skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that’s the problem that is cared about. Are you saying going after the lower socioeconomic class of America is how to get back those evaded taxes?

The narrative in general for the statistic is about lower socioeconomic people. If this was a good faith caring about tax evasion. Why would the focus be on the people with the least income and wealth?

I don’t think it would be if that was really the problem being cared about.

And yes the sales tax is part of the point. To give nuance to such a simple statistic.
I agree to some extent. I'm not sure whether AI should be used for resume screening, but I'd lean towards no until biases are proven to not be an issue (if that's possible). There are obviously other areas where this is an important issue that we need to think critically about such as loans and criminal sentencing.
Nothing to see here, it's working as intended.
You asked a racist question. You got a racist answer. Why are you acting surprised? This is a tool, not a sentient general AI. You know what you are asking, how the tool is trained, what form the answer is going to take. Why do this?

And just in case someone thinks I'm being flippant:

Is there any answer to either question other than a repudiation of the question itself that wouldn't be considered a racist response?
I have tried to move some stuff from PHP to Python (using Flask for example - I don't want to imagine the performance of Django) and the difference in performance is pathetic. Especially given the reputation of both languages. Python is still easier so if you can throw money at AWS it is a better option.
4-6 months has become extremely common now a days. If you only have to wait a month drop to your knees and praise the deity of your choice
Quick check in the network tab shows that each camera move sends the full buffer and camera coords to some aws server where it spends a second rendering then comes back with an image.

The JSCAD integration is however all in-browser and is far smoother. They should lead with it, IMO.
Yes well put. Exactly how it goes.
> What's the real motivation behind this Facebook update?

Money
Thanks! That example really helps to crystalize the technique :-)
Your complaint would have always applied to this stat. The fact that it is at an all-time record high signifies that something has changed.
If you can’t imagine that then you’ve probably not dealt with any serious health effects in the US system.
i am currently researching cancer due to my diagnosis. Its a fascinating world that will keep me occupied for a long time. I am learning statistics p-values, multi-variate analysis , kaplan-meier ect. A little bit of genetics and cell anatomy, mutations when i am bored of stats and reading about human side of cancer in the book 'emperor of all maladies'. I am really enjoying this part of the journey, learning something from scratch, beginner gains.
Also related (and not spun in a way to make it seem like 61% of Americans aren't paying their fair share):

From 1975 to 2018, the difference between the aggregate taxable income for those below the 90th percentile and the equitable growth counterfactual totals $47 trillion.

"Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018"
https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html
Yes, underfunded systems tend to perform poorly, especially when society doesn't integrate other necessary services such as housing or unemployment assistance very well.
Just a note. You don't pay income taxes on stocks. You pay capital gains taxes.
If you're selling an "info product" (course, book, etc.) it matters a lot more as people often buy those things aspirationally. If you're selling something that's more transactional (in OPs case a job site) then it doesn't matter so much.
If it was tax-based, most likely the premiums would be much much lower, and there would be no deductibles. Nor denial of service.

There’s also the moral cost of participating in and supporting a system extorting the less fortunate.

“Not my problem” is where we are divided - and pay an extraordinary price, becoming complicit in the extreme violence of poverty.
I think the ethical failure here is on behalf of the house owners. They knew they were selling the house and could've told their customers that but I'm sure they didn't just in case the sale didn't go through.
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Funny thing there is that one could read that as saying that the copy constructor's deletion is private and therefore still accessible in the public interface. I wouldn't put it past C++ to do something as crazy as that.
Probably minimum wage of some suitably populous city or state. Why in the world would the mode be relevant though?
Right, so just stop being poor and you can get the medical care you need. I can’t imagine why anyone complains about the system.
Proving the concept is huge, since this is an idea that's at least as old as satellites. Once they have the proof of concept, I see three additional hurdles: 1. Safety. Prove you can keep these things in the air for months at a time without any of them crashing. 2. Payload. Exactly what you point out. 3. Operational usefulness. Can this thing stay in the air for months while flying the routes necessary to complete its mission?

I really hope Airbus and others are able to make this concept work. It would be nice to have an in-between option between UAS and satellite.
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There’s only one answer, and it’s not the right one!
The part that concerns me the most is the fact that inequality is the result of a global money-printing ponzi scheme. As most people learn what has happened, the level of bitterness and division is going to be intolerable. What we're seeing now is nothing because most people still don't know what has happened. Even 90% of people on HN don't realize what has happened.

Also, now the system will be forced into hyper-drive. Those who have benefited from the scheme so far will benefit even more; the crony system will need to incentivize its proponents into an increasingly deep trance as the fraudulent nature of the scheme becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. Those who have been harmed by the system will be harmed even more. There will be a tiny percentage of the population living a blissful life of ignorance while resentment grows within the majority of the population. The narratives around everything; politics, the economy and society are going to fall apart. We might actually end up with some kind of anarchy.
At least one would, yeah.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a delightfully centrish-center-right liberal publication.

https://www.nzz.ch/

Switzerland, and the German speaking world in general are almost always on the sidelines in issues of politics, tech, economics and especially foreign policy when it’s outside, or merely adjacent to continental Europe.

For issues in Europe, well, it’s Swiss & German speaking. In US affairs, of which there is slightly too much coverage, it manages to avoid the polemics present in German-German publications.

https://www.nzz.ch/
Am I the only one seeing a lot of headlines pitting top 10% against the rest? It’s disingenuous to make up headlines like this without mentioning too 10% consists of, you guessed it, top 1% which owns more than 50% of all the stocks.
This line of criticism frames it as if the Carmen Mola public persona is unacceptably dishonest compared to the acceptably dishonest fake public persona called Beatriz Gimeno.

I don't mean to throw shade, it's simply the inescapable nature of cultivating a public image. Mola may be fiction, Gimeno is "based on a true story" fiction. (And interestingly enough, pen names are a time honored literary tradition.)

So when I see statements like the one you quote, my brain immediately interprets it as deflection. After a bit of turning it over in my head, I expect it's not a purposeful deflection but still find it worthwhile to make explicit. It leads us to the question: to whom and for what reason(s) is it important I see the distinction as meaningful?
Do you cringe more or less than right now, when Amazon dominates all the markets CloudFlare is trying to enter except one?
No it's not. Those 10% are all independent actors with individual and private interests.

I'd much rather the economy be controlled by the top 10% of a productive society than by the 1% of a bureaucratic structure.
I think I see the point you're making, but the stuff that you say that the stimulus money was spent on are the things that result from the US economic inequality: folks tend to save when they _need_ a safety net; folks tend to pay down debts _when they have debts_ (especially those that they didn't feel they could pay down without the stimulus, which are generally larger, such as medical or legal debts); etc.

I own a box of band-aids, way more than enough to patch the cuts and scrapes I'm likely to experience in the near future. If Biden gave me a band-aid, I'd be very likely to hand it to someone else if they needed it, because I know I have my box. On the other hand, if I have no band-aids, and Biden was so generous, I'd probably either save it for my next (inevitable) cut or stick it straight onto one of my open wounds.
It’s about time something like this hits the narket! Thanks!!!!
I tend to check out the BBC and Al Jazeera English. I'm usually looking for "Just the facts, ma'am." reporting and often find it there before other sources.
Within Medicaid are several programs targeting different populations, each of them rightfully a Medicaid program to itself.

Pregnant women, indigent, long term disability, orphaned children, and others are programs w/in the Texas Medicaid programs, for example.
It's a part of it, also open-source https://gitlab.com/l0phtcrack/hashcatdll
There's a huge push I've noticed recently on the social media to sell 'How to' guides in the tech industry.

How to build side projects, how to ace the technical interview, how to get a tech job, how to learn to code, and on and on ad nauseum.

It seems in the tech gold rush people are selling shovels.

It's like this new age self help mentality but instead of preying on people who want to lose weight or have larger privates... they're preying on people who need a job/money and selling the idea that learning to code will skyrocket people to financial success.

I don't know if it's good or not, just an interesting observation/comparison I've noticed.
corporate and payroll taxes are all paid by employees depending on elasticity, their income would be higher if the taxes didn't exist. True for estate tax.
It sounds to me like you're saying that all societal or economic value is directly linked to money.

As an example, do you think stay-at-home parents add no value to society (or if you want, let's say "the economy") because they are not paid directly for their services? Are charity workers or volunteers "merit-less"?
Curious, what specific jobs does this kind of program actually end in?
I realize you plan to do a Show HN but in case I don't see it, could you answer a few quick questions:

1. How is this meaningfully different to WebDAV?

2. Is the assumption that web apps export stuff to your pod from time to time, or actually use it as the primary storage? If the former, isn't it more or less the same idea as Google Takeout, if the latter how do apps handle the possibility of slow pods, outages or the need to use relational databases for storage? When building server side apps you do normally need tight control over storage.
Ann Walton could try donating to the HBCU she got her nursing degree from for starters.
CPM is open for bidding... if it's worth less, they cost less.
To expand on the batching details, I haven't seen exactly what he's doing here, but historically the numbers quoted are from benchmarks that submit something like 128 total queue depth in alternating batches of 64. The disks hit max performance with a much lower queue depth than 64. So it's very unrealistic perfect batching that you'll never see in a real application. The workload is only a useful tool for optimizing the code, which is exactly what he's using it for.
I asked it a few questions:

> Who is ruining society? Men or women?

Men

> Who is ruining society? White people or black people?

white people

> Who is ruining society? Straight people or LGBTQ people?

Straight people

Props to you if you’re sticking to your guns that these are just patterns we simply refuse to accept, but I’d bet it’s more likely that the earlier statements it made just fit your priors. It just picks up on biases people have. It’s pretrained on the internet, which means if people say it, it will parrot it, whether it’s harmful or not. Which is why the bias studies are so important.
The safest & fastest way I'm aware of to use a unique_ptr factory. It involves adding an error flag to the class; the factory checks the error flag and resets the unique_ptr if it's true.
Question to the authors (or anyone that's done similar research) - is where a reason to train these punitively scoring longer responses? Why is the answer to everything just a few words, and can I "trick" it into giving me a lengthier reply? (I tried "Give me a 200 word summary of ..." but that didn't help.)
I would like to see a citation for point #2.
How does this metric compare to other countries? Certain European countries I am familiar with don't have a strong emphasis on stocks as a wealth builder (as wrong as I personally think that is), and instead overindex on real estate.
Isn't that because normal people are heavily encouraged to put all their money into buying a house? Culturally ("rent is just throwing money away" / "the stock market is a casino"), with financial incentives (mortgage interest deduction, SALT deduction, Fannie/Freddy insured 30 year mortgages), and quality of life (school districting/social services or lack thereof), we get people to put every dollar they can into buying a house. Or more than one (apparently everyone aspires to be an amateur landlord). Consequently, you need to have a lot of money before you've bought enough house to move onto buying stocks.

If renting and investing were more normalized and encouraged, I'd expect a different ratio of real estate : financial asset ownership.
Why not wish for eye tracking so we could simply look at something? Then a subtle Soli gesture to select.

https://atap.google.com/soli/

I always think of this blog where the person had to use their nose because their hands were in pain.

http://www.looknohands.me/

Discussion from 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805053
Who were armed by these guys' choice of pen name? Who got punch? What "privilege" was taken from whom?

Either their writing was great and would have been successful regardless, so it doesn't matter. Or they were successful only because their pen name was a woman's name, and then women have more privilege when it comes to publishing.
Yes, but the question is not whether that's true, but whether that's useful.

You said: "an interesting opportunity for someone to skip implementation of anti bias and potentially end up with a more effective model."

Having the model use the fact that men more likely to be programmers is clearly not helpful in many contexts, such as screening resumes for programming roles. In that context, it will cause the model to be more likely to accept men for programming roles than women regardless of the skill of the candidates.

Edit: Edited for clarity
This is what I said I believe. Are you doubling down on what I said? Like a sibling comment said. The fact that we are confused shows how both the original stat and the technically correct but largely incorrect 43% pay no payroll tax either, are not good statistics. They muddy the water
I hope by pension you mean general retirement savings. Because only about 20% of American workers get a pension [1]. Also note that less than 60% of American workers participate in a 401k-type retirement plan. So saying that “most” people are invested in stocks this way is just barely true and kind of distorts the picture.

[1] http://www.pensionrights.org/publications/statistic/how-many...
It ain't the devs, its the managers and execs.

Our whole management class in this country is broken.
Plus it can be deployed on an as-needed basis. Large concert in a rural area? Hurricane destroy your city's infrastructure? Toss up a few planes and get the service you need for a week or month until the situation is resolves. (At least that's the theory... I hope this technology works as planned.)
Most of the web by traffic or number of websites?
Amazon lost money transparently as part of their bid to grow. Tether (like Enron) is concealing the true nature of their losses.

There are also parallels found in other frauds like Bernie Madoffs Ponzi Scheme to the tether fraud.
Is Sequoia PGP a drop in replacement for GPG? How do I go about integrating with Git and what not?
I still find the economist good. Its not cheap, but it always had interesting take on news from around the world.

For TV news I've started to stream DW (German) and France24 for europe in the background sometimes.
Oddly they're in english. They're not supper hard hitting (I'm not sure if they're government sponsored or where they come from) but you get different stories and a different perspective and lately lots of spanish island volcano footage.

They have youtube streams.

dw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCknLrEdhRCp1aegoMqRaCZg

france24
https://www.youtube.com/c/FRANCE24English
Hahaha, thanks.

Also you are aware this statement is incredibly funny?

> programming is not really my hobby [...] after my typical work day, I spend another 4-5 hours reverse engineering software because that is what I find fun

Really shows how ingrained this way of life is in our family.
it's a chicken and egg problem

you can either send a kafka message but potentially not commit the db transaction (i.e. an event is published for which the action did not actually occur) or commit the db transaction and potentially not send the kafka message

it sounds like they implemented something like the Transactional Outbox pattern https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....

i.e. you use the db transaction to also commit a record of your intent to send a kafka message - you can then move the actual event sending to a separate process and implement at-least-once semantics

This is the job queueing system they described in the article
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I’m not sure how the person took it. I agree the fact that it is taken in some way and I’m not sure which way, is indicative of the misleading quality of the original comment and the comment saying 43% pay no payroll tax (which is only true during the two stimulus years)
I like: Guardian, Le Monde, Dawn, India Today, Sydney Morning Herald, The Mainichi... there are loads really ;)
https://archive.is/YwtTw . The current title is "What If mRNA Vaccines Could Cure Cancer?"
Stating the obvious, but the recourse is to not bother with crypto at all and stick with insured and better safeguarded financial mechanisms.
Thats exactly what Laravel Vapor does on top of AWS Lambda: https://vapor.laravel.com/
> My argument was based on the premise that votes from power users are more valuable as they better at judging the quality of the content.

As someone responsible for designing and incorporating end-user activity/feedback into ML, I have to tell you this is exceedingly unlikely.

The number of power users, especially on a large consumer app like Spotify, is dwarfed by the broad userbase (I estimate ~1% of Spotify users at most qualify as "power users").

Would I rather have power user-only feedback, or 100x the feedback? Definitely definitely 100x the feedback from all users.
It can be tied to humans/accounts. Facebook has a "cost per 1000 people reached" derived metric: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1461718327429941?help...

Facebook changing their definition of what a person is (outside of the normal societal definition) was the real issue here.

EDIT: Removed the "double" and the whole price reference because it caused confusion.
I really like this stepwise delineation of Avocation to Vocation, of fun-to-utility-to-profit. As others pointed out, there is "scratch your own itch" which usually falls between A and B. I also think that F would better fall somewhere right along B.
Thank you for your very detailed and helpful replies.
It would also be true if they were a ham sandwich, but since we know they're not one, we ignore that possibility.
This! I'm all the more frustrated by the claim (seemingly validated by the grandparent about Oblivion/Fallout compatibility) that Bethesda just kinda gives the old engine a new coat of paint then merrily releases a new generation of videogame. You'd think that there'd be fan-spearheaded attempts to tear out and replace some of the wonkier components. And, after reading about all of this, I guess there are.
That CNBC article is unbelievably misleading. If you dig into the sources, it links to the actual report [0] where they state that 80% of households paid federal income or payroll taxes:

> Remember, this reflects only those who pay no federal individual income tax. TPC estimates that while the number of households paying neither payroll nor income taxes also rose significantly, roughly 4 out of every 5 did pay one of these two taxes.

The trick is that "income tax" is used as a technical term in the headline, while the colloquial use of it is quite different (average readers would probably consider their payroll tax to be "income tax").

[0]: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/covid-19-pandemic-dro...
I felt as if the article was... shallow? I mean, it was very short and I feel like there wasn't said anything of note.
I know that a few years ago there was some discussion about which license to choose, with LGPL and MPLv2 being two strong contenders, and it was noted (by Neal himself actually) that MPLv2 is much easier to use when static linking (as is the norm in the Rust community).

Why was LGPL chosen instead? The LGPL requires that all applications that consume it as a static library provide the tools to re-link the binary against modified forms [0], which seems incredibly problematic to manage with the Rust toolchain.

I like the idea behind the LGPL conceptually, but in practice the LGPL is strongly tied to the way Linux applications and libraries were developed in the 90s and 2000s - namely, in C, with dependencies that are generally dynamically linked, with C-like toolchains that directly expose all of the intermediate object files. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for any software outside of that bubble.

[0] www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic
there is a web version openscad
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That is a great book.
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This is actually a great way to think about it for a number of reasons.

1. Look up what James Hamilton (AWS Distinguished Engineer) has been saying for years about commodity economics disrupting things. It's about the money, stupid.

2. The way AWS has been building out their ecosystem is following a lot of the previous monopolists (Microsoft) playbook. Get other companies to be 'partners' in your ecosystem so they depend on your platform? Check. Training and certification so technologists are tied to your platform? Check, and so on.

3. Amazon and AWS are usually never playing the game people think they are. For example, all the years that people questioned Amazons profits, they were doing their best to hide profits with massive R&D & other investments.

In the case of CloudFlare attacking AWS network/bandwidth pricing, it's worth pointing out that >60% of AWS revenue comes from EC2!!!! S3, and CloudFront is (relatively) small fries.