking about people exiting for substantial amounts that this really impacts.
>I would sure hope the unparalleled salary for software people is not the reason why you migrated (and continue to stay) here.

This has nothing to do with taxes. It's not even true in America. If high taxes are such a massive depressor of wages, why are all the highest paying jobs concentrated in the states with the highest taxes?
Not if you are used to the British style.

Here's something that might clinch it for you:

Does this "look better on the page"?

Does this "look better on the page?"

The former must be correct, since the quote was not a question, and turning it into one would not be a fair quotation. Why should its status as a question change where we put the end of sentence marker?

The same argument applies to the period, since the quoted phrase may not have included one.
That's quite the non sequitur.
I don't understand why we're talking about spending trillions so flippantly and none of it has anything to do with health care. That's the biggest issue in the US today. I've never even heard of a trillion dollar spending bill until the pandemic, now it seems almost commonplace. If you want to spend trillions, give us real change.
You mean Spring native [1], i think it's not ready yet.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring-native/docs/current/reference/...
First, I don't disagree with your general conclusions, but the median salary of South Korea is not even close to the United States. It is closer to 30K annual. Taiwan is lower. Maybe for an expat it may seem higher, but if you get paid by a Korean company in accordance with local salaries, it doesn't get close to that.
They charge a 30% cut of payments and they just want their money.
I mostly remember this because of the brief appearance in "Halt and Catch Fire", which captured the fascination of early webcams in a few seconds.
How to fact check suspicious science stories for yourself (2019)
Even from the day it was made it was never the same language it was however a superset of JavaScript (at the time) having several proprietary extensions to the language.
Someone has to pay for the resources. If you're going to compete with Facebook, then someone has to pay for billions of dollars worth of infrastructure. Voluntarist P2P can work to an extent when everyone donates their computer to the task, but a better way is to allow people to pay and let experts run the nodes. People get better quality service, and experts can make a living by providing the service.

Voluntarist networks can't guarantee quality of service. You just get what you get. If you want to have 1 Gbps downloads and 100% content availability, you have to pay someone to provide that.
If hollywood made a movie about it, then it most likely is oversold.

> especially in the Anglosphere.

What does he expect. We've always done this. Whether it is with thomas edison, the wright brothers, etc. Each nation/ethnic group oversells their achievements and minimizes others. We also did that in terms of gender/race. Women and minorities have been undersold.

The germans do the same thing. Gutenberg didn't invent the movable type. It existed in china, korea, etc for centuries before gutenburg.

It's human nature. All nations/groups do this. Imagine how native americans feel when we tell them columbus discovered the americas.

Everything the author wrote appears valid though. Turing didn't invent the computer. He didn't create computer science. He didn't win ww2. What he did is solve Hilbert's Decision Problem ( which church did before turing ) in a very interesting manner. With or without Turing, we'd still have computers, we'd still have computer science and we'd still have won ww2.

But sadly, the masses need heroes and heroes are created/manufactured by their advocates. Turing for a variety of reasons has more advocates than church, godel, etc. And unfortunately for the writer, it's an anglo world and our message will be the loudest and most visible.

The author states the truth but he is a lone voice in the wilderness. A few thousand will probably read his factual article while millions will watch the misleading "The Imitation Game" and read the misleading articles from the media. It must be frustating for the author, but truth is at a disadvantage to fiction here.
> Also, French conventions like ... or spaces in between all punctuation, like you used in your first sentence.

I'm a native English speaker, French is my second language.
> start worrying about more serious problems

I completely agree with your sentiment, but what societal problem isn't currently being made worse by political polarization and misinformation on Facebook?

Take your pick: genocide[1], climate change denialism[2], anti-democratic efforts[3], public health misinformation [4], just to name a few.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/08/climate-...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/faceb...

[4] https://www.fastcompany.com/90657622/as-the-delta-variant-sp...
I have to say, a career in software engineering has destroyed my enthusiasm for this typographically-motivated punctuation rule. And I had no idea it was just an American thing.
If VPNs really protected from anything they would be illegal. At best you can slightly avoid being targeted by advertisers.
I assume any system I use is compromised already.
A passport is not required currently for self-checkin, its seems an overreach to require it (particularly considering the poor track record of the relevant organisations).
Design your code for readability vs. writability
Living in a country of 1.5 million people, it often feels devastating how big a part of political/intellectual discussion in our (tiny) language actually takes place in Facebook. I have worked in journalism, so maybe it's sour grapes in a way, but: most of the great writers are there. All the politicians are there. Our prime minister first announces crucial things on her FB wall, etc.

In short, if you want to participate in the public sphere of our tiny society that yet speaks its own tiny language, you'd better have a FB account. The account provided by an American Megacorp, that is. This actually feels really strange.

I've been more or less off FB for 5-6 years, occasionally feeling lonely and intellectually isolated. I would love to see things like the Fediverse/Mastodon or tilde.town take off for speakers of our language, but I'm having doubts whether this could ever happen.

For the lingua francas, there will always be a considerable chunk of alternative culture and great, bright discussion outside dominant platforms (howdy, HN!). For smaller cultures, this relationship status is surely complicated. FB is just so damn big.
Thank you! I wonder what other possibilities there are
It very much depends where the money ends up and what it's doing. See the past 13 years in the US and western world generally.
Revolt of the Delivery Workers
I believe they can.. but there's a fair use issue, I'm not sure if you can create a market and then just corner it.

There was a recent supreme Court ruling I believe that suggested Apple have to allow other payment options. But they are free to kick off whoever they want..
From that page:

> Go 1 defines two things: first, the specification of the language; and second, the specification of a set of core APIs, the "standard packages" of the Go library.

...

> The APIs may grow, acquiring new packages and features, but not in a way that breaks existing Go 1 code.

So yes, it does apply to the standard library, AFAICT
> In the abstract, yes. In reality, politicians get punished for failing to deliver on campaign promises and the GOP obstructs campaign promise success using any means possible.

A similar phenomenon. Polls show that everybody hates Congress, but everybody likes their own congresspeople.
> Has anyone made an interface to tarsnap's tarball dedup code?

Tarsnap's deduplication code is not available under an open-source license.
That made me think of a feature idea for HN - revision history for edited comments, publicly available. What do you think?
Good shout! The German article definitely misspells Strahl (beam) as Stahl (steel), which makes no sense in context.
It sounds like just a bad deal. You don't have to do it based on credentials. The flip side is maybe you WERE being overpaid, able to trick your way to some kind of advantage, and got caught.

It does make it more challenging to reward top performers, who might be better off just sitting back and taking it easy, since number of years dictate pay... this is a problem anyway in my industry. People do notice if you're especially lazy or ambitious, but it often all looks the same, and doesn't matter unless you have eyes on management.

I do agree about being too focused on
Nobody here is advocating telling false stories. Saying that Turing laid the foundations for computer science is not false. It's a perfectly valid opinion to hold. We might say it's a simplification, or even an exaggeration, arguably saying he's one of them might be better, but it's not a false statement.
The median to mean discrepancy is not particularly interesting though, given that median disposable income between the two countries is almost identical (in other words there are no winners with a "smoother wealth divide," only losers).

Given the other comments about the real estate situation in Australia it seems problematic to compare median wealth instead of disposable income.
Don't forget Apple got caught red handed price fixing ebooks.
I guess we're just going to gloss over how much of a terrible thing Novell Netware and Lotus Notes were to sysadmin :D
I don't know of any programs that will break from this specific change, though I will be unsurprising if some exist.

I agree that the http and tls packages have made frequent changes that are technically exceptions to the go1compat promises, where there are changes that are technically breaking, but are "in spirit" with the intent of the package. I agree that it's unavoidable to change them over time in this way.

The reality of this has been that http-related changes semi-frequently break my programs when I update go versions.

To me, the fact that http and tls are living protocols is an argument for them being separate versioned modules (i.e. golang.orx/x/net/http), not that we should be causing breaking changes and hand-waving it as being an improvement.

Other packages, like os, sync, etc, have remained stable, and I have no issue with those being versioned alongside the go distribution.

For packages like http and tls, that have made frequent breaking changes, it does seem like they should have been deprecated and replaced with either golang.org/x/vX/net/http, or some in-stdlib-versioned-thing.

Why not deprecate crypto/tls and move it out of the stdlib such that users can get benefits of updating the compiler without the risk of code breakage?
It also seems like a benefit that users could then consume crypto/tls updates on a faster cadence without needing go point releases.
With apologies to my European friends (I’m also European), this article illustrates how the EU is a second rate sucker in technology. While they boast and believe that they’re cutting edge because they’re investing in Blockchain, the likely reality is that they’re jumping on a false trend and Blockchain and its thousands of buzzwords will fizzle out, as it’s sustained only by fomo and speculation.
.Net seems to have it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnet...
Ask HN: Anyone else using Flutter Web
So I’ll start off this post with saying I’m not the best web developer. I find React/Vue very hard to work with.

I’ve already built one project with Flutter web and my friend loved it. I love the type system and the easy Firebase integration.

That said I haven’t had the opportunity to use this in a professional sense.
Amazon (along with most warehouse and factory jobs) probably hires people for full time jobs with predictable hours, which retail and food service jobs generally don't.
Sure it's not due to their massive ad campaign right now?
>49,805 AUD (68,232 USD)

49,805 AUD is 37,039 USD.
No jobs in rural areas. If remitr work becomes the new norm there is an incentive but I doubt it.
The alternative to putting your money into the prediction market to influence the outcome is to try to influence the outcome in some other way (e.g. a disinformation campaign).

At when if bad actors put their money into the prediction markets, they draw further attention to their false claim--something that can't be said for the alternatives.
The trouble with comparisons like this is the lack of scale and perspective. Australia and Taiwan are roughly half the size of California. The United States has a far larger size, and a far greater regional diversity.

If you draw comparisons across similar population sizes and similar geographic regions, for example comparing the USA to all of Europe, the numbers look a lot more similar:

Europe median: $26k
Europe mean: $174k

USA media: $82k
USA mean: $505k

Both regions have roughly a factor of 6 difference between median and mean wealth.
in general then, do you think anti-monopoly & consumer protection regulatory efforts should be thrown out?
Show HN: Paper to HTML Converter
I'd say healthcare is a huge issue in the US. That said, there won't be any need for healthcare if we don't do anything about climate change...
Nescafe is the mother of invention.
That's all its ever been. The homestead act made this explicit in law.
As far as I understand it, it was possible to buy ebooks in the Kindle app around 2010 and they decided that it was no longer going to fly.

I don't actually understand what their intention was beyond a show of strength. If you pull the Kindle app, iPhones and iPads are now a worse platform for ebooks, and if you remove the ability to buy ebooks in the app, it just gives iPhone and iPad users a worse user experience. And obviously, as they stated themselves, Amazon was never going to actually adopt the 30% cut payment system.
The men-women multiplier shouldn't be 10 (or 20, or whatever), so yes that is sexist. However, men's violence does seem to physically hurt people more often, and some studies suggest that young men are more prone to risky behavior than young women, so the existence of a multiplier itself isn't necessarily sexist. No similar statistical backing for a black-white multiplier exists.

I can't say I'm shocked to see a conservative argument that relies on ignoring the difference between 10 and 55. Innumerate sophist says what?
Because it's bad for consumers. We will end up paying more for these services if we allow these kinds of practices to continue. We will lose the ability to keep content we have bought if we move between services or don't want to keep up paying subscriptions.

Being a private company doesn't mean you just get to do whatever you want.
> competitors have since created thousands of $70k jobs.

$70k jobs aren’t the same as ~$35k jobs paying $70k.
> The whole idea of an OP "accepted" answer is a sketchy feature from the start.

I think that's highly dependent on the type of question being asked. For questions where a person had a specific problem, accepting the answer was a way to indicate "yes, this fixed my problem" - and by definition, only the OP can decide that.

Now that doesn't quite fit for "best practice" questions where the answers might evolve over time (hence the change being discussed here), but the "accept" mechanism doesn't discriminate.
As a total amateur this is mind-blowing :D

Can't wait to play around with it!
I believe that Wiz is snapshotting root volumes for their analysis.
Gas is a massive improvement over coal.

The supply chain has tons less carbon per MW (pumps and pipes vs trains and trucks and drilled wells vs mines) Obviously there's huge pollution improvements. And most importantly gas can be throttled so it leaves lots of room for renewables to pick up load.
Covid misinformation, along with audio copyright infringement have become the pretenses for censorship. I wish there were a light at the end of this tunnel, but I only seeing things getting worse as these companies become even more powerful. It has gotten out of control.
Hi all,

I’m one of the engineers at AI2 that helped make this happen. We’re excited about this for several reasons, which I’ll explain below.

Most academic papers are currently inaccessible. This means, for instance, that researchers who are vision impaired can’t access that research. Not only is this unfair, but it probably prevents breakthroughs from happening by limiting opportunities for collaboration.

We think this is partly due to the fact that the PDF format isn’t easy to work with, and thereby make accessible. HTML, on the other hand, has benefited from years of open contributions. There’s a lot of accessibility affordances, and they’re well documented and easy to add. In fact, our hope long-term is to use ML to make papers more accessible without (much) effort on the author’s part.

We’re also excited about distributing papers in their HTML form as we think it’ll allow us to greatly improve the UX of reading papers. We think papers should be easy to read regardless of the device you’re on, and want to provide interactive, ML provided enhancements to the reading experience like those provided via the Semantic Reader.

We’re eager to hear what you think, and happy to answer questions.
Just out of curiosity, would you also say it’s within Apple’s rights to tax a portion of all transactions on the phone, including:

1. purchases of physical goods on the Amazon app

2. food deliveries on Doordash

3. money transfers initiated through the Chase banking app?

If in future years all commerce moves to devices, Apple and Google have a duopoly, and they decide to tax the entire economy, is there any limiting principle? Or do they just get to take some % of GDP as profits? Is that a fair price for the contribution to society of getting to market first with smartphones and building a moat?

If there is a limit, then we should figure out what it is.
I really don't think being accessible to non-programmers is the cause of my issues. If anything, I'd say that targeting non-programmers might exacerbate these issues, because those users would be less likely to realize how unintuitive some aspects of Max are, thinking it's because programming in general is difficult.

I didn't touch too much on the specifics in my post, but there are lots of little design oddities I ran into when doing relatively simple tasks. Like creating a multiplexer for messages: the [switch] object has an "empty" channel for input 0 (and regular inputs are 1-indexed), so you'll often need an extra +1 object for the control input. And the inputs of [switch] have no memory, so every time the control changes, you need to send a bang to resend the message in the now-active channel. Or say you want to multiplex signals. That uses the [selector~] object (why not [switch~]?), and has the same +1 issue as [switch]. But what if you want a short crossfade when switching inputs to avoid harsh transients? "Good luck" is all I'll say here.

I'm not generally trying to do anything super-complicated with Max. I have indeed used the C extension API when it makes sense (building a wavetable synth), and it was OK. I still contend that the main visual programming environment is not very good, for programmers and non-programmers alike.

...anyways, all that said, Scheme For Max looks really cool :)
Then again, perhaps political tropes about the role and motivations of state actors only partly capture reality, and the dynamics of public vs private interests are not necessarily zero-sum games.