skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree it's a matter of incentives. Even in an environment with a now healthier quality culture, fixing bugs to bring an old system from 70% functionality to 100% is typically a career dead end.

It's much better to leave it broken and build a new system with 105% functionality so you can take credit for the whole 105%.

And typically, optimists that we are, it seems like completely reimplementing the original functionality will be "trivial" compared to merely trying to understand how the existing solution works.
No, the IRS actually defends people if their tax information is used against them to prevent people from pleading the 5th.

In theory. In actuality I think you could make a reasonable argument that the suspicion of parallel construction means that you may plead the 5th.
If they want to pay they'll find someone.

I wouldn't mind taking a 250$ an hour position with on the job training.

Odds are they're getting outbid by easier jobs. If I can write Javascript for 130k or COBOL for 130, I'm doing JS.
Exactly. I'd say the US housing market has less risk than other countries.

Canada barely saw a blip during 2008. The average house price peaked at over $700,000 this summer. That's not Toronto or Vancouver, that's Canada as a whole, including places like god damn middle of nowhere BC. It did drop to the mid-600's after that.

In the mean time the US average house price went from mid-$200k to mid-$300k over the past few years.
There Is Shadow Inflation Taking Place All Around Us
The argument right now would likely be that it doesn't show up in the google search for "guitar tuner" and needs "google guitar tuner" to be found coupled with an assumption that this is how it will always be.

It's a fair enough argument. But they should make it in response not just downvote like so many google employees not wishing to engage with a discussion about abuse of market power at all. I think I tend more toward your point of view personally, what is now isn't what will always be in search engine rankings etc, but there it is.
Working for Chinese companies in the US.
Consider the two steady states:

You are keeping up and the queue is mostly empty, the order does not matter

You are not keeping up, the queue is growing. If nothing changes, the age of items removed from the front will grow and grow, and eventually all be timeouts or abandoned.
If you make it a land value tax it won't be. The portion of property tax that falls on buildings can and will be passed on to renters, but the portion that falls on land can't and won't.

There's countless studies that support this conclusion, the best of which is this one out of Denmark that, unlike preceding studies, gets around the endogeneity ambiguity by virtue of an exogenous effect:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201108135554/https://dors.dk/f...

I can cite like 10 more articles that support this conclusion.
> The ways in which a function can fail should absolutely be part of its signature

The problem with that is that a downstream library gets welded to the specific errors it can throw and can't evolve.

So, what everybody will do is generate the most generic "Error" possible so that the signature never needs to change. That is NOT an improvement.
JavaScript is still really slow compared to compiled languages - C, C++, even Java. That super-simple benchmark even after JIT is still 2-3x as slow as the C version, and more complex code can’t be optimized nearly as well.

I can confidently say that games and apps in the browser and Electron are noticeably slower than other apps. You don’t see many web games because the graphics required for games today can’t really be rendered on the web in 20+ FPS, at least until WebGL2/WASM/WebGPU get better support.

But JavaScript is fast enough. Because the vast majority of programs, especially websites, don’t need really fast code like C. They don’t need to redraw every frame, don’t need 3D capabilities, don’t need to perform expensive computations, etc.. If you need a fast program that does those things 99.9% of the time you can just make it a real app, or you can write the fast parts in WebAssembly.

At the end of the day computers are very fast, so a program could be written in any language as long as it isn’t doing anything super performance-needing and the compiler/interpreter has has half-decent optimization.
But in such a society we'll figure out how to adapt ourselves using DNA modification, doing evolution's job for it. We're getting pretty close already and a billion years is more than enough.

But we'll have other challenges first like finite resources and our self-destructive tendencies. We'll have made bigger fish to fry before we can even make it a billion years
Django Rest Framework.
Plenty of people working helpdesk that know a bit of python who can learn COBOL if they knew a job offer was on the other end of the investment in learning the language. There are hoards of people learning python and powershell just so they can make more money, trust me when I say they (the people I see learning python for career prospects) have no sentimental attachment to the language.
Being required to do a thing and actually doing a thing are two completely different things. Having the money to turn around and sue somebody for not disbursing your accrued vacation time is a third thing altogether.
> The new paradigm: A house’s value is now the maximum amount of annual rental income that can be extracted from it by a global investor, multiplied by maximal institutional leverage.

This is generally the same thing from the other point of view?

Let’s put aside conversion of housing units to vacation stays. That’s a separate issue roiling some housing markets (and not others — some states have already dealt with the Airbnb problem)

Then, what you’re left with is that when a house goes on the market either a family buys it and pays mortgage however much they can afford or an investor buys it and… rents it to that family however much the family can afford. The investor is screwed if rent doesn’t cover mortgage, especially if they are over leveraged. Over time the math works out that the monthly costs of renting and owning are similar. Typically if it seems out of wack, it’s either because there’s a bubble and prices will crash or there’s a boom in the economy and rent is about to join home prices in the stratosphere.

The real difference between rent/buy now vs then is the difficulty affording a down payment in a low interest rate environment when asset values are bloated, and risk of being underwater if interests rates ever rise significantly.
Artificial Intelligence vs Human
The same argument can be levied against any form of propaganda in fiction.

The change in this case was not in order to make the story more suspenseful but to simply inspire patriotism.
Instead of bizarre excuses, why wouldn’t SWA just say that employees called in sick in large enough numbers to disrupt operations? What is their reasoning for covering this up if it’s true?
IIRC, Netflix used to have voting until Amy Schumer's special was mass downvoted. Comments wouldn't be practical I guess. But I'd imagine his opinion would be the same, really.
Change Their Mind – Mental Models to Influence, Persuade and Shift People
It was never slow. The event loop is very performant compared to a language with a GIL and a culture of synchronous IO (looking at you, python and ruby), and V8 is amazing.

I notice that the author doesn't give any links to claims that JavaScript is slow, and the first two pages of search results are either discussions of how fast JS is or guides to JS performance. Who exactly was lying?
Because it's illegal. Under the Railway Labor Act they have to exhaust all their other set options before they can initiate a strike or walkout, and even then only if it's considered a "major" disagreement. Minor disagreements cannot be striked over, full stop.
Should GPU choice affect model performance? AFAIK it should only impact training time
We've had them forever: they wear silver eagles or stars for their rank insignia.
I didn't downvote but I do disagree. I see this argument often, but in practice the Google widgets tend to be well implemented and allow me to get the information I want even quicker. That's exactly the purpose of a search engine. It makes me a satisfied user.

I really don't have a problem
with them denying traffic to other sites by providing users with information directly.
> It's entirely possible he got one right by chance. It probably wasn't strictly by chance, very likely convinced himself of some pattern that doesn't really hold

This is exactly the attitude I alluded to in my earlier post. You think M(127) was found arbitrarily through chance or plucked from a likewise arbitrary pattern, which then allows you to completely write him off...as opposed to the possibility I'm asking about: that he actually did have an interesting method of analyzing primes which, while faulty, could nonetheless prove fruitful or even just interesting. It's this dismissiveness that I don't understand.
Wow must be tough
function main() {
let myNum = 0;
for (let i = 0; i <= ITERATIONS; i++) {
myNum *= i;
myNum++;
}
}

I'm a little surprised that turbofan doesn't JIT that into an empty function, given that it has no return value or side effects.
Not reporting a 30k lump sum from a foreign agency, or even from a domestic one, would alone be enough for them to loose their security clearances. Then there is failure to report communications with a foreign agency. Once they travel to hand over physical object, even if blank, then there is probably enough for a conspiracy charge.
So, he hasn't heard of Bitcoin? You don't need all these regulations if you just fix money. Central bank controlled interest rates and inflationary monetary policies are the root of this problem. There's no way for these monopolists to lose if they can leverage with money printed from thin air. It's a risk-free return, because they can profit from centrally controlled monetary policy, which is guaranteed to work for their favor and bail them out if they take too much risk.

Make money printing impossible and everything will correct itself. When money is truly owned and controlled by people, free market interest rates will increase and kick out these leveraged rent-seekers. No one will lend their hard-earned money to these people for free.

The beautiful thing is that market forces will actually make Bitcoin take over the current system by itself. Free markets will always choose fair money, because it's more beneficial for all of its users, expect for those who benefit from a central mint.
Restricted

During and before World War II, the U.S. had a category of classified information called Restricted, which was below confidential. The U.S. no longer has a Restricted classification, but many other nations and NATO do. The U.S. treats Restricted information it receives from other governments as Confidential. The U.S. does use the term restricted data in a completely different way to refer to nuclear secrets, as described above.
What is the best laptop for basic home use in India?
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Look at all the discretionary spending out there that can still be sucked into rent though: restaurants, clothing, movies, all food other than rice and beans, etc.

Yes of course it's easy to call this hyperbolic, worst case scenario fear mongering, but then look at a long term chart for Canadian housing prices, and also the political response to it: essentially nothing, other than a bit of standard political rhetoric during the last election, which will be ignored just as Trudeau's electoral reform promises were ignored, and no one will get too excited because everyone seems to have subconsciously accepted that politics is essentially pure theatre - about the only thing most people seem to care much about now is not electing Nazis.

It's easy (and fun!) for people to dismiss this blogger's concerns, but I think his numbers are fairly workable, and he's not even taking into account the possibility that rent starts to suck in the entire economy. Of course, this is "impossible"...except, maybe it actually isn't.

As for myself, I think the situation is even worse than he says. His proposed solution seems to be various political policy reforms, which is the proper traditional approach. But my intuition tells me that this cannot work, even though my logical mind disagrees. I have this feeling that there are various sorts of emergent phenomena now in play, forces that we cannot detect, and maybe couldn't even understand if we could detect them. And you know what they say about things that can't be detected: they do not exist, as logic and critical thinking (the new and improved versions) tell us, of course.

For starters, I don't think a party could even get elected on a platform of reform. And even if they did, I don't think they would be able to reform anything. I think we have lost control not only of the (financial, political, etc) system, but also of our minds. It seems like we are all riding along on this massive, complex machine, that nobody designed, nobody knows how to operate, and maybe most importantly: no one seems to realize that they do not know how to operate it, or even that we are riding on it in the first place.

So far, printing money whenever we get ourselves into a pinch has always saved our asses, but at some point I think we're going to try this option and it won't work, and that is when the chickens will come home to roost, the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the sons, etc etc etc.

Obviously, this is wild, illogical speculation, and parts of it are "surely" wrong. But that doesn't mean it is incorrect in the aggregate. Complex systems are complex, emergence is a genuine phenomenon, things have been getting weirder and weirder for quite some time now, and the mood of the public in general and toward each other is "not great". I think we have all the makings needed for a debacle of historic proportions, including the necessary mindset.
The Pfizer vaccine was fully approved on August 23

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
JAMMA arcade PCBs normally only use the -5V for audio opamps or DACs. The power amplifier is powered by the +12V rail (in a bridge configuration to provide +/-12V swings to the speaker).
not a fan of China government but in this case I tend to believe them, I've seen Wikipedia volunteers spread actual disinformation in a concerted effort especially on politically charged topics.
He would not be alive today no matter what phone he used.
I could be generously described as a fabulist when talking amongst friends and I definitely just view it as mental practice. Being forced to think on your feet on a regular basis is a great way to improve your public speaking ability, your creativity, and your general knowledge (as you need to learn and retain all kinds of nonsense to come up with some plausible-sounding excuse for whatever absolute bullshit you last said).

That it muddies the waters of "who I really am as a person" is probably true, but that's mostly just an unintended side effect. It's just that my real person is definitely way less entertaining than a well-constructed yarn or joke.
A lot of people here are assuming COUNTRY1 is an adversary. I'm going to guess India. It's plausible to think that India would love to be able to build nuclear submarines with equivalent technology to the Virginia-class. It isn't crazy to think they might be willing to pay money for secrets. But it's also equally plausible that they would immediately tell the US to avoid diplomatic complications if it was discovered. It's also easier to justify selling to a friendly country instead of an enemy. He and his wife might have thought, "It's not like India is going to use the information to attack the US. What's the harm?"
The USA is unique in that the standard mortgage is 30 years with a fixed rate. We also have a huge refinance industry, as everyone who gets locked in at a higher rate wants to refinance when rates drop.

Also the rates are artificially low as the government backstops the vast majority of residential home mortgages. In a free market the rates would be a lot higher, but they are subsidized by the government.
Vaccine requirements are nothing new [1]. I would hope any organization expeditiously terminates any employee who fails to meet vaccination policy, COVID or otherwise. I'm pleased to see that this is already occurring in many industries and expect it to accelerate in the coming weeks and months.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy_in_the_Unit...
Oh I agree, doesn't require a large number -- maybe 5% of pilots. To shut down all flights is likely still slightly higher.

What I suspect is actually happening is much larger.
downvoted for lack of evidence/examples.
The idea that single people, or people who earn less, don't eat meat is not just a non-sequitur, it is also factually wrong. Poor people consume more fast food, which has an order of magnitude less preparation time (thus saving time when you're overworked with your several extremely high-stress high-stakes job), and an order of magnitude more calories per dollar[1], and the majority of fast foods on the market contain meat.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/weight-and-social-mobilit...
A non-trivial amount. But, this is true of basically anything. Teams are resource constrained on hardware, man-power, intelligence, etc.

Intelligence to create innovative models, hardware to test/iterate models, etc.

AlphaFold is a clear example of what's possible with big money.
Thanks very much for the feedback!

On a simple black-and-white document, you can easily save 50% of the ink with barely noticeable changes. In processing photos, the focus is on the restoration and digitization of old documents and handwritten notes. We are still in beta, but we hope to get the word out and show people how they can save big on ink without compromising on print quality.

The application is also designed to simplify graphical document editing, for example restoring bad scans, something that students and researchers who frequently handle old documents would find useful.
Thanks!

Is it that obvious I don't proofread very thoroughly?
Also as a non-EU citizen, if you want to move to a different EU country you'll need to reapply there. Rights of work and residence in one EU country doesn't give you the same rights in the others.
The second code comparison is supposed to point out that the second version. Unfortunately, still not easy enough to read to avoid bugs caused by javascript's "unique" approach.

`findSmallestPositiveValue([2,11])` gives the wrong value for the supposedly better function.

> Even if the second function takes twice as long as the first, we are in the realm of nanoseconds.

How can you possibly know this? You can make either function take arbitrarily long by increasing the size of the input. The second one scales worse. I see no reason to assume an upper bound on the input size given. If you want the behavior to be obvious at a glance, just name the function what it does. Just like it already is. Or leave a block comment.

The argument here is that javascript is so fast that it doesn't matter what you write because you don't have to worry about that. I just don't know how to reconcile that with the fact that I regularly see websites that have noticeably slow javascript "startup" times.
well pick any American politician right of center and check their wikipedia page.
I mean it is released as part of a counterintelligence operation. While it is done professionally (for money), MICE refers to why someone would be lured to do the "wrong" thing.
> To me it seem like he either applied an erroneous method or, more likely in my opinion, just had erroneous naive checking

Of course the method was erroneous, that's not the point I am (apparently rather poorly) trying to get across. My point is that the method seems to have been lost to time, and that it is a shame because while faulty for finding primes it may prove fruitful elsewhere, or may simply be interesting. And if he had a method of checking for primes in the 17th century, this would also be noteworthy and interesting, though it would beg the question of why he stopped presumably before reaching a thousand.

My base observation is relatively straightforward and I honestly don't understand the dismissiveness it is met with:

Sometime in the early 1600s, Mersenne found M(127). The 'how' is interesting to me because I don't see it likely that this was discovered by random luck, but predicated on a novel method he had developed which, while clearly very flawed, would nonetheless still curious to see. Our math and science textbooks are filled with various flawed methods, why then is this one of seeming no concern?
Agreed, SWA canceled 2000 flights over the weekend, seems like they should enough rested crew to reset.

I did see in the Dallas Morning News that SWA had schedule the most flights today since the start of the Covid.

>Dallas-based Southwest planned more than 3,600 flights on Sunday, the most of any day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but nearly one-third of those were canceled.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2021/10/10/sout...
Show HN: 11,000 FinTech companies in one picture
Cuz most people dumb
I have to disagree. These systems aren't "survivors" - they're held together with a fragile weave of scripts, hacks, unsupported hardware and outdated knowledge. Often treated as a black box, they become an object that people have to hand-nurse through issues that would never trouble modern systems. The amount of effort and money that's expended to maintain these systems is typically far more than the upfront cost would be to replace them every decade with a more modern one, but that would look bad in the short term financials, so we keep babysitting the tower of glass and praying it doesn't fall.
This author needs relax and take a breath. Even if he’s right that financialization is displacing some would-be homeowners, he’s ignoring all the second order effects and reactions that would counteract this trend long before we reached a state where there are 99% renters. The middle class having an acceptable quality of life is the only thing keeping society stable, and the masses would be guillotining the plutocrats long before we reach that point. If people seem politically disengaged today it’s because by-and-large Americans are doing alright, something I think would absolutely change if you had middle class working adults losing their homes due to property taxes growing much faster than incomes.

He cites growing property tax bills as the reason even current homeowners are not safe from this trend. If this really became a problem, you would just see an acceleration in Prop 13 style laws protecting incumbent homeowners. But also, many cities recalculate the tax rate each year based on their budget needs. If home prices all doubled in a short period of time, I’d expect the effective tax rate to fall since the city’s revenue needs grow at a slower pace.

Leftists like the author seem to start from the premise that somebody making money is always a bad thing and build their entire housing ideology around that belief. Profit motive is a great thing if it incentivizes the creation of needed housing. Profit motive is great when it motivates landlords to buy and fix run-down properties, raising the overall quality of housing in that community. Building and maintaining housing stock is work that entails risk and that deserves compensation. Without these financial incentives, the whole system breaks down. For a glimpse at the alternative, just look at what happened with housing in the Soviet Union: huge blocks of dingy 300-500 sq ft units with nicer units reserved only for the beneficiaries of political corruption, a system of housing I doubt any of us here would wish to adopt ourselves. But, hey, at least no greedy landlords got paid.
Or at least not publicly admiting to it - which if the statement is to believed would be illegal, which sounds like a good motive to deny any knowledge.