skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great observation. Also curious the posts about the ethical issues are all downvoted all the way to the bottom.
That's why I said I could go on about why it's not perfect. I admit there's downsides, but I still view it as a great thing on net, due to the general tendency to align incentives with value provision.
The reaction then should be curiosity and a starting place for research, not the uninformed outrage that the article is peddling.

Once you start looking at the numbers behind this, it's almost guaranteed that the real picture will be less outragous and suggest different policy prescriptions than whatever you might think looking at the headline.

Or maybe you already know the details, and already know what we should do. But if so, you got your information from elsewhere, because the article doesn't offer much.
There's this pretty abstract idea of boolean blindness, which basically boils down to the idea that a boolean by itself must always be associated with an interpretation and said interpretation is external to the boolean. Afterall a boolean by itself is just a single bit of data, 0 or 1, how to interpret that bit is entirely independent of the bit itself.

This means anytime you operate on a boolean, you must somehow recover its interpretation from somewhere, and the argument is that such recovery is error prone and fragile.

The preferred way, presumably, is then to encode the interpretation directly into the type, so for example you use an enum along with pattern matching, or you write a type that wraps a boolean with some value (like a Maybe/Optional type). In effect anytime you have a boolean, you also carry with it its interpretation side-by-side so you don't need to go figuring out how to recover it.

This article goes into it in more depth:

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-bli...

I personally think it's insightful and useful, but there are also downsides to it as well, for example when you need to operate on multiple booleans, it becomes unergonomic and bloated to deal with pattern matching over multiple enums or having to write out a lot of redundant code instead of operating on boolean operators.

Basically consider these two options:

Option 1: boolean blindness.

bool isEven(int value);

...

if(isEven(x)) {
print("Even");
} else {
print("Odd");
}

Option 2: Enum

enum Parity {
EVEN,
ODD
};

Parity getParity(int value);

...

switch(getParity(x)) {
case: Parity::EVEN:
print("Even");
break;
case: Parity::ODD:
print("Odd");
break;
}

You can decide which if the two options above is more appealing to you in terms of reading and writing.
I think it's because despite the fact that the US is called the land of opportunity, the system is rigged against entrepreneurs (no social safety net) unlike EU where you can fuck around without a job for years. So, I think there is something about money making initiatives because you don't have time to mess around.
It is... and that's potentially part of the problem. The value proposition at the low-demand end of serverless is less clear for PHP, since it's pretty much had that value (throw files on a cheap host and forget about the vanishingly small cost) for two decades.

Still compelling for people who see spiky to high traffic and are happy to have scale reduced to an accounting/budgeting problem, of course, and I'm pretty sure Laravel has something like this.
I'll be sure to do so if/when I build this, in the mean time here are the Show HNs for the recommendation projects I've done so far:

- Music (defunct): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584508

- Cross-domain (defunct): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23541840

- Essays (still running with ~100 DAU but not actively developed): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921127

- Newsletters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27664020
For undergrad students trying to dabble in reinforcement learning, several hundreds of dollars can be quite a lot.
Thank goodness you figured it all out.

Hopefully you don’t end up with a medical condition that exhausts your PTO and you get kicked off insurance. My neighbor’s go fund me staved off foreclosure for 6 months when his wife had cancer.
>Since only 20 or so people a year are diagnosed with this, the drugs to treat it would have to cost 1.5MM just to be decently profitable... Is that a just healthcare system?

If it cost 1 trillion to add a year to the life of just one person, should society pay it, even if that trillion is then not able to be used for lots of other societal needs?

Arguing for policy while ignoring opportunity costs leads to more human suffering than would otherwise result.
> being put on a 8 month wait

One way to think about it is that there are low wait times on the US because nobody can afford the care. You can skip the queue because all the poor people are kicked out of line.
It's $current_year and there's still debate whether checking stuff at compilation time is better than at runtime?
The cause is likely not money or goodwill: it’s legal privacy rulings. GDPR and the FCO ruling [1] have made it so cross-platform data (like the IG-FB data here to guess if two ad spend users are the same) isn’t allowed without explicit consent. My guess is that’s what’s driving this.

[1]. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215143/facebook-whatsapp...
The Intel Optane drives he's testing with hit max performance at pretty low queue depths, but flash-based SSDs with similar throughput will require those high queue depths.
> If you have good work based coverage, our care is excellent. Fast access, and low out of pocket costs.

Our care might be excellent but the administrative burden is not.

> Fast access, and low out of pocket costs.

Have you ever had to challenge a bill? or find out that the provider you used sent your labs to another provider that was out of your network and now you owe the other provider full price?

> I cannot imagine living in Canada and being put on a 8 month wait for something important but not urgent...

And you don't need to mimic their process. You can have single payer and privatized medicine. If you're wealthy or a company wants to offer a premium insurance then so be it. There will be a market for those "speed lanes" if you want.
Tahoe is relatively protected from water diversion because it is up high in the mountains: there isn't that much agriculture to divert water for and there isn't a large population either.

The water problems of California are mostly felt in the central valley where the most agriculture is. A much larger lake, Lake Tulare, disappeared from there over 100 years ago due to agriculture, dams, and water diversion.
This wouldn't be Hacker News if someone didn't comment that ACTUALLY a random walk of n steps will get you sqrt(n) in some direction, which is much better than log(n). I guess my special skill is being pedantic.
Yes, this part is super relevant to answer WHY it is written the way it is.

C++ has a lot of nice ideas under the hood, but the syntax and reading experience definitely isn't ideal because of the desire for backwards compatibility (which includes the very strong desire to not introduce new keywords / tokens if there is any possible way to avoid it)
If photo editors have an internal representation of all operations in the history of the document and the ability to recompute them all up the a given point, and they DON'T expose this to the user except through the undo button, that's a pretty big failure of design.
IANAP (...Not A Psychiatrist), but a great many people who are enthusiastic readers (especially of novels) seem to imagine close relationships between themselves and their favorite authors, extensively fabricate details of the authors and relationships, and become very emotionally invested in those imagined relationships.

Hence the anger and feelings of betrayal when an actual author's identity, behavior, etc. fail to match those of the reader's close and trusted (but quite imaginary) friend.
It is materialist in the phylosophical sense in that it puts material in the somewhat dominant position to ideas.

It is clearly not a material anthropology, nor is the history being brought forth the history of stuff, it's clearly about the relationships people build when helping each other.

It's also clear that the word "alienation" retains its original meaning - he is talking about the psychological disconnect between people and their community and the breakdown of their relationships.
I guess you got lucky by travelling domestic only in the US. 3 Hour lines at Heathrow passport control are not uncommon. US border agents can and will deny entry for to foreigners for any or no reason. Had a rifle raised and pointed at me while bag was searched in Sri Lanka.
Curious to hear your perspective on this thought experiment.

From TFA, the analogy seems to be a developer publishing an api key for a read/write access to a bank account (say, Plaid). If someone was to use this key to withdraw money from a checking account that has no two factor, and somehow use an atm to convert it to cash, what legal recourse would the owner of that account have?

This seems to be less about crypto going mainstream and more about security mechanisms? or am I misunderstanding the premise here?
But still, according to your economic meritocracy, it would follow that Alice Walton is of higher merit than, say, the totality of: your five favorite economic think tanks, the entire economic faculty at Harvard, and the CEOs of the Big Four.

Actually, scratch that -- Bezos dwarfs them all. We should defer to his wisdom first and foremost on all matters economic.
I don’t think it’s backwards. I think it’s just that the extremely wealthy and other sympathizers love to play the game any way they can. In certain situations, yes they love to say what you said. In other circumstances, they love to only point out how little so many others pay, if at all.

This points to the larger problem of inequality and how the water is beyond muddy now.
People who don't think types are a good thing need to work in a statically typed language for a year or two and then see what a difference it makes in reality. Unproductive Java bureaucracy != static typing.

I think the people debating it never tried it seriously.
too bad the results are not that good. when using duckduckgo you have to be very specific or you just get unrelated crud
From that same site, 90% net worth is ~1.25m. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta...

If you contribute 2k a month at 7% interest that would take you 23 years. A long time yes, but certainly achievable on a 100k salary. Of course I know the interest rate might not be that going forward, but the point still stands.
Try adding 'i915.enable_psr=0' to your kernel params. This fixes a weird bug I encountered where text would disappear, or weirdly not disappear when it should have disappeared. Hopefully this helps!
I thought of being sarcastic, but you've done it for me.

My version of that saying is "If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bus" but this is fine, too.
How much Lake Tahoe water (or feed water) is used for agriculture?
Can we report this account? It has been opened 4 years ago, with 2 comments, including this one.
How to Hire a UX Engineer
That's a myth. There's plenty of data on this. Most American never get anywhere close to the top 10% - not even remotely - regardless of age. The idea that everyone is just waiting around for their career to advance enough to put them in the upper-middle class is ludicrous on its face. Just as ludicrous as the myth that only high school kids work for minimum wage.
I said nothing about the cost of goods. My comment has much more to do with setting prices via the supply/demand methodology, which includes "not everyone who can - or needs to - buy it will be able to buy it" margins.

This has little to do with the cost to produce something, other than to set the lowest bounds of the sale price (which by itself is a simplification given the concepts of loss leaders and non-monetary gains).

I'd honestly much prefer if they were charging according to their costs and not market forces.

I'll come out and say it: Pricing people out of your medicine so you can increase your profit margin is capital-E Evil.
No. I’ll just keep printing documents for both reading and archival.

I even have a comb binding machine so that I can assemble booklets of related published papers, which I rely on — in combination with the digital form — for my work.

Sometimes it’s just more efficient to page through and find what you’re looking for in a physical document, and reserve my screens for other information.

Furthermore, “bad for the environment” is an empty, thought terminating argument. Personal computers are bad for the environment, and you’re even worse for the environment, but that’s not an argument for eliminating computers or you.
I'm curious how they would handle this with regards to lift tests. You can ask Facebook to not show your ads to faction of the addressable audience, and then calculate sales for the treated and control groups. If they don't make the randomization binding across platforms, it can several reduce the incrementality measurement (effectiveness of Facebook ads).
Yes, but in those cases, you aren't the one worrying about cors. The services you use are.
I dont know anyone that got a substantial pay raise in 2017 when the corporate tax rate went from 35% to 21%. I also dont remember prices declining.

are you sure that corporate taxes are paid by the employee and lowering taxes results in higher pay and lower prices?
It's called a citation.
No, because in your scenario the people who have $1.25M in assets now are going to have $6M in 23 years (invested at the same rate), so these high earners still won't end up in the top 10%.

This is, I'm sure, is what the parent means. Compared to people with capital, people on high incomes are always behind.

If you earn more than average, spend less than your peers, and invest wisely then you might move up a bit on the wealth scale, but that's it.
Interesting article, but I have to disagree with the Chess - Go analogy. Pieces in chess do not have a fixed point value. "Knights are worth 3 points" is merely a heuristic that can be moderately useful in an initial assessment of a position...but anyone that plays chess knows that the NETWORK matters. A queen on the wrong side of the board is worth less than a pawn about to promote near the enemy's king; three coordinated pieces are worth more valuable than four isolated pieces.
That was a win!

In power markets, it's really hard scaling around each market/state's idiosyncracies almost like it's not a technology problem and more regulatory/financing. Hope you guys figure it out.
At this point they're competing with CloudFront, S3, and Lambda, but it is still a a long ways away from all of AWS.
I would happily read sources that prove this as being false
Or at least the closest paragraph in terms of timeline with the birth of Soviet russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Censorship_(Russian_...

But even seeing at what's happening now, you have a rogue state, made of oligarchs, killing journalists, and I guess it's hardly communism to be blamed, I think happening in Russia was the worst thing that could've happened to the communist ideas
If the results on DDG are not satisfactory, I prepend a !g and try again.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang
We are building that layer for CI at Earthly.

But, depending on your use case, you could also try to describe your build process is some combination of make files and dockerfiles and then just call that from whatever CI you are using.
A lot of RL problems can be adequately simulated in either Mujoco or PhysX. So even though as you pointed out they have key differences, there is a pretty big overlap in use cases. So in that sense, I believe it still does qualify as competition.
With apple there’s a single toggle switch to turn the whole thing off and delete the collected data.
We are going back to a time where the church and nobility are exempt from taxation and the monarch in desperation keeps squeezing the peasants.
Perfect response!

Your profile is blank. If you’re up for it. Look at mine and send me an email. Every other comment I saw where I knew the comment was not logically sound but couldn’t quite word it right. You were there already having written a great response.
Yes. The gargantuan size implies it's some complex application carrying out out some special processes, rather than a simple utility that can also be performed with shell builtins. This makes users less in touch with the workings of systems, which if they're playing around with disk images, is the opposite of what they'd like to accomplish.
Sure, that is a valid excuse for the bottom quartile of income earners for not saving, but not the middle class. There isn't enough demand in the wealthiest 10% to warrant 15,000 Starbucks locations
I doubt it, that's clearly exceeded by these language models. Calling it just an autocomplete - because it can mean a lot of things people are familiar with - is a way to downplay their significance.
The pharmaceutical market - specifically this company who is charging $10,000 for a medication in one market and under $200 in another - is certainly following capitalist methodologies: "Charge what the market can bear."
Google Research already maintains the Bullet Engine as well (although it mostly seems to be Erwin Coumans maintaing it)

Each have their own strengths, there is no "definitive" physics engine. Bullet is probably the most generalist engine, but it suffers a bit because of this approach (it's split between the old 2.0 C++ API vs. the new PyBullet API with vastly different functionalities)
> You can't post swipes like that to HN

"Swipes"? The guy was claiming that monied interests isn't pro-climate. That's as out of tourch with reality as a flat earther.

> (No, it's not because of your views.)

Oh STFU you worthless rat. Everyone knows it is. There is two sides to a "flamewar" and you only seem to ban one side. Not to mention you post a bunch of flamebait garbage yourself.

> and please don't create accounts to break them with.

What a miserable garbage you are. Make HN a private forum then.

Imagine wasting your life as a moderator. Your parents must be proud.
I think you misremember. I was definitely on the net and the web with a 14.4k modem. It was not that useful. The web was a pretty small part of the net iirc until the mid-90s. I preferred IRC channels and BBSes then since I was very young and didn't have the patience for most websites to load and I couldn't instantly join the "conversation" like I could with a BBS or an IRC channel.
Honestly will never go back to languages without type checking, it prevents so many bugs and is a huge help in understanding code you haven’t worked with previously.
once you combine that with 16 and under, you are getting most of it.
Yes. This same kind of error also applies to racial comparisons. A large component of racial disparate in income is caused by age gap. One would assume that different races have the same age distribution, but in reality it is not. The difference is huge, see: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common...
I agree in principal, but there are a couple big problems with this argument.

1) This only works if everyone starts at the same line. Obviously not the case while there's a huge variance in inheritance, education, influence, opportunity. If a 100m race has some people starting on the 50m line while others are on the 0m line, it's not a race based solely on merit. Some of the starters on the 50m will still lose to the 0m starters, but statistically they have a much better chance.

2) We don't live in a free market society. "Free market" is just an ideal (like communism or utopia is an ideal) that doesn't truly exist outside of a vacuum. Most societies (the US included) are a combination of free market, socialism, capitalism, cronyism, etc.

I'm not arguing for a different system than capitalism here, but if you're going to argue for our existing system, then you shouldn't conflate it with free market or meritocracy which simply doesn't exist outside of a lab.

Saying free market is a great system, is practically the same as saying unicorns are cool. For sure they are, but how is that relevant?
ResearchGate and Hindawi partner to extend reach of open access research
https://libfive.com/studio/
But they can accept that the world is not geared towards amateur dabblers, and that a few hundreds of $ for a license (a license, meaning to legalize production usage, you can always copy from somewhere to "dabble") is nothing.
I think, the important part was that Computer Space attempted a single player game.

Notably, the early, highly successful games, like Spacewar! and Pong created a level playfield, where two human players of different age and abilities could match in a way that had been impossible before. Which contributed much to the attraction of these games.
> This led to an immediate loss of thousands of dollars in liquid assets and the eventual loss of some awesome NFTs. In addition, several irreplaceable NFTs (like the steviep.eth ENS entry and my avatar NFT) became locked on that wallet.

Right there at the beginning it's clear they lost a great deal.
Am I an odd case? Nowadays all my side-project code is to scratch an itch, fix a problem or create a solution I want to use that doesn't exist yet. I'm not motivated by the tech itself and the money is not a primary driver either.
As always: please show me an alternative to Electron that works out of the box on Linux/Win10/MacOS with zero edits to your JavaScript.

I would be delighted if there was an alternative. I ask every time an Electron hate discussion pops up. Still nothing anywhere near as good for Node Server + Browser Framework.
I’ve done everything from Haskell to Java and I still strongly prefer Clojure and Common Lisp-style dynamic types.
Super cool. As a note, try selecting "Areas" for a hierarchical view

I noticed a glitch in the demo. The "options" area, when only "animated" is selected, thinks that the three checkboxes are not vertically aligned (jumps from "animated" to "strict area", skipping "Areas" when pressing up / down, need to press "right" to get to "Areas")
Yes, I'd bet a large amount of money that this was done due to privacy compliance reasons.
This is the primary barrier to adoption and one that is, IMO, insurmountable.

The ways in which traditional currency is safeguarded is far more important to most of the population. I completely understand some people's hesitancy around government regulation and it's totally sane given what some folks have lived through. But the consolidation of banking institutions in the real world is pretty clearly mirrored in the cryptoworld and that side of banking is already far less reliable than real world banking. Mt. Gox was a while ago, sure, but a lot of people lost a lot of money doing something that shouldn't have been dangerous.

Most of the population trusts the government more than enough to protect themselves against this sort of blatant fraud and, at this point, I think most crypto currency is legitimately held by speculators which can create liquidity to drive transactions but which, on its own, does not a market make.
> If you declare but don't define a private copy constructor/assignment then you hit vague linker errors elsewhere that will likely send a user on a chase trying to figure out how their include paths don't match their linker paths and which library they forgot to link against.

I think you missed the importance of private. Users of it won't get it to compile for them to get a linker error.