skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
' '.join() makes more sense to me, and it's more universal too if done right and you accept anything resembling a "sequence" (which python does) and individual objects of the sequence have a sensible str(). And as language maintainer, you only have to maintain one such implementation, not one per collection type.

Javascript, on the other hand, kinda does it worst, at least of the languages I regularly use... .join() is a instance method on Arrays and TypesArrays. But they forgot to add any kind of join for Sets, for example.

(["a", "b", "c"]).join("")
"abc" # alright
(new Set(["a", "b", "c"])).join("")
Uncaught TypeError: (intermediate value).join is not a function
([...new Set(["a", "b", "c"])]).join("")
"abc" # grmpf, have to materialize it into an array first.

That illustrates the drawback: if you make it a method on the concrete sequence types you got, you better not forget some and make sure the different APIs are consistent, too. If Javascript had a String.join(sep, <anything implementing the iterator protocol>) this wouldn't have been an issue.

python isn't alone either, by the way. C# has the static string.Join(...) that accepts "enumerables" (IEnumerable<T>), but no array.Join() or list.Join() or dictionary.Join(). Combined with Linq, especially .Select, that becomes quite handy. It has been plenty of times I did print-debugging by adding a one liner along the lines of

Console.WriteLine(string.Join("\n", dictionary.Select((key, value) => $"{key} = {value.SomeProperty}")));

I find the C# way of having a string.Join(sep, ...) instead of python's "some string".join(...) nicer to read because it's more obvious.
> thanks to historically low 30-year mortgage rate and low inflation, real estate is probably a better investment now than ever before

Would an investor taking advantage of those low 30 year mortgages prefer low inflation or high?

It seems to me they prefer high. They pay the mortgage back in future dollars which are worth less.
The evidence suggests this vaccine has zero effect on reducing the spread of covid: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7 . The vaccinated have also been found to carry no less viral load than unvaccinated (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34176397/) and a greater proportion of variants: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139v... , possibly due to it being a non-neutralising vaccine (unlike e.g. the measles vaccine). Such a vaccine only reduces symptoms, doesn't kill the virus, so much like an incomplete course of antibiotics can encourage the spread of antibiotics-resistant bacteria, a non-neutralising vaccine can encourage the spread of vaccine-resistant bacteria (termed "immune escape").
Are you referring to its GCs, compilation tiers, or observability? ;)
5-10% for many things: tuition, healthcare, cars, homes, transportation, etc.

I don't see political instability ever being much of a problem. Trump was considered 'unstable' by pundits yet prices surged during his term.
Is there an open source implementation of Mathematica?
> All the imaging datasets have been segmented manually, by one to four raters, following the same annotation protocol, and their annotations were approved by experienced board-certified neuro-radiologists. Annotations comprise the GD-enhancing tumor (ET — label 4), the peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue (ED — label 2), and the necrotic tumor core (NCR — label 1), as described both in the BraTS 2012-2013 TMI paper [1] and in the latest BraTS summarizing paper [2]. The ground truth data were created after their pre-processing, i.e., co-registered to the same anatomical template, interpolated to the same resolution (1 mm^3) and skull-stripped.

- from the "data" section of http://www.braintumorsegmentation.org/

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6975210

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02629
> Does he really think a desire to leave is unique to the c-suite?

He didn't say that. I read an article about someone openly reflecting on their feelings.
Wouldn't the corporation just factor in the credit loss as a cost of doing business and adjust the rent accordingly? Seems better to stop them from owning more than a few properties to begin with, but I suppose both would be cool with me.
For me it, was because of the lousy resolution of my laptop monitor. I just got an extra monitor to solve it.
In 1986, Katherine's marriage had failed
I mean I gotta say I have heard more compelling arguments about various things
It seems like because he was a CEO of a small company who did not feel these issues that he has some kind of credibility to lambast someone else who does. It's an incredibly toxic attitude to have.
this is super cool; with this + promt-enginning Codex to work with equations and algebra we can have a natural-langauge-based synthesizer!
This would just get passed on to the renters.
Getting up and go for a walk
Ok, moving on...you know what the French call (or called) their nuclear deterrent? "Force de Frappe"!
The union explicitly has to deny this, even if it’s true, due to airline union regulations. Airline unions are restricted in what they can do.
I just watched it recently and I made similar connection. I naturally hope the connection is in my head only. Plus, in this case, it would appear the couple was already a part of IC. Does someone remember of the top of their head percent of US population engaged in it? Past 10% leaks like that are practically guaranteed.
How many military pilots do you think have a current type rating on the 737? The C-40 pilots could probably transition quickly but there's only 28 C-40s in the US fleet so probably not enough pilots to make a realistic difference.

This isn't just a case of paperwork, either. A pilot can't safely operate a completely different type without training. Even if you expedite it, it's likely that resolving the industrial action will take less time.
also log(x)
No one was saying depression was a valid excuse for the behavior, just a reason someone might do it. Attempting to understand a motivation doesn't automatically mean excusing it.
Frankly corporate PR has just as much likelihood of being honest as a random tweet. We now live in a zero trust society.
SD cards in sandwiches at dead drops? Is this reality or a Grisham novel?

If someone in 2021 is asking you to transfer secret information in an SD card, run. They are either a scammer or a cop. The only reason to do something like this is to get physical evidence, photographs documenting you handing over the information. Physical dead drops of encrypted information isn't a thing anymore. Real spies use dropbox, tor, rapidshare, or a thousand other ways to securely move digital files without physically meeting.

Encrypt it into a truecrypt container. AES-blowfish plus whatever other layers you think you need. Toss in some random junk to pad the size. Then rar-encrypt it again, splitting it into a couple 200mb volumes. Label it as some sort of porn and upload it to a filesharing service via Tor. If this is real spy stuff information then the recipient won't care about jumping through a few hoops to download the material. If it is the police then they will balk at the effort because it will be complicated to explain these steps court. The police will insist on an SD card in a sandwich.
Also also: black it out with an overly large box, otherwise it's possible to infer information from the length or height of the box. Eg, is the number two digits or ten? Box length might tell you.
Eventually an exponential-style tax would be too prohibitive for them to buy the nth house and they'd have to tap out, no? Can't pass off those costs forever, eventually it's too much for even the most well-off renter.
Yes. With enough inflation your house would become worth 10x and your mortgage now represents at most 10% of the new value. Fixed rate leverage is a bet that inflation is understated.
And 23 million Americans are landlords, according to this article.
100%. This guy has a couple good observations sprinkled in between paragraph after paragraph of hyperbolic ranting.

Also lol at citing 40% annual real estate inflation across Canada unqualified which just links to some other opinion piece which states the exact same case as this guy's.
I call this strategy waiting for human nature to change.
Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson built a good career being the anti-taleb, arguing that social progress is good and or inevitable. There is a large market for both extremes of optimism and pessimism.

But the doom and gloomism gets tiring because it's just so wrong all the time, and rather than admit being wrong they just keep digging in.
Ughh...

I exited after 15s of watching the embedded, auto-loading video at the top of the article. Around then, I realized this video was irrelevant.
It's hard to make it to the end when the writing is so obnoxious.

I certainly gave up before then.
At least the US had a small housing crash in 09/10, most of the rest of the world hasn't seen that so its been 3 decades of non-stop boom. It has to add badly. I thought the baby boomers retiring would cause a lot of downsizing but that just hasn't happened.
The incentives for homeowners to prevent new construction would cause the same issue regardless of corporations getting in on it. The lack of new construction (in areas where people want to live) is the driving cause.
For the interested: You can prevent ejaculation (i.e. there is a loss of seminal emission, but not orgasm) using silodosin. It can be used as a male contraceptive. Low doses tend to work, but I recommend testing it before the real action[1]. You will still have orgasm, but without ejaculation. Be cautious though, because it is not without side-effects. Do your research!

It is funny how there is not much of a mention of this substance for this purpose, even though it is indeed effective for it. A male contraceptive pill.

[1] Do not forget about the importance of dose, onset of action, duration of action, stomach content, and so forth.
then short some REITS if you believe this
Mob justice is the purest form of democracy (how do the people organize in a land with no laws? They get pitchforks to oust the Bad People)

Social media is a tool that happens to facilitate mob justice particularly effectively. Why? Because you used to have to gather dozens or hundreds of people in the town common before you could yell “Burn the witch!”. Now you just tweet it (or share it, or telegram it, or…)
A notable trend of the last ten years or so is the way generic financial advice prognosticators have morphed into uniform catastrophic doom sayers (often with a hard-right bent). There are some reasons to be worried but it seems like in area, "doom sells" is a big motivation. But just much, with so much gloom and doom in this area, you don't have to provide any evidence, it's what this audience expects.

Also, article is poorly edited and filled with typos.
Ah, cool, that makes sense!

If you need more power, I'd suggest a module like this one: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ptn78000a.pdf
Switched capacitors are great for low currents, but inductors work better for higher currents.
I'm not sure I agree with the linked article, are there any other (accessible, and existent in the present) resources you used to arrive at this decision?

For one, the article assumes the tools you use to replicate your production environment locally aren't accurate; with localstack, they are accurate. It's seamless, truly. I recommend you give it a try instead of spending the extra cash to have your developers deploy into the cloud constantly.

Another thing to note is that this seems only true for a specific architecture, if you're writing serverless functions. Not everyone is or should be doing that, so I'm not sure "you should always test in the cloud" applies as a "context free" rule.

Finally, it sounds like the author had a lot of trouble getting his local environment to work. Maybe folks who have a bit more experience working with the technologies involved in their services don't have that problem, and it's a little arrogant to assume that, just because you had a problem, that it's a problem for everyone else, too.

Overall, I just don't think commenting, "This service nice, but using it is an anti-pattern" was quite as productive of a comment, in general, as you meant it to be.
To be fair v6 was able to be ported, it just wasn't as easy (I know because I ported it to native VAX) the compiler was the hard part, along with the evil context switch primitives
We already have a existence proof for useful tasks for which changing inputs do not invalidate benchmark results - namely cryptography, where algorithms must run in constant time to avoid timing side-channel attacks. If your hardware takes a non-constant amount of time to add 8-bit integers, your hardware is broken and should receive a benchmark score of zero. The interesting question is how much overhead would be involved in turning scientific tasks like Mersenne prime search into benchmark-friendly workloads.
> godawful side effect profiles that characterize the Covid vaccines

Can you provide some references regarding the side effect profiles of these vaccines being any worse than a typical vaccine? Genuinely interested, as from casual observation it doesn't seem to be the case.
I wonder how easy it is to replicate the UX but with sonic pi as the backend (so we can get rid of all the crashes)
You also cannot leave a party of 4+ if one of the people are not on iPhone.
You are going to ban him because what he posted doesn’t fit your narrative? You are censoring him.
It is a luxury item in most of the world where large livestock are needed to pull heavy equipment.

https://snackfever.com/blogs/magazine/beef-why-in-korea-it-i...
Interestingly, P. virginica is in the Araceae family which also contains taro (as well as the arum lily, breadfruit, elephant foot yam, and many more)

Can I ask more about your curiosity about native foods? It's been a big interest of mine as well ever since I found out about NUS[0] and the general realization that edible plants exist everywhere if you have enough knowledge about your environment

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglected_and_underutilized_cr...
My parents paid off their first apartment in 5 years instead of 20 because of inflation in Yugoslavia. You can no longer get fixed rate mortgages in that part of the world … wonder why
And who exactly are these megacorps going to rent these houses to, once they've inflated the property values and matching taxes 100x? Nobody can pay 100x their current rent. Not even close.
Because to reset the whole network, they need a lot more pilots than they actually have. Someone would have to fly all the planes around at night, but it can’t be the pilots who flew during the day (they need to sleep at night). Like any airline, Southwest does not keep many more pilots on the payroll than they need under normal operations.
Rent price is determined by supply and demand. You can only increase rent if the market can support it. And to do that, you can do it regardless if your expenses went up or not. Goes the other way as well
people are still using WhatsApp anyway, thats the whole point.
They haven't mandated flu shots yet. Once they see how easy it was to manipulate public opinion, wouldn't be surprised to have mandated flu shots in the near future in addition to whatever other gain-of-function research virus they accidentally release next:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...
Most of the "vaccine mandates" provided as supporting examples for absolute COVID vaccine mandates have exclusions for those who have existing immunity.

For example, individuals who have had a laboratory-confirmed measles infection or can otherwise prove immunity do not need to be vaccinated against measles according to the CDC[1].

Over 44 million Americans have already had a laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and the science indicates that people who have recovered from infection have significant protection not inferior and perhaps superior to vaccine-based immunity[2].

The vast majority of people who have had a laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in the US can prove it as easily as people who have been vaccinated can prove they were vaccinated.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html

[2] https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
I love this article! These types of articles are the signs the market is about to turn over. The eviction moratorium and mortgage forbearance programs [i]just[/i] ended. It will take some time for the contagion from those programs to propagate thru the housing market.

Secondly, you can not get massive inflation with the velocity of money in the dumps[1]. Probabilistically, we are going to see stagflation until demand drops off due to higher prices and supply chains normalize. With "free" money drying up from "stimulus" packages, the demand for goods and services should wane in the coming months. There are various charts that show this starting to happen now. (Steve Van Metre on Youtube is good for macro stuff)

Thirdly, I recently watched a video from the Global Labor Org. [2] that made a few bold claims. One of which was, the US is probably already in another recession with consumer sentiment being the "tell." Interesting stuff. The methods are non-traditional to arrive at this conclusion and time will tell if they are bold and right or bold and wrong. I happen to believe they are right...

Anecdotally, I work the streets as EMS and Fire for my city, blue collar... but stable and can make SWE money with overtime. I worked through the GFC of 2008 and I see soooo many similarities, mostly in my colleagues at the station. Lots of them buy the most house they can afford monthly while living on the edge of personal solvency. They extract money from the property via HELOC to buy toys and remodel endlessly. If rates rise even a tiny bit, that party comes to a screeching halt. "Assets" are dumped at fire sale prices or they will simply walk away, ala 2008-09.

Yes, blackrock is buying thousands of properties, no one that pays attention will dispute that. However, we don't know how exposed these hedge funds are to the Evergrande collapse contagion that will spread like Covid in the coming months (ironic, no?). If these hedge funds are leveraged to the gills with bad paper, they will collapse and the houses will be sold at fire sale prices. My money is on the whole thing being exposed in ways we do not comprehend.... yet.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-jmDyg0AcE
Shadowstats's 80s-based measure says we've been having 10% YoY inflation for two decades now. If that were true, prices would've 5x'ed since the year 2000. That doesn't pass the 'sniff test' to me; e.g. the Big Mac Index [1] says a Big Mac cost $2.50 in 2000 and $5.50 today, equivalent to about 4% YoY inflation.

[1] https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
Can you blame them? These are the same teams who typically refuse to adopt practices that would allow them to create tests and we'll encapsulated designs. So inevitably the team is once bitten twice shy about breaking production. Why be the poor bastard who introduced anything but the tiniest bugfix?
Fair.

> "write it correctly now"

Though in my opinion, your version of correct is quite amiss and misses the forest for the trees.
Use Oracle JDK 17.
Oh I totally agree the lack of housing is a problem. I lived in New York City long enough to figure that one out. Death to NIMBYs.

If I were in charge of the world I'd force every apartment building in New York to magically add a couple of floors to help with that. But I don't think it's the ONLY factor, and if we keep building out other problems pop up (like less wealthy people that can't afford to live in the city proper losing hours of their lives every day to get to work, etc.)
"Training was done on eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs for 1000 epochs"
"trained on four NVIDIA V100 GPUs for 300 epochs"
"model was trained on a NVIDIA DGX-1 cluster using eight GPUs"

No doubt these are model innovations. But can't help wondering how much ready access to arrays of GPU might give them advantage... You know how many different models need to be tested before getting to the winning ones.
I'll be interesting to watch the pigeon forums the day after.

As a rule I don't think the community preps for these.
No- but you need the number of houses in a given price range to more or less match up with the number of buyers who can afford them.

Look what the jumbo loan and other federal loan limits are within a given market, and if you plot real estate listings/sale prices, there will be clusters grouped just below each limit, especially the jumbo.
Henry George's Land Value tax would be a much easier and simpler solution that would ultimately be more effective than all the stuff this guy is proposing.

The reason house prices are going up is because land values are going up, and the reason land values are going up is because there's only so much land (by which I mean locations) in the world, particularly in places where people want to live, and as the population increases and as increased productivity pushes out the margin of productivity the rent goes up.

So tax land. Use existing property tax regimes, shift taxes to land rather than buildings, and raise the rates so that it gets unprofitable to speculate on land and incentivize building as much stuff as possible. Also remove restrictive zoning ordinances and all the other usual YIMBY stuff.
For most, it's also a deal breaker.
Well that would be a different story if he did succeed at stealing the election on Jan 6 while having his supporters destroying the Capitol.

The social unrest would have been quite something.
If a buyer has $100k income and ~75k post tax, then they will be able to afford (at most) $45k per year out of pocket, or ~$2k per month. Based on the interest rate, you can work backwards to see the house they can afford, and the people buying at that price point will all have similar incomes.
That depends on what state you are in. Not every state requires it. But I’m guessing the pilots union agreement includes it.
Many marriage stats are more measures of how marriage is defined by society than measures of how married relationships are going. People who would have gotten married just for show 50 years ago aren't getting married at all now, because various stigmas are gone. Same-sex marriages are counted now but weren't before. The average marriage in Utah is very different from the average marriage in Massachusetts, and neither one of them is your marriage.
Ah yes, the inevitable, "All we have to do is chop off our arms, and our torsos shall be saved from this terrifying poison ivy. I know, because I read 10 articles on WebMD about bubonic plague, and poison ivy looks a bit like that." argument that comes with every one of these articles.

I did read the entire article, and I considered his solution to be wildly out of touch with reality, almost intentionally so to make the problem he outlines all the more drastic (surely the issue is serious if we have to take such extreme measures to end it).
It happens when you have a lot of new people who refuse to work with legacy code (which is anything over 2 years old), trivialize the complexity of the existing system (because they don’t understand a tenth of what it does), go create a sub par replacement with tons of people and years of work (that ends up coupled to the legacy system anyways), and now the company has two systems to maintain requiring double the resources as before. When everyone gets fed up and leaves, the cycle will start again. Our system is about four levels deep now. It’s the f’ing matrix.
I'm with the Georgists on this one, which is probably why I hated Monopoly even as a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Not if they can’t find anyone willing to learn COBOL.

There’s huge demand for developers on modern systems. Seriously, how much are you going to pay a developer to do mainframe COBOL - and is that developer going to produce commensurate value, really able to hold together a crumbling antique infrastructure?