skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it make the headline meaningless? It doesn't really matter whether you vote or know what you own, what matters is the wealth concentration.
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Why would you think that a company's market cap (not only the relevant portion of the business, but the entire company) is a reasonable marker for how big of a player they are inside of this part of the industry?

Heck, market caps at this point are almost entirely untethered from reality. {cf. Tesla}
I mean it made me laugh, so guess it worked (my bar is low right now!)

>>tell me a joke about a dog and cat and a priest

A cat and dog are chasing each other around a church. The dog catches up to the cat and bites it. The cat then turns around and bites the dog. The dog then turns around and bites the cat. After some time, the cat and dog are both dead.
As someone pointed out, if they made a typo, or if there was a malicious insider, it would cost them 6B to make this transaction.

The cost of a transaction also includes the probability of making a mistake times the cost of that mistake. The probability of making a mistake here is not zero.
We literally re-wrote the whole thing from the ground up 3 times LOL. At the start it was a JS app built with Jquery. Then we moved to AngularJS (1.x). Finally we decided to rewrite it again with React. A lot of Python in the backend.
And that's an inflated number because of 401k accounts, which were largely a PR exercise to convince the population that market swings affect Americans in general rather than just the wealthy (although mainly a pretense to cut national labor costs by eliminating pensions.)
There's this example from an explanation linked elsewhere in the discussion. The relevant parts of the if statement are now much further separated.

if (percentage := ((student["marks"]/700)*100)) > 70:
I have many healthcare issues in my family, so I have a lot of experience with this. It is very dependent on the field. Some are booked out for months, others you can get an appointment the week of, it is very hard to predict. Also, most medical professionals leave some amount of week-space open for emergencies, so if you REALLY need to see someone, you can in less than 24 hours in many cases. But if it's routine or part of a larger "wtf is going on" process, it can take a year to get a diagnosis bouncing between different specialists with 1+ month scheduling runways.

Currently, the industry is also facing a labor shortage, so this is making the scheduling even harder. A family member in high school was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (affecting school performance! You only get 8 semesters to mess up!), and it has been (so far) 8 weeks and we still don't have a formal intake for medical equipment. We have a prescription. We just can't get the equipment supplier to process the prescription and send it to us. I ended up paying out of pocket (and doing some crazy shit) to get a machine and supplies. Note: this is with doing what is basically a part-time job squeaky-wheeling everyone I can to try to get things happening. It is the worst.

Blue collar medical workers are quitting in droves because the work sucks and it has garbage pay, and you see the executives making huge salaries. And you get yelled at by people like me trying to make the system move faster. I try to stay friendly, but... I have lost it a few times. Of the seven people in my family, five of us have chronic medical issues.

I was just talking the other day with a friend wishing there was a medical consultancy I could hire. I give them my health insurance info and family demographics and all of the healthcare shit we need done, and then they find the providers, make appointments, file reimbursements with insurance/hsa/fsa tell me how much to put in fsa/hsa each year, deal with the full time job of having a family that needs to deal with the totally bonkers american medical system. They get some commission of whatever comes back to me, and also just some baseline monthly payment for service. PLEASE GOD LET THIS BECOME A THING. Or, you know, a not insane medical system.
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Are you implying that the government should control the economy? If so, you think a few hundred people who won a popularity contest and never actually created anything should be in charge of stuff they didn't create? Is that democracy?
Western MA is one of those weird pockets of the country that you never hear about unless you grew up there. It's always been in the shadow of the greater Boston area, both in notoriety and in funding; this post demonstrates that well. It's probably OK if you want to visit touristy stuff in Amherst/Northampton/Deerfield, but other than that it's just another textbook example of the Rust Belt and with a very uncertain future.
Sounds like you dont have a problem with regulations, but with political corruption.

Obviously, if we just get rid of regulations entirely, the corruption problem will be solved.

.. or maybe the carton of milk i buy can now kill me.
Uh oh, "bosses stealing wealth from their workers" - now that's yet another despicable stance I despise. You really repeat word for word the slogans of soviet socialists who went on to plunder the country and kill off or expulse the majority it's most capable people. It's a shame how such poisonous views proliferate in modern society.
This whole COVID crisis has rekindled what I think many already knew. That neighbors and the overall community as a whole contribute to the value of the house. The crisis is basically over in the urban areas and the blue suburbs. Not so for rural. You can't change how other people think but you can choose to live near like minded people(which is what seems to be happening).

Today its dealing with the crisis, tomorrow its something else. I don't know how prevalent this thinking is but it could be on peoples minds as they look at property.
I tend to think if the government is paying to develop new drugs they might as well do the manufacturing too.
Try getting an appointment for basically anything not urgent and you are looking at march at the earliest. Urgent means weeks possibly a month now
Then we should encourage that even more. That they are sacrificing sales/money for experiencing being a female.
It does not in fact contradict my beliefs, although it seems like it aims to make my beliefs sound unattractive to others.
Is it a problem? I wouldn't call it an earth-shattering one, but yeah, I think we're rife with opportunity to, say, take a note from Docker's use of UnionFS, to provide common baseline electron, and layer on dependencies on top of it.

For first world countries, the concept of burning gigabytes of data on the daily is no real concern, but in less connected places, less privileged regions of the world, gigabytes an hour is a pipe dream. Even for us folks with more dense data connectivity, making more room on transit bandwidth is a boon for everyone (even if it is to make more room to stream more cat videos).

Happily cede that it's not a top level concern, but I do agree with the sentiment that we can do better, and we should try to.
Most of the complaints I've seen about automated traffic cameras have been in big cities. Little towns seem to like still having the personal touch of a police officer in a patrol car run the traffic traps.
We are missing the real juicy bit- top 0.1%
Much more likely*
Nice ressource, if every country had that we could have a common ground on which to discuss wealth and income inequality
Just to clarify (I believe this is what you were hinting at), they dont pay any state income tax. If you look at sales/property taxes for those states you can see some of them make up for the lack of income tax.
Yes, in the long term cash is much riskier than stocks.
Compared to the Forbes 50, it feels like everyone is middle class. it's hard to fathom having as much money as Musk even if you are rich
Hmm this doesn't entirely make sense. What kind(s) of ownership are they talking about? Direct stock ownership? Mutual Funds? Index Funds?

Something to think about: the Fed has been POURING money into the stock market, to keep "the economy" stable. They don't have to use money in that way; they could also use money to actually help people (theoretically anyway)
> Related: 61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020

It means their income is very low: OP is just pointing out how US society is very very polarized between a small group rich owners (10% that own almost all the stocks) and and a big group of poor people (60% of the population).
Not every application is an Electron app and you have plenty of choices if you don't want to use Electron apps.

It really depends on individual use. For instance, I am currently running at least 6 browser engine instances as I type this, probably more than that, and I just am not experiencing a meaningful performance hit that would cause me to get pissed at Electron.

If that happens to you, then sure, I can't argue against that.

But yours may not be everyone's experience. I am personally skeptical as to whether 140 MB (I'm pretty sure we were talking about binary size, not memory usage) is as big a problem as HN makes it out to be.
Medicaid is literally insurance
Great point about CI/CD pipelines being hard to move between cloud providers. I wish someone will do for CI/CD what Docker/k8s did for cloud deployment and provide a non-proprietary structure that can be easily transferred.
Great initiative - looking forward to a better social media experience!
Not taxing the rich, capital gains as income, seems to contribute to inflation

I'd say you're half right, here. The Fed prints money spends $80 billion a month on treasuries and $40 billion a month on mortgage backed securities, so if you're a government contractor or you have a lot of real estate assets, you're effectively robbing everyone else's savings and devaluing their wages.
Hey everyone - I just completed initial development of a new iPhone app that allows users to draw their path on Earth using different colored lines/map styles and share their drawings with the community. I think it's fun, but I would love to get your feedback. It's currently iPhone only, but I designed the back end such that it would be possible to develop an Android equivalent and have the two platforms share drawings/likes/etc.

It's currently in beta testing using TestFlight. The URL points to TestFlight. You all probably know this, but in case you don't, you use Apple's TestFlight app to download and install beta apps like mine.

The main thing you do is to use your phone's GPS to get outside and draw something using your location (or more precisely, changes to your location). This allow you to draw, well, anything. Then when you're done, you can share the drawing for others using the app to see and "like".

I'm hoping to have it in the App Store by the end of October, but I'd love your feedback first if you're willing! Thank you in advance.
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I think many services nowadays end up offering a worst user experience in the name of "simplifying their interface" (I imagine this must be the only reason why Spotify wouldn't add this option).

Not only on this case but, for instance, it would be nice if spotify easily allowed someone to import their playlist from other services, or even from some text playlist. But they don't add these options. And I don't understand why.

Like, technically I assume it make sense for them to make as much of a pain in the ass to EXPORT your spotify playlists to other services, but they should make as easy as possible for the user to bring their favorite playlists and yadda yadda to Spotify.
that is because that is a large and reliable voting bloc
That's not how it works in reality.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalpropensitytocon...
The money wouldn't be lost, they have a good relationship with Tether who can simply freeze and reissue.
My original post: Private constructors still match for overload resolution, and can cause your compiler to barf when a explicit deletion would allow the compiler to find an appropriate legal match.

I was wrong. delete leaves it in the overload set. I've been using C++ for a decade and I'm still tripping over some of the stupider semantics.
I guess I don't really buy that this isn't served well by genre or artist based playlists. How much more nuanced are you going to get than saying "I want to play some alt pop" for this party.
I pay almost $1k a month for insurance with a $2500 deductible. Each year my premiums rise another 10-15%. I have to spend hours finding providers that are accepting new patients and usually the wait is long.

This isn't sustainable for me in the long run and I'm definitely considering leaving the US because of it.
This is true only for those of us privileged enough to have discretionary income. Which is not all of us :)
By funding campaigns, lobbying, running think tanks, owning media reaching millions of people, having people of your company sit in government agencies (...) economic power quickly translates to political power.
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Abstract:

A survey of machine learning techniques trained to detect ransomware is presented. This work builds upon the efforts of Taylor et al. in using sensor-based methods that utilize data collected from built-in instruments like CPU power and temperature monitors to identify encryption activity. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) shows the features most useful from this simulated data are clock speed, temperature, and CPU load. These features are used in training multiple algorithms to determine an optimal detection approach. Performance is evaluated with accuracy, F1 score, and false-negative rate metrics. The Multilayer Perceptron with three hidden layers achieves scores of 97% in accuracy and F1 and robust data preparation. A random forest model produces scores of 93% accuracy and 92% F1, showing that sensor-based detection is currently a viable option to detect even zero-day ransomware attacks before the code fully executes.
DeepMind have acquired the MuJoCo simulator and wants to make it open-source
Lawmakers accuse Amazon executives of misleading or lying to Congress
Also, "federal" here does not include not include payroll taxes, which are, nonetheless, considered "federal taxes" in any colloquial conception of the term.

Of course, in addition to the lying by omission, the true irony here is that the "lack" of "federal" taxes paid by the masses is more so a symptom of a deeply inequitable economic system than the counterbalancing endorsement of the status quo the OP likely envisions it to be.
The demo's interesting, though I get errors on some questions.

Q: What's better, Python or R?
A: R

Q: I'm a web developer. What's better for me, Python or R?
A: R

Q: I'm an embedded developer who pays a lot of attention to performance. What's better for me, C or Python?
A: C

Q: My dog is 7.5 months old and bites when she's excited. What should I do?
A: train her to not bite

Q: How do I train my puppy not to bite?
A: take your puppy to the vet and have them give it a shot of rabies.

Q: I haven't brushed my teeth in three months. What risks do I face?
A: decay

Q: My TV is 55 inches. What is the ideal sitting distance from my TV?
A: 10 feet

Q: My TV is 88 inches. What is the ideal sitting distance from my TV?
A: 10 feet

Q: My TV is 36 inches. What is the ideal sitting distance from my TV?
A: 6 feet

Q: I was handling an injured bat, and it bit me in the finger. What should I be worried about?
A: rabies

Q: I was handling an injured opossum, and it bit me in the finger. What should I be worried about?
A: rabies

Q: Make me a diet plan for losing 30 pounds.
A: lose 30 pounds in 3 months

Q: Make me a diet plan for losing 40 pounds.
A: lose weight by eating less and exercising more.

Q: How do I become a better data scientist?
A: learn the basics of statistics and programming.

Q: How is a data scientist different from a statistician?
A: a data scientist is a person who uses statistical methods to analyze data

A mixture of correct (if abbreviated) answers, incorrect answers, and head scratchers. Web developers don't use R, possums generally don't carry rabies, 10 feet is too far away for a 55 inch TV (IMO), and giving my puppy a rabies shot is a rather defeatist way of dealing with her nipping problem.
458 comments from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214
Get a ThinkPad and install fedora. Read the arch wiki if you run into problems with specific software. You'll barely notice the change tbh, gnome is really good these days especially on a standard fedora workstation release.

ThinkPads mostly just work (they use Ubuntu to run their acceptance tests before shipping). You do sometimes run into issues for a couple months on new machine releases while kernel catches up but having enough Linux users running them means things get fixed eventually unlike on say system76. Dell xps works about as well if that's more your style.
Here's an academic article on how ancient Rome influenced the writing of the US Constitution:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3290141
I actually worked as a security guard through most of college, split amongst various sites including out local mall. We actually called it "harassment" not bullying, but we absolutely took it seriously and you could find yourself banned from the mall pretty easily, and none of the "boys will be boys" or "he's a good kid" that you'll often see used to excuse the behavior in schools. Frankly, my opinion is the mall probably dealt with it MORE effectively than my high school.
A whole lot of the universal healthcare systems elsewhere also does not "get away from the private healthcare industry". Many countries with universal cover have private hospitals providing the services or private insurers providing part of the insurance solutions, or both, without incurring the problems of the US model.

Here's a first step to solving the US problem: Remove the legal restrictions on Medicare preventing it from negotiating best possible prices, and reinvest whatever it manages to save on expanding coverage.
Do they? I don't really think that's the case, and you can seek out different discussions if that's what you've been hearing.

Mainstream discussions are generally about "the 1%" vs. everyone else, or Biden's income threshold of $400,000 (the top ~5%).
Right and so what does saying this achieving? There is still so much nuance as to, in my opinion, make this fact practically useless.

There’s no breakdown of capital gains taxes. Or how much taxes are not captured because of loopholes or tax benefits that go to this segment or that segment of income level or wealth.

OTOH, I don’t know how many services come from local government that isn’t the federal government.

These are simplified examples/points. The point remains both the original stat and this one portray a skewed narrative.

I don’t think this changes anything for my original comment. One could say it even bolsters the case as it is another example of how misleading a quick stat can be.
when the market falls it always recovers fast, so not a concern.
This is really good news. It was a really contentious issue in RL and robotics research to be so reliant on proprietary (and very expensive) software.
Rufus is the best, IMO. Tiny amazing tool tha does exactly what it needs to do.
You're definitely not thick! This is getting a bit into the weeds of lower-level C++, but it is useful. So what delete is doing is explicitly saying that a given method (with a particular signature) is defined to not exist. It's usually used in cases where the compiler would automatically create a method for you, or use a method you wouldn't want to be used.

The example they give is the reference wrapper, which (as the name might suggest), is used to wrap a reference to some thing. To reiterate, with hopefully a bit more of what is going on.

If the creator of this method had just created a function:

template<class T>
auto cref(const T&) -> std::reference_wrapper<const T>;

Then by C++ overloading rules, you could call this function with either an const ref LValue, or an RValue of type T. (In their example, they used a number). Which for 95% of functions is totally fine, and desired behavior! However, in this case, it would be bad, because remember, we are trying to wrap a reference to some value (e.g. basically a pointer under the hood), so a pointer to some ephemeral value is likely not what we want.

In order to solve this, the creator explicitly adds:
template<class T>
auto cref(const T&&) = delete;

Now, if the user calls cref on an RValue like a number, they will get a nice error message saying that the function has been explicitly deleted. The reason this works is because "const T&&" is the better match for the type of an RValue, compared to "const T&", so this is the overload that the compiler will try to use, rather than the original version above.

Some other reasons to use delete, is if you want to do stuff like explicitly forbid the use of copy constructors, because you have some object that you don't want copies made of for whatever reason. By explicitly deleting the copy constructor, you can be sure that no copies are accidentally made somewhere in user code (which is especially useful when your code interacts with other libraries you don't control)

I hope that made sense, but the TLDR is that there are a lot of ways construct objects, delete objects, to copy / move data around, etc. If you are doing low-level memory management / optimization, you may want to explicitly tell the compiler not to do the normal "helpful" stuff it does for you, such as creating default constructors / overloads, and this is the supported way of doing that in the standard.
Lower classes spend 100% of their discretionary money' on assets, 'it's just that their 'discretionary money' is 0.
We work with a client who has requested a Kafka cluster. They can’t really say why, or what they need it for, but the now have a very large cluster which doesn’t do much. I know why they want it, same reason why they “need” Kubernetes. So far they use it as a sort of message bus.

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Kafka, it’s a very good product and extremely robust. Same with Kubernetes, it has it uses and I can’t fault anyone for having it as a consideration.

My problem is when people ignore how capable modern servers are, and when developers don’t see the risks in building these highly complex systems, if something much simpler would solve the same problem, only cheaper and safer.
They make less than minimum wage otherwise, so I imagine bad.
The first rule of high school student contest will be that you need to be in high school. For feminists, they have shot themselves in foot in this regard. They want that everyone to be treated equal(and in many case not even define females) but at the same time they don't.
The issue I've seen in most of these cases is that they have a difficult time proving who was in control of the vehicle at the time. The ticket is issued to the registered owner of the vehicle instead of the driver. So even if the prosecutor is the accuser based off video, that video evidence often isn't enough to determine who was the offender.
People have been predicting this shit hit the fan moment for the past decade
Well, somehow they need to make money to serve those videos. it seems fair to me.
Per parent comment, those people do contribute to federal spending through payroll and other taxes, even if income taxes make up the largest proportion of revenues.

The fact that you took it that way is evidence of how the original comment is misleading to many people.
Reddit itself has an annoying dark-patterns UI. You have to edit the URL into old.reddit.com to get a reasonable page to read.
Entirely agreed, I also lived from tourism in a european city and it's miserable. Also, living near a tourist destination is awful just for the sheer amount of people going in and out. Massified tourism is really not that great as people make it out to be